SUMMER SHOES
NEW SHIPMENT
JUST UNPACKED
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1936.
'INTERIOR OF THE NEW EMPIRE FLYING-BOAT,
PETROL TAHK
HATCH TOL MAIL COMPARTMENT
ENGINEERS PLATFORM
MAIL COMPARTMENT
LOOP AERIAL IN STOWED, POSITION
WIRELESS OPERATOR
LUGGAGE
AFTER CABINE
WATER LIME
PANTRY
BEACHE
BMOXING COMPARTMENT
BRST AND BOUND PILOT
MARINE EQUIPMENT
J.P.
courtesy of **Flight,**
NEW REX RECORDS
RECORDINGS BY:-
GRACIE FIELDS, CHARLIE KUNZ, REGINALD DIXON, JACK PAYNE AND HIS BAND, CASANI CLUB ORCHESTRA, LARRY ADLER, MORTON DOWNEY AND MANY OTHERS.
COMPLETE LIST ON REQUEST.
•No Colour
Fading.
•No Wear and Tear.
CALL AND SEE THEM.
at
The above drawing shows the internal accommodation of the now Shore Empire Plying-Doat.
EMPIRE'S NEW FLYING-BOATS.
GORDON'S, LTD. MERCANTILE FLEET Dead Give
•No Offensive Odor..
• Storage
arranged with
The Dairy Farm, Ice
and Cold Storage Co., Ltd.
The
CARPETS
AND
RUGS
SAFELY EFFICIENTLY AND PROPERLY
SHAMPOOED
Co
Steam Laundry
THE
HONGKONG
PENINSULA HOTEL:
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL:
-PEAK HOTEL
& SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS
LIMITED,
In association with the Grand Hotel dos Wagons Lits, Peking
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LTD., PENANG.
CRAG HOTEL.
Pevang Hills
(2,400 feet above sealevel)
Refreshment Iooms. (near sumamill station)-
Ill Hallway.
"THE ISLAND'S MOST EFFICIENT SERVICE.”
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL
On Sea Front.
Private Cars for Excursions Anywhere.
Caterers etc. to Imperial Airways.
Maala are interchangeable, no extra cost wherever you have your breakfsat, luncheon, tes, or dinner.
Rooms of both hotels have private bathrooms and modern sanitation. At the Barnymede each room has its own public telephone.
The Runnymede Restaurant has undantably pride of place among botols of the East with lis culaine, and justly cisimm by Įta maccíation to offer the traveller wich us
not to be found elsewhere.
Teething troubles
Because SCOTT'S Emulsion contains 44% of pura cod liver all and limo salte
for bone formation, It právents teething troubles, rickets and soft bonas. Ask for gepuine
SCOTT'S EMULSION
IN THE MAKING
(By An Air Correspondent)
Sight To The Blind
At long last the flying-boat is coming into its|
Science's triumph over blind-| own. Its importance to the British Empire, for
ness by the grafting of corneas more than twenty years urged in these columns, of eyes from the dead to the is now realised to the point of attempting ade-living is revealed by Professor V. P. Filatov, director of the quate measures.
Jeye clinic of Odessa, who is
visiting Moscow.
Neglected just after the war, it was revived by the Royal Air Force, which, despite limited means, developed flying-boats and carried out many extensive cruises in various parts of the world, establishing a technique which is still the finest.
