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PLANE ACCIDENT.
FIVE DEAD' IN AMERICAN DISASTER.
Muirfield, Riverside, Mar. 31.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, APRIL
1929.
STEAMER CRASHES SINGAPORE AS AN RACING PROSPECTS
ON CRUISER,
(Continued from Page "1. Kangtal, Mr. H. Apeland, who was! dressed In the rig-out of an Italian sailor, said that he wan on the bow until the vessel went down and then jumped into the
AIRPORT
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
~SCHEME.
FOR TO-DAY.
SOME KEEN FINISHES EXPECTED.
[By "Ringtail"]
ses. He was in the water about SIR ERIC GEDDES MEETS THE ing at Happy Valley to-day if the half an hour and was picked up by
A
lifeboat from the Libia. He too, sald that the prompt action of the Libia's mon undoubtedly prevented a terrible catastrophe."
UNOFFICIALS.
BIG POSSIBILITIES.
There should be some good rac-
track has dried, particularly amongst the "A" Glaas ponies. The subscription events should, produce some interesting finishes also, and the old ponies may, pro- duco a little form to account for adow hard fought finishes.
1st Race.
Chinese Junke Asalat.
Singapore, March 22:
A number of good ponlea have Chinese Junks also played a part Singapore's part in the proposed still to win their races to-day and, in the rescue work and also a Imperial air route from England with the winners of Saturday Japanese steamer was present to Australia was discussed by Sir carrying penalties, sonic of the The port doctors launch, Footang Eric Geddes, Chairman of Imperial placed ponies should be watched in which was Dr. 8. B. H. Aylward Airways, Ltd., at a meeting with to-day. My ablections are as fol rondered invaluable assistance the Singapore Unofficial Members
lows: and it was on this launch that the of the Legislative Council vester. two littla Chinese girls were taken day. after being picked up unconscious. All efforts at artificial respiration were unfortunately unsuccessful. Dr. Aylward had been on board & Blue Funnel str. and his attention was attracted by the violent blow ing of the ill-fated vessel's whistle which had been lashed open by the chief officer and was clouds of steam.
The meeting,was of an informal nature and was. arranged, simply in order that members, at the Council might hava:an opportunity of hearing from Sir Eric Goddes the plans which Imperial Airways had in view. Sir Eric described the company as it is at present and referred to the plans which It had in hand for the establish- The following are the forefgnment of a through air route from survivors who arrived on the Re-England to Australia, via Singa venue Cruiser Likin yesterday evening:--
emitting
Mr. Caalmir Sharsky, Polish Miss Frene Sharsky, Polish Miss Eve Ostachewich, Polish Miss Louise Weber, German. Mr. M. Frolow, Russian Dr. W. Werzbitsky
Mr. Sharsky, together with his daughter and niece, were return- ing from a holiday and had passed through Siberia vin Valdivostok from Warsaw. He is a seafaring man and did much. In the rescue work. They lost all their bagkage and had only the clothes they stood up in. His daughter and nece were returning to Shanghai and are to enter the American School. There were also 68 Chinese on board the
Likin.
AMERICAN LADY ATTACKED.
pore.
No definite proposals were made and no definite scheme which the Council can consider at present was submitted. On his return home it is expected that Sir Eric Geddes will confer with the other directors of Imperial Airways in regard to the possibility of deve loping an alr route to Australia.
In reply to enquiries by a Straits Times representative this morning offeinls declined to comment on the rumours of the use an Im- perial. Airways service might be in the neighbourhood $2,000,000, spread over five years.
Within Ten Years,
of
Sir Eric Geddes, who left for Home to-day by the P.C. Hooft, bas refused to be interviewed in Malaya, but he told press repre- sentatives In Australia recently that the services of Imperial Air- ways, Lid, would be extended to Karachi (India) In April, that Imperial Always would maintain regular communication with Aus- tralin within the next 10 years, and that the air journey between London and. Sydney would occupy about 17 daysTI
Inter.
Winsome Stag San Francisco
3 Duke of Chantilly 2nd Race.
Inca .
2 .Sunloch
-3 Silver Stag
3rd Race,
King's Falloch Loch Etive
3 The Ape
1
4th Race..
Town Hall
2 Tarmacadam
3. Blue Would
6th Race.
1 Sunning
2. Ace of Spades
3
As You Like It
6th Race.
1 Triumphant* Stag 2 Glory
3 Fanling Stag" ↑
7th Race.
1 Half Pint
2 The Jungle Book.
3 Zephyr
1
8th Race.
O'Moon
2 Dark Eyes
3 The Juminca ·
9th Race."
1 Chesapeake Bay Young Pretender 3 Pickle
NEW IDEAS ON THE L.M.S.
(Continued from Page 1. lighted. By means of a flash-light the oicers found the spot, where the robbers had assailed her. About
Imperial Airways, Ltd., which seven or eight, yards away they enjoys large Government sub- found one glove and her hat, in was organised in 1924, when another direction was the other
Sir Erle became chairman of glove.
directors: Its air services; now Signs of Struggle,
extend from Croydon, near Lou don. to all parts of Europe; and; Between the pavement and the It is hoped to make it eventually. road, they discerned two sharp im- the main structure of prints which she had apparently Imperial air communication. Sir made with her heels, as she resisted Erie Geddes told a reporter that ALL-STEEL VEHICLES, DIESEL
ENGINE AND CONTAINERS. the vandals. The party were also ft was necessary, at present, to able to see how she. had been use almost all maintenance, but
Three reasons-Industrial de dragged, and along the edges of the in five or six years' time, as new ditch, it was possible to recon-plant was acquired, it was intend-pression, road competition, and
fares-accounted struct how she had crawled out. ed to use the subaldy on the deve-roduced
Afler arriving at the foreign lopment of services. Eventually, of losses in traffic. receipts, said Sir house the injured lady removed us course, the aubsidy would be with- Josiah Stamp, at the annual
meet much dirt from her hands and drawn,
ing of the EMS. Railway. clothing as possible. One pocket of
Points from the speech ara:- her fur coat was turned inside out,
Promising results are being ob- the other which was beneath her
Lained from experiments with a train driven by a Beardmore Diesel engine with electrical transmis
as she fell, contained a cigarette, a dollar, and a box of matches.
