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FULFILLING A PROMISE
from
whitehead, of the Ideal Radio Service, A private car driven by Mr. A
realities when Britain's sincerity point of entering Queen's Road East and good faith are made apparent, from Arsenal Street, Mr. Whitehead, in reporting the mishap to the police, and when it is clear that a very
stated that the other car unexpectedly emerged from belind A trom real and liberal measure of self-which had come to a stop.
Both care Kovernment is offered? Promises were damaged, Mr. Whitehead's to the
extent of $60, obviously cannot carry the same weight as actual deeds, for which reason we hold the hope that, with | Britain's policy assuming definite shape, a great change for the better will soon be witnessed in
India.
The Happy Ending.
The N. 1 enolle in the employ of Mr. L. 1. King, of the Publie Works Department, at his residence at 404. The Peak, was sent to prison for nix weeks by Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court to-day, for the theft of n gold wrist band. It was stated that suspicion fell on the man after the police were called. A sonrch WAR mate, resulting in the recovery of the missing article in the servants Intrine.
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Akron's Mosquito Fleet: Advent of Luxurious Travel
TRAVE LI
CRANE
Lnkretong angiIDE PHILL
FORWARD
GONDOLA
Closoups of the latest development in morial travel-embarka- tion flight. Top picture taken from forward gondola of the Akron shows a light fighting plane approaching the trapass. Then, con- tact! Middle and lower pictures show plana hooking apparatus and being hauled into hull of the giant ship, Lower sketch shows in- terior arrangement of hanger and crane, while inset at upper left shows side view of fighting ship's hook as it nears trapeze.
À close observer of cinema taste for the week ending June 26, ehows The health bulletin of the Colony on both sides of the Atlantic has the following
of infectioas come to the conclusion that thedisenses and deaths therefrom- demand for films with a happy Cholern 9 cases 9 deaths (3 import- ending is much stronger in Britain), ranit-pox 1 ense, typhoid 7 ensen
3 deaths, paratyphoid
Case
1 death. than in America. It is certainly meningitis cases 3 deaths. There strenger in Britain than in Man-tuberculosis. There were two cases 07 deaths from pulmonary churia, where the complaint was of cholera (one imported) and two recently made that the supply of cases of typhol (one Imported) on talkies that finish gloomily is in- Monday. sufficient. The liking for the happy
Mr. N. V. La Petit, export manager ending is often derided by intel- of Amalgamated Dairies Ltd. of New lectuals; but there is a great deal Zealand, the largest dairying concern to be said for it, quite apart from
in the world, has been in Shanghai the consideration that happy end-conditions and is new in Hongkong.
for a short stay to study marketing
Has the new age of air travel time with Germany at work on a ings are frequently true to the With reference to the burglary at come to pass in a secret "wasp's dirigible that will be larger than facts of ordinary existence. The 4, Queen's Road Central, it we in-nest inside the vast hull of the either.
correctly stated yesterday that the Akron? desire for happy endings is indeed shop was shared by Mr. B. S. Heera
The goal is the luxurious air. only a somewhat crude expression and Chinese fancy goods dealer. rapidly nears perfection In launch- enough to outfight the
While the crew of the aircraft liner, long dreamed of, strong If the conviction that entertain-premises are occupied entirely bying and retrieving tiny, swift storms, fast enough to link con- flerceat
menta in the cinema and the
business to be:
theatre have no depressing, u thoroughly sound theory which the history of the drama abundantly supporta. Tragedy has always been account- ed the supreme dramatic achieve-
ment.
There will be general agreement, except amongst the extremists, that the British Government has come to a wise resolve in deciding with the All- to push forward India Federation scheme at the carliest. possible moment: The steps by which it is intended to proceed have just been outlined by the Secretary of State for India, and they appear to be businesslike and sensible in character, The necessary legislation will be con- tained in a single Bill, which will at one and the same time provide
If Shakespeare took any
autonomous Constitutions for the
pride at all in his work-and there is little evidence that he did he Provinces and lay down the
was doubtless better pleased to framework of the federation behave written "Hamlet" than "AB tween the Provinces and the You Like It." An age whose taste Stater. In the meantime, the Gov. in entertainment in Bo utterly ernment will reach its own deci- frivolous that it cannot appreciate sions in regard to a solution of the tragedy in the theatre or cinema is communal problem, which has therefore, dramatically speaking, in an unsound condition. But hitherto proved the principal
before one decides that an age stumbling-block. The failure of the cannot appreciate tragedy, one Hindus and Moslema to adjust has to discover that it was the issue makes it imperative for tragedy to appreciate. A distinc- the British Government to step intion has to be made between the and supply what it believes to be truly tragic and the merely sordid. the best solution in the interests That an age rejects the litter of both communities.
and this is what the desire for happy endings comes to-la a cause, One faci common to nearly all the not for regret, but for rejoicing.
