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AIR
“WAR” OVER ENGLAND
Twenty Squadrons Test Defensive System
W
BIG AIRWAYS MERGER
28, 1936.
Obtained
Money By
Fraud
Duped By Promise
Of Hawker's Licence
Assuming the offices of the Inspector General of Police in or- der to defraud Lo Lam Sze out of
Mimic aerial warfare engaged | ended June 30 the company's fieet $7.50 by pretending that he was recently twenty Royal Air Force completed 7,602 flights on regular-able to obtain a hawker's itinerant squadrons, searchlight crews, anti-ly scheduled services and covered licence, led Lam Slu Kei before Mr. aircraft batteries, and the network | 943,248 miles. Flights that were W. Schofield at the Central Police or observer posts, equipped with delayed or not completed were very Court yesterday sound locator devices, that mask | few; ON the London-Malmo-
Inspetor A. E. Carey stated that London from" air attack launched Stockholm roure the service nas
On August 11 the defendant "told by an enemy on the continent of worked with 10 per cent. regularity the complainant that he was in a Europe. Night and morning the since its opening on March 17. position to get a hawker's licence deep diapason of powerrut engines Both of the merging companies for him for which the complainant was heard over the Thames estuary are interested in the future air-gave the defendant $1. On August and a wide sector of the adjacent mall service Between London and 16 a further $1,20 was obtained and countryside. converging to the South America. Five tenders for on August 19 another sum of $1.30. point in the outskirts of the capital that service have been submitted On August 23, the defendant gave and expanding to cover a long to the Air Ministry, two of them the complainant some papers and length of coastline to the south-by British Airways and British said that if he took them along east and east. Formations of 200 Continental Airways. The amal- to the licence office a cence would m.p.h. bombers sought A Asfe gamation plainly strengthens the be given him. This cost the com- way to their allotted targets, companies in their claims. Both plainant another $4. - The fraud and yet speedier fighters, working
of them, and in particular British was discovered on a visit to the information provided by the Airways, have accumulated much Government office, ground observers and at night fal-operational experience, dating back lowed the searchligh; rays as they to 1932, when the late Mr. Edward picked up the raiders attempt to
Hillman founded the parent com- Intercept and destroy them.
pany. 让
ON
Four
The "war" began on July 27 in conditions that welghed fieavily in favour of the defence. There were few clouds to provide cover for the raiding units, and in an unusually clear atmosphere the crews of air- craft patrolling ten thousand feet above the targets hear London could see the coast of France. For nearly twelve hours ralds swept over Kent and Essex at the rate of more than one every hour. All of them were made by Hawker Hind light bombers-200 m.p.h. biplanes able to operate at heights of 20,000 feet and more and stressed for the deadly dive-bombing attack. of the squadrons flew With ten Hinds each and four more with ave. Attacks were concentrated on the Royal Alr
Force aerodromes Hornchurch and North Weald, with two incidental raids on Biggin Hill, Fury "interceptors" and Gauntlet and Bulldog day-and-night nighters awaited the onslaught Official re- ports are not yet to hand, though undoubtedly the proportion of raids Intercepted by defending" Aghiers was high. Aerial corabats occurred at levels of up to 20,000 feet. And aircraft crews had useful practice in Ending the aeroplanes, which at their great flying heights appear- ed as tiny specks in the sky, and in distinguishing friend from toe.
July 28 was set aside for ä breather, but hostilities were re-
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The defendant was later seen in Connaught Rond and was arrested. Sentence of three months' hard labour was imposed.
RAILWAY LINKS
Canton-Hankow Line Opening Oct. 10.
AERO ENGINE ADVANCE Improved design. use of fuels which do not detonate so readily as those supplied to civil and mill- tory aircraft operators in earlier years," and adoption where possible of new light alloys have enabled the Bristol aero engine designers to achieve substantially augment- ed output in the latest series of It will be possible to cravel rom Pegasus and Marcury air-cooled Kowloon to Hankow by railway. radial engines and at the same when the Canton-Hankow service, time to reduce weight. The Mer- which has already been completed cury VII highly supercharged en- will formally be inaugurated on gine. which will be installed in Double Tenth (October 10, The the Blenheim twin-engined bom- opening of this service will be an and the Gloster Gladiator important item in the celebrations single-seat Aghter, delivers nearly of China's National holiday. 200 h.p. more than its immediate
On September 1. a service be- forerunner. Pegasus engines in tween Canion and Hengchow will service with the Royal Air Force
commence. The journey between develop up to 750 h.p.; the new these two points will take 22 hours. Pegasus XX. now on order, gives
Up trains will leave Canton an Mondays and Thursdays and down out no less than height of 10,000
trains will leave Hengchow on Wednesdays and Saturdays. level.
ber
925 h.p. at a feet above sea-
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Yet these great advances are obtained without adding to the cylindrical capacity of the en- gines, and without drastic change in the basic Bristol design of 9- cylinder radial motor which has remained fundamentally constant for nearly twenty years.
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KNOWLEDGE
Chinese Faces
Serious Charge
1.
