JAPAN STANDS ALOOF FROM SALT SETTLEMENT.
FOREIGN BONDHOLDERS' DOUBTFUL POSITION.
MR. HUSSEY FREKE'S LACK OF CHOICE.· ́
OPENING OF CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA.
The Japanese official attitude towards the settlement of the salt questions has not yet been announced as the Japanese Lega, tion has not yet received written notics of the terms. All indica- tions go to show bowever that earlier prognostications will be ful- Bled, and Japan will refuse to participate in the agreement. The Japanese Legation at Peking has already given a verbal noti- fication to the other Legations concerned that Japan cannot hold herself bound by any agreement made by Mr. Hussey Freke.
The view of the Powers on this agreement are not very optimistic and it is thought that the position of foreign "bond holders will be worse than it was in the past. Everything now depends on the goodwill of the Nationalist Government and its ability to collect the requisite sums from the provinces... It in con- sidered that Mr. Hussey Freke had very little choice in the recent negotiations, and that the present settlement was the only way in which he could avoid the total collapse of the Salt Gabelle.
The Central Bank of China was opened yesterday in the old premises of the Russo-Asiatic Bank at Shaoghai with great cere." mony, before a large gathering of leading foreigners and Chinese. In his inaugural speech Mr. T. V. Soong stated the three prin. cipal aims of the bank, the standardisation of the national cur rency, the creation of a national treasury and the stabilisation of the money market
THE SALT SETTLEMENT
TERMS.
THROUGH 13UTER'S AGENCY.)
PEKING, Oct. 31st
It is understood from very re liable quartère that the terme of the salt settlement embrace to a large extent the proposals of the Nanking Government, and, more- over, include the retention of Mr. Hussey-Freke's services as Foreign Associate Chief Inspector..
According to information avail:
able, the Chineses Government, by the new agreement, assumes full responsibility for the service of loans secured on the Salt Gabelle
revenue.
Although it i- certain that
CENTRAL BANK.
(THROUGH ROUTER'S 10ENOT.]
Asiatic Bank
SHANGHAI," Nov. lat.. The Central Bank of Chias opon ed this morning in the premises formerly occupied by the Russo the Shanghai Bund. The opening was attended with considerable many prominent Chinese and for- eign leaders were present, includ ing Chiang Kai Shek, Hu Han Min and the Consular staffs
ceremony
and
The present Governor of the Bank. Dr. T. V. Soong (who is concurrently Finance Minister), said in his speech that the Central Bank is the highest financial in- stitution, and comes directly under the supervision of the Nationalist Government. It is not a commer- cial enterprise bat a national in- radical alterations will be made institution, functioning in the interest. the organisation of the Gabelle, the of the economic development of the District Inspectors will remain. Chinese people. They will pay the revenue into a bank nominated by the Nationalist Minister of Finance, who will in tura pay monthly a sum sufficient to cover the services of the loans into a bank nominated by him.
The funds thus made available can then be drawn for loans upon the signature of the Chinese and Foreign, Chief Inspectors.
Japan Stands Out.
are
Its principal missions the standardization of the national cur rency, the creation of a national treasury and the stabilization of the money market, in which foreign interest and support will be heartily welcomed.
NATIVE EXHIBITION.
(THROUGH BLUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Nov. 1st. The native goods exposition was inaugurated this afternoon at the Hospice of St. Joseph near south station. Chiang Kai Shek hoisting the Nationalist fing
the
A Japanese semi-official report states that owing to the hopeless divergence of opinion between the British and French delegates and H. H. Kung, the Minister of the Japanese representative in con Industry and promoter of the ex- nection with the Nationalist Gov-hibition, formaly declared the ernment's new Salt Gabelle regula, tions, it is understood that the Japanese Charge d'Affaires has in- formed Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister, and the French Charge d'Afai es, tant he is re- luctantly compelled to withdraw from the present joint conference."
.
exhibition open in the presence of tremendous crowds.
FOREIGN CONGRATULA-
TIONS.
(ilah iz zat Puo).
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd,
FREE FIGHT ON A
TRAIN.
FURTHER TROUBLE AT MELBOURNE.
