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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1932.
TRANS-OCEAN AIRWAY
BRITISH LAUNCH GREAT FLYING BOAT
AIR
TRAVEL MADE SAFE
"I tell you, gentlemen," said the soap-box. orator on the Grand Parade, "If you want a thing well done, you must do it yourself." -
"What about getting your hair sibility of a British transatlantic April 1 next year
cut?" shouted an interrupter.
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It is considered that the pos-lover his duties with effect from
"I'm giving you the bald facts," service is brought appreciably near- Britain's third Chief of the Air went on the orator, unperturbed..er by the launching of the new Staff is 54 years of age, and at giant Short lying boat, largest of present commands the Air Defence Spain is preparing to take over its type in the world. Although of Great Britain. He graduated as all churches, cathedrals, palaces, the Short boat was built for mili-a pilot in January, 1913, and went art objects, gems
and other tary purposes, and its exact perto, France with the Royal Flying treasures of the Roman Catholic formance is therefore still a secret, Corps on the outbreak of war. [Church. Confiscation is provided it is known that certain features Later he saw much service in the
in a statuta for religious congre in its performance would be equally Near
Middle East, and gations submitted to the Cortos by valuable for a civil flying boat ae-squadrons under his command were President Alcala Zamora. Pasange signed for long oversea flights. It responsible for the famous rout of. without serious opposition is anti-was for this reason that the Air the retreating Turkish Army on the cipated. The treasures, accumu-Ministry felt able to terminale. work road to Nablus during Allenby's lating since Spain began its con- on the Supermarine-Vickers giant final great drive in Palestine. Int quests in the New World, are designed especially, for a transmediately after the Armistice ho almost priceless. The state offers atlantic service.
flew from Egypt in the
Your Daily Smile.
and
twine-
its justification for taking the pro-. The transatlantic route which is engined Handley Page bomber perty-The state gave it to the being considered is via the Azores which was the first aircraft to fly church.
and the Bermudas. No existing to India. Alying boat could perform these After the war he resumed the flights with an adequate pay, load, Middle East command till 1922, but it is believed that the new when he was appointed Air Member Shart boat, modified for civil use for Supply and Research. We have on our books many would be capable of making the New Laws for Safer Flying.
journey with passengers and mails. The Air Ministry has at last Its six engines would eliminate any taken steps to make flying safer. risk of forced landing, and there By the Air Navigation (Amend- would be ample room for sleeping ment) Order, 1932, just published: Even in exposed gardens these accommodation in the capacious Applications for flying licences hull. The cruising speed is suff-will not be granted unless the Secre plants are quite safe. They are exciently high to deal adequately with tary for Air is antisfied "that the tremely hardly. Suburban Paper any contrary, winds
applicant is a fit and proper person
domestic
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We prefer them without.
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If the Short boat proves satisfac- to hold a licence"; tory, it is probable, that the con- Unauthorised pilots are forbidden struction of a sister ship, designed to give flying instruction;
Aerodrome traffic jams are to be for civil use, will be considered with
a view to the transatlantic airway stopped. being operated at an early date.
Passenger Protection; ·
passengers. two airline
The Guild of Air Pilots has also been pressing for legislation in this
The Alr Ministry gave unofficial
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To my mind, there is no doubt at The China Mail. point the report showed that a dictionaries American Paper.
all that W's is the last word in gigantic business monopoly like the Soviet, which makes all thing beginning with Z.
We should have expected some Hong Kong, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1932. trade the business of the State
Novel experiments are now pro-point, and which has absolute control
"What's all this noise about?"cceding having as their object the over all production and wages Father demanded of one of the securing of parachute safety for support to the idea last year, and within its borders, as well as over twins. "Nanny's given me
At present now, by the new order, all distribution, may find it an baths and says I'm Freddie."
parachutes are not carried on an air pilot oven though he has all the advantage at a given moment to
line, as it is believed that the or-normal licences, will be able to sell at prices with which the rest An absurd amount of fuss has And such action, it was pointed Paper
of the world cannot compete. each to extricate him.-Evening the
Two of his mates, by standing on dinary passenger would not possess undertake instructional work until necessary experience to use his licence has been specially en- them in an emergency.
