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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
DEATH, WON
THRICE in less than a de- cade newspaper editors all over the world have dug into their morgues and pre- pared the obituary of the world's greatest pioneer in long distance flights.
Twice Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith has returned to confound them.
But the third time is apparently the last. For the intrepid Australian, the only who.. has circumna- man vigated the earth across the equator in eu acroplane, has vanished, just as his co-pilot on the maiden flight across the Pacific, Charles Ulm, vanished between San Fran- cisco and Honolulu a year ago.
-
16,
1935.
THRICE THE
"LADY SOUTHERN CROSS", the Lockheed Altair mono- plane in which Kingsford Smith vanished last week over the Buy of Bengal, was the machine in which he successfully flew from Australia to California exactly second Pacific flight. "I know Lwelve months ago.
I am in the gun' with a lot of 'good Australians who previously thought well of me.",
CHEATED LAST RACE.
Hongkong Telegraph. reaching Mildenbail in time to my Pacific venture is successful from his destination, however,
SATURDAY, Nov. 16, 1936.
|A SANE ELECTORATE
Results have justified. the National Government in seeking a renewal of confidence from
British the
electorate, As
to flash the glad tidings of their discovery-long after they had. been given up as dead.
Replenished
wila fuel. "Southern Cross" resumed her flight to England, breaking all records.
YEARS later, "Southern
Cross; reduced to taking joy-flight passengers to earn a living for her intrepid owner, was forced down in a dense Victorian jungle, hundreds of miles from the nearest habita tion. No other pllot but Kinga- ford Smith could have landed the machine without striking a tree or crashing-no other pilot could have taken off again from the dangerous position in which It had landed, without a runway, He left his co-pilot and passen- gers in the forest, had a rope. tied to the tail of the machine and revived the three engines up to their maximum. Then, as the Southern Cross strained to go, the rope was cut at a given signal, and the machine, with Kingsford Smith at the controls, made an almost vertical take- gif, missing the towering gum trees by inches.
was on the roule from Mel- bourne to Wyndham that The machine was purchased
Kingsford Smith was first lost. by Australian sympathisers in
In the famous old "Southern AGAIN, in May this year the "Southern Cross" and Kings- order to allow "Smithy" to parti- "I'm human enough to want Cross" in which he had crossed; cipate in the Centenary Air Australians to think well rather the Pacific with Ulm and. two ford Smith enacted one of the Race. Departmental hitches in than badly of me. That is why companions, Smithy set out for most remarkable dramas in the
history of aviation. Australia and machine trouble in I am going to attempt to fly the Wyndham on March 30, 1929. Queensland prevented him from Pacific. And that is why, if Just over a hundred miles
En route to New Zealand from
participate in the race.
and I can earn enough money he was forced to land through Australia with Jubilee air mail, of the propellers was Then the whispers-that he to pay my buckers for the 'plane, lack of petrol. After twelve one had deliberately tried to evade I will try to rehabilitate myself hours silence, planes set out to smashed 800 miles out at sea. His plane almost wrecked, Kings- participating in the race. in the eyes of Australia by find the missing airmen.
Two close friends. Anderson ford Smith fought a miraculous know there are people who breaking Scott's record in the are saying I squibbed' the Cen- Centenary Air Race."
and Hitchcock, followed the battle to reach land. The story is too recent to need recapitula- tenary Air Race," Kingsford
route traversed tion, but, by superb pilotage, Smith said just before his
by the "South- Kingsford-Smith kept his plane ern Cross," but above water, successfully land- forced ing at Mascot aerodrome after a flight that goes down in his- down in the
tory as the most remarkable middle of the ever made by man, dreaded Central Australia desert. CHORTLY after that adventure Their bodies, the old warrior "Southern one under the Cross" was purchased by the. wing of the dis- Australian Government and now abled plane and lies in a honoured position, the other a hun alongside the Vickers-Vimy in dred yards away, from England to Australia f which the first flight was made
That Kings- ford Smith has apparently lost
generally anticipated, the Bald-NOTES OF THE DAY his life in the
win Administration goes back
attempt to re- habilitate him. self adds polg- Flying from Port Natal to
nancy to the Rio de Janeiro, after crossing
drama of his in a record- the South Atlantic breaking dash from London, the disappearance.
nirwoman, New Zealand young
Had disaster like Kingsford-Smith and Ulm and many others, vanished into the not intervened it
for long.
certain She seems has been found, unhurt and un-that he would
to power with a reduced major- DANGEROUS FLIGHT ily. In no quarter was it ex pected that the Government would maintain the overwhelm ing strength which it had in the Inst Parliament, but it is still left with a comfortable margin all other fac- of power over
blue.
may not
and record
nir
A
GREAT AIRMAN
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith brake mare records than any other airmen Que of his greatest achievements teus in October 1943, when he flew from England. Australia in just over seven days. smashing all existing records,
Hin other great flights - clude
1927. Round Australía-7,000 millen in ten days..
19. Piloted first and only machine to cross Pacific from
Bust to west.
1928. 2,000 saden across USA. in three days.
1930. Piloted firat machine to reach New York nerona Atlantic eust tu went.
were
were
found
•
teen years ago, in the Common- the wealth Museum at Canberra.
inter. On fabric of the wing was the
But its former owner, the Took fira! Christusen
man who, with Hinkler, Parer, mila from Australia to England last despairing Ross Smith and Keith Smith,. in thi
thirteen 1932 Betirant-to-Australia-diary of the hus placed Australian aviators New fifteen nirmen. in the history aviation, dupe.