VOLUNTEER THROWN INTO THE SEA.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MELBOURNE, Nov. 1st.
Forty trade unionists attacked volunteers who were boarding, a train at Flinders Street station
PHILADELPHIA'S POLICE.
BRIBES FROM LIQUOR DENS,
GAMBLERS BLACKMAILED.
(ZHUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
END OF RUBBER RESTRICTIONS.
1928.
LONDON CELEBRATES THE PASSING.
BUSINESS AND SONG.
"
{THROUGH › REUTER'S ADENOT.) ..
LONDON, Oct. 31st.
The Colonial Office has issued a
PHILADELPHIA, Nor, Int. Figorous steps are being taken sa a result of the investigation which is being conducted by a statement confirming the previous grand jury into questions of announcement for the removal of wholesale police graft and corall restrictions on the export of for Port Melbourne and Boven ruption" in Philadelphia, following rubber from British Holaya and volunteers were dung from the the discovery that numbers of train on to the line, while others policemen were associated with were floored and kicked and push-Dicit quer dans. The Hayor has ed from the platform. The fight continued during the journey and ordered every policeman to be was carried on on the platform at shifted to a different beat, Port Melbourne.
The latest evidence has disclosed the heavy bribes have been paid to prevent police raide on lottery
Hundreds of stevedores attacked other volunteers at the dockside and threw one into the sea, while a volunteer driving a lorry was hit by a stone and badly injured.
LEAGUE MISSION TO NANKING.
(THROUGH REUTERʼB AGENCY:]
GENEVA, Nov. 1st. Mr. Albert Thomas, Director of the International Labour Office, accompanied by Mr. Phelan, bead of the diplomatic division of the Labour Office, has left for the Far East.
Mr. Avenel, the Assistant Secre- tary General of the League, is shortly going to Nanking on & special mission at the invitation of the Nanking Government.
SINGAPORE FLYING BOATS. VISIT TO HONG KONG.
(THROUGH REUTER'S JORNCY.!
SINGAPORE, Nov. 1st. The four Royal Air Force flying boats which recently arrived from England ein Australia have left for Kuching. They will later pro
houses.
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Ceylon as from November 1st.
The passing of restriction was made the occasion of a humorous incident at the Rubber Exchange, an ironical epitaph. “To the Memory of Old Mas Restriction" being conspicuously placed in the Exchange. It was draped in crepe
rubber.
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
THE DOUBTFUL STATES:
FINAL EFFORTS BY BOTH
SIDES.
'[REUTER'S AMKBICAN SKEVICE] {
New York, Oct. 31st. The poll in the United States Presidential Elections will be taken on Tuesday, November 8th, but the result will not be known definitely until the afternoon of Wednesday at the earliest in view of the huge vote and the corresponding slow- mess of the returns..
Many guesses as to the final result will no doubt be based upon the early figures of the more doubtful States which are thought to hold the balance of power, in the election,
THE ZEPPELIN'S STOWAWAY.
MYSTERIOUS RETICENCE.
A PUBLICITY STUNT?
{THROUGH KSUTER'S LUENCY,} :.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Nov. lat. The progress of the Graf Zeppelin before her final triumphant landing at Friedrichshafen is shown by a number of reports, starting from Wednesday morning when at 7 o'clock she was sighted 280 miles south west of Ireland..
10.00 am-140 miles west of Brest. 11.20 .m.-Over the Bay of Biscay. 300 p.m.-Off the mouth of the Gironde.
8.10 p.m.-Over Tours.
New Jersey, New York, Penn- sylvania, South Carolina and Con- aecticut. These will be available | November 1st:- An adjoining note invited all on the night of the election. interested to attend a "Memorial President Coolidge has accepted | Baden. Service in the evening to cele the resignation of Mr. A. B. Hough brate the termination of restricton, the United States Ambassador to London, who was recently tion.
for New York State.
4.30
pellers
3.30 am-Sighted at Waldshut,
The noise of pro- ÖVET Friedrichshafen thousands to their windows to sed the brilliantly illuminated airship fying low through the morning mist. Crowds quickly gathered in the streets, cheering enthusiastical Iv, while thousands streamed on to speech the landing ground.
Warrants have been issued for the anest of William B. Smith, member of the Pennsylvania Legie
brought lature and Clerk of the Council, who is charged with operating "&
and In the meantime, brokers were nominated as Republican Senator door clearing house lottery," and also doing business all day long, pune- for the arrest of a number of tuated by the singing of a parody policemen on a charge of black-beginning
"Who
Killed Cock mailing gamblers The testimony Robin We,' said the Dutch" of witnesses, mostly negroes, has further implicated two police cap were distributed in the Exchange Copies of this amusing parody tains (already suspended), thirteen during the morning. detectives and a number of inferior officers.
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THE LEAGUE'S HEALTH "WORK...
RESEARCH IN FAR EAST.
DENGUE FEVER IN GREECE,
{THROUGH · REUTER'S AGENOT.}
GENEVA, Oct. 31st.. Dr. Mackenzie, who has been in- vestigating the remarkable epi-. demie of dengue fever in Greece, at the instance of the Health Sec tion of the League of Nations, re- ports that up to the present time, 1,372 deaths have occurred as the result of the fever, while no fewer
ed.
A FROZEN PRESENT.
SOVIET REFRIGERATOR
Final Appeals. Hoover and Smith will make their final appeals to the nation former will broadcast a on the eve of the election, when the
from his home in California, but 7.10 a.m.--Alter cruising for some the last word will go to the De-hours overhead awaiting daylight, mocrats, as Smith will follow with the Zeppelin landed safely amid a a broadcast appeal from Albany. rear of cheers from the thousands
Among the host speakers yester of spectators, day evening was Smith's colleague, Franklin Roosevelt, who in rapid succession addressed the Jews on the Lower East Side, the Germans in Yorkville and the. Negroes in Harlem. Speaking at Baltimore Senator Borah predicted that Hoover would inaugurate a Dew (THROUGH BETTER'S AGENCY.]
era in the relations of the United States and Central America. Moscow, Oct. 31st: Eastern Geophysical
conceived and "BABE" RUTH IN POLITICS, Observatory haa worked out a most remarkable plan for the erection somewhere in SUPPORT FOR SMITH, - Siberia of an enormous refrigera tor museum."
MUSEUM.
STRANGE RECORD FOR POSTERITY.
The Far
4+
Nrw York, Oct. 20th. Babe Ruth last night broadcasted
Democratic candidate, saying:
The huge crowds swarming over the aerodrome impeded the ground crew and caused an anxious mo- ment as the Graf Zeppelin threa tened to crash into the shed, but disaster was narrowly averted.
Landing Broadcast, Troops reinforced the police to control the vast crowds on the land- The landing scenes ing ground. were broadcast from the hangar throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland Har Eckener refused to speak through the microphone but in a brief interview said " the Zeppelin stood the test and the has proved the possibility of trans peas air traffic.” “
ceed to Labuan, the Philippines than 850,000 cases have been, report-purpose of preserving for eternity in support of Governor Smith, | fight across the Atlantio and back
and Hong Kong, and return viá Indo-China and Siam.
CHARFIELD RAIL SMASH.
DRIVER'S NEGLIGENCE.
MANSLAUGHTER "CHARGE.
(THROUGH AXUTER'S AGRICT.)
Dr. Mackenzie states that the epidemic is now believed to be ending, and the Health Committee of the League has agreed to re- quest the Greek Government to as- sist the League's efforts to fight the epidemic.
It will be constructed for the
the bodies of the men and women of all races of the world as it is to-day, with the idea that some future generation and civilisation may accurately understand the
present
In addition to these frozen bodies, utensils, samples of food products, and also animals will be eternally preserved.
The opinion was expressed that the measures for the prevention of dengue should be extended outside The preliminary estimate of the Greece, and it was, therefore, -de- cost is 10,000,000 roubles, and it cided to enlist the co-operation of intended, ultimately, to appeal entomologists for carrying out a for subscriptions" from scientific ar- mosquito survey of all Mediter-ganisations all over the world. ranean countries.