tragic masterpieces of the drama of every period and country is that, despite their superficially i disastrous themes, they are not: depressing. On the contrary, it has been frequently remarked that i the effect of many great tragic
The question of the franchise is one of the most important to be dealt with, and already we have had some idea of the proposals in the recommendations of the Fran- ehlac Committee presided over by Lord Lothian. One happy circum stance is that the Lothian Report
any
Is for all intents and purposes works is exhilarating and en- unanimous. No doubt realising couraging. So far, therefore, as the anture of the existing can the wish for happy endinga is a ditions, the Committee has wisely desire that entertainment shall not refused to recommend any com- be disquieting, distressing, die- plicated systems or fancy fran-gusting, morbid and repellent, It chises. At one time,
it seems,
is not incompatible with apprecia- tion for the highest forms of several members, Indian na well as English, favoured the indirect or cinema need more genuine tragedy; tragedy. The theatre and the group method of voting, but this what they can do without is sor- requires a greater measure of did, depressing and often gruesonto goodwill, and a more homogeneous melodrama. propulation, than can be found.
WATER LEVELS.
WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS
in most parts of India. The chilef argument for it disappears if it is possible to follow the Committee's recommendation and enfranchise over forty per cent. of the mule population for the provincial The following table issued by the loglalatures. The Committeo aug-Kwangtung River Conservancy Com- malunion shows the holght of water Reata daing this by lowering thein English feet the lates named Property qualifiention, though it in the West, North and East Rivers: also adds an educational qualifica-West River at tion, Independent of property. North Itirer st
Bhishing +€1,7
Some urban blas will remain, but the bulk of this very largo.olecto- rato must be villagers. The Com-
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record, on record. 17
0 80.7 35.3
0. 11.5 13.8
5.8 22.4
Taingyen +20.4 North
Harmater
..+-27.3 East River at
Rheklung.. 4.18.5
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4.8
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THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
The following cable at the close of the sugar market yesterday has been received by Messrs. Pen treath and Co.
London Terminals. August 1932 5/81 down 2d. December 1932 6/10% down March 1933 6/1% down 26.
24.
May 1933 6/3% down 2d. Buyers at above prices, sellers asking d-1⁄4ád more.
New York Terminals. Spot 85 down 5 pts.. July 1932 79 down 7 pts. September 1932 .86 down 8 pts. December 1932 93 down 7 pt. March 1933 .98 down 6 pts. May 1933- New York (28/6/32).—It is reported htat Coba Sergregation Plane abandoned.
fighting planes during practice tinants overnight, equipped to on- flights the Pacific Coast, ad-circle the earth without a stop. herents of the lighter-than-air
method of flying point to the tre-
mendous commercial and passen- America holds in deep secrecy Ker possibilities of the new device, most of the mechanical devices by They think the Akron's flotilla which the Akron "empties its nest of auxiliary fighting planes is the of Its five fighting planes and picks forerunner of fast aeroplane "cie-them up again. Secrecy, too, sur- yatorn" for commercial air linore rounded the building of these by which passengers, freight and planes only 19 feet long with wing supplies will be placed aboard as span of 25 feet 6 inches. the giant craft plough along on Two planes of the mosquito Rect express skyline schedules.
now are in use on the Pacific Coast Mooring always has been a manoeuvres. Three othera are un- great hazard in the handling of der construction, five being the dirigibles, a factor that has clim- Akron's quota. inated them from the profitable | Lieutenant D. W. Harrigan, who short-haul field.
made the first aerial embarkation Now visionaries of the air age in history at Lakehurst, and Lieu- point out that the air contacts tenant Howard Young, are the being pioneered on the Akron make pilots now flying with the Akron. every way station accensible to Powered with Wright whirl-wind globe-girdling dirigibles without motors, the baby planes are cap- loss of speed or dangerous man-able of a top speed of 180 mil
an hour and can climb at the rate oeuvring.
This development keeps pace of 1,800 feet a minute. They are with the world race toward the carried in a hangar within the super-dirigible, long forecast. The Akron's outer envelope, just aft of United States with the Akron and the dirigible's control car. the Macon, now being constructed, In the hangar's floor is a T- will hold the load but for a short shaped opening, barely largo
The home town boy at bati
enough to admit or discharge the pinnes. Collapsible doors cover thla opening when not in use,
When a plane is ready for launching it is moved mechani- cally to the door, the hook above the pilot's head being held by trapeze bar operated by a crane within the dirigible. When aus- pended over the T-shaped open- ing, the plane is lowered through the trapdoor into position below the hull.
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The pilot, already in his cock- pit, starts his motor, "revs it up" to see that overything is working, thon gives the signal and the plane is relensod from the trapeze. It falls a few foot until its wings catch the air, thon flies away. The trapeze la withdrawn and the operation repeated,
More thrilling to the throngs who watched the Akron's testa as it made its recont coast-to-coast flight, was the feat of recovering the acouting planes.
The pilot must manoeuvre his plano undor the big airship until, flying at the same rate of anced, his craft is under the dirigible's keel. To "land" he has to thread the overhead hook to the top wing of his plane through the trapeza bar dropped from the air-ship.
When the piano is hooked it is holated into the 7 by 60-foot hangar and the operation repeated until all are aboard.
Accommodation for 100 parson- gers can be built into ships of the general dimensions of the Akron, according to officials of the Good- year-Zeppelin Corporation.