Meanwhile is dead-drowned in the mighty: 1933. Piloted first mucking to
that claimed "Southern cross Tasman Sea to New Zealand, the search for Beas
Last October Sir Charles flow "Southern Cross's" co-pilot, C.T.I', Ulm, a 4,000 miles nonstop from Suv Cross" and its year ago. (Fiji Islands) to Honoluly on his
occupants con- great trans-Pacific flight,
undimi- 1904. Piloted first and only linued muching across Pacific from weat nished. Five to cust.
is the only man who har seven days pass- floh entirely around the world. uterons the equator, the only man
days, six days BULLS AND INNERS
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One thing in favour of the new currency notes. They do look like real money.
tions combined, The result is a ruled. But she has added to the have lowered tribute to the sanity and level weight of opinion welling up | headedness of the British people. against hazardous fights which Scott
be entirely necessary. Black's Labour will be much more we have long contended that, while of 71% hours the flight adequately represented in the the work of the pioneer pilots lias for Text House of Commons, not been necessary and praiseworthy,
we have now reached a stage where from England to some of its best quid most capa greater security in the air is the Melbourne. ble leaders who lost their seats Essential upon which airmen and Over the Bay in 1931 will be back again to airwomen, and designers and en of Bengal 'add to the power of the Opposi-gineers and all the rest of the Smithy was only
trade, should concentrate. We two hours b tion. This is as it should be, know, now, that planes can cross hind the for government by huge major- the oceans, that a man or a woman
winners. ities is never wholly satisfac- can y from Australia to England race
alone, that men and women can fly But it will be that tory. Such opposition' as the for a certain number of hours or recalled National Government encoun- a certain number of miles without they encounter- engine
still tered was mainly from the sleep and with the minimum of ed
food. We know that air servicen trouble over the to fly both ways across the Pacific. no trace was Labourites, since the Samuelite are practicable over continents, Liberals have long since lost oceans, deserts and mountains, Timor Sea, and finished the found. Then, just as to-day is
Why blame the Government? their grip on the electorate, through rain or fog or hurricane. last 2,000 miles of their dash the twelfth day sinco Kingsford while the Eloyd George Newman, snow fatten windy, the bengine.
Even the arch-enemy of the air half across the world on a seized Smith disappeared over the Bay did take adequate steps to ensure ol. Bengül, a Royal Australia that we should not be left without Deal" has never really taken on.zards of the North, can be conquer- Smithy, choosing the shorter Air Force plane, flying low over a nickel. The election has re-emphasiseded by experienced fliers. We have route from Wyndham to Mel- a jungle forest near the Forrest
r O seen pilots conquer space and time the virtual disappearance of the and we have applautied. We have bourne-a route he knows so River, saw the machine below Liberals as a serious factor ju thrilled at the dangers their couy-well, despite its impassibility on twelve days after it was first British politics: they are too age and stamina have surmounted. land, would have crossed Aus- reported lost. Food was drop-smuggled in books. Port-follas! closely allied to the moderate But we do deplore the apparently tralia in 12 hours, as compared ped to the starving airmen and unnecessary chances the dying with Scott, and Black's 27 hours. the plane returned to Wyndham Labourites and the more pro fraternity (or sorority) continues gresive of the Conservatives to to take." This constant quest for be really effeclunl. Labour of usefulness.
records hus about, passed the stage If new air routes fought the election unwillingly, are to be charted, let the work be as it found itself, in the main, ndertaken by organisations in in general agreement with its hose interest it in to develop them. They have the equipment and the opponents on the main question men and they will not needlessly of the day the upholding of the
risk; either. authority of the League Nations. In the absence of any weapon with which, to wage warfare on this point, the La. bourites have been concentrating on the Government's plans for increasing the nation's defence forces, contending that its at titide, on this issue may pro- voke a gigantic armaments race. But Mr. Baldwin assured the voters on the eve of the election that the Government would not| National Government there has spend a penny more on the Ser- been a marked decrease in the other vices than is necessary for number of jobless. In
spheres, also, the Government adequate national security. On can point to a highly creditable the unemployment issue, Labour record, notably, in building up criticism of the Government the stability of the national notwithstanding, the public has finances. A change of Admin- long since realised that this is istration at this juncture would a problem which can only be aions internationally.
have had disastrous repercus- solved by a general revival in election has turned out, the As the world trade, and that no Government can go back to Government can, of its own power well assured that it has efforts, cure the evil. In any the backing of the nation in the ovent, during the tenure of the policies for which it stands boi
nt Home and abroad.
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BAD FOR INDUSTRY
We happen to know that one of the biggest commercial operating frowns upon independent ""record- air concerns in the world frankly
breaking" or "stunt" flights. Too often these adventures end in disaster. Too often a pilot losing himself maken it necessary others to risk their lives on errands of mercy. And from a business (Continued on Page 16,)
for
Now, mother,
If you're going to talk to me like that, I'm
walit home to any husband."
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It is said that bathing has lasted longer than usual this year. Even so, we saw a Dapper still learning how to swim last week-end.
About all some people have to retire on this year is their dis- positions.
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the
Speaking over the radio other night, one of the Australian girl praised Kowloon. Several valves blew out on The Peak.
Hongkong, certainly earned the "Ashes".
Q General Election: Major Event: Private Opinion....
If Dama Rumour is to be be
lieved, Hongkong's new notes start-
ed off very high; they came by air.
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We wonder how many of the new nickel coins will find their way into Christmas puddings?: