·HONG KONG AS AN AIR ROUTE CENTRE.
LINES RADIATING IN ALL DIRECTIONS: BRIGHT FUTURE PICTURED.
ADDRESS AT THE ROTARY CLUB'S LUNCHEON,
At the Rotary Club luncheon held at Messrs. Lane, Crawford's restaurant yesterday, Wing Commander A. W. F. Glanny, M.C.. D.C.S., R.A.F., gave an interesting address on "Aviation," in the course of which he said that, geographically, the situation of Hong. Kong was ideal an a centre from which air lines should radiate to link up with the England-Australia route with Shanghai, Japan, Manila and China. The Colony had an immense future.
The speaker went over briefly the many modern inventions
which has made avintion safer and more rugular.
The tin was presided over by Hou. Dr. S. W. Tao.
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FEW CRASHES IN CIVIL AVIATION.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1931.
tically. Weight, of course, includes fuel and freight go it is important from the pay-load aspect. In con- sequence the principle concern of designers ja -to rodues structural weight without anerifeing safety and efficiency."
REDS ACTIVE IN:
HAINAN.
CANTON COUP MEANS RECALL OF TROOPS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Hotnow, May 16. The recent coup d'etat in Canton
As far as the aeroplane side is concerned the change over to metai instead of wood offers possibilitiča of stronger and lighter anstruction, with better mass-production pros- pects, but the effects of vibration in | bas bad its reverberationa producing wint is called chry. Hainan and the political atmos stalisation and what to do about phere became charged with pon- kibilities not pleasant to contem- rust and corrosion, and numerous
other problems has to be tried out practically. Other tonts are being made with the structure, and shape of wings to reduce weight and ob. tain greater lift from them. The problem of whether the monoplane is a better all-round performer Wing Commander Glenny said: miles flown increase in proportion than the biplane is to be investigat. I have been asked to give you a to the accidents 1f, therefore, fly-ed, thoroughly this year by the Air short talk on aviation and, ofing accidents are examined in their Ministry at Home. course. I had to choose from a very true perspective, there is no, enuso vast subject a' few points which I for despondency. The pioneer spirit)
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HONG KONG STOCK| MARKET.
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CROUCHER & CO,'S DAILY REPORT.
On the whole the market was not quite a lively, yet there was no inclination on the part of holders to seil. orders indicated that cash shares A few outstanding buying
are still being held for higher prices.
Banks and Unions again came to
a paint over.
Hotels were better on opening Pt 818.25 cash and close with sellers.
lightly over.
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Lands are wanted at 802.00 and
800.50. July. Humphreys are in strong demund at $18.30 with no shares in the ofling.
plate. A proclamation appeared Lusiness at 82,020.00 and 2010.00.
Wharves are wanted at $108.00 informing the public that the "Bo On Tui" were recalled' to 'Canton.eash and 8173.00 August with sellers These troops had just recently come to Hainan with the express par pose of exterminating the “Reds"" and although a good beginning had been made, much remained to be done. All of the troops were with drawn from the interior station to Hoihow, but after a few days re Safety Devices,
thought might interest you. I hope in every human endeavour says, weight redueing ones, are to baatisfaction of people. As the news Safety devices, as opposed to turned to their posts to the great the best thing to do with rink is found in the Haudley Page slots,
filtered through the soldiers were
Among Utilities, Trama were, the and to treat the subject rather from adventurers with the man in the to 13 miles an hour lower than the several bridges and causing traffic
to take it," but do not confuse the which give control at speeds of 10/ leaving the Reds once more began niedium of a fair business up to i
Cheir depredation, destroying21.00 with buyers unsatisfied. the navice's point of view, I am street. Both are essential to human normal point at which the muachias
Realtys were better at $14.00. A Loring to the experts of whom I am progress.
purchase of this stock van now be horrified to are rather a big number
would drop for want of sufficiant
A brutal attack was minde on regarded as a convenient means of to-day.
forward speed for the wings to develop the necessary lift.
Tong Village and six persons killed.<btaining a share in the equity of Auto-gyro or windmill machine-This village is less than five li from futuro progress of the Colony as the
Kiungchow City. standstill of motor traffic is the better investment
funds of the company, have been An additional reason for the prudently invested locally in the and Utility
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you will forgive me if, in endeavour to avoid technical terms
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Hong Kong's Future.
few points about air travel which I should now like to refer to a
must interest us all since it would bring Hong Kong so close to Sin-
suitable for, perhaps, the more veteran members of the Hong Kong
to come to a standstill.
