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of the air has undoubtedly heon taken this week when Patt American Air ways spanned for the first time the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Manila with its giant clipper ship. This story tells of the grand dream which is about to become reality,
By SHERMAN MONTROSE
Heralding a new epoch in man's conquest of the air, a giant Pan American Clipper flying boat has completed its first flight from Alameda to Manila.
Back of this effort to regain the prestige of the old Yankee clippers which were the marvel of the China trade 100 years Jago are millions of dollars spent Jon development and equipment, two years' intensive training of personnel with one goal in mind, jand a triumph of American enterprise over great obstacles. After several experimental flights over the 8,500-mije route. the first regular-schedule flight with air mail has at last been made. There remains only one more stage.
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THE ALTERNATIVES'
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- ABOVE. Spreading ber_giant wing, this Pan American Clipper which arrives in Manila to-day, will
bo inaugurating a regular service ACTOIS 'the Pacife. With her sister ships, is America's bid to revive the glories of the Chins Clippere of a contúry ago.
map shows the auc LEFT-The cessive places where landing field and service stations have been built on the long air-road to Chiną.
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NNOUNCEMENT of the com- mercial airline across the
At the end of the flight lie the direction finder with a range of Pacific by the United States that France has moved with con- nnt light cargo will go aboard at great open trade areas of the 2,000 miles, as compared to the stirred a tempest in Japan. siderable reluctance in aligning Alameda or San Diego, Calif., Far East, already being reached ordinary land radio direction While Pan American air bases 300-mile spotting the Pacific are com- mercial bases, they can readily herself with the other League and reach Hongkong, Canton and by government subsidized air- finders with
radius,
be converted into military bases, Powers against Italy. This is Macao in about three days. To- lines of other powers.
With the new apparatus, Japanese claim. not to be wondered at when it is day the fastest ocean ships take
Pan American, only Amerléan
Although Japan is concentrat- remembered that France has three weeks for the trip.
operator of international airmail Miami has followed the progress lines serves 33 countries in of Pan American planes flying ing on military airlines been placed in the somewhat
kuo, it is also considering an air- awkward position of having to THE epic journey to Manila the Western Hemisphere and the Amazon River 2,100 miles strategic positions in Manchu- line linking the Empire with choose between Britain and Italy which even in a flying age operates a system in China and distant.
Alaska. Its planes carry when her foreign policy has been seems incredible-was made in
For two years a marine per- mandated islands in the Pacifle. based on co-operation with both. Ja 19-ton flying boat powered by passengers, mail, and cargo over
laboratory of the Caribbean and most of the islands in the Again and again, M. Laval has four motors that pull the huge 33,000 miles of routes, easily the sonnel has been trained in the This mandated group includes the Arctie. Out over the Atlan- Caroline, Marshall, and Marianne sought to induce Britain to enter clippers at better than 150 miles longest airway in the world.
Heavy obstacles beset the tie between the mainland and groups.
The Pan American line cuts Pacific project. No plane had Puerto Rico, more than 500
Imiles of training lights were through this Japanese-controlled said the sceptics-capable of completed.
group. At no time, however, been made could ever be built.
will clipper ships on flying such long distances over water on schedule regardless of Crews flew "blind" over the actually be Bying over Japanese. weather conditions.
entire 1,200 miles of water. territory. They-made-the-entire-flight by Other international powers ex-- dead reckoning and celestial tend their airlines into the Far
by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, checked their route. -
a private business enterprise collaborated with aircraft builders to produce the giant
While marine personnel was helped by airmail subsidy. But "elipper" type ships with their being trained and aviation and airlines of other nations are their 30,000-mile range under heavy radio equipment developed, Pan welded into one powerful unit,
subsidized by American officials worked on the heavily
governments. diplomatic relations involved.. loud in virtually any weather.
into further co-operative pledges Five stops are made en route:
on the Continent in order to offset the possible effects of
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also been evident a desire that
such sanctions as are imposed WOULD OIL EMBARGO MEAN should not be too stringent in character. The hope at the WAR IN EUROPE?
course
A TECHNICAL staff, headed navigation while radio apparatus East. In America aviation is
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back of these manoeuvres is to Would an embargo on oil, exports retain as much of Italian friend- to Italy, enforced by the League of ship as possible when the pre-Nations, mean a war in Europe? Many routes, over and around ·
To form an outlet at the TMPERIAL AIRWAYS, Great sent crisis is pasta policy Some authorities believe so. In the Pacific, were surveyed under
Britain's great system, already which, as an American journal that light the present discussions all conditions to find the safest Asiatic end of the trans-Pacific
service, an alliance was formed operates an airline from London points out, smacks rather of run- centring on possible sanctions with and fastest.
with the Chinese government to Capetown, Africa, to India and ning with the hare and-hunting respect to this vital commodity are with the hounds.
