PORTSMOUTH TO
Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, seen with his. Child, may attempt to break the London to Melbourne, record.
KINGSFORDSMITH'S PLAN
FLYING BOATS SEEN AT HENDON
Formation Flight Away From Landing Facilities
Seven glasfying beans, in- cluding the last and www powerful in sctivé commission in the world, were seen in formatian fight at the RA.F. Display at Hendon on June 28 and 29.
It is cananci to see dying boats far inland where landing facilites are limited.
*SC
The biggest of the feet was the
MAY FLY TO
MELBOURNE FROM LONDON ALSO FROM US.
TO ENGLAND
“LADY SOUTHERN "CROSS” TO BE USED
Air Commodore Sir Charles
THE CHINA MALL THERSDAY, JULY 11. 193
UNDERGO AIR DEFENCE SCHEMES
TESTED
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST
AIR RAIDS
CO-OPERATION OF PUBLIC
ASKED BY AUTHORITIES
RAID TEST NEXT MONTH
THE Admiralty are now collaborating with local authorities 1 £t Portsmouth to arrange a “black out” as an air raid test precaution. It will be along the same lines as those re- cently held at Chatham, Rochester and Gillingham. “
A date in August has been considered by Conncillor Frank, |Privett, the Lord Mayor, and the Town Clerk. The "black- out" will probably be held in the small hours of the morning when there will be few lights to extinguish.
"DO-X" HOUSED
IN MUSEUM
IN BERLIN
Safe In Harbour At Last
SLOW AND TRICKY LAST JOURNEY
"Wing-Commander Eric J. Hod- sell RAF, who is in charge of new Air Raids Precaution Dept. of the Home Office, said: "These ex- periments depend for their sUCCESS on willing co-operation from the public.
we
Quite Voluntary.
"They are quitë voluntary and hope always will be At Chatham. Rochester and Giling- ham they went well and the public gave
extraordinarily fine co-operation.
We had a maroon signal at 11 pm, and for half an The world's biggest flying-hour the towns were plunged in boat, the 12-engined Dornierį darkness.
Do-, has come to end its days
in a Berlin museum,
Berlin.
The Air Ministry co-operates:
Los Angeles. The last journey of this huge by laning EAF. machines contrast to the which ascend at night for the machine was in Kingsford Smith may By from the high-speed fights she has made pilots and observers to note the in the past over oceans and con- degree of visibility a town pre- six-engined Short, which United States to England and then inents. It took eight hours to sents when in complete darkness.
to Australia, according to his move her one- mile from a canal friend and adviser. Mr. P. G.in Berlin to the museum.
On Special Lorry Morris. of Los Angeles:
carries a crew of 10.
APPEAL FOR
FINANCIAL
CO-OPERATION
(Continued from Page 1}
FRANCES CONTRIBUTION
"One light carelessly left on of course rains everything.”
He will fly the "Lady Southern machine
The weight of the body of the The sea coast towns are being
was so great that a chosen fast for these experi Cross," the machine in which he special lorry had to be built to menta Appeal is made to local
intended to take part in the Lon-carry iz. All traffic along the jauthorities for help..
year,
At one point there is a slope in the road. The brakes of the lorry carrying the aeroplane would not hold, so 2 small lorry had to *be attached at the back-and }
of the day and time of the signal
1
A scene at the start of a ¦ previous ascent into the stratos- phere by the U.S. airmen Kepaer and Stevens.
STRATOSPHERE ATTACK
FLIGHT TO CAPE TOWN
*
AND BACK
New British Air Filin In Preparation
Mr. E. D. Wainwright, A.F.C. set out recently to get to the Cape and back by air in 19 days. While in Africa he was to make arrangements for the bew Slm "Air Lines,” from Charles Lone's novel, which he is mak ing in association with Gaumont-- British and Imperial Always, Ltd.
ENGINE MADE
PASSES TESTS
dor-Melbourne air race last
street was diverted and the cur- The Mayor of the town then land will attempt to establish ahead tramway wires to
rent was cut off from the over issues public appeals by way of prevent placards and newspaper notices new record for the flight between danger of a short-circuit from the to the public, who are instructed LIGHTEST AERO A Trans-Ocean Service message London and Melbourne, should be huge machine from Paris states that the Gover decide to make be flight, said mor of the Banque de France, M. Tannery, speaking at a luncheon Mr. Morris. given by the American Club here, i warmly advocated closer collabora-! tion between Paris, London - and. New York, declaring that the economic fate of the world depend- ed in a large measure upon the adoption of a common policy by these, the world's greatest financial centres:
GENERAL BUDGET FOR CHINA
(Continued from Page 6)
Ordinary Receipts' Party. Expenditure....$ 5,665,800 Expenditure of Organi
zations directly under National Government
M.. Tannery emphasised that France would remain faithful to Military Expenditure the gold standard. In any case Expenditure for Domes the devaluation of the franc ar tic Affairs this juncture would avail nothing. Expenditure for Foreign
Affairs
The Banque de France was deter-Financial Expenditure mined to defend the franc against Edcuational and Cultural all attacks, which it was quite in Expenditure
'a position to do.
