THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, ¦.
APRIL
1987.
BRITAIN'S FACTORIES WORK OVERTIME Europe's Feverish Haste In Race For Power In The Air
QUADRUPLED BUDGET
TO PROVIDE MIGHTY SKY ARMADA
This is one of a series of dispatches by Webb Miller, European news manager of the United Press, reporting on the ro- armament race after a tour of European capitals.
By WEBB MILLER
United Press Staff Correspondent
London, Apr. 25.
Great Britain, fearing that in the "next war" her vul- nerable little island will be subjected to serial bombard- ments vastly more terrible than those of the world war, is working overtime to catch up and keep pace with the continental powers in the air armaments race.
Britain awoke to that situation with a rude shock. The sud- den, disconcerting revelation just two years ago that Germany hnd stealthily achieved air parity startled her into furious netion.
So deep is the military secrecy of the dictatorial nationa that the British intelligence service was badly deceived, and only four months before the discovery, Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin' was led into informing the House of Commons that Britain was 50 per cent. superior to Germany in air strength.
Then Hitler blandly revealed to Sir John Simon, at that time foreign secretary, that Germany's air power equalled Britain's the government at once initiated a great emergency expansion programme, nearly tripling the average expenditure of the pre- vious few years.
Now again Britain has boosted the ante with 1937 air estimates of £82,000,000, which is £32,000,000 nhove last year's and compares with an average of £18,000,000 before Hitler's surprising announce. ment.
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Britain's greatest defence problem 3 protecting the London area, wind 10,000,000 inhabitants. It is the cen- anu finance Toverument, administration. It has nine square miles of docks. furnishing food and raw materials for 20,000,000 persona and is less than an hour's flight from Germany and France.
REFUGEES—Ilceding the warning of the Madrid government, here, are refugeea necing the capital city of Spain as heavy bombardment by the Insurgent forces continued. These folk are taking the last road open to Cuenca, after receiving food from the soldiers aboard the truck. Meanwhile Loy. allat forces under General Mlaja withstood heavy drives on the city by the Rebels.
GIANT 42-PASSENGER
PLANES LARGEST
WILL BE IN WORLD
Southampton, April 21.
An idea of their size may be gained from the dimensions of their tyres, six feet three inches in diameter and two feet two inches wide. Despite this size, the landing-gear will be retracted, three-fourths of the big wheel sliding back and up into the wing when in flight.
of business. Sir Philip Sassoon, under-out serious dislocation secretary for air, told Commons The programme is retarded also by on March 15 that the expendi- the comparative slowness of training pilots, compared to the output of the ture this year of 4 times the factories in planes and motors,
period
Although details have been kept pre-expansion "trebling the force as well as re-secret, it is known that the British
Twelve giant airliners, the largest for regular transport scr- have arming it with modern equip developed an exceptionally e-
fighting plane, vice in the world, are under construction for Imperial Airways by clent twin-motored armed with machine guns and two Sir W. C. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd.. at Hamble, near 20-millimeter cannon
firing
high ex- hero. So big are the planes that a road is being especially built so is reputed to be plosive shells.
that they may be rolled from the shops to a flying field. capable of 375 miles an hour.
there
ere is a light monoplane capable of homber.
of over 300 miles an hour, engined with a new, secret
Τίνο Rolls-Royce
motor.
Improved types at
for aerial use have
A been adopted, Vickers and n Browning, the intter of unusual sim- plicity.
Fully loaded, the planes will weigh 20 tons, one and one- BALLOON BARRAGE
The monoplane type is almost half tons more than Imperial's big flying boats. The cost will defence entirely replacing biplanes. Engi-
are designed to The most remarkable scheme is a vast hedge of balloons neers are testing sleeve-valve motors be between £40,000, and £45,000 each. They around the capital, anchored at a and new types of fuel giving greater carry 12 passengers, a crew of five, mail and cargo. Their top great height, between which will be power.
Huge reserves of gasoline and oft speed is expected to be 210 miles an hour and their range, 1,000 The wingspan of suspended aprons of heavy, dangling
and stored, miles non-stop against a 40-mile headwind. wires designed to entangle the pro-are being established pellers of enemy aircraft and crash sometimes underground, at points the planes is 127 feet, the fuselage is 114 feet long. them. Critics contend that modern considered inaccessible to bombing.
Four Armstrong Siddeley "Tiger" built planes fly high enough to surmount
supercharged motors will be the balloon barrage,
into the leading edge of the wings; developing a total of 3,400 horse- power
.
guns
Additional precautions are bat- POISONERS
which
teries of anti-aircraft guns, and al device called a "predictor" can automatically compute an air- plane's future position. Twenty thousand men from the territorials (millua) are being enlisted in the anti-aircraft division.
