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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1932.
AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
RAPID SURVEYS BY AIR.
MANY USES OF CIVIL
AVIATION.
ROYAL AIR FORCE.
London. Pilots visiting Henlow
THRICE VICTOR IN KING'S CUP RACE.
are warned that parachute drop- CAPT. HOPE THE WONDER
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The advance, made by air travel both in Europe and America is in-ployed. A red streamer is attach dicated in a number of maps con-ed to the tail of each parachute-
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Capt. W. Lawrence. Hope, who for training won the King's Cup Air Race in 1927 and in 1998, scored another officers and airmen in the care,
victory on July 0.
dealing with the progress of civil mark. The aviation last year.
One aspect of the work of ayia- tors which is not widely known is the development of air survey as an economie method of enrrying out investigations of various kinda, such
maintenance, and packing of para- chutes normally last seven working, days for officers and 14 days for aingen, but may be extended when
Capt. Hope, who flew a "Fox" Moth entered by Mr. A. E. Hogg, maintained an average, spood of 124.25 miles per hour over the
course of 1,233 miles.
On surveys in connection with the revision of existing maps, town- extra instruction is required in in-
Capt. Hope came in 23 minutes planning, new estate development,dividual cases. The object is to en- before Flight-Lieut. Fielden, pilot-
BOOKS and READERS
SINCERE, BUT--!
GOD IN THE SHADOWS. By Hugh Redwood. (London: Hodder. and Stoughton, 1/-) That there is a Supreme Being no
CANDID VIEWS ON THREE NOVELS.
IT HAS ITS USE:
VIOLIN By George Oleson. (Lon-
don: John Murray.) "Violin" is the story of a young, Russian Jew, who played the fiddle, fed from Russia, wandered about human has yet been born sufficiently Europe and finally ended up in Amerien, where he became reason. ably famous and married a Russian · clever, to deny; but that the God of the newspaper symposia exists princess whom he had met on page
is open to grave doubt. Indeed it, six. scetas far more probable that He is
It is neither interesting nor amusing, yet it might sorve to case
the tedium of a train journey, as it is quite light.
M.G.
a mythical figure, expressing the ideal of Supreme Good of a man or group of men, in the same way that the Devil is the personification GEN. CROZIER AND THE
BOER WAR.
the construction of new roads, irri-lable units to have trained pering the Prince of Wales' Comper of every evil imagined by an indi-i gation schemes, and archeological connel to maintain the parachutes
research.
In one particular instance re ferred to in the report, the entire work of surveying and charting an area of nearly 20,000 square
miles in Africa will be completed in less than twenty-seven months
on their own establishments. Care is to be taken, states a new Air Ministry order, to select only per sane! who are likely to absorb suf. ficient knowledge to enable them
Swift," from whom he had re-vidual or a society. ·
"God in the Shadows" deals with ANGELS ON HORSEBACK. By Brig- ceived a start of 9 hours 24 min 7 sec, on the two days' flying.
a bourgeois God: a God of crude sensation, a God of drum beating
Capt. Hope had actually finished the race before the scratch machine, the Avro mailplane, flown by Mr. H. A. Brown, set out on 238 miles
Gen. F. P. Crozier, (Cape is eg.}
The Boer War, so long over-
and handshaking, a God whose fol-shadowed, is coming back into the lowers cry out against wine and to- limelight. It is also coming under
the searchlight;
of the last stage-en absurd'situa-bacco, yet do not hesitate to collect from the commencement of pre- to carry out their duties satisfaction. There was, however, a reason money from people enjoying there in Public Houses, a God, in short liminary organisation, whereas torily on return to their units.
for Mr. Brown's continuing.
as stodgy and unpleasant as an ground surveyors would have re-
English Sunday. quired not less than ten years' to
cover the same area.
The survey work undertaken for municipalities included a complete set of oblique views of the city and port of Hull, which are being re- produced in connection with a cam- paign to attract more industry and business to the Humber.
An important survey contract was for the preparation for the London
J
ARCTIC TO CHILE AIR MAILS.
19 MILLION LETTERS.
Club Machine Trophy.
While Gen. Crozier's unblushing revelations are not to the taste of many soldiers, his reputation as a unassailable. fighting soldier is Hence there is a special interest in his new book, wherein he turns his devastating candour on to the war in South Africa.
'.
