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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1932.
AIRWAYS
AND AVIATION.
NEW 'AEROPLANES IN ROYAL AIR
FORCE DISPLAY.
'THE ARMY'S'GIANT TROOP CARRIER.
FORMIDABLE NIGHT BOMBERS AND
FIGHTING AIRCRAFT.
LONDON, June 14. Great new night bombers. singlo- venter fighters designed for the interception of air raiders on, the
LARGEST TROOP-CARRIER.
Dwarding every other machine in the Park will be the new Gloster
-MAKING AIRPORTS SAFER.
ADJOINING BUILDINOS MUST
"BE LOW.
BOOKS and READERS
MISERIES OF CHINA,
THE CAPITAL QUESTION OF CHINA. By
(Macmillan
Lionel 10s. Od.)
Curtis.
Dangers to aircraft arising from the presence of nian-made abstrue. tions near aerodromes will be
We give the following review | eliminated if suggestions for restric-written by Mr. O M. Green, form-
CHINA AND THE 'WORLD.
the last testament of the dead mazi proves to be a ghoulish gramophone record which says that he knows ho is to be murdered. After a bril liant, Poo-like opening we get nak change of key when Mr. Malcolm, д very unconventional detective, makes his appearance and non-
tive legislation put forward by the or editor the North China Daily chalantly begins to take shots in
London Chamber of Commerce are News for London paper.)
the dark to discover whether it was
perscention
adopted. In a memorandum sub- For unimpeachable fact and murder or merely mitted to the Air Minister and the sound, constructive criticism, toumania. Minister for Health the civil avia-book may safely be described tion section of the Chamber points one of the most valuable over writ
way to London and for work with umber-transport hiplane, or troop out that the purchase of sufficient ten about China.
FP
the Fleet, a giant troop earrier, now "general purpose military air- craft and interesting multi-engined Inir liners, are among the aeroplanes
carrier, a giant driven by four "Kestrel motore. From tip to tip its great wings apan 05 feet. It is more than eighty feet long
land around an nerodrome site, to render it safe from clstruction woull frequently involve extra ex-
This is an excellent story, writ♦ ten with ease and an attractive afr of, uaturalness.
Never was light on China more
One by one the relatives come needed than now, when the confltet! with Japan ha so plainly shown under the suspicion of Mr. Mal
to have something to hide. The is suffering from a deadly sickness, denouement is a triumph of ins
listed for inclusion in the New Tyne from nuse to tail, and 27 feet in penditure of an order large enough whore the true problem lies. China colm, and one by one they appear.
Aircraft Park at the Royal Air Force Display on June
height. The main cabin provides a clear spice, unhampered by ob-
structions, that is 8 feet long, the height of buildings of any kind out risk to the whole structure or that they have not succeeded in
Year by year the Park reveals
seven feet wide and more than much of the most recent British
seven feet high. A large hatchway work in aircraft design and con-
in the floor and another in the roof, struction. There the visitor can see
and handling gear complete with neroplanes which may become part pulley block and tackle enable heavy of the standard equipment of the and bulky objects to be loaded and Royal Air Force within the follow-unloaded with case. With full load ing few years, together with new types of civil aircraft and machines built for experimental use and the furtherance of research work. In
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on board the craft weighs 28,000 pounds, and its motors, installed tandem fashion two on either side of the fuselage, drive it at great
a few minites anyone with imagina-speed at operational heights of ticà can glimpse something of the 12,000-15,000 feet. Modified for use mighty advance that has produced in commercial aviation, the machine these highly efficient man-made becomes a luxurious vehicle for the birds from the first inspired but tramport of 32 passengers and hafting efforts of the pioneer build- crew, ers not many years ago. For the new marbines are crystallized his sport? class play an important tory, recalling the brilliant achieve part in the strategy which is being ments of the past in the sama mo-evolved gradually to meet the re- ment as they indicate the way of advance to a yet more glorious future.
Machines of this heavy tran.
quirements of Empire air defeace. They have already demonstrated their worth in active service opera tions calling for the maintenance of supplies to units employed hun-
The fifteen aircraft selected this year for exhibition in the Park and for demonstration in the Bydreds of miles from the nearest
past
"that is one of the features of the Display range in size from a light acroplane employed in Royal Air Force training to the new troop earrier a huge biplane driven by motors totalling more than 2,000 hp, and with space in its maple cabin for no fewer than thirty fully armed infantrymen and their equip ment. The fastest machine in the Park is no experimental fighter designed to engage high-speed bombers flying at heights of 20,000 feet and more above sea level in the briefert possible time; it moves
at 210 miles an hour. But there are bigger two-senter craft cap- able of nearly the same speed, and the new large night bombers, with their wing spread of a hundred feet or so are also known to possess abilities in speed and power of climb that set new standarde of performance among the world's large warplanes.
