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THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1933.
AD ASTRA
COMING OF AGE OF THE FLYING SERVICE
By MAJOR OLIVER STEWART
INDIVIDUALISTS.
The Very Idea!
WHAT THE STARS FORETELL.
By Eddie Kelly.
not stand aloof, allowing Europe to fight out its own battles, but must join in efforts to secure peace by negotiation. The new outlook is simply explained. War involves the dislocation of trade and commerce. Such dis-
On April 13, twenty-one years; mun" had yet to be invented. The ruption must be of vital concern age, the British Flying Service officers were mostly seconded from Since listening to "What to the United States and to everywas born. On that day effect was their regiments and an active ser the Stars Foretell" from other nation in the world. The given by Royal Warrant to the revico aerodrome in France would
Command jexhibit an extraordinary variety ZBW we have become astro- commendations of a temporary advantage which may White Paper the "Memorandum of uniforms.
logist all over. be gained by a so-called neutral on Naval and Military Aviation."
We have studied the subject so supplying arms and supplies to providing for the formation of the
There were kilts, Glengarries and much lately that we can now even belligerents has been proved to Royal Flying, Corps,
This was a sequel to tho forma- flashes; officers of the Guards, the tell you how the Milky Way gots
that Whey. be a snare and a delusion. The tion of the balloon section at Farn-Engineers, the Cavalry, and the
After having listened to the aim of all statesmen to-day, borough in 1890, and of the Air regiments of the line. And it was therefore, must be the stabilisa-Battalion of the Royal Engineers typical of them that, even when the recorded predictions for May, we tion of world politics and the in 1911, and it was the first step R.F.C. uniform was introduced, have prepared a set of our own only way to accomplish this is towards the present-day Royal Air they clung to the uniforms of their for June.
own regiments; for they were in- For instance, next month prob- the dissipation of the fears of
abilities are that the first wock At first there were naval and dividualists. Europe. The pacification ma-military wings to the R.F.C., for That, indeed, was one of the will prove dangerous for shroff
of the dodgers. chinery requires the co-opera-the Royal Naval Air Service did not strongest characteristics
Now developments may be ex- tion of the United States. come into being until 1914. Had officers of the R.F.C. They were President Roosevelt, recognising it not been for the Great War, individualista because they had to ported in the Sino-Japanese elush, the reality of the situation, has probably the Royal Fairs Coves to It was necessary in aerial bat-Fighting will be resumed (This
one was easy), and and the Royal Naval Service tlo for every man to look after acted boldly
once again
promptly.
What About A New Post Office?
Public
Forco
asclf. Huge formations would go would today be remembered nothing more than the seeds from out, carefully grouped in layers, which, in 1918, the present Royal under leaders and sub-leaders-in Air Force sprung.
much larger formations than have ever been seen ainee.
But when the battle was joined
EFFECT OF THE WAR.
or thirty
SPECTACULAR CHARACTERISTICS.
who
There will be a water shortage Hongkong. Somebody will the papers about the write to cabaret nuisance.
Here's how it goes:
week..
the water
shortage,
tho mos- quitoes,
the heat.
the wen
ther and
the price of beer. Heads of familie a will
troubled by their avomnnfolk, day will be a cheerful day.
be.
To-
June G.-Stalin arreated. Faces exile after 0.G.P.U. finds copy of "Cinderella" (capitalist fairy tale) under his pillow.
it was every man for himself; for June 1-Unless, you have un- But the War gave the parent air the speed and violence of those limited financial resources, avold
and terrific encounters left no Services their opportunity
pos- the office for the next In his annual report for 1932, enabled them to leave a mark in ability for co-ordinated team work. Considering the configurations of the Hon. Colonial Treasurer is history deeper and more perman: Things happened suddenly and im-Jupiter and the moon it le reason- ably eertain that shroffs will be again able to point to a useful ent than any the Air Force has yet mediately.
A gun would crackle twenty yards active. surplus, and to claim a position been able to make.
For it was the Royal Flying behind; an aeroplane would fail in June 2.--People born between of financial soundness. Several
an increase Corps that invented this new form flames twenty yards in front; an this date and June 12 should not departments show over the estimated revenue, the of warfare. It was the pilots of anti-aircraft shell would burst go swimming unless they are on
alnking ship. only exceptions being "Duties" the Royal Flying Corps who, pre- twenty yards below, a hostile forma
un-tion would be plunging vertically June 3.--Hongkong Government "Post Office" and "Land Sales."cariously held aloft in their
armed, hen-coop aircraft, were yet to the attack from above. Even if will discover that there is a water in Hongkong. The In the final balance, we find a so imbued with the offensive spirit a pilot saw that old So-and-So was shortage Burplus for the year of $1,499,- that when at close quarters they hard pressed with a brace of enemy supply of water for canarice and
goldfish will be discontinued. 488, and an accumulated excess hurled field-glasses at enemy auro-aircraft on his tall, it might not be
Juno 4-ZBW will bro: cast of assets over liabilities of $12,- planes in the hope of doing them possible for him to go to the rescue.