dorsed by the Secretary for Air. been made, not so much in the out in the report, causes so much Nobly tying themselves in awk-
One proposal which has been House of Commons as by Russian situation that other countries will
To obtain this endorsement, pilota disturbance in the economic ward knots in the process.
tested takes the form of a giant will have to undergo special instruc- propagandists outside it, over the
parachute for the 'plane, which is tion tests by Alr Ministry and Guild | notice given to terminate be forced sooner or later to pro-
A young man who has a lot of opened by the pilot in the case of of Air Pilots' examiners. the existing trade
only invitations for Christmas says that emergency, and lowers the whole
To make aerodromes safer, it is ment with Russia
criticism which can reasonably he does not care, whether it is in machine safely to earth. Although now ordered that no 'plane shall sinultaneoue invitation
tand the be made of the step tow bly correct to tato with eith is in this has proved, successful in export approach within thre miles of negotiate another on more satis-by the Government is that it in clothes, because he never has a ment, it would be of little use in aerodrome unless it is going to factory lines. Not only has it Manchester clearly realized that
belated. The business men of watch and a dress-suit
land, or unless it is more the same the case of a fire.
than An alternative is 'to make the 6,000 feet up. it was necessary two years, ago.
passenger cabin in the form of a
The previous distance-limit was ting Russie, or of impeding her There is no question of boycot
two miles. detachable box with its own para- chute. Pulling a lever automatically economic development,
releases the cabin, which drops out QUARRY BAY SCHOOL the preferences sought by the trade agreement with her must coin when closed. ever the Conference met that, if development shall take; but any one blade and a nail file resembles a escapes separately with his own
of the fuselage, dragging open the · PRIZE-GIVING, A new pocket knife. that contains parachute as it falls. The pilot Dominions were not to be illusory, leave the British Government
to
tect themselves. The
been known ever since the Ottawa agreements were an- nounced that this step must be taken to keep faith with the Dominions; it was clear before dictating to her the form this
time.
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Control by Pilot.
dumping of competing products may be needed to protect our own phone service at a rate of about been
London is increasing its tele- A third alternative has just
at prices below the cost of pro-economic interests and those of 125,000 new subscribers a year. duction. As practised by the
the Dominions against the Soviet monopoly this dumping dangers set out in the Man- had on more than one occasion chester report.
helped disastrously to disorganize the wheat and timber markets. Furthermore it has long been
recognized that the agreement
Columbus, Scientist,
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Pupils Present Concert Programme.
News In Brief.
H.M.Š. Suffolk of the Fixth Cruiser Squadron left. for exercises
tried out which pro- At the prize-giving at the Quary each passenger with a Bay school, yesterday, the puplis.. parachute attached to the seat presented a delightful concert. The Cotton is the principal substance The pilot pulls a lever, the main feature of the programme, used in the manufacture of a new seats. are swung out through was the presentation scenes from transparent wrapping material doors and dropped, and at the same The Blue Bird" (Masterlinck), the time a metal band passes round the supporting items being carol aing- Publication by the New York ing country that salt is the only falling out. In experiments made tionis by the "Percussion Band."
Hungary is auch a self-sustain-passenger's waist to prevent hia ing, dancing and orchestral selec- as it stands is hopelessly one-Public Library of Dr. Edward L. food product that it is obliged to in America, passengers were safely sided, and would have to be re- Stevenson's translation of the import.
