TROOPS EN ROUTE TO FAR EAST
CHRISTMAS PUDDINGS were the topic when the troopship Dorsetshiro sail id from Southampton fast month for Hongkong and Shanghai with 1,500 troops yesterday. Top: Smuling Tommics assisting the chef, and (below) a mother hands her son one of the home-made variety. The puddings were caten on Christmas Day in the Red Sea.
ARCTIC 30,000
YEARS OLDER
THAN ANTARCTIC?
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY
∙10, 1936.
TRANS-ATLANTIC AERIAL ROUTE MAY EMPLOY MID-OCEAN DROME
TSHEKEDI
PLEADS NATIVE RIGHT TO TRIAL
Johannesburg, Dec. 28. TSHEKEDI, the South African tribal chief whom the King pardoned and reinstated two years ago after his banishment for ordering the Blogging of a white man, to-day took a bold step to defend his "rights."
NON-STOP SERVICE
DANGEROUS?
2,000-MILE LOOP MUST BE CROSSED
AGAINST HEAD. WINDS DISCUSSIONS at Washington between British and American air experts have included an examination of the bold plan for building a "scadrome" to be anchored in the Atlantic.
The "scadrome" is an American idea. A corporation has been formed to exploit the plan and its representatives have toured Europe to try and interest Governments in it.
den is that the problem of range over the ocean can best be solved by building an airdrome of steel, towing it into the Atlantic, and anchoring it at a place which would be marked on pilots' charts.
The pilot of the Atlantic flying boat would then land beside it and re-fuel, just as he would at an ordinary flying-böat harbour. 'Tho question of range is n Lisbon, Lisbon and Azores, and Bermuda and the American main- barrier to Atlantic air travel.
land are all of 1,000 miles and less.
Either by tho Ireland-Now- foundinhd route or the Azores Bermuda track, there is a "hop" of 2,000 miles which the flying boat must cover non-stop.
On the Pacific route the China Clipper flew 2,400 miles non-stop and carried air mail..
But, although that is a longer stage, the head winds to be ex pected are little compared with the head winds the pilot must face on the North Atlantic crossing.
On the North Atlantic run fuel for 3,000 to 3,000 miles flying in still air must be carried for a He was granted leave by the Resident Com-2,000-miles non-stop flight be misslohór for Bechuanaland, Colonel C. F. Rey, cause head winds up to 40 and 60 to bring an action against Sir William Clark, miles an hour must be provided
against. High. Commissioner,
These reduce the airplane's cruising speed.
"LOSS OF POWERS" Tahekedi, who is chief of the Bamankwato tribe, declares that certain proclamations promul-
The rated last January by the gh would Commissioner take away powers alone. and jurisdiction, from the native chiefs,
ADMIRAL BYRD'S NOVEL THEORY
Washington, Dec. 25. Antarctica is 30,000 years behind the North Polar regions, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd said in his first lecture on his second ex- pedition to the "bottom of the world."
"The Ice Age which we found at Antarctica is the same as that around the north pole 30,000 to 35,000 years ago." Byrd told an audience of National Geographic Society members which crowded Constitution Hall.
"You don't have to go backward in history to see what the ice age was like, all you have to do is go 10,000 miles to the south." -Ho-said. Antarctica-was-10.de: grees colder than the "top of the world" which he also has explored by airplane. The Admiral sald that no animals were able to live away from the edge of the South Polar regions, whereas in North, numerous senis, bears and birds were found far from the shores.
"Dovil's Graveyard”
the
The Devil's Graveyard"- sea filled with icebergs was so full that Byrd's party counted 8,000 berga in one day. The expedition commander said an Aretle patrol would not see that many in a whole year of regular duty.
Byrd related the expedition ex- plored 20,000 square miles of pre- viously unknown sea.
Rosa Iceberg, which is 400 miles by 600 miles in area, far surpasses any mass of ice found in the North, Byrd explained.