CASE HEARD IN:
CAMERA
A seven-year-old girl was the complainant in a case, heard by Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Central Magistracy yesterday, in which Choi Tim, 25, unemployed, was charged with having had curnal. knowledge on August 15.
THEFT OF SILVER CORONET
VALUED AT $150: SOLD CHEAP
Steing a silver coronet valued at $150 and selling it for $3 was led to charges preferred against Wong Yuk Sang. when he appear. ed before Mr. 8. F. Balfour at the Central Police Court yesterday. The robbery which took place at Sharp Street on August 22, includ- ed the theft of a suitcase contain- Ing ter pleces of clothing. Au K was charged with receiving and said that the Arst defendant had given him the caronet.
that the coronet had been sold for Inspector. A E Carey stated
3. It was seen some days later
The girl had to be led by the In the witness box, she said she hand into. Court to give evidence.
could not remember her age and could not say her mother was.
what the name of the complainant who reported the matter to the Police. En- Det.-Sub-Inspector M. J. Mattery quiries were made and the marine related that the alleged assault dealer gave the address of the took place on the third floor of No. | second defendant, No. 13 Matheson 3 Lyndhurst Terrace. When it was Lane. They went there and the committed nobody' was in the pre-second defendant was pointed out mises with the exception of the ac- and assisted in the tracing of the cused and complainant. The fat first defendant, ter's mother had gone out about 4 p.zz. and returned half-an-hour later. The other persons who lived on the premises were accused'a sia- ter, complainant's father and an artist, but they were all absent from the house at the time. When complainant's mother returned, she saw her daughter crying in tat passage way. Accused was then lying awake on a camp bed which he was on when the girl's mother
THEFT OF WATCH Lam Sing Koon, 25, appeared be- fore Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Police Court yesterday charged with the lying larceny of a gold" watch from Chan left the house, Pao, a stab holder at the Central The girl was asked by her mo Market.
ther why she was erying and was Sub-Inspector W. Mair stated told that when she (complainant's that the complainant was serving mother) left the house, accused
a customer when his friend from held her by her arms and placed the opposite stall called out that her in a sitting position on the
The new fuels has enabled de- signers to adopt higher compres- sion ratios. Weight is saved by sumed with still greater vigour the refinement in design of many im- fallowing evening, when an all-portant component and by the night exercise engaging day ann
1dicious use of magnesium alloys. night bombers began and the Op-During the past twelve months defendant was taking the watch camp bed. Then he proceeded to server Corps were un full duty. the company's engine develop- Complainant turned around and Three hours after the night phase
ment department has completed saw the defendant in the hands was ended a series of attacks spread
more than 1,500 hours of continu- of the friend. The watch had been over a day and a night and lasting
thrown to the ground. for twenty-one hours began.
Defendant was sentenced to two months' hard labour.
ous
overload testing of Mercury and Pegasus engines at horsepower outputs averaging 5 per cent, in excess of the maximum outputs normally permissible for not more than five minutes at a time.
assault her.
GIRL EXAMINED Complainant's mother, however, did not take any steps to report the affairs and only did so on the ad BIG AIRWAYS MERGER
vice of friends on August 20. She took the child to the Government Elimination of competition be-
TRESPASS ON RANGE Civil Hospital where she was ex- tween two Important British air
Pleading that be only went there amined. The examination revealed transport companies on the Scan-
NEW SYNCHRONIZED to pick up the spent lend, Li, Sang that the girl had been carnally as dinavia run and strengthening
GUN GEAR
was charged before Mr. S. F. Bal-saulted, of claims to be awarded govern-
Particularly interesting atments four yesterday with trespassing on The Police were, informed and ment contracts for carriage of in the new engines are the cowl-the Kennedy Road revolver range. the accused was arrested. He frank- mails over the Bouth Atlantieings, which have adjustable flaps He was fined $5 or two weeks. Sub- ly, admitted, having committed the Ocean are secured by an amal-
controlled by the pilot to facilitate Inspector Hopkins' prosecuted. cooling and to maintain the en
alleged offence. His statement was: gine at equable temperatures in
"I did rape her (the girl)."
Evidence was then heard in ca-
gamation, now awaiting approval of shareholders," between British Airways and British Continental Airways.
other Britian airline concern ex- cept Imperial Airways, was form
all conditions of fight. and the
mers.
The first defendant actually lived at the house and the clothes. were found on a bed. One of the sults had been pawned for. 81.
First defendant was sentenced to six months. The case against the second defendant was fixed for hearing on September 5.
FIREWORK DISPLAY
ORGANISER IN TROUBLE
Wong Wan Bang, 27, Arework maker, at Ming Yuen Gardens, ap- peared before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Police Court yester- day charged with the unlawful possession of gunpowder on August 28; the unlawful manufacture of. greworks, and the possession of fireworks containing unlawful ingredients.
Defendant said that he did not know that his employer had no ilcence. The gunpowder had been made in Canton and sent here.