This policy. said M. Tannery
Judicial Expenditure Expenditure. for Com Industrial Expenditure.
munications
was France's contribution to the world's return to prosperity, be-penditure for Mongo
would facilitate She lian-Tibetan Affairs
cause
Expenditare
driven in the opposite direction
Ito act as a check.
Finally, just as the aeroplane
had reached her destination the
wheels of the lorry sank through the rough stones of the roadway. It was dragged out by means of a windlass-and now, at last, the 11.911,833 -Do-X" is safe in harbour. 293,014,500
FREE FLYING TUITION
Offer To Youth Of Yorkshire
4,280,328
9.082 242 65,789,523
35,061,422 1,657 520 3,854,948
4,803,909
1,722,844
Coa-
general process of stabilisation
struction which was the surest means
of; Subsidies bringing about the real and lasting Compassionate Grants rise in the price level essential for Expenditure on Nazional
Loans the return of the prosperity of the!
·world-Trans-Ocean Service.
Secondary Reserve Fund
BERLIN BOURSE WARNING
Berlin, To-day. A clear warning was issued to the public yesterday by the management of the Berlin Bourse, + the effect that
many share prices had at present attained a level quite unjustified by normal economic considerations.
274,803,279
limited
1,766,293 tuition
tandard.
York
SUCCESSFUL AIR RAID REHEARSALS
Loyal Co-operation By Civilians
Newest "Bristol"
Product
DETAILED
MEASURES
NEW NAVAL GUN
REPLY TO
MENACES
FROM AIR
Machine-Gun Of
Heavy Calibre ":
HIGH EXPLOSIVE SHELLS ·
» AS AMMUNITION
A multiple machine gun of heavy calibre, firing high ex- plosive shells at an almost fabu lous rate, is the Navy's newest weapon against attack from the lair.
The details and even the ex fistence of the gun, with which eventually all major vessels of the Navy will be equipped have hitherto been an official secret. Now the ban has been lifted.
Already, "during the last two yeaza. many battleships and cruisers have mounted the new weapon. While for obvious rea- 300s, exact particulars must still be withheld. it is permissible to state that the new weapon has revolutionised the Navy's me thods of dealing with low-fying bombing aircraft and torpedo planes.
Having watched the zunin
CONCLUDED action at sea, mout naval officers
RECORDS TO BE ATTEMPTED
SCIENTIFIC DATA ON AIR CONDITIONS
fare of the opinion that it is the
MOST
effective reply to low altitude sir-attack which has yet been devised
:
"Planes" Outranged
Its rare far exceeds that at which a torpedo" "plane could hope to launch a successful at- tack. The stream of shell lash-
Rapid City, S.D. The most careful and detailed the water and detonating preparations ever made for a 30-either by time or percussion fuse mile trip have been completed the latter so sensitive
23 to bere in Rapid City's rockwalled cause a burst if an aeroplane wire natural bowl Any day now the through which no machine could 18 touched sets up a barrage igiant stratosphere balloon of the
Second National Geographic-So- pass ciety-Army Air Corps expedition
and
In the House of Corimons, res
may take to the skies in the dual cently Mr. Churchill compared the attempt to break the existing al-usual form of anti-aircraft gar- titude record for such flights and sery to a pea-rifle fring at a fy | NEW TYPE WEIGHS bring back valuable data on con- ing duck. But the Navy's new. ONLY 1 LB. PER HP.ditions existing in the upper at-Sun has altered all that. The rife has, as it were, beer super- mosphere.
Capt. Orvil A. Anderson, who seded by an automatic shot-gun will pilot; the huge craft,
firing heavy explosive shot at the Capt. R. P. Williams, in charge of rate of hundreds to the minute, ground operations and alternate and the "ducks" themselves are A Bristol Pegasus" nero en-pilot, have completed tests of the pow hopelessly outranged. gine of a new series, designed to instruments made in two short replace the standard - "Pegasus hopes into the substratosphere by III" has just completed the 100 open basket balloon. The following statement on the hours official type test.
Twenty-six thousand feet was recent air raid tests
This engine for a take-off the greatest height attained in! ham. Rochester and Gillingham power of 920 hp. and a maximum there tests flights, sufficient for was issued by Vice-Admiral Sir power at 6,000 feet altitude of the experiments. Hugh Tweedie, Commander-in-875 np. weighs only 995Th..
Every possible precaution is Chief at the Nore:-
VALUABLE INFORMATION
GAINED
**
Chat
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET
(Continued from Page 6):
The estimate of the corn crop is
conditions.