"Only One Could Go"
SEA-DOGS MEET
Clarence House, London, whore delegatos from five nations have re umed the "hopeless" conference to
limit saa armamente,
(Sue Page 6)
The Admiral dwelt briefly with Ice Age in the sinister flood stage," his own experiences 123 miles from Byrd said, as he exhibited moving the Little America camp when he pictures of the 4,000-foot mountaing was nearly overcome by fumes from covered with drifts of snow 3,000 a stove in the lonely, Isolated hut feet high. On the south side of "I could not ask thỏ men to do some of the mountains, the drifts the job so I went myself," he said. extended up to the very top of the "We could not take supplies for peaks, Byrd said. Further south, three men because the night was he said, the dog-team explorers closing in. Only one could go 60 round mountains 10,000 feet high. I went myself."
Huge deposits of coal, enough to "Two, men could not go to the supply the world for decades, were isolated camp site for six months found. in outcroppings among the because of paychological reasons." mountains, he said. "These deposits He said he was "deeply grateful" showed the earth was vastly differ- to those who rescued him when beent in the past from the present was sick from the fumes. He add-frigid Polar areas; sometime in the od, "They did a superb job." past what are now the Poles had A flight by airplane over the tropical growths much like Florida South Polar regions showed "anior California to-day-United Press.
“NO SMOKE BEFORE AGE OF 21′′
LEGACY
VISCOUNTESS'
CLAUSE in the will of the Dowager Viscountess Buckmaster
published in December.
"I leave £10 to each of my grandchildren who have not smoked before attaining twenty-one years.”
grandsons, the eldest of whom is now fourteen and the youngest only Lady Buckmaster, who lived at Bullarda Ware, Herts, had saven A few weeks. A MA
The present Viscountons Buckmaster anidi
The $10 bequest was made by the dowager viscountess as a little deterrent to the boys from smoking in their youth, as apparently sher belleved that if they did not smoke until they were twenty-one there was every chance of their remaining non-smokera.“da
My husband has promised our two boys a little reward, too, if they refrain from drinking until they are twenty-one, ⠀
But there is no question of restrictions being imposed upon
"These," he says were specially bc. preserved by a verbal treaty tween Sir Charles Warren, repre- Renting Queen Victoria, and the Bamangwato nation in 1885. This treaty was confirmed in 1896, when Chief Khama visited England."
TO TO
SOVIET
ROPE IN WILD MEN
2,500,000 STILL AT. LARGE
"
WEIGHT PROBLEM
fuel for such a, journey weigh about 20,00016,
.
Designs for the "sendromo"" have been drawn up and seale models have been tested in rough water.
They have been surprisingly steady because the pillars, which support the landing platform go far below the disturbed upper sur- face of the ocean.
Each "scadrome," it ia estl- mated, would cost $1,000,000.
It would rest on 82 steel pillars which would go down 200ft. below the level of the Atlantic. Motion. of surface waves is not felt below` 60ft.
The landing area would tower | 100ft, above the waves.
The whole structure would be anchored to a buoy, and this would be cabled to the ocean bed below.. It would swing head into wind and. have runaways of about 1,250
The China Clipper is of yards. 51,000lb. all-up" weight, and of this the boat, engines, and equip | ment weigh about 27,000lb.
This leaves 24,000lb, for pilots and crew, passengers and bag
age; mails and freight; food and
water; fuel and oil..
For a North Atlantic crossing, If 20,000lb. or more of this total were allotted to fuel and oil it
leaves little for a paying load
when pilots, and crew and in- forlor fittings are allowed for.
Perhaps one ton of air mall at the most could be carried even in this ship.
HEAVY AS "QUEEN1MARY". The "seadrome", would weigh' about as much as the Queen Mary.
The original idea was to use
could have an enclosed area of calm water for the flying-boat to light and taxi up to the re-fuel- ling buoy.
these islands for landplanes. They
The promoters of seadromes have already spent £100,000 on experiments and models at tests in tanks and with B2ft. scale models in Chesapeake Bay under storm conditions.
The United States Navy Depart- On the other hand, if an artif- cial "island" can be constructed mont recommended Congress to on the route midway between the spend £1,700,000 on them, in the Azores and Bermuda the "hop" of Pacific for strategie basca. 2,000 miles is reduced to 1,000 miles and only 10,000lb. instead of 20,000lb need be devoted to
fuel and oil.
