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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1931.
AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
AIR BARGAINS
HOW POLITICIANS USE THE AIR.
BY E B. BRASIER CREAGE.]
paper.
GRAF ZEPPELIN.
SUCCESS OF AUTOMATIC WIRELESS FROM HEIGHT
OF TEN MILES.
The "good old Zeppelin," to use Dr. Eckener's phrase for the air ship that has added to the list of
BRITISH FLYING NEWS.
THE SCHNEIDER TROPHY.
THE HANNIBEL AND HADRIAN
its famous flights one that in A SKY PILOT IN AUSTRALIA. scientific importancs transcends all..
LONDON, July 25:'
AERODROME UP IN THE WASTAGE OF
THE GREAT WAR.
THE AIR.
PARIS PLAN TO BUILD 140 ACRE PLATFORM.
Paris-A daring scheme for new air port several storeya ‘high, "with an area of 140 acres, at the vory gates of Paris, is being examined by the Conseil-General of the Seine Department.
and
It has long been recognised that ono of the drawbacks of Le Bourget is its distance from the city. Pas sengers who have saved valuable time by taking an acroplane, have
I am indebted, this week, to the Timer wookly, edition and, in parti- cular; to the Aviation Supplement which occupies some very interest the others, came to rest at Fried Entry on the final stages of pre- ing pages of London's leading richshafen this morning just a weekparation for the international to make a painfully slow journey
"after starting out on its historie Schneider Trophy It is now two years pipec Im-royage of thecovery into the Arctic perial Airways began their regular region, service to Karachi and, as the The most important results that extracts given below will show, they the scientistaccompanied by are no further advanced, now, than the fight brought back with them they were when they began in havare the observations of hitherto ing any security of rights on the unknown territory lying between routo which they follow. The fact latitude 82 and 75.
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world's greatest speed ovent--is Paris
contest the by road before they actually roneti
Chishot air station, headquarters of parade ground at lesy los Mou
It has been suggested that the markod by the arrival yesterday at the competing teams, of the first heaux, just beyond the Porto de British facing seaplane specially Versailles and on the river bank, built this year to defend the Trophy might be transformed into an ideal against the challenges of France airport. This ground is famous for and and Italy,
the flights made there by such Farman when aviation was in its pioneers na Blériot, Latham, and
infancy.
is that the Southern European A new mountain range was dis countries are tempermentally un-covered in the Taimyr peninsula, able to throw off the machivellian previously entirely unknown. Its diplomatic ideas which have led height was estimated as 4,000 feet Europe through the filthy self- and its breadth at 20 miles. seeking wars of the last four con- turies. Their thoughts of Empire, are limited to finding space for their surplus population and their 'ideas of Development the perional The other important results con- guins they may be able to win by cern the possibility of a trans-polar the exploitation of foreign lands. air route between the old and the
Only England sees in their Empire new world, a duty, a responsibility, M trist Atmospheric conditions were most only England feels herself bound successfully observed by means of to link up the holes and corners the release of two observation The new British machine" is a of the earth with each other so that balloons that ascended into the Superrgarine So monoplano similar they may grow and develop with stratosphere and indicated the con in general appearance to the craft the rest of the world.
ditions prevailing there by auto-which won the Trophy at an average It may be said that the United matic wireless, thus furnishing, data speed of 329.63 miles an hour States are acting along similar of the great importance for a poslu 1929 but driven by a Rolls-Royce lines in the way that the Republicsible communication between the motor
Less than eight weeks remain be fore the date fixed for the contest, September 12, when once again over-In recent years it has not been the Solent and Spithead the fastest used as an aerodrome, partly be Northland (Nicholas II. Land), vehicles the world has ever seen will cause it lies in a shallow hollow, formerly mapped only on its eastern dispute possession of the most covet where air currents make the hand. coasts, seems large enough to merited aviation trophy. Within a month ling of acroplanes difficult. the title of a small continent.
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from to-day the Trench and thje Italian teams may be practising for the race in their new seaplanes, and the air above Southampton Water will resound with the roar of mighty engines as the beautiful craft sweep by.
A RECORD OF 11,000,000: BRITISH CASUALTIES.
FIGURES STILL INCOM PLETE.
Another volume of the Official History of the War Barics which has been issued treats of over ele ven million casualties sustained by the British Expeditionary Forces at home and in the various cam- paigns overseas during the Great War.
The actual igur given 11,008,338 This it is pointed out, died of discuss or injury, missing includes killed, died of wounds
and prisoners of war, wounded and sick or injured.
