THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1936 ..
EUROPE TO NEW YORK IN 3 DAYS BY AIRSHIP
4 PLANES WEEKLY
TO AMERICA
PLANS FOR NEW SERVICE ACROSS ATLANTIC DIPLOMATIC PRELIMINARIES FIXED
Southampton, December 23. TEE regular trans-Atlantic air-service which is to be instituted after experimental survey flights next year, is expected to consist of four journeys each way a week.
Sir Donald Banks, Director-General of the Post Office, made this statement when he landed to-day from the Canard-White Star liner Aquitania, which docked 16 hours late because of the fog.
Khánh. Chan, H. Kaadal @ This year's Garden Bennett
LINER LUXURY FOR
80
PASSENGERS
NEW GERMAN DIRIGIBLE NEARING COMPLETION
COCKTAIL BARS AND DANCING -
FLOORS
London, December 23. THE largest aircraft ever built waits in a long, high building at Friedrichshafen, on the shores of Lake Constance, Germany, for its first
Balloon Race is to be held shoet journey across the world. ly st Warsaw Above is Lieutenant Charles E.. Kendall, one of the two American en- trants for the race last year.
Sir Donald was accompanied by Lt-Col. Shelmerdine. Director-General of Civil Aviation. With Mr. G. E. Woods Humphreys, managing director of Imperial Airways, they were. parties to the agreement just concluded in Washington between IMPERIAL Great Britain, America, Canada and Ireland for the establish- ment of a trans-Atlantic air service.
AIRPORT FOR LONDON
Slight Burden On Ratepayers
SCHEME WELL ADVANCED
"We have finished the diplo- matic side of the arrangements,” Sir Donald said. "Obviously one leannot fy across various coun-| {tries without first making diplo- matic arrangements. The techni- cal side-the questions of bases, types of machines, routes, fares, frequency of service. &C.--DOW
AIRMAIL
INCREASES
Some Interesting Statistics
BIGGEST FIGURES SHOWN FOR MALAYA
has to be tackled Not a great Further Gains Expected
deal can be done until Parliament Idecides about the allocation of the
-
It is still known as the Zeppelin LZ129, but it is understood that it will be called Adolf Hitler. Half a million cubic feet of gas is being pumped into it-the last process in its two years of construction.
This great hangar has seen its birth from a design on a drawing-board to the mighty skeleton, dwarfing the workmen who swarmed among the maze of girders.:
For the past few weeks men and women have been busy stitching the great silver envelope.
The 839-foot-long "ship of the] 'air will carry eighty passengers and a large crew. It will be driven by four mighty oil-bazning engines at more than eighty miles. Jan homm. -
Passengers will not be accome *modated in cramped compart- Iments. Long promenade decks.
glass windowed, will give them
views of the lands and seas
Interesting statistics recently thousands of feet belong.
Every Luxury
Sir Alfred Bower, a former subsidies for which the Air published by the British. Post Lord Mayor of London. an-Ministry is asking. nounced last month that the
Americans Keen
AIR DEFENCE OF LONDON
Mayors' Appeal To Citizens
TERRITORIAL UNITS
The Metropolitan Mayors”. Office show-an-impressive în- They will eat in extensive din Association recently issued an crease in airmail letter volumeing saloons, served by stewards. appeal to all citizens of London question of an airport for the "The Americans are very keen carried from London to the Em-with food prepared by first-class of the right age and fitness to City of London was farther ad- on this trans-Atlantic service. Fre-pire in which the following per-chefs.
join the anti-aircraft-units of wanced than people knew. The sident Roosevelt received us and centages are shown in compar There will be smart cocktail the Territorial Army. burder on the ratepayers would expressed the greatest interesting the first half of 1935 with bars and dancing foors. Passen- be less than a penny in the But it must not be thought that that of 1934. pound.
there is any question of an Ameri-
Sir Alfred was presiding at the can and Great Britain monopoly Letter Mails from Langbourn Wardmote, one of thejof the service. The agreement is London to 25 held for the election of 206 based on the principle of full re- Malaya Common Councilmen of the City ciprocity and does not preclude South Africa of London. The Council was rethe possibility of similar arrange Rhodesia
Sudan.
turned without contest or change.
