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STRATOSPHERE EXPERIMENT
The R. A. F: attempt to conquer the stratosphere is to be made in a Bristol aeroplano,
Bristol-engined airplanes have three times won the world's alti- Sude record for heavier-than-airi machines. Meg
Mr. A. R. Fedden, who designs engines at Bristol, has a world- wide reputation. He was recently
YOUTH'S PLACE IN POLITICS
WHERE SPURS ARE TO
BE WON STILL
TASK
FOR CONSERVATIVES TO UNDERTAKE
(By J. B. Firth)
London.
THE claim of Youth to play a
awarded the fenerican Goldpation Tuch earlier part in public life
against American designers.
The stratosphere machine will probably be a biplane of generous wing span..
AIRTIGHT SUIT
Is once more being advanced, and I think with increasing acceptance.
Fire, energy, enthusiasm, and audacity are the apecial virtues of youth, and no party can afford to neglect them-the Conservative
"Do not suppose that I hold that youth is genius: all I say is that genius, when young, is divine."
"Whenever a political system is breaking up, as in this country at present, the very best thing to do," says Buckhurst in "Coningsby" "la. · to brush all the old dons off the stage. They never take to the... new road kindly. ・・・ They are „al«'- It has yet to be proved that the party least of all..
It was a Conservative Govern- ways hampered by their exploded. speed of an airplane will be in- creased in the stratosphere, ag is ment, after all, which gave "the prejudices and obsolete traditions,* Aspiring youth naturally "trea- ofter suggested. Captain Cyril better half" of modern youth the Uwins, test pilot of the Bristol vote, and Conservative youth, dlaci-sures these exciting sayings in its heart. It listens enraptured to Aeroplane Co., found that while his plined, well-instructed and fiery,
Sidonia'a sparkling paean. engine gave over 1000 h.p. at sea might well produce among the So-
"Youth Is A Blunder" level, it faded away to 180 hp at cialist ranks the devastating effect [about 48,000ft. No.
of a high wind in a beech wood.
Disraeli himself was something of In the upper atmosphere air has]
But when, as often, the claim is a celebrity even before all London But to be forced into the carburetters made that youth's rightful place is was reading "Vivian Grey." with super-chargers."
at the helm, or, in more up-to-date what had he done? It is amusing Captain Uwins also found that phrase, at the steering-wheel or atto recall that before he was, of age he could not breathe his oxygen the controls, I cannot resist the he had forsaken the profession of supply much beyond 48,000ft. To boisterous entrance of "little devil the law and lost several thousand
pounds by reckless gambling in." get higher it will be necessary to Doubt."
South American bands, thus incur-- provide a special airtight suit,
Call For "A Show"
ring debta which woefully embar.. A career open to talents and rapid rassed him till he married a rich promotion for the deserving-by all wife. There-is-yet-another-problem-far means But the most obvious dif- It does not take a genius, whether British stratosphere expertnem ference between the conditions of divine or not, to gamble and lose ou peace and war-and it is in war that the Stock Exchange. But it needed {twelve months; and it includes a disproportionately high percen-
England is a little too smali.
youthful generalship has achieved a very clever young man to per«-` tage of long-distance machines. A pilot may take.two hours to its greatest triumphs-is that suade that eminent publisher, 'Mr. For the moment, therefore, we reach his "celling." If the ground vacancies do not arise so quickly. John Murray, to start weekly need not go farther into Mr.s out of sight he may easily be In publle affairs the casualties are newspaper, "The Representative,
all too few. Churchill's estimates. What mat-drifted aver the sea.
with the Inexperienced. Benjamin ters is British policy, and of Hence he will have to choose Youth asks for recognition and "s Disraeli ai editor. The bill for this that there is no doubt. Britain days of perfect visibilityEven show.” It complains that it does butterfly flight was £26,000. ·""The is pledged to parity with the then he may lose sight of the not get as good a chance politically errors of young men," to quote greatest air force within striking ground at 50,000 feet.
as certain favoured young men got Bacon, once more, "are the Ruine of : Level-headed, instructive and distance. That pledge stands
more than a century ago. Was not Businesse." detailed, the speech in which Sir whether the greatest force fles Philip Sassoon introduced the the tricolour or the swastika, Air Estimates contained but one.
RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED
WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW
The China Mail
Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 15, 1935.
