SHIP sirens screamed.
more than
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1981,
Sand He flew into the unknown—without navigation or radio
million voices cheered
us the seaplane swooped
low over London and few along the Thames. Four times the D.H. 50 biplane dived down. Then the pilot shut off the engine close to Westminster Bridge and, at precisely 2.26 p.m., touched down on the water in front of the Houses of Parlia- ment.
At the ending stairs by the Speaker's House, the pilot was welcomed by leasing Cabinet Ministers, including the Air Minister, Str Samuel Hnare. who delivered telegum of welcome from King George V. Four days later, the pilot re- relved knighthooth,
The lates WAS October 1926-35 years ago-- and air ploteer Sir Alan Cobhans har completed the thirst and #reatest of his historie Empire tight-28,000 miles to Austra Ha and back.
تا دیا
He was the Best nan to dy from Great Britai to the Antipolies and return the same route, And not since Alcock and Brown Rew the Atlantie non-stop in 1919 bar a light by a British nirman so emptores the public Imaginos that,
Capetown and back
Sir Alan W une of several trail-blazers who hit the bend- tines regularly in the pianten- ing That year he had ulready uredag. Une first man to make the 190grom Eng- land to Capetown Lak back. Bart :|
With th three~
mouth journey, over a distance greater than the cireuniterence
First return flight to Australia
regarded as "an ordinary piece of everyday business."
As it happened, this was the
most unikely way to descile Cobham's flight. For suddenly, when all had been going well. his murney exploded into dranea. OF 1 most singular
pature.
Blinding
dust-storm
on
JJuly
ANNIVERSARY STORY
By
GUY JONES
by
Sea and reached Surabaya, They planned to enver between 700 and 1,000 miles a day until they reached London,
But the time-table had noi allowed to the monsoon, On the next stage they were caught in fearful storms over the Indian Ocean. They were forced to make a perilous landing be/ on reet-infested waters inke shelter on an uninhabited Island.
11
For days the world lost all trace of Cobham's scaplane. Finally, on September 15, week after he had left Perang, In the Molay Peninsula, cămî
Cubham Next came the nerve-racking the news that
had aight to Puri Darwin, northern landed safely in Rangoon.
point of Austraila- journey beruss 500
miles
of storm Infested waters, fucing a teree heed-wind which made anvi gation targely guess-work,
There was only one answer: Cobhum resumed his night on to ly to Basra, where Elliott July 19. Battling through the could receive hospital care. So mankoon. he reached Karachi, his 100-mile Dell, Calepito, Singapure and Cubhom begun
akknming Surabaya, Javn. At every stop It happene
race against time, how radiu
Over the swamps when Coblen, without
welcomed and he was
huge crowds. mad modern invigational aids, Baally hatching down on the
wich nod accompanied only be an Tigris at Bra. There, Pagineer, Arthur . Enlott, the aid of natives, he lied was lying through a heavy the wounded Elliott into
Euphrates launch and then rushed him
Calcutta On they flow-to to hospital for an operation. dust-storm over the swamps In Iraq
(September 18), Albens (28th) They had already had one There had been no pressure
and Paris (30th). By now, the forced landing. Now they had on the petrol the pipe, n
British Government had drawn second dust-storm, with earthly reason why it should
Up a massive programme 10 stently worsening. have burst or wounded Elliott Visibility
welcome the conquering hero. For hour after hour [ur nu apparent so severely. Yet now the en- Suddenly,
dew on, without sight of tundi.
On October 1, crowds cheer- reason, there was an explosion glacer's condition was eritical.
with the petrol getting lower el Cobham all the way from Why had it happened? 10- in the cabin, severely wounding
and lower. They could only Hastings as that
he flew low, over Elliott at the arm and chest, vestigation revealed
"I hot-tempered Cobham reported Inter:
Arab shepherd wonder whether they were on
the countryside by
Way course. Finally, on August 5 Maidstone to Gravesend, And stantly suspected that one of hd fired his rifle at the sea-
plane when it was a bare soft, they were only live miles off Bridge,
they reached Austraila-and bar sunny mckets used Jur
se up the Thames ouer Tower
past above the Euphrates swamps.
the City to the rocket pistols bad gone off,
hud The ballet had seviyed the
their target of Port Darwin. Hammersmith and back or that possibly Elolt nevidentally freit my revulver. petrol pipe, then it Ellioil's At Sydney, over 60,000 people Westminster.
