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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,
AIR DEVELOPMENT IN THE FAR EAST
Japan Has Thousand-Miles
Air Line In Operation
WHAT IS BEING DONE IN
(BY AIR COMMODORE L E. O. CHARLTON In The United Services Review.")
CHINA
Air development in the Far East proceeds apace, although there is little appreciation of the fact outside enlightened opinion in these countries, the U.S.A., China, the U.S.S.R., and Japan. concerned. When the Transpacific Air Line is in going order its terminus in China, whether it be Shanghai or Canton, will not leave the passengers and freight in a stranded condition on the seaboard, Incapable of further progress by air.” On the còntrary, already there are radiating lines in use, Interconnected and run- ning north, south, and west. “A few words on this latter, the Grand Central as it might be called, although "Eurasia" is its name, short for the Eurasia Aviation Corporation, a German- Chinese company founded on a small beginning in the spring of 1931
The eventual object of Eurasia and political animosity alone can prevent achievement, is to link up Berlin with Shanghai. China, "It should be burns in recollection, has largely been developed so far on the ribbon system as regards com- aluntration. The two great rivers. i la true, the Hoang-ho and the Yang-tac-klang. have tapped the trane of the interior and have been a to-and-fro medium of dis- tribution ever since the white races began to take an interest in the yellow rolossus. But the railways
serve a coastwise traffic to a great extent, and their inland penetra-
tion in reality amounts to no more
than the chord Pekin-Hankow Canton of the arc which the coast formation draws.
So that air lines have a virgin field to conquer In the opening-up of Central China arid will have no competition to fear for ages yet from any other modern form of transport. It is a golden opportunity for century enterprise
Eurasia has already completed nearly half the circumference in
in
has only been two years existence and, so far, operates the air line Canton-Lulchow to' Kung- Chow, in the island of Hainan."
ABOUT CHINA
MAY 27, 1937.
IMPERIAL CONFERENCE
Various Committees Appointed
London, May 25. The Attorney-General Sir Donald Somerville addressed the Imperial Conference Committee, under the Chairmanship of M. La Pointe, Minister of Justice to Canada, on constitutional questions for thirty- five minutes explaining complex le- gal difaculties accompanying the definition of British subject and common status.
A communique states Havenga, Union Minister of Finance, Mr. Casey, Treasurer of Australla, Mr. Savage and Sir Zafrulla Khan on behalf of India and Dr. Skelton on behalf of Canada participated in the discussion and on Havenga's
SELASSIE STILL HOPES FOR FREEDOM OF ETHIOPIA
Geneva, May 25.
Ethiopia,
Emperor Halle Selassie of
in
whose country, is still the process of conquest by
tion to Italy, is not sending any delega- the League. of Nations Assembly.
a message to the League purpose would be served to-day, he wrote that no useful
attending.
by his
"While expressing my good wishes to Egypt and rejoicing in fact that she has gained complete international indepen dence, I reserve
that the hope the League will one day obtain the complete liberation of
the
declared... Reuter
GEN. WU ACTS AS HOST
Dinner Given To Pressmen
Canton, May. 24.
A dinner was given to-night by chen. Chairman of the Kwangtung His Excellency Ceneral Wu Te-
Provincial Government, to local newspaper men at the Municipal Reception House.
Chairman Wu in a speech out- lined his programme for the re- construction and amelioration of conditions Kwangtung and sought the co-operation of the press in enlightening the pubilè,
A spokesman for the journalists thanked their host for the enter- tainment and assured him that his
province would be duly followed in the papers.
motion the questions were referred | Ethiopian occupied territory." he activities for the welfare of the to a committee of technical experts of the delegations of which Sir Do- naid Somerville will be Chairman and Convenor. Earlier in the day the Conference appointed a committee to deal with questions of defence on which all Dominions are represent- ed.- Reuter.
