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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1932.
AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
NEW BRITISH AIR EXPRESS.
AIR POWER AT GENEVA,
SPEED OF 200 MILES PER DISARMAMENT IN THE AIR.
HOUR.
"RANGE OF 1,300 MILES NON-STOP
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PROBLEMS FACING THE.
EXPERTS.
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WIRELESS IN LIGHT AEROPLANES.
NEW RECEIVING SET
WEIGHS ONLY 194LBS.
The lightest of fight aeroplanes Publication of the statistics of may now have its wireless receiv.
THE MIRACLE OF EDGAR WALLACE.
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Then he decided that if he want od to be kept alive as well as
| kicking "his best copras was to join the Army. Henlisted in the Royal West Kents, transferred to the RAM.C., and was sent to Simon's Town, in South Africa.
Dreams of regular high-speed air air strength returned by the couning sot. The addition in weight yard Kipling, wha promptly coun-
t
services that shall span the Empire" from London to Sydney in sove
ifter of the world to the Legno at Nations, in preparation for the
In South Africa he wrote poetry and comic nongs, one of which Arthur Roberts, sang in a London theatre; and thore he met Mr. Rud-
which the new sel involves solled him to leave the Army, and 10lb., and the greater part of this ovate himself to writing. As one of the Daily Mail'i war correspon- which this nows-
brilliant
days take a long etep towards Disarmament Conference at Genova is represented by batteries, for the ontsouber of the corps of in the Air Ministry decision to has given rise to much comment four-valve receiver alone weighs only 4, 100 is range in the place an order for the immediate and comparison.
at inast
miles, onstruction of an air express able
rocaption * remains good.
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First among the nations in num-. bars of military aeroplanes-though and
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paper amt to the Boer War-Edgar. Wallace laid the foundation of his triumphant career; and He gave rapid proof of his characteristic
to move at speeds up to 200 miles an hour with a load on board of scarcely first in quality, if state at altitudo or on the ground fair and enterprise by getting the
nearly half a ton of mail.
ments made by French Doputies in It has been developed with the as-
newk of the signing of the peace of The machine, a biplane planned debate have any shadow of justifica-sistance of several persons associYurseniging through to London two on similar lines to the Boulton-Paul tionis Franco, with a declaredated with aviation, and it appears days ahead of his rivals.
ma to supply the need of the light **Bidestrand * twin-engined day total of 1,987 "first line" bombori ased in the Royal Air chihen To this figure are added aeroplane pilot. for weather news Fores, will operate normally at 430 "immediate reserves, and 883 during fight. It occupies so little
making
a space that it may be fited in the hoights of several thousand feel school machinos,”
two
Points of Design.
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After his return to England he was for some years one of the most brilliant of the Daily Mail's special correspondents, doing splendid and distinctive work for his paper.
Twenty-Ave years ago he was al-
REAL PEOPLE.
above the sarth, flying in stages grand total of 3,000 aircraft. The "pilal's cockpit without inconvenitendy a famous journalist; he had eight or nine hundred miles in United States figure is 1,752 in the once. Its aerial is stretched from yet to make his reputation as a length, and moving with the help of first lines, and a total of 2,351; wing tip brackets along the trail writer of Action, and this, "evan elaborate navigational equipment Italy owns to a total of 1,507, but ing edge of the upper wing, and if it broke him," he was resolved to do. He had written a few short by night "as freely as by day, doas not specify how many of these to the tail, and as the advantagestories, based on incidents ho had Powered with moderately ars considered in the Arsi line of collapsing with the wings when witnessed and or types he had ob- supercharged 300 h.p. "Jupiter Japan returns 1,385 "Arst line" they are folded. This set is com-served. radial motor, the craft is designed machines and an aggregate of 1,930, plementary to the transmitter sel to cruise at more than 150 miles an and Britain, excluding 90 aoro up to deal with the Automobila Ás-
At his characters, he once ob- hour, to attain a, maximum speed planer on service in India, shows sociation's, weather broadcasta at surve:l, were real people before they in level "fight of "107"mip.h, and 708. "first line machines and Heston. This stition; broadcasts found a place in his books-San- to fly easily with full-lend with grand. total of 1,431
weather news six times a day at ders, Smithy, Reeder, Bones, and Educated Evand. It was one of one engine stopped.
The Soviet Union has made no hourly intervals from 8.30 a.m.
theso short stories which he now retard, but knowledgeable estimates is likely de, be followed by other turned into The Four Just Men," place the Russian "arst line "similat stations, which will be so the first of that long and astonish- In still air the machine, to meet
strength at not less than 1,000 air situated that a pilot dying anying series of thriller" which have entertained millions of renders requiremente laid down by the Air
craft, and an aggregate total of where in this country will be con in this country and abroad. Ministry, must have a range of et"
Vinuously in touch with weather
Having won the attention of the nearly 2,000, least 1,000 miles non-stop Two
The service will no doubl|public, he repeated his success with F The British figures are dated news. pilots, seated in the extreme nose
April 1, 103), but the luckcase in prove very useful to pilota return.bis excellent Sanders of the River and other African stories, of the fuselage, will steer and navi- numbars since then bas been small ing ic Creat Britain from the Con-which had a very wide appeal ba gate the craft, aided by wireless and the relative positions of the tinent, for it will remove the need and instrumente of precision.
nations remain unaltered. Experts to land at Lympne in order to and Trustworthinese in oporation, caso
are astonished at the size of the out what the weather is like over and cheapness of maintenance rou-
the Surrey hills. The set built for United States and Japanese ine and adjustments, stowage figures; both countries, and Japan the reception of these reports is room for parachutes, adequate pro particularly, seem to have, included essentially an aircraft set. Simple tection from discomfort and ar
aircraft which are ordered or pro arrangements have been made for dours of weather for the crew and provision for mail-dropping and pick-up devices are main points of design.
