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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION
YEAR OF 71,000 CLUB FLIGHTS.
IMPORTANT PART IN AVIATION.
-380 "A" LICENSES IN 1931.
Two small twin-engined amphi-' blous flying boats, suitable fór
a
AMPHIBIANS FOR
CHINA.
CUTTY SARK" MACHINES
EX-ROUTE.
EXCELLENT ALL-ROUND
PERFORMANCE.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932.
BOOKS and READERS
DR. TAGORE.
TAGORE'S NEW POEM.
A PROVOCATIVE NOVEL.
....
The Child By Rabindranath Ta
"The Mistress" .B# Gideon London: Allen and Clark. Grayson and Grayion. 78.
COTC.
for in his death he lives in the life of us all, the great Victim. Victory to the Victim." and in this, at the end: Victory to "Man, the new-born, the
ever-living.
1
2
6d.
This is a novel which will divido the common-room of every girls' school where it is read. Some will want to bring out the punishment book when they read of the school: toncher who is content to be the mistress of a married man, Others doubtless will be moved by this picture of affection and illicit de-. Hity to ask what there is wrong in a poor over-worked girl trying to scrape" togather a little happiness outside her humdrum world.
Unwin. Pp. 21′ 20. ed. net, ja Dr. Tagore belongs to a tradi- Classified statistics of the activision where poetry and religion are operation indifferoutly from land ties of the British government-sub- the same thing." His new porn
sidised light aeroplane clubs during it is too short to be called a book or water, are being rapidly pre 1834 provide additional evidence of symbolic fantasy on hu- pared in a British factory for des- the important. ad increasing, manity's reaction to the divine, on patch to China in response to and part this branch of Bying plays in the irresistible lure of the unseen
the development of aviation. order cabled from Hong Kong. Twenty-three of the thirty-eight in these lines;
und the unknown. The core of it is Fuel capacity for seven hours non- British clubs are included in the We refused him in doubt, we killed, stop. oruising is required and the lists, but three of these are rela him in anger; now we shall craft will be fitted with seven-cylin- tively small units which were only
accept him in love, der 180 h.p. "Genet Major" moles operating pan of the year. Alto which are considerably more gogether the total average member. werful than this engines normally ship of the subsidised clubs for the employed.
fyear as distinct from the figure Styled the ""Outty Sark," he given in last week's News-Letter amphibious boat in question is a for membership on December 31 small monoplane which has earned) 1991--was 8,71. Of this number, If the rhythmical prose in which it a high reputation in navigational the average of flying members, was is written is not so strangely stir training die in the Royal Air 2,484 and of associate membersing and the English has not the Fores mid sa dni yacht in 3,227, private hända. The enclosed cabin
same mark of mastery na in his, During the year 380 members of emous songs, that is because the has seats for four occupants, who subsidised clubs qualified for the travel in comfort equal to that of a pilot's "A" licence, the usual geat. But the whole is a poet's con poem is narrative rather than lyri
motor car: Outward view s 14-petency certificate of the amateur sured by glass windows in front flyer, bringing
ception, a mystic's vision, and. 'it
"Music and the qualified has images, as sterling and stellarThomas „Fiskalen, and beside the pilot and mica-membership of the clubs up to a panels make a "light" above. The provisional total of 1,373.
as ever came from him:
Watson 08. Three engines are mounted in nacelles flying club members went farther carried on
arrangement of ahead and gained the "B" or struts above the wings.
professional pilot's, licence; 109
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Mr. Olark has certainly not at- tempted to diminish: the diffendtion
conventional morality. which reguit from variations from His novel merely a free statement of the
ful-quick, progressive and always As a narrative it is succes-
interesting.
case
FOR MIDDLEBROWS
Character. By Nicholson and
The massive shadows lie scattered j Mr. Fielden is a lively and at- like the torn limbs of themulating writer. He addresses, the night.
middle-brow, the man who wishes neither to listen to gramophone
When in fight the landing wheels! "B" pilots were included in cina The mother is seated on a strew music of the class that panduri to
are wound up alongside the boat hull by daring a crank insido the cabin. If the pilot, wishes to alight"
Over 100 m.þ.h.
membership at the end of the year.