"All losses of personnel, it is explained, were fortunately, not permanent. It has been estimated
medical units, 82 per cent of the that, of the casualities admitted to
sick and injured were able to rol wounded and 99 per cent, of the
tura' to some form of duty in the army. fi
It is not claimed that the ful). total of casualties are known, since the records contain many unavoid- The compilers of
This objection could be overcome, it is suggested, by constructing aable omissions. vast flying ground at a beight of several storeys from the ground. volume-Major T. J. Mitchell This ground would, in fact, bo the and Miss G. M. Smith-have ans- roof of a great block of warehouses, lysed a mass of figures in their offices, and hangers for private and survey of battle and. commercial machines. It would casualties in the various fields of have an area of about 140 acres.
Seaplanes could use the river in action: So comprehensive a study front of it as a port
of the wastage of war has never been attempted before. No other has dealt with the subject counti so completely.
developing considerably have plied back and forth for the is linking up North and South continents at an altitude 30 miles greater power than the 1.900 h.p.inst four years without a single America, but, in this instance, it above the earth."
got in the 100 engines and incor- mishup involving injury to passen-" porating certain design improve. gors or crew. In that period they ments. It is slightly larger than have flown approximately 2,000,000
is being done more as a long term
business investment than as a task,
be, fulfilled whether it pays or not.
Death Percentage Lower..
The volume shows that in all
set by circumstances, which must into plain terms, that clause means the 1929 machines, because of the miles, and have definitely shown theatres of the Great War the per-
that Great Britain's right to fy need to carry a bigger load of fact" ability to operate the cross-Channel podp I would ask you to read the fol-over Italy will be held by Italy for the more powerful engine, believed to be the most economical injury was lower then in the South cantage of deaths from disease or
lowing
Great Britain's Position."
The facts of the present situation as
as a bargaining item to be used provides increased radiator cooling if necessary in dealing with an-service. other Eower
A sister craft is in an
routes without a subsidy. They are:
big air transport, planes yet work. ed advanced stage of construction and,
by an airway company, being And, after that," I would ask you if all goes according to plan, these robust, trustworthy and needing the it concerns Great Britain are worth to consider the circumstances which two seaplanes will both fly in the minimum of maintenance in ser examining. For every privilege of exist around Hong Kong. Here race, the third member of the team
vice. Their continued excellent per- passage Great Britain has given we have no ingrained Florentite being a rebuilt 1929 Supermarine formance is an encouraging painter some equivalent right... Grecos has Policy. Here we have no lily monoplane,
to the service that may be expected been promised the right to use the handed politicians scared out of
from the new four-engined Arm islands of Cyprus and Malta their party-políte wits at any idea
strong Whitworth monoplane air- Italy has authority under the new which did not occur and receiLeader A. H. Orlebar, holder of the usa along the main air trunk lines liners now building at Coventry for Convention to use Great Britain, the approval of their great grand- Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Aden, fathers,
world's speed record of 357.7 m..h, in Africa Haifa, British Somaliland, and, The East is new. Its politicians built for the 1929 event, including are flying regularly in seaplanes subject to the approval of the Gov- are young men, feeling their way the beautiful bronza Gloster mono-
.
The British high speed pilots, under the leadership of Squadron
THE SKY PILOT.'
Nearly four years ago the "Rev.
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African War With the excepti of Mesopotamia, East and South- West Africa, the statistics show a istinct decline la the percentage
of deaths from wounds, in spite of the greater concentration, inteneity and range of gun and rifs and other instruments of war.
Wounded to the 1,140398: were admitted to casualty clearing stations in France during 1917 and 1018. This figure gives soms idea of the work undertaken
to the number
by those units. Thirty per cent, learned to pilot a light aeroplane nt of the admissions had the beneft & London flying school. His pari of operative treatment at the hands shioners raised by public subscrip-of some of the furst surgeons in LUXURY WAY TO PARIS. Two of the new fleet of Handley Havilland Moth" biplane, a
tion a fund sufficient to buy a de the world." Page Type 12 air-liners have begu regular daily operation of the de method of travel which was obvious luze, service between London and ly the only one to use in covering Paris conducted by Imperial Air- a district of no less than 600 square ways under the style of the "Silver miles.