LONDON, Oct. 31st. "At the inquest to-day on the fourteen victims of the terrible railway disaster at Charfield, Glou- oester, & fortnight ago, when a mail express crashed into a goods train
Colonel Graham, the Public during a fog, and caught fire, a
Health Commissioner, in India, verdict was returned that the interviewed by Reuter here, review. collision was due to the negligenceed the work of the Session of the of the driver of the express, a man League's Health Committee from named Aldington, in passing the viewpoint of interest in the signals showing "Danger."
Far East.
The jury at the inquest also re- corded a verdict of manslaughter against Aldington, and the Coroner committed him for trial.
ATLANTIC FLEET. NEW COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
[BRITISH WIKELENG SERVICE')
RUGBY, Oct. 31st." The Admiralty, announces that, in accordance with official_terms, Vice Admirel the Hon. Sir Hubert Brand, K.C.B., will relinquish the Command of the Atlantic Fleet on April 17th next, and in con- sequence H.M. the King has ap Henceforth, the statement con-
SHANGHAI, Nov. 1st.
proved the appointment of Vice- tinues, Japao will act by herself The Dush Minister and the Bel-
Admiral Sir Ernie Chatfield. in this connection, the British and gian Chargé d'Affaires were intro-K.C.B., to be Commander-in-Chief French delegatea having rejected duced by Dr. C. T. Wang ece of the Atlantic Fleet as from the the. Japanese proposal for & con- Marshal Chiang Kai thek at the same-date.
devise an ference to
adequate Central Mitary Headquarters, in scheme in substitution for the the course of a conversation the Chinese regulations.
The Japanese point of view is that the enforcement of the new re- gulations will severely affect the ioan of June, 1920, secured on the Salt Gabelle.
FOREIGN VIEWS. (through" reuter's agency.)
CELEBRATED FAMILY. two foreign diplomats said that they admired the success of the
(THROUGH REUTER'B AGENCY.]- Kuomintang revolution and the introduction of new political regime
NANKING, Nov. 1st in China.
Marshal Chiang replied that he
The Government has appointed was very pleased to see that the Mrs. Chiang Kai Shek, who is the sister of Mrs. Sun Yat Sen and Powers were showing the Aation T. V. Boong, a member of the com-
est attitude towards the Nation mittee of the Legislative Yuan. ast Government. He hoped that China, now holding a new status, would shortly be able to conclude
diplomatic new
relations with foreign istions in the spirit of equacity and mutual co-operation. NAVAL REORGANISATION.
(Wak Tız Tat Pac).
SHANGHAI, Nov. 1st.
CHINESE MASS OPINION.
(Wah Tez Yat Pao).
PEZING, NOV. lat. The Japanese Legation has not yet received written potico of the Salt Agreement and is awaiting the Howe Government's instructions.
SHANGHAI, Nov. lat. In the meantime they have verbally
The Anti-Japanese Committee in informed the other Legations con-
Nanking are making every prepara. tion to stage a mass meeting and cerned that Japan is not bound by
demonstration on the date when any agreement which Mr. Hussey Freke has made.
the Sino-Japanese informal negotia- Foreign circles emphasise that Admiral Yang Shu Chong, who tions are resumed, as an expres- the 1813 agreement was not be is now the Chairman of the Polision of Chinese maas opinion in tween the Powers and. China, but tical Council of Fukica Province, support of the Nationalat Govern- between China and a group of went to Shanghai on Tuesday to ment with regard to China's de banks, and hence the Powers are consult the Central Government mands for the settlement of the not likely to interro in the pre-regarding the problem of reor Tsinan Incident and the problem sent arrangement between Mr.ganising China's navy. Meanwhile of treaty revision. Hussey Freke and "the Chinese he will formally assume his duties. Government, though it is feared as member of the State Council.
OPIUM SUPPRESSION.
PLUNDER AND KIDNAPPING.
that the position of foreign bond holders will be worse. This posit
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] tion depends on the goodwill of the Government, which may with the
(Wah Par Zat Pao).
