Haig
SCOTCH WHISKY
JOHN HAIG&CoLtJ. (Owning Halg & vinig, 1863 MARKINCH, SCOTLAND,
JOM HATO
Consumers are requested to see that every bolile of John Haig Gold Label Whisky as supplied by us bears the foot label thus Gands, Price & Co., Ltd., Sole Agents for Hong Kong,"
GANDE, P
SOLE AGENTS:
PRICE & CO., LTD., St. George's Building, Ice House Street, DIAL 20135.
HONG KONG.
For your home
。།
Tea is as important salt, sugar or any other commodity, Lip- ton's Ten goes further than that-it gives you ease in the knowledge that you are serving your guests and family the Finest Tea In The World.
Every housewife knows this. That is why Lipton's has the largest sale in the world.
Br APPOINTMENT
HOICEST
KING GE
LIPTON
WHEN
YOU REACH HOME
You will be wondering how things are going
out here, what all your
friends are doing won the tennis league.
THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS
will give you all the news and keep you in touch.
with things
out East.
Don't forget before you sail to
tox be sent yo
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1931.
AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
MAGIC OF THE AIR-MAIL.
WEEKEND AIR TRIPS.
PLANE WITH HEAVY OIL ENGINE.
ENGLAND, TO INDIA IN FIVE DAYS.
[BY HARRY HARPER, "Author of "The Romance of a Modern · Airway."]
An experience to linger in one's memory is to fly as a passenger over that great air-mail route which is operated by Imperial Airways between England and India,
14 Week-and tickets will be a pow feature of the cross Channel flying servicos this summer..
MONTH
DISPLAY AT HENDON
POSSIBLE
Preparations are now nearly complete for the first tests in flight
BRITISH FLYING
NEWS.
A REAL" BIRD, MAN,"
Loroon, May
FOOD AND FEASTING
(Continued from Page 3)
tios were limited. From autumn to spring there was little or no. fresh ment for anyone. The regu
Captain T. Neville Stack, A.F.C.,lar dist of the great majority was frugal Piers Plowman may be the hero of the record fight to
Bengali indulging in propaganda, when ho 65. RETURN FROM PARIS | FIRST TESTS LIKELY THIS Constantinople and back, made the complains that he never had bacon
TO LONDON;
first light acropinne fight to India or chicken, but lived on brend and five years ago. He is one of thesed eros. The fair way to take choose and vegetables, and vurde pirmen who seem to possess a sixth the profusion of the feasts is sense, resembling the homing in-an exceptional indulgence, no more stinct of the birds, which has given typical of the daily life, even of rise to the expression that Su the wealthy than the Dorby, or let us say Ascot, is of our ordinary and So has a compass in his head.”
round. of an aeroplano fitted with a heavy-In other words, he is a magnificent oil engine developed by the Air. Ministry at Farnborough from a Rolls-Royce petrol aero engine, i
It is possible that the
machine will be exhibited |_ with "the" "new and experimental types at the R.A.. display this month
They will apply between Paris and London, but not between Lon don and Paris, and should be a helpful development of the Come to Britain" campaign.
At present the week-end” traffe By the accelerated time-schedule from London to the Continent keeps which will be in operation this the Imperial Airways liners fully summer, one will ascend from Lon booked, but there is extra carrying don on Saturday morning and be capacity on the return flights, and in India on the ollowing Thursday, it is in order to induce 'an increas having flown 5,000 miles above landed migration from Paris that the and sea, with panoramas which will company will offer Friday to Men enthrall you unfolding themselves day and Saturday to Tuesday book beneath your outlook window.
ings at a reduced rate..
It seems more like magie than reality to be able to leave London on Saturday morning and to, ucin Alexandria on the following-Men day; to alight at Baghdad on Tues: day evening; and to reach India by Thursday afternoon. Yet such ep parent miracles as these are now being accomplished regularly an matter of daily routine,
Passengers bound for India by air assemble on Saturday morning at Airways House, London. Then, after your passports have been examined and your luggage taken charge of by airway porters, you, are escorted to waiting cars, and driven to the air-station at Croy don.
