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THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1933.
EUROPE'S PEACE
AD ASTRA
COMING OF AGE OF THE FLYING SERVICE
By MAJOR OLIVER STEWART
would
The Very Idea!
WHAT THE STARS FORTELL
By Eddie *** Kelly.
Since listening to "What
|not stand aloof, allowing Europe to fight out its own battles, but must join in efforts to securo peace by negotiation. The new outlook is simply explained. War involves the dislocation of trade and commerce. Such dls-
On April 13, twenty-one years man" had yet to be invented. The ruption must be of vital concern
ngo, the British Flying Service officer were mostly seconded from to the United States and to every was 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 re-vice aerodrome in France
Command exhibit an extraordinary variety ZBW we have become astro- commendations of s 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,"
INDIVIDUALISTS.
Wo 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 the forma-flashes; officers of the Guards, the tell you how the Milky Way gets be a snare and a delusion. The tion of the balloon section at Farn- Engineers, the Cavalry, and the that Whey
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 was introduced, have propared a set of our own tion of world politics and the in 1911, and it was the firat atop R.F.C. ualform only way to accomplish this is towards the present-day Royal Air they clung to the uniforms of their
own regiments; for they were in For instance, next month prob- abilities are that the first wock the dissipation of the fears of At first there were naval and dividualista.
That, indeed, was one of the will prove dangerous for shroff Europe. The pacification ma-military wings to the R.F.C., for
dodgers. chinery requires the co-opera- the Royal Naval Air Service did not strongest characteristica
Now devolopments may be ex- tion of the United States come into being until 1914. Had officers of the R.F.C. They were
Great War, individualists because they had to posted In the Sino-Japanese clash... President Roosevelt, recognising it not been for the the reality of the situation, has probably the Royal Flying Corps be. It was necessary in aerial bat-Fighting will be resumed (This
and and the Royal Naval Air Service tle for every man to look after him- A self. Huge formations would go once again acted boldly
would to-day bo remembered promptly.
nothing more than the seeds from out, carefully grouped in layors,
and sub-leaders-in which, in 1918, the present Royal under leaders Air Force sprung.
much larger formations than have ever been seen since.
What About A New
Post Office?
boasts,
its
Force.
or
rattle; Machino gunn
of the
for June,
one was easy).
There will be a water shortage
Somebody Hongkong.
the papers about write to
cabaret nuisance.
no pos- the
SPECTACULAR CHARACTERISTICS.
10-
who
the
I
will
the
have un-
June 2-People born between this date and June 12 should not
in
to be careful on this day.
the summer,
The
the water Bhortage, the mos- quitoes, the heat, the wea.
ther and
the price
of beer. Heads of
familie s
will be
June 6-Stalin arrosted. Faves exile after O.G.P.U. finds copy of "Cinderella" (capitalist fairy tale) under his pillow.
June 7-Hongkong Government will discover that there is still a water shortage in Hongkong.
June 8-The Moon and Edward
ance.
Here's how it goes: EFFECT OF THE WAR.
But when the battle was joined
June 1-Unless you it was every man for himself; for But the War gave the parent air the speed and violence of those limited financial resources, avoid
and terrific encounters left Services their opportunity
the next week. ufice for In his annual report for 1932, enabled them to leave a mark in sibility 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 is reason- ably certain that shroffs will be again able to point to a useful ent than any the Air Force has yet medintels.
A gun I 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 fall in of financial soundness. Several departments show an increase Corps that invented this new form flames twenty yards in front; an Ahell would burst over the estimated revenue, the of warfare. It was the pilots of anti-aircraft
a sinking ship. only exceptions being "Duties," the Royal Flying Corps who, pre- twenty yards below, a hostile forma 80 swimming unless they are on cariously held aloft in their un-tion would be plunging vertically June 3.-Hongkong Government "Post Office" and "Land Sales." armed, hen-coop aircraft, were yet to the attack from above. Even if will discover that there is a water
Hongkong. so Imbued with the offensive spirita pilot saw that old So-and-So was shortage In the final balance, we find a surplus for the year of $1,499,- that when at close quarters they hard pressed with a brace of enemy supply of water for conaries and
goldfish will be discontinued. 433, and an accumulated excess hurled field-glasses at enemy aero-aircraft on his tall, it might not be
June, 4.-ZBW will broadcast 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 mema "Ain't It Grand to Be Bloomin' 847.062. Judged by the maxim some damage and who, later, evol which appears to operate that ved the elaborate and astonishingbers of the R.F.C, was that they well Dead" Listeners are urged technique of aerial fighting. were un-military. My own fitter the Colony should always have a
Balloons were used in war by in France, who was in charge of June 5.-People will discuss the surplus of not less than $10,000. General Jourdan in the year 1794, my engines for many months, was dollar, 000 this means Hongkong is in the battle of Flourus, in Bel- an artist at his work. He could
most solvent! Among the several glum; but it was the fighting pilots conx "reva" from the
he fro- MACHINERY
interesting items of revenue is of 1914 to 1918 who introduced a luctant rotary. But, as that of the Post Office, which, system of personal combat in mid- quently told me, he had "fect.""
