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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1934
NOTES OF THE DAY BRITAIN IN THE The Very Idea!
BURNED PAPERS
President Hoover's Postmaster General, Mr. Walter Brown would scem to be in a position where some sort of explanation la duo. A Senate committee is told by his former stenographer that he order cd office files: containing data on ocean and air mail subsidies, to be burned just before he loft office last March, Mr. Brown denies it, nosorting that only his private correspondence was put in the fire. In either case, the sought for files Beem to be missing. The situation seems to need a good deal of day- light. If a former cabinet mem- ber destroyed important govern ment documents just before going. out of office, some-one has a right to know all about It. If, on the kind, and the important documents Just happened to get mlainid, that fact also should be substantiated.
AIR:
BY W. M.W. THOMAS
FTEEN years ago, along with ing over our codatline. A Yow thousands of my fellow men, years ago it was adequate to on- I was demobilised as a pilot of sure that no enomy aircraft pase- single-sent fighter or scout noro-ed through on Imaginary vortleal plance. We had learned our flying curtain represented by the coast. during the war
A HOLIDAY GUIDE.
·By Eddie Kelly, Girl Guide. WHAT to do with
your holidays. How do you spend your
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line in one direction (horizon al-week-ends? Most of us have kopt closely in y) and 15,000 ft-operating Why are weak ends? Be- touch with Service aviation news limit height of old-type aeroplanes
upon. since then because of the old anna the other (vertical) dimon-Cause they're always sat Rociations. To-day, when there is sion. so much rattling of the sabre on Soc now what it means when Doubtless, readers of the the Continent, we are more than that vertical dimension is raised Telegraph will find time casually interested, for our names to 30,000 xt. are still on the rolls, our mobilisa- The curtain of protection that hanging very heavily on tion locations are firmly implanted must be kept intact doubled in their hands to-morrow, wait- in our minds, and we know, as arca.·
ing for the next issue to many come out on Thursday with
well as civilians can know, the The upper strata are might be called upon to fly if war searchlights have less chance of breaks out.
AP6; PN6; MG2V42; MG2V50; | other hand, ho did nothing of the kind and quantity of machines we times more difficult to defend, 105.) another sparkling and bril-
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Mrs. F. W. Winyard and family wish to thank all friends for their kind expressions of sympathy, floral tributes and attendance at the funeral in their recent
bereavement.
10.
STYLE UNDER COMMUNISM
One of the most revealing little storics to come out of Soviet Russla was that telling how Russian women are demanding a chango in the matter of clothing. Under Communism, the clothing
picking up thead high-flying bomb- liant article by its leading. We are not suffering from colders; archies (anti-aircraft guns) | writer.
have a correspondingly less chance of registering.
fect.
All the same, it is as well to faca up to facts.
So with the iden of keeping you occupied during the next 48 hours, we have compiled this guide to amusements in Hong- kong.
There are several things you can do to pass away the time. Those with a sense of levity may pass it away by selling their wrist. watch to a pawnbroker.
The more serious should, how- ever, try writing a book. Have you over thought of becoming a writer? Authort of becoming an author?
THE ONLY SURE DEFENCE. In the first place, we know that the present personnel of the Air| Force is absolutely and gloriously quantities of high-performance The only sure defence is ample beyond reproach.
Aircraft-day and night-flying in- Secondly, auch machines as they terceptors, directed by radio from have in their care nowadays are ground listening posts. But be cause of that increased area that kopt in first-class condition.
But this is no more than should has to be covered, that huge safe- be, for the whole essence of aerial ty curtain against the horrors of fighting has changed completely modern gas and incendiary bon during the last ten years as a re-bing of exposed civilian popula- ault of internal combustion and tions, we must have revised ideas aerodynamic progress. And we of what are ample quotas of air old hands know perfectly well that craft on permanent establishment the experience we had in the last for our defence. war is worth precisely nothing in | Equally, we must not be cheese the face of modern neriai fighting paring of expenditure on experi-hair-raising portion can be divided tactica.
menting with high-flying aircraft. The Air Force knows that, too, Every fighting pilot knows that but the powers that be," the height means advantage. In- ultimate strength or weakness of is not too pleasant to realise that statosmen In whose hands Iles the cidentally, in this connection, it
trust as striven to give the citizens clothing that will be durable and comfortable, but it has paid no attention whatever to style. Pride in one's appearance seems to be a hallmark of the bourgeois attitude; the citizen of a Communiat atate, one gathers, has no business worrying about his or her looks. But now the people of Russia, and especially the women, are getting tired of clothes that are like an endless series of drab uniforms. They are demanding style, snap, decent colours, trim- ness; and the clothing trust is beginning to hearken. A. Moscow atore the other day displayed-- for the first time since the revolu-
As a result, the technical know- tlon-n formal dinner gown. Hu- man nature, evidently, is about the ledge that has been gained dur- same under Communism as undering the last ten years or so has not been and is not being trans- lated into a shield for the defence of England,
Thongkong Telegraph. Capitalism."