ANOTHER COMMITTEE
London, May 25. The sixth meeting of the prin-
Geneva, May 25. The "Negus Negasti of Abyssinia" notified the Secretary of the Les- gue of Nations that he would not de represented at the present ses sion of the League. At the same time, so the ex-emperor of Ethio- pla states, he attaches importance to being in position in the name of China is thus being developed cipal delegates of the Imperial Con- Abyssinia and as member of the on three sides to the possibilities ference was held in the Cabinet League of Nations to heartily wel of International aviation, in each room at 10, Downing Street to-day. come Egypt to the League. Halle case by means of Chinese enter- Mr. Baldwin presiding. Yesterday's | Selassie furthermore states that prise and initiated on the coast. discussion on defence was contin- he hopes that the liberation of his Two of these will be the care of ued by Mr. Savage, Prime Minister territory from foreign occupation Eurasia, which, in addition to the of New Zealand, Mr. Havenga, Min-in accordance with the covenant plan of linking Berlin with Shang-ister of Finance for South-Africa, of the League would still one day hat, schemes as well to branch Lord Zetland north-westerly from Chugutschak and by Sir Thomas Inakip. It was on behalf of India
be achieved.-- and connect with the inner Asian agreed a Committee should be set
Transocean News Service, routes of Russia, thence Transsiberian. The third develop-interest in the supply and produc- up to consider questions of mutual ment will be on the north-eastern tion of munitions, raw materials, side, where the Transmanchurian food and feeding stuffs and that Sir air line, with its western terminus Thomas Inskip should be Chair- at Man-Chouli, near the Russian man and Convener of the Commit- frontier, will in time connect with
tee.
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to the
Pekin extension. The South- West Aviation Corporation, more 20th over, will in time connect with the great British, Dutch, and French airlines which are already in be ing in the South; and a network may be anticipated soon which will eventually permit of universal travel by air over most of Asia.
volved in the grandiose acheme which the Corporation was formed to effect. The link Shanghai- Chugutschak takes it to the boundary of Outer Mongolia via Langchow and Urumteht in manner which bisects the Chinese Republic in slightly north- westerly direction. At the latter place it is only about 150 miles from the Turk-Bib railway which now connects Turkestan with Siberia, and could, even now, be easily linked up with the Rusalan air lines in those parts, thus com- pleting the inter-continental sys- tem on account of which it has been so aptly named.
RUSSIAN SYSTEM The Corporation also actuates the north and south air line, Pekin to Canton via Chengchow, by extending which it will connect with the Russian system at its eastern extremity. Eurasia is the creation of the German Lufthansa and the Chinese Transport Minis- try. the latter holding two-thirds of the share capital In its trans continental activity it is mono- polist, but its minor, easterly ex- tension is in competition with an- other system of Chinese air trans- port.
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war, outlined the steps being taken Mr. Duff Cooper, Minister for to bring organisation and equip ment of the regular and territorial armies up to date and Lord Swin- made a corresponding statement don Becretary of State for Air. regarding the Royal Air Forte. The discussion was adjourned until to Japan, although held back for morrow morning when Sir Samuel the moment because of political Hoare, First Lord of the Admiralty and technical dificulties, contem-will make a statement on the Navy, plates air lines joining Shanghai-British Wireless. and Formasa to her southern is-
AMERICAN COMPETITION land, as well as Rashin, the port on North Korea, with Nugata across
"London, May 25. The second meeting of the Pacific the Sea of Japan. She has already sub-committee of the Committee on a thousand-mles air line in opera-shipping questions of the Imperial tion which connects Harbin via Conference was held at the Board Mukden and Seoul with Fukuoka, of Trade to-day under the chair- in the southern island of Kushiu.manship of Mr. Walter Nash, of New Zealand. The matter of Ame- nean Competition in trans-Tasman traffic from the shipping point of view was under discussion. The meeting was adjourned until Thurs- day. British Wireless.
U.8.S.R.
PROTEST AGAINST
BROADCASTS
WOUNDED CHINESE
OFFICER
com-
Shanghai, May 25," General Liu To-chuan, manding the 41st army at Nan- dinate of Marshal Chang Hsueh- rang. Honan, and former subor- lang. is recovering at the Ortho- pedic Hospital in Route Zikawei, French Concession and will leave the hospital next week.