A characteristic of many mem- Ain't it Grand to Be Bloomin 847.062. Judged by the maxim some damage and who, later, evol-
urged which appears to operate that ved the elaborate and astonishing (bers of the R.F.C. was that they Well Dead" Listeners are
technique of aerial fighting. were un-military. My own litter to be careful on this day. the Colony should always have a
of Balloons were used in war by in Franco, who was in chargo
June 6. People will discuss the
the summer, dollar. surplus of not less than $10,000 General Jourdan in the year 1794, my engines for many months, was EUROPE'S PEACE
000 this means Hongkong is
in the battle of Fleurus, in Bel- an artist at his work. He could solvent! Among the several gium; but it was the fighting pilots coax "reva" from the most re- ha fre- MACHINERY
interesting items of revenue is of 1914 to 1918 who introduced a luctant rotary. But, as
No one with feet could be "smart Nothing has yet happened to that of the Post Office, which, aystem of personal combat in mid-quently told me, he had "fect." although nearly a lakh short of air. It was they who-supported
cach would be admitted to the Air Force make us very cheerful about the the estimates, amounts to $1,by the frailest of frameworks and soldierly"; no one with "foot"
met, manoeuvred, and blew Disarmament Conference. Mr. 964,593.10, representing excess other to bits five, ten, fifteen, and to-day. To-day all fitters must bo the fit. Even so, no higher degree Ramsay MacDonald, having had of $1,354,723.82 over expen- twenty thousand feet above
of efficiency could be obtained than What is done with ground. a stiff struggle to get past cer- diture.
To take part in one of these war-was obtained by those men tain national prejudices, finds this profit? It has, of course,
the time serial dog-fights was a kind of worked in the field. They may not been incorporated into Germany's position unchanged
which nightmare, the horror of which, in have looked smart; but they knew surplus accomulated and the situation becoming des- the Colony boasts, placed retrospect at any rate, is mitigated everything there was to know about perate. The hankering after re-into the common pool and used by the unutterable lunacy of the their work. armament is still uppermost in for works entirely disconnected proceedings. Twenty
aeroplanes, designed and construct- with the Post Office. The time led with infinite care, tuned, nursed,
June 7-Hongkong Government Germany and the Reich appears
a more maintained and serviced at enor- Where are they now, those offi- will discover that there is still a is ripe, however, for
thewater shortage in Hongkong. to be receiving tacit support direct use of a part of these mous expense and with untiring cers and men who made up
Juno 8-The Moon and Edward from Italy, where Franco-phobia surpluses. There has been askill, rush upon one another and Royal Flying Corps or rather the has not died away. Behind all crying need for a new Post Office instantly interlock, weave, make - physically active side of it; who Kelly will be full. Good weather tricate passes, turn and twist in awere fighting in the air while the everywhere except in Manila. are the Japanese who seem not in Kowloon for years.
knowledge of flight was still rudi- Manila readers are warned not to fandango of death.
tracers mentary? They seem to be scat-ride in dicky seats. only resolute against disarma- opinion has compelled the Gov- Machine guns rattle;
June 9-Hongkong adopts a ve ment but threaten the only dis-ernment to recognise the exist-streak across the sky; aeroplanes tered about in a large variety of
trades and professions. They are day week. European population ence of the need, but still official- i fall. armament treaty which appear-dom waits, offering no real rea Though the Royal Air Force was commercial travellers, film actors; collapses from overwork.
June 10.-Hongkong govern- ed to be gifted with stability, son why the work should not be formed by the fusion of the Royal music hall proprietors, professional the London Naval Treaty. Such attended to, but letting the mat- Flying Corps and the Royal Naval dancers, conjurors, and operators ment decides to burn down City hopes as there
are of a satis-ter drift whilst a helpless com-Air Service, and though many of its of aircraft as pilots, instructore, Hall in order to obtain the insur-
ance, the tors of companies. One or two are brothers, for instance, were
June 11-It would be danger- factory outcome centre in the munity is forced to meet its chiefs, Trenchard and the Salmond ground engineers or merely direc world influence of the United Postal requirements in a four by game, it partakes of few of the even at the Air Ministry.
eight building, which is an eye-qualities of the two parent Services, If, in what I have written, Ious to marry a blonde on this day. It would be suicide to marry the peculiar States. How ready President Bore. With such surpluses as and can hardly be said to carry on have focussed upon
characteristics of these mon, it is brunette. This also applies to Roosevelt is to throw his whole are yielded year after year, the their traditions,
When the double-breasted tunic because those characteristics were any other day of the year.
