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CAPT. GRONAU 'AND 'HIS FLYING BOAT
NEW SLOOP FOR CHINA STATION
TECHNICAL DETAILS
FULL PROGRAMME OF THE FLIGHT
H.M.S. FALMOUTHẨ
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London, Sept, 2H,M.S. Fal. mouth is to be commissioned by Commander John Creswell Devonport to-day for trials, which The following account of Captain are to last a wook. The Falmouth von Gronau's flying bont Dornier should be ready to commission for Wal D.2053, and of the round-the-aorvice on October 25, and to leave world flight now in progress has for the Far East in the first week Boon kindly forwarded to us by Dr.
of November. fish, the local Consal-General for Germany :---
Capt. von Gronau undertook his present flight for the special pur pose of making a lay-out for world Sirmail lines, on the foundation of his scientific research of climate conditions. The full description of hin-neroplane is as follows:-
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1932.
ORTHODOX FAITH MONUMENT
RAMPART AGAINST. THE GODLESS SOVIET
THE OLD FETCHORA MONASTERY
Riga (Latvia).In the South Eastern part of Estonia, not far from the Soviet frontier, there stands the picturesque pld Russian.
The Falmouth is the first of the Orthodox
Patchora Monastery,
Mail News from China
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XENOPHOBIA IN
ANHUI
ALL FOREIGNERS HEARTILY
DISLIKED
FROM CHINESE NEWSPAPERS
Mr. T. V. Soong, Finance Minis ter, will proceed to Lushan shortly where he will meet General Chiang Kai Shek and discuss financial affairs. There are rumours of float- ing a big loan from America.
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The new Chinese acuiser Nam Hoi, which was recently completed According to a Changchun mesin Shanghai, is to proceed to sage, the Manchukao Government Nanking, She has been built for is conducting an aerial survey of services on the Yangtze the region round the Chiness East- ern Railway and over a great part of the forest land of Manchuria.
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four sloops of the 1830 programme,This and the Valaam Monastery in Passing through another time of helds have been discovered in the
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and was launched by Lady Astor in Finland are the two last Russian
inonasteries in the April last. She is the only alloc Orthodox
to to China, as the Milford and world, as all those on Russian ter Weston-Super-Mare, also complet-ritory have been closed, by the ing at Devonport, are to go to the Soviets, African Station in place of the Verbena and Delphinium; and the The Dornier-Wat D.2083; was Dundee, at Chatham, will join the buit in the year 1939 at the Work-America and West Indies Station sups of the Dornier Metalbauten to replace the Heliotrope. All GmbH in Friedrichshafen on three of the sloops to be relieved Jake Bodensse. This factory also ate of War programmes and are constructed the world's largest Ay due to be scrapped. ing-boat DO.X.
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The dimensions of the Dornier-
Wal D.2058 arejee
Total length
Span of wings
Total Height
Total weight
223.
4 m.
7500 kg.
VIIA water
GLIDER-FLYING IN INDIA.
GERMAN COMMISSIONED TO
MAKE INVESTIGATIONS
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The aeroplane is equipped with two B.M.W. (Bayrische Motoren-
Frankfurt-on-the-Main, Sept. 2. turke, Munchen)' cooled 12-cylinder engines of 700 The well-known German glider H.P. euch. Both enginea are Bier, Robert Kronfeld, has been
oituted in tandem,
commissioned by, the Government of India to examine the possibility
All the principal parts of the machine including wing covering tail units and fuselage are maite of duralumin.
The fittings nod bolts of the en- gibes and the supporting struts are inade of high-grade rustproof steel,
The best and most suitable na terial have been selected for the power plant, controls and general equipment of this aeroplane.
Great stress has been laid upon thorough testing of the material| and the Dornier-Wal D.2063 is therofore of great endurance cap abla-of withstanding any weather
The Patchora Monastery W founded in 1470. Its catacombs and holy relics, its churches and houses, its history and legends are the testimonies of the spirit of Russian Orthodox monasticism during the last 500 years: The high, heavy walla were
erected round the monastery at a time when the monks had to defend themselves as well as their churches against the attacks of the enemies to which they were often, exposed.
Behind these thick stone walls there had for centuries burnt the light of a deep religions life which extended its beneficent influence far beyond their boundaries. The Russians who inhabit the villages around the monastery cherish a deep esterm for the monks, and in
of commercial application of gli-all the difficult questions of their dor-flying in India.
