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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1936.
TRANS-ATLANTIC AERIAL ROUTE MAY EMPLOY MID-OCEAN DROME
CHRISTMAS PUDDINGS were the topic when the troopship Dorsetshire sailed front Southampton last- month for Hongkong and Shanghai with 1,500 troops yesterday. Top: Smiling Tommies assisting the chef, and (below) a mother hands her aon one of the home-made variety. The puddings were eaten an Christmas Day in the Red Sea.
ARCTIC 30,000
YEARS OLDER
THAN ANTARCTIC?
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 flogging 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.
dea is that the problem of range over the ocean can best bo 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 ro-fuel, just as he would at an ordinary flying-boat harbour: The question of range is a Lisbon, Lisbon and Azores, and Bermuda and the American main- barrier to Atlantic air travel.
Elther by the Ireland-New-land are all of 1,000 miles and foundland route or the Azorea-cas.
"hop" Bermuda track, there is
'Designs for
the "Readrome"
of 2,000 miles which the flying have been drawn up and scalo boat must cover non-stop.
On the Pacifle route the China Clipper flew 2,400 miles non-stop and carried air mail.
models have been tested in rough
water.
Each "sendromo," it is cati- mated, would cost £1,000,000,
It would rast on 32 steel pillara which would go down 200ft, below the level of the Atlantic. Motion of surface waves is not felt below Goft.
They have been surprisingly But, although, that Is a longer steady because the pillars which stage, the head winds to be ex-support the landing platform go far below the disturbed upper sur- pected are little compared with the head winds the pilot must face on, face of the ocean. the North Atlantic crossing. On the North Atlantic run fuel for 3,000 to 3,500 miles flying in lle was granted leave by the Resident Com-ati ale" must be carried for a non-stop. light be 2,000-miles' missioner for Bechuanaland, Colonel C. F. Roy, 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 "LOSS OF POWERS"
The whole structure would be anchored to a buoy, and this would Tshekedi, who is chief of the Bamankwato cruising speed,
WEIGHT PROBLEM The fuel for such a journey be cabled to the ocean bed below. tribe, declares that certain proclamations promul.
gated last January by the Eight would weigh about 20,000lb. It would swing head into wind and Commissioner take away
powers alone.
have runaways of about 1,250 The China Clipper and jurisdiction from the native
is of yards.
chiefs.
51,000lb. all-up weight, and of HEAVY AS. "QUEEN MARY" "These," he says "were specially this the boat, engines, and equip
The "seadrome" would weigh preserved by a verbal treaty' bement weigh about 27,000lb.
about as much as the Queen Mary.
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 al
as: that!
Antarctica is the same.
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 havo 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 mouth."
He said Antarctica was 40-de- grees colder than the "top of the world" which ho also has explored by airplane. The Admiral' said that no animals were able to live away from the edge of the South Polar regions, whereas in the North numerous seals, bears and birds were found far from the shor.8.
"Devil's Graveyard" "The Dovil's Graveyard"— sea full filled with icebergs-was so that Byrd's party counted 8,000 bergs in one day. The expedition commander said an Aretle patrol would not nee that many in a wholo year of regular duty.
Byrd related the expedition ex- plored 20,000 square milea of pre- viously unknown sea,
Ross Iceberg, which is 400 miles by 600 miles in area, far surpaseca any mass of ice found In the North, Byrd explained.
"Only One Could Go"
SEA-DOGS MEET
Clarence House, London, where delegates from five nations have
umed the "hopelose" conference to
limit son armaments.
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The Admiral dwelt briefly with Ice Age in the sinister flood stage," his own experiences 129 miles from Byrd anid, as he exhibited moving the Little America camp when he pictures of the 4,000-foot mountains 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 the 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, throo men because the night was he said, the dog-team explorers closing in. Only one could go sound mountains 10,000 feet high. I wont myself."
Hugo deposits of coal, enough to "Two.men.could not go to the supply the world for decades, were Isolated camp alto for six months found in outcroppings among the because of psychological reasons."mountains, he said, These deposits He said he was "deeply grateful" showed the earth was vastly differ. to those who rescued him when he ent In the past from the present was sick from the fumos. He add-frigid Polar areas; sometime in the ed, "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 "an lor California to-day-United Press.
"NO SMOKE BEFORE AGE OF 21" VISCOUNTESS LEGACY
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,”
Lady Buckmaster, who lived at Bullards, Ware, Herts, had soven grandsons, the oldest of whom is now fourteen and the youngest only & few weeks,l» ^ek p
The present Viscountess Buckmastor said:-
The $10 boquest was made by the dowager vlscountess as a little deterrent to the boys from smoking In their youth, as apparently sha believed that if they did not smoke until they were twenty-one there. was overy chance of their remaining non-smokers.
