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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1955.
BRITAIN VERSUS AMERICA
IN BLUE
RIBAND RACE
London, June 27.
Which country will be the first to operate a non-stop London-New York air service, one of the most arduous in the world?
Recent announcements from British and American manufacturers indicate that the race) for the Blue Riband route, together with its accompanying prestige and great commercial benefits, is entering its penultimate stage.
The first generation of con- fuel economy. A civil develop- testants are the long-range turment of the Vickers 1000 turbo- boprop Bristol Britannia and the jet transport which is scheduled urbo-compound Douglas DC-7C, to fly next year, the VC-7 will, and it looks as if the British it is stated, accommodate more airliner has got the edge on its than 100 passengers and cruise as the DC-8 empetitor in some important at least as fast respects, while there is little to claimed performance. choose between them in avail- ability
~ both are due to be delivered in 1957. The Britannid, for a however, is designed passenger capacity of 93 as com-
If not prepaid a booking fee pared with the 62-seat DC-TC. et 50 centa is charged.
Both aircraft will have to be able to cope
with headwinds and to of" up to.90 m.p.h. operate over the London-New
route-3,520 miles--the Ser-York
Britamia is designed to have a still-air range of 5,350 mites and the DC-7C of 5.000 miles.
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COMPARISON.
* VISCOUNT
ORDER:
Last week wis a notable one for Vickers-Armstrongs. On Wednesday, K.L.M. placed an arther for nine Viscount 800's,. | while on Thursday a 700D was Ordered by the Howard Hughes Tool Company
of Delaware, U.S.A.. and an "Executive" Viscounța „by the Standard Oil
of New Jersey. B.O.A.C. Co. then ordered 12 700D's, and Fřed HOME & OFFICE STATIONERY
Olsen Air Transport Ltd. of Address and pole books, childreth's
Norway increased their original bocies, chess seta. Vary wide selec
order for two Viscounts by one, tion is available at South Morning Post, Lunited, Hong Kong The Britannia, with a gross The sales score
for the week and Salsbury Road, Kowloon Trade weight of 185.000 ib. compared was 24, bringing
the total enquiries invited.
with the
b. of the number of Viscounts 139,000
on order Douglas, will be able to marry to 227, of which 58 have been de its full passenger capacity west-livered. bound and, the makers claim, IIK GOVERNMENT Import
and do the journey in shorter time. Export
and Licence
Declaration Forms on sale at South China Morning Post Ltd., Wyndham Street Both airliners will be able and Salisbury Road, Kowloon,
to fly above the turbulence and ANNUAL RETURN FORM-Form of storms that prevail at lower
FOR SALE.
China
South China Morning Post, Lil. 30
Annual Return of a company, not altitudes, but the Britannia, with having share capital. Obtainable at its turboprop
engines, should passenger appeal than the turbo-compound piston- engined DC-7C, if the popularity
corts each.
SOMETHING
STAMPS
EXCLUSIVE, Collec packets of assorted
stampe
have greater
of the Viscount is any guide.
The second gencration of non-
airliners is From 20 cents per packet upward stop transatlantic
South due for 1958-59. The Comet
W
AB entirely
series. China Morning Post Ltd., Wyndham is intended for service the world Street. fiongkong and Salisbury
size, range and Road, Kowloon.
over, and its speed have been designed to
Bullder series,
Morning Post, Street Hongkong Road, Kowloon.
STAMP ALBUMS → “Collection meet several different require
New sock now ments. At present, it is scheduled available. . From South China. M
into service law during to go Wyndham | 19. LLS,
Salisbury 1958 and it will begin operations And
backed with 30,000 hours of airline experience gained with the Comet 1. I will carry. 58 passengers over a stage length of 2,870 miles against a head- Increase Height with "White wind of 50 m.p.h, at a speed Pills 2 to 6 inches. Suitable of 490-506 m.p.h.. A refuelling for both sexes upto the age stop at Gandar will therefore be of 80. Results guaranteed necessary, but its superior cruis- ing speed compared with the
or
BE TALLER.
or
COMET 4
fee refunded in full. turboprop airliners wil com- Please remit 30 Shillings pensate for that lost time. British Postal Order Money Order or Bank Draft, payable in India or England. Address-Activities (Dept. 3) Kingsway, Delhi-9, India.
TO ADVERTISERS
The Cornet 4 is a development of earlier models and is, there- fore, not an entirely new con- ception.
DC-8 The Douglas turbojet, which is due to fly during 1957, and the Vickers VC-7 by-pass turbojet airliners are comparable in size, and
BUNDAY. POST-HERALD availability must depend on the Space for commercial outcome of development trials. advertising should be booked.. not intor than noon on Wednesdays
"The DC-8 is a large seroplane with a scaling capacity of 80-125, and she makers claim that it will be able to fly non-stop
For the 80UTH CHINA, MORNING POST and the from New York to London at
n cruising speed of 550 m.p.h.