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The dramatic evacuation without incident or injury of six hundred refugees of eleven nation- alities from Kabul, Afghanistan, during the civil war of 1998-99 was almost entirely accomplished by troop carriers which were rushed to the north-west frontier from Iraq, and ranks as the cutstanding example of the power and mobility, of these big machines.
to make uneconomic the enterprise, Legislation of the kind suggested would lay down restrictions hout
aerodrome. Within a mile of auy within a certain distance of the aerodrome a building higher than
a fifteenth part of its distance from the perimeter of the landing ground would be regarded as an obstacle.
Such a rule would permit erection
of a building forty feet high at a spot two hundred yards from the aerodrome boundary.
which, as Mr. Curtis truly says, "cannot be further neglected with. genuity, and most wonders will find human society," and from which anticipating it.
thore is small hope of hoy recover-
ing unaided. These who find Mr.
AN AMUSING TRIFLE,
Curtis'a historical section too The BAGGAGE By Geoffrey Elling, crowded with detail (the only er. (Jenkins. 78. Gu.) blemish apart from rather wild spelling of Chinese names) should turn at once to Chapter XXIV. the figures of China's miseries are indeed astronomical; but they are, if anything, understated rather than overstated.
Government The Kuomintang
1
An outline of the plot of this amusing piece of trifling might convey an unfair impression, for the author is a farcour who gets his effects from situations which are hilarious enough, but remotely re moved from real life.
Meet him halfway, however, and
There is no doubt that the growth of aviation will oblige setion on these lines soon. Even the uni- versal adoption of machions able to: ascend and descend much more have failed utterly. The problem you will be vastly entertained by steeply than the majority of present was too vast, the method of tackl.the comedy of the artist who found day aircraft would not eliminateing it all wrong. Yet the fault is his country cottage invaded by a miux who had lost her memory (not need for plenty of air space round not wholly China's. every busy landing ground.
to speak of her clothes, which had been stolen) at a moment when he was expecting his fiancee and her mother. The hero "keeps a cool
AVIATION IN CANADA,
HELPING TO DEVELOPING
THE COUNTRY,
OTTAWA, Official figures just compiled by Canadian Department of the National Defence, covering the year 1931, illustrate the security and the importance of the place occupied by air 'craft in the Dominion's field of transportation.
sons
The West forced open her doors, injected explosive ideas into how members, and has done considerah ly worse than nothing to appease
a fever for which it is directly re-head, and vainly attempts to create an atmosphere of sweet reason, fai- spousible; for
ling from one absurd predicament "we inflict the deepest injury o into another with over-failing China in making agreements dignity. Altogether an entertain. which we know she cannot dising and piquant bit of fooling. charge and, indeed, does not in tead to discharge."
RACY AND DASHING,
WEEK-END
GIRL By Warner Fabian. (Stanley Paul. 78. ed.)
All the world knows the paying * the guest, but Venetia Carr, week-end girl, gave a new twist
Mr. Curtis's indictment of Bri tish diplomacy in China is severe, Having recognised the new Nan- king Government In 1928, we rob- In that twelve months aircraft bod it of "face" and deprived it in Canada were flown a total die of the help which a wise foreign tance of 7,010,270 miles. Licensed Minister can give to the Govern- an old idea when she establist. NIGHT RAIDERS.
