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BROKEN PROMISES.
The statement Issued by the Shanghal Municipal Council clarifying the position as between the settlement authoritles and the Powers comes at an opportune mo ment, seeing that it practically synchronises with the netion of the Japanese a utilising the Settle
adding.
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stricted to units actually required for the purposes of defence. Ho udded that if the Japaneso determined upon offensive actions which could not come within the scope of the Defence Committee's responsibilities, the forces employ- ed should have been landed, and kept, beyond Settlement limits. He goes further and asserts that the use of the Settlement as a base exposes the British, American and French forces to attacks by Chi- nese regular forces, adding that saddle "Japan has 110 right to friendly Powers with responsibili- tles of Buch magnitude."
Apart frum the Immedinta effects of Japan's actions, there are grave potenilailles in the tion which she had created. Jus well been said that fragile in- deed were the barriers of Inter- national good faith and mutual Sino-foreign convenience which hedged about Shanghal's little political island, and while it was not hard for Japan to crush through them, it will be far harder back. for others to build them Japan, however, appears to regard The situation merely in the light of Surely immediate convenience.
count for her promises should something. World opinion, us the chief Japanese delegate at the League Council recently admitted. is hostile towards Japan. It is likely to be intensified by the latest developments. The danger to the as Japan Settlement arises, not says, from the proximity of Chil- nese forcen, but from the tracties which the Japanese military and naval commanders are adopting by infringing its long-established neutrality.
Lausanne in June.
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"Mystery Planes" For Race Through Stratosphere.
S
TRATOS P
PHERE
RCHAIS
ARMAN-6 HOURS
-121OURS 33 HOURS
LINDBERGH-3
M. Guerchale (upper right), noted French aeronautical engineer... is building the weird, submarine-like monoplane shown below... in, which he hopes to flyr at least 200 miles an hour through the atrato-sphore... and hop from Paris to New York in 12 hours
builder, Farman, is constructing a plans to make the same flight in only six hours.
DAY BY DAY
By Minott Saunders, Grotesque planes Bike man-made comets, roaring at dizzy apceds through the little known regions ten miles above the globe-
Six-hour trips from Paris Berlin to New York-
while a rival
later added to it: £600 received as damages in a libel action.
principle. They are monoplanes with exaggerated wing spans. The most unusual feature, however, is a scaled submarine-like cabin or built of metal and strong enough to prevent it from bursting out- wards from the air within while
IF WE CONSIDER WELL, WE SHALL FIND THAT EVERY CAPABILITY, HOW- Flying, winged "submarines, EVER SLIGHT, IS BORN WITH US; with daring pilots locked in her- THAT THERE IS NO VOGUE CAPACITY metically sealed cabine IN MEN.-Goethe.
It's going to be a spectacular trans-Atlantic flying season, if Five cases of small-pax and two of plans of European, soronautical diphtheria were reported to
the engineers don't go awry! - edical Officer of Health
over the
the plane la riding in the thin stratospheric element.
High Speed Possible. The Guorchala machine has a
wing 55 feet in spread and thick
The reparations conference, with the approval of France and other Interested gaveruments, is now to be held in June. The oflciul com- munique gives no inkling of the basis of the agreement, but sug- gests that much has been done to
in construction, with the bracing close the gap between the British
For a three-cornered or per- In the interior. It has a 700 borse ideal of a final closing of the ques
haps a four, five or alx-cornered power Lorraine motor and, under tion and French 'inalatence
Security to the value of $10,000-international race through the Guerchais' calculations, should be any arrangement shall be no more guaranteed by Mr. Ho Iu, compradors stratosphere is in the making, able to fly at 50,000 feet at 300
almost every capital in miles an hour. than temporary until the crisis is of the Mercantile Bank was accepted with
by Mr. Wynne Jones at the Central Europe neemingly harbouring
The sealed cabin in the Guer- over and Germany has recovered Police Court yesterday morning as "mystery plano" ready, to dare the chais machine is built of dura- her capacity to pay. The object bail for Chan Cheung-wan, a shroff rare upper atmosphere.
lumin, like that used by Professor Many of the planes are shroud- Auguste Piccard in his balloon
that
week end.
of the conference in June will be who is charged with conspiracy and
larceny of $8,825. Mr. F. H. Loseby
2
to agree upon a lasting settlement, is for the prosecution and Mr. A. B.ed in secrecy which permits not fight. It will house the motor Hall for the defence. The case was even the names of their builders and two pilots, and will also con again adjourned.