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1934.
BRITAIN'S POLITICAL
SITUATION
REMOVING THE CLOAK JA
the Force, the safety or otherwise alhough at one time Great Britain
of the nation, have, apparently, not yet assimilated and appreciated that fact.
as
held the air records for height (43,976 ft.), spoed (407 mph.) and long distance, the birth of this year 1934 secs us without any one of these,
The galling part is that we have the brains and facilitice to obtain complete supremacy in the air. Lack of appreciation of its im portance in higher circles scens to be the stumbling block.
An appropriate title for a book would bo "My hair-raising Ex- periences in Hongkong."
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into three parts, one in the contré and one on each side.
Unfortunately, # difficulty arises, na we understand harcs
are unprocurable in Hongkong. spend the whole of their holiday usefully tearing up and burning old photographs, letters,, garters" and other incriminating avidence. derive Unmarried people will greater pleasure from going for Jong long hikes,
Those about to be married can
The beat way to start this is to catch a train to Shatin, or some other outlandish place, and then sit on the roadsido until a motorist offora you a lift into town.
With girls the procedure is eomowhat different. They should accopt a car drive from Eddie Kelly, or
other strange. motorist. The walking part will naturally follow.
some
Swimming is also an excellent sport for the holidays, but at this time of the year it is advisablo to see that the water to heated to at least 70.
NO LONGER AN ISLAND, Those of us who took part in
The public of this country aro President Roosevelt's pledge that action in the air years ago are air-conscious. The man in the his government is finished with the not aggressively belligerant now. street realises the importance of policy of armed intervention As units of a nation, ratepayers, aerial fighting power as a defence, And the devastating part of the into the affairs of its Latin-
voters, we don't want to adopt American neighbours is generally any attitude that will be construed whole business is that it is so very looked upon as a historic modifica If bye-elections are to be taken tion of the Monroe Doctrine. It But we do want adequate defence tack by air than for effective de- aggressive military policy. much quicker to prepare for at- as a reliable test of the feeling might be more accurate to say that and, as things are to-day, we are fence. It is only necessary to of the country, the tide would instead of a modification It is a forced to doubt whether that do: take any modern civilian nir liner,
of that doctrine. fence is available.
paint service markings on wings appear to be running strongly restoration
Originally, the Monroe Doctrine, The reason for that doubt is and fuselage, fill up with bombs against the National Govern- simply was a declaration, that the plain to see. This country is no and extra fuel tanks instead of ment. Cambridge, which has United States would resist any longer an island..
mails or tourists luggage and you just polled, tells the same story establish new colonies, protector- made in aircraft design and con- tion hundreds of miles away in a attempt by European powers to And, because of the advances can deal out death and destruc-
We, ourself, go in for tortolac is most of the recent bye-elec-ates or "apheres of Influence" Instruction, there is nearly double few hours. tions a marked decline in the the new world. It was only com- the aren of frontier to defend Unfortunately for peace-loving collecting. We have over 2,000 of
them now. Government vote, and a decided paratively recently that it became against attack that there was in nations such as ourselves, inter-
We know each of them by name. a cloak beneath which the United | 1918.
ceptors, fighters, high-altitude increase in the support given to States interfered in the internal Advances made in aero-engine observation machines and other When we call they gallop up and Labour. Why this should be, it affairs of the An ricas. President design have enabled modern aero- defensive craft are not so readily eat out of our hand. In the case. dead-heat between two. is not enay-to-discover There Roosevelt's declaration restores the planes to oporate-at-far higher to hand. Air passenger, freight of a
doctrine to its old position.
altitudes than formerly were even and club machines will not con- tortoises, they eat out-of-bath can be no questioning the fact
thought possible. Engines fitted vert into high speed defensive hands.
