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TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1933.
VISCOUNT
KNEBSWORTH
ON CHINA
Talk By Late Heir Of
Lord Lytton..
GREATER CARE IN TREATY SIGNING NECESSARY
London.
Aviation, Engineering & Building
BRITAIN'S FIRST SKYSCRAPER.
36-Storey Hotel For Blackpool
115 FEET HIGH.
London.
Blackpool is to have the distinc tion of accommodating the first skyscraper in Britain. It will be an
Lord Lytton, chairman of the hotel with 36 storeys, costing
£225,000 and having accommodation
League's Manchurian Commis- for 2,000 people. It will be 115 feet sion and some Far Eastern high and weigh 40,000 tons. questions as well-were
seen
THE CHINA MAIL.
Base
Airship As
For 'Planes
Increase In Size Since War
on
LANDING IN
MID-AIR
LIGHTING UP
BRITAIN FOR
NIGHT FLYING
£1,000,000 Beacons To Guide Pilots.
EVERYBODY' IS. USING AEROPLANES NOW.
London.
The Air Ministry has published) details of a scheme to light up the [countryside from end to end to ald
night flying
•
Night dying will be as easy 13 day flying. All sorts of dangers will be eliminated, and landing at all aerodromes-some of which are now no more than open spaces used only by private filers in the! daytime-will be a matter of the greatest simplicity.
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This is one of a series of great|
cfvil A post office, bank, abipping offices
developments in British The auccessful development of the was then transferred to a corner of through the eyes of his son, at the building. There will be
and seven shops will be included in technique of operating seroplanes the hangar on an over-head runner,
aviation in which, it is estimated, two from an airship as a flying base, and the trapeze-bar was lowered
£9,000,000 is already invested and. a London dinner.
large ballrooms and a theatre to first attempted in this country in again for the next machine. The
3,000 people are employed. It was when Lord Lytton's seat 1,700, while the restaurants 1925 and since made into a regular complete operation occupied about
The chain of beacons and guiding| heir, the late Viscount Kneb-will hold 3,000 people.
practice in the United States, was three minutes. So far about 500 lights which it is proposed to erect Other features are to include a referred worth-boxer, Conservative M.P.,
to by Squadron Leader landings, by day and by night, had would be the greatest encourage-
Alm meht yet given to night flying. It gymnasium and a sports room with R. S. Booth, who formerly com-been made on the Akron. and "one of the most brilliant mechanical physical culture ap manded R100, in the course of a For the service of this airship & Would cost more than $1,000.000. of our younger men"-poke to paratus. A wing of the bui, ing lecture airship development new system of ground handling had
The plans for the beacons were the Women's Advertising Club. will be used for Roman and Turkish abroad before the Royal Aero-been evolved
outlined by British officials recently and bad proved so Several days after he met his batha. Each bedroom will have a nautical Society.
successful that the handling of air to the International Commission of
Aerial Navigation at Zurich. telephone and bathroom, and there
ships into the shed with a cross The Akron. death in a Aragic aeroplane will be a loudspeaker for radio in
wind up to a maximum of 20 miles) It is hoped that all the notions of He said that the Akron, launched crash.
Jevery room.
an hour was almost an accomplished the world will adopt this 'aratem of was the first The front of the building will be at the end of 1931,
fact. By this method it would be lighting the great air routes. Lord Kadworth's shrewd yet of glass which will be illuminated airship with an internal aeroplane good-humoured eyes became sud-by different coloured floodlights at hangar. Five aeroplanes of a 25ft. Possible, even in this country, for on about 300 days in the year. denly serious and his clear-cut night. A tower 80 feet high will in. span, and 19ft. in length, could airship to enter or leave Its shed be accommodated. The gear for Making a brief reference to pro- voice took on a deeper tone when Burmoant the building, and on top making contact with the airship acts for metal-clad airships of large] of this there will be a silver ball. considered of an airscrew guard and size, he said that the small expert- thirty-seven "My father," he declared, "silluminated at night by a seareb. controlled hook which could be mental ahip of this type which had tripped by the pilot. Pilots quickly been flying for more than two years not a pacifist but a peacemaker light-Reuter.
got the knack of making auccessful was examined last spring and re-
This is a picture of how the coun- -and I think 3 very great!
"landings," and he had seen over vealed no deterioration of the hull.try-side of Britain would look dur- peacemaker."