It is stated that, if Kroufeld is able to issue, after the conclusion of his studies a favourable report, glider-flying will be taken up as a cummercial enterprise.
Herr Kronfeld has accepted the invitation and will soon proceed to Bombay.
lives they have recourse to the as- sistence of these saintly men.
Lands Transfezzad.
After the formation of the Soviet Union and independing Estonia the significance of the Petchora, Mona tery greatly increased. It became a kind or natural rampart against the godless teachings coming from
Soviet Russia.
when the boat is resting on the Unfortunately, during the last water. The Radio has an addition-years, various measures taken by al frame-serial for the direction the Eastonian Government threat finder, and is also used for receiven to diminish the significance of
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Mr. T. V. Soong, the Finance Minister, in company with Mar- shal Chang Hauch Liang arrived | It is reported that rich gold at Nanking by 'plane on Tuesday,
vicinity of Taiyuan, in Shansi Mr. Shie Mun Yee has arrived Province. A Russian engineer at Shanghai, and will meet Mr. states that there are great pros-T. V. Soong to-day to report to pects if these fields are properly him the recent sickness of Mr. developed.
Wang Ching Wel. He handed Mr. Wang's note to Mr. Soong or cur- rent diplomatic problems,
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Generai Li Trung Jen, Com mander of 4th Army, will leave Canton for Kwangsi to-day to in- the Kwanger Centralspect the aray border.
Mid-Anhui, Sept. 10.-Anhui, i
anti-foreignism. Blogans and in sulting pictures are to be seen on the walls and banners in many places. The majority of these are against the Japanese, but children' fail to distinguish between Japan-
A Shantung patriot named Leung ese, Europeans or Americans, all are foreign-devils to them and-all Yok has made an offer to General are treated with contempt and Han, Fu Chú of $30,000,000 to be cursing. The Chinesa school text-used for resisting the Japanese books for the young are filled with invasion in Manchuria. anti-foreign sentiment. This proves that the writers of the text-books A message from the and the Educational Yuan, who Government urges Mr. Hn Han endorsed them are guilty of anti-Min to rojoin the Ministry, but his foreignism also. The pride and daughter has replied on his behalf conceit of the people are driving that Mr. Hu is unwilling to accept China to destruction. No official this offer and that he cannot be reconciled with Marshal action to stop this has over boon come done as far as I can find out. This Chiang Kai Shek. A rumour that da dao yang kuei tza" (down with Mr. Hu Han Bfin has left for the with the foreign devil) spirit is North is denied. sure to act like a boomerang and come back upon China sooner or Inter.
A Bumper Rice Crop.
All the rice has been reaped and the farmers when asked regarding the crops say,They are more than ten tens good this year." The outcome is that the price of rice has fallen almost half of what it was a month ago, Rice now is sell ing at $3.50 per dan,
Rice and Robbers.
After the farmers have marketed their grain they take the money home and hide it, but, although hid, it is far from safe as robbers have heard of the sale and a raid is very soon made upon the farmer. If he fails to reveal the hiding. place of his money he in beaten or slowly burned with a candie until
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The Double Toath," October 10, is not to be celebrated this year. The authorities in Shanghai, Can- ton and Hankow are taking special
precautions against any possibility of Communist trouble on and about that time.
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It is reported flat on the 4th inst. the Emperor of Japan inter- viewed tho Manchukuo representa- tive, Pu Koon Ching.
A bomb was discovered on the premises of Messrs. Chung Yuan and Co. in the Japanese Concession, Tientsin. Fortunately the bomb did not explode and no damage was dones
General Tsai Ting Kai, Com.
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To Suen Tai, former Police Sub Commissioner of Canton, who was recently found guilty of procuring the murder of x Chinese student in the Wing Hog Road, Canton; and was sentenced to life imprison ment, has now, according to an official report from Nanking, hall his sentence reduced to five years' imprisonment.
MODERN CURSE OF BABEL
MAN WHO MIXED THE TELEPHONE LINES
Paris, Aug. 19.-A man who de- serves a place of a immortality in the history of Government Depart- ments is M. Lebarange.
