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RECOVERY IN BRITAIN
At a time when we are all making every exort to pull trade out of the trough of what was a very bad depression, news at progress in any part of the world, no matter how far removed from us, is always welcome. For instance, when we
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memorial, the name of the most sane-minded people of the world. The United States, on the other hund, aimed straight, with swift, direct blows at its objectives, and while the British began by avoid- ng disaster, the Americans started
OBITUARY
Maurice Nichol,
Cricketer
London, May, 21.
Maurice Nichol, the Worcester- shire cricketer who was 29 years old, was found dead in bed at his hotel this morning after fielding against Essëx on Saturday. He had been playing golf yesterday. --Reuter.
Much regret will be felt in the world of sport at the passing away of this cricketer, who was famous both with bat and ball-
Maurice, who was born at Bet- ton, Durham, on September 10 1005, had a spell on the Oval ground, staf `some years ago, but returned to his native Durham and played for that county as an amateur during 1925-26.
22, 1934.
A WEEK OF BRITISH
FLYING NEWS
Fresh Step Forward In Britain's Airways
four
aero engines
NEWS SUMMARY
The Japanese Olympic team are to give tennis and athletic exhibi- tions in Hongkong. Detalls, om page 8.
Echoes of 1881 appear on Page
Welcome to the Australians, a special Air Mail Service report will be found on Page 10.
&
The Truth about Caricer," BIT interesting address by Mr. Mont-
Round the courts containing a -report of local cases will be found
The full report and cash swEED Agures of yesterday's racing ap- pears on Page 10.
Announcement of a second order Lake all of the for aircraft that will be employed manufactured by the Bristol com-gomery is given on Page or services operated within the pany, the 'Pegasus" is a nine- British Isles by the
new "com cylinder radial air-cooled unit, bine company which Associates with the cylinders radiating like on Page 6. Impérial Airways with the the spokes of a wheel from a cen- big railway groups marks a fresh tral crankcase hub. In all but a step forward in the planning of few details, where alterations Britain's home airways. Thus a were essential for the flights into movement which was born scarce the stratosphere, the engines em-
The programme for the race ly two years ago, to-day gathers ployed by Mr. Uwins and Com- meeting to be held in Macao on mofhentum at a rate which is mendatore" Donati are exactly June 10 given on Page 11. expected to bring nearly 5,000 similar to the standard "Pegasus" The piracy of a fishing junk was miles of air routes into existence motors which are now being built reported yesterday. Two years later, while qualify before the end of this year. And in large numbers for the Royal
Page 6.- mg for Worcestershire as a pro- Fon the knowledge gained in the
An interesting article entitled Air Force and for certain foreign A Talk About Wines appear on fessional, he appeared for that next few months of working those governments. Similar engines al- county against the West Indies, routes may be based the future
Page 7. so provided power in the two Bri- and in hitting 104 scored his organization of routes which, tish aeroplanes that flew over initial first-class century.
Gain within a very few years, will cover Mounts Everest and Kanchenjun-story appears on Page 12. ing a regular place in the team the whole of the country and ga last year. in 1929. he collected 1,442 runs.
riva) in length the 20,000 miles of In 1930 he recorded his highest railroad score (262 not out, against Hants, at Bournemouth). A year later he was twelfth man for England against the New Zealanders in the Lord's Test. Last summer his best season to date -he registered 2.154 runs, including 8 centuries, and took 16 wickets.
Mr. F. M. WoodTM
London May 21. The death has occurred of. Mr. Frederich Marcus Wood who was for many years Secretary to the China Inland Mission-Reuter.
EXPLOSION ON GUNBOAT
More Details of The Accident
Flight in the Stratosphere The new order, like the first, An earlier type of Bristol eng- goes to the de Havilland company.ine-a supercharged "Jupiter"-- It concerns a number of the new also achieved a world height re- "Dragon Rapide" biplanes which cord. In May, 1929, tär. Neven- derive power from two "Gipsy-hofer new a "Jupiter" powered Six" 184/205 h.p. six-cylinder air-German monoplane to a height of cooled engines and are designed. 41,740 feet, The essential factor
"Mystery of Mr. X. our serfal
TRANSPORT CANTON
IN
Trackless "Trams
Ordered
to cruise, with eight passengers in an aeroplane height record is On board, at a speed of 140 infles 】 the engine; this British Arm can an hour. This speed equals that fairly claim, therefore, to an un- attained by the "Diana" airliners, rivalled position in high-altitude the world's fastest four-engined | flying, and, consequently, to un-
Canton, May commercial transport planes," a ↑ rivalled knowledge of the many There are 108 buses in Cana fleet of which was ordered by and difficult problems associated operated by thirteen' companies Imperial "Airways only three weeks with the design of engines sulted over 13 routes of the city, accord- ago for their continental services for flight in the stratosphere. Aing to a report of the Municipal and for operation by the rail-air further point worth mention is Bureau of Public Utilities. combine in this country.