100 such landings without incident
ing the hours between sunset and of the course of a short flight in the
New German Airship.
dawn. airship. Half these landings were
The new German airship was to made by pilots under instruction, have a total capacity of 7,000,000 care before treaties were sign-ļ The Tientsin-Pukow Railway. it who had never hooked on before, cubic feet, the dimensions originally ed-those were the things which is announced, will inaugurate an ad- If, after hooking, the machine was fixed having been increased in order Lord Knebworth consideredditional passenger train on the line required to be taken inboard, the that the airship should be inflated necessary to the tranquillity of May. Plans are now being made bottom hatches were opened and the with helium instead of hydrogen to speed up traffic so that the jour-trapeze-bar on which the ma hine without loss of pay load. To avoid ney between Peking and Shanghai had hung itself was hauled up by valving helium it was proposed to
jan electric may be accomplished in 36 hours.
winch. The aeroplane helium bags and to valve the hydro- fit hydrogen gasbags inside the
gen' for all ordinary corrections. This airship would have places for 50 passengers, whose accommodation would be inside the hull in much
he described his father.
Conciliation, nations acting
only through the League, greater
the world. And he defended his standpoint with swift
and his speech agile reparte when was finished, and questions werej asked.
"The tone of the Lytton re-|
real port and the
tone all Geneva." he maintained. "is noti a tone of condenmation, not a #tone of
tone of disgust but
pence, a desire to create peace:| not to punish a wrongdoer but; to right a wrong.
Reorganisation Necessary.
One of the things he consider.
ed essential to permanent peace in the Far East was a "complete reorganisation"
China's of financer and system of Govern- ment.
feet
diameter,
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Then he went on to express a view which he freely admitted to be "heretical" — opposition to unilateral action (in disarma- ment for instance) by Great Bri-¡ tain in the hope of promoting Lord Knebworth main- peace. tained that such action did more harm than good. It was form of "aking the lead" which he heartily disapproved.
"We took the lead and put an embargo on the export of arms to the Far East." he said. "That Pig's Chitlings was more resented at Geneva
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Liver Trine
Calves' Head &
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At each of the 65 aerodromez scattered throughout the United Kingdom there would be a large beacun throwing a brilliant white light to the sky visible five miles
away.
Beside it would be a smaller triangular red light flashing two selected letters in the morse code: which would indicate to the air- men the airport over which bel was flying.
On the ground would be a aystem of foodlighting which
the same style as that of R 100. would enable every type of air-
craft to make a perfect landing.
"Danger" Areas.
The completion of this ship would mean that passenger airships since. May 8, June the War had increased in size from
1933 1018 1,000,000 cubic feet to 7,000,000 whole of Britain from the air at If it were possible to view the Cta. Cls. cubic feet; had increased their night under the conditions set out
range from 1,000 to 6,000 miles, and! their passenger load from 15 to 50 by the scheme, the entire country-
'aide would resemble a great fairy-¡ 34 As only five ships had been designed land with white and red lights
in Germany since the War, this was;
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Large
64
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Duck
中国
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Doves
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Eggs, Hen (cooking) per doz. 36
Eggs, Hen (fresh)
Fowls.
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than by the arms manufacturers of this country because it was carried out unilaterally and not through the League by Inter- national
agreement. It was contrary to the whole principle Pork Chop that is likely to make the
League of Nations a success."
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Mra, Kingdon-Ward, beautiful wife of the famous botanic explorer now on his way to an unexplored
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blinking In an uneven pattern, [denoting routes, airports and "dan-
ger" areas.
Also embodied in the schemo are proposals to erect 'on regular flying routes" chains of white flashing. lights to guide night fliers more easily.
In "danger" arena districts where landings are impossible—It has been auggested that white fash- ing lights should be erected, each flight signalling in Morse a chosen letter which will tell the airman where he is.
It has been estimated that the and expenditure of £5,000, Mr-erection of airport beacons alone Howard Nattrass, A well-known would amount to at least £50,000.
35 Auckland engineer, has crowned his
20 work with the invention of a rotary
motar, claimed to be the first in the world to operate.
Faced with opposition and out-
that
Each beacon costs £800, and this cost might be trebled if it were found necessary to lay long cables from the nearest grid main supply.
It is expected that the Committee
2 such a motor could not be made to of the International Commission of [develop power and maintain it, Mr. Aerial Navigation-which makes in- Nattrass claims to have proved to ternational laws for the navigation 10 his critics that this remarkable of the world's aircraft-will give
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Mr. Nattrass says the rotary end of July,
motor will double the range of, fly- This dock, which la... part of a ing and that in an aeroplane a $13,000,000, improvement scheme
10 group or series of rotary engines which, the Southern Railway {n} 28 could be used, and any one could carrying out at Southampton, will run independently, The, engine is be the largest dock for the over- sclaimed to be only a quarter of the hauling of ships in the world. It weight of that used in an ordinary is 1,200 feet long, and 185 feet wide, motor car. Its adaptability for an The door of the dock -- along
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