June 12. People who were weight into the quest for real public has a right to receive results is eloquently revealed in its benefit in one form or an- of the R.F.C, was exchanged for spectacular. But there the assurance given that the other. Either the Government the brilliant blue of the R.A.F. other characteristic that must not born on this day will be a year Bervice without traditions R.F.C. possessed above all things born on this day, will be a day
older. United States will, if the Dig-should utilise a proportion of young traditions were killed and a be forgotten. The members of the older to-day. Those who were not
the quality of loyalty. the money to develop the post came into belog.
June 15-Water shortage will armament Conference reaches office system or reduce the postal
They stood by each other with It is pleasant to recall those anything like a satisfactory charges. Elsewhere, the ac-R.F.C. pilots and mechanics-for something approaching fanaticism; become acute. Hongkong will be to drinking whiskey. issue, take its part in consulta-knowledged basis of postai rates in those days they had mechanics they presented the paradox of in- reduced
This will be a bad day for testo- tive pacts.
tallera. At any other time is that the post office shall be and the pompous title of "aircraft-dividualists who worked together. People will develop sudden thirsts. the present, President run for the benefit of the com- Roosevelt would be taking his munity and not for its exploita
tion. On this basis, the Hong- political life into his hands by kong postal department is such a promise. It means Away making far too big a profit. But from Parochialism is a manner the profit is there. The hard which would excite the pre- times plea has worn itself out. judices of the Middle West to There seems no reason why the not adopt the fever-heat but for the newfound Colony should
Roosevelt formula for stimulat- tendency, produced by force of ing a revival of trade by press- circumstances. to give the Pre-ing on with urgent and produc- sident America's full confidence.tive public works. This abandonment of the isola- tionist policy was begun in a tentative manner by Mr. H. L. Stimson, President Hoover's
It has often been remarked Becretary of State, but it is that the great discoveries of obvious that Mr. Roosevelt is science frequently have to be going far beyond any step con-paid for in human lives. Of templated by the Republican nothing is this truar than of the Administration. The effect, na X-ray. It was recently revealed [Mr. Ramsay MacDonald points that fifteen scientists are dying, out, will be to increase the feel-cause of the work they did to in various parts of England, be- ing of security in Europe and develop and adapt this great the safety of threatened nations boon for the use of mankind. against war. It does not mean They are dying by inches, pain- that Mr. Roosevelt has east fully; but because of their cour- the doctrine of "no age and devotion the lives of a great many other people have entangling alliances." It means been and will be saved. Farther- rather recognition of the fact more, they have helped to rld that while tho subject of a dis-the X-ray itself of its dangers. pute in Europe may appear to be It can be handled safely, now. no direct concern of the United Scientists henceforth will not States, the nations of the world have to make such sacrifices. The history of human bravery sire, in fact, so closely dependent holds fow brighter chapters than one upon the other, that she can- this,
than
aside
Sacrifices for Science
new
TONIGHT
O ROUNDS
BUTCH
"I don't know what's going to become of us if you don't learn to
Block with your left."
anu
June 14-This will be a bad day for drinkers.
Jana 15There will be no fur- ther predictions until it rains.
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THE SECRET OUT.
In response to thousands of re- quests from our Great and Ad- miring Public we have made re- presentations In the "Right
Quarter" for authority to publish the consored linos in the corros- pondence on, Legislative Council meetings for schoolgirls.
Permission has beou obtained. The missing words were": "of the cultivation of a disrespect among the young for the great Institu- tions which havo mado our Empiro what sho io."
Hoping this will set all doubts to rest on this score and assuring you that we were only trying to avold publfelty. We are,
Sire or Madams, etc.
Dear
SUPREME COURT DRAMA.
Scene: Supreme Court. Sum- mary Jurisdiction.
Plaintiff: Mre. F. S. Jopore. Dofondant: Antonio Vermicelli. Plaintiff admits debt, but pleads inability to pay. Case somehow develops into privato discussion between litigante. Caso adjourn- ed.
Resumed. Settlement announced. Telegraph following day: The forthcoming wedding is announced of Mr.Antonio Vormicelli, broke-r, and Mrs. Jopore, widow, hoarding- house keeper,