Radio engineers worked for through China National Air- Australia. Plans are being mude Thus far, the of the utmost Importance, French efforts have not been as work on the assumption that Italy
We
successful as Paris would have meant what she said when she de- years to develop an airways radio ways, now operating 3,000 miles for a line from Penang to Hong- liked, and, with the prospect of /clared that an oil embargo would be system with a range far sur- of airlines between Shanghai, kong later this year.
not
construed as an act of war, and passing anything ever developed. Peiping, Canton, and up the further measures being taken would be met by armed force. But The result is a short wave radioYangtze River. against Italy, France is being as a matter of fact, Italy would again thrown back to her ori-probably use force only if the Lea- ginal problem. Yet in making gue of Nations attempted to en the choice it seems inevitable force the embargo with the fleets that France must remain on the of her adherents; that is to say, If the League's war vessels block- side of Britain. The position is clearly stated by the Christian nded Italy with the object of pre- venting tankers of any nationality, Science Monitor when it remarks neutral or otherwise, bringing it that Britain happens to be onto Italian porta. Would a blockade the side of that international be necessary? That remains to be security based upon the integrity seen. It would not be If the powera of international engagements outside the League, notably the which lies at the root of the United States, refused to, allow theory of French foreign policy, their ships. to carry oil to Italy. And at the moment it would appear In terms of more realistic politics, Britain is the stronger that the flow of American oil to
wards the Mediterranean la power. The French no doubt
going to be greatly augmented. are weighing yet another factor. The business is too risky. Besides, This is the difference in the res- the United States Government dis- ponsibility of the two countries. approves of the trade: Oll, to all Britain, a democracy, speaks in intents and purposes, is as much behalf of a people whose policy munitions as are shells and rifles. is continuous, whereas Italy is a An oil embargo would be a most dictatorship, dependent upon not serious blow to Italy's enterprise only the person but the whim of Ethiopia. Assuming it
attempted, and a blockade succeeded, a single man. Thus far, Britain unless some source of supply were has taken the lead in the pres-developed in Italian territory her sure being brought to bear on mechanised army would be starved Italy by the League Powers, and of fuel and her war planes would there is apparent a determina-eventually be grounded. For Italy tion to stand firm to the prin-has no visible source of supply at ciples of the Covenant. The home in any way sufficient to her task of securing League unani-needs; nor are her stocks great mity has not been an easy one, enough to allow a prolonged cam- but France cannot well back paign-even against the Ethiopians, down from the course now set.
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Should differences arise, how- NOT INTIMATED ever, it has been made quite
Britain favours an oil embargo; clear that Britain will under no Aneries is willing to co-operate: circumstances attempt to en- the League has to decide if it is force the Covenant single-hand-wise to take this final stop againat
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Ted:
The trouble started when your mother loaned my mother that book on child psychology.".
Air France is knocking at the Great Wall of China through her lines from Puris to Saigon, Indo- China, Germany, in an agree- ment with Russia, is sending her Junkers monoplanes into China. Even Japan is considering an airline to the United States, em- ploying Zeppelins.
To date the giant clippers of the air, like the Yankee clippers of old, have taken the lead in the race for supremacy of occan com- mercial airlines..
THE QUEEN. MARY
FIRST ENGIN
NEXT WEEK
London, Nov. 27. The lighting of the 24 boilers of the Cunard-White Star liner, Queen Mary, which salis on, her maiden voyage on May 27 is expected to begin next week.
When steam is raised the uncoupled engines will be turned over, vory quietly for the first time. Then the 25-ton propellers will be coupled up and revolved at a gentle, speed,
The horsepower of the ongines will not be revealed, until her trials in March but it is understood that it will considerably exceed that of the Nor mandio, namely 104,000-British Vireless.
The Hongkong Branch of the Eng- liah Association will hold Ita second meeting for the sassion 1936-38 next Tuonday, at 5.80 p.m., in the Helana Mav Institute. His Honour, Sir A. D. A. MacGregor has promised to take, the chair, and Mr. H. C. Macnamara- will speak on "Blackstone."