THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1935
HEALTHIEST GROWTH IN CIVIL AVIATION IS SHOWN BY BRITAL
TWENTY YEARS OF THRILLS
SIR ABE BAILEY ON FUTURE OF SOUTH AFRICA
Must Be In The Air Or There Will Be None
Capetown.
Sir Abe Ralley, the mining millionaire, in a statement before Mailing for England, declared: “We in South Africa must realise that
the covetous eyes world
STRANGE ADVENTURES OF "AIR TAXI-MAN”
THE "FLYING UNDERTAKER” AND HIS FREIGHT
(By William Courtenary)
on this country, and South Africa TWENTY years of Aying were completed last month by Cap-
must have a great future in the air, or no future at All
CHINESE SECTION
OF PROCESSION ·
Mr. N. L. Smith Inspects Elaborate Tableaux
TOTAL COST ESTIMATED TO BE $200,000
tain "Bill" Ledlie. He is a private charter pilot at Croydon airpat. His career is crowded with strange adventures.
In March 1915 he undertook his first solo flight at Nethera- von. Including his distinguished war service in France, he has now over 7,000 hours' flying experience.
He has joined forces with Captain G. P. Olley, the "million- mile airman.' Between them they fly to the ends of the earth, often on remarkable missions.
MUSCULAR POWER
The Hon. Mr. N. Smith, CAN IT EVER
Secretary for Chinese Affairs, was, yesterday conducted through seven extensive godowns where the vari- ous tableaux are being constructed. for the Chinese procession. in con- nection with King's Jubilee. celebrations. Mr. Smith seemed to be deeply impress- ed with the progress made and wak fully appreciative of the exquisite beauty of the work.
BE APPLIED TO
AEROPLANES?
the forthcoming Germany Considering
Possibilities
· It" is enlimuted that the total cost,
of the procession will be $200,000.
5,000-MARKS PRIZE OFFER
FOR KILOMETRE FLIGHT
Captain Ledle has flown many | thousands of miles to bring home from remote parts of Europe English people hurt in car or mountaineering accidents.
A woman' with a broken neck was brought from Vichy to Lon don in this way.
Landing "On Ice
An injured girl was flown from Switzerland, and this involved | landing on the ice at St. Moritz the
In the near future the family autogiro may be taken from the garage, have its roter blades "an- folded," and take off for a tour of the country-side, that is when and if this giro, being developed at Philadelphia, proves successful.
“MERLIN” PLANE
Captain Ledlie. brought American "flying family" from LATEST OF
to
the far North of Scotland London after their adventure in an amphibian, machine in the Aretic.
Last year he made nine flying teurs round Europe with parties of wealthy Americans,
trips-he has been offered a "tip" Sometimes as on one of these
ing made one of the party.
MILES TYPE
OF AIRCRAFT
DESIGNER HELPED BY BRILLIANT WIFE
VARIABLE-PITCH PROPELLER ON NEW MACHINE
Captain Ledlie. got the jewels respondent."
a
RESEMBLING FORCEDITAD
FORCED CULTURI
SUBSIDIES NECESSARY
IN ALL COUNTRIES
.
SELF SUPPORTING STAGE
NEAREST IN BRITAIN
IN all countries, our own included, civil aviation is still in the nature of a forced growth. Nowhere, as yet, has it emerged from the greenhouse stage. It is, however, obvious that in some countries it is being "hardened off" much more effective and safely than in others.
In the United States the growth has been fostered in an over. heated house which the winds of national adversity have now blown down, leaving the tender unprotected contents to wilt in the hard climate of the outer world. '
Elsewhere an almost similar story would seem to be on the point of being told. How long, we may wonder, w. France, In.. her happy financial circumstances, find it possible to continue to assist her national air transport company on the present scale. According to the latest published figures the sum required by Air France, in order that it may operate just with loss, is £1,300,000 a year over and above its earnings.