Even those who doubted some parts of his earlier books may find this one, convincing. It is well that with knowledge should point out the troubles that military inefficiency has entailed on us. The first Boer war, in 1881, Gen. Crozier
impression made by our defeat by yet. and yet...one cannot help sighing and envying his ob- the Zulus at Isandhiwann in 1879.
A price of £100 for the fastest time round the course was certainly his for the flying. Actually he did As a psychological study, the book the whole course at 176 m.p.h., is not withous interest. For it tells which has never before been attain-of a rather queer journalist and his ed in this race. Yet he came home reactions: it shews how he became nearly at the end of the procession, successful and content, it leaves the hero in the happy glow of having "found God" and, we feel, reason. In the American Continent last)
The Siddeley Challonge Trophy ably certain of an after life in the, someone year 210 tona of mail, or approxi- for the best-placed club machine Heaven suitable to his God.
One laughs at the author of the mately 10,000,000 letters, were safely flown by its owner was won by Mr.
W. L. Runciman, son of the Pre-book; shudders at his lapses of Electric Railways of a mosaic map carried by air under Post Office ident of the Board of Trade, Ho taste; amilcs at his crudities and Resorta, wis due, above all, to the on a scale of in to the mile, contracts. The total route mileage represented the Newcastle Club, covering the route of the new Un-
open was 6,116, and of this 1,350 and was flying a Puss Moth. He derground extension of nine miles from Finsbury Park to Cockfosters.miles were lighted for night opera-finished third for the King's Cup.
Flight-Lieut. Fielden very nearly This involved the taking of 180, ver-
last his placing, for he went wide tical photographs.
of the 'finishing line, and he had landed before he was made aware of his mistake. Mr. Runciman's machine might be coming in at any' moment, and everyone was anxious
Mails at 200 MIP.H.
During the year about two and a quaster million letters were des
tions....
Letters bearing the Canadian air mail stamp are carried all over the United States air mail lines with. out extra charge, and in the same
vious and complete sincerity.
And the book has a cover design by Frank Brangwyn:
INTERESTING?
To the Dutchman the idea that a whole force of white men had been wiped out by natives, was too ro- valting and serious to contemplate.. Had their ancestors not settled Dingaan at 600 to 10,000 The Eng- lish must be ineficient.
Now was the time!.. as the
patched by air, the inercase over way the United States air mail that the Prince's entry should be THE MUSHROOM FIELD. By Mabel Dutch had also to live in South
1930 being about half a million letters, while the total weight of the letter air mail was 824 tons, representing an increase of 20 per cent, over 1980, and no less than 74
per cent over. 1929. The increase
was due only in a small degree to
stamp is recognised in Canada, eccond, since it could not now bo
L. Tyrell (London: Hodder Africa they could not afford to al- and Stoughton, 7/6.)
low the triumph of black over white A correspondent at Aklavik, on fret. the Arctic coast of Canada, states When Fielden grasped the situa
Intelligent humanity has once at Isandhlwana to pass unnoticed. the Report on Civil Aviation,, tion he lost no time, and his handi-been divided into two classes, those Better, they said, to settle with the Canada, 1931, just issued, can posting of the machine, his quick take who have thinking hearts and those English in the field if necessary."
It is interesting to be reminded. a letter there, and it will be con- off, and immediato steeply-banked who have feeling minds, and at- veyed by air to Pembina, thence by turn and full-out return to the though this is ne untrue as it is of the tactically-minded tempera the American lines to Mexico City, finishing line made & really satisfy sweeping, Miss Tyrell seems to fit ment of the Boers, who " would have The only civil aircraft actually Central America, the Caribbeaning thrill. He had lost about three very well into the former category, thought little ill of the British hand completed during the year which Islands, or to any country in South minutes, but was still well ahead of may be said to indicate any im-America as far as Buenos Aires or Mr. Runciman. Fortant now development, was the Avro Mailplane, the fastest com- mercial aircraft yet produced in this
country.
the establishment of new services.
Valparaiso. The gain in timo amounts in some cases to weeks.
she has, failed in her aspiration to to be 'cut up' by Zulus was to them There is no art in her book, for they run away at Isandhlwana, but
be a thinker and so missed both the the last word in military inellici- Both Capt.. Hope and Flight-Lt. polished consciousness of which, per.easy." Fielden had been, flying ahead of
Majuba, with its Boer defeat of
their handicap timea. Capt. Hope haps the Song of Solomon is the must have been nearly 14 mph. prototype and the naive unconscious the British, was the consequence. This aircraft," says the report, already actually being drawn up in faster than the handicappers' esti.art of the songs of David. This. And its consequence was an increas alas, is only too clearly shewn ined contempt for British soldiership "foreshadows, the production of several British, factories, which may mate of his machine's capacity, and the forced way in which her char-which paved the way for the se-
have revolutionary effects on air Flight-Lt. Fielden was nearly as epecial mail-carrying machines cap-
acters make conversation, romind. cond Boer war in 1890.
