THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER
Fokker's "Battle Cruiser" Changes All The Old Ideas About Air Fighting
THE
FLYING EGG
BOMBER, FIGHTER,
INTERCEPTOR ·
By VICTOR BURNETT,
IN 1916 a young Dutchman changed the world's ideas
of war in the air.
He invented a device that enabled a machine-gun to
fire through the propeller.
The day he invented it real airi warfare began. Round his de-
vice small, manoeuvreable, high- Why Abyssinia
speed single-seaters were built.
The young Dutchman's name was Anthony Fokker. The new idea he -brought stood unchanged through the years. Fighters were faster. more efficient, more expensive----but i in principle they were the same,
Last
week the entire aviation world saw that its ideas had to be changed. Anthony Fokker's latest warplane was responsible. For the time the Dutchman had changed milliary Ideas,
second
The munchine in called the Seythe, And it is the most deadly instru- ment that ever flew,
HIDDEN BOMBS
It looks like a sharp ended whged ekk, with two fuselages supporting the tall. An engine is on euch wing. Ils wheels fold up into the engine, cuses when it is Dying.
Hidden in its streamlined body are 1,000 pounds of bomln. The polated tall
a battleship gun
turret, worked automatically. with the gun able to treat any angle.
And in its rounded nose are, two qulekfirers, with magazines of 100 explosive shells. Just one of these shells. would blast am alreraft pieces. Above these iwa machine-guns.
estions
SPEED 300 M.P.H.
to
are
Lost The War
BADOGLIO'S ACCOUNT OF HIS VICTORY
FATAL MISTAKE BY EMPEROR
Rome, Dec. 5. Field-Marshat Badoglio's recount of the Abyssinian wor, which is nuw on sale, Kives a straightforward. story of the operations he directed in language that civilians con derafund.
It describes the confusion which reigned on the Mokulle front and in the harbour in Massawa when he succeeded Gen, de Bona Com- mander-in-Chief in November, 1835. The scarcity of runds and the ferri- btle condition of there that did
exist corset
"anguish," he declares. The left wing of the Italian aring} was almost frointed. An advance WIIN
at the risk of being overwhelmed and thrown back;
imposible excepi
Into Eritrea, The delay caused by the urgent need of consolidating his! position brought Marshal Budoglio mi
storm of crtelsm from home but he rtood firm.
By the middle of December he wasj
There is room in the fuselage for complete radio equipment and, ready to continue the war. Has
photographie apparatus.
The crew Inru, with between 40,000 and 50,-
consists of pilot and gunner. The 000 የነገር? ጓላ speed is 300 miles an hour, The `range exceeds 1,000 miles..
The Scythe Is an afr battle cruiser. It can do anything. In- stead of a series of fast fighters, with short ranges, being sent up at Intervals to intercept
raid, squadrons of these machines can patrol over segments of a circle, ai varying heights. It is a real inter- ceptor.
equipped with them frst,
Correspondence
CHURCH AND THE CROWN
hod resumed his advance
in the Seire. The Marshal decided | to open his offensive in the Temblen.
He was rather anxious at Örst as) to the result but he won three bat- of Tembien, the battle of Enderlai tlerin succession, the second battle
and the battle of Seire.
to
Kin
This
Here's a new air view of the 77-million-dollar San Francisco- Oakland Bay Bridge, world's longest, span, opened to traffic Nov. 12. View shows Berkeley and Oakland across the bay, the con- Lifever spun from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island, the west portal of the double-deelted tunnel through the Island, and, the massive tandem suspension spans from the island to the San Francisco nispetand Nearer are the routes by which traffic has beerf diverted. In the centre, the cfrele dientes the lateral ap- proacies connecting the bridge with the Embarcadero and down- Town San Francisco, extending to the bottom of photograph is the main approzace vinduet, terminating in the Fifth-st plaza, with the nal diversion of traffic to main arterios in Sun
Francisco,
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been published "Gods of To-morrow: A Journey Through Asia Of books on the East, there is no end. Two which have just and Australasia," by William Teeling; Lovat Dickson, Ltd., Lon- don; 128. Gd., and "Manchoukuo: Jewel of Asia," by D. M. B. Collier and Lieut. Col. C. L'E. Malone; George Allen & Unwin, Ltd, London; 12s. 6d.)--will be found of compelling interest, though the former naturally covers a broader horizon than the latter.