In Britain we have cause for congratulating ourselves that ther official policy consistently pur- sued during the past ten years has been directed not to the attainment of showy results but to laying solid foundations on
HEAVY OIL ENGINES
which our civil aviation industry DEVELOPMENT
may one day become self-sup- porting.
The period being occupied in the attainment of that end is proving
longer than at one time it was an-
ticipated it would be. less there would seem to
AS
AIRCRAFT POWER UNITS
Neverthe GREATEST PROGRESS
IN GERMANY
DISAPPOINTING RESULTS IN AMERICA AND BRITAIN
be un-
Dutch or the Italian air transport doubted signs that it is approaching faifiiment With a larger annual ton-mllenge than the French, the companies, Imperial Airways re- ceives a subsidy markedly lower
FLORIDA IS WELL EQUIPPE
FOR AIR SERVICE
Has 81 Landing Fields And Airports
Jacksonville, According to th Bureau of Air Commerce at Wash ington, Florida has 81 airports and landing fields. These Include 87 municipal airports, one army an five navy fields, 18 commercial a porta, three Department of Come anerer intermediate landing fields 14 auxiliary fields and three felds under miscellaneous listing, goo ernment', private
State Twenty-two of the total number of fields are partially or fully light
ed.
and
JUBILEE PICTURES FOR QUEEN'S
Episodes From Life Of H.M. The King EXCELLENT COMPILATION
For the Jubilee Week the Queen Theatre will be showing a remar able series. of pictures, both mog ing and still, illustrative of the lif and reign of His Majesty King
George V
A running descriptive, commen try, written and excellently livered by Mr. G. Ward Price, well-known correspondent of th Daily Mail, acompanies the pic tures.
The pictures have been admirabl selected and excellently combined Whether the airlas-injection en brought right up to the presen every one being. full of interest
than that paid to the French, Ita-gine will ultimately become as for lian, German or United States midable a rival to the petrol engine undertakings..
in the air as it is on the roads is difficult to say.
time. One sees the King at work and at play, as ruler and mixing amongst his people, enjoying En lal sports and pastimes, a record that is never dull.
aubjec
Queen Mary
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Pedalling has shown itself to be This includes the cost of bringing in successful method of power pro many hundreds of skilled craftsmen duction on the roadt can it be made from Swatow, Amoy, and Foochow, a successful method of power proof as much as £100, as well as bé- and also their salaries and expenses duction in the air? during their stay Hong Kong.)
A recent German study suggests Work commenced two months ago that such a gathering and direction ly regarding him as an aerial taxi- And other passengers-apparent and will not be fully completed of muscular effort would make driver have tried to tip him with Miles "Merlin”—a 'plano designed
I had a flight here recently in until the week-end.
flight by this means possible, and half-a-crown. Chinese History Episodes supports the suggestion with the Each tableau is representative of most. thorough examination of the London hotel for home, forgot her done much of the important draw-
An American woman, leaving al
by Mr. F. G. Miles, whose wife has some episode in Chinese history or problem yet seen. The study is jewel case, which contained £40,000 ing-office work and stress calcula-
Sound British Position the fents, of some renowned warrier. prompted by the foundation of a worth of gems. She had sailed tions for the successful series of the British company's deficit was aircraft oil engines of British de- should see these pictures of the During the night the whole proces- 5,000 marks prize by the Frank- from Southampton when she re-Miles "Hawks," "Falcons," and the at the rate of £450,000 a year. The sign have been disappointing, and best-loved. sovereign that lives to
The most recent figures show that i
The results so far obtained with Every loyal. British sion will be illuminated with elee-furt-on-Main Polytechnic Society membered, and sent a wireless mer: "Merlin" itself writes à Home casubsidy received by the company little more success appears to have day, and of his gracious consort trical lights. The procession will far a circular flight of one kild-sage. be two miles in length, of which metre with the human muscles as one and a half miles will be fish of the sole means of power produc- from the London hotel, few with She was a passenger with me in total receipts. It is now under 45
Thas year by year formed a constant-attended the efforts of American
ly diminishing percentage of Is almost every size and hue
designers, although a World's non
-H. S. W It will be led by a band of 200; Human flight by cycling has been American woman's liner before shej
them to Cherbourg and caught the the "Merlin," which was piloted by per cent, a figure very much less refuelling endurance record was
Charlie Chan In Paris instruments, for which seven dif-mooted on many occasions, and left for New York.