Heavy Work..
bed, with the babe on her lap,
Like the dawn with the morn-
ing star.
the poem
MASTERS OF FLEET- STREET.
on land he winds down the wheels Astronomical figures are reached
Of course, the fear about Dr. Ta to the full extent of the mech-in the statistics of Hights made and gore is not that he will be deficient anism, us which point the wheel hours spent wloft in club aircraft.
in imagery but that that will be struts are securely lock in posi-In the aggregate, 73 club neroplanes poetic truth, and, indeed, the very excesive, and so itself deâcient in Kion, and lands his machine like made 21,474 flights during the year fret of the ten sections shows this any land aeroplane. For "take and accounted for 29,680 hours of fear fully realised. But it vanishes as his theme opens out and his off" from, or descent on, water the dying time, showing averages pervision unfolds; and wheels are wound up as far as pos- inaching of 918 flights and 2673 closes on the pure radiance of the sible and the craft is handled like a hours. Though these average fi. Beatific dawn.” flying boat.
gures may not exactly reflect the Arad position, because the number of machines is taken d's those regis With the more powerful motorstored at the end of the year and the "Cutty Sark attains 3 con- siderably higher speed in amphibieraf employed by the clubs during may not necessarily include all air
ous form than the 100 miles an the preceding twelve months, they hour guaranteed with the normal engine equipment. "Take-off" time and rate of climb are also im proved, bringing the machine more on a level with the Windhover which is the next largest of this particular amphibian family. Ac- tually, when the family in complete, it will contain boats ranging in
sufficiently near the mark to demonstrate the heavy work expect- ed of British club aeroplanes in a climate that ranks among the wibat for flying in the world.
30,000 Miles.
Further analysis indicates that
Jmernation: By 23 Masters of the Craft." Foreword by Major the Hon. J. J. Astor, M.P. Pitman.
his inane desires" nor to becothe the intolerant, often posing, pods ant who will, bear of np happy medium between the solemn or the comic!
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The author believes that music can have a bondficial effect on cha- "When all racter, and remarks: men shall know what is good music and composers will know that good work will be recognised-then will for inspiration, for comfort, for the influence for marvellous good, fine thinking and elever skill in expression
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COMEDY OF ERRORS.
"He'll Love Me Yet." By Alice Bastuen, Mills and Boon. 7. 01.
"He'll Love Me Yet is not a game played with flower petals, but This volume consists of the lee a game played with millions. Miss tures that were delivered at the Eustace knows when she allows a Institute of Journalists by the re-boautiful, fatherless heiress to in?] ongnised leaders of the various de into the hands of an unscrupulous partments of modern journalism, guardian that trouble will follow. Every topic from reporting and A husband is an obvious safeguard. news editing to proof reading and And the author manages "an ingeni- photogravure and from book reous comedy of errors in which the viewing and dramatic criticism to betress, in the guise of a penniless aize from, the 3,800 pounds gruse in this country covers approxi-side of newspaper production is English aristocrat, whose aristo the average flying club light plane gossip writing and the technical young emigrant, marries a young weight of the "Cutty Sark" to a
discussed. A useful and authori-cracy is concealed beneath a la giant of thirty tous. Three mem-
yentative manual on Fleet-street as it bourer's clothes. bors are already well-tried flying "average" machine total nearly
Landings and take-offs of the is to-day, machines; the largest fat; called the “Cloud” lý dipscially liked by membered that a large proportion two thousand, and should be re-
all who have flown, in it.
of the landings made by a club) 'plane in the hands of novices are decidedly on the heavy and clumsy
נ
DROP.
DESPERATE AIR-POCKET
ADVENTURE.
mately 30,000 miles, in
H
testo more
SWEDEN AFTER THE FLOOD.
SIX MORE.
"Oulamov." By Ivtar Goncha- rov. Trans. by Natalie Dudding- 'PLANE'S 1,000 FEET side, imposing considerable strusses drew d.
