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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
APRIL 2, 1936.
Team-Work Is Secret
Of Air Progress
BRISTOL FIRM'S CHIEF ADMITS
'I CANNOT FLY' Mos
TOST of the big British airplane firms
are making such progress at the mo ment as they have never made before. None is making more progress than the Bristol Aircraft Company, whose works are just
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all say simply: "It's team-work."
Until last year the company was a private one, owned by the White family, of Bristol.
The present head of the White family, Sir (George) Stanley White, is head of the firm.
"My Father Was the Man"
"It was my father who founded the business In 1910, Sir Stanley Brid. "He was a far-seeing man who visualised the .grent future of aviation and established the firm in the very early days.
"I merely took over the management of the bust- ness from him when he died,
"Nelther he nor 1 have been Aying men in the real sense of the term. We have simply been heads of the business. I cannot fly a plane. Neither could my father.
"The growth of the business is largely due to team-work, and to the fact that we make both air- planes and engines,
"The greatest credit must, I im- agine, go to my father for his wise decisions so long ago."
DUTCH RECORD BREAKERS
Two Dutch Swimming girls Willy den Ouden (at left) and Rie Mastenbrock who have put new world records In the 100 metres crawl and 100 metres back swimming respectively.
SURVIVOR TELLS OF ANOTHER WAR
IN ETHIOPIA
CAPTAIN
By DUDLEY BARKER
ADRIAN JONES fought in the two years after he had started Abyssinian war.
Prophetic Words
In 1912 that father, less than
the little firm, said at a dinner:
great race., For, believe
me,
TERRIBLE COUNTRY
"Mest of that march to Magdala was through terrible country, but here and there it suddenly became very pleasant, sometimes forest. Over the sometimes downland. open country we found plenty of buck to shoot, and one plain was warming with geese. I got lost once falowing a buck into forest sol
thick that i could only see the sky by looking straight upwards--but luckily a search-party found me."
He paused, and gazed for a mo ment into the fire.
"The first battle we had with thei enemy," he continued, "was over) very quickly. The difficulty was to know which of the tribesmen we met were 'enemy and which friend-j large body of friendly tribesmen, but were stopped just in time.
He is now the only man in "The airplane is now acknow. Britain who can say so. ledged to be a necessary arm of
the last war, and it hehoves our Govern. For the war was ment to bestir themselves if we Abyssinian War, in 1868, are not to be left behind in the and he is believed now to be during the next five years the the only British survivor. Powers will call for thou- He was a young offlcer in his sand, if not tens of thousands, twenties then. This month he of airplanes, and the develop-celebrated his 91st birthday. ments in their use for both After his 23 years in the Army, military and naval purposes will be startling, In my opin-he achieved a great reputation lon the possession of a strong as a sculptor, and the Pence fleet of airplanes by any coun- Quadriga on Constitution Hilly, and once we nearly atncked a try will be a dominating in- Arch, the Cavalry Memorial at fluence for peace."
Stanhope Gate, the Marines' It was in 1916 that Sir Stanley Monument in St. James's Park, White took over the control of the and the Carabiniers' Memorial firm from his prophetically gifted father. In those days the firm on Chelsea Embankment are were just beginning to work on some of his works in London.
He was sitting before the fire in the famous Bristol Fighter, which did so much to regain for Britain his Chelsea drawing-room, a man the supremacy
air, with shouldera set in military line, of the established by the German Fok with a head of white hair. He wore a high white collar and a kers.
It was under Sir Stanley that black cravat fastened with a neat the firm began with the blessing pin, and his only concession to his of all pilots who had flown Bristol years was a red shawt draped over machinesto manufacture
en his back.
TO RESCUE PRISONERS gines. That was soon after the
Magdala was He Hit à cigarette as he let his war. Within a few years those jengines were being used by more mind wander back some 70 years, huts, high up on a plateau of rock," other to the British expedition that he said. "The only real bate of foreign Powers than any
the campaign was fought there engine in the world. At one time marched to Magdala to rescue the
Aroghce they called it. The arti they were being manufactured un- three British prisoners who were der licence by every civilised held by King Theodore of Abysslery drove the Abyssinians into the nia, after he had been gravely town itself and made a breach in Power in the world.
offended by the delay of the the wall. Foreign Office in replying to his communications.
As Sir Stanley says, the Bristol firm truly are a beam.
