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Spain And Contraband Control
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The Spanish Ambassador London called on the Permanent Under-Secretary a the Foreig71" Office at the end of last week and delivered
Note. drawing attention to the recent British measures of contraband control. and generally reserving the right at the Spanish Government In connexion with them. states a British Wireless report.
BRITAIN CANNOT HAVE TOO MANY DESTROYERS
LONDON. Aug. 12 (Reuter)— The King Hall news-letter warns S readers against relying too niuch on an enormous amount (of- plants and other war material to be shipped from America in the
next few months.
Power For U.S. Planes
MASS OUTPUT OF LIQUID-COOLED. ENGINES NOT POSSIBLE THIS YEAR
Washington-Mass production of Aquid-cooled acroplane eng→ "Ines, the type most In demand and least available to the United States Army Air Corps, probably cannot be accomplished within a year, according to the best advices obtainable from govern- ment experts, writes a correspondent,
By mass production” is meant output of upward of 1,000 duits a month. Most great producers of air-cooled engines, who have been in the business a long time, are only now turning out around 1,500 units monthly, despite greatly augmented capacity due to British orders.
Given additional contracts,
which probably will be forthcom
TUESDAY, AUGUST
13, 1940.
FOREIGN MAILS
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, 13th AUGUST, 1940, 9.30 AM.
been increased
The air mikil rates to New Zealand have to Letters $150 per oz. Postcards $0.75 each and now cover air: transit to Auckland New Zealand. The blue air mall label must be affixed to, all correspondence intended for this service.
ing in the near future, the air- HOW LAITY CAN Baigon.
cooled engine builders-Wright:
Aeronautical Corporation and CONTRIBUTE TO
сап
Pratt & Whitney-probably double their capacity in a year,
which would increase their output SPREAD CHURCH
from about 18,000 a year to 38,000 a year.
Acquisition by the government
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
INWARD MAILS
From
US, A., and Shanghai (Seattle date, 18th July!
Shanghalefceraverisja m Shanghai and Amoy mean undanimavera Halphong
Air Mail by "Pan American Airways Direct Ser-
vice."-San Francisco date," 66h' August. Shanghai.
"The priesthood of the lalty is Shanghai and Amoy something real and in this matter ju. S. A, and Manila (San Francisco date 20th we have a great deal to learn from
July),
fights to the Rolls-Royce - the Methodists" said Rev. Derek sine is regarded as of tremendous Karunaratne in the seventh an- Importance to air defence in viewniversary meeting of the Church of the fact that this country had of Ceylon Laymen's. Assembly held at the Galle Face School hall re-
no tried and proved Elquid-cooled appreciate the.
motor on the advent of the pre-cently. sent war.
The layman, says the news- letter does not tremendous preliminary work re- "quired before a modern weapon of war can be made: In the design of a light tank, for instance, 2,400 drawings must be made. Mechanics cannot be semi- skilled workers but real mechanics.
One important contribution would be over-age U. S destroyers which General Pershing has sug- gested be sent to Britain im- mediately,
Just as Nelson said he could not have too many frigates, so today we cannot have too
many des- troyers.
This Strange World
Mr. H. C. Bayne, the president of the assembly, occupled the chair.
The meeting commenced with the singing of a hymn and solo rendered by Mrs. Esme Joseph.
It was largely because the British could. not obtain motors" from this country to fit their fighting planes de- signed for liquid-cooled motors
Mr. Karunaratne addressed the that they so willingly" handed over the Rolls-Royce patents meeting on the postribution which and sample engines to - the laymen have made and can make government, Likewise, the Air in the extension of Christ's King-
· Corps needed engines of the dom throughout the world." Hquid-cooled type for some of
He said that the Laymen's As its new planes.
sembly should emphasise the Detalls of why the General evangelical side in the life of the Motors corporation has not been Church. "The prieshood of the jable to obtain mass production of|lalty:" Mr. Karunaratne continued the British engine, developed dur-"s something real and in this we ing the past ten years with the have a great deal to learn from ald of the Air Corps, are evasive, the Methodists.” although one hears many conflict-
Ing reports of the Air Corps blam-|
ing the Allison company and of
SETTLING DIFFERENCES
Japan and Shanghai.
London and Straits.