Sub-Inspector Ritchie stated that the Ming Yuen Gardens had re- cently changed hands and as a re- sult of this a 'frework display was arranged. The defendant was en- gaged from Canton to arrange the display. At the time of his arrest he had 20 pounds of gumpowder,
three baskets of crackers and 48 burdles of bamboo frames.
The case was adjourned for 24" hours as the Government analysis of the powder in the third charge was not ready.
gun gear control. Military aero-output, simplicity of manufacture Dr. 8. F. Cheung, of the Govern British Airways, larger than any planes which are fitted with guns and the practical elimination of ment Civil Hospital, stated that he that are forward through the disc "maintenance work. Power rat examined complainant. There was swept by the airscrew must plainings of one of the many different an abrasion which apparently was ed last year to acquire the assets ly have some mechanism to pre- types of sleeve-valved unit in de- the result of the alleged assault. of three companies-Hillman's Air- ways, Spartan Airlines and United airscrew blades.
vent the bullets from striking the velopment-the Perseus VIII—are
The
GRUDGE ALLEGED announced. Soon solution, now
sleeve- Airways. It also owns a majority
which dates from the war years, is valved engines may begin to sup-
Further evidence was called by interest in two other concerna—
'an "interrupter" gear linked with plant, their orthodox forerunners the prosecution, after which ac- Highland Airways, and Northern and Scottish Airways. Its author- bullet is fred when
the engine which ensures that no the equipment of civil and mill-cused elected to give evidence. He ized and issued capital 18 £245,240. blade is in the line of fire. Re-
an airscrew tary aeroplanes.
denied having had carnal know. ledge with ie girl, and alleged British Continental Airways, also cently, adoption of three-bladed
EXPORT TRADE GROWS that he was charged because com- formed last year, is backed by im- airscrews in place of the older Dominion and eight foreign coun- against him.
Sales of aero engines to one plainant's mother had a grudge porting London insurance interests two-bladed screw, higher engine tries have been reported to the
British Airways holds the govern- running speeds, and higher rates Bristol shareholders by Mr. W. G. ting the offence, because he had to, aboard the CPS Empress of Asia
He made the statement admit- novel point in the agreement be of fire have complicated the pro-verdon Smith, the chairman. He as three detectives would have as- tween England and Scandinavia, a blem. The Bristol company's de-
SLEEVE-VALVED MOTOR
ROTARY OFFICIAL IN COLONY
Mr. W. B. Tuteur, Chairman of arrived in Hong Kong yesterday the International Rotary Club,
in the course of a pleasure trip.
and Mrs. M. Frank.
novel point in the agreemet be- vice automatically adjusts aring said-and in doing so refuted yet saulted him further if he did not. He was accompanied by his wife ing that the company binds itself period to airscrew speed,
again foreign-inspired statements he alleged. to introduce as soon as possible
that the British aircraft industry At 4 pm. on the day of the al- after, June next year new British
is abandoning export trade be-leged offence,
In an interview - Mr. "Tuteur accused admitted airliners, now in course of deve- While the Pegasus and Mercury
cause of the demands of the Royal that he was alone with complain- Hong Kong for one week and would stated that he would remain in lopment, which will cruise at more engines, which have the usual Air Force expansion programme: ant on the premises but before 4.05 be returning to the United States than 200 miles an hour. It began poppet valves, are being manufac- The position with regard to for- p.m., his niece returned to the in the Asama Maru which is last evening carriage of mails by tured in larger numbers than ever eign sales, is most encouraging. house. night over the route, under a joint before-Imperial Airways has or- Our engines continue to be con-, Accused concluded by saying once
scheduled to gall next week. arrangement with the Swedish dered no fewer than 158 Bristol structed under licence in several again that he did not commit theKong Rotary Club was present to No representative of the Hong company A B. Aerotransport, engines for the Short Empire fly- foreign countries, and there has offence, and if he did he hoped "to whereby for the present it hands i ing-boats and the Air Ministry been an increase in the sales of die a horrible death."
meet the visitor. over British mails at Hanover and orders are several times as great our products in the Dominions He called Chek Sung, his receives there in return malls from work proceeds steadily on per- and other parts of the world. niece, whom he said was in the and when she gave her a sweet ane Scandinavia for England. Later fection of the sleeve-valved en- "During the past year engines premises, as his witness. She said took it smilingly. the British and Swedish companies gine. The Bristol technicians are have been supplied to Australis, accused was her maternal uncle
alone in the world in solving the Finland, Iran, Iran, Poland, Den-At 4.05 on the day in question wit- for a few minutes to consider his At this stage his Worship retired many dimcult problema involved mark. Latvin, Lithuania and ness was at home. She did not see decision. in building an efficient sleeve China. Further substantial for her maternal uncle raping the girl. valved motor, which
Accused was then committed to promises
When she returned to the house at stand his trial at the next Crimin- great gains in exciency, power
4.05. p. the girl was not crying, at Bessions.
Telephone 30251.
will work over the entire route on alternate nights.
Latest omcial ngures reveal im portant growth in British Airways operations.
In the nine menthe
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