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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15th, 1927.
FLYING IN EUROPE FOUND EFFICIENT. THE KING'S LETTER.
SAFETY AND REGULARITY OF SERVICE ESTABLISHED.
RATES ALSO CONSIDERED REASONABLE.
BY. LIEUT-COL W. JEFFERSON DAVIS,
My wife and I recently cothpleted f One is wafted down gently to the a 20,001-mille journey by air which field-European pilots have amar took us into all the countries offing skill in landing and descends Europe but four. The experience to surroundings of auch well-order brought us an astonishing convic ed ease and convenience as to sug tion of European' supremacy in gest afternoon tea, and then. per commercial aviation.
haps, a round of golf. You pick out
IN A SHOP WINDOW.
QUESTION OF TASTE AND ETIQUETTE.
The exhibition of a letter for sale in a shop window in Riccadilly, W is certain to cause controversy regarding the etiquette and taste) involved in publicly bartering the private correspondence of a high Personage who a still alive, says the Daily MaR.
Tim question is of particular in Portance. Because the letter is one which was written by the King when, at the age of 4 be was a lientenant in the Royal Navy.
The letter is a manuscript mes.
Air travel abroad is so simple, your luggage as you pass through so safe, so amazingly systematized.apexit and are conducted to a Planes in regular service depart en motor by an attendant. Scheduled time. They arrive on As our plane reached Berlin un scheduled time. Weather is ignor-its, first flight frem Paris, the ed. The planes ga anyway. Journey wheels touched the ground at age, signed "George," written on ing by air in Europe is as much a mest the exact second of the flight three pages of ordinary notepaper,
and addressed' matter of course as travel by rail schedule. The swift, orderly hand-
from Admiralty in this country.
ling of trafe and conduct of pat
House. Portsmouth, in July 1589; Bouts of the ships carry as many sengers, went forward with military to Mrs. Williams. There is no na 28 persons. Accommodation ap- preston. There was an exchange indication in the letter as to the proximate in comfort the Pullman of salutes, "a clicking of heels and identity of Mrs. Williams, but she Accommodations in this country short, sharp commands as -ui
was apparently a friend who shared The planes have ensy, reclining ordinates appeared.
with Prince George, as he was then, chairs excellent meals are served,!
Other planes were arriving and
an interest in stamp collecting and many of the ships have bars, departing. There wat no The rail may be missing, but seen- fusion. Officials and attendau's ery takes its place.
seemed as perfectly mechanized as There are severnl great trunk
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The letter, which was written when the King joined No. 79 tor- pedo boat, contains an allusion to a meeting with Allenby, and (K. L. M.) lines from Paris to Am-1 German Hag Good System. sterdam and Almo."Sweden; the
Shah, with whom, the young Prince Great German Luft Hausa system. Berlin we visited the offices of the suggests, he had recently discussed
The morning after our arrival in which virtually covers al! Europe, Deutsche Luft Hanea system. and of course there is, the Imperial company owns and occupies a lux-intimate letter of felicitation, and
This stamp collection. Airways operating between Parisrious modern office building." and London and London Cologne and Basic.
lines-the French Hines, the Dutchthe engines which drove the plans Dormer, and a reference to the
It is
Its system is a complete, snider.concludes with kind regards to Mr. Williams, your two daugh
Price £19 103.
I used all these trunk lines and like network, covering virtually al numerable shorter routes. One Enrope, radiating from Berlin toters, and, your mother." particularly interesting trip was
Moscow, Stockholm. Hamburg, Am- 3,000-ple air journey through the sterdam, Paris, Londen, Vienna, Scandinavian countries and around
Rome, Koenigsberg, Petrogral,
The letter was to be seen in the and acroes the Baltic.
Basle, Geneva and Madrid. The window at 3, Piccadilly, of Messrs. planes for the most part are Junk Henry Setheran & Co., booksellers. ers, ali-metal planes, Fokker monn When a Daily Mail reporter made. planes, and planes of the Dornier inquiries at the shop he was inform-" Wal and Rohrbach types. The Aled that the price was £10 TOS. xtrose is virtually the only biplane in use in Germany,
Schedules Well Kept.
We had no forced landings, and our planes departed and arrived on nabroken schedules. Only once were we delayed by "fog, hanging low over the mountains between Prague and Vienna,
One brings a chaos of impressions from a journey like this, but there is one observation which seems to me more inmortant than the rest Flying is safe.
The Euft Hansa ships are dying about 35,000 miles a day. consume 575.000 gallons of gasoline They daily
minimum and we talked castly Noise is being rapidly choked to
And as
a cominercial undertakes the aisle of the luxurio is ng Aying in Eurone pays. Rates car. have been lowered virtually to those Traner has two great system for rail transnortation. I flew the reaches from Paris to Prague, from Paris to Berlin for 850, and Constantinople and the mon was allowed 60 pounds of luggage. East, the other from Paris to Ber- I paid $12 for 60 pounds excess in and. Moscow, alternating daily Juggage. The first-class train fare with the Luft Hansa. Another for the same journey is about 350. French colonial line crosses
The average planes carry about Mediterranean vi Toulouse, Casa- 2.000 pounds of freight or express, igra and down the west coast of in addition to 10 or 12 passengers.Africa to Dakar: Burning from 10 to 25 gallons of gasoline an hour, they find a safe margin of profit,
Connections Weil Mads.