that the "Pegasus" motors QXL- Every part of the city includ- The "Dragon Rapide," like the ployed for the fights have beening the farthest corner in Honan "Diana," "Is a logical development practically standard products; no suburb is connected with bus aer- of the well-known "Dragon" craft, recourse has been necessary up to vices, Recently, the bus compan-
nearly seventy of which have been sold since they were placed on the market early in 1933, with the two 130 h.p. four-cylinder units replaced by the more power ful new engines. Its performance on the power of any one motor is impressive;; with full load on oy stretching but their hands to
board it can maintain level fight prosperity. London began by re
on either engine at Heights up to ducing expenditure, Washington by
Canton, May 21.
4,000 feet, which implies an am- increasing it. In the end, these
The five petty officers of the ple margin of safety for operation two vastly different methods will
cruiser Hai Shen who were in-over the British Isles. " probably for so it is hoped) procured on board last Thursday af- duce similar results, as they were conceived to suit the temperaments of two different nations.
(From Our Special Correspondent)
unfounded
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TREBITSCH LINCOLN LEAVES FOR CHINA
Montreal, May 21.
of
Mr. Trebitsen Linecin, the
Entries close at 12 o'clock. NÖGN neard that the work on the new belt. Then, gradually and at Arst/lasses from the test. tube, con- knowledge” accrued which will be sance and general-purpose craft. | Buddhist monk, accompanied by
on THURSDAY, 14TH MAY, 1934.
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By Order. :4
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C. B. BROWN,
Secretary,
R.
yesterday.
1
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Tu...the
The New Height Record
Commendatore Renato Donati to ajian Force.
Ascent
by the Italian aviator
metres) marks and height of 47,340
LOCAL AND GENERAL
On Friday only one case typhoid was reported to the local health, authorities.
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the present to batteries of super-les are making profits owing to chargers and other special gadgets favourable exchange in gold dol- incorporated in the design of cer-lars, which reduce the prices tain engines designed and built tyres, and spare parts, abroad for "stratosphere" 'planes. In addition to the bus services,
Warplanes for Australia
the Municipal Bureau of Public Utilities is planning to operate The Australian government has trackless electric trama in the ordered eighteen Hawker "Deman" city. Orders for these cars have biplanes for the Royal Australian "been placed with a "British "Arm Air Force. They are expected to which will secure the vehicles from be ready for delivery in the au-, England. tumn in time for the Melbourne The trams will run on longer centenary celebrations and the routes and can hold more passen→ Plymouth-Liverpool Airway
visit ternoon owing to the explosion of
to the Commonwealth of gers. It is believed that the cost certain explosive" ewre to-day The new machines will be em-
Prince George.
of operation with electricity is treated medically at the first hos- played on a route Enking Ply- The process of restoring con- pital of Sun Yat Sen University.
Developed from the "Hart" an- cheaper than, gasoline, and this mouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Birming-gle-engined day bomber, the "De- means longer mileage without in- fidence in Britain has been ex-
Vernacular press reports which ham hibited in two stages.
and Liverpool. Last year mon" is a two-seater craft capable | creased fare: It began stated that the accident occurred the sections of this route between of outstanding performance. It with the removal of certain causes aboard the flagship Hai Chi on
Plymouth and Birmingham were forms part of service equipment in of fear, and passed on reestablishment of positive hope. naval men were blown to bits are Great Western Railway,
to the wednesday and that the five operated experimentally by the Great Britain, where it is employ- The first stage seemed all negative:
which ed 23 B two-seater nighter;" the the cutting down of state expendi-
chartered aircraft and personnel craft to be sent to Australia have ture, the reduction of salaries and rerious danger, although their purpose.