machines numbered 455, and pilots ment to which he is accredited, by ed herself as a paid guest. Transi Next in point of size among the 403. Freight carried by mr amount-keeping our Minister 800 miles tion from wealth to comparativs poverty having brought her to the craft chosen for the Park are the ed 2,372,437 pounds, and mails to away in Peking. Nanking, which night bombera-forbidding in their 470,401 pounds. Twenty-seven per certainly contained many germ, of protective coats of deep olive green were killed, including ten goud government, might have avoid point where serious thinking had to and their lines oloquent of power pilots, which was a reduction of ed many mistakes if an Elgin or a be done, she compromised not tou and menace. There are three of one from the previous year. The Dwight Morrow had been at hand. Lardly with fate when she accepted Mr. Curtis certainly does not ex-week-end engagements as guest them, two biplane and one mono | number of aircraft miles per acei- plane, the third a beautiful craft dent was 281,851, a purked include the idea of help by the Lea with a wing-span of no less than provement from 1620 when the ratio 101 feet built by the Fairey Com- was 218,002 to one. pany, Powered with two fully superebarged "Kestrel " engines this monoplane, which is the first large military landplane construct. ed by the company, is able to curry its 19,030 pounds at high speed over distances of many hundreds of miles on one fill-up of fuel. Still larger is the Boulton-Paul P.32 homber, a craft fitted with three 856 h.p. Pegaeus" motors which weighs with full loud on board 23,000 pounds. "The third, and smallest, though capable of magnificent per- formance is the new Handley Page bomber, a machine notable for cleanness and symmetry of line and
radial motor. The P.V.d, recalling money, supposedly being, spent for the unusual location of the fuselage in hrond details and appearance purposes, points to a very grava high up and on a level with the the well-tried "Wapitibiplano
Much of the passenger and freight business done by Canadian acroplanes is in the mining areas of Northern Ontario and the Western Provinces. The speedy access they provide to isolated regions formerly reached principally by dog teams in winter and canoe in summer has had much to do with expediting mineral development and opening up rich fields for prospecting and exploration.
tain to
gue, but that agency can only do entertainer at the homes of rich what its chief members recommend, folk. Not unexpectedly, New York and the first step is for Great Bri **playboys" who would become tʊo pressing in their attentions inade "send to the capital of China the job a somewhat strenuous one. as her Minister a public man
It is all very racy and dashing," whose estimates of the facts... will convince not merely th with "wisecracks" on every page, Cabinet, but Parliament also, and (and a general slickness, of execu- the public opinion it represents." Liu reminiscent of Hollywood Above all, the practice of pub when it is out for a hex-office, aut lishing his despatches must be re
end of idemands imposed by pretorica and secrecy. Britain than in any other country sued. Titere has been too much the far-flung responsibilities in
One more word on this most on. threo continents of the Royal Air Force--is represented by the West- lightening book: The chapter on land P.V, 6 biplane and the Bristol
British Boxer Indemnity 120, each of which is powered with the a single" Pegasus
Air-cooled
A FINE MURDER STORY.
SHOT-IN-THE-Dank. By Gei
Fairlie (Hodder-and-Stough- ton. 78. Gd.)
top plane In this way the pilot that is used to-day by the R.A.F. scandal, which demands pressing and the gunners are provided within large numbers than any other attention by Parliament. uninterrupted view in all directions type of flying machine, has beca overhead; downwards there is little in the slim fuselage and clean wings to-obstrust the wision a point of especial importance in the band ling of a large bombing aeroplane which may have to meet constant attacks from enemy fighting air- craft in the course of operations. Power again, derived from the
Kented fully supercharged on gine; two of thead inotors are in atalled in nacelles which, merge harmoniously into the lines of the top wings
DESERT WARFARE.
cess.
THE NEGLECTED WIFE.
Our o THE WILDERNESS. By Kathlyn Rhodes. (Hutchinson, 78. Odz)
Miss Kathlyn Rhodes can always
be sure of an enormous public and
it is probable that her latest nove
will enjoy as large a circulation as any she has written previously. The story has an old theme-ų man who is in love with his work an much as with his wife; but the plot
especially laid out as a small day' bember for use in so-called "second clues" variare of the kind that arises on the frontiera of empire. It also carries desert equipment for use over Iraq and similar country.
Slightly smaller than and not quite so beavily ladon as the P.V... An atmosphere of suspense te oe has been given a sufficient numbe the Bristal 120 biplane is known to autifully contrived in the opening of turns to give its face a' now ap have reached speeds-and-rates-of- climb that a few years ago wore pages of this détective story when pearance, attained only by the swiftest, single-
a door is stealthily opened and a The inevitable lover appeurs-in seater fighters in the Service. Like the Wegeland machine it can re-shaft of light falls, on a fearstric: the life of the neglected wife innin alt for several hours on one
fuel load and is adaptable to perken man lying in bed waiting for Miss Rhodes is on the side of the form any of the multifarious duties
La Bhat if the Dark."
Angels, and there is happy youn The general purpose” class—|—ranging from serial photography those maids-of-all-work in mili- to day bombing and ambulance
It come
and when the relative son before the end of her tery aviation that have reached a work-which fall to the "general more ...adyancad stag in Great purpose." "plane.
gather for the reading of the will; z
casant