CHINA MAIL, 48 hours The VC-7, about which few de- before date of publication.tails have been released, will employ the Rolls-Royce Conway by-puss engine which combines with exceptional
Special Announcemente
and Classified Advertise great power
ments 28 usual,
PENINSULAR
AMERICA New Douglas
Jet Design
1991
UK SUBJECTS
IN RUSSIA
Information
Sought On Detainees
London, June 27, Mr Robert Turion, Foreign
said Under-Secretary.
today was making the Government inquiries to identity Charles Hammond, a Bristol man, and "other alleged British subjects who are reported to be detained in the Soviet Union."
Also on Thursday, the first of! He was answering a questipa Capital Airlines' Viscounts left in the House of Commons. for the United States, where it used, Initially, to will be publicise the advantages of turbop-engined air travel.
INCREASED EXPORTS
Mr Turton told a questioner last week that Britain had asked Austria for permission to ques- tion repatriated Austrians about British subjects alleged to be detained in the Sovies Union.
DUGLAS
America's first fit passen- ker transport, the new DC-8 la model forn, clearly showing the wings and the jet-engine pods. The airliner, which is to have a top speed execeding 550 miles an hour, is to be the Douglas constructed by
BRITISH GUIANA
CONSTITUTION
Parties Seek
NEW ZEALAND
PIG SWILL
Licensing
Laws
Under Fire
Wellington, June 27. New Zealand's licensing laws are again under fire.
Early versus late closing for public bars is the main topic of conversation-and criticism- among "the men on the tram," at social gatherings, in the press, and in the bars themselves.
Was
For since World War 1, when | Zealand's important. tourist introduced 29 an trade. One speaker said that emergency measure, the law has the "outpouring at six o'clock caused New Zealand bars to every evening (except Sunday) war one of the black spots of close at 6 pm. After that war, It was written into the Statute New Zealand for the fourist," book and every effort since then Many visitors, too, members of to get It removed has failed. the Association argue, are per
to
Restoration between 5 pm, and 8 pm. earlier announce-
Aircraft Company and is ex- pected to be ready for initial flight testing by December, 1957. Airline deliveries at scheduled to begin in
1959. Though an ment said the plane would be powered by an advanced ver- sion of the Prait and Whitney J 57 cogines, Mr Ivar L. Shog-'
chiet project ran,
engineer for the DC-8, is paritentarly interested in the Rolls-Royce Conway by-pass engine and * its possible application to the new airliner, Span of the DC-8 will be 134.8 feet; length 110.6 feet, overall height 40.2 feet The plane will span the New York to London crossing In Ites than 62 hours, -Renterphoto,
Dialect Samples
Brunswick, June 27. The German Language Archive here has begun a three-year project, to record samples of all
Figures for May 1955 show He said the. Austrian authori-German dialects on recording that British aviation exports ties were prepared to give full tape.. totalled £5,460,721 in value, an facilities when the prisoners bad
time to settle down.. increase of more than £im, over had the figure for May last year.
Reuter.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THIS WAS THE ENEMY KING,
YOUR HIGHNESS. THE WAR IS OVER
FERDINAND
& ORIENTAL
NANCY
YES---MY DAD HAS HIS OWN NINE-HOLE GOLF COURSE ON OUR
ESTATE
AW---THAT'S
NOTHING---50 HAVE I
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
R.M.S. "CANTON"
SAILS:
NOTICE TO PASSENGERS
BAGGAGE:
Friday, 1st July at 12.00 noon for the UNITED KINGDOM via Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Aden and Port Said.
Passengers are requested to send ALL BAGGAGE to the Hongkong . &. Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godown at No. 2 GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, by Noon on Thursday, 30th June.
SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packages carried by passengers themselves, ALL BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Co.'s Godown for loading on board by ship's slings only.
EMBARKATION: Passengers should embark between ,9,30 and 11.00 a.m. on Friday, 1st July, 1955.
SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE -
JOHNNY HAZARD
PROBLEME ALWAYS PROBLEMES, SNAP'S DEAD AND THE MINITE I. LAND THIS CRATE SAFELY, I JOIN SKAP? SURE.LT COULD-DVE HER Į INWAND TAKE THE KILLERS DOWNE
WITH MELLA
The recordings will include those of expellees from the east-China Mall Special,
to
So, for years now, the "five sonally inconvenienced by the six bediam" has been the early closing time; even though
of heated arguments hotel mests (ubject
can obtain liquor among New Zealanders and of at any hour. frequent comment, mainly ac
CONVINCED
is convinced companied by mised vyebrows, The Association by visitors from overseas.
that the tourist trade will con- COLOURFUL
tinue
be restricted until "Pigs at
14, indeed, such time as the licensing laws a trough the colourful description often are. revised. applied by overseas tourists to Important though the tourist New Zealanders drinking beer is, however, many people feel hotel bars that the country's licensing laws rapidly in crowded
must be designed for and ap- Now, the Government is said proved by the people who live to be considering taking a re-hee all the year round. ferendum on the Issue
Opinion among these is divid- of early Georgetown, June 27.
late closing. A little ed. There is no doubt that many. Two party delegations intend to versus
than siy
six years ago, the New Zealanders like to be com- leave here for Britain shertly more to ask for a restoration of the proponents of six o'clock closing pelled to complete their day's suspended constitution, early on a three-to-one victory over sxial, after-work drinking in
those in favour of ten o'clock.one crowded, smoke
- Alled, relaxation of the emergency on that occasion, only $27,000 clamorous, beer-stained hour, regulations and speed-up of the country's 1,000,000 voters
Many wives, too, fear that an and expansion of the develop exercised their right.
extension of the drinking hours ment programine.
