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PRINCIPAL AIR ROUTES OF THE WORLD EXISTING
| Midwayin
Pansme
Lo PEx
Port
¡Samoa
-- Auckland
Leninfrad
ninovgorod Novosibirsk
Pekin
Karachi
Delhi
Caksāta
PROPOSED
Vladivost
St Johns
Berlin
CHIN YORK
Midway la
Airmude
Cuba
Jamaica
Alexandra Khartum
Manilla
Oskar
Kisum
Kombesa
FINANG
Samoa
Salisbury
Port Darwin
Santiago
Buenos Aires
Cape Town
Port Elizabeth
INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE. (Approx)
TOT a few people have proved sound and reliable, on the NOT
noticed that in Trans- Bedford is a first-class invest-port, which links all coun ment whatever the nature of tries together, and above all in Air Transport, which links them so quickly, the idea of Internationalism al- ready has a practical meaning..
After all, a. frontier, un- less it follows a great river or a mountainous water- shed, is not a very noticeable feature of a landscape when you fly over it, and different flags are not very easy to pick out from the air.
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1936.
COLONY'S SEARCH
So it is particularly interest- ing to note how Air Transport is being extended all over the world; new services opened, and what were once daring re- cord flights being beaten on
RiodeJaneiro
INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE (Approx
WORLD AIR
by C. W. A. Scott
time by regular commercial workings.
Within five years it will be possible for the man in a hurry to travel by air from any place in the world to another inside a week, and right round the globe in fourteen days.
For those who travel for pleasure I would certainly not suggest such an effort, which would mean travelling almost the whole 24 hours round, but in cases of urgency it obviously will be done.
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HOW is this apparent miracle
going to
'come
about?
FOR REVENUE The increased duties on liquors
terday, provide the first concrete step by the Government to raise | WORSE THAN DEATH fresh revenue in order to cope with the financial problem with which it is faced as a result of the low exchange value of the dollar.
Whether other means of
and tobacco, put into force yes: NOTES OF THE DAY Obviously, by the use of aero-
י
There are punishments more cruel than death in sudden form, even in these of progressive civilisation advanced morality. For the guilty
planes and flying boats, certain- ly not by the slower mediums of transport the ship and the railway. Normal aircraft will. for travel at 200 miles per hour any within five years. days
We have been promised this and figure for some time, but I do not think it will be general be- passed. Twenty-two of the twenty-four hours of ench machine's day will be used in travel, the other two will be spent in refueling or tranship- ment from one type of machine
As an example of this, the Atlantic will be crossed in sum- mer via Newfoundland and the great circle course well north of 40 degrees. In winter London will be reached from via Bermuda (where York £17,000 is being spent on a new under construc- air base now
lon) to the Azores and so to Europe,
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ALEXANDRIA and Penang will be the "Clapham Junc-
will be required here to main- tain that 200 mph. schedule. This is already being operated over many parts of the Ameri- can network. From New York over the North Atlantic we shall get back to Europe.
The South Atlantie from Dakar to Buenos Ayres is al ready being flown.. As Imperial Airways fly along the eastern edge of Africa a transcontin- ental machine may provide the link between Alexandria and the Argentine.
These are probably the main line systems of this new air map of the world, a network that is going to make this new world one without the romance that to lend it. distance seemed Somehow it seems a shame that such phrases ns "Far East" should lose their value, and the that it will appear to be merely "Near East" will be so close
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tions" of the Near East and the Far East. From the former across the road.
highways will point aerial radiate across Africa, rejoining at Capetown. Southwards and eastwards from Penang will be the run to Australia and the Far East.
India will be on the main line service, with feeder lines con- verging on Calcutta and Kara chi. Bombay and Ceylon (at last taken into aerial considera- tion) will be the terminal points along the western coast of Southern India, joining with Madras and thence to Calcutta on the eastern side,
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LET those who doubt these simply make a mathematical
speeds over great distances
calculation of that 200 m.p.h.
and multiply it by the twenty- two that I have suggested as the flying hours in each day.
Multiply this figure again by seven and you will find that not only could any place within the world be reached, but a distance could be flown that would circle delays, however, as passengers will demand an occasional rest, and connections may not always be maintained to the minute.
meeting the situation are to be without hope of reprieve, the days fore a period of five years has of an important new air route the earth itself. There must be
Of
of waiting for the hour of execu-
the other was Hauptmann, con-
The comfort of passengers will be a primary, consideration, naturally, so
WHAT PRICE out, always a danger of increas- tade, perhaps because he knew it some journeys they will have to the Pacific, via Wake Island, to but the Eastern State citice, two
an
taken remains to be seen. the method now chosen it can tion,, whether it is by hanging, be said that it is the least ob the electric chair or before a jectionable of any, since the en-firing squad," are bad enough,
From Pennng the Australian
hanced rates
con-
route will take in Sydney, Mel Are on Juxury For the innocent who are
bourne and the rest of the taxes, besides which the liquortantin evidence, the last
that larger machines than any die through circum to another. demned to
yet designed, giving great amenities doya
Passengers and pilots will be Australian cities, with a con-
and even sleeping accommodation, and tobacco duties in Hongkong of life must be bitter indeed. In allowed to rest, perhaps, but the tinuation
to New Zealand. will be the craft that will fly the Eastward, Hongkong will still be far below those im- New Jersey prison on Tuesday machine will go on.
and world's airways, as regularly as the posed in most other places, two men waited to walk to the ways be taken to arrive at the Saigon.