It is the lightest and most er being taken this time to insure "The air raid observation test ficient production type of sero success. was a great success, and the loyal engine ever made, for although New radio. equipment, using a bullish. Weather conditions in co-operation of the civil popula the Holls-Royce racing engine in broadcasting beam so short in the corn belt are improving. Oats, To promote air-mindedness in tion was to a large measure res the Supermarine seaplane which Wave-length as to behave more likere and barley estimates are Yorkshire, the York County Avia-ponsible for this. Observers sta- won the Schneider Trophy for light than electrical energy, has bearish, Total sales: Wheat: 2.212,130 tion Club has now established a tioned at various high positions Great Britain weighed only 1,640-been designed and installed in 40,543,000 bushels Corn: 7,044,- 59,797,613 scheme under which they are of in the three towns were entirely lb. for its 2,350 hp, that engine the gondola Draving the fight, 000 bushels 4.936,699 fering the youth of the county a satisfied with the darkening ar-was not a production type, albeit!conversation and comments of the Cotton: Weather
amount of free dying rangements, which were carried it afforded data of enormous balloonists will be rebroadcast are, considered favourable, with Extraordinary Expenditure It is proposed to hold trials to thoroughness.
cut very rapidly and with great value for its makers numerous over a nation-wide hookup by the high temperatures in the South-
NBC. standard types."
West beneficial to the crops 235,000 select candidates and the finalists "Unfortunately, aeroplanes The famous Gnome rotary air-
FlashAverage daily produc will be trained to "A" license coming from Manston were forced cooled engine took the flying
BIG ADVANCE IN ANGLO- tion of petroleum for the week **** 665.299:
to turn back at the outskirts of world by storm in the years 1910- CHINESE CO-OPERATION
Lending July-6 was estimated at 27,985,400
Gillingham by thick clouds above 1914 with its weight of about 21⁄2-
2,677,000 barrels, compared with [800ft which at times obscured lbs. per hp. The Rolls-Royce Rac-
2,690,000 barrels the previous, 90.980
(Continued from Page 1) [even the wing tips, and the pilotsing water-cooled engine of 1931
¡week MR. WELLS REPLIES 268,452 Army, navy, and commercial considered the visibility in-was only 2-3lb. per hp. The new
Mr. HG Wells, responding estimates weekly electricity pro- The Edison Electric Institute 2,221,820 planes flying at altitudes of more sufficient for safety.
Pegasus, a moderately super-said that the time to make vague duction at 1,655,000,000 kw.h, an than three miles makes daily "The exercise achieved every-charged-air-cooled engine for generalisations about the East and 2,150,138 fights from 20 different airports thing it set out to do, and the in production, barely exceeds 11h the West were
increase of 6.4 per cent from the completely past 543832 throughout the country, carrying formation gained was extremely per ha
People once thought of China as The following cable was receive corresponding period of last year instruments to record weather valuable, in spite of the fact that
Fuel Economy
almost a non-existent land of fairy 125,200 conditions in the higher air for the aircraft
unable to Together with steady reduction tales and monsters, but wireless, ed last night; de U.S. Weather Bureau 34,362,750
in weight there is a gradual im-seroplanes and other drvention
Grains Rust reports continue provement in fuel economy The had abolished distance and people and there was some profit-taking steady progression of lightness were feeling more and more there before publication of the Govern- in relation to power output may common destiny. There were airment estimates We would rather be judged from the following (ferences between usin
buy on farther declines. table of approximate values:
Expenditure of Organi- Party Expenditure
zations Directly Under National Covernment Military Expenditure Expenditure for Domes
tic Affairs Expenditure for Foreign
Affairs Financial Expenditure The prices of many shares are
Educational and
tural Expenditure so high that prospective dividends Judicial Expenditure.. will not offer a fair return on the Industrial Expenditure invested capital This state of Expenditure for Com- affairs has arisen because xt moment insuficient stock is offer-
Cul-
the
munications Expenditure
straction
National Operated
Cop
payable
ed from which investors can ranke Capital
choice.
Past experience suggests. That Business
the price level will again decline,
Subsidies
especially as commerce and indus- Grand Total of Ordinary
try have to reckon with new tevier,
and hence savers are advised to
and Extraordinary. Expenditure
Chekiai Agency,
877-285
60,971,166) 42,182,476
WEATHER RECORDS
operate."
were
Lord Londonderry Pays
Tribute To R.A.F. Club
$957,154,006
Lond
re-terest securities were eratic
use caution in investing at this moment and above all to consider tions actually taking place showed whether first-class fixed interest that prices were firmer. Fixed in- securities do not offer better turns than share investments. SOBERING TENDENCIES Doubtless this warning helped damp down enterprise for it was very noticeable public held aloof,
were les
all sections, and price changes I'were small Call money was 22/2 to 2% per cent Trans Ocean Ser
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