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An assassin made an attempt on the life of General Liu at Nan- yang wounding his arm pit. His wlie
but succeeded, only
would-be murderer was killed by Wág also slightly injured. The
General Llu's bodyguards. The motive is not disclosed.
mand of troops in Sian, who topk The wounded officer was in com- part in the mutiny of December 9 last year. They were reorganized
and transferred to Honan for gar- rison duty.-— Union New
MARRIAGE BILL
Meanwhile the U.S.S.R. has been making great strides in North and Eastern Siberia. Air navigation of the Arctic Ocean from Archangel to the Behring Straits is already in an experimental stage, a route which may be one day of in- estimable strategic value. If the Far-Eastern area is isolated in a war with Japan. Other develop
London, May 25. ments are a branch from the
At the Empire Press Conference Transsiberian from Irkutsk, west on Tuesday, violent protest was of Lake Baikal, to Yakutsk, on the made by the former Press chief of River Lens, and a southern branch the Foreign Office, Sir Arthur Wie- from Udinsk, cast of Baikal, to lert, against the Italian anti-Bri- Urga, within the border of Mon-ish broadcasting services in Ara-British Wireless.. golla,
ble language,, particularly in Asia But the boldest project is to con- Minor. #
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London, May 25. The Government has agreed to set aside next Friday in the House of Commons for the remaining stages of Mr. A. P. Herbert's mar- riage Bill Amending Law of Divorce. "Introduced as a Private Members' Bill it received support from all sections of the House but owing to various delays it failed to reach its third reading before end of the Commons time allotted to Private Members Bills.
FREE ENTRY
Paris, May 25.
This is the China National Avia- nect the Far-Eastern area with As a measure of "self-defence,” tion Corporation. known as the
Nome, in Alasks, and thus effect a
Sir Arthur, Wielert advocates the C.N.A.C., which Inaugurated its direct linking-up between the thus Installation in Ada Minor of Bri- service 1929 by a flight from slan and the American air lines. tish Broadcasting stations in Ara- A pleasant surprise was offered Shanghai to Hankow. Pan-Ameri- This line will run from Vladivostok bic. The ex-chief of the Foreign the visitors of the World Exhib!- can Airways have a large holding via Khabarovka, Nikolajevsk, in Orice Press also asserts that the tion on Tuesday, when they were of shares and are represented on the delta of the Amur, and thence Soviet Broadcasting send out anti-informed that there would be no the board. It operates American round the Sea of Okhotsk to Petro-British services; which had parti- entrance fee charged. The reason parlovsk, in Kamschatke, the ter-cularly in India often catised Bri- minus being Velen, on the Behring tish authorities uneasiness.- Straits, which is only 150 miles Transocean News Service, from Nome.
aircraft and is said recently to have acquired an up-to-date nest with cruising speeds of 200 miles an nour." The CNA.C. has two main services, one interior and the other coastal. The former starts from Shanghai and follows the valley of the Yang-tae via Hankow to Chung-king and Cheng-tu, reducing the rail and steamer journey to the latter place from nearly three weeks to sixteen hours, with a nifty per cent, improve- ment on that dying time in the near future. An extension is be- ing considered from Chun-king to Yun-nan, near the Annamese frontier. converting a tolisome Journey by caravan of nearly four weeks into a three-hours flight. The coastal service of the C.NA.C. actually follows the curvature of the coast from Pekin via Shanghal
In this great inking-up of con- tinents by air the hardest nut to crack is the Transpacific line, not: for technical reasons, but. because the Japanese mandated islands ile athwart the Mid-Pacific route.
DEFENCE OF CHINA
Special Areas To Be Guarded
Shanghai Representatives of different pro- vinces have assembled in Nanking
to Canton, changing the tedious 45 and have come to the conclusion hours by rail between the two that, the Central Government
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former cities to a journey by air should assign specific areas in of nine hours,
every province, for the construe- There is yet another Chiese tion of national defence. aviation company which has in During the period of amergency. view the opening-up of Southern these specific arcas will be heavily China. This is the China Bouth- guarded to the exclusion of non- West Aviation Corporation, found- | Chinese subjects. All passports to ed by the Cantón Government | foreigners will be suspended.-Bin with purely Chinese capital. It' Chew Jit Poh.
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A petition was submitted to Chairman Wu to relax the string- ency in press censorship. Although the Press Censorship Bureau is not under the control of the Provin- cia) Government, Chairman Wu promised to make recommenda- tionis to remove any unfairness or undue severity. General Wu was formerly a newspaper editor in Shanghat before entering politics. Union News.
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