Across Europe,
This reduced fare will approxi- mately equal the six guineas re. turn fare which will be charged for
for both the morning and evening short period return tickets issued
services from London to Paris each Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday This compares with an ordinary re turn fare of £7:198 8d.
Lower Fares for Tours,"
τ.
The fact that fights with heavy oil ongines were made in Germany and the United States in 1929, at a time when bench work with single
land, does not mean that fotoign cylinders, was
in
progress in Eng
experiments were moro. promising than ours...
Soft and Mushy Dishes, cross-country pilot and, with little
Somebody or other ones declared apparent preliminary calculation that the rude plenty of the and fuss, "he contrives most un- Homeric feasts, in which the guest. cannily to arrive exactly at the of honour is given a whole chine noint intended without deviating but plain roast and boiled and to himself, and there is nothing perceptibly from a straight line bright wine-it was bright, though
The chef
barbarians By this kind of Be argument our medieval-ancestors
were highly civilised. Their cook ing was most elaborate, of King Richard 11. left a cookory book behind him in manuscript which, to take a characteristic re- cipe, instructs that pickled salmon
except where the configuration of it was honey sweet proves that the ground or bad_visibility may Homer wrote of barbarians for oblige him to do so." This ability was wonderfully shown during the light plane journey to India when, after 230 miles across the Mediter most of the way in low cloud and mist, Stack passed over the north African coast within a should be brayed in a morter with few yards of the exact spot he had almonds, milk, rico flour, salt and of careful, cautious foundation-ay-indiented on the map before leav-root. A horrible outrage..
sugar, and coloured with alkanet
They were very fond of braying,
The British method has been one
ing, and there is good reason for believing that when fight tests be
Imperial Airways also envisage the possibility of "eonducted tour" parties preferring the air route to the Continent. Every week-day, gin, all problems will have been except Saturday, thero will be re-solved. duced-fare six-day tickets at eleven guineas on the air-lidors from London to Switzerland. This com pares with an ordinary far of
$13.68.
These reduced fares, it is point
ponding first-class boat and train charges.
Lighter Than Eivals, Heavy-oli ongines, made by Beardmores, were, in fact, used in the airship R 101, but they wero
ranean
་ ་
ing Malta. Few of the world's
airmen are equally well atted for
the task he has set himself of show. ing "how the air, mail services may be improved and accelerated,
His companion on the Constan-
tinople journey, Mr. 3.
Chaplin,
of too heavy a type for aeroplanes.an Avro Avian light 'plane who is a young and keen owner pilot of
learned to fly last year. He has
Taking your armchair sent in oned out, are lower than the corres-The new British engine, however, of the powerful Armstrong-Siddeley passenger-planes of Imperial Air ways, you ascend at 8.50 a.m. and sweep over Kent to the sea-coast, passing swiftly above the Channel on your way to Paris
After a brief halt at Le Bourget, the Paris airport, your pilot steers
Special day return air excursions will be arranged for special events such as the Grand Prix..
Baghdad and Deserts.
will, weight less per b.p. than either the American or the German en- gines.
It will develop about 650-700 h.p.. and will weigh 1,430lb, or about"
2.126 per h.p. The German Jun-"
for-Basle, beautiful-views-lying-From-here-you-pass-to-lutbah kors weigh about. 2116 por ap
135 hours' flying on his log book hard for his licence
grinding and mincing. "Nearly BLYB Mr. Mead, what every dish," ever. its name, Was soft and.. mushy." The obvious inference that teeth were bad he rejects, per- hops too absolutely.
