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|stricted to units actually required for the purposes of defenco. Ho added that if the Japanese were 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- that next regular forces, adding "Japan hos. no right to salo Friendly Powers with responsiblli. ties of such magnitude."
Whenever metal parts move, one upon the other, there Is
Apart from the immediate friction in some degree. That
effects of Japan's actions, there are is inevitable, Wear da always
grave potentialities in the situn- taking place in the cylinders
tion which she had created. It where the pistons and ringa
has well been said that fragile in- move against the cylinder
This walls.
friction ін deed were the harrlers of inter- and mutual minimized by
national good faith adeqante
which labrienton but can never he Sino-foreign convenience entirely eliminated. In The hedged about Shangbad's little Chevrolet design, with its low political island, and while it was
not
crush speed. short stroke engine,
hard for Japan to piston travel is quito low, through them, it will be far harder being only 1836 feet per ear
for others to build them back. mile, compared with 1914 foot
Japan, however, appears to regard and 2511 feet for its nearust
the situation merely in the light of competitors.
immediate convenience. Surely count for her promises should something. World opinion, as the chief Japanese delegate at the League Council recently admitted, In hostile towards Japan. It is likely to be intensified by the latest developments. The danger to the Settlement arises, not da Japan says, from the proximity of Chi- nese forces, but from the tracties which the Japanese military and naval commanders are adopting hy infringing ils long-established neutrality.
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The statement
Lausanne in June.
"Mystery Planes" For Race Through Stratosphere.
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TO S P HERE.
FARMAN-6 HOURS QUERCHAIS-12 HOURS
LINDBERGH-33 HOURS
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M. Guerchals (upper right), noted Fronch aeronautical engineer in building the weird, submarine-like monoplane shown below... in which he haper to fly at least 200 miles an hour through the strato-sphere ... and hop from Paris to New York in 12 hours... while a rival builder, Farman, is constructing a plane to make the same light in only six houre,
DAY BY DAY
FIND THAT EVERY CAPABILITY, HOW-
Five cases of small-pox and two of fedical Officer of Health diphtheria were reported to the over the week end,
By Minott Saunders, Grotesque planes like man-made |
later added to it £500 received as damages in a libol action.
comets, roaring at dizzy speeds principle. They are monoplanes through the little known regions with exaggerated wing spans. The ten miles above the globe.
most unusual feature, however, is Realed aubroarine-like cabin Six-hour trips from Paris or built of metal and strong enough Berlin to New York
to prevent it from bursting out- Flying, winged "submarines,"wards from the air within while with daring pilots locked in her- the plane is riding in the thin metically sealed cabins-
stratospheric element.
IF WE CONSIDER WELL, WE SHALL The reparations conference, with the approval of France and other EVER SLIGHT, IS PORN WITH US, interested governments, is now to THAT THERE IS NO VOGUE CAPACITY
IN MEN-Gorthe. issued by the be held in June. The offlelal com- Shanghai Municipal Corneil clarifying the position as between unique gives nu inkling of the basis of the agreement, but sug- the settlement authorities and the gests that much has been done to Powers comes at an opportune mo- close the gap between the British ment, seeing that It practically ideal of a final closing of the ques- aynchronises with the action of the tion and French insistence that Japanese in utilising the Settle-
any arrangement shall be no more nient for disembarkation of the than temporary until the crisis is newly-arrived troops. This action, over and Germany bas recovered as Router points out. is directly her capacity to pay. The object
lumin, like that used by Professor contrary to specific promises made of the conference in June will be ty the Japanese to the consular
Many of the planes are shroud- | Auguste Piccard⋅ in his balloon to agree upon a lasting settlement, for the prosecution and Mr. A. Eed in Aereey which permits not fight. It will house the motor authorities. After showing that
to put an end to a problem which | Hall for the defence. The case was even the names of their builders and two pilots, and will also con- the Council has an authority or jeontrol whatever over the interna-
It's going to be a
High Speed Possible. spectacular trans-Atlantic flying senson, if plans of European aeronautical wing Go feet in spread and thick The Guarchnis machino han a engineers don't go awry!
In construction, with the bracing For a three-cornered-or per- In the interior. It has a 700 horse haps a four, five or six-cornered power Lorraine motor and, under Security to the value of $10,000-international race through the Guerchais' calculations, should be in the making, able to Sy at 50,000 feet at 300 guaranteed by Mr. Hlo Iu, compradora stratosphere is
the Mercantile Bank was accepted with almost every capital in miles an hour. by Mr. Wynne Jones at the Central Europe seemingly harbouring a Police Court yesterday morning as "mystery plage" ready to dare the chais machine is built of dura- bail for Chan Cheung-wan, a shroff rare upper atmosphere. who is charged with conspiracy and larceny of $8,826. Mr. F. II. Ioseby
has vexed Europe for eleven years, again adjourned. The irony which runs through this chapter of international relations
tional foros employed in the de- fener scheme of the Settlement, Mr. Fessenden makes it clear that the Japanese unit has been allotted Versailles
મ that Germany offered at to pay virtually the
LADY HOUSTON'S PATRIOTISM.
the northern sector purely for de- same amount as was subsequently fensive measures and the pratee-Kresal upon in the Young plan; tion of the Settlement as a whole, but while Germany probably would TO PAY INCOME TAX. the ambition to be the first to con-
pertinently, that have been able to acquit itself of
adding, very
OXCURS
the
exe
of
other than
Lady
The sealed cabin in the Guer-
carbon gasca.