Certainly the Government is would mean that their husbands
would stay
in the bars rather The British Government keeping a very close watch on
the effects 健 the recently than go home to their families... suspended the constitution of British
to prevent introduced 10 p.m. closing in At present, they have no option Guiana
PUBLIC OPINION subversion in October 1953 New South Wales. The Minister
Many newspapers, however, in charge of Tourist and Health when the extreme left-w9228 People's Progressive Government was depostal
Party arts. Mr Eric Halstead, in an believe that public opinion has
.
of
to the recent anual apved considerably since 1949- meeting of the New Zealand and that a referendum now Trav and Holiday Association, might well result in a change in said that the Government was
the censing. Mr John Carter, Chairman
those who would the Moderate United Democra"watching with
Obviously great interest"
be most tic Party, is Having next week this exp
experiment.
affected by such a be the hotel The Travel and Holiday As-change would to seek an interview with the
for thesociation
showed considerable industry, which dednitely favour Secretary of State
concern at the meeting about 10 o'clock closing. The director Colonies, Mr Alan Lennox- the effect
which the leasing of the National Council of the. Mr Perthe Licensed Trade, laws are Boyd. China Mail Special.
having
New
recently;
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
"OF COURSE HE'D BEEN A MAN ALL THE TIME--BUT I DIDN'T HAVE TO
TELL YOU THAT, MANDRAKE..
"BUT THERE'S SHARI „I CAN'T SACRIFICE AN INNOCENT VICŢIA AND YET THERE CAN'T BE ANY İHALFWAY MEASURES, FOR MS line:
ASUS OR CAN THERE ZAVE
ENCHANTRESS/
ERNIE
DUSHM
SO THAT'S HOW THE LEGEND STARTED THAT I YOU TURNED MEN INTO 42
THESE ANIMALS!
YES. THE KING GAVEME BALD MOUNTAIN ASA PRESENT FOR "WHAT I DID. So YOU SEE-1 EARNED ALL
THIS FAIRLY!
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
By Frank Bobbing
FIFI BELLY-LANDI. SHARI WOULEX- BE SHAKEN 12... BUT ALIVE! AND I MIGHT STIR UP JUST ENOUGH CONFUSION SO GOONFACE THERE WONT KNOW WHAT HIT HIM „UNTIL
EVEN
MAGICIANS
Lyn
Can't Carlsberg
Beat
IGADI
*THE JAM THAT MADE TASMANIA TAMDER="
BLACK MAGIC
ASSORTED
CHOCOLATES
this situation
calls for a
San Miguel
K
declared
Coyle,
Government repealed the six o'clock closing lawas it should dothe hotels would see to it that the new that
new system operated
to the satisfaction of the public."
On the other ha
there are
few suburban 47 New Zealand
A man wanting an after-dinner drink would often have to travel several miles the heart of the town to get it.
Nor
into
are the bars themselves designed for social 1 drinking
Few
In some
EXTE
provide
To
except
provide seating, and there are no recreational Mellilles
districts. BUILDING sufficient
suburban hotels of suitable tyype would entail an extensive building programme for which there are not sufficient materials, labour or readily available capital
The New Zealand Alliance, the country's
country's main temperance recently made a organisation, vigorous attack on the ten o'clock that
principle, arguing wills
rould result in two instead of one-one *at six velock and another
at ten.
Declaring that
general drunkenness would also be in-
it blamed congestion on
Cican and the brewer for
the
falling to provide reasonable facilities for its customers "in
of its huge
'profts and tust monopoly."
The battle root
continues. Once again the repealers have taken the offensive, but their. ogposi- Lion may well prove, as they have before, to have the majority If the issue is taken to the polls. -China Mail Special.
US Near
Atomie Agreement
With Korea
"Washington, June 27. The United States and the Republic of Korea' are to comm |clude in a few days' an agreem ment of co-operation atomie energy for peaceful purposes, it was Jearnext In Washington from Korean diplomatic
sourver
The planned agreement wil be similar in terms to the agree
meals signeda. the same pose the United States with 24 other friendly countries.
It calls for the lease of siz kilogrammes of enriched uranium as fuel for an experimental stemic reactor.
·
Atomic wer development
power
It was explained, will be
the efforts 10 rebuild devastated South Korea.
of
The Republic of Korez is also reported to A have formally requested the United States to ald in the construction of an atomic power plane
Korean scientists will be sd- Titted to the Oak Ridge atomic: laboratories, for subratzing, in isolones techniques. -- Stance-