Versailles
ment for disembarkation of the newly-arrived troops. This action, as Reuter points out, is directly contrary to specific promisca mude by the Japanese to the consular authorities. After showing that
to put an end to a problem which the Connell has no authority or
has vexed Europe for eleven years, control whatever over the internn-
The irony which runs through this tional forces employed in the de
chapter of international relations fence scheme of the Settlement,
Germany is that
offered at Mr. Fessenden makes it clear that
to pay virtually, the the Japanese unit has been allotted the northern sector purely for de- same amount as was subsequently fensive measures and the protec-agreed upon in the Young plan; tion of the Selfiement as a whole, but while Germany probably would very pertinently, that have been able to acquit itself of "anything done by the Japanese in its debt, had its offer been accepted excess ol purely defensive and the violent economie and finan- measures contemplated by the de-cial upheavals been avoided, it has become doubtful whether, fence plan is something for which Row the Settlement authorities and after the experience of the last commanders of other nationalities year, any concession other than cannot be held responsible." This cancellation will hereafter be found expresses in other words the reply Rullicient. The story of the last "political recently made by the Chairman of eleven years is one of the Council, Brigadier General wrangling and financial uncertain Macanghten, to the protest of the The former secretary to the Mayor of Shanghai, in which it Reparation Commission, who was was plainly stated that the Japan-afterward secretary to the Dawes Commis- Government, and not the Committee, and finally
ressioner for Controlled Revenues in Municipal Council, is solely ponsible for the acts of the Japan-Berlin, speaks frankly about the ese armed forcen in the Settle folly of the astronomical figures which were employed. The pro- ment,"
It is well that the exact position gressive reductions did not im- should be made clear, since there prove matters, because they always appears to have been considerable came too late. At last, it is be- misapprehension on the matter coming understood that economic amongst the Chinese in Shanghai. and financial problems should be The fact of Japan's responsibility treated without pasalons and pre- having been established, the Issue Judices. Looking back becomes one of supremo impor-reparatlon period, we tance, and it is not surprising that where mistakes were made. But conklerable anxiety is being felt this retrospective discovery of mis- abroad over the situation thus takes, though interesting, will bo created. From the very outset, the fruitless unless it leads those in- Powers concerned have urged upon velved to the resolve that, in facing the Japanese Government the un- the new international financial and desirability of any Interference in economic problems which present
Settlement. For the
example, themselves to-day, rational action some little time back, the British shall be taken and solutions rench- Ambassador in Tokyo drew the ed before they are too late. attention of the Japanese Foreign Omee to the dangers to which the lives and intercata of British nationals have been exposed by Japanese action, and protested against the use of the Settlement The following cable at tho. close as a base for attack. Washington of the sugar,market yesterday has niso addressed Japan on boon received by Messrs. Pon. similar lines, but, notwithstanding treath and Co. assurances by the Tokyo Govern- ment, the Japanese on the spot have aeted in direct opposition to the pledges of their Government. Denl- Ing with this issue, a Shanghai commentator, who has certainly not been by any means pro-Chinese In his observations, recently urged that the landing and employment of Japanese forces in the Settle- mont area should have been re-
baa
LADY HOUSTON'S PATRIOTISM.
to be
There has been no demand for
or pilots to be known. Other con- tain highly sensitive Instruments structora, like the rivals Farman for scientific observations and and Guerehala in Paris and an- safe flying when nothing can be other manufacturer in Germany seen. An "Elecro-Mecanique" have partially revealed their compressor, subject to regulation olans.
from the cockpit, will be started, according to plans, at about 20,- Farman and Guerchais are each 000 feet altitude and feed the on- speeding up final preparations in
Plane Built in Secret
Henri Furman, plonger aviator and one of the foremost construc- tors in France, is zealously guard ing the secrets of his stratosphere
Life in this cabin during flight TO PAY INCOME TAX. the ambition to be the first to Congine as well as the men.
quer the stratosphere. Already Lady Houston, although domi-built, in Berlin, is another plano will be much the same as that in eiled in Jersey, has, for patriotle with a hermetically sealed-cock-4 submarine, with oxygen tanks reasons, decided to pay income tax nit, oxygen-supply chambers, an and a system for the absorbtion of this year in considertion of the na-82-foot wingspread and a crude carbon gases. tion's need. The matter is now in oil motor-und It's snid to bo the hands of her lawyers, who are capable of flying 700 miles an hour working out the details of the aum at an altitude of ten miles,
paid.
The two planes now nearing the payment of the tax. Lady completion in Paris are similar in
machine. It outwardly resembles Houston merely considers that the
the famous Farman type of com- present financial position of the country la nuch that she should con- part," Last year she guaranteed mercin! machine, but has a wing- telbute to the Exchequer in respect £100,000 to defray the cost of Great spread of nearly 80 feet. The air- Britain's defence of the Schneider tight compartment is surmounted of her income,
It may be recalled that Lady Trophy.
by Ave heavy radiators, three for Lady Houston in December, 1929,
air, one
for oil Houston on her husband's death
and one for water. paid in 1928 £1,500,000 in death sent a donation of £1,000 to the It will be driven by a 500 horse- Movement power motor and the apparatus in Protest duties as an act of grace without Christian admitting any liability on her against Russian Persecution, and the cabin will pump 60 litres of
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warm air a minute. The plane is heavily constructed, but it is cati- mated that it should make between 400 and 500 miles an hour in the rarifled air of the stratosphere.
Both Guarchala and Farmon will use a propellor with a vari- able pitch, or angle of attack on the air, which may be changed by the pilot during flight.
Work on the Farman atrato- phere plane has been going on for four years.
"We shall not attempt anything sensational at first," Forman said. "The machine, which should be. ready in about two months, will be flown first at low altitudes and then higher by gradual stages.
To Seek New. Altitudes. "We do not know what we shall do, but we hope for much. It may bo considered as cortain that the altitudes at from 50,000. to 60,000 feet which machines of the pros- ent may reach will in time be greatly
we ought to go rarification
The
very, very fast. of the air, should, in theory, permit to be doubled above normal speed 30,000 feet and quadrupled above 00,000 feet, but this is not exact- ly true. To reach great altitudes we shall have to put on weight and⠀⠀ this will cut down speed.”
It is no secret, however, that Farman engineors figure that a.. normal speed of 120 miles an hour should develop into 600 an hour at from 70,000 to 10,000 feet al- titude. On that basis," a strato- aphere plane should fly from Paris. [to-New York in six hours perf