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Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1932.
The Happy Ending.
A P.W.D. lorry was run into by a tramcar in Johnstone Road near Talyuen Street, Wanchai, yesterday, and suffered some damage to its rear.
Whitehend, of the Ideal Radio Service, A private car driven by Mr. A
point of entering Queen's Road Eart from Arsenal Street. Bir. Whitehead, in reporting the mishap to the police, stated that the other car unexpectedly which had come to a stop. Both cars emerged from behind n
tram were damaged, Mr. Whitehead's to the extent of $60.
The N. 1 coolie in the employ of Department, at his residence at 404. Mr. L. H. King, of the Public Works The Peak, was sent to prison for six weeks by Mr, Schofield at the Central Palico Court to-day, for the theft of a geld wrlat band. It was stated that Auspicion fell on the man after the police were called. A search
nude, resulting in the recovery of the missing article in the servants latrine.
A close observer of cinema toate
The health bulletin of the Colony on both sides of the Atlantic has the
for the week ending June 26, shows
following CARCO come to the conclusion that
of infectious the diseases and deaths therefrom.- demand for films with a happy
Cholera 9 cases 9 deaths (3 import- endling is much stronger in Britain cd), small-pox 1 case, typhoki 7 enses than in America. It is certainly meningitis 3 cases 3 deaths.
i denths, paratyphoid 1 ease 1 death, There stronger in Britain than in Man-were also 07 deaths from pulmonary churia, where the complaint was of cholera (one imported) and two tuberculosis. There were two cases
Monday. recently made that the supply of cases of typhold (one imported) on
of Amalgamated Dairies Ltd. of New Mr. N. V. Le Petit, export manager Zealand, the largest dairying concern in the world, has been in Shanghai for a short stay to study marketing
Akron's Mosquito Fleet: Advent of Luxurious Travel
TRAVELING CRANE
„ISSTIVALANG HANGAN" Ingide HULL
FORWARD
GONDOLA
Closeups of the latest development in aerial travol-embarka- tion flight. Top picture taken from forward gondola of the Akron shows a light fighting plane approaching the trapeze. Then, con- tact Middle and lower pictures show plans hookingsapparatus and being hauled into hull of the giant ship. Lower sketch shows in terior arrangement of hanger and crane, while inset at upper loft shows side view of fighting a hip's hook at it nears trapose.
Has the now age of air travel, time with Germany at work on a With reference to the burglary at come to pass in a secret "wasp's dirigible that will be larger than 45, Queen's Road Central, it was in- neat" inside the vast hull of the either. The
shop was shared by Mr. B. S. Heera correctly stated yesterday that the Akron? and a Chinese fancy goods denler. The premises are occupied entirely by Mr. B. S. Heern.
FULFILLING A PROMISE talkies that Anish gloomily is in suficient. The liking for the happy ending is often derided by intel- There will be general agreement,lectuals; but there is a great deal except amongst the extremists, to be said for it, quite apart from that the British Government has the consideration that happy end-conditions and in now in Hongkong. come to a wise resolve in decidingings are frequently true to the; to push forward with the All-facts of ordinary existence. India Federation scheme at the desire for happy endings is indeed earliest possible moment.
only a somewhat crude expression The
br the conviction that entertain. steps by which it is intended to
ments in the cinema proceed have just been outlined by theatre have no business the Secretary of State for India. depressing, a thoroughly sound and they appear to be businesslike theory which the history of the and sensible in character, The drama. abundantly aupports. Hecessary legislation will be con- Tragedy has always been account- tained in a single B, which willed the supreme dramatic achieve- ment. If Shakespeare took any
and the to be
SUGAR MARKET
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
The goal is the luxurious air While the crew of the aircraft liner, long dreamed of, strong rapidly nears perfection in launch- enough to outfight the fiercest ing and retrieving tiny, swift storms, fast enough to link con- fighting planes during practice tinents overnight, equipped to on- flights on the Pacifle Const, ad- circle the earth without a stop. herents of the lighter-than-air: method of flying point to the tre mendous commercial and passen-
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America holds in deep secrecy
ger possiblities of the new device, most of the mechanical devices by They think the Akron's flotilla which the Akron "empties its neat" of auxiliary fighting planes is the of its five fighting planos and picks The following cable at the close forerunner of fast aeroplane "elethem up again, Secrecy, too, aur- been received by Messrs. treath and Co.