Air Mail by "Imperiai Airways Service*
Shanghal.
Japan and Shanghal.' to... Calcutta and Straits Shanghai.
U.S.A., Bonolulu, Japan and Franelsco date, 20th July). Shanghal
Due
13th Aug.
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August).
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Japan and Formosa.
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Service" Haiphong Shanghat and Amoy Japan.
fava and Manila.
Sandakan Shanghal
USA.; Honolulu Japan and Shanghal-(San Fran-
cisco date, 10th August). Australia and . Manila,
| London and Straits
Calcutta, Straits and Salgon ....... Japan and Manlia
They have lay preachers and lay. Гарад.
Every year 240 tons of soot fall the Allison people blaming the Air workers who were honorary men.
Corps.
of the camels......
been
Japan
on every square mile of London...
Their work was sometimes ham-Japan and Shanghai................ In Arabia camels have
The fact remains, as testified by pered because they failed to un-Canada, U.S.A. Japan and Shanghai (Vancouver Atted with radia receiving sets, several Army technicians who derstand each other. If they were B. C date 10th August). aerials being fixed to the humps have recently visited the model agreed on the fundamentals the U. s. A., Eonclula, Japan and Shanghai
Allison plant at Indianpolis, that detalls should not stand in their
Frandaco date 3rd August).. A divorce is easy to obtain in the company to date has not been way, Cochin-china. The married couple able to deliver more than fifteen a
He believed, he said, that dif» must break a pair of chopsticks week of its big 1,000-horsepower ferences between the laity and the motors, which the Air Corps badly clergy could be settled if they dis-
cussed matters.
In the presence of witnesses......
Scales used to weigh diamonds needs. are so delicately poised tha a single eyelash wil turn the balance......
ALLISON, BEST OF TYPE
Continuing
ot neglect
· OUTWARD MAILS
Registered and Parcel Mall are closed 15 minutes earlier than”
ue time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are he deplored the advertised to close at or before 9 a.m. registered and parcel malls are family worship inclosed at 5 pm on the previous day. When malls are advertised to Christian homes of the present close after 5 pm. Registered and Parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m.
There are a number of reasons There are 30.000,000 people of why the Air Corps now rates liquid German extraction in the Unit-cooled motors of the in-line type day. ed States......
Italy Is the
above the radial air-cooled engine Mr. Bayne, the Chairman ap- first country to for its fast pursuit planes, most pealed to the members to increase use coins made of stainless steel... important of which is the fact that the membership and so make the The American Prohibition closed use of these engines up to the pre- Laymen's Assembly a powerful
sent time has permitted a type of body whose wews were to be heard. Shanghai |177,000 saloons, Repeal, has re
sulted in aver 450,000 taverns." plane design which drastically re- "cafes." "beer" parlours," "wine duces drag at the nose of a plane, rooms"-but no "saloons,"
thus enhancing speed, mind you!.....
fl
An additional and important Girl Of 16
The oceans, including the inland reason for the Air Corps' shift of seas connected with them, cover interest from air-cooled to liquid ·
about 144,500,000 square miles, or cooled engines was its desire not Has Picture
In Academy
For
TUESDAY
Air Mail for Indo-China, Malaya, Java and Aus-Regi
tralia by the "Imperial Airways Service."
WEDNESDAY
Manila, Batavia and Sourabaya. Fort Bayard, and Hothow. ******* Amoy and Parcels only for Shanghai Bixteen-year-old Ursula Vivian Formoss, Shanghai and Japan..
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Ord
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Air Maß for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U. §. A., &
Europe via "Pan American Airways and Trans-Reg
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+5,00 TM
Atianite Services”.
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seventy-four per cent. of the to have "all the eggs in OILE earth's total surface..............*
basket." Not only from the point What is the favourite dish of of view of the strategy of diver the average American? Judging sity of sources of supply, but be from a recent survey, Ice cream cause of the benefits to aeronau tops the lis; and a close second tical engine development to be McCanncil has had a picture hung is fried chicken. Next in order derived from competitive types of "on the line" at the Royal Aca- come corn 100 the cob. steak; engines, the development of a good demy exhibition. She believes that' spaghetti apple pie, strawberry American brand of liquid-cooled she is the youngest exhibitor. shortcake, hot dogs, fried potatoes engine has been regarded as essen- Her picture is called "Souls in and tomatoes......
tial
Torment"; it shows a number of Napoleon Bonaparte originated, bouse numbers: odd ones on one ed that the present Allison engine gallery, 10,
Air Corps engineers are convinc-writhing figures and is hung in Saigon.