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16, 1936.
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reduced the number of bandits; and the further point is made that, uni- fortunately for the natives of Man- chukuo, the worst type of Japanese are entering the country. The ex- treme arrogance of the Japanese Troops is also commented upon with the observation that it is deplored by Japanese oficials.
On the other hand, there is warm praise for what Japan has done in the matter of education, as well as In stabilising the currency, ond in reforming the banking and taxation systems. Much headway is also re- ported in road and railway construc ilon. Regarding Manchukuo's mineral deposits, it is recorded that when these are developed the 'new State will become a much coveted land- very Jewel of Asia.
will
the
to
RAS MULUguetta kiLLED
Has Muluguetta was killed in ne- ilon and then Ras Kassa and Rus]
Doubts are expressed whether the In Paris, at the aviation exhibition as Imru retreated on Kojjam, which Soyotan hesitated, what line to take.
present form of government will continue. It is certain that Japan. every one was asking which air force the Scythe was intended for. I can
was already in revolt.
carry good organisation The Italian high command inter-
social amenities into the answer that question.
country. The Royal Dutch Air Force will be septed a message from Addis Ababa
but the query is raised whether the the Emperor, advising him to
have a right to do, or whether they actual population will benefit as they negotiate for a settlement, so ns to
will become the mere victims of op- time for reconstructing the army.
pressive Japanese militarism.
All In nil, Marshal
engrossing volume, Dudoglio describes his intense relief when he learned some beredstvingaddressed the young
Mr Teeling, who will be remem says he, found only half a dozen bearing the imprint of a fairly close weeks later that the Emperor had longkong Rotary Club
men who vere constantly study-of-the-new-State, even if-in- last year, visiting the interior of South China, parts the book is somewhat scruppy rallied the bulk of his army to give took the occasion provided by a visit The South Chinese feel this very in assembly. battle at Lake Ashangl. He had to Australia in connection with the strongly und mentioned been afraid that he would retreat on Melbourne centenary celebrations, to more than one occasion, especially to me on
PROGRESSIVE REVELATION Students of theology will find Dessie, thus forcing the Italians to tour the East for the purpose of the Kwangsi authorities, who pointed much that is thought-compelling in
1 big battle several hundred learning about
British
colonial out that we have not even got miles away from their base.
methods and also how dangerous to resident
ition, by Vivi Progressive Revela The result
by Vivian Phelips (C. A. Watts the battle of Lake Britain, dangerous she were, is province, consul in the whole of their
and Co., Ltd., London; 15.). This Ashungi was fatal to the indepen-Japan. The book, however, goes There is much more about condi- little book comprises a revised and dence of Abyssinia. The Emperor much farther than that it gives a tions in South China generally and extended chapter of "The Churches lost the bulk of his army and his most entertaining account of his the Ines on which Britain should and Modern Thought," by the same Your correspondent, M: MI. equipment and retreated in huste voyagings, and conveys the author's operate commercially. Japan, of author. It is complete in itself, but Thomas, admirably expresses the and in
determination to give an course, also Ogures largely in the better understood if read in con- necessarily the argument will bo feelings of many of us in this Colony Ababa, rent danger towards Addis obvious
impartial account of all he saw and book. The author thinks and elsewhere, We have been re-
was carly in April. On April heard.