All over Europe flying schedules, ar periretly articulated with ina- tor and train schedules. On the German Enes the co-efficient of ae- vidents in 1925 was .003 per coat. and there was no loss of life, in
1920
The number of airports is con stantly increasing. There is not à citat economic importance in Europe which does not have an air- port. These flying fields, with their fine appointments for the conven- ience of passengers, are more like Scantry clubs.
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THE FISHER-BERESFORD CONFLICT.
KING EDWARD'S PART. -
SIR SYDNEY LEE'S INTEREST
ING STORY,
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the
Two factors have combined to say the development of aviation within Great Britain-one the per fection of the train service, in an other the prevalence of fog. area of congested population, the
It was stated by the acting manager that the firm had no know edge of Mrs. Williams and that the with others which the relatives of letter had probably been received the recipient had in all likelihood given to a friend of the family.
Private fetters written by the King, the acting manager also said, seldom came on to the market. he was and letters from bis Majesty when mare.
A Prince were specially
The Copyright. the copyright of the letter belong Asked to which person he believed
the neting manager said:
The copyright of a letter be longs to the writer, in this case the King, for that reason the letter cannot be published. and if were to refer to it in our catalogue we could only sum marise the contents.
We
The reporter inquired it the dis- However, the Imperial Airways was not equivalent to publication, play of letter in a shop window has brought its air lines to a high and the acting manager replied, site of perfection in passenger No. Exhibition is not publica- and mail trafic with the continent. tion." particularly to Paris, and England is seriding planes to the farthest reaches of the empire.
Mussolini has announced he is going to get every Italian into the air. Italy is at the crossroads of the great European air routes and both commercial and military avia the Italian government is fostering tina.-Oregonian.
existence, learat of Lord Charles Beresford's intention and got into touch with him. With a appro- val, the League provisionally draft. ed a programme of meetings he would address, the first of which was to be held at the Cannon-street
are
This point was submitted to a lawyer, who writes:
In regard to private letters from one person, to another the copyright is retained. by
the writer, who is the author of them. The receiver has only a joint property therein with the sender. But this does not give a licence to any person to "publish" them to the world
"Publication" in the case of! letters, under the Copyright Act, 1911, neans the making of a copy, and it a bookseller were to, in- clude in his catalogue a
of a copy the letter this would be publica- tion."
The exhibition of the letter it- self is not publication.
Mixed Comments,
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The letter, which has a pencilled Thursday to Saturday, October 20th to 22nd.
Hotel About this time King Ed ward rather unexpectedly joined the Royal yacht, and almost im- mediately preceeded ca board the people who after reading the text The window was surrounded with The memoirs of King Edward this occasion will never be exactly publicity being given to the docu- Bulwark Just what was said on expressed mixed comments on the VIL which Sir Sydney Lee is con- known, but in a general way it ment." tributing to the Daily Telegraph, leaked out that the King told Lord resently touched upon the famous Charles. he had heard rumours of incident which occurred when Lord hit pending retirement and inten watten in nauther hand below the Charles Beresford commanded the tion to stump the country, and that
inscription, King George V.," Channel Fleet and Sir Percy Scott was his desire he should do nature, is exhibited alongside made his preposterous rignal upon the subject of gunnery and "look. nothing of the sort. Lord Charles Wells, letters signed by George Postcard autographed by Mt. H. G. ing pretty.
But the reference is mund, and it may be presumed that the caricaturist, and a parchment naturally bowed to the Royal com- Meredith and George Cruikshank, very brief and sketchy, and at this he told King Edward the reasons distance of time, with all the prin- cipal actors in it now at rest, is
which had prompted him to arrive
warrant signed by George IV. to may prove of historical interest to at this decision There
an "Eastern potentate, recalling a Kive a fuller veron. Lord Charles Edward spoke strongly on the mat- grounds for believing that Kang
British Ambasador. Beresford was by no means personu grala with Lord Fisher, who was
ter to Lord Fisher, But Fisher then. First Sea Lord.
was an amazingly forceful person- Sir Percy Scott was. A suspicion the confidence of King Edward.
ality, and, moreover, he enjoyed had long lurked in of Lord Charles that the appoint the Navy for the
the mind
Six months later Beresford left ment of Rear-Admiral Scott to
Next Tuesday is the opening night very the Channel Feet was intended to him to leave it
same of Mr. R. B. Salisbury's "* Quainte." reason which had determined assert the Fisher doctrines in op-
for a twelve nights season. earlier. He
The position to his own views.
was raised to the peerage and Hong Kong public have always sap- nating of the signal in question e deprived of his purpose of ported Mr. Salisbury's Companies served to confirm this notion. Lora taking the floor of the House of and we are now promised every Charles Beresford was so "fed Commons. But he had organiz- thing of the best, and feel sure we with the atmosphere of the led a regular crusade,, when he will not be disappointed. The intest Navy at this juncture that he made lesint that Mr. Winston Churchill musical comedies and plays will be up his mind to resign and to tell was to become First Lord, and he given and there are new dresses and the country the truth about things forthwith abandoned his projected acery, pretty girls, good voices, in the service even more emphati- campaign, as he publicly announc
and really good acting.. cally than he had done once before. ed, so na to do, nothing which Bookingas ual at Moutries,
King Edward Intervents.
should eukarram Churchillin' and a bumper houss should greet whom he had considerable faith the Company. They are due to The Imperial Maritime League, Moreover, Lord Fisher had ceased arrive to-morrow in the Fushimi which had lately. come into to to First Bes Lord.
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