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«THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1995.
Black, Treacherous Waste Is Kingsford-Smith's Grave
GLORY
ROAD OF BRITAIN'S
TRIUMPHS
London, Dec. 10.
The bleak and treacherous air route between England and Australia, where Sir'] Charles Kingsford - Smith | and his co-pilot disappeared in the Lady Southern Cross, has been the "glory road” of Great Britain's air exploits since the world war.
Crowded with dangers, the great aerial highway has lured new suckers of record-breaking honours since November, 1919, when a Vickers Vimy airplane; of wartime- vintage first traversed the route with four men in 29 days.
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That was a snail'a pace com- pared with the record of the Inst three years.
It was a grim coincidence that on the day Kingsford-Smith and Pilot 3. T. Pethybridge were re- ported missing-November 8th-
fellow Australian shattered "Smithy's" aolo record. of seven days, four hours and 47 minutos between England and Australia.
Fiying alone in a standard type
British light airplane, H. F. Broad. bent cut the time to less than a
week by clipping about seven and a half hours from Sir Charles'
record established on a solo fight
n 1933.
AFTER RECORD
Kingsford-Smith was attempting
ABYSSINIAN FAREWELL
War brings grief to wives and hildren in Abyssinio, just as it and to Britons over twenty years ago. Picture shows an Abyssinian soldier bid. ding farewell-perhaps the last—to his wife before his departure for the
front.
Paule
Aged
108,
Keeps On Laying Eggs
NELSON, the London cockatoo that took the
wrong turning late in life and laid an egg at the age of 102, so having her name changed to Henrietta, has a powerful rival.
Nelson, was told in these columns WHOOPEE
The story of Henrietta, ex-
two months ago. •
It attracted attention in many
at the time of his disappearance places, including Biggleswade, In
CAPITAL
to shatter the non-solo time of Beds. And in Biggleswade there is OF RED SEA stablished by C. W. A. Scott and a cuge. In that cage lives Pauline,
two days 23 hours and 18 minutes
T. Campbell Black in the Mac-parrot who for one hundred years Robertson Trophy Race, using de Haviland Comet, in 1934.
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The route of the England to Australia flera has ben by way of Marseilles, Rome, Karachi and Batavia to Port Darwin. The heaviest weather usually fe en countered on the soction between Rangoon and Singapore where tor- rential rain, heavy clouds and gales ereeping off the Indian Ocean force the fliers to resort to blind flying and stake_their_lives on the reliability of their instru- ments.
"TOO SHIVERY"
Brondbent, the W record- holder, announced when he landed at Port Darwin that ho never would undertake such a Journey again.
"Too shivery," he said. The frat fight over the "glory road" was that of four British army men, Capt. Ross Smith, Lieut. Keith Smith, Sergt. J. M. Bennett and Sergt. W. L. Shlers, They took off at Croydon on u morning in late November, 1919, In the Vickers Vimy fitted with two Rolls-Royce motora,
HINKLER'S FLIGHT
Then came the first of the sen-
sational solo distance flights, that of Squadron Leader II. J. L Hin- kler who flew an Avro Avian over the route in Pabruary, 1928 in 16 daya. It was two years bofora
was called Paul, without letting the good name down.
ALL IN VAIN
DJIBOUTI COMES TO LIFE
Djibouti, Dec, 10. Once a slumbering port of Paul must have found the first native huts and a few colonial hundred years the hardest, because buildings, Djibouti suddenly has immediately on completing them became the Whoopee Capital of he, or rather she, inld an egg. And the Red Sea. Pauline, ex-Taul, has laid four eggs AB a year for eight years ever since.
journalists, adventurers, missionaries and lecturers jam the gateway here to Ethiopia, the capital of French Somailland is a mushroom building up like mining camp in the gold-rush days- of Pioneer America.
The difference between Paulino of Biggleswade and Henrietta or London is that Pauline is a good mother to her eggs, she knows what to do with them. Supplied with pieces of cloth by her owner, Miss
Two open-air cabarets have E. Briggs, of Caldecote Lodge, sprung up in palm-studdėj Pauline makes a cosy little nest and oasis a few miles outside the city. JA Jazz-band of Greek and sits on her eggs for two months. Armenian musicians has been
formed.