meta
they
His engineer died on the way- shot by a shepherd
shut the engine of and asking if the earth, that reatly yelled to Eliot, stirred the whole Empire.
there was a tire and he called "No," but that he was
Yet it started quietly enrough, back Without cervinong, 32-year-old it. I could see his face which was very pale, KO 1 passed wha pene and paper through
near
Alan Cobham left the Mortway
Rochester at June 30. 19926. Without inci- dent, he reached Marseilles at 11.45 am then Naples in the evening. By July 3, he had
ther
window from the cockpit tu the eain and opened up the
pine again."
bott Teebly scribbled that
arm and passed through his left lung.
Elliott, 20 and married, died In hospital two days later.
Cobham snapped bitterly: "It is a fans and cruel blow, prob ably dutie by some irrespousi- ble fool who couldn't do again if he tried."
It was a chance in a thou
and, and now Cobham's faith.
in the enterprise was shatter-
his orm and bunyi. He wanted to call of the
arrived on schedule at Alhums. the petrol pipe had burst and
The light to Australia had wounded already been aeliteved, bat "Am bleeding a pot of bleod.. Cobham wanted to demonstrate he wrote.
the commercial possibilities of such a journey by flying there and bark with the sainë mag- hine and engine. He said: The thing must essential to the future of British Empire.
trade is the rapid development of air routes within the Em- pire."
He explained that the return flight was the important part of
Critically ill
The bent was almost unbear- able and they were flying over desolate, trackless swamps. Cobham could not risk a land-
his enterprise, that this was ing on the water as he might not to be anothing death-or- have diffleulty in starting the lory Hight but an example of engine single-hantied In the how such a journey might be terrife heat.
NOW
take
good
look!
RONSON
then ill-omened journey, but aeable from his wife in Eng-
and urged him to carry
ut
lo
gathered to welcome them; In When they had landed, Sir Melbourne, a crowd of some Samuel Hoare read aloud the 150,000 cherred their arrival. King's telegram: "On your safe Two weeks Tater, on August return from Australia, I offer 29. Cobhom left on the return you a rordla) welcome home, Bight--with an additional crew- and congratulate you heartily successful termination man, an expert engineer named on the Capel from the Armstrong- Siddeley Company,
Mi.sing for days
of yet another historic flight." Four days later, at a lunchron given by the Air Counell, Sir Samuel announced that the King had conferred a knight- hood on Mr Cobham and that the AFC and OBE had been awarded to Set Ward and Mr Capel respectively.
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air
Cobham crossed Australia, The flight was hailed 03 and he ghined fresh heart. from south to north, in three "the greatest all-British
Cobham, under great strain and a half days-easily record project that has yet been atu from having both to fly and
September
B, templed." Bavigate
himself, by
how time and by needed another engineer,
they had re-crossed the Timor Ita England, scores of volunteers came forward, bat eventually the breach was filled by an uninserted Service engineer, ; Sergeant Ward, from the local, RAF station.
After Elliot had been buried with full military honours at the British cemetery in Basra,
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IN Americo, it seems, the London Line is the biggest thing in male fashion since the dear dead drape. They like it in Sweden, too. They like it in Denmark. They think the world of it in Belgium, Holland, France and Switzerland.
Indeed, apart from China, Bechuanaland and parts of Huehuetenango, the one place it is hardly noticed is London. Few Londoners know they have a line. Or, if they do, they can't think, off hand, what on earth it is.
la fact most of us are wearing something ap- proaching the London Line right now. And the London Line for 1002, introduced with a great Nourish a few days ago, seemed so ordinary that Home
us wondered what the fuss was all about.
of
The London Line, then, Is the long, alender, aris- tocratic line, especially suited to the Englishman who, as every. Fluchuc- Lenangun knows, is a long, slender aristocrat.
Jackets, trousers, over- coals, shoes and ties are all slim and well-bred. Lapels and hat brims are narrow and elegantly shaped. Suits are over zu slightly waisted. And the line is the same 1092 only more 10.
Aristocratic-
that's how
you can look
THE LONDON LINE, onu bo double-breasted, ton -- but tha klimmest double-breasted" øver,
the viglie walsjing,
"Thly null ́h"by" "Aquasentum.