For. civil lying, a "sendrome" might, now that the radio com- pass has been perfected, provė practicable.
Moscow, Dec. 30. RUSSIA'S remaining 2,500,
©000′′primitiveTMnomads; des-- This would give-the flying-boat. cendants of Genghiz Khan's about five tons of weight which Britain's "Golden Horde," which spread could be disposed between passen
terror and destruction from the gers, mails, and freight.
The "scadrome" might thus be a
Oldest
Pacific to the banks of the solution to this difficult problem Woman Dies-
Dnieper, are to be lured from of range.
their roaming life and settled
on collective farms.
STEEL PILLARS
On the southerly route the Aged 110
At a meeting yesterday of the other stages between England and
Central Executive Committee of
the U.S.S.R. it was decided to steppe dweliers still retain their " THINK I will get up to-day."
begin a rapid extension of the system of communal dwellings, schools and modern farm villages, avhich in the last ten years have already won over 7,600,000 of the wandering tribesmen to the new mode of living.
In the midst of the turbulent new life which is rapidly Westernising Russia, the remnants of the nomad
said Mrs. Caroline Merriott, ancient customs and superstitions.
The Kremlin, realising that toldost woman in England, one must proceed cautiously and diplo morning last month. matically, has followed the policy of respecting the peculiarities of the various tribes.
It is this course apparently which has delayed for so many years the complete absorption of the nomads into Soviet life.
You Say It With Smacks In New Sign Language
IFTING their thumbs, waving their hands, wriggling their wrists, and jerking their elbows-that is how two hundred carrnest men and women in evening dress learned a new language in the amphitheatre of the Royal Institution, Albemarle-street, London, W., recently..
As they wriggled, jerked and using the upper arm, the lower waved Sir Richard Paget, the arm and fingera. scientist, guided them in "spenk, Hore are a few of the words he ||ing" with their hands.
tought:-
Do-smack your right palm with your left fist.
Try-stop short of smacking palm. with fist.
די
Fail-miss the palm altogether by sliding the fat under it
Nurses and fellow-patients in Mayday, Hospital, Thornton Heath, laughed at 110-year-old Mrs. Mar- riott's little joke. They knew-and she know that it was nothing
more.
An hour later she was dead. She had died peacefully in her bed,
On December 12 she asked one of the nurses how many days there!
"Friday the thirteenth? That was
were before Christmas. "It is
unlucky for somebody.
December 18 to-morrow," replied
the nurse.
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An hour they had learned enough to appreciate "sign poems in blank vorse, delivered to them by Mr. Taller, a student of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and accompanied by Strichard Sir Richard Hopped his arms. at the piano,
Everyone, shrieked "Bird," and he So Sir Richard elaborated the angers all over the desk, while he cried "Good!" Then ho ran his "Paget-Davies, dumb language system. He, with Mr. Bertrand claimed delightedly, "animals.
MAR 30 SIMPLE Davies and other collaborators,
Afterwards Sir Richard was ask- has now composed a sign vocabul-ed what he hoped for the future of ary covering all the 850 basic his language. words of the English language, aloft a large card index file to thumping one hand on the other and and is still carrying on. He hold "It is so wonderfully fundas always regarded as unlucky mental," Sir Richardropiled,
Two months ago this "extra- show how far he had progressed. then encircling his fingers with the ordinary old woman," as Mrs. Mer- QUANTYPICAL SIGNS.
di fingers of the other hand. “You riott used to describe herself, held To emphasise the poverty of saw how quickly they learned it." ber 110th birthday party, with five spoken language as compared with Asked how, Boon, he thought the generations of her familly Sho the language of gestures Sir language would spread, he an was the life and soul of it. She Richard Bald our words were com sworod that it was merely a mattor, invited them all back next year." posed of only thirty mouth of how soon people took it up.
And until a few days are the was gestures while it was possible, toBoy Scouts and the Longue, of still enjoying her three meals a day, make as many as 700.000 gostures, Nations could do a great deal he her plit of stout, and her goverall distinct and elementary signe, by said,
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Friday the 13th, said Mrs. Marriott.When I‚was'n; girl that for somebody.
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