This saves bickering. that the present Administration
with super-chargers that boost weapons,
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has, when we consider the un- DEATH for RECKLESS DRIVING the power output thousands of TRAINING 19 LONGER.
usually difficult conditions pre- valling, achieved a wonderful
Some sort of record for severity In dealing with reckless driving measure of success. Not only seems to have been set by the has it balanced the Budget, with Russian court in Moscow, which prospects of something to spare, recently Imposed the death penalty on a motorist who let his car get but it has placed the finances of out of control, dashed into a the nation on a more stable marching column of troops, and basis than those of any other This sentence is all the more caused the death of four men. country. Why, then, the un- astounding when one considers the favourable reaction? The ans- fact that, except in Cades of wer will have to be sought in counter-revolutionary activity, Rus- sian courts are reluctant to impose more factors than one. First
the death penalty at ali, evon for and foremost, we have to re-cold-blooded murder. It Isn't member that the pendulum of likely that very many people would political impulses is never still; favour the adoption of such string-
ent measures elsewhere. Never- it is a natural tendency, when atheless, there is something to be Government has been in power said for the adoption of extremo severity toward the man who for some years, for the electora bandies his car so recklessly that to desire a change. But this he destroys the lives of his fellow does not wholly explain the pre-men.
sent feeling of the country,
The present position has really kindly to dictatorships and never had a parallel in British they have an Instinctive fear history. The Government in that unduly prolonged support power claims to be a National of the present Government Administration, whereas in fact might be taken as an indication it is predominantly Conservative. of a desire for indefinite one- Its leaders desire to make the party rule. Other factors opera- position static-to preserve Con- ting against the Administra- servative control at all costs, tion are the continued serious- But the British electorate has ness of the unemployment pro- little time for subterfuge or blem; and the rather timorous, make-belief: above all else, it character of the Government's aaks for honesty in politics. It foreign polley, Our own view knows that the Government is is that the Government would not a National Government, and stand much higher in populár it declines to indicate by its osteom were it to shed its pre- vote that it thinks it is. The. tence of being National, and Labour voters, of course, con- stand forth merely as a Con- sider that Mr. Ramsay Mac-servative Administration, seek- Donald has sold their party, ing support as such." The re- while oven the Conservatives do turn of the two-party system is not like him as head of the inevitablo; nothing can stop it. Government. There is the fur | The Government should re ther point to be kept in mind cognise that fact and readjust that British people do not take its tactics accordingly.
feet above the earth now are com- monplace.
Thus the obvious need for us to Whereas in the last war the possess adequate quantities ΟΙ "celling" or height limit at which aircraft instantly ready for de fully-laden bombing machines fensive action. Such is the way could operate was commonly 15, to ensure peace and bargaining 000 feet; there is every likelihood power for commercial prosperity. that machines bullt to modern designs could operate at 80,000 feet and more.
Another equally potent reason for an increase in numbers of fighting aircraft available is, that is easy to see what this means. completely
From a defence point of view it the methods of aerial combat have altered from the To prevent hostile aircraft from old Individualistic single-handed. bombing our cities and homes scraps that collectively used to they must be prevented from com- (Continued on Page 7.)
"You see, our object is to make the child enjoy schoo
Then, of course, there are hobbies. Stamp collecting, for instance. Or photography.
Then there are our turtles. They' got in amongst the tortoises,
We had to make separate pens for the turtises and tortles which were the unfortunate outcoena..
We had a go at mating tortoises with hedgehogs, in order to pro- dues tortoise-shell brushes, but. this was a fallure.
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trouble. There were the tortoises We had a frightful lot of
that turned turtle ón' us. But
there is nothing more affectionate than a turtle.
Thoir cost is so warm, and if
you don't belt them in the face they'll do you no harm.
Yes, on the whole, wo strongly advise our readers to take up turtles or tortoises as a hobby to. pass away the time during holidays.
As far as we're concerned, we've already decided what we'll do during our holiday. We will sit down at an unprintable typewriter), lay our adjective head in our un-' mentionable hands, and try to think of some exclamation mark' thing to write about for Thurs- day's inflammable paper,
That will be all we'll hava to say to-day. Bon swore (French language).
A LAST THOUGHT
As soon as the patient, who had boon bitton by a mad dog, learned that the doctor pronounced him fatally strickon with hydrophobia, ho asked for a pencil and a shoot of paper.
After he had been busy for some time, the nurse said: "Hadn't you bottor have a lawyer assist you in making your will?".
"Oh, no," was the shawor....
· “I'm making a list of the people want to bite.
ECONOMY:
Andy who once lived in
Brussols ne
Was famed for the size of her
clos
In sport she indulged ----
· Rosult was she bulged
So much that she needed po
bustles,