Straits.. side, even ones on the other...... is probably the best of its type in
2,796 LANGUAGES
Miss McCannell has been · ex- the world. They expect Dr. George hibiting in London for three years; Straits. The French Academy estimates Mead, aeronautical expert assist- the number of larguages in the ing Willam 3, Knudsen, General but this is her first academy Shanghai (Parcels only) world at 2,796, About 800 separate Motors president, on the National picture. She has shown her work Halphong | three times at the New English Shanghai "iron out the wrinkles in Allison Art Club and the Women's Inter- about production within a few months.national Art Club, and last summer straits
held นี "one-man" show
at & Changhal London gallery, where, her pictures | sold quite well.
| languages and distinctive dialects Defence Advisory Commission, to
are spoken in Europe......
English, which contains 700,000 different" words, has the richest vocabularly of all langu- ages. Yet Shakespeare, one of the most versatile writers' of all time, expressed tens of thousands of different ideas with a writing vocabulary of only 15,000 words..... The average weight of a "bead of hair is five to six ounces. Hair growth at the speed of about half an inch a month. Each hair
Certahily within the next ten months or a year Allison production should be up to 500 units a month and it will be a race from then on between Al- lison and Ford, rivaling only the well-known competition between Chevrolet and Ford
cars.".
Bangkot
Shanghai
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
¦ ¦ Her : father ́ls M. Otwa, Me-Sandakan. ¡Cannell principal of the Farnham | Salgón- and Bangkok.
School of Art, under the Surrey County Council.
NOT STUDIED MUCH
SATURDAY Shanghai and Parcels only for Tientsin.. Shanghai.
But she has not studied much Parcels only for Tientsin. Allison had already perfected an under him-she is almost entirely is approximately one four-hun-800 horsepower motor several self-taught. '
on
Straits, Rangoon and Calcutta,
Parcels 5.00 PM Letters 5.30 PM Air Mail for “Imperial Airways-Service” to Indo- GPO,&KFO."
China Durban and thence by Sen Service to Reg, -¦. £5.00 PM) United Kingdoxa, zaresmennenes retos
Manila
vs
MONDAY
dredth of an inch in diameter......years ago when the Air "Corps
Babies are born with only two pointed to engines of over 1,000 "Just before the Civil War we fears the fear of falling and the horsepower belig built by the air-were staying in Spain her father fear produced by a loud noise. cooled and foreign manufactures, said. "Revolution was in the air. All the others are acquired...... This required the stepping up of and Ursula was very much: In- Each time a drinking glass is Allison horsepower for competitive terested by social conditions in used It becomes a little thinner. reasons, and involved many more Spain, Many of her pictures are Haiphong, The action of water on the glass headaches" for Allison engineers based her memories of old
TUESDAY causes a minute amount of it to White the small number people and children she saw there. dissolve......vs,
Shanghai and parcels only for Tient of Alliso
In Air Corps "Her paintings are almost straits. If rain didn't return water taken planes, the
not yet re-entirely figures, and she seams to from oceans by evaporation theygarded as a thoroughly tried and prefer painting old people. The
WEDNESDAY would dry up in 3.000 years...... proved motor to the extent that painter whom she most admires Manila, Makassar and Sourabaya.
The continuous rattle of train Pratt & Whitney and Wright air- wheels has such a soothing effect cooled motors have been proved.
Formosa and Bhanghai Is El Greco."
[Japan] on Sir Robert Horn, president of This is largely a matter of age, a Canadian railway company, that the Allison product being a baby
By:
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Tue. 20th
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Wed. "Elat
Club will hold a Printed and Published by Henry Lloyd Murrow, for the Daily Press, Ltd. at Marina House, third floor. 18-1 ~Road Central Hongkong, Lobiton Of
he has had a special bed con- in years compared to the air-cool- BL structed that vibrates like that ined units which have powered com-moonlight excursion on Monday, a railway sleeping cara
mercial planes
JACKO
Hongkong