For
the most part. Mr. European and American nations Junction with the chapters which gated
with the broadenst opinion 20 Marshal Budoglio advanced with Teeling employs the method of re-should be firm but friendly with her, precede and follow it. The complete of the head of the English Church his headquarters staff and 12 large toiling the views and opinions of the "but to think she can be made volume is now available in whose words many of us must have bombing aeroplanes
to Dessie. He various
people he met, though in-friend is silly." Elsewhere, the Thinker's Library, issued at one read with # feeling of nausea. Be says that the terrible roads were his ecting these with reflections of his view is expressed that there is no shilling. sides "Chivalry" mentioned by your worst enemies.
reason in the world why countries The author, in his preface, refers correspondent, there is another senti-
Hongkong he describes as the most should not make ment which I have
agreements with to the lack of publicity given 110 doubt
MARCH ON CAPITAL
lovely place among the flourished in the Middle Ages and Is
British Japan, be civil to her, and give her social anthropology, and deals with Colonies he visited, and he adds fair play; "but all the time she the importance to the Christion re- known to-day 43 "not-hitting-a- After reconditioning his weary that nowhere during his two years must be watched and never beligion of the new theory of progres- man-when-he-is-down. In the troops for a short time at Quoram he of travel did he find Britishers more allowed to take more than one Is sive revelation. In the book itself opinion of the Archbishop, this senti.
made a series of forced marches to interested in life and, on the whole, willing to give her None the less, he gives detalled parallels In ancient ment can no doubt be forgotten when Addis Ababa. Ile arms that the so optimistic. There
seemed, Mr. Teeling concedes that, according religions, and asks all Christians to such a golden opportunity arises for foreign legations in that city Im-especially amongst the younger to her lights, Japan is doing right in consider whether, In the common bolstering up the waning Influence plored him to hurry and restore men, a tremendous Interest in the taking everything she can for her mythos, we have marvellous untlei- of the Church.
order because Haile Selassie had fled future and only a great Impatience own nation when she con.
pations of the Bible stories,
་ от Any mother will realise what 11 and the utmost confusion and at the way they were held back by Of Manchukuo, the author thinks whether in the latter we have re- must have meant to Queen Mary and anarchy reigned.
the elder business men and by old-it should be administered as man- productions of the former, Progres- the Royal Family generally to read! The advance took him 10 days and developing further into South China. Japan is getting bored with this new these parallels, but the nuthor finds fashioned business methods from dated territory. Bit by bit, he says,sive revelation seeks to explain away Archbishop's diatribe. If, instead of nights, which were an endless strug There damning the late King in one para-gle against fog, blazing
was only one criticism one baby. The Japanese have spent the theory quite unacceptable. The graph and recalling his genuineness and road-mending sunshine could make of business in Hongkong, millions on Manchuria and are not book is marked with obvious sin- in the next, the Archbishop had ex-meved forward. At 4 o'clock in the seemed of a far better type than the fecing that it is a real asset Christian concept, to reverently put,
army and
that the younger men, who finding it remunerative their Army cerity, and the viewpoint expressed, pressed a little more sympathy for afternoon of May
Is far from conquering it and for although
with confleting
the 5 he entered Addl the difficult situation in which the Ababa it the hend of his troops.
younger men of Singapore or Ceylon, late King found himself, one would This book contains
ure held back by their seniors, who against Russia. The suggestion of
FOR THE CHILDREN have respected the Archbishop's sensational revelations which made expense of travelling into China for chukue well,
none of the tell then not to bother about the people who know Japan and Man- Raphael Tuck and Song' publica- convictions more.
necording He should know Marshal de Bono's volume so popu- orders, but rather to hang about the Teeling, is that one day Japan will up to the high standard set by this In Mr. tions for the yuletide season are well better than your lot of a King of England is not an the war was won because the whole (and presumably finally marry the
readers that the inr. Marshal, Badogito umems that clubs and tennis courts of Hongkong be willing to get rid of this problem. famous house. Tucks's Annual, enviable one but carries with a
The book is crammed full of force= |issued at 35. Ed., has many fascinat- burden and responsibility which ing it.
of the people at home were support-daughters of their worrying wives)."ful observations, both in running ing features, including an article on In this connection, Mr. Teeling comment and in the final conclusions. magic tricks by a professional con- It bears the stamp of deep sincerity, juror, thrilling tales of overseas ad- and will be found of deep interest ventures, mystery stories, riddles, from cover to cover.