"A History of Sweden" By Au- Fielding: "Italian Short Stories." ton Jonathan Will." By Henry Stomberg. on landing wheels and undercar in 40%.
Allen and Edited by Decio Pettvells; "The riage struts. Probably no branch
"Shepherd's" Caleniar." By Edmund An early, archaelogist held that Sacher: "Gudrun," done into of civil aviation puts the flying Sweden was settled by Japhet and English by Margaret Armour; ""Be squipment through
his descendants immediately after miniscences, By Thomas Carlyle the Floud, and that it is in Sweden Dent, 25. each.. gruelling than this; the way A that we and trnees of the world's which the aeroplanes and engines (earliest civilisation."
It would be impossible to praise Professor Stomberg cannot take. It has made reading possible to the "Everyman" library too highly. employed stand up to the batter ings they receive is not the least, of
us back as far as Japhet, but he thousands who have had to be con- the many achievements of British from pre-Viking days to the more veniences of the borrowed book.
cover the long history of Sweden tent otherwise with all the inseon- light aeroplanes,
placid twentieth century. His ac- count is at oneo full and popular, and comes opportunely at a time noticeably quickening among Eng when interest in things Swedish is Hishmen.
LONDON, Feb. 20. Flight-lient. Hamilton and Fly- ing-Offcor Coupland, tho. British airmen who left England on an at- tempt to fly to Australia and back
f
It would be superfluous, as well to review any of the above books.
a rather impertinent, to attempt
the longest of them Oblomoy," It remains merely to say that even. is printed in good black type on fair white paper, and that all are as well-produced as they are con-
CINDERELLA IN LADBROKE-venient.
Ord.
in a work cuch way, arrived at time all the aeroplane's lights went Rome and left later for Athens, ous, Fortunately Mr. Coupland The airmen reached Rome more was able to take control for sho than 15 hours inte adier a series of brief period necessary for the pilot: adventures.
to regain full consciousness. When flying across the Gulf of
The gilpation was, however, still Genoa, their machine suddenly could not be seen in the darkness instrumenta dangorod, for the
"First Four Penny." By Diana HAUNTED AND HAUNTERS. dropped about 1,000ft, in the air. and the airmen did not know their | Patrick. Hutchinson 78 62.
"I have been in plenty of air height off the sca nor in what
direction, the machine was dying poor as Cinderella there is only one When a young heroine becomes as pockets in my life," said Flight Soon, in fact, a bago now capped thing for her to do: She must find Georgette Heyer. Longmont 78. Footsteps in the Dark," "By Liout, Hamilton, but never experi-mountain loomed up straight in Prince. And if at first only a enced anything like it. It was as front,
beggar appsärs she should remem though something had hit our
Mr. Hamilton avoided it, but ber the story of the Princess and thecated to believe that unknown foot Modern readers are too sophisti showed that they were maching
off their Swinehord. " smashing downward course, and the foot that they
stops must "necessarily be ghosty, Miss Patrick's heroino does all that, apparitions must be either Blow."
wore near the mountains did not these things, and descends from heavenly or hellish, or that a skele- Ko Lights.
improve their situation.
mansion in Mayfair to shared ton hand is likely to be the cause Mr Coupland finally found room in the wrong end of Lad- of any tapping that disturbs their Both Mr. Hamilton and Mr. pocket electric torch, by the light of broko grove, and then up to coun- slumbers. Therefore, it was wise of Coupland struck the ceiling of the which the airmen were able to sestry life, with remarkable alacrity. Miss Heyer to provide a robint sabin with their heads with great for and found the cast and for For Sho puts love bazore money, uncanny occurances the worried the compass. They then searchod Bho deserves all she gots, however. human solution to the seemingly lorer, Mr. Hamilton, who was slowed it to Grosseto, where they and in tales of this nature, love the occupants of country house. the controls at the time; being landed.
{plus money is always love's reward. This is an amusing story, though momentarily stunnad. At the samo' (Continued at joat of next roluran,)A charmingly sentimental story. ite plot is not startingly original.
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