THE GHINA MAIE OCTOBE
Valencia
Frees
British Airman
Mr. Rupert Bellville, the airman who has been held- at Gijon by the Spanish G ment authorities for
weeks, has been released
tionally.
attempt to rescue his friend.
LAUNCHING PLANE 60 M.P.S.
IN MID-AIR IN BIG
TESTS OF COMPOSITE CAMPAIGN.
CRAFT.
SPEED FASTER THAN
EXPECTED
AUTUMN BEETINGS
FOR MI
CRS
An ambitious platfor
on behalf of the
Mercury, the upper component of
ment has bee the Mayo Composite Aircraft, has place througho made her first public trial flights at the end of Nover Rochester. This seaplane, which will Some 60 Mi
been ar
SOVIET ARREST
OF ITALIAN
Rome Envoy Demands Release
Acting on instructions from the alian Government, Sägi
the Italian
has dem
Signor Lungi
delega verment
Angusto
in
release
naval
tonage.
of the
the Rus saldo, the shipbuilding firm of Genox and Leg- horn
ormally weigh about 91⁄2 tons, is take part, and the campaign be carried on the back of the range from mass meetings Thig flying boat Maia and released in cial gatherings, ant from political This rews was contained in telegrame received from Spain by mid-air.
schools to annual conferences Sir John Milbanke, the father of The object is to enable the upper area associations. Mr. Toby Milbanke, a close friend component to be launched with 3: - Among the Cabinet Ministers for of Mr. Bellville. Mr. Milbanke went
manch greater load thear it could lift whom engagements have
Three of his friends, who were to the Spanish frontier in a vain off land or water by its own power ranged are Mr. Eden, the Foreign working in the shipyards at Lenin- The Mercury was flown as a se- Secretary, who will speak at Llan- grad with him, traced him after the parate unit. Each stage of this ex dudno, Sir John Simon, Chancellor his arrest and told Signor Rosso
perionent, by which it is intended to of the Exchequer, who will visit
The position of Signor Patroni is the secure great range and speed, as Nottingham, and Viscount Swinton, considered to be good for the rea- well as pay-load capacity, has to be Secretary for Air, who will address son that there are 30 Bussian en- made very deliberately.
gineers studying shipbuilding me. a Wakefield meeting. He was with Mr. Bellville when, The next step will be flights of Mr. Morrison Minister of Agricul- thods with the Ansaldo works he flew from San Sebastian to San the two components coupled toge ture, will speak at Oban, Chelms-Leghorn. Therefore reprisals, if
necessary, could be taken by tander thinking that that city had ther, the Mercury on top ready for ford and Lancaster already fallen to the
The combination," in His Chelmsford address will be resting the Russian engineers Mr. Bellville was arrester wonalists launching.
by the effect, will be an eight-engined bi-made to a gathering of Essex agri-hostages.
When Signor Patroni Government authorities and made to plane flying boat.
culturists, and will be attended by fly to Gijon, where he was impri When that stage is completed, the representatives of the National Far Leningrad Italo-Russian relations
launching in full flight will be car-mers Union and the "Agricultural were most friendly. ried out.
The successful conclusion of negotiations for Mr. Bellville's lease is attributed partly to arrival in England of Senor zalez.
soned.
Gon-i
the
Range Of 3,500 Miles
went
at
ar
as
to
Bis contract with the Russian Gov- Workers' Union.
ernment had ended and he was wait- WAR SECRETARY'S MEETING Mr. Hore-Behisha, Secretaryforing for a settlement of his affairs War, will speak at Sheffield;
when he was arrested.