Britain's Policy Of Air Parity
high light-the announcement of
a prize of £25,000 for the, Bri- bribe.
tish production of a type of CHAUFFEUR
machine in which the Americans
at present excel. To do justice
to the speech we have but to consider the impression it would have created had it been de- livered by the Air Minister of a
COMMENDED
BY MAGISTRATE
foreign Power. It explained the Bag-Snatcher Caught
After Chase
steps to be taken in the develop- ment of two programmes. The. military programme will enable YEAR'S HARD LABOUR IMPOSED the British Air Force to add 50 per cent. to its strength in four years without loss of efficiency
Two magistrates, Messrs. W.
TOO SMALL ISLAND
ters,
Your Daily Smile!
Pitt, it says, Prime Minister at 247 It was not the youthful but" the-- And was he not "the pilot who wea- riper genius of Disraeli which has When two keen amateur gardeners thered the storm"? When Age and established his fame as a Political were married recently they passed Experience have failed so miserably Oracle. He encouraged youthfur under” an archway of rakes and hoes. --runs the argument—why not give genius where he folind it, and, cons We understand that the organist another trial to Youth and Imaging clous of its rarity, was always on rendered the Weeding March.
the look out for it." tion?
Yet he also But alas for this argument of Political wisdom is still, except in
wrote: Youth is a Blunder."
#
"I sea," said Smith; "that a famous youth in high control, Pitt never man has been saying that four hours was a youth. He was born in the the rarest instances, the reward or sleep is enough for anyone.” "Pooh!" seid Brown.
That's
full panoply of statesmanship. His perhaps the punishment of years. nething. I've
Leaven In Parliament kvety two-year-old boy at third speech convinced the: listening House of Commona that a new Pre-
The common practice in the City
home who knew that. I year ago."
Early
"ka due back to work at 1 "It kain't be 1 o'clock," said Mose, o'clock an' I ain't there yet."
•
The Objection
At
mler-In George Selwyn's phrase States of Greece was for men to be was at the starting-point, though he had hardly been shaved.
Pitt himself coolly announced that he would accept no place in the Ministry" without a seat in the
gin offcis life at about 80. Rome, while exceptional scions of the great governing familles might new man" rarely worked his way, obtain the Consulship early, the
up through the preliminary quality.
A Boston man has a son who has Cabinet. Such calm self-confidence ing offices before he was 40. That or lowering of standards. The Schofield and T. Thomson, occu civil programme will provide Bri- pied the bench at the Central just entered schools
Ho was sup-
tain in two years with a service/Police Court this morning when posed to be enjoying it, but one mor-more than matched that of Charles corresponds with the general ex-2)
nlng he walked into the dining room, Fox a few years before, of whom a where his father was having break-friend said: "I believe he thinks. he
perience. Thirty makes good at, and remarked. "I'm tired of going to school Pop. ought to have been a Privy Council dividing line between Youth and, let
carrying mails to the ends of the 17-year-old unemployed, Wong earth without special air sur-Hol, was sentenced to a total of charge.
12 months hard labour on two charges of bag-snatching. Aerodromes must needs come
Detective-Sergeant Shephard, ap-ls first, and here good progress has been made with the acquisition pearing for the prosecution, stated of military sites and with the that at about 1.80 p.m. on Sunday," groundwork, particularly the de- Kam Sun, of No. 1, Ning Yuen Ter the first complainant. Mrs. Chung velopment of night-flying, neces sary for swift postal services. race, accompanied by her mother-In-
were walking In the matter of machines, Sir law,
along St.
Disraeli's Sayings
"Why?" asked the father. "What lor at Eton."
your objection to going to school?”. "Oh," answered the boy, it breaks
the day so.".
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
us say, the "riper years."
But this does not mean that youth- should be left untested and unem
It is not the self-assurance that ployed in public affairs. Every Par
fa rare but the accompanying genius, Ilament should have a very strong
the presence of which can hardly be leaven of youth, ^-*- confirmed except by actual achieve
ment. And, even so, how often this, early genius is marred by some fatal
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Philip had a satisfactory story Stephen's Lane, whon defendant e Peninsula Hotel to-night instability of character wirma fenty CANTON BANKNOTES
time and sometimes permanently ruins all.
From this defect Pitt was mar
a prodigy than the great Julius, who at 18 was considered formidable
ACCEPTED AT
to tell. In first-line strength came up behind them and snatched the Peninsula Hotel to-night. Britain ranka fifth among the complainant's bag, which, including| world's air Powers; but while her contents was valued at $28.94. She The Dollar Steamship Lines s. 8. nearest rivals, the United States raised the alarm, and chased defen-President Coolidge is scheduled to vellously, free, though Fox was not. and Italy, have only a slight dant, who ran into Bonham Road, all from Hongkong at 4 pm, next The solemn Pitt who had no vice numerical lead, British machines and then up Park Road.