Ratepayers should remember.
Sir Alfred Bower said, that they
Egypto
Iraq India
East Afric
paid nothing for their bridges. £47,000 BERMUDA AIR BASE Palestine which were built and maintained | out of rents from the Bridge House Estates. That must be set against expenditure on-an airport.
Last February the Lands Com- mittee of the Corporation, which had beer considering the question of an airport since December, 1933, was voted £150 to obtain profes-i _suggestion į sional advice. One. was for the erection of a hugel reinforced concrete platform at a considerable. height above the foreshore of the river, or above) riverside warehouses.
For Use Of Atlantic Plañes
Bentda-In preparation for the starting of an Atlantic air mail service next year, Ms. C. JE Woods-Humphery. of Im
perial Airways, is visiting Eer- muda for a survey of a £47.000" air base to be used by the ocean air liners.
It is intended that the service- shall start in the spring with machines dying by way of New York-Newfoundland-Ireland-Lon- don, and in the winter, when this route is impracticable. way of the Azores and Bermuda.
by:
The appeal, which was signed zers will be able to smoke the by Lord Jessel (president). -and Increase 1st
Capt. J. C. Dalton (chairman), half year 1935 helium gas is non-inflammable.
They will sleep in luxuriously pointed out that certain of the appointed staterooms.
London Territorial waits have
over ist half
year 1934
176 per cent
161 per cent
106 per cent.
& Nyasaland
96 per cent. 67 per cent. ---32 per cent.
38 per cent
ST per centu
36 per cent.
ne-
It was but a year ago that the Fees for letter airmail were duced by approximately one, which notable step forward un- doubtedly increased the number of airmail correspondents.
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MAN'S FIRST
FLIGHT
Anniversary In America
LONDON AIRPORT ments between the United State ORVILLE WRIGHT HONOURED
SCHEME
30 Minutes From The City
FAIRLOP PLAIN PROPOSED AS SITE
and other countries.
arrange-
Only a fairt humming sound now changed their functions to will tell them that the great sky-those of anti-aircraft wifis, and
AIRWORTHINESS OF D. H
1.5
86 "PLANES
Australian Ban Lifted
Melbourne. The Australian Ministry of Defence has tored the airworthiness certif cates of all DE. 86 air liners,, which were withdrawą recently, following the forced landing of a D.H. 86 machine when flying -across-the Bass Straits
A-wing began to collapse, but
upon their shoulders will rest the responsibility of the Anti-Aircraft Defence of London.
If war should ever break out lagain sudden air attack will be Jone of the main features, said the appeal It was, therefore, of vital importance that the anti-craft defences of London should be kept! in such a state of eficiency that the personnel would be at their stations in and around London. fully trained, at the shortest pos sible notice.
the pilot brought the machine 103 PLANES FOR
safely down on an 'island.
Mr. R. Parkhill; -Minister of Defence, stated that
Co- mittee of Enquiry had found no structural defect in, the air lizer which would have accounted for the accident.
liner is being driven by powerful, roaring engines, each boused in a gondola outside the hull.
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AMERICA
Multi-Motor Type Ordered
APPROPRIATIONS BEING. ALOTTED
Washington
reia-
"Probably two routes will be used the shorter North Atlantic
Dayton, Ohio. Airmen of the world honoured route in the summer time and the
on December 17 Southern ronte by way of Bermuda Orville Wright
Booked Up
The army ordered new and the Azores during the winter on the thirty-second, anniversary
Even if they fly at heights forcements for its fighting air of the epochal flight he and his where the sleet and suOW Sir Donald said no ments had beer made about the brother Wilber made in a trail bora, through the driving clouds feet recently awarding contracts ¡choice of bases in any of the heavier-than-air machine at Kitty of ice crystals-four miles above for the purchase of 103 multi- countries concerned. A number Hawk, N. C.
the earth, the travellers will be motored bombing planes of the of places had been mentioned, in- A delegation of aviation leaders warm, kept at an even tempera- The Douglas Aircraft Company,
[swiftest modern type. An airport within half an hour cluding Southampton and Bantry from Washington and representatore by central heating and aire, of Santa Monica, Calif., was of the City is proposed in a plan Bay in Ireland, but none had yet lives from many other parts of conditioning.
the nation came here to congrată- If the maiden voyage is to given an order for 90 all-metal, which may soon be placed before been chosen.