The same route will not al- Shanghai will be reached via ships of the last era have made their PARAGES ACTORE the oceans of the notably at Home, where the cost electric chair. One was a gang-same places. This will be de...
world. ..........Du...............what...a-differêncoin--speed, of these commodities to the con-ater who murdered a polleem; pendent upon the seasons of the A FTER Hongkong, America even if there is still something to sumer is much higher than here.victed of slaying the Lindbergh often be used for summer and fly across to Manila in the
be said for the extra luxury that year and alternative routes will will take up the tule and
ships provido! There is, of course, as we have baby. The gangster waited for
Australia in seven days will be- previously had occasion to point the end with some show of forti- winter travel. Of course, on Philippines and thence across come a commonplace event, and this means not the Port of Fremantle, was inescapable and no, hope was fly the same course at all sea- Honolulu and the Californian thousand miles further on Ships ed taxes defeating their own ob- dangled before him. Hauptmann, sons. But wherever there is coast.
still take their twenty-eight jective, but this factor is hard as the dreaded moment drew near, а better route available for To cross the U.S.A. is already days to West Australia, and another LOVELINESS?ly likely to arise in the present lost control, wept and reviled the winter flying this will be used. easy matter. No speed up fortnight to reach Brisbane.
law which had doomed him, an case. Nothing has so far been innocent man, 43 be claims. disclosed of the amount of extra | Twenty minutes from the schedul- ho was revenue which the Government cd time of execution hopes to raise by these addi-granted another 48 hours of life: The hope still dangled. He re- tional duties, but it should be covered his nerve and smiled. fairly considerable. Inciden- But to-day the whole torturing tally, there is quite a useful pre-cause apparently there is still
process must be repeated, be ference accorded to Empire pro- some doubt about this man's ducts, a circumstance which gullt.. If doubt remains how can suggests that steps might now New Jersey hang him? Is this be taken to secure for certain prolonged torment tolerated be cause it may bring. a confession Hongkong-produced goods more from a man who has already been satisfactory reciprocal arrange promised his fo if he will name hla confederates?" If Häuptmann ments than at present exist.goes to the chair stiil protesting On the general question of extra his innocence, his executioner
their taxation, the community will will have a weight upon now await with interest any forsake him before the end; and consciences. But his reason may
other proposals which the Gov-then he may tell the men he calls ernment may have in contem- his persecutors anything plation, in the hope that the in- anything to end this cidence of any new imposts will suspense.
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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
Hongkong la now twenty-two days by train and ship from London, but will then be reached in four Palping or Tientsin, Although strangely enough, in spite of their greater distance from this country, closer to it by virtue of the trans-Siberian Railway, will be brought still nearer, and six days should see this journey made by air.
New Zealand, by the Panama shipping route (as passengers all say, "nothing but sea and few ports of cell"), will have its alternative rauto by air. Either west about through Australia or east about vis the United Staten,
There will be fun for passengers here when they cross the inter- national date line (marked on the map). There will be either a day Jast or aday gained, and always much confusion. Remember how the heroes of Jules Verne's "Round the World in Eighty Days", nearly lost their wager by forgetting to subtract that day? found in eighty! It will be round in ten within a few years' time.
horror of
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car the
4 whole. One of the minor would probably be found that at sources which might be found least a thousand private productive would be the institu- owners regularly. utilise tion of parking fees for motor parking spaces of the Colony, vehicles. This matter was re- and quite a respectable sum ferred to at the annual meeting could be secured by charging a of the Automobile Association, fixed feo for use thereof. In when it was suggested that England, such a system is in motorists as a whole were tak- force everywhere. Nowhere in ing unfair advantage of the the world, we imagine, are facilities provided by the Asso motorista provided with free ciation. One member spoke of parking in the centre of the city seven thousand motorists being as they are here in Hongkong. involved, but this figure cannot Moreover, a fixed charge is levied.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. possibly represent the number in the Colony on those who park
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using parking-grounds: it ob- their cars outside the regular viously refers to drivers of all stands, and this is an ad- types of vehicles, including lor-ditional reason why the system ries. At the same time, it should be made general,
We must have dropped a day somewhere.. If it was Wed-
nesday the Rifle Club would be firing out here."
The aircraft of to-morrow will be different from those of to-day, Giant flying boats will replace the comparatively amal land planes of -to-day's air routes on most of the sectionia, while amphibians and a minority of land machines will take the passengers on others,
First-class mail will also be car. ried, and probably the surcharge for these letters will not be double that of ordinary postage to-day, Com- pare that with postal service before Rowland Hi11.
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ONCE, when I was in British
Gulana, mat a man in the back of beyond who had been to the same school as myɛolf, (hb, was long before my time, but it was the same school nevertheless). We remarked what a coincidence and had a drink on it. "The world is a small place," we said.
It was a trite remark, but truer than at most times. And if we can go on making it smaller portaps: people will begin to realise that the world is not only a small place, it is one place, and agree to use what we've got in it peacefully for every- body's advantage, and not each cock fight for his own little dunghili.