Saturday, instead of at noon. 日睹
but port-was, in fact, even more of Fare superior in modernity of Arrested. By Chauffeur previously advised." construction and quality of per- ·A· mbtor-car driver, Lam Tak formance. That this claim is no Kan, employed by Dr. Poon, also Idle boast is shown by the fact save chase and arrested defendant, that 29 foreign countries are who threw the bag away using British aircraft, while on
At the Station defendant was the civilian side the repute of searched, and stolen property was
The Management of the Repulse British machines needs no fur-found. In his 'possanion.."- These Bay Hotel announce that there will offered the slightest hope of their have been suspended for some-- ther proof than that on its cross Itams were circulated to all stations, be no dinner dance at the Hotel Channel services Imperial Air and later in the day the second [to-morrow,
10 8.1.
To Be Redeemable From To-day
Canton, To-day. The 8.5; Mirzapore is due to enough by his enemies to be pro- It was announced by the Pro arrive in the Colony on Friday at scribed, and at 25 had borrowed and vincial Department of Finance spent sums so vast that only the and the Provincial Bank that Plunder of lands as yet unconquered the $10 notes of the bank, which repayment. And simultaneously his time, will be redeemable at its fame as a master of oratory equall-office from To-day.
This kind of note is now near- ed his celebrity as a leader of than its French, Germanssengers complainant, Miss Florence Hung, of Stating that he would like to find fashion and his scandalous notoriety ing par. They were accepted by
German, Dutch No, 90, Robinson Road, came to the
large stores at full value yes in affairs of gallantry. W and Belgian rivals put together station and reported that at 7.30 Wynne Jones remanded, for 48 These are rare examples and dan
out more about the dog Mr. E. I
terday. Central Press. Lastly a matter of special im-.m. her bag was snatched from her portance in a period of expansion in Breezy Path. She attempted to coolle, who appeared at the Kow-young in years, wrote Bacon,"
hours, Lau Hel, a 86-year-old earth gerous models."A man that is her qualified pilota outnumber chase defendant, but lost sight of Joon Magistracy this morning on a
be old in hours, if he have lost no those on the active list of either him soon after the incident charge of bringing a small chow time, But that happeneth rarely," the American or the Italian
Fort services.
cluding the contents, the bag was dug into Kowloon from the New It is only "reposed natures,” he says, In his comparisons Sir Philip valued at $16.50. It was not re Territories without permit yes which are ripe for great action in Sassoon avoided reference to covered.
terday morning, for 48 hours, youth, Natures "with much heat" Germany, whose air force is just "I thank you in the name of the
are not ripe till they have passed emerging from secrecy. Me public" remarked Mr. W. Schofield, Twenty-one pigs were ordered to their meridian, Churchill pounced on the omis-warmly commending the motor car be confiscated by Mr. W. Schofield That is a hard saying for youth- sion and made it the occasion driver for effecting the arrest of at the Central Police Court this ful ambition to swallow, nor, in fact, A public memorial service for for a speech which must have been defendant.
morning on the application of does youthful ambition turn to the late Professor Huang Chih Judged in the light of its state- The $5, which was found in de- Revenue Officer Grimmett, who Bacon-an Incorrigible place-hunter of Peking National University, a ment that war was in prospect fendant's possession, was ordered to stated that the pigs were found on for all his grave wisdom--for coun- noted scholar and poet, was held A cording to Mr. Churchill, the be given to the second complainant board the sa, Fook On And were el No, it listens rather to Dis at the Provincial Mans Education, German Air Force, which last
not on the ship's manifest, No raell, as he pours into its ready ear Institute at 10 a.m, yesterday. November Mr. Baldwin estimat. An attractive evening has been owner came forth to claim the a far more flattering taler
The service was attended by od af less than half the British arranged for patrons of the Hong animals
Almost everything that is great more than 2,000 persons Mr. was then already slightly super- Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel next
has been done by youth."',
****Abay Lin Yuga-kat, Chairman of the The history of heroes Is the Provincial Government officiated. history of youth fou
Central Prease!
ior to it; it will be Increased by Saturday night, when three special- The 5.4. Benrsoch, is due. Here 1,500 machines in the next ty dancere will appear
from Bingapore on April 24,
MEMORIAL SERVICE IN CANTON
Professor of Peking University
Canton, To-day,