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fore the war.
He turned increas- ingly to crime as a subject. His knowledge of the underworld was
unrivalled" - The ways of crooks and the psychology of crooks were no mystery to him. Add to this his prodigal output, his astounding technical dexterity, And his inven tive powers, and the ingredients of popular success are apparent.
Yet until the post-war period he was not phenomenally successful. was working for a periodical for a salary of ten pounds a week, The real Wallace vogue began after the war and it has no parallel in modern literary history."
jected but are not yes in service,screening the plugs and the inagadeed, at the outbreak of war be
Thus Britain ranka sixth or fifth the world's air powers in among actual numbers of machines, Insistence on perfect.
streamlining typical of modern British aircraft cording as the Japanese figures ac-
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construction is obvious in the ex- cusately represant the present state and most formidable air force in ternal shaping of the new tail of the national air services or not. the world. plane. From nose to tail the craft
will be a shapely and "clean" as
The comparison is startling.
The Parity Pule,
high speed racer, and the two engines are shown in the drawings Before the experts and statesmen to be equipped with the marvellous
af Geneva is the task of retching Townend rings that reduce air resistance and increase speed. Not bases of limitation and internation
a single unessential excrescence or al parity which will be universally
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Although he had often amuse? himself by writing odd numbera for revues, Edgar Wallace did not take to play-writing seriously until 1926, rign his "thriller," "The Ringer," was produced at Wyndham's by Sir No degree of superiority in qual-Gerald du Maurier. After that big ity, in the skill of pilote and the initial success plays flowed from his performance of machines, could in Budden emergency be expected to close too large a disparity in sheer siza. Will the Disarmament Co
per
In 109 he bedime manager of the The Squeaker" and "The Man Apollo Theatre, where he produced
Who Changed His Name."
He then took charge of Wynd Har's Theatre, where he gave us his enormous gangster success "On the
ference, in the search for air parity,Spot, probably the most, scathink acceptable. Limitation may be scale up-or scala down to British indictment of gangster life which
numerical standards?
groove "breaks, the smooth exterior of the new sir, express; Mr. J. D.i North, the defigner, has loft no measured in numbers and in horso detail unstudiad in the effort to power, and by "restriction of each secure speed and efficiency at the nation's budgetary expenditure on 1bast possible coat in power expen-' the air arm. The problem bristles
diture.
Modification of Polloy.
with the thorhiest technical and political difficulties. For example, Construction and preliminary test how it "Barity" to be established ing of the new 'plane is expected to among the world's leading air take about twelve month, following forces? Britain, by delaying the which the machine will be put home defance scheme and in many through drastic tests along certain other ways, has deliberately held of the Empire air routes. Should back from serial expansion. But those tahti prave successful, a mo her position is still governed by dification of present British air the principles officially enunciated transport policy might follow in in 1928-the provision of a home The separation of passenger and defence force able to cope with the mail earrings. Many experts on nearest striking air force, and of sider that a mail service is unduly sufficient other air equipment to hampered if passengers must travel meet the legitimate, noods of the with the letters; plainly, mails Empire overseas and of the Army glone can be ady-barng more swiftly and Navy, The Royal Air Forer than passengers, who demand time demonstrably indicates Britain'i for rest and vehicles which inevit many solid contributions to the ably loss potential speed in cator furthering of disarmament inca ing for the comfort of the travel 1918, when she possa and the largest
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not write a play-Edgar Wallace to anger, but as often as it was took instinctively to making nay rapadteil the monstrously unfair. He had the playwright's natural
flair for a dramatic situation or an suggestion that he put his name to effective curtain, and also a flow of other men's work never failed to do easy, sometimes sardonic, humours. He often expressed the wish which prevented his work from ever that he could take legal action being dull.
He had one or two bad failures, against the propagators of those such 4 "Double Dan " BAL
TUMOUTA "Charles the Thirë” but he wan always ready to confess at once that the failure was his own and no one olse's. He was familiar figure at his own first nights, sitting far for ward in the stage box, applauding and laughing heartily at his own Newsyondar, capin-boy (he once
lines.
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Many invitations hả reached him from Hollywood, but not until last November did he feel free to leave. his work in England and accept the offers made to him,
served in a Grimsby trawler), sol He wrote with amazing rapidity.dier, war correspondent, novelist. He often finished a novel in ten dramatist, film producer, theatrical days and play in four. To him manager, breeder and owner of it was natural to write straight of Ele real, with the punch and gusto
of spoutsnalty.
NO"
"GRÓSTS."
Ho never had a ghost." It took a good deal to move Edgar Wallace
racehorses, a student of crime, Trostand a politiciana prodigi Loun worker who nevertheless put. Ita before work-Edgar Wallace chul- lenges comparison with the most yursatile, figures of history, The world has lost one of its most remarkable men.
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