Doctors attended the lady yester-
for
New Service To India. : Referring to, the new service to India, Sir Eric said that com- munication would be maintained by land machines across Europe slon. day, who still was in such a nervous and Asin, and by flying-boats The use of containers for mer condition that she could not relate across the Mediterranean. The chandine trafic promises greater
what had happened after she was thrown down. One scratch on ber shoulder could possibly have being made in an attempt to drug her and blood tests for narcotics are being enducted. It is hoped that In
believed that she will be able
amount compared
with the progress.
all-steel
quantity carried by steamers, but As a step towards ensuring the this mail service would be of the safety of passengers, greatest value in business men vehicles are being constructed, in forwarding, and. receiving and the company will soon have documents. As an example of 500 of them.
several days she may be able to tell the value of quick mails,. Sir Eric Economics, due to amalgama- more of the assault, but it is not suggested, that, when a regular ion, by comparison with the year! to identify her assailants, should air service was established with before amalgamation, amount to
Australia, wool might be sold on £8,000,000. they be arrested.
sample received by air mail, with a large saving in interest, storage, and other chargos on the consign-
The directors are determined that the company shall share in the road business, and negotia
LIBEL ACTION SETTLED] ment, owing to the time saved tons are proceeding.
When Imperial Airways was formed in 1924, said Sir Eric, the
So far, third-class "sleepera" have justified themselves.
Sir Josiah said the question of starting large garage, accommoda- As a commercial proposition that tion is being vigorously investiga did not pay, and gradually the ted.
| A NEW AGENCY TO PAY £150 company worked on 2.3 lb. of
DAMAGES.!
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.1.
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the King's Bench Division recent it was 6.7 lb. per horsepower railway train, the motor car, and by before Mr. Justice Humphreys generated. That was nearer to the ocean liner. But in aviation of the libel action which Mr. what was required, but still was they had had to produce the most Morris Harold Davis, a member of not large enough. Another diff expensive form of machine, and the London County Council and of culty which they met in pioneer work down from that to a pay- the Stepney Borough Council, Ing the air services was that the able proposition, while maintain- brought against the Central News machines on an average would flying the standard necessary for
only two or three hours out of the safety Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., for the twenty-four. Obviously, that Gradually people were learning Mr. Davis, said that the news. was not a payable arrangement to use the air liners, particularly between the Many well
travelling known Hongkong agency circulated a report alleg
-expense plant must be kept for people left for Home on the Malwa ng that he was guilty of corrupt employed for longer periode: European capitale.
practice at a municipal election. Gradually as people became ac Sir Eric lives in Bussex, and on- on Saturday. The passengers in Many newspapers published the customed to commercial aviation, his way to his London office in the cluded Paym. Lt.-Cdr. and Mrs. Barker, Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Cassidy, report, and all had wald damages.
There was never any truth in better conditions were being in- mornings he passes the Croydon Mr. T. F. Claxton, Director of the the report, and as Mr. Davis had troduced. Imperial Airways had aerodrome. If the women of his which was flying over Beaumont Mrs. D. J. Gilmore, Mr. and Mrs. and was not desirous of making
the morning, and picks them up The potral tank of an aeroplane Royal Observatory. Mr. W. 8. Cuff, had his character fully vindicated bullt 40-passenger planes, each family wish to shop in Paris, he drops them at the aerodrome, in exploded and the plane, caught V. M. Grayburn, Capt, E. L. Grieve,
home at 5 fire. It then crashed, the five R.N., Mr. and Mrs, A. Hargreaves money out of the matter, he had
there on his way. o'clock. Many Englishwomen thus occupants being killed.-Reuters Browne, Mrs. A. Maitland, Me, A. greed to accept £150 and taxed American Service.
use the air liners for a day's H. McBride, Mr. and Mrs. E.
On behalf of the Central News, Nicholson, Comdr. P.R.P. Peretval.
shopping in the French capital. Mr. and Mrs, W. Pryde, Mr. and Mr. B. P. Croom-Johnson, K.C.,
The development of commercial Last summer Sir Eric chartered Mrs. F. A. Redmond, Mr. and Mrs. said that the report was sent by
∙AT THE quite an air liner and took a party of C. A. B. Russ and Comdr. II. H. someone who used the name of aviation he added, was
one of their correspondents. They different from the growth of any friends for a trip lasting several, Snepp:
apologised as soon as they dis other form of transport. In land, daya, along the coast of Scotland. covered their mistake, but had and water transportation, the Their meals were cooked in the Ron unable to trace the sender. most primitive vehicles bullockkitehen, which is part of the His Lordship approved the drays and dug-outs were used, accommodation of all large com settlement.
and from them were evolved the mercial aeroplanes,
Mr. B. 5. King, General Y. 11. Tang and Mr. P. A. Cox arrivad on the Empress of France over the week-end.
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