PICTURE BY: JOIN' GOLK
off the peg
The hot-tempered Arab raised his rifle and fired.
IF THE TIE FITS
The necktie oft proclaims the man. What does your tie tell us about you?
THE MADE-UP DOW The harassed organiser of the works social and the bingo barker. Under the big smile and the loud voice small ambitions and no self- confidence. The social climber without a hopa. WAAAAAAAAA
or
THE EDWARDIAN CRAVAT
The family policitar eldarly basi mapagar, pro. claims that Did Ways Ace Bost. A tie you can trust,
REGIMENTAL
Factory manager and motor -car FAİNEMAN, personnal officer and mamoir-writing General A tle nostalgic for past glorion, Those Wess the Daye Hie.
TUCKED IN BOW
Primp Ministers, dobr delighti and profesional escorts, supramaly self-conti- dent tie, not, as a rulo, safa in Jaxis.
STRAIGHT AND NARROW Journoilets, aclors, talo- vision Interviewers. The non- participants' tie, a tle with strong opinions, liitto security and the ared to be in the
wim.
THE LECITIMATE BOW
The rising politician and the boardroom pour, best- selling novelist and advertit- Ing executive, Extrovert. ambitious,
esteem,
boundles
Let other nations pad their
old ones are and the milis couldn't turn it dead for years. Now a man in shoulders extenvagantly, drape perfectly sound
fast enough. Nowadays, a blue sult can feel smart again. their chests, cut short their jac out-dated. The tailors, who plan- out
thank ned it this way, are delighted.
goodness, cloth a much He can still feel amari In kets to display their bottoms.
The Masters of Savile Row, more interesting.
turn-ups but not for much The Londoner in his London
longer. The best of the sults Jina keeps the shoulders he was of course, don't hold with catch
In A whole new world of subtle I saw lately were all with-
colour is being woven in born with, drawa na attention phrases lite London Line. bts chest, wears his jacket their eyes every suit they quite
elegance and the impression of and out them with a great gain in
decent length.
has a London line and right too. The outstanding ele Let other nations suggest that gance of their clothes is unmis« their clothes speak of forceful takable. masculinity and virility.
The Londoner In his Loniton Lige replied that as he has these
things abundantly he does not need to speak of them.
SLIMNESS
But today you can also Ond And he goes on wearing the shape and real style in ready-to- quietly
clothes wear clothes if you choose care- understated while are still envied and fully, cupigil all over the world.
SLOWLY
Compared
I have recently been looking
at some of the new sults wither
flits in something we are going to get more of.
height.
Colourful cloth, Blender all- houettes and no turn-ups in
meant
One new process, it is claimed, can put five or six times the amount of colour into cloth.
London next year will In these suits even a material colourful cloth, slender silhou- that looks plain grey from across etter and no turn-ups where- the room turns out to have a ever an airline will take you
pattern rich background
For whatover the line, i2 bronze or blue,
London decrees it the world enjoying a will follow.
Blue, indecil,
of
big come back, It has been
-London Express forvice).
ONE UNDER THE EIGHT
on sale or noon to be on aple. I was very impressed.
THE
The sulle were very individum E Pipkin, which has just heon Introduced by Friary
with women's but they have a line in common, Meux, will be a most welcome guest it bottle parties alother which change their out the essential ellmness, the sun all over London this winter. line almost as you jook, men's fidently, modern feel which is clothes change slowly. Hut not as very welcome. slowly as all that.
It is a supremely hospitable can containing soyon
They are light, too. Even pisis of excollent draught bitter ale. It to quite a weight, Look at the fashion pintes of winter suits are now being made of coures, but party-givors will be delighted to see you only 10 years ago. How heavy of much lighter cloth. And they with n Pipkin Licked underneath your arm. the shouldera seem. 'Flow" wide are surprisingly colourful for
thia trousers. How long and le is another major change in Keep tho Pipkin cool and the beer will inst in posk`.
lent-like the overcoats.
In fact, for the Dri Ume to
our ways.
Ten years ago Bellain
TVEN
condition for seven to in days. Once opened the heer decades men are now having to drearily awash with charcoal aliould be drunk within two or three days, It costs only kur now' puitu 'Just because their grey.
Everyone word the sift 118.