Almost nightly London's millions ear the drone of airplanes testing
HIRED OUT
TO WIVES
Warsaw, Apr. 15.
the defence devices and organisation. The air ha instituted
108 inst gramme and
nis rald precaution department THE love of two men for the same girl and their
un educational pro includes the training
that three The designers say engines will keep the plane at 12,000 feet altitude, fully loaded, and that two engines will sustain it at 4,000 feet.
The airliners will be high-whig of all-metal camilver monoplanes construction. The fuselage will be
an oval monesque shell of light alloy. One of the features of the design is
gas attack. It unisation against hatred of each other has wing is built around
drilis
the construction of the wing. The single rectangular box-spar of light alloy,
น
of ambulance units, establishment of led to the arrest of a pro-ressed and criss-crossed like first ald posts, fire company
fessional poison gang who bridge--an Armstrong Whitworth and Instructions on how the people can prepare anli-gus rooms in their murdered "to order." houses. Masks for eventual distribu- tion to every one.
GAS MASKS FOR ALL
patent.
at
The leaders of the gung,
two
NEARS COMPLETION whose headquarters were
Orders for the "E" class airliners years Aleksandrov, near Kiewlce, Cen-were placed more than
of actual The department is beginning the tral Poland, have already con-go, More than a year production of 40,000,000 Las masks fessed that during the last few working time has been put in on the Arst of the craft, now nearing com- for eventual distribution to every
have murdered pletion. It is expected that the first adult and child. For babies, 250,000 years they
flights in, about three months,
a month are being manufactured. eighteen people for from £20 to machine will be ready for
Thought of how seriously the air £50 each.
trial
·
threat is regarded Is furnished by Twelve of the gang have already But so confident are the designers
the suspension plons to build a been rounded up.
new
building in tehall, the which 5,000 civil servants would have been housed. The suspension was due to the belief that the White- halt
project would furnish 100 great concentration
government པ་ aclivity in war time.
T
ol
Although Britain has adopted par-
that their calculations are right, the the
Members of the gang, the police builders are going ahead with have discovered, were hired out to remaining 11 planes without waiting husbands who wished to kill their for the first one to be test-flown. wives, wives who wished to get rid This practice was followed when the of their husbands, business men Empire Aying boats were built, who wanted to remove rivals.
Several of the new airliners will be of a "European" type, providing
GIGOLOS
ARE SCARCE
IN U.S.
Hollywood. Apr. 1. TUCKE IN a shortage of gigolos —leck, suave young men of ir- reproachable dress and manners— to escort American women who want to visit England to see the Coronation ceremonies.
Mr. Ted l'eckham, proprietor of a New York bureau providing such escorts, offered film actors In Hollywood contracts guarantee- ing a fee of £20 a day to go to England with his women clients and escort them to Paris for the exhibition after the Coronation.
only six "I could And Buliable for escorts in the film
Colony," said Peckham.
men
MAIL TRANSFERS IN MID-AIR
ZEPPELIN COMPANY'S
EXPERIMENTS
The murders were carefully car-seals for 42 passengers and designed 'PLANE CAUGHT IN tially the secrecy polley of the totall-ried out by means of poisoning for use only in Europe, tarian nations and the exact progress generally arsenic or cyanide. Death
of her air programme has been con- always appeared to be natural; there cealed, best informed observers cre- were no inquests..
dit the nation with about 1,750 first
line planes, compared to 1,100 in
December, 1935.
124
SQUADRONS
the Sassoon told Commons that
would in the British Isles forces roach 124 squadrons within a few months, compared to 53 squadrons in 1935.
To man the expanded forces, the air ministry plans within the year to begin training 1,176 men more than the 1,435 trained or partially trained
WAR
PATROL
REVIVED
try has provided for construction of Coronation naval review. 48 new airfields.
The others will be of "Empire" the land type, equipped to work route to Egypt and India.. Owing to special equipment necessary for long Journeys in tropical countries
Empire" airliners will carry only
AIRSHIP LOOP
Berlin, April 10.. The prospect that mail and un
and occasional venturesome passen-
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the carriage of bigger mall loads, the ger may be shipped aboard day passengers and 20 at night; for Zeppelin airships while in the which removable berths will be air is held out in an official notice issued by the Zeppelin provided.
Navigation Company to-night.
COMFORT V. SPEED
passenger.
15
.Col. Udet, the famous German air- For The Coronation "We stress comfort where Ameri-
can airlines stress speed," on Imperial man and trick fier, has been carry
experiments which, The "Tenth Cruiser Squadron" Airways official remarked to the ing out
reporter, "and we are as far ahead claimed, have shown the project to of fullment without danger. of the Navy-famous for its on comfort as America is on speed." be capable last year. It also plans to obser four years' sea patrol during the
He was demonstrating the comfort-
The scheme was originally devised nearly 12,000 as ground crew obser-
able berths, the luxurious, adjustable vers and radio men, in addition to war-time blockade of Germany here, and individual tables, light by the United States Navy and tested 11,000 enlisted last year. The minis--is being revived for
cach for military purposes in the airships the ventilators provided for
and
Akron and Macon some years ago vill havu In essence. It consist of flying the Each of the airliners
saloons,
plane into loop suspended from the To start a system of reserves, the In the original squadron the ships several passenger
two airship. When the correct position is ministry has outlined a plan to enlist were converted merchantmen, chiefly promenade deck, a small bar, 800 civilians in the newly-created manned by merchant seamen. The lavalories and a kitchen where seven- attained a grappling device is brought light course meals will be prepared. into play, special stays on the plane Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, new "tenth" will consist of and also to continue the polley of cruisers, with naval reserve officers The crew will comprise two pilots, being used for this purpose.