Once more Charlie Chan, unravel ferent types of hand-embroidered some years ago the cyclist Poul-
her husband. The flight enabled than that which can be shown by secured with a Packard Diesel en costumes of the finest silk have main covered ten metres in the air
At Midnight
mysteries in his own me to realise the tremendous bene-should be emphasized that this
any Continental competitor.
gine in May, 1981. It
Inimitable Tray: been prepared.
mounted on a winger bicycle. But midnight to take a doctor to an troduction of trailing-edge wing ously with an increased share in where Messrs. Junkers Motorenbau ders and a remarkably clever de He is used to being called out at fit flying is obtaining from the in- figure has been reached simultane-however, been made in Germany, thrills, with two mysterious mur
Considerably more progress has, Here is a film packed full Ready At 6 s.m. Although the procession will not within the region of practical pos- British specialists are in great de-and wheel brakes.
a circular kilometre is a different urgent operation in Paris or some flaps, the variable-pitch propeller, the world's air traffic. problem and it is only brought other European capital.
G.m.b.H., of Dessau, have been un-nouement when Charlle finally sibility by the admission of the mand for operations in Europe. different tableaux' will be put into rules, of power condensers. The Once he flew 600 miles to Geneva a designer in the aeronautical field, to which some foolish crities have, oil engines of this make havo]
Clearly, then, British civil avia-remitting in their efforts to develop solves the mysteries and hands over Mrs. Miles, moreover, is not only tion does not deserve the censure suitable heavy-oll engine. Actual- the criminals to the French police competitor for the prize is allowed with a passenger, flew back all in she is also a pilot.
The plot is well conceived and half an hour before he starts to the same day--and found time for
already been installed in large well worked out, the suspense being atore up energy in any form of 18 holes of golf before dark.
The Miles series includes the It is being developed on
numbers in the Deutsche Luft-maintained, right to the end. It energy accumulator he may devise.
machine on which Mr. Brooks set technical and commercial lines. Im-ficant that licences for their manu-
sound Hansa service, and it is signi- would be unfair to reveal it. At Croydon Airport Captain 'Led-up a new Australia-England flight provements in the time schedules facture have been taken out both snave Chinese detective and, it may Warner Oland is, of course, the lle has become known as the "Ay-record. The "Merlin" is an ad-are not being forgotlen. They are in France and in England. ing undertaker." Three times re-vance upon it, and 'marks
.
start until 11 am on Monday the
position n's carly as six o'clock.
Perhaps the most impressive alght will be the four giant dragons, each 300 feet in length. It took two months to make each. head alone with 40 men working! day and night shifts: These are,
tions,
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E
Some
...exposed it.
the biggest dragons ever construct MACAO ELECTRIC cently he has had to fly across stage in the development of the more are now being planned. a new constantly being made, and expensive by severni hundreds of LIGHTING CO., LTD. bodies.
Europe with coffins containing moderate-sized, moderate priced!
ed in Hong Kong and the most)
dollars,
It took an almost equal time to build the bodies. Each body ja composed of 3,000 silver inlaid scules nine by six inches is area.
MEETING
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be
aeroplane,
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still
CRIMINAL SESSIONS
Charge Of Robbery On Battery Path
ACCUSED CONVICTED AND SENTENCED
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be said, has never been better The first heavy-oil aero-engine Mary Brian plays charmingly was constructed by Messrs. Junkers the banker's daughter wrongly ac as early as 1917, but an overland cused of one of the murders, but flight was not made until 1929. saved by Charlie, who cleverly con
A considerable step forward was ceala a past, indiscretion of the Imade in 1981, when one of the Luft- girl's at the same time.