Ewos are weaker in Shanghai at Tix. 13,50.
May I make it clear before we 80 any further that what I say is my own personal view and is in no way opportunity of acknowledging the sapors and Shanghai and within a Flying Club and the Pterodactyl, levying of a tax of Afteën dollars shares,
oficial. And may I also take the
help 1 have had from my old friend of early flying days. the Rev, (or should it be Squadron Londor 1) E. 6. Powell and from Flight Lieut. A. J. R. Mom and others.
starting with rather aspect.
I hope you will forgive me for n glowny I refer to air accidents The public opinion about flying is greatly influenced by accidents and I fell I ought to speak about them. The last thing I want to do is to
give you an unduly optimistic our look or to disenunt the serious nspect of their accidents but it is necessary for someone to give them their true value in relation to avia- tion progress as a whole. In this matter assistance from the Press, by the publication of rather nore accurate information and consider ed and informed reports as opposed
popular " and " rushed would be a help.
to
news,
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Accidents in Stunt Flying. Now, firstly, the majority of ac- cidents occur in stunt or experi- mental flying, or in connection with R.A.F Bervice flying. Secondly, quite 20 per cent. are due to por sonal and very human errors, and
not
Macao. Geographically, the situa- without a tail, are matter of minutes of Canton and or flying wing, this being a machine
also worth per month from each car carrying tion of Hong Kong is ideal and is watching.
either passengers or freight. This Both can descend und a centre from which lines should ascend at much steeper angles and resulted in almost complete paralys radiate to link up with the Eng much more slowly than ordinarying of traffic. Car owners are
niacbines, land-Australia routes, with Shang. As regards engines, each year already paying thirty dollars per hai, Japan, Manila and China. It sees a further reduction in weight month for licence and refused to as an immense future, before it as horse power. The type favoured It is now reliably reported that per horse power for increased pay an additional fifteen dollars, such. As it happens, most of these for its lightness is the air-cooled routes are for the greater part over radial, with a weight per horas the head of the Kong On office, who was responsible for raising the tax the sea where the navigational diffi-power of about 1.6 pounds per horse power compared with about 2
has been relieved of his duties, At culties for a flying boat are not so pounde per horse power of the great as in overland flying because which dispenses with water, may and normal trade has been resumed. water-cooled, but steam-cooling,
present the ronds are open again of the absence of land obstacles, off-set this disadvantage.
Every and in which these provides a country is experimenting with continuous lighting place.
heavy oil engines which offor 80 man adtages such as reduced be mado really successful an as to weight, lower the
consumption and freedom from fire risks, if they can justify initial experimental
On the other hand the weather conditions, particularly in Spring, are not exactly ideal for regular flying. Adequate weather forecasting and reporting stations and the extended co-operation of ships at sea, together with the of up-to-date aids to navigation, such as the automatje pilot and directional finding wireless, should go a long way towards counter acting the difficulties. It is quite essential to make the fullest use of such aids to ensure regularity and safety. If it is contemplated to I make a few personal suggestions make Hong Kong an air port, may of what I believe to be accessary for success
:
A Fow. Suggestions. (1) Do not make the stages of the route too long to start with, and provide as many alternative land- ing places as funds will permit.
and,
penses.
on
Vast Possibilities.
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Hathing.
heat when the thermometer registers During those days of sweltering
community of business men, Cus over ninety degrees F.H. the local
toms officials and others are finding the beach six miles west of Heihow great relief in an evening drive to
where a substantial bath house has been erected.
New Home for Hainan Lepers Assured,
Dairy Farms are again wanted at 827.00 with small sales as #97.28.
Cements hardened to $20.25 cash with sales at 820.00. July.
Ropas are neglected at 823.00, China Lights are scares; a few
no cash shares were offering. forward shares were negotiated as
May 10, 6 p.m.
CORRESPONDENCE.
[All letters intended for publica-
not for publication, unless so desir tien must be accompanied by the name and addren of the writer,
ed, but as evidence of good faith- EDI
EXTRALITY IN CHINA.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HONG KONG
DAILY FRESS."]