Under pressure of
economy,Į
|
Last year 250 such grafting operations were performed. and in 100 of these cases The ryes from dead bodies were used. Maly of the patients in these cases are now able to read and work with- out handicap-United Press. Thought Trap
It has gone beyond the coast | development then "marked time,' hugging phase, and has become and actually a big six-engined important in long-range Naval
By means of a "thought trap" commercial dying-bout was stopp-| reconnaissance. Usually flying scienusta of Illinois University have ed in, the building. Then the to and from harbours, dying-boats been able to witness in the brain of United States entered the field, will often be able to use open an animal the ebb and flow of con- producing two new commercial water, and wių, In any case, he scicusness, that force as mysterious types of superior performanace, able to range
over vast ocean as life itself, wires a New York press
correspondent. Italy, too, but on the military side, arens. Clearly, a greatly extend-
When the animal was conscious, built extensively, and carried out|ed sphere of activity will be found
an electrical current two to three highly spectacular undertakings. for it on the Naval side
millionths of no ampere was ob- To-day a new and tremendously} Possibly, some flying-boats may served in a galvonometer to Now Important, phase is entered. At be added to the Fleet Air Arm, from the nerve to the brain. Rochester twenty-nine big com- but a conception that sea training| When the animai was under mercial flying-boats are well un-is n better apprenticeship to the anesthether the
the reverse direction. der way in construction, one of flying-boat than Air Force train- The tot wero conducted by them a composite craft to enable ing, or than experience won on pineing one electrode on the cerebral a long-range high-speed seaplane long commercial routes. is er-cortex and the other on the exposed to be launched from the back ofroncons. It has, indeed, been sciatic nerve.
a big flyinghoat in flight, carrying|proved beyond question that in
FROM OBSCURITY
current
flowed in
Hitler Creates New Medal For Army's Faithful
Berlin Apr. 20. New service medals for Ger many's armed forces have been created by Fuehrer Adolf Hitler to mark the first anniversary of reintroduction of conscription,
The medal, of bronze, with o cornflower blue ribbon; will be Awarded in four classes. Those serving 4, 12, 18 and 25
yearя_are eligible for the award.
Army, navy and air force men all may receive the medal in re- cognition for "Faithful service, In. the new armed forces."
be well repaid.
a load with which it could not this department of aviation the under its own power take off, a sailor's special training is of little notable experiment capable of account, and in support of the changes and variations.
there is the testimony of sailors Shorts, of Rochester. are also themselves.. building a large number of R.A.F. The flying-bont does not, like flying-boats. And at Cowes, the land aeroplare, appear to have Saunders Roe; at Brough, Black-a strict slzo-limitation, already burna; and - Southampton, | reached.
at
The new Empire flying- Vickers Supermarine are working hosts will weigh 171⁄2 tons. but to full capacity on Blying-bout the designers, supported by all the production.
other leading fying-boat de! Aigners, fre certain of the In less than two years dying-|possibility of building up to 100 boats, so far as the British Em-tons, or more, and could indeed do pire is concerned. .will have this now. emerged from comparative
LONG RANGE CRAFT obscurity-to-high-importance-both |--The new-fleet for Imperial Air- in numbers and in duties. Inways is chiefly for the accelerat- their construction and operation ed and multiplled Empire mail and the British have displayed genius, passenger services, to begin next for outlay will despite artificially restricted_op year. Two of them, however, are One is forelbly reminded of this portunity. A parallel is the Ger-special long-range craft, and will by the fact that during the coming man flair for airships, Carlously be used experimentally on the financial year repairs to enough, Germany, although mak-Atlantic, first of all by way of the ing many bold attempts in flying- Azores and Bermuda. boat development, ins fallen back' The seaplane launched from the in this field of aeronautics.
Mayo Composite is designed to fly The new Empire flying-boats Size, performance, and eliciency across the North Atlantic against will be at least equal of any in of the flying-bont have rapidly im-a strong head wind, and it may the world. They will proved, and the conception of its become a mafl carrier. The take cruising speed of more than 150 operation has changed.
They embody off will be with the four engines miles per hour. No longer In the flying-boat of the lower component, and the several important now technical considered as the class whose four engines of the upper com-improvements one of them a wing unique claim is ability to alight ponent all working. The contri- trailing edge flap which varies the on and take off from open sea. vanec solves a special take-off camber without interfering with It is, indeed, subject to the dis-problem. But it is not necessary the smooth flow of air. Recent ability that it cannot freely to regard the carrier flying-boat American flying-boats will have operate on very rough water. as a mere launcher: it may be used nothing over ours, not even in the, With increasing size, it is true, as a long-range troop carrier, or matter of speed, in any comparison it becomes less handicapped in as ↑ reconnaissance machine, on equal terms.