NANKING, Nov. 1st, best will in the world be unable
30,000 of Fan Chung Siu's dia- to coerce the local authorities to
SHANGHAI, Nov. 1st.
organised troops are at present at pay the funds monthly. It is con- The National Anti-Opium Confer- Pochow. Ewoyang and Menzchen sidered however that Mr. Hussey ence "WAY inaugurated to-day, in the north-west of Anhui terroris Freke had the choice of making the Delegates attending the conference g the countryside, pitaging and agreement on the present lines or were drawn from seventeen pro kidnapping the wealthy inhabit seeing the completa collapse of the vinces. The session will cover aants. So far no attempt has been
period of ten days.
made to check their activities. Gabelle.
:
He said that the work of the Singapore Rureau was proceeding satisfactorily and would doubtless prove of value to the East. The results of medical research in the tropics, especially plague, will be discussed at a meeting in Febru-
ary.
The Soviet Government Hydro- graphical Department is "now or ganising an expedition to Cape Desire, Novazernblya to erect the most northerly observatory in the world.
GERMAN STEEL TRADE DEADLOCK.
The
EMPLOYERS REFUSE AWARD.
GRAVE CONSEQUENCES FEARED.
{THROUGH ESUTHE'S LUENCE.]
to
RELIGIOUS ORDERS IN
FRANCE."
BERLIN, Oct. 31st. It is announced that 220,000 SOME CONCESSIONS MADE.
West German iron and steel from workers will be locked out DEFINITE EXCLUSION OF
to-morrow, following the refusal of JESUITS,
the employers to accept the Ar- bitrator's Award, granting wage increase (THROUGH RZUTER’6 LÓRYCY.]
employees, ranging from two to six pfenniga an hour. With the refusal of the iron and PARIB, Oct. 31st.
to After a lengthy. Cabinet meeting (steel" barons" accept this this afternoon, an agreement in award, the threat of a huge in principle was reached on the vexeddustrial war becomes imminent.
The industrial magnates are re- question of Articles 70 and 71 of
solved to close down their factories the Budget.
The solution found consists of rather than pay increased wages, a compromise, the main feature which they declare would make it of which is an amendment to Ar- impossible for them to compete in ticle 1, which deals with the mis-the world's markets.
As a lock-out is illegal, the cm- sionary bodies which will benefit
Unions for compensation for wages by the recovery of certain pro-ployers can be sued by the Trade Perty and rights in France.
It is officially indicated that lost by their members, but it is ex only bodies specifically designated pected that the lock-out will be of by the Government will be allowed short duration as the Government to benefit by the new Law and sub-will certainly intervene in an at ject to the approval of Parliament. tempt to persuade the parties to
It is stated that in any case, end the struggle. there are not at the present time more than nine missionary congre- gations likely to be admitted, and the Jesuits are definitely ruled out. It seems that missionary bodies will be forbidden to establish their headquarters in France.
MUNICIPAL AERODROME FOR MANCHESTER,
SITE NEAR THE CITY.
(BEITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, Oct. 31st...
The Manchester Corporation to- day sanctioned the erection of a Municipal Aerodrome at Chatmoss," Tear the city.
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GERMAN STEEL BONDS.
[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
NEW YORX, Oct. 31st. The National City Bank of New York is offering Twenty Year bonds to the value of G.$10,000,000 for the liseder Steel Corporation, Germany, at a price yielding 6.4 per cent.
MORE GOLD LEAVING LONDON.
AMERICA'S BIG IMPORTS.
[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE1
New Youx, Oct. 31st. It is announced that Messrs. It was only yesterday that the Speyer and Company, the well- Air Ministry issued a circular known New York bankers, have letter to big towns in the provinces purchased nearly G.82,500,000 worth inviting them to consider the ad of gold from England, bringing the visability of establishing Muni-total of gold imports to the United. cipal Aerodromes with a view to States since the movement chang- this direction to over assisting the development of civil edin aviation.
(3.817,000,000."
"Hello, Fans: On a triumphant Fankee train coming back frem St. Louis, we made many stops in cities. made little speeches for Governor Smith. I received 140,000 letters and telegrams since the world series, and am now busy filing and checking and found 7,000 of them have congratulated me for my home runs and my speeches, and only 200 have rebuked me for talking politics."