or pilots to be known. Other con- tain highly sensitive instruments structors, like the rivais Farman for acientifle observations and and Guerchais in Parla and an-safe flying when nothing can be other manufacturer in Germany seen. An "Elecro-Mecanique" have partially revealed their compressor, subject to regulation plans.
from the cockpit, will be started, Farman and Guerchhis are each 000 feet altitude and feed the en- according to plans, at about 20,- apeeding up final preparations in
Bine as well as the men. quer the stratosphero. Already Life in this cabin during flight Lady Houston, although domi-built, in Berlin, is another plano will be much the same as that in "anything done by the Japanese in its debt, had its offer been accepted eiled in Jersey, has, for patriotic with a hermetically sealed cock and a system for the absorbtion of...
a submarine, with oxygen tanks purely defensive the violent economic and finan- reasons, decided to pay income tax pit, oxygen-supply chambers, an measures contemplated by the de-elal upheavals been avoided, it has this year in considertion of the na- 82-font wingspread and a crude become doubtful whether, lion's need. The matter is now in oil motor and it's said to bo fence plan is something for which tow
Plane Built in Secret Settlement authorities and after the experience of the last the hands of her lawyers, who are capable of flying 700 miles an hour
working out the details of the sumjat an altitude of ten miles.
Henri Farman, pioneer aviator commanders of other nationalitiesyene, any concession
to be paid.
and one of the foremost construc- This cancellation will hereafter be found
The two planes now cannot be held responsible."
There has been no demand for completion in Paris are similar in ing the secrets of his stratosphere
nearing
tors in France, is zealously guard- The story of the last the
payment of the tax. expresses in other words the reply suficient. recently made by the Chairman of eleven years is one of "political Houston merely considers that the
machine. It outwardly resembles the Council, Brigadier General wrangling and financial uncertain- present financial position of the
the famous Farman type of com- country is such that she should con- part. Last year she guaranteed mercial machine, but has a wing- Macanghten, to the protest of they." The former secretary to the
tribute to the Exchequer in respect £100.000 to defray the cost of Great spread of nearly 60 feet. The air- Mayor of Shanghai. in which it teparation Commission, who was of her income.
Britain's defence of the Schneider tight compartment is surmounted was plainly stated that "the Japan-afterward secretary to the Dawes It may be recalled that LadyTrophy.
by five heavy radiators, three for the Committer, and finally Government, and not
Commis Houston on her husband's denth Lady Houston in December, 1529, afr, one for oil and one for water. Municipal Council. is solely
aloner for Controfied Revenues in paid in 1928 £1,500,000 in death sent a donation of £1,000 to the It will be driven by a 500 horse- ponsible for the acts of the Japan Berlin, speaks frankly about the duties as an act of grace without Christian
Movement power motor and the apparatus in admitting any liability on her against Russian Persecution, and the cabin will punip 60 litres ese armed forces in the Settle folly of the astronomical figures ment."
which were employed. The pro- 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 bc- misapprehension on the matter coming understood that economic amongst the Chinese in Shanghai, and financial problems should The fact of Japan's responsibility treated without passions and pre- on the having been established, the issue judices. Looking back
tan Hee becomes one of supreme impor-reparation period, we tance, and it is not surprising that where mistakes were made. considerable anxiety is being felt this retrospective discovery of mis- abroad over the situation thus takes, though Interesting, will be created. From the very outset, the fruitless unless it leads those in- Powers concerned have urged upon volved 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 the Settlement. For example, themselves to-day, rational action some little time back, the British shall be faken and solutions reach- Ambassador in Tokyo drew theed before they are too late. attention of the Japanese Foreign Oflee to the dangers to which the lives and interests of British
res-
nationals have been exposed by Japanese action, and protested
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against the use of the Settlement The following enlile at the close as a base for attack. Washington of the sugar market yesterday has has also addressed Japan on been received by Messrs. Pen- similar lines, but, notwithstanding treath and Co.
assurances by the Tokyo Govern- ment, the Japanese on the spot have acted in direct opposition to the
pledges of their Government. Deal- Ing with this issue, a Shanghaf
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"I'm sure glad to hear you're well, Mr. Meyer-and how is Mrs. Meyer and your very splendid children,?"
of warm air a minute. The plans is heavily constructed. but it is csti- mated that it should make between 400 and 600 miles an hour in the rarified air of the stratosphere.
Both Guerchais and Farman will use a propellor with a vari- able pitch, or angle of attack on the air, which may be changed bý the pilot during flight.
Work on the Farman strato- phere plane has been going on for four years.
"We shall not attempt anything sensational at first," Farman sald. "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 be considered as certain that the altitudes at from 50,000 to 00,000 feet which machines of the pres- ent may reach will in time bo greatly surpassed.
"Theoretically, we ought to go very, very fast. The rarification of the air should, In theory, permit normal speed to be doubled above 80,000 foot and quadrupled above | 60,000 feet, but this is not exact- ly true. To reach great altitudes wo shall havo to put on weight and this will cut down spoed."
It is no secret, however, that Farman engineers figure that a normal speed of 120 miles an hour should develop into 500 an hour at from 70,000 to 90,000, foot al- titude. On that basis, a strato- sphere plano should fly from Paris to New York in six hours,
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