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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1931.
CATAPULTING A 9-TON PLANE
BIG EXPLOSION IN LONDON STREET.
BOMBER IN AIR IN THREE A VAT OF CHEMICALS
SECONDS
AN AMAZING FEAT BY THE RA.F.
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BLOWS UP
WORKSHOP LAID IN RUINS,
THE PRINCE WITH THE ARTISTS:
SYMPATHY WITH THEIR HARDSHIPS,
HIT BY THE WORLD 'DEPRESSION:
The Prince of Wales, speaking at the dinner of the Artists Gen- erol Benevolent Institution at the Prince's Galleries, Piccadilly, re- ferred to the precarious economic life-of painters.
Great damage was caused, and A fent unparalleled in any other there were a number of remark country.
was performed at the able escapes in the neighbourhood Royal Aircrafts Establishment, of Queen's-road Station, Central Farnborough, when Vickers London Railway, Bayswater, last Virginia bember, weighing nine month; when the explosion of a tons, was catapulted into the air vat of chemicals blow down a no
"How many famous painters, in Icss than three seconds, and storey building on top of a station whose works are now recognised as with a run of less than 35 yarda Bry motor-car and shattered hun
the world's masterpieces, have died The normal take-off of the madrede of windows in shops and
in poverty 1" bo neked. "How chine is 300 yards.
house over a considerat.le area
many have beon forced during Five vats of chemicals were being lifetime, like Vermber, to delivered to the premises destroy- ed, a chemical workshop immediate ly in the rear of the Black Lion Hotel, at the corner of Queen's read and Bays-water-road, when one of the vats blew up with a re- sounding roar which was hoard nearly a mile away.
The catapult was operated by two compressed air ongines each less in size than the ordinary house dust-bin- which cach developed in-
mediately 2,000 up...
The two 500-h.p. engines of the bomber were fully opened out be fore the catapult was released at a signal from the pilot Thero was a wind abeam, but the machine was. kept beautifully level.
The device will be on view at the R.A.F. pageant at Hondon
Like a Rock from Etus. It was an amazing and almost torrifying scene. The huge ma- chine shot forward like nothing alse ever seen except, perhaps, a rock as big as a church thrown out of Etna. Before the bewildered senses could grasp the scene and recover from the sudden terrific vibrant roar of the compressed-air cagines of the catapult all wes quiet again save for the bomber's engines growling away diminuendo
in the distance.
The engines of the neroplane were started up, and the pilt in charge, when all was ready, raised his right hand for three seconds, and then lowered it. It was the signal for a burst of sound like the irregular discharge of a battery of artillery. Out of the amazing rotors on the catapult platform streamed visible air-compressed air, turning to snow in freedom, mingled with vapour of oil.
In less than three seconds the 'plane from stationary accelerated to fifty seven miles per hour in a run of 104 foot At the end of the run its wheels were off the ground, the machine had autematically disconnected from the catapult trolloy, and the pilot, Squadron- Leader W. S. Caster, M.C., had perfect. control.
The Pilots Ordeal. There were two pilots on board, the assistant being Flight-Lt. Ryde, who will demonstrate the apparatus at Hendon.
For the two pilots the catapult ing menut a powerful pressure forcing them against the back of their seats. They had to be in toneely on the diert, taking com pleto ccntrol in an instant, where as in the usual take off of an cero:
plane control is acquired while the machine runs over the ground. Yet on their return they stopped out of the machine as cool as if they had been taking an crdinary flight.
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After the accident there was a search for pound notes in Queen's road. An assistant of a cleaning company was paying out the wages when the explosion occurred. Many of the notes ware blown into the street and could not be found,
part with pictures just to meet the insistent demands of the loca. butcher or baker-pictures which to-day have probably crossed the Atlantic for &. sum with which the artist could bavo bought the whole town of Rotterdam, with Delft and Haarlem thrown in 1
At all times to the artiet for- tunes are subject to the fluctuations of that very psychological thing
called taste
Imagine the feelings of Yar torius for example if he had een his picture of the Old Berkeley One of the partners in the firm huntsman in his yellow cost knock- involved, M. C. O Brullardharted down by Mr. Hannon for informed a pross representative that his associated, M. D. Brun nor, and he are engaged in the manufacture, by a secret process, of a fluid for scaling boilers,
£5,000, and imagine our grandfa thers feelings at the ridiculous, in fact, the insulting suns of money for which mid-Victorian favourites can nowadays.' be BC- quired.