That is a nice proportion for Governor Smith, 7,000 for him and 200 against him. Governor Smith is the type of man who appeals not only to baseball fans, but also to all the red-blooded lovers of Ameri- can sporta.
The Zeppelin took 112 hours to make the westward crossing, and was actually in the air for 71 hours 10 minutes on the return journey.
had
The Stowaway.
The stowaway, Clarence Terhune, the American youth who was die covered on board four hours after the Zeppelin had left Lakehurst,
with little difficulty
the the authorities ag new Germaız sporting spirit is impressed by his escapade. The American Consul arrived at Friedrichshafen to arrange passport formalities, while two offers of employment are await ing the ex-golf caddy, one from the famous Hagenbeck Circus at Ham- burg, and the other from big stores Terhune has at Aix-la-Chapelle. been asked by the latter to name his own terms.
Meanwhile, it is reported in Berlin
"I do not know anything about the tariff, but whether you are a farmer, manufacturer, or baseball lover, the main thing in voting is to show that it will affect your pocket. Governor Smith's friend- ship for baseball made big crowds that the young stowaway has sold and big salaries possible. That's the newspaper lights of his story why nearly every league player is for a large sum to one of the jour going to vote for Governor Smith.nalists on board the Zeppelin.
"The other day, I visited the house where Governor Smith was bora. This makes me think that there is a chance for every boy, however poor, to reach the top in America, whether he wants to be President or a ball player."
OBITUARY.
FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE.
Newspaper Contracts.
Passport and customs formalities were soon finished and passengers. And crew
were thunderously "ap- aplauded as they left the hangar.
MR. W. L. COURTNEY, The death is announced of Wil. M.A., liam Leonard Courtney. LL.D., St. Andrews, at the age of **8.
Mr. Courtney was at the time of his death a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and during his long life was prominently connected with journalism and scholastic life. He was a well known economist.
The stowaway "Clarence" WAY banded a provisional passport by the American Consul at Stuttgart in the airship'e cabin and was then spirited away from a side door of the hangar to avoid pressmem. Newspaper contracts are doubtless determined responsible for the silence maintained by the pussen- gers.
Put Up Job? Terhune was the centre of attrac tion but he was mysteriously re- arrangement ticent owing to an
I have made with Herr Eckener." This fact, coupled with the an- nouncement that Terhune is speedi- In 1604 he was appointed editor ly returning to America has arous of the Fortnightly Review and was ed scepticiem as to the bona fides later on the editorial staff of the of the stowaway," who is rumour Daily Telegraph. He was & directed to have been smuggled aboard tor of the well known publishing for publicity purposes. firm, Messrs. Chapman and Hall, Ltd.'
"For many years Mr. Courtney Oxford WAS treasurer of the University Boat Club.
ROYAL DUTCH INTERIM DIVIDEND.
.
NEW SHARE ISSUE.
„{(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE HAGUE, Oct. 31st. The Board of the Royal Drtch Petroleum Company has decided to pay an interim dividend of ten per cent, on January 10th.
A new issue of shares, entitling the holders to full dividend for 1920 and the following years, will [be open to subscription on Novem-
ber 12th.
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LOSS TO FRENCH ART.
(THROUGH REUTER'S INEKCY.]
PARIS, Oct. 31st. The death is announced of M. Albert Bartholome, the famous painter and sculptor."
Atlantis Mails.
A New York message says that the airship is carrying a ton of mails in respect of which the German Postal Administration will be credited with £15,142 by the United States Post Office.
Souvenir stamps were issued: by the German Post Office for the mai! to be carried by the Graf Zeppelin. The stamps, which are beautiful- ly reproduced in photogravure, show the great airship flying across the Atlantic.
The two marks stamp, printed in bright blue, is for use on postcards, tended for half-ounce letters: The while the four marka sepia is in-
issue,
which is a limited one, will be discontinued after the fight....
Many letters were sent to tas Friedrichsten Post Office by colled Lors from all parts of the world, who wished to possess examples.
of these historic stamps to place in their albums beside those that com memorate the serial exploits of Hawker, Alcock, de Pinedo, Liad- bergh, and other pionests of the Transatlantic air route.