Late Orville at a civic luncheon Kew York, passengers will do the
twin-engined mono- and to pay honour to the memory journey in less than three days planes, costing a total of $6,498.-
000.
giant four-motored i (“sky cruisers” were brought fromĮ the Boeing Company of Seattle,
Loudon
the Court of Common Council of
the City Corporation.
The chairman of the City Lands Committee said: "We have been
BUILDERS OF THE R 100
of Wilbur.
-President's Letter
studying the question of an air Famous Airship Co.'s
port very thoroughly this year."
It is understood that the scheme favoured by the Committee is for using a site of 1,000 acres at Fair- lop Plain, Ilford..
Last Meeting
.
low-wing,
Thirteen
Wat
If it is to Brazil, across the South Atlantic, they will have the time A congratulatory letter from taken by the fastest ship. President Roosevelt said, in part: Every cabin is booked for the wash. The price for the Boeing
"Another year has come its maiden voyage: way and it gratifies me immense Hugo Eckener, veteran of the Craft was not given in the formal ly to note that in the intervening airship lines; will command her Woodring, Assistant Secretary of}]
jannouncement issued by Harry H.J The final meeting of the Airship 12 months, American aeronautics
Among his officers will be men Guarantee Co. which built the has progressed steadily in all its who bombed An official of the Hord Council British airship E 100, was held on phases
London from the said that the Council were wait January 20. It was announced in
Zeppelins in 1916. "The whole world has just been ing to hear from the Ministry of a recent London Gazette" that inspired by the successful carry- Health about an application for the object of the meeting was to ing of the United States mail
MUSSOLINIS IN permission to borrow £250,000 with receive an account of the winding across the Pacific Ocean in sche- E AFRICA : which to buy the land.
up of the company.
daled air transport service by an The E 100 was built by the con American plane with sa Ameri-
Last Of Family "If the Ministry give us this pany at a cost of £300,000 in 1929.
While we ze-
Arrives power," he said, "we shall be ready in the following year she madejoice at this and other mark to negotiate with the City Cara record flight to Canada and ed advances in the science and poration, whom we know are in-back, but following the disaster to industry of aeronautics, we are Signo Vito Mussolini, son ofį the last Congress. Approximate- her sister ship, the E 101, she was aware that to you and your Arnaldo Mussolini, the director of ly $11,000,0000 of the original The land would belong to broken up and sold for scrap.
brother, Wilbur, we owe our first the Popolo dlicka, has takes up sum remains after the present The Airship Guarantee Co. was debt of gratitude.” Thford, and it would be a matter od arrangement regarding the & subsidiary of Vickers Lta..
terested.
Cost Problem
cost of hangars, and equipment.
"Should negotiations with the
City not succeed, ford may con-
sider whether she can take on the whole responsibi
NEW TYPE PAVEMENT:
A new type of
Ipavement" composed of a
Attack Planes Less than a week before, the de- partment contracted for 100 speedy attack planes from the] Northhrup Corporation of Ingle side, Calif: Contracts for a large number of parsait ships are ex- pected to be announced soon.
The new purchases are being (made under an appropriation by
his duties as a pilot, and has been purchases. Whether that amount appointed to the same squadron will be spent for-puxait planes as his cousins Vittorio and Brana, was not disclosed, but it was un-
derstood the army-expects to the Duce's sons at Asmar
TRANSPORT PLANE SPEEDS
He made his first war zone night most of it soon. The most popular transport the first day he arrived at the planes of three and five years ago squadron headquarters The "Fairlop Plan, is the only site of cotton and asphalt is being in-attained a top speed of 146 miles Mussolini family has now sent to on the east side of London and stalled at. Reilly Field, Anniston, an hour. To-day they are capable the war front
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