There is a full and vivid eye-wit- transport organisation in the com- much to the good. By noon an able of speeds in the neighbourhood paratively near future."
ing ons rather of a doll's tee-party, Saturday Capt. Hope was more
and by sentences such as this:-ness account of the Spion' Kop of 200 m.p.h., plans for which are
than an hour up on his handicap,
tragedy. The battle "was not lost door.... was pushed It was quite the best King's Cup open, and a steward hung upon its but because nobody in authority re-
... the (Cautinued on next column.)
because the British soldier failed, air race ever held. The engines did lintel like a crumpled butterfly re-
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Considering the financial string ency it is thought that the progress made in the municipal aerodrome
membered to send out a couple of movement in 1931 was eatisfactory,
men to see what the enemy was up reveals ever-increasing reliability The Air Ministry has been asked to
Yet, atrangely enough, pretento." It was Gen. Crozier's own, examino several schemes for roof and ever-improving piloting.
There were fifty-two entries; tious and artificial though this "flagrantly and deliberately dis nerodromes,
forty-one starters
sounds, apart from the excellent obeyed" orders on Friday; thirty-seven completed that day'a construction which holds our in- section. One was disqualified and terest right up to the last two words, the outstanding merit, of the two retired on Friday night
Thirty-four resumed on Satur book is its sincerity and depth of feeling, and the authoress is so day, and all of these finished ex-
aware of her atmosphere and her cept
characters that she has no difficulty in passing them on to us as living
Licences for 463 nerodromes were issued, mainly owing to the 'big' development in the activities of "joy-riding" companies conducting organised tours.
At the end of the year there were thirty-twa light acroplane clubs in operation in the United Kingdom," including six without Government assistance, with an aggregato mem- bership of over 9,000. Thero were eight-six gliding clubs with an ag- gregato membership of 5,500.
In / British commercial "aviation, both at home and overseas, no fere paying passenger was injured in any way during the year.
The approximate route mileage of regular nir transport last year was 185,100, compared with 150,800 in the previous year, and 8,200 in 1910, while the miles flown throughout the world were 83,300,000, against 89,505,000 in 1930, and 1,022,000 in jeto:
to it,
The Final List.
by evacuating the position at the very time the battle was won, for the Boers left the hill only to return later, after a Boer who had gons back in search of a wounded comrade reported that the English had gone
Gua. Crozier thinks that the real
BABYLONIAN MYTH
Flight-Lt, J. G. D..Armour, who gave up at the last section, and
Two who, completing the dis. People. Christina she has portrayed clue to Col. Thorneycroft's moral tance, went wide of the finishing especially well, simply by reiterat collapse as a commander, after showing great personal gallantry, line and did not trouble to returning a few small facts that seem to lay in his being, physically unfit. have obtruded themselves.upon her, And he draws a significant parallel with Stopford a Suvle fifteen years such as that the girl's fingers cur-Inter od backwards and had pink nails The final list in order of placing and that she decorated her bedroom, was:-
H. M. 6. in scarlet and aluminium. Her 1-Captain Hope (Fox
mysterious mother is less convine- Moth).
0 55 58
ing, but mystery is a difficult sub- THE LEGEND OF ETANA
EAGLE By 8 Langdon. 2.-Flight Lieut. Fielden
ject.
(Paris: Genthner.)' Prince of Wales' entry ("Swift "Gipsy) 55 2 Finally, let us reassure the readerProfessor Langdon has done well to gather together the fragments of that dust covers are notoriously de this famuns Babylonian poem, 3-W. L. Runciman (Pues
Moth)
139.5
coptive and that Miss Tyrell's story, hitherto little known because, dif- 4.-A. O 8. Irwin (Puse bears no resemblance nor holde any much of the text is lost that we are ficult of access. It is true, that Bo Moth).
9 33 18
reference to n field of ohromatic still unable to sog the real point of Capt. Brood(Gipsy
923 7 Moth)
mushrooms against a purple spotted the story. 480) (Continued on page 18.)-
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