None of the five men are in from Imperial Airways for the been specially modified to suit The service showed a Australian conditions and for use of the dole, the increase of laxa-
Jaces are cut by the fragmentary loss on the season's working, but as bombing, fighting, tion-a general tightening of the
reconnais-
this taining the explosive. Petty Om valuable Cunarder, No. 534, had been re- almost imperceptibly, began the car Liang Hsueh. Pel in charge of "Dragon Rapides" are ready-thea Rolls-Royce "Kestrel" 525/600 Vancouver, whence he is return- Each machine is powered with his disciples, entrained to-day for sumed, we began to hope that it process of relaxing the presture, ordnance suffered only minor cuts first machine of the type will hp. liquid-cooled engine. Maxi-ing to China-Reuter. would benefit shipping in all parts the spirit of caution by slow but of the Empire. In fact if we look sure degrees giving place to one
on the face and left the hospital probably make its trial flights mum speed expected in Australia.
within the next few daya the allowing deeply into the question, there are of more expansive confidence and
for the atmospheric definite signs that it will bring even optimism. This return of mjured rather seriously in the Dragons," one of which has al- be carried, is between 175 and 180 Petty omger Ting Fat Yau la cervice wil be run with standard conditions and for the big load to with it beneficial results. True, confidence has moved step by step right eye, but there is a chance ready been delivered to the mall miles an hour; easy and economi- only 800 men were engaged on the with economic improvement. The of restoration first day that work on the giant budget, which was balanced with Another gunner is hurt in the left
of his eyesight. air combine.
cal cruising speed will be about liner was resumed, but that alone such difficulty after the crisis of eye. Assistant Gunner Fu Chun..
160 m.ph.., which marks a big was enough to put the people of 1931, showed a surplus and Agures who was responsible for the explo
advance over similar machines at than they had been for some time. less by some 700,000 than they had hands, while Chief Gunner Wang. Glasgow in a more hopeful mood of the registered unemployed are ston, is hurt in the fare
present employed in the Austra- That huge vessel, lying idle, had been at the bottom of the slump. Shih Tu was, slightly injured in for British aero engine design and feet (14,433 2 fresh triumph become for them a melancholy Export trade, too, has at last taken the face symbol of their industry; its an upward turn, and accompany-
construction Subject to confirm- Springing to life again appeared ing these material signs of revival, rerimenting some
The five petty officers were ex-
attor by the International Aero- SEQUEL TO BOR-removed to hospital with severe as the dramatic beginning of a it is the mental attitude both of deck. Chlef Gunner Wang Shih Royal Aero Club of Italy has for- explosive on nautical Federation, to which the 2. Valess specially exempted in tnore prosperous, and consequently the Government and of the people Yu was in charge of the experi-warded the necessary data, it is
DER BATTLE writing by the Inspector General of happler, era. Large crowds assem- that has changed from stolid Police or exempted by Section 2 (6) bled on that memorable morning determination to buoyancy and of the Ordinance every alion other to greet the gang of 800 as they eager expectation --- than an alien of Chinese race who is
marched down to the yard to the. It's as if, during the first two resident in the Colony at the com- music of pipers. It was an indics- years of Britain's Inconspicuous mencement of this Ordinanca is tion that the 600 men would soon recovery plan, the Government had required to report the fact in person become 3,000, and the 3,000 would busied itself exclusively with dig- or in writing for registration at make work for thousands more. ging deep and laying the concrete Police Headquarters within спе But above all, it was the spirit of foundations of national finance on meath of such commencement, and the venture that gave so much which the building was to be every such person who arrives in the hope, so much encouragement to erected. And it has often seemed Colony or who changes his ordinary that section of the Empire which as if it thought that its sole duty residential or business address or had been so badly hit by the slump, was to lay those foundations, and who is about to leave the Colony is for was there not indication of a to leave the building Itself ex- required to report the fact at Police new belief, both in the future of clusively to private enterprise." Headquarters within seventy-two shipping and in the efficacy of But now some of the girders are hours after every such arrival or daring, when the British Govern- ready to be put in position, and within one week before every such change of address or intended ent was ready to drop its attitude of these some at least are of state departure.