at one and the same time provide | pride at all in his work-and there of the sugar market yesterday haavators" for commercial air linera rounded the bullding of these
any
autonomous Constitutions for the 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 "As tween the Provinces and the You Like It." An age whose taste States. In the meantime, the Gov-in entertainment is go utterly ernment will reach its own deci- frivolous that it cannot appreciate sions in regard to h solution of the tragedy in the theatre or cinema is therefore, dramatically speaking, communal problem, which has
in an unsound condition. hitherto proved the principal before one
But stumbling-block. The failure of the cannot appreciate tragedy, one: decides that an age:
Hindas and Moslems 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 latter- of both communities.
and this is what the desire for The question of the franchise is happy endings comes to—is a cause, one of the most important to be One fact common to nearly all the
not for regret, but for rejoicing. i dealt with, and already we have tragic masterpieces of the drama had some idea of the proposals in of every period and country is the recommendations of the Fran- that, despite their superficially chise Committee presided over by disastrous themes, they are not Lord Lothian. One happy circum-depressing. On the contrary, it stance is that the Lothian Report the effect of many great tragic has been frequently remarked that is for all intents and purposes works in unanimous. No doubt realising couraging. So far, therefore, as exhilarating and en- the nature of the existing con- the wish for happy endings is a ditions, the Committee has wisely deatre that entertainment shall not refused to recommend any combe disquieting, distressing, dis- plicated systems or fancy fran- gusting, morbid and repellent, it chisen. At one time,
is not incompatible with apprecia- it seeme, tion for the highest forms of several members, Indian as well as tragedy. The English, favoured the indirect or cinema need more genuine tragedy; theatre and the group method of voting, but this what they can do without is sor- requires a greater meaaure of did, depressing and often gruesomo goodwill, and a more homogeneous melodrama,
propulation, than can be found
WATER LEVELS.
WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS
In most parts of India. The chief argument for it disappears if it is possible to follow the Committeo's recommendation and enfranchise, over forty per cont. of the malo population for thu provincial legislaturos. The Committeo sug. gests doing this by lowering the property qualification, though it also adds an educational qualifica Weet River at record, on record. 27 tion, independent of property. Some urban bina will remain, but the bulk of this very large electo- rate must be villagers. The Com-
The following table issued by the Kwangtung. River Conservancy Coma- mission shows the halght of water in English foot on the dates named in the West, North and East Rivera:
Highest on Lowest June
North River at
Bhluking.. +03
Thingyom, -4-26.4 North River at
Damehui+178 East River at
Ebaklong. 4.18.6
June
28
0
$2.7 35,3
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128 30.5
27.1
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Pen-by which passengers, freight and planes only 19 foot long with wing
supplies will be placed aboard a span of 25 feet 6 inches. the giant eraft plough along on Two planes of the mosquito fleet exprcas skyline schedules.
now are in use on the Pacific Coast Mooring always has been a manoeuvres. Three others are un- great hazard in the handling of der construction, five boing the dirigibles, a factor that has olim- Akron'a quota. inated them from the profitable: Lieutenant D. W. Harrigan, who short-haul fleld,
made the first aerial embarkation Now visionhrles of the air age in history at Lakehurst, and Liou- 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 accessible 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. oeuvring.
This development keeps pace of 1,800 feet a minute. They are an hour and can climb at the rate with the world race toward the carried in a hangar within the United States with the Akron and the dirigible's control car. super-dirigible, long forecast. The Akron's outer envelope, just aft of the Macon, now being constructed, will hold the lead but for a short shaped opening,
In the hangar's floor is a T- barely large enough to admit or discharge the planes. Collapsible doors cover this 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 a trapeze bar operated by a crane within the dirigible. When sus- pended over the T-shaped open- ing, the plane is lowered through the trapdoor Into position below the hull,
New York (28/6/82).—It is reported htat Cuba Sergregation Plans abandoned.
The home tow n boy at bat.
The pilot, already in his cock. pit, atarts his motor, "reva it up" to see that overything is working, then gives the signal and the plane is released from the trapeze. It falls a few feet until its wings catch the air, then flies away. The trapeze la withdrawn and the operation repeated.
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More thrilling to the throngs who watched the Akron's tests as It made its recent coast-to-coast flight, was the feat of recovering the scouting planes.
The pilot must manoeuvre his plane under the big airship until, flying at the same rate of speed, his craft is under the dirigible's kool. To "and" he has to thread the overhead hook to the top wing of his plane through the trapeze bar dropped from the air-ship.
When the plane is hooked it Is hoisted Into the 75 by 60-foot hangar and the operation repeated until all are aboard.
Accommodation for 100 passon- gers can be bulit into ships of the general dimensions of the Akron, according to officials of the Good- year-Zeppelin Corporation.