Recently a conference of clergy in the Riverina Diocese was called at
Of the total casualtios of the
DODWELL & CO., LTD. erament of the Sudan, that ter-through unaccustomed problems, plane built around a Napier racing L. Daniels, à parson with an im ritory also. There is no stipula making many mistakes and, above power unit. The 85 monoplane mense parish in New South Wales, tion as to the use of these places all, looking hopefully for honest, which was victorious at Venice in on a particular route or by a parti- disinterested guidanca. cular kind of aeroplane, and no going to teach them our threadbare in almost daily use.
Are we 1997 and Gloster biplanes are also suggestion that the privilege shall jealousies our blood-soaked, dia be repudiated at short notice on proven theorieat Shall we not the British side. On the Italian serve them, and ourselves, better sido there are various safeguards by leading them straight to clean As an set of grace Great Britain diplomacy, by showing them the
fighting arms the Infantry account is at present allowed to follow the benefits of real co-operation and by
ed for 86.07 per cent, the Royal seaplane route by Genoa, Ostia, directing their footsteps in the way
Artillery 7.88 per cent, Royal En Naples, and the coust. of the of peace. Tyrrhenian Sea, but this must end
I have mid, in these columns, Wing," analogous to the "Golden
gineers 2.57 per cent, Machine Gun in little more than a year, and the route then to be followed is act, to take a foremost place in the vice between the two capitals.
that it is Hong Kong's place to Arrow luxury bout-and-train ser
Corps 2.40 per cent, Cavalry. the land route-Simplon (or Chias building up et Commercial Avia-
1.08 per cent, and the Took so), Milan, Rimini, Brindisi.
Now that these now aeroplanes Hay and parsons began to converge Corps, 0.24 percent tion in the Far East. I repeat it are at work there is no longer any
These are Subject to these provisions the now, with the strong support, of
on the city from all sides by train, percentages of total casualties, in- agreement is to hold good for a these extracts that you have just reason for the most difficult car, on horseback and aeroplane. cluding deaths from causes other period of ten years and is then read. If Hong Kong fails its duty traveller to choose any other to be extended (unless denounced in this matter, the air, of the East of moving between London and worth and Balranald, both located statistics shows that for every "Way Among them were men from Went then wounds. An analysis of the ons year in advance) for successive will seethe with competition, with Paris. They provide definitely the on the borders of New South Wales casualty inflicted by the periods of five years each. This arrangement suggests a certain and money. There is still time for graft and with losses, both of life
visible comfortable transport yet and Victoria and distant from Hay enemy the invisible enemy (disease) security for which Great Britain might be willing to accept restricYou to learn about aviation; there available, being quiet, free from 180 and 80 miles respectively, who claimed two. tions, but the quality of the is still time for you to form your vibration, spacious and swift, Mak-started for the conference by road.
own opinion. It will be asked for, ing allowance for the inevitable The Wentworth parson took three statistical review is the large num An outstanding feature, of the security is very much lowered by a short article at the end of the Con when the time comes, and, if you incidental expenses of travelling by days to get to Hay, bis colleague ber of men made ineffective by sim-
nos thought the thing out vention. It is expressed in the rightly the binme will be on you luxury boat and train the airway is from Balranald took four. Each following terms." Not withstand For you are one of "Hong Kong's also considerably cheaper. And the was obliged to abandon his motor the respiratory and digestive sya- ing anything in the preceding | PS20 article, his Majesty the King of rais what you think to-day is air-liner doce pot rock from side to car because of the state of the ronds, Italy reserves the right to denounce
what happens tomorrow,"
sido over rail road points, while and to finish his journey in the thepresent Convention
And Hong Kong is England in every traveller knows that the risk mail-conch any mement if the existence of the
the Far East; we, of Hong Kong, of sickness in an aeroplane is much Mr. Daniels flow from Wilcanni British air service results the
are the Englishmen who matter less than in a water-borne vessel.
nearly 250 miles away in 21 hours denunciation of or in fail
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out here, wo represent our country, The first two planes, called In his own words: "Comment on what we say in the East goes for "Hannibal. and "Hadrian," the best mode of travelling in out an Englishman's word, what we superseded on the "de luxe" service back Australia is noodless Thero invest in the
Jump into the three-motored Armstrong Whit must be my other region where worth Argosy biplaner which the same remark would be equally
- (Contin on next Volumo.) true.
renow any air navigation Conven- tion between Italy and any other European country, on the part of Italy or of that country" Put what we originate our neighbours
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ailments, such as diseases of
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ko. The etiology of war nephritis was, we are told, never quite satid. Isctorily explained. It is suggest ed that the predisposing causes were cold and humidity fe
and overloading the soldier with heavy equipment
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