+
"Each Member Knows
"It was a good campaign," maused His Job"
anid Captain Jones, "We sailed from A member of the firm
en-Bombay, ten ships and ton vessels "The
chief company's gineers are Mr. A. H. R. Fedden in tow, and we landed on a desert- and Captain F. S. Barnwell. Mr.ed strip of beach in Somaliland. I Fedden designs the engines and remember that the only way to get Captain Barnwell designs the air-the animals ashore was to lower them into lighters, row them as craft, but as they will tell you; near the beach as possible, and tip the whole thing is a matter
them into the sea. team work. It happens that every member of the team knows his job thoroughly.
of
"Sir Stanley White is the cap tain of a fine team-and a fine captain."
Which is how one of the biggest aircraft firms in the world suc- ceeds.
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Frenchman wonders how.
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13 Meta P.C. In red, and in an
awkward situation.
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14 Errors often fatal to a batsman. What every Ines is "when all the world is young."
"Then, one day I was riding by the side of an artillery colonel who had a mounted battery when a lot of natives came down a hillside led by a fellow on a white pony. He hesitated a long time until it was clear that they were enemy. Then the colonel had the guns dismount- landed a shell very neatly right on ed rapidly from the mules, and to the man on the pony. The rest
9 All anyone wants is fair play. fled. We saw no more of the ene
dala." my until we got-in-front of Mag-10 Gist that makes the heart of the 20-The-light-hearted plot..
Bentinel long. He paused again, to paff at his 11 A dog does.
12 A very small allowance of this cigaretter
collection of in equivalent in value to a large
amount of sympathy.
room for everyone in this French room, 16 Thero's
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17 Run quickly for the hatchway.
quite sufficient for winter sh. 23 When anger in a parent is not only justifiable but is necessary.
pattern.
21
"Then," he chuckled, "a black champion rode out in front of the 24 Half a sec. if inside.
sandwiches, per- town and challenged General Na 26 Girl who's not worth much.
28 May contain pler to single combat! But one hngsor a gap cake. stray shell and he withdrew the gn Poor, acol (anag). challenge hastily.
30. No, this is not a mixture of tars, though it certainly is black, 31 The opposite of gross.
"We climbed the rocks, passing the place where King Theodore, In a drunken ft, had had some of the prisoners, but not the British, thrown down to their death. Once wo were inside the town the enemy "Then we reorganised, and start fled, and the only real danger was led on the march to Magdala. Mindtheir match-locks, which they had|
you, we did not have to fight our thrown down over the place. way through, as the Italians are doing today, for we marched through friendly tribes. We' had only the country to impede us
The first obstacle was a range of mountains, over which ran no- thing but tho occasional tracks of SEEING BY 'PHONE animals. We made our way up u Berlin, Mar. 10. dry watercourse that in the rainy I led my The German Post Office to-day season was a swift river. auccessfully televised by land wires horse for miles over boulders, until the image of a person speaking on it had learnt to climb rocks in an
amazing way. n telephone. Central News.
SALESMAN SAM
(MIGOSHIYA SURE YA AIN'T
SEEN AN ESKIMO AROUND HERE? I WAS SUPPOSED TA MEET ONE ON TH′ 2:151
TH' 2:15 JES CAME IN, BUT THERE WAS NO ESKIMO
ON IT
TICKET
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TRIDE ON OUR TRAINS "THEY ARE EXTREME LINED
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"It was uncombortable to walk amongst the guns, for they were all charged and the fuses lit, and they were popping off right and loft on the ground.
DOWN
1 Out of date issues.
2. Of course, a doctor is hedged in
by rules: hence the rows.. 3 State. 4-Violence
beyond measure: though not in anger. The latest in boots,
G Am let in for, the provender. 7 An honour in Kobe..
Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori "I was one of the first to go into the hut in which King Theodoro
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GEE, DUZZ, I WAS DOWN AT TH' P.D. Q. DEPOT, BUT THERE WAS NO ESKIMO
"THERE!
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Wrista.
I TOLD YA TH' Q.Q.P ITS ALL THEN THAT DEPOT, NOT TH PDQ! YOUR FAULT! MAKES ME YA WASN'T THERE, SOYA SPOILEDA SAP FER NOW HE'S PROB'LY HALF ALL MY NOT MEETIN WAY TO THE NORTH POLE!
TH' GUY AT TH RIGHT DE- POT, HUH?
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21 A clown is not necessarily al
ways light-headed.
22 Not a wind of long duration; it
ends without delay,
20 Proverbially thin.
27 Peter goes short.
28 Common to the orange, the le-
mon and the apple.
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