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THE EGGS WON'T GEE
And the frat cinema She lays twice in the spring and in French Somaliland has been twice in the autumn, presumably opened to the public with a pro- gramme of ancient talkles. The for company through the long win four hotels of the town, filled to ter months. But the eggs never over-flowing with this unexpected enter into the spirit of the thing. influx, have started organizing Pauline sits on them for tw the dansants, cocktail parties, and months, and when she gets off, well, they are still just eggs.
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Even the mud-hut village is But a bird that walts for a hun-undergoing progressive change. dred years to lay its first egg is not The thatched hovels. where stomach-dancòrs and going to be put off as quickly as Arabian
naked Somaliland girla performed their chants and dances are being to cleaned up and redecorated meet the demands of this new white clientele.
that.
"WHO GOES THERE?"
Pauline keeps steadily up to her egg-laying quota, and sits in hope that one day she will be father and mother to a little African grey parrot.
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RICKETY MOTOR BOATS Along the wharf, rickety motor- boats, that once reeked with the smell of fish and dirty billige water,
with cheap bits of
These are the amusement boats when she was just a boy, about that take out plenic parties to eighty years ago. Another habit neighbouring beaches where thero. and swim- Pauline acquired, na Paul, in those are palm-tree groves first hundred years was pipe sniok-ng holes.
On the cafe terraces, where a ing....
fow colonial Fronchmen and A. Mollison, the husband of Amy And oven as Pauline she cannot scattering of Arab merchants and Johnson, are names thint have break that manly habit.
curred frequently in the lists of outward and homeward records
anyone lowered Hinkler's timo Pauline is a fine mimic, a dancer, are being swabbed clean and made although Ming Amy Johnson, as and her favourite shout is, "Stop. attractive she was known then, attracted Kalt. Who
goes there? That wide acclaim in May, 1930, when was just one of the things that she Japanese calico. she flew a de Haviland Gipsy Moth learned from an army officer owner from England to Australia in slightly over 19 days.
FAMOUS NAMES Kingsford-Smith, Scott and " .
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Ethiopian traders once sat quietly or chatting over Turkish coffea- mugs of beer, there is the tinkle foreign voices. "Whisky Bod?," the esperanto phrase of the cafes is heard in a score of foreign ac-
between England and the far-away sec whether the craft carries an of Iced drinks and the babel. of
continent of the British Empire.
The England-Australia record Frekers have changed their habits since the ptoneering flights of 1910. In those days it was the habit of pilots to announce boldly what they Intended to do and then
st about it.
Now it's the custom to emphati- eally deny that they are seeking to establish any now records--and then break every one in sight. Brolbant was that way. He sa'd didn't Interest him records Kingsford-Smith did the same, and than reall off miles lat ́`, an "as- Lonchino ASOJ
extra fuel tank.
NEW RECORD SOON But, with all the daring and dan-cents. gera of the long flight, the now England Australia records soon may pala to insignificance just n that of the Vickers Vimy 16. years
ago.
CLICK OF DICE
The click of dice as the new French arrivals play, backgammon compotes with the postmortem bridge discussions of Americans and English. Beggars and street- Aviation authorities are con- vendors trying to profit from the vinced that the trip from London trend of the times, and to the to Porth, Australia, will he made uproar of the scene. some day in 24 hours. Th's will barrier rising 25,000 fost la con- come, they say, when the Himainya
quered.
It is estimated that the while only some 600 a year ago, is to- opulation of Djibouti, placed at
Jay between 8,000 and 4,000. Many of this number are. French The triumph will be gained, ng coldfern, and oneers sont bero As a resuit, when a pilot lands rording to the experts, when art or any emergency that may (at lymena älefield with an Inno- | fen"ly-warped moltiolammelbodi uriza, out of the Italo-Ethiopian cont appearing plane and ways he ofelinors are developed - with an, conflict. The others are soldiers intens to flv, to Paris for får altershy didn an nonfoo" at fortune, adventurers, nows- a. holdav, evnerienced newspaper ceiling for a space of a thousan per correspondents and busi min Imniediately browse about to or more miles..
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