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TYPHOON TUGA
FIRST TRIP ON SERVICE
YESTERDAY.
The new typhoon tug. Kau sin, was despatched on her maiden service trip yesterday, taking out reliefs and stores to the Pratas Shoal.
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SATURDAY MAY 22, 1928.
HELICOPTER WANTED.
BIG PRIZE NOT WON.
London, April 80.-The big cash. prize which the British Govern- ment offered in 1923 for any one who would construct a practic able helicopter expires at mid- night to-night."" Thus will be withdrawn from competition the greatest eash "plum" that has ever been offered in the history of aviation.
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DANCE "CRASHER."
REVOLT BY ENGLISH SOCIETY. London, April 23.-Hosteesca are
the
crasher" in London this season. out to exterminate
Crashers are uninvited guests. who, ever since the war, have in- creasingly threatened the OX- clusiveness of London's fashionable homes,
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most
It is understood that the vessel has recently been undergoing
They are young men and women compass and other trials, pre-
Although scoros of drawings of irreproachable manners and paratory, to being put into com- were submitted to the Air Minia-appearance who have acquired a mission and that so far, every-try during the three years in technique in invading parties and thing has proved to be highly which the prize stood open for becoming popular with the guests antiafactory.
For the trip to the Pratas Shoal, she was been manned by à Chinese crew, enlisted by the Har- bour Department, with a Euro- pean master, mate and engineer. These appointments have been given to unemployed offers, but
It is understood that they are temporary and hold good for this trip only.
PROPERTY SALE.
HIGH FIGURE FOR
HONGKONG LOT.
At the China
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winning, and although some fifteen inventore registered their names as contestants for the prize only one full-sized machine wER ever constructed. And even this one machine was not aligible for the contests inasmuch as it was built with money furnished by the
Air Ministry.
It was the failure of this machine--the Brennan Helicopter -after some £50,000 has been
spent on its construction, that was the deciding factor in the decision of the Air Ministry to withdraw the prize altogether from competi- tion nud not to renow it for an- other year as was done In 1925 When the situation.as to entries. was identical with what it was to-day.
sometimes so popular that they have monopolized the attentions reserved for legitimate claimants.
Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister's wife, has shown May- fair its lead. She has announced to the press her regrets that at a coming charity affair at her
home she could receive only guests who had replied to her invitation.
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Several methods are being tried HALL, LAW & Co., Ltd. by boatesses, come asking that in- vitation cards be brought along und others having the butler check off a list of the guests. Descrip- tions of notorious crashers are being exchanged, and a regular detective service has been organized to eliminate this social Buisance. Special police have been' interested in the campaign,' Auction Rooms. "We don't say that it is imposfor, although usually harmless, yesterday, Mr. E. V. M. R. desible to construct a practicable the uninvited guests may occa Sousa disposed of property situ helicopter" said an official of the sionally. be spies and thieves. ated in the Central District for a Air Ministry to-day in an exclu- sum approximating $29 perkive statement to the United square foot. There was a fair Press, "but we do say that the
The Metropolitan Police Office, attendance, and bidding was un- day of the helicopter is not yet Tokyo, announced on May 11 the
in sight. usually brisk
prohibition of manufacturing and "Compared with the present selling toy revolvers in that city. performance requirements of air- because many burglars have been planes in their field, the require-using these toy revolvers in ments for winning the helicopter threatening the people. The competition were comparatively police authorities say that they simple. To win the big prize the are so ingeniously manufactured machine need have only been able that they can be used in firing, it to ascend 1,000 feet vertically and some repairs are made, descend vertically the same dis tance. It was required that it should be able to hover, over one spot for a given length of time in still air, and to be able to fly a closed circuit of half a mile or
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The property in question was the Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 282 A, together with the buildings erected thereon, known as Nos. 15 and 17 Possession Street, held for a period of 999 years from September 1864, and having an area of 1,034 square feet and an annual Crown Rental of $15.
Opening at $30,000, with bids of $100 acceptable, the first three raises were of $1,000 each, from which point the. price steadily rose with bids of $500 to $40,000, at which sum the property was knocked down to Mr. Cheung Siu.
SHANGHAI EXECUTION.
MAN,WHO SHOT A ̈ VOLUNTEER,
so in diameter.
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"Yet of all the plans submitted not one. inventor came forward with a machine of his own build- Ing. The Brennan machine seem- ed to the Air Ministry the "most promising of any of the designs and apart from the prize offering the Miniatry sank some £50,000 in the development of the machine. No pains or expense were spared in its construction and design; yet it turned on its side and crash- ed after getting a few feet off the 'Shanghai, May 21. ground. With the power we now The Police Commissioner's e- have available in light-weight port for April states that the Chin-aviation motors it seems to be ese, Lan Ho-sang, who fired from possible to design a machine that the New World building on June can lift itself from the ground 2nd, 1925, shooting an American by rotating vanes but the, problem Volunteer and killing his pony, nas of lateral stability in helicopters been executed by the Chinese nu-
seems as far as ever from being thorities, after trial by the Mixed
Bolved. Court.
The British Air Ministry has abandoned for the time being, and
It is significant from the Chin-possibly for a long time to come. ese standpoint that the man was any hope of solving the problem beheaded and not shot. Accused of vertical ascent and descent by made a graphic, confession before helicopter machines and is devot- his execution.-Reuter.
ing itself to the construction of the auto-giro or 'wind-mill' type` of airplane.
On the lonely Isle of Ailsa
"While these can neither ascend Craig, 12 miles off the Ayrshire vertically nor hover over one spot coast, an aged quarrymin was they can descend practically ver- krocked unconscious in an ace tically and can fly very slowly, dent. He had to await help from and by such performance Girvan, the nearest point on the approach the military require- mainland. The. usual beacon on monta of a helicopter more closely, the island was not seen; and two than any other type of airplane. days later a carrier pigeon arrived We are now building four of these, at Girvan with a message asking one of 30-36 horse power, one of for help A doctor found the 110 horse-power and two of 200 man suffering" from concussion horsepower. These will be ready and gevere wounde, He was for testing sometime this spring taken to Girvan and thence to and the Air Ministry is looking, Glasgow Western Infirmary.
forward to these tests with the keepest interest."
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