No one with feet could be "smart Nothing has yet happened to although nearly a lakh short of air. It was they who-supported
each 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 "feet"
met, manoeuvred; and blow Disarmament Conference. Mr. 1964,593.10, representing excess other to bits five, ten, fteen, and to-day. To-day all fitters must be higher degroe expen- twenty thousand feet above the fit. Even so, no Ramsay MacDonald, having had of $1,354,723.82 over
of efficiency could be obtained than diture. What is done with ground. a stiff struggle to get past cer-
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 aerial dog-fights was a kind of worked in the field. They may not troubled by their womenfolk. To been incorporated into Germany's position unchanged accomulated
which nightmare, the horror of which, in have looked smart; but they knew day will be a cheerful day. surplus Colony and the situation becoming des- the
placed retrospect at any rate, in mitigated everything there was to know about
thirty perate. The hankering after re-into the common pool and used by the unutterable funney of the their work.
proceedings. Twenty aeroplanes, designed and construct- armament is still uppermost in for works entirely disconnected
with the Post Office. The time ed with infinite care, tuned, nuracd, Germany and the Reich appeurs
a more maintained and serviced at enor- Where are they now, those off is ripe, however, for to be receiving tacit support direct use of a part of these mous expence and with untiring cers and men who made up from Italy, where Franco-phobia surpluses. There has been aalill, 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 in physically active side of it; who Kelly will be full. Good weather are the Japanese who seem not in Kowloon for years. Public tricate passes, turn and twist in a were fighting in the air while the everywhere except in Manile.
fandango of death.
knowledge of flight was still rudi-Manila readers are warned not to. tracara mentary? They seem to be scat-ride in dicky seats. only resolute against disarma-opinion has compelled the Gov-
June 9-Hongkong adopta a five 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- fail. urmament 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, conjurers 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 plota, instructors, Hall in order to obtain the insur
chiefs, Trenchard and the Balmond ground engineers or merely direc- the tors of companies. One or two are brothers, for instance, wore
June 11-lt would be danger- factory, outcome centre in the munity is forced to meet
ous to marry a blonde on this world influence of the United postal requirements in a four by same, it partakes of few of the oven at the Air Ministry.
If, in what I have written,
day. It would bo suicide to marry eight building, which is an eye-qualities of the two parent Services,
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 men, it is a 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 wero But there is one weight into the quest for real public has a right to receive
R.A.F. other characteristic that must not born on this day will be a year results is eloquently revealed in its benefit in one form or an- of the R.F.C. was exchanged for spectacular.
young traditions were killed and a be forgotten. The members of the older to-day. Those who were not assurance given that the other. Either the Government the brilliant blue of the
should utilise a proportion new Service without traditions R.F.C. possessed above all things born on this day will be a day United States will, if the Dis- the money to develop the post came into being.
the quality of loyalty, those | armament
Thoy stood by each other with Conference reaches office system or reduce the postal It is pleasant to recall
ac-R.F.C, pilots and mechanica-for something approaching fanaticism; anything like satisfactory charges. Elsewhere, the issue, take its part in consulta knowledged basis of postal rates in those days they had mechanics they presented the paradox of in- tive pacts. At any other time is that the post office shall be and the pompous title of "aircraft-dividualists who worked together. than 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 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 fever-heat but for the newfound Colony should not adopt the 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. tivo public worka. 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 of Secretary of State, but it is
that the great discoveries 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 truer than of the Administration.' The effect, as X-ray. It was recently revealed Mr. Ramsay MacDonald points that fifteen scientists are dying, out, will be to increase the feel in various parts of England, be- cause of the work they did to 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 cast fully; but because of their cour
"nongo and devotion the lives of a nside the doctrine of
great many other people have entangling alliances." It means been and will be saved. Further- rather recognition of the fact more, they have helped to rid that while the 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 are, in fact, so closely dependent holds few brighter chapters than one upon the other, that she can- this.
the
A
Sacrifices for Science
is
TONIGHT
O ROUNDS
SUTCH
"I don't know what's going to become of us if you don't learn to
block with your left."
older.
to
Juno 13.-Water shortage will become acute. Hongkong will be drinking whiskey. reduced This will be a bad day for feeto- tallers. People will develop sudden thirsts.
Juno 14.-This will be a bad day for drinkers.
June 15.-There will be no fur- ther predictions until it rains.
THE SECRET OUT,
In response to thousands of re- quests from our Great and Ad- miring Public we have made re-
the presentations in
"Right Quarter" for authority to publish the censored lines in the corros- pondence on Legislative Council meetings for schoolgirls.
Permission has been obtained.. The missing words wero: "of the cultivation of a disrespect among the young for the great institu- tions which have made our Empire what she in.”
Hoping this will set all doubts to rest on this ecore and assuring you that we were only trying to avold publicity. We are, Doar Sira or Madama, etc.
SUPREME COURT DRAMA. Scene: Supreme Court. Sum- mary Jurisdiction.
Plaintiff: Mrs. F. S. Jopora. Defendant: Antonio Vormicelli. Plaintiff admits debt, but plonde inability to pay. Case somehow develops into privato discussion between litigants. Case adjourn- od.
Resumed. Settlement announced. Telegraph following day: The forthcoming wedding is announced of Mr. Antonio Vormicelli, broko-r, and Mrs. Jopore, widow, boarding- houso keeper.
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