It has not been such smooth this respect; and it is, of course, whilst the seaplane released from in much better case than that of the top of it returns to its base. sailing with the new American
at Ben,
Afteen
capital ships of the Navy will cost £2,089,063. Some interesting re- flections are suggested.
have
A
a land aeroplane forced to descend This bold experiment, horcover, boats as first reports suggested. offers the advantage of launching On the San Francisco-Manila three runs the But the flying-boat scores by a whole formation of long-range experimental its independence of costly acro-heavily-londed craft, the carrier months' score amounted to two dromes, and, on the commercial boats having performed that successful out-and-home" journeys There side, by being under no need of special duty being free for other and three abortive starts. high-altitude mountain-eiossing work.
was a complete change of engines performance.
MONEY WELL SPENT ' in one case. EMPIRE ROUTES
As to flying-boats generally, the But good success to the deter- Above all, from the British economies are so great that special mined American flying-boat effort! point of view, It will make the great attention must bo called to them. It will suceded; and, happily, there calling at foreign stations, or of They are a class on which the la no occasion for comparisons crossing national frontiers. Empire's money ought to be put,' disparaging to the British.
SALESMAN SAM
SAM, AFTER YOU'VE SHOVELED 】AW,NIX! 'ATS OFF TH SIDEWALK, GO.DOWN TO? TOO MUCH TH' DEPOT AN' GIT "THAT SHIP- MENT I TOLDJA ABOUT!
BEPKAY ILINGSMAY
E.DU12
WORK FER
ONE GUY!
His Swan Dance
YOU'RE YOU CAN'T CANNED, FIRE ME- IF YA I QUIT!
DON'T! AN' I'M GOIN'
UNDER MY OWN POWER!
TSANG FOOK PIANO CO.
Ice House Street.
Hongkong.
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7 Composer who looms Jarge in
British music.
Quite ably in a very fair way. 10 Might describe n rook's nest
with some false hair in It.
11 More than a curacy, to achieve
nothing wrong.
12 Stay of execution.
14 Taken by a nun.
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15 A margin of knowledge is re-
quired for this.
18 11's a mistake to include one of
Lancashire's machines.
20 Eloquenes at Brompton. 22 Take the island in in your walk. 14 These spaces run from right to
left
26 Burn hair to produce a weed. 20 Speculations thou art in,
30 Double progress for a king. 31 Within its sheath, this is doubt-
less within your grasp.
32. One girl, and, no more la taken by the cowboy, modest follow.
OH, YOU'VE BOUNCED, YEAH?/KICKED AN' THROWN ME OUT OF HERE!| BUT THIS TIME,
I'M LEAVIN' GRACEFULLY!
SUGHTLY
BUSTED RECORDS
DOWN
1 They have helped to make more revolutions in Europe than all the Communists who ever lived. 2 An animal that neither walks
nor runs.
3 Many a rogue has been, but the
circle remains recalcitrant.
4 Here you have to find the dat
plate above,
5 Rod and line used by gardeners. 6 Courage or how to get the white
feather. 9 A model that makes a good im-
30
pression.
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13 The average part of several
must be talten.
10 Takes part of the Little Go this
way,
17 Though of incredible value, the
inter.
cast has been reduced one must
10 Where the budo Hved at one
time.
21 Many an old gambler knew the
charm of the last main.
23 Pa's rice (anag, hyphen, 3, 4). 20 Make a catlish gesture, and
secure the powder. 27 Quite a cunning structure. 28 This Scottish bear keeps in the
hotel.
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⚫ removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road Central.
JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy
Farm's Soda Fountain.
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