But no doubt his own explane- tion, that the food had to be mushy
England before James I., accounts because there were no forks in
for much. Yet mushy dish con- sumed by fingers must have been a gruesome sight, It is also to be remarked, as Mr. Mead does some- where, that what we mean by good meat is a modern invention." Tho medieval beef and mutton whe Evidence of the durability of the certainly small, and in all probe- -modern-light-aeroplane,-even-in-the- bility tough.
and' is
as navigator and ground engineer.
MILEAGE
Below-a panorama of mighty Wells, romantic desert station, and and the American Packard about most strenuous kind of commercial' No wonder they, minoeditor mountains and fertile valleys on towards Baghdad, crossing
fying, comes this week from Buenos have dosed it with sploo A recipe pounded it, but why should they Then the city of Basic, where the above the river Euphrates. Econ the same.
Aires. There a "Moth biplane, for stowed beef requires cinnamon, Rhine makes as almost right-angle turn, is renched. On the east side
owned and operated by the firm of cloves, mace, ginger cubes, onions, of the city lies the aerodrome,
Acrofotos, has completed approxim: parsley and sage. It is not more.
highly seasoned than
after this you and yourself over With its weight-ratio brought Baghdad, Jewel of the East," down to less than 26 per h.p., and an you glide down you catch the Diesel type of engine throu
where at four o'clock on Saturday passing glimpse of the golden tens to oust the petrol engine for ately 80,000 miles in less than two fruit could not er Even
afternoon your air express alights,
domes of the Bad-i-Main Mosque, Now, for a brief spell, you desert And of the Barrow streets and date
gardens of the city.
many classes of aeroplane; indeed
for all classes except single-seater and a half years; spending no fewer fighters and the light aeroplane than 1,033 hours in the air, and group.
more often than not being left for the night in the open air..
Early on Wednesday morning you are in the air again, passing over that wonderful Arch of Ctesiphon and approaching the legendary England experiments are advanc
In time doubtless they also will Le provided for, and already in:
The 1,033 hours include 105 hours
site of the garden of Eden. After ed with a 90 b.p. three-cy ander spent in a recent
They
stowed strawberries with almonds, raisins, saffron, bepper, ginger, cinnamon cypress root. And then, at the end of the meal they sent round spices neat, to give a relish to the wine.
Oraving for Spicas.
airway for railway, taking your place in a sleeping-car train and travelling throughout the night to Genoa, which you reach on Sunday morning. At Genon you find await
nt completed voyage. ing you one of the powerful multi-
this, from Basra on to Bushire, Diesel engine. The American | of 8,000 miles around Argentina, It was for reasons of health, Mr. engined firing-boats of Imperial.
you see a transition from the tro-Packard is an engine of about 210 the first light 'plane trip made over lead suggests. First, they know Airways. In this, on Sunday mornpical basin of the river system toh.p. ing, you ascend, and fly down the the volcanic mountain-ranges of
the route. Diverse and difficult they were eating too much, and
A they believed that all these spices: Itálian coast vid Naples to Corfu, Persia Flying vi Lingeh, you Armstrong Siddeley, Beardmores, weather was encountered, ranging would whip up the action of the where you alight that same even reach and alight" on Wednesday
evening at Jask, where there is a the Bristol Aeroplane Co., and from, blazing heat to terrific tropical stomach," Secondly, the state of ing.
cable and telegraph station of the Napiers are all at work on the hall and rain storms, but the meat and fish was often such Over Historic Lands, Indo-European Telegraph Comproblem; some experimenting with
that a good deal of spicing was
pany
More Freight Carried,
water-cooled, others with air-cooled journey went through without in types."
cident. The small machine, standard craft with wooden fuse. inge
averaged miles an hour from start to finish.