S18,With reference to the recent Questions in the House of Commons regarding the proposed surrender It is estimated that there are five of the Extrafity rights of British Hoihow colony alone has sixty. Shanghai, Tientsin, Hankow, and bundred lepers in Hainan. With the aid of the Chinese Mission Canton, as far as I can ascertain The subjects in Treaty ports other than
to Lepers, and interested frionda neither the collective nor individua! opinions of British subjects in Swatow or other places have ever bean Bought by the Authorities
Consular
all-important nowadays, the ten
As regards navigation, which is deney is to develop instruments to assist the pilot or even replace him, pilot, which is a well-known device. as in the case of the automatic ho automatic pilot works on the gyroscope and level principles. Actually it controls by electrical contacts where the machine gets off set beforehand, which is of immense the level or course for which it value in bad weather and night to structural or mechanical failure in machines or engines.
flying where personal error is api to This is particularly true of British
produce large navigational errors flying. In ordinary straight-for
and even loss of control, as without in Hong Kong and other ports it ward civilian and commercial avia-
terrestial objects or horizon, the is possible to make a modest begin- tion thers have been very few
human being tends to lose his sense serious crashes. Even in a flight
of balanco and direction. For ning. The new colony will be about which is in the nature, of an ex-
example, if you get into a cloud seven miles west of Hoihow, on periment, there is nu justifiention
(2) Establisir weather report cen-
without instruments to tell you for inadequate preparations or un-
trea and a good forecasting service. What is happening, you may easily bluff over looking the sea. The site Pecessary disregard for safety.
Naturally enough British subjects did in ideal because of its isolation cannot view the matter with the (3) Provide aids to navigation, come out upside down, as But, if you embark on something particularly in the way of diree Alcock and Brown new, whether it be a pioneer adventional finding wireless.
Night ever made across the Atlantic from. Hoihow vid a branch from Foreign Secretary, appears to see the first from villages and its accessibility e light as Mr. Henderson, the equanimity and in the same detach- ture or an attempt at record break- (4) Decide on what you require in an aeroplane, ing, a great deal more must be Fisked than would normally be the from your aircraft, and employ a
one of the main roads into the in- it-presumably on the advice of the case. But it is very difficult to get multi-engined type which can do
So, Gentlemen, there are undoub- terior. Its proximity to Hoihow
British Minister, Sir Miles Lamp- the public to see this, and to the work you want,
non. Swatow has no Courts as the (3) Provide adequate and efficient tedly vast possibilities in aviation, will obviate the necessity of build-term is understood in England, and tinguish between stunts and experi-
and we have really got to the stageing a hospital for the treatment of the Swatow police have not the ments on the one hand and regular maintenance staff and facilities.
where properly organised routes straight flying on the other. Hence, (8) Have, at least, 100 per cent. give reliability and sugularity, but the inmates as it will be possible slightest conception of the duties unless the conditions and aims of
reserve of machines and engines, success can only be obtained by for the physicians in the Hoihow society, oo the measure of protec- proper to police in any organised och flight are studied, the signifi- (7) Do not be too ambitious at thorough ground organisation and hospitals to make periodia trips. tion life and property will receive ennce of failures in relation to 4y- ing as a whole, cannot be obtained. first.
a correct adjustment between the Flans have been drawn up for two from the Chinese authorities if our I would never suggest that ven- Mail will probably pay best to weight devoted to structure and in- Luresome lights should be discour-start with. A beginning might to struments; in other words safety as units, one for men and another Present rights are surrendered does not, I think, require further com. nged. Apart from the fact that it made with a service to Macao and against the attraction of increaR-
for women inautes Each of these ment. Canton. would be a poor thing if you wore
ing pay-load, which is so essential
unita consists of a row of six rooms Editors in the Far East, has lucidly Mr. Woodhend, the doyen of ever to get to the nothing ven- I should now like to refer briefly to commercial aviation. Scientistu fure" stage, as much if not quite to some of the more recent guiding and directing aviation, but verandah on all sides, making the sound reasons why Extrality should and technicians are increasingly 15 x 15 feet, with a five foot und with great moderation given as nach is learnt from the failures portant aviation developments,
we have now reached a stage when us from the successes, and the sum which are worth following. It is n
total length 100 feet and a width of not be lightly abandoned by the tatal goes to provide something to peculiarity of aircraft design that we need men of business acument
Powers; but with his usual sym- wards safety and success for those with present materials and ideas it and courage to help us make use 25 feet. Later on as the number pathy for the under-dog he has also coming after. We have, by no is practically impossible to obtain of the flying machine in the service of inmates Increases from the deplored the tendency of com- incans, and this is a very important maximum efficiency in the three of commerce, international goodwill various districts of the island, manities like Shangbai, Tientsin, point, reached the stage at which princple "qualities required in a
progress generally.