Hansa traffic machines was fitted There is a real Chinese actor. In
with a 720-h.p. engine, while. in it too; Keze Luke, who plays the 1982, a machine fitted with one of part of Charife Chan's eldest som these engines was put into regular Others are John Miljan, as usual service on the Berlin Amsterdam nave, polished villain; Eric Rhodes route...
Thomas Beck and Murry Kinnell,
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The Dead Girl
Striking Improvements From Budapest he brought back It is little short of a revolution, to her parents the body of an 18. effected during the past two or year-old English girl who died)
three years. In this new type the Four hundred men will be required for me to refer to reports which you tion in Hungary.
while she was finishing her educa-centrivances already mentioned and to carry each dragon and in addi-have probably seen in the South Special regulations
other improvements are for the tion there will be 200 others at-China Morning Post of April 80, observed before the dead ean
have to be first time combined in a commer tending. Owing.
to the great and in the China Mail of April 29, carried from one country to another
efal aircraft, and the result is very weight of these gargantran replicasțin
striking. connection with taxation in by air. of a forgotten era the bearers will Macao, bath upon your Company
Standard equipment of "
In the following year, a number all good; while Dorothy Appleby the have to be changed every few and consumers of electricity.
A Home Office permit is requir. "Merlin" includes directional wire-
of heavy-oil engined machines displays marvellous talent as haura. There is a silver dragon, a
ed in the case of a body brought less, navigation lights, and full in-
were put into service on the main dancer. (Coming to Queen's). golden dragon, a lantern dragon, not strictly correct; a new law was for the dead" has to be secured to chine carries a pilot and four pas before the Chief Justice, the Hon. the Junkers G.88, fitted with four
"Unfortunately these accounts are into England, and a special "passtrumental equipment. The ma
Fong Tong, who pleaded guilty the largest German land machine, German airline routes. In 1934, and a multi-coloured dragon,
-H. S. W published in Lisbon during January land in Germany. Almost Every Known Fish
sengers in "sociable" plan. pilot Mr. A. D. A. MacGregor, at the 750-h.p. engines, was produced, and SOYA BEANS this year, and has recently been en- Tvice Captain Ledlie has taken and one passenger side by side, and Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, also a triple-engined machine, the ARE WITHDRAWN The 11-mile fish procession will forced in all Portuguese. be representative
Colonies bodica by air out of England. A the other three in a row behind to a charge of larceny from the Junkers JU 52, with 850-1.1. en- of almost every inspection of electrical industries, burial to Zlin in his native land.
throughout the world, covering the Czech who died here was taken for them. type of fish known to man. There
person, was sentenced to 12 months' The type is an ideal one for tour hard labour. The complainant was
gines-Engineering. will be sharks, sword-fish, herring, and a charge is being made by the
FROM FREE LIST flying-fish and also some so fantas-Macao Government on your Com- miles to Rome.
A dead Italian was taken 1000g. In addition to five persona, it Fok Mi-wun, a married woman of tic that their origin can live only their connected load to cover the issue, especially when all business
takes 168 lb. of luggage. Its full 16 Russell Street. pany and all consumers based on
speed is 155 miles per hour, and it The following jury was empanell Government Analyst, Fok Mi-wun, adopted in the interests of the in the minds of their inventors.
cruises at 140 m.ph. Monday's procession will be dur-cost of this inspection service.
ed Messrs. D. J. Fraser (Foreman), Inspector A. W. Smith, Inspector British cotton and artificial nilk ing the day only, but on Tuesday themselves, their consumers, and
"Your Company, on behalf of depressed state.