of caution and invest millions of manufacture: The voting of mil- money Might not the march of these 600 ment in the Cunarders, was the in a shipping concern?ions of public money for invest-
forward movement of all the Government's new attitude. Al men be taken as a symbol of the first dramatic indication of the workers of Britain?
most smultaneously came the an respects similar to the one with has now decided on a new national Faced with a problem in many nouncement that the Government which the United States is con- housing policy based on the pro fronted, the British Government vision of money grants from the 4.The Registration Office
has approached its herculean task Exchequer. The growth of that Police Headquarters will be open in a very different manner. Giving kind of confidence which expresses between the hours of 9 am and 1 the impression that its motto will itself in new enterprise has arrived p.m. on week days.": -
be one of cantions deliberation, at last. The stage of foundation E. D. C. WOLFE,
Britain's leaders moved step by laying is over The cranes which Juspector General of Police, step, with that same care that won were lowering the concrete are now
[256 for the nation, from time im raising the girders.
-NOTICE. REGISTRATION OF PERSONS ORDINANCE, 1994.
1-Attention is drawn to the provisions of the above Ordinance which comes into force on 1st June, 1934.
8.-In any case of doubt a person shall be deemed to be an alien unless and until he produces a certificate, Passport or other evidence to the satisfaction of the Inspector General of Police or of a. Magistrate to the effect that he is a natural born or naturalised British subject.
ment. The test tube containing a new world's record for height the explosive was heated over 45 attained in a heavier-than-air
A collision between a motor-car and a hand truck occurred at. Stone Nullah Lane on Sunday The coolle pulling the truck was.
injuries.
Cheung Shi, a sampan man, is now lying in the Government. Civil Hospital with a fractured skull as a result of being struck.
Sunday,
action, and when the experiment previous record, established by the minutes before, there was chemical nying machine, surpassing the Fisherman Dies From by a motor-car in Island Rosd on turned out to be sucessful, Assis French pilot Lemoine by 2,532 tant Gunner Fu Chun removed feet. the tube from the fire in order to show the chemical action to the
Wound
Acting-Commander H. TRust assumed command of the sloop. Folkstone vice Captain HK Ed-"
is powered with a single Bristol, Commendatore Donati's biplane other four men.-. the
This cooled the tube and caused gine capable, if he ran
bulit Pegasus" supercharged en- Last week's border battle be- wards, D.S,C. who has been ap Wang Shih Yu shouted not to loping up to 1,100 hp. Thus, the alans is recalled by the death of Rust will relinquish command
explosion. Chief Gunner.
at fall tween a number of desperadoes pointed to EMS, Tamar (addi-- remove the tube, but his warning world's, seroplane height record Cheung Fan, 27, a naherman of when Captain A. E. Reed arrives throttle at ground level, of deve- and a police patrol of three In- tional) on Saturday. Commander
came too late.
BURNED
DEATH
Fate of Thirteen Soldiers
TO
here from Home on the "Ranchi"**
returns after a brief Interval to Pung Hong Village. The cause the engine which formerly held it, of death was a septic wound in about the end of June, for it was the record of 43,976 the arm feet. set in September, 1932, by Pe
In our report of the Inter
Mr. Cyril Uwins, chief test pilot It will be recalled that armed; University Sports meeting, it was of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, raiders believed to have crossed inadvertently stated that Mr. Ong that was surpassed recently by over from Chinese territory, fred Ewe Hin is the President of the Mr. Lemoine.
upon the three Indians when Hong Kong University Students” Donati attained the new record early-morning attempt to rob a
escaping from an unsuccessful Union, whereas he is the Chair- man of the University Athletes height in a fight which was the fruit merchant at Shataukok Club representing the Inter- culmination of three months
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Work It Was the seventeenth village. In the ensuing battle. night he had made in that time two of the raiders are believed to Dairen, May 21.3 to a height of more than 10,000 have been wounded before they
escaped nese soldiers were metres (32,800 feet). He has since
motor lorry when declared that the "celling of his Later the same morning, heataeroplane is not yet reached, he Cheung, Fan, the fisherman, was bushed robbed hopes, with the assistance of a found by the police with a shot death with Kero special suit of clothing which re- wound. He was detained on sus near Mingan, East sembles diver's outat, to climb aspicion of having been connected high as 18,000 metres (52,500 feet) with the affair.
University Sports Council.
end.
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