He is an ardent Fascist: The last
Sener Gonzales has been active in his efforts on Mr. Bellville's behalf. Shortly before Mr Bellville's cap- ture it was revealed that by terms of his father's will he had in -1 The Mercury is a clean looking Thomas Inskip, Minister for Co-
craft, its four Napier Halford 340 ordination of Defence, at Darwen message received from him in Italy Mr. Bellville was taken on board th.p. engines neatly fitted in the and at Carton Hall, Westminster, was a congratulatory cable to An- the British destroyer Foresight, leading edge of the wing. The total and Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of saldo in Genoa on the occasion of
power of the Mercury is 1,360 h.p. Health, at Newquay. 1,350 tons, outside Gijon.
On trials the Mercury has prov- Earl De La Warr, led somewhat faster than was ex- Seal, is to lecture
herited about £200,000.
the launching of the 35,000 ton bat- Privy tleship Littorio political
Mr. Bellville enjoyed the perience of patrolling the coast of Spain in a destroyer in a typical pected on calculations. In fact it school at Buxton.
will cruise at considerably more Among other members of
Parliamentary nder-Secre Bay of Biscay gale.
than 170 miles an hour.
Government who will be in the
Colonial Ofice; Capt Crooks- It will carry fuel for a range of paign are:
hank, Parliamentary Secretary, 13,500 miles, and should be able to Capt. Euan Wallace, Parliament Mines Department,
cross the North Atlantic in face of ary Secretary, Board of Trade; Coll The Marquess of Hartington, Par- a continuous 60 m.p.h. head wind. Muirhead, Under Secretary, Airliamentary Under-Secretary, Domin- The carrier flying boat, a four- Ministry, Mr. R. S. Hudson, Secre-fions, Lord Strathcona, Parliament- jengined monoplane, is somewhat tary to the Department of Over-ary Under-Secretary, War Office; ¡bigger than the empire flying boats. 'seas Trade;.
land Col Kerr, Lord Commissioner It could operate independently as a The Marquess of Dufferin and to the Treasury. big load carrier.
.
SEEKING GIANT - PANDA
New Expedition To China
The composite aircraft offers among other advantages that of Mr. Floyd Smith, a noted Ameri - enabling squadrons - of long-range ean animal collector, who is now in marine or land aircraft, military or London, is making further efforts, civil, to be launched in safety in despite previous set-backs, to bring formation by day or by night. the giant panda, said to be the rar- It also promises to be an import- est animal in the world, from ant aid to high-altitude flying, en- Western China to England.
abling full supercharging to be ...the
He hopes to leave for China employed without suffering shortly and to bring back a healthy otherwise inevitable penalty of poor specimen to the London Zoo next performance at low altitudes. spring. Hundreds of native medi- A craft designed to take off from cine collectors, charcoal burners land or sea could not carry the big and bamboo cutters are now par-load of petrol and, in addition, ticipating in a search which has 1,000lb of mail, at the speed the taken Mr. Smith four years to or-Mercury can accomplish. ganise
near
Mr. Smith, who for 19 years has collected in China for the Field Museum of Chicago, succeeded in trapping two adult-panda Chaopo, in the Szechuan province, near the Tibetan border, and trek- ked for Shanghai Unfortunately the male died after a few days from the effects of a poisoned foot, and later the female died from di- gestive trouble.
DIET OF BAMBOO STICKS
:i
Likes to be petted like a lapdog after a few days in captivity, and Is found only in dense bamboo thickets never ordinarily pene- trated by the natives; is wary and difficult to trap..
A fully-grown male weighs about 3001b and is the size of a large hog. He is an attractive animal, a mix- fare of beat and racoon in appear- with a white, face and body, black rings around the
ears and collar.
He said that the giant panda ey
Is classed zoologically as carni- ~~ Mrs. W. H. Harkness, wife of vorous, but now eats only bam- Mr. Smith's former partner, recently boo sticks, which it holds in pre bought a baby giant panda from hensile, paws.
the natives at Chaopo and, trans- Has the strongest jaws in the ported it to New York. It proved world, but is defenceless. fairly easy to diet the baby, the Is incredibly slothful and has only giant panda in captivity, since never been seen to run or jump it has never eaten bamboo.
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