Jokes and puzzles. Father Tuck's. Annual Iar Little People, issued at "Munchoukuo:, Jewel of Asia," the same price, will be found just by D. M. B. Collier and Lieut.-Col, ) as popular, being full of merry tales C.L'E. Malone (George Allen & and verses, and all manner of other Unwin, Ltd, London; 12s. Od.) is af attractive features. Both volumes different stump of book. In it, the are beautifully illustrated. authors have attempted a survey of To Tuck's "Treasure Trove" the new State in its many aspects. | Library, ssued at 28.
64. per. Not only is the volume concerned volume, there have been two `addi- with political issues, that there is tions mado "Cocky and Co," an much of interest in regard to the adventure story, and "The Pearl life of the people, their - customs, Fishers and Other Stories." There religious beliefs, etc. The book also] are nearly two hundred pages of contains a summarised historical letterpress and scores of lovely illus survey of the Far East, going back | trations. The "Joyous Youth" L- to the very earliest Umes.
brary comprises a new series of four On political matters, and on the volumes, at the remarkably low price actual accomplishments of the new of one shilling. These are "The regime, the authors give a fair pre- Passing of the Black Hawk," an ad- sentation of the facts, praising where venture book; "Adventures by Land, praise is due, and criticising where Sea and Air" "Adventures in Ani- criticism is called for. Two great mal Land" and "Cinderella and evils
are stressed banditry and Other Stories." They are very at- prostitution. The evidence of tra- tractively produced and are charm- vellers, it is claimed, does not bearing and Inexpensive gifts, sure to out the contention that Japan has delight the kiddies..
few would care to bear. When a highly strung and sensitive nature has to bear this burden and the al- most intolerable publicity that goes with it, is it to be wondered at that the burden should prove too heavy| without the support which a loving wife alone can give? But then the Archbishop is a bachelor, so per- haps that explains everythingt
I hope Mr. Bernard Shaw will be given an opportunity of replying to the Archbishop on behalf of those who sympathise with "the King over the water," But the puritanical Influence of Sir John Reith may prove too great. Oh, the pity of lit
FAIR PLAY.
as the
PEERS UNDER 21
AT CORONATION
is officially announced that all peers who are minors but over the age of 10 will be invited to the Coronation. Thus is solved a problem that Earl of Devon, 1916; the Earl of had caused much speculation.
Craven, 1017; Lord St. John of One of the peers affected by the Bletso, 1917; Lord Kenyon, 1917; decision will be the Marquis Town- Earl Jellicoe, 1918: Earl' Holg. shend, who will come of age on the The usual Tombola will not be held day following the ceremony.
1918; Lord Savile, 1010; Earl in the Garrison Lecture Hall on Fri-
Cathcart, 1919; Viscount Cross, Lord Townshend ranks third on 1920; the Earl of Wilton, 1921; day, 10th instant, but will be con- the roll of Marquises of England, the Earl of Harrington, 1022; tinued in the usual manner on Satur- and at present holds the position of day, 19th instant. Owing to Christ-premier junior marqule.
Lord Herschell, 1923; the Earl of Gainsborough, 1923; Lord Foley. mas und Boxing Days falling on Fri- The following minor peers (show- day and Saturday of next week, no ing date of birth) will be affected by:
1923: Lord Monk Bretton, 1024 Tombola will be run in the Garrison the Earl Marshal's ruling
Lord Congleton, 1925; Lord Lecture Hall.
Swanseo, 1025: Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, 1928.
Marquis Townshend 1010; the
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