THE CHINA MAIL,
1937
RUSHING WAR PICTURES TO U.S.
pper flight A wher the first of the weekly
Most exciting air express cargo race which o aboard the Pan American trans- fend of pacific Clippers these days are the in results of the efforts of news photo
a shipment of pictures by
graphers on the scene of the unde a photographer who had gone to the clared war in the Orient. Because
rent several months ago to do a of the highly competitive nature of travel picture on various phases of American newspaper work, news peaceful Oriental life. On the photographs are deemed an ex-scene at the first bombing of Shang-
tures.”
the
NEW GIANT PLANES FOR PACIFIC SERVICE
ways.
Designed for long range passen-planes ever to be built by strictly tremely "perishable commodity," hai, the lens work of this photo-ger-carrying over ocean air routes, shipbuilding methods. The inner and are accorded the fastest means grapher was sent down the Whang with equal consideration given to dock is a bulwark of open seraf- of transportation available. An poo River in a chartered steamer, the experience of transoceanic fly folding with numerous stages and axiom of news photography is that which was frequently under fire, ing over the Pacific and the special walk-ways, making every part of the "best picture in the world is reached Hong Kong and from there needs for a similar service across the hell's exterior accessible to worth exactly nothing unless you had a peaceful routine transpacific
Atlantic, four of the six new workmen. The outer dock is con- can get it developed and into the fight to California. Arriving at Boeing Clippers, now being built at nected to an inclined ramp leading correct distribution channels first Alameda on a Tuesday morning the Boeing Aircraft factory at Seat into the water, on which the com and ahead of all competing pic-the package of pictures were placed tle, will be placed in service on the pleted Clippers will "slide down the
on a private plane, flown across the
Pacific. The assignment of this new ways" like an ocean litter. Weekly Race
Bay to San Francisco airport equipment takes in
consideration: Two thousand aircraft men, This rule and the situation in the transshipped to a United Airliner
not only the future requirements of scattered through twenty different Orient have created a weekly 9,000 which carried them to New York the regularly operated 9,000-mile departments of the Boeing Aircraft mile race from China to the United In New York the pictures were transpacific airway between Cali-Company's plant are engaged on States which for feverishness and sold to the highest bidder, a na-fornia and the Orient, but also the the constraction of the new fleet excitement makes pale indeed gold tionally known photographic news rushes and stake races to new dia- agency which, in routine distributes of a possible South Pacific of transoceanic elippers.
route from the United States to These new big flying busts will mond friends. Down from the tight-tion, wire-photoed them back to
Australasia, which was surveyed have a capacity for seventy-two ly drawn lines of combat in the California where the originals had last Spring by Pan American Air passengers on long daylight flights Shanghai area come undeveloped been twenty-four hours before. The motion picture reels and plates by pictures appeared in San Francisco whatever speedy means of trans- and Oakland papers on Wednesday, portation can be found in a land of were promptly pronounced by the disrupted interual modes of trans-journalistically-wise, the port. All lines of shipment for photoscoop of the year.” this precious cargo lead to Hong Kong and the waterside of the Kai An interesting feature of the de- Tak Airport, where films and plates mand for speed. and stil more are rushed aboard Pan American speed in transporting the pictorial Airways Hong Kong Clipper for record of the Sino-Japanese war is flight to Manila. there to be trans- that frequently the exposed "war ferred to one of the Martin Clippers film" is sent more than 6,000 miles in regular weekly service across the before, anyone knows whether the Pacific. On the arrival of the films or plates being accorded such Clipper at the Alameda (Calif.) fast handling contain anything Airport, the race starts anew by worthy of reproduction. In the individual effort. Motorcycle, high-course of most such shipments the powered cars and even chartered regular overnight stop of the Clip private planes stand by to expedite pers at Honolulu affords the first the distribution of the pictures to time available for picture develop- various points in the United States. ing. Darkroom technicians work
Shanghai Pictures
through the night în studios there.
The massive Boeing boats, " Queer and extremely topsy-turvy developing negatives and making gineers point out, are the first results sometimes evolve from the (Continued at foot of Next Col)
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news?
and accommodations for fifty pas- The first of these new clippers sengers 031 overnight flights. now under construction, the latest The cargo holds will carry in addi- and largest commercial passengertion five thousand pounds of air seaplanes ever designed, and which freight and airmail. The power it is anticipated will take to the air plant of the new clippers will con- about the first of the new year, issist of four of the new twin-row now entering the second of two Wright Cyclones, each capable of
delivering 1,500 horsepower. principal stages of construction.
The second and final stage com- prises the attachment at an out- door dock of the 152-foot wing to the hull structure. The hulls of the six ships are being assembled at docks inside the factory. Two such inside docks are set in steel and concrete within the assembly han- gar, and here assembly work can be advanced on twe ships at the same
time.
Ship Methods
CANTON OIL BY AIR
AUSTRALIAN AIR AGREEMENT
agreement for the co-ordina- tion of all the major air services of the Commonwealth of Australia has been reached by the Quantas Empire Airways, Airlines of Aus- tralia, Ltd., and the Australian Na- air-tional Airways.
The primary object of the agree- ment is to minimize the over-lap- ping of operations and to adjust in- terests in future, new air services.
The agreement provides for Air- lines of Australia to control through service between Melbourne and Townsville, while the services Not for the lamps of China, but from Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth "for internal use only” was an ex- and Tasmania are to be directed by press shipment of oil which passed | Australian National Airways, with through Pan American Airways in-Quantas Empire Airways controll- ternational airport at Alameda, ing the local. Queenstown service Calif, bound for China by air, from Brisbane. which had originated within the Arctic Circle territory of Norway,
An emergency call for supplies of cod liver oil from the Hackett Medi- Ical Centre at Canton, China, result- ed in the use of both U. S. domestic, airline service and Pan American Airways international air express in diverting a part of a special † shipment of cod liver oil transport- ed by ship from Norway to New York
Eight days after the arrival of the shipment in New York the oil consigned to China was scheduled to reach its destination in Canton.
prints in quantities. Not infrequent-
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ly there is "brought to light for DIRECTORY
the first time in these dark rooms" 5,000 miles from the scene of war, pictures promptly marked with the cryptic legend "Nix Pub Mosho,” meaning, freely translated; publication Too horrible to
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