Owing to the smaller quantity of fuel used, and the fact that it can be stored in smaller space, the ad vaninge of the heayy-oil engine is shown in flights of eight hours of more, and the time is at hand when tongdalene rocords will be made
Early on Monday morning you
Ascending again on Thursday, are on the wing again, steering for you pass high above nountains and Athens and Crete, with wonderful vast stretches of sand. Then, Pre sently you find yourself nearing the views below, and on above the harbour and port of Karachi, Your Mediterranean to Alexandria, where air express passes to the north of you alight at 4.30 p.m. on Monday the town, and on to the commercial air-station which lies inland... It lis afternoon, the seaplane base being at 3.30 p.m. on Thursday, that your only a short distance from their express glides down at Karachi. Royal Palace of Basel India in exactly 5 days 9 hours 35 with it.
Indin in hotly days, 3 hours 38 Changing again from Bying-boat minute A hundred cara ago it to aeroplane, you obtain a fascinat was thought wonderful when one ing glimpse of Cairo, while after abis comes a wonderful aerial view of the Suez Canal. From your lofty view point you can see, not only the end of the Canal at Port Said, but also the other end in the Gulf of Buoz.
Soon your magic carpet" has corried you over the Sinai desert to Gazn. On again, fresh wounders greet you the round-topped hills of Judah Bethlehem on your left;
Commercially this means that for
of the old sailing ships made a journeys of 300 to 500 miles a grea voyage between England and India ter quantity of paying freight can in not more than 91 days. Five be accommodated: The fuel is chea days as compared with ninety-one days! Or to contrast the aerial per than petrol, and danger of Are mail with the fastest oxisting sur either in the air or in a bad land face transport, 5 days as compared with 15 days. Such apparenting is practically eliminated, miracles are posible only with the. moderni airesft;} which twings its way unhindered above sea, moun trine, forests, or deserts.
v 1 of min! 1 Amy On Friday morning the air-mall goes on in Hyderabad and Jodh pur to Delhi, reaching, there at 2:40
BID FOR RECORD,
CBRITIEN WIRELESS SERVICE.]
and Jerusalem on a hill beyond..m So your serial journey ends.
1. fo
Ruday, June B Then you have an impressive, You have seen the world from the Flying & Pass Moth machine, Mr. swiftly glimpsed panorama of the new and fascinating view-point of Jackaman eft: London at 1.30 am Dead Sea which it has been said, have enjoyed a personal experience to-day an atte “looks like the bottom of the which will convince you, if you need - Buchurestiin one day!? 'I? world" when viewed from a height convincing, that the long-distance fal the flight establiAM.:B
travel of the future, must leave the pat
oord distance surface of land and sea and make alam its swift progress through the air, in one day.
She Mönthe129 KGT TƏNTcia ena
of about 5,000 feet
(Continued on peet
the travellar who flies, and you
reach
recessary.". There is another rERIOU of the same sort in the general nervousness of the good old times about smells. Important people carried a nosegay or an orange or a scent-box-something was neces The big mileage invites compari-sary to mitigate the odours, which son with the use got from motor prevailed indoors and outdoors in cars. The car undoubtedly has the town met mung phee but all the
more arduous
dous time, moving over uneven roads and its engine suck ing in quantities of dust and dirt which may cause damage. On the
ed banquet must have been better for spices.
The ancient world was much Jess concerned about such things But. then boll Greeks and Romans
washed, · Let us pot despise the
other hand the aeroplane aging is odorous Middle Ages. Their ergy- kept running at constant throttle ing for spices was p great forch opening, and gets very few relief in the development of civilisation.
It opened up the immemorial East periods such as the car engine' gets
to Europe, it went Columbus out every time the driver lifts his foot
on the quest which discovered from the necelerator pedal Fur-Ameríën,
ther, the motor car after 80,000
If they had so lived as to be con tent with plain food, we should miles invariably shows considerable
have been born into a very different signs of wear the aeroplane, world, a world at another stage. thanks to the ridgent restrictions of growth. But after all the whojo. governing safety and periodic is of human progress is based on the desire for something nicer to eat spection, reizains in perfect con- Without a taste for gormandise we should still be aarthe beasta that dition till the
¡perish??H; Bailey in' the. Lon":
don Daily Telegraph. W