in Macao are definitely in a very by steepening the angle of descent Ng Yum-tin, W. C. Clark, A. Lafter which the defendant elected to 88,000,000 yards of British textila It is no exaggeration to say that J. A. D. Morrison, J. D. Humphreys, M. Murphy and an interpreter, industries the colonies imported there will be one both in the day for the general interest of the
Polts's Querles
by means of the wing flaps (or afr Rocha and J. C. Van-der-Wa), and at night. On Wednesday the procession will take place in the Colony, have taken this matter up motion asked a few questions,ger than a tennis
Mr. G. H. Potts in seconding the reduced that a field very little big torney General, suld that on April up the pin and, after returning it first quarter of the same year.
brake) the landing speed is so much Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant At Defendant stated that he picked as compared with 28,000,000 in the
take the stand.
goods in the last quarter of 1934 evening only.
with H.E., The Governor of Macao, and with the Government Départ-this tax amount to?"
Mr. G. H. Potts: How much does enough. The use of the vairable-home via Battery Path with her would happen. A man passing on "Experiments in the cultivation
court is big 7 the complainant was returning to the woman, he thought nothing EXPERIMENTS IN PRITAIN ments concerned, and negotiations The Chairman: "It is a big item, secures a very short run.
pitch propeller for taking-off two daughters; who were not called a bicycle advised him to return the of the soya bean have been carried are proceeding with a view to can- but the matter is still being studied
to give evidence owing to their ex-pin, lightening as much as possible the much it should be."
treme youth. When they were Mr. Fraser: Your view is that past, the largest and most recent out in Great Britain for some yeare burden on your Company and its
walking down the path near Mur-socause you returned the pin you belag in favourable climatic cond Mr. G. H. Potts: "It is an iniqui corried: unanimously.
The report and accounts were then ray Barracks the woman felt her committed no offence Etactly.・・ tions during 1983 and 1934, but it consumers, and 50,000 Communists partici- able to give you an idea as to the
"It is too early yet for me to be company
tous tax to put on a public utility Directors Re-elected
hairpin being snatched away, She After a brief summing up by his is too early to judge whether the pated in
turned found and immediately Lordship, the Jury, without retiring, crop can be grown commercially in the two processions, probable results of these negotia came from Lisbon and it is difficult the Board of Directors. Mr. T. Barm. The sctual assault, Mr, guilty let it be so. Please consider Fisheries in reply to Mr. Will The Chairman: "The order for it Mr. F. J. Gellion be re-ciacted to struck her in the left eye and right, Prisoner: Since I have been found Elliot, Minister of Agriculture and Mr. G. H. Patte proposed that grappled with the accused, who returned a vardiet of guilty, this country stated Major Waltal carrying banners denouncing imtions, but I must stale that H.E. for the local Government to do any Wilson seconded the motion, which Fraser explained, had nothing to do my young wife and children Thorne, the Labour member, f perialist war, President Roose The Governor and the Government thing except to hear our points of was passed. velt Mr. Randolph Hearst, the Departments concerned have met view and of those of others, and Mr. P. C. Potts proposed and Mr. charged. nowspaper magnate, Father our representations in a very cable to Lisbon I should think the TB, Wilson, seconded, the re-elec During the struggle the womansions and explained that the differ soya bean had sleo Coughlin, the broadcasting-par-sympathetic manner, and I can only tax would be modified although the tion of Messra. Lowe Bingham and had
with the offenca with which he was Mr. Fraser said it was unusual Plaistow son, and Senator Huey Long, thesay that I hope that the negotia Chamber of
to bring a case of this typo to Ses- He added that he understood ther "Louisiana DictatorReuter. Lions will come to successful Chinese concerns are requesting aulng year. This
of Commerce and big Matthewa
apilt on her clothes.ence was that the offence had been some success but on, the Evidence for the Crown was aggravated by assault and the pre-in A. Jackson, acting sence of pepper.
parts of the Dominions
.
QUIET MAY DAY IN cellation, postponement or at least and they have not yet decided how cancellation."
AMERICA
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grown with limited ente