As-leader of a band of "good" companions," he played havoc with the telephones of Caen, in Nor- mandy. He is shortly to appear before # Correctional Tribunal charges of:
(1) Deliberately mixing up half the telephone lines in the region of Caen;
(2), Posing as an official and thus obtaining free transport on the State railway lines; and
(3) Obtaining free board and lodging for himself and his team' of four
mon by persuading a number of people that the Do- partment of Posts, Telegrapha and Telephonos would pay the bill.
Yet M. Leharouge would not ap, pear to be a crook. On the eon- trary, he was inspired by a feeling of righteous indignation against the Post Office organisation.
He was formerly employed by this organisation in its telephone WAS dismissed. department, but Convinced that his dismissal was ・・ unfair, he made up his mind to take his revenge. He took the name of Le Harenge, and this not by chance, it would appear, for there is a telephone inspector in the Caen region whose name is M. up hundreds of telephone lines. Hareng. There was every possibf- In a few days they had translits of confusion. formed the whole district into M. Le Harenge engaged four as- Tower of Babel, in which furious istante-a tinker, a rondmejder, a subscribers abused helpless tele- mechanic and a bandyman. This phone clorks,
oddly assorted band set forth on
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The cause of the imbroglio was a tour of Normandy-always at discovered by the authentin M. the expense of the State railways Hareng himself. In the course of and of caterers who thought that his inquiries his suspicious were the Department of Posts, Tele- aroused when he found a gentle- graphs and Telephones would foot man who gave his name as M. Le the bill; .. Harenge at work in a cable cabin. M. Hareng asked & Commission- of Police to investigate the
er
In the course of the tour M. Le. Hartage, and bis assistants paid special attention to all roadside telephone cabins. In these cabins,
| grouped, the five "good.com-
as has once more been proved by ing weather reports and ship the monastery. In 1928 the owner. through pain and suffering he is mander of the 19th Army, has sont identity of M. Le Harenge. In a which telephone cables
signals.
ship of its landa was transferred compelled to tell where it is. A telegram to Canton announcing very short while the latter confess' panions" played havoc.
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the world-flight of Capt. - von' Gronau.
The arroplane is equipped with
One of the power-units, which to the Orthodox Church of Estonia, 9 tanks for głe and oil placed in supply the energy, is provided There the economic management of bost-stubs in the middle of the with a wind-driven generator for the monastery was taken out of bost with a capacity of 3,400 litres, the long-wave Radio and the other the Abbot and entrusted to This quantity of fuel gives the with a gas engine aggregat with 12 Letonian layman, Dorul: r-Wai D.2053 a' flying radius volt battery and transformer for
the short-wave Radio. of approx. 2,500 km, or in other words it guarantees a flight rango
The Crow. of 13 hours at cruising speed' ol 185 km.p.l.
Capt. von Gronau's acroplane is equipped with all kinds of aero-
nautical instruments, in view of the scientific work being done, on the Dlight.
Special attention was given to the equipment of the cockpit re garding the arrangement of operat, ing lovers and instruments, in or der to render the long flights loss !.tiresome;
The crew is as follows:
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The monks, who are all Russiana, cxplain these innovations, intro-
farmer's life now is far from a happy one in the country district that I travel over,
vince.
that the Cantor Army has swepted that he was indeed the "dous the "Reds" out of Fukien pro-
ex machina."
In a few minutes they could mix (Continued on Previous Coluutos.)
NOULENS TO SERVE SENTENCE
duced by the Estonian Govern- REPORTED INTERVIEW WITH ment, by the ever-increasing Châu- | - CHINESE PRESS.
vinism among the Estonians. On
the other hand, there are rumours
Contrary to various reports that about the handing over of the the Noulens couple would be taken monastery to the Roman Catholics to Soochow to serve their
On visiting the Petchora Monas China Daily News is informed by prisonment sentences, the North- tery one obtains the impression no less an authority than, Mr. Ling that this old monument of the Pino, President of the Kiangeu. Orthodox faith has fallen on evil Higher Provincial Court, that they
will be confined to prison in Nau king and treated as other prison-
Captain Wolfgang von Gronau 39 2nd pilot Chert von Roth. 23 Radio operator Fritz Albrencht 35 Mechanic Franz Hack, 27
All the above named aro members of the flying school "Verkehraffie gerachule" G.in.b. H. Warnemuende, days. Germany.