Mrs. G. P. de Martín presented vised If ever our trade with Geography of Ptolemy at a time
released in this way, and landed in prizea to the following Russia were to be put on a sound when the Western world is about
a field still sitting in their seats, Class Seven--Phyllis Oliver, 1; basis. In particular the most to observe the 480th anniversary been invented for holding drawings are inclined to doubt the fool proof Helen McCormack, 1; Fleming
Transparent adhesive tapo has
Experts in this country, however, Rhexle Stalker, 2. Class Eight favoured-nation clause, as Mr. of the discovery of America seron drafting boards in place of working of such devices, particn Kinnaird, 2. Class Nine-Pauline Baldwin explained to the House, ves the useful purpose of enthumb tacks,
larly in a case of structural failure. Strange; special prize, Dorethy is quite out of place in a com-abling us to appraise the achieve
The extra weight is also against Woodward. mercial agreement between a ments of Columbus. The great view the achievement of Colum-their adoption. It is unlikely at the country like Great Britain, where voyage undertaken in 1492 in bus the lighthouse which is to, moment, that English air lines will trade is in the hands of private quest of Cathay could be Buc be erected to his memory at use parachute devices for their individuals free to buy and sell cessful only if the Ptolemaic Santo Domingo, the first per passengers. where they please, and a country conception of the earth as manent European settlement in A more constructive suggestion is like Soviet Russia, where all sphere was correct. That the the West, appears more than a that light aeroplane pilets and pas- the Government. By this clause tury belleved in a flat world is beams will serve not only to guide to carry parachutes. At present all week ond trade is a monopoly controlled by navigators' of the fifteenth cen- tribute to physical courage. Its sengers should be legally required on Monday, but will return by the the British. Government are com- simply untrue. They were all his successors to ports of that pilots and passengers in R.A.F pelled to allow their nationals to steeped in the Geography, Be New World which he unwitting machines must do so, and in Italy Fun Fo-wan was yesterday buy Russian goods whenever it sides, we have the blography of ly discovered but to remind the the regulation is extended to include acquitted in the Supreme Court be- suits their individual interest or Columbus, written by his son, to peoples of North and South private machines. A similar en-of attempting to murder his two takes their fancy to do so, while testify to the hold that Ptolemy America and of the West and the deavour in this country is worth the Soviet Government, keeping had upon the great Genoese East that, science has taught investigation. all trade as a monopoly in their So, in setting out over what he them what they know about the Brother Succeeds Brother. own hands, retain full liberty to had reason to believe was but a earth beneath their feet and the quite unprecedented in the his- of the Euro-American Returned At the Annual General Meeting reduce their purchases from single ocean that separated him heavens above, and that if in tor Great Britain to whatever level from the Far East Columbus science they can sink, their dif- succession, announced by the Afr office of Messrs. Lo and Lo, the tory of the fighting forces is the Students Union held at the they wish The clause as it subjected a theory in geometry ferences in an effort to broaden Minister of Air Marshal Sir following officers were elected for affects British purchases from to a deliberate test. It may seem their knowledge of the cosmos Geoffrey Salmond to the post of the ensuing year Ruséis means a very great deal: strange to link Ptolemy with there is hope for a better under- Chief of the Air Staff, held by his President, Mr. Wan Lu-sing; Hon. as affecting Russian purchases Einstein and Columbus with the standing in settling the issues younger brother Air Chief Marshall Secretary, Mr, Leung Sal-wah, Hon. from Great Britain it means no physicists who proved the truth raised by economic strife and Sir John Salmond." No Instance of Treasurer, Mr. Li Shu-fong: Com- thing at all. And the Govern of relativity with telescopes and international politics. The pre- brother following brother at the mittee, Messrs. Lo Po-in, Chan ment monopoly of trade in spectroscopes. Yet Ptolemy sent is no propitious time to head of a fighting Service is re- Kwan-lum, M. K. Lo and Horace Lo,” Russia raises other problems and Einstein both gave us con collect funds for the erection of carded
procee its na
fore. Mr. Justice-Wood on a charge
children.
which will have to be carefully ceptions of the universe based on a monument for which a design Sir John Salmond expressed his Interesting references to the his considered in negotiating the new geometry alone. The bold has already been selected. But wish to retire in order to accelerate tory of the Theatre Royal and of agreement. Nearly two years age to the West introduced. the governing board of the Pan promotion. In the junior ranks of the Hong Kong Amateur, Dramatic ago the Manchester Chamber of modern scientific
American Union does well to the Royal Air Force. Though only Club's performances during the Commerce in the Annual Re-met!
organization of 51 years of age, he has behind him past twenty years, were contained umbus lighthouse à long and glittering record of in an address to the Rotary Club several countries active service, and his elevation to at Gloucester Building yesterday, roject that will the command of the Service was given by Rotarian W: A. Cornell, only to Columbus everywhere acclaimed when he suc and entitled "Some Reminiscencen Sirit of science that ceeded Lord chard more than of Happy Days and Nights at the
two years ago
bro takes Theatre Royal, Hong Kong."
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