and enllating youths after they be put and men.
one wireless. operator: stewards. In ddition, a "ship's When the plane in locked into posi- in the reserved corps.
tion its propellers are slowed down Sassoon #dmitted that the pro- Rear-Admiral Dowding wil, com- clerk" or purser will be included.
Names of the twelve airliners will und a considerable part of the dead gramme is still less rapid than had mand the squadron from the 4,200-
cruiser Colombo. After been hoped, because of the shortage ton
the be Ensign (the first), Eddystone, weight is thus transferred to the air- of skilled workmen and droughts- Coronation most of the ships will Elsinore, Ettrick, Explorer. Egeris, ship. The mail and passengers then men. It would be impossible to go to the dockyard for conversion Euterpe, Endymion, Euryalus, Elysian, enter along an extension of the
normal entrance gangway. withdraw them from industry with- into anti-aircraft ships.
Empyrean and Echo.
two
RADIO BROADCAST
Commentary on Arrival Of The Hongkong Clipper CHINESE CHORAL SOCIETY
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on wavelengths of 355 metres (9.52 metres (045 k.c's.), 31.49 m.c's.).
H.K.T.
11.30 am. A Relay from Ka! Tak Aerodrome.
A Commentary on the Arrival of the Cilpper, by K. Stuart Smith (late R.F.C.).
12.15 p.m. Grand Opera. 1 p.m. Time and Weather. 1.03 p.m.
Pianoforte Recital by Wilhelm Backhaus.
1.20 p.m. Three Songs by Webster Booth (Tenor).
1.30 p.m. Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather, Time and Announcements. 1.40 p.m. The London Palladium Orchestra.
2.15 p.m. Close Down.
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. Irish Music. p.m.
Contralto Solo-The Fairy Tales of Ireland (Eric Contes)....Essie Ack- land; Accordion Solo-Rukes of Clon- mell Jig...Frank Murphy; Tenor Solo-When Irish Eyes are Smiling (Ball)....Morton Downey; Orches- ural-Irish Rhapsody (Herbert) New Light Symphony Orchestra; Tenor Solo The Rose of Tralee-
ога Downey; (Glover)....Morton
(art. chestra-Irish Washerwoman
the Straw Sowerby); Turkey in. (Gulon)....New Light Symphony Orchestra; Tener Solo The Moun- tains
of Mourne (French)..., Morton Downey.
7.30 p.m. Stock Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Market Report. 7.35 p.m. The B.B.C. Wireless Military Band.
arr.
Slavonic Rhapsody (Friedemann, Winterbottom); "Faust"-Ballet "Woodland Pic- Music (Gounod); tures"-Rural Suite (Fletcher); (n) Romance "An Old World Garden"; (b)
Всал
(c) Humoreske The
on and
Dance-"In the
8 p.m. Time, Weather and An- nouncements.
8.03 p.m. A Variety Programme. Instrumental Souvenir de State Maria B. Selvittaro (Mandoline); Vocal-When my Dreamboat comes Home....Turner Layton; Hawallan Rock me in a cradle of Kalun.... Frank Ferera's Hawaiian Trio; Vocal Sketch--Knock, knock-who's there?
Vie Oliver with
Churchill; Sarah
Accordeon Solo Mo Petite Gigetto Castoncelli; Vacad you?; Take my heart...Grela
Greta Keller:
Contes
Oh
tea Medley.... Vocal-(n) We'll rest nt the end
Solo-Eric Organ Sydney Gustard; Susannah:
(b)
of the Trail....The Rocky Moun taineers; Instrumental-Three little words. Len Fillls (Banjo); Vocal -The wind and the rain... Turner Layton; Vocal-You and the night and the music... Gracle Fields; Vocal
Tiger Rag.
Mills Brothers. 8.45
p.m. altzoods
Tales trom the Vienna
rek Weber and His (Strauss)....Morek Orchestra; Rosenicavaller Waltzes
(R. Strauss)...Bruno Walter and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
9 p.m.
Ꭺ
From the Studio. Recital of Part Songs and Folk Songs by the Hongkong Chinese Choral Society, Conducted by Lindsay A. Lafford. Irene Lum at
· the Piano.
1. Purt Song-Rolling down to Rio ..German; 2. Old Scottish Cradle
(Continued on Page 4.)
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