Programme of the Flight,, Capt.in von Gronau started on
The most important instruments his flight on July 22, 1932 from the
such as speed indicators, altimeters, city of List on the Sylt Island
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DARING HOLDUP IN SYDNEY
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As the period for appeal has ex- pired and no steps have been taken to appeal against the sentence pass- ed on them by the Nanking Dis- trict Court, the Noulans, who have been kept in the Nanking House of
compasses and special instruments in Germany. The etappes of the ACID THROWN INTO EYES OF Detention, will shortly be removed
for blind Aying were provided in flight are:-
manifold. The Dornier-Wal D.
Hours, Km.
2053 was equipped with 5 com 1st Germany-Iceland 13 2,400 passes (Ascania, Ludolph, Sperry, and Iceland-Greenland 8 1,400
POSTAL OFFICIALS
Sydney, Sept. 29.-Duplicating in
magnet and distance). Instru- 3rd Greenland-Labrador 85 1,900 amazing fashion a robbery that munta for blind dying such as arti:th Labrador-Montreal 10 1,900
took place last Doocmber two
Micial horizon, bank-indicators and From Montreal the flight proceed bandits this morning threw acid others were supplied by Ascania, ed via Ottawa, Canada, Detroit and pepper into the faces of postal
Ludolph and Sperry as well as in- struments for reading the revolu tions of engines, amount of fuc! and temperature. Also the nautical instruments and charts for auviga
tion.
to goal. They have, up to the pre- sent, been receiving good treatment and they are living in hopes, it is said, that they receive-favourable treatment whilst in gaol and, fur- the list of those repeiying amnesty. ther, that they may be included in The dintonpad, published a re- port of the conditions under which sout and a statement purporting to the two prisoders are living at pre- officials who were carrying £600 of be an interview with Noulens, pension money and escaped with This states that a representative of their haul through streets crowded that journal was permitted to visit the House of Detention and there with traffic,
The postmaster of the William be found Noulens smartly dressed, cleanly shaved and looking pic Street post office and an assistant, tore of health. He was reading who wore robbed last December, were again the victims to-day when "A History of the French Revolu- they were on their way from the post office to a nearby hall, where Dornier-Wal pensioners. were waiting.
Dotoctives detained three hen
and Chiengo covering 1,300 km, in do hours.
route
Was
From Chicago the taken via Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Prince Winnerts, Edmonton, Hupert and Junceau Alaska, cover Furthermore, the Dornier-Waling the distance of approx. 3,700 D.2013 was provided, with ground km. anchor, drift anchor, ropes, neces
After this the
sary tools for repairs and a safety D.2053, headed for Tokio via this afternoon in connection with rubber-bost.
Radio Installation.
Jaskutat, Cordova, Unalaska, the hold-up. Kanaga Island, Attu, Kakuma- beten, Nemuro to Kasumigava and
·tion.”
What are you doing in your sisure time and about what do you think these days!"-asked the re- Portor
Oh-answered Noulons, I'm
A life term prisoner now so what thoughts, have I have given up the idea of appealing and
finally Tokio-a-distance of 17,000 BRITISH STEAMERS TO BE to serve my bentenon propo
Radig installation of the aeroplane in a Ehort wave, Hudig apparatus of 20--80 m, wave-length km.
From Tokio the flight was re- and a Vipol antennac of 105 m. on each kids. This apparatus was sumed via Shanghai to Hong Kong: made by the Lorene AG Berlin and Manila. and can be used for a distance ofapt on dronau is now on his 2,000 ses-milea
Way to Dutch Indies and he then proposes to Hy-over British India:
to Germany.
The 16havetadlo was made by Telefunken, Berlin, with
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Later, at dinner, the reporter found that Noulens, and his wife. could not use chopsticks and that they had to use spoons. Noulens London, Sept. 10.-Five-stoamar laughingly pointed out that he had. belonging to Sir Robert Ropner & been detained for some 15 months Co., Ltd, West Hartlepool now and that he bad, unable to learn laid up, are to be put into service how to use chopsticks It "again" within a few days and there above he said," what a duffer I ship being recommissioned within His wife: "You will have plenty
This concluded the !! the next week or two. The ships of time to learn are all to carry white British
and the reporter left.
wave length of 300-1,400 m This and then via Suer and the Levant prospect of other of the firms 201, **
long wave Radio is used in fight with a hanging serial or a tales copio mast of 12 m high in daas (Pontinued on nici column.)
Capt von Gronau hopes to reach his Homo-country by the end of October.
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