Hankow and Canton to view with our knowledge of aviation is suffimchine, namely speed, climb and How much will you business of other buildings will be added.
complacence the certain sorry plight cient to ensure safety and re- lift. If you go for two of these Hong Kong, and particularly of
of their fellow nationals in the non- gularity in everything we attempt.
you must sacrifice a good deal of the Rotary Club, be prepared to
reserved areas. should gradual re- the third or compromiss all round. help in the development of this new
linquishment of Extrality be' ulti- For instance, the Schneider Trophy feature in human life1 (Applause.)
mately agreed to on the lines 'now A great deal of our knowledge the principle elements they can
machines are built with speed ng Hong Kong's Opportunity.
put forward by the British Gor can only be bought by practical climb rapidly as long as the engine speaker, Mr. P. S. Cassidy said that In expressing thanks to the
ernment. As Mr. Woodhead has trial, Nobody, for instance, could is pulling them up but bayc vory perhaps Hong Kong had been a
pointed out, what is not good possibly forecast the difficulties to short endurance, just sufficient to little backward as regards its in-
enough for foreigners in large com. be faced and how to meet them, or
munities with ample means of re- last the course. Long distance materest in flying. They would all the behaviour of machines sud en-
asting aggression is doubly not gines under conditions such as ob- chines aim principally at endur-ngroo it was bound to develop
sunities where these means do not good enough for smaller com ance and at climb or anced, depend enormously and to affect, very con tained on long distanco fights or
exist, The D-Ox.
We had a wonderful aerodrome and he quite appreciated Wing. Com- mander Glonny's appeal to the busi- ness men of the Colous to give all the encouragement, they could to those who were endeavouring to gine weights, you get to a stage organise a flying service. He sup
Debt to Plonsors.
and human
nt the high speeds of the Schneidering on the routa contemplated. siderably, the future of the Colony, Trophy Race: We owe an immense urmount to pioneers, successful_and unsuccessful and to those, such ม Again, with present day material the late Fi. Lieut. Waghorn, who and methode you got to a point do the experimental work. Now, in where, if you increase the size and the ordinary course of RA.F. ser consequently the structural and on vice flying, riska muust be taken for military purposes, which are not nviation, just as submarins work is inherent in straight-forward civil
"ROBBERY" AT EMPRESS HOTEL.
THIEF DISAPPEARS WITH JEWELLERY VALUED AT $800.
An unknown Chinese who booked a room at the Empress Hotel on Monday night, succeeded in getting away with jewellery valued at 8000 yesterday afternoon, by the simple expedient of locking thres mon up in his bathroom and then decamp
at which the power used is unable posed they looked to the Governing. Tho jewellery had been order
to pursue is to decline absolutely to surrender Extrality rights until the Chinese Government have given enduring proof that they can and defenceless communities is to govern, and the fair thing to small ensure at least that they shall not
in my humble opinion is basically be the first to suffer from experi ments in a political altruism which
The sane course for the Powers
factors such as shape of wings that the circumstances of the Jewellery Company, and it was ar- to lift the weight. Various other meat to take the lead and addeded by the man from the Wing Sing a necessary part of naval work and the angle at which they are wretched dollar had handicarmed
Everything humanly possible is set, arise. This fact is the subject business mon. He said he was mare ranged in the jewellery should unsound, actually unnecessary, and done to guard against foreseeable of much argument and the big Ger- that Hong Kong business men nceidents.” Each year brings ROME
be brought up to his room in the morally quite indefensible.Yours, now aids of safety to our help and the number of flights made and
man flying boat D-Ox, which is would be prepared to put their Empress Hotel. So far no arrest etc.,
purely an experimental type, is a shoulder to the wheel, if they were courageous attempt to test it prae; given a load." (Applauss.)
has been made..
H.V.
Swatow, May 15, 1931.
phine S.
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