The Green Sea,
"Changes in taste are so swift
"I was in the place at the time that the explosion occurred," "Mr. Brullardhart said, "and I consider myself very lucky to have escaped in the life of these who are paint. without injury. All that happening now, that who knows that the ed to me is this" and he held up man who showed his ancle the pic- his bowler hat, in which a hole ture might tell him that the green had been pierced.
sea which actually was a green field was not so bad, but that he. thought that the cow that really "It is impossible to say precisely
was, a ship was not very good what was the cause of the explo(Laughter and cheers.). sirn, though, speaking in a general way, it was obviously the result of some mysterious generation of gases in the atmosphere.
A Complete Ruin,
"All I can say definitely is that there was suddenly a terrifo report which blew out the roof and a side wall of our workshop. As you see, a complete ruin. A the place is considerable
of masonry which just missed me fell on motor car and crushed it."
A conservatory on the other aide of the wall was smashed and hun dreds of wind¿ws in flats over a
"Ladies and gentlemen," said the Prince laughing, "I confess to you that I got that story all wrong. I hope you will forgive me, be cause I have been making quite a few speeches lately. (Laughter and cheers.) Unfortunately I cannot paint at all.”
Taste often changed rapidly even during an artist's lifetime and there were many whom the public probably regarded as prominent in their profession who found their ! work duly hung on the line, but unfortunately net purchased. large area were shattered. Doors In the present world-wide crisit, were wrenched from windows, and artistic work came under the head- the force of the explosion blewing of a luxury. There might be overal people to the ground.still in the United States a very Passers-by in Queen's road had 'nar, row escapes from falling glass The plate-glass windows of a shop 230 yards away in Quem's-road were blown out,
few wealthy patrons of the arts who had not had to rule luxuries out of their budgets, but they concentrated as a rule on the Old Masters, and rarely supported the contemporary Fifteen windows in the Black artist who was struggling to ourn Lion public-house were smashed, his daily bread. In this country and the back windows of a house the majority of those who appre in Inverness-terrace, which over-ciated and owned good pictures nad
looks Bayswater-road, were blown tong since been forced by death
out..
duties and taxation to sell rather
A family living in a top four of than to buy.
The present dearth of commis- Queen's-gardens, which averlooks the factory, had a startling ex-sions meant ruin taʼmany artiste. perience. A two-year-old girl was blown out of its cat. Its father
building.
Building Shaken,
At the rear of the catapult apand methor, the nurse, and maid paratus used wore a nest of buge with the child immediately left the compressed air containers with valves simultaneous, y controlled to food the pair of compressed air gines a few feet in front of them These engines, like the catapulting apparatus, have been developed en tirely at the I.A.E
Bir William Llewellyn, President of the Royal Academy, paid a tribute to the Queen's interest in art and artists and her interest in and solicitude for the fund.
Mr. E. Guy Dawber, Treasurer. of the Institution, announced that subscriptions to the festival through. the stewards' lists this your totall- ed £5,077, and that within' the past ten minutes an anonymous a considerable number of customers, donor had given him a further gift
A of £1,000, at the time, stated:
A member of the staff of the Black Lion Hotel, where there was
"The explosion shook the build- ing, and we were surprised to find They operate by pulling in a when all was ever that our pre- heavy stranded, wire cable extend- Pedestal Heatering forward more than 100 feet mises had sustained little harm
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and returning over a pulley back beyond the blowing out of some to a trolley on which the fuselage windows at the rear, facing direct of the aeroplane is borne. Clearly on to the chemical workshop. There was naturally, immense ex- ing assists & rapid accelerating citement in the hotel.
Mrs. R. Johnson, the tenant of The pull on the catapult at the launching is equal to 20 tons, and a neighbouring flat, atatód
"I thought it was an earthquake, secure anchorage is a necessity.
Plans have been made for giv-I was in the front room, and way ing the whole apparatus, includ-thrown to the ground. Every one
VATICAN MAY BREAK WITH ITALY.
GOVERNMENT FAILS TO REPLY TO NOTES.
Rome, June 8. That the conflict between the Vatican and the Fas cist government will lead to an open branch of diplomatic relations the back door, has been wrenched seems to be indicated by the fact from its hinges, and a large quant that the Italian govorment has ity of china has been smashed." not yet: replied to the two notes Hundreds of people, attracted by of the Vatican presented on May the noise of thaterplosion, gushed 29. and June 3 respectively. In to the scene, where flames shot up usually wellsinsformed guarters fo Among the debris. The LC,C is stated that the Vatican is pre fire brigader was promptly sumparing third, not and also kne
ing an anchoring contrivance, com of my windows has been smashed, plete mobility so that it could take the rend with an army in the fold d
In certain conditions of warfare the catapult would enable heavy bomber to take the air close to the objective,
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