My husband has promised our two boys a little roward, too, it they" refrain from drinking until they are twenty-ono,-
But bore In no question of restrictions being imposed up
Ethem raNELN
tween Sir Charles Warren, repre- This leaves 24,000lb, for pilots senting Queen Victoria, and the and crow, pasabngers and bag- Bamangwato nation in 1885. This treaty was confirmed in 1896, when Chief Khamn visited England."
age; maila and freight; food and water; fuel and oil.
For North Atlantie "crossing,
The landing area would tower 100ft. above the waves,
The original iden was to use could have an enclosed area of these islands for landplanes. They calm water for the flying-boat to if 20,000lb. or more of this total alight and taxl up to the re-fuel- were allotted to fuck and oil iting buoy, Icaves little for a paying load, when pilota and crow and in- torior fittings are allowed for.
Perhaps one ton of air mail at the most could be carried oven in
SOVIET TO ROPE IN WILD MEN this ship.
2,500,000 STILL AT LARGE
Moscow, Dec. 30. RUSSIA'S remaining 2,500,- 000 primitive nomads, des- cendants of Genghiz Khan's "Golden Horde," which spread
The promotors of seadromes have already spent £100,000 on. experiments and models at tests in tanks and with 32ft, scale models in Chesapeake Bay under storm conditions.
The United States Navy Depart On the other hand, if n artif- cial "island" can be constructed ment recommended Congress to on the route midway between the spend £1,700,000 on them in the Azores and Bermuda the "hop" of Factic tor strategic basca,
For civil flying, a "seadrome" 2,000 miles is reduced to 1,000 miles and only 10,000lb, instead might, now that the radio com- of 20,0001b. need be devoted to pass has been perfected, prove
practicable. fuel and oil.
-This would give the flying-boat
about five tone of weight which Britain's could be disposed between passen-
Oldest
terror and destruction from the Kers, mails, and freight.
The "sendroma" might thus be
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.
Central Executive Committee of
STEEL PILLARS
On the southerly route the Aged 110
At a meeting yesterday of the other stages between England and
the U.S.S.R. it was decided to
begin a rapid extension of the steppe dwellers still retain their T THINK I will get up-to-day,"
system of communal dwellings, schools and modern farm villages, which in the last ten years have already won over 7,500,000, of the wandering tribesmen to the new mode of living.
ancient customs and superstitions.
"I
said Mrs, Caroline Merriott,
The Kremlin, realising that i eldest woman in England, one must proceed cautiously and diple morning last month.- rautiently, has followed the polley of. the respecting the peculiarities of various tribes
It is this course apparently, which In the midst of the turbulent, new has delayed for so many years the life which is rapidly Westernising complete absorption of the nomads Russia, the remnants of the nomad Into Soviet life.
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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 earrnest men and women in evening dress learned a new language in the amphitheatre of the Royal Institution, Albemarle-street, London, W., recently,
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As they wriggled, ferked and using the upper arm, the lower waved Sir Richard Paget, the arm and fingers, scientist, guided them in "speak- Here are a few of the words he. ing" with their hands.
| taught:
Do-smack your. right palm with After an hour they had learned
your left ast. enough to appreciate "sign poems Try-stop short of smacking palm in blank verse, delivered to them with fist. by Mr. Toffler, a student of the Fall-miss the palm altogether by Royal. Academy of Dramatle Art, sliding the fist under it. and accompanied by Sir Richard Sir Richard flapped his arms, at the plano
Everyone shrieked Bird," and he cried, "GoodThen he ran his
Nurses and fellow-patients in Mayday Hospital, Thornton Heath, laughed at 110-year-old Mrs. Mar riott's little joke. They know and she knew that it was
more.
nothing
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
MRS, MERRIOTT "Friday. the thirteenth That was
.unlucky for somebody.
before Christmas. December 13 to-morrow, the nurse.
So Sir Richard elaborated, the fingers all over the desk, while he were "Paget-Davies" dumb language exclaimed delightedly, "animals." system. He, with Mr. Bertrand
S. SO SIMPLE: «A
TYPICAL SIGNS *.
replied
"Friday the 13th," said : "Min."" Merriait. When I was'a girl that was always regarded as unfucky for somebody.
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 860 basic his language. words of the English language is 20 Wonderfully funda and is still carrying on. Ho, held
montal," Sir Richard replied, aloft a large card index file to thumping one hand on the other and Two months ago this "extra- show how far he had progressed, then encircling his fingers with the Lordinary old woman," as Mrs. Mor- fingers of the other band. Yourlott used to describe herself, hold To emphasise the "poverty of spoken language as compared withw how quickly they learned it.". her-110th birthday party with five Asked how soon he thought the generations of her family, Sho the langungo of gestures Sir language would spread, hear was the life and soul of it. She Richard wald our words were coni-swered that it was merely a matter invited thom all buck "noxt year.". posed of only thirty mouth of how soon people took it up. And untfi a few days ago she was gestures while it was possible to Boy Scouts and the League of still enjoying her three meals a day makú as many as,700,000 kostures, Nailons could do a great deal," he her pint of stout, and her several. distinct and elementary algne, by sală;
pints of tou
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