THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NEWS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH
Foreign Airmen In China EMPIRE
Prepare To Bomb Tokyo
Frenchman's Disclosures
1
In Singapore
HOLDS RUSSIANS
ARE SUPERIOR TO JAPANESE
"When I left Hankow we were preparing to bomb Tokyo. We would have done so earlier but we did not have auflelent tong rango plaqes. We have them HGW."
So sald M. Marcel Florein, a French airman, who has been fight- ing as a volunteer in the Chinese Air Force when passing through Singn- pore in the Lloyd Triestino liner Vic- toria to spend a few weeks with his i wife and new baby in France.
Florein, who also fought in Spain, says that he will bring back freal volunteers when he returns to China
"My squadron, the 14th, known as the Foreign Legion Squadron. is made
up of American. French, Canadian and Australiah pilots," he suld.
a
FAST RUSSIAN PLANES The squadron was now supplied with American Vultee attack bom- bers capable of 240 mph. and range that would enable them to bomb Tokyo and retur nto Hankow, le said. Chinese pilots were being trained for air raids on Japan.
ly
New fast Russian planes are quick-
proving their superiority.
"But the Chinese Government is by no means relying exclusively upon the Soviet for supplies of aircraft! and men," he said. "Contracts have i been signed with American interests for the establishment of aircraft factories in China."
TWO GROUPS
were
At present, he said, there two groups in the Chinese Air Force. The larger wag of Soviet planes and pilots, who were concentrated in self-contained unit, under the leader- ship of a Soviet ace who saw service in the Spanish Civil War.
SO SONNY:-Part of the ceremonies in connection with the observance of the 15th anniversary of the Fascist reginic In
soldiers' Italy, recently, was the decoration of
by widows Premier Mussolini. This picture was taken in Rome, showing
1 Duce presenting a medal of valour to one of the wives: Some of the soldiers were killed in Ethiopia and some in Spain.
MILLION-POUND CARGOES
FOR OCEAN AIRWAYS
Ey Jack Turner
United Press Staff Correspondent
DALLAS, TEXAS,
MINING EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
Johannesburg.
The gold mines need more mining engineers. With view to increasing the supply, the Chamber of Mines is making a special grant to the Wit- watersrand University up to £5,000 rly, and is granting bursaries to yearly,
tudents
The Witwatersrand University al- endy has the largest school of mining in the world, and by the measures being taken the industry hopes to double the number of graduates. The present number, according to Mr. P. M. Anderson, a director of
the
Union Corporation, is not nearly enough..
Bush Fire Fighters-Hundreds of exhausted men--many of them In- jured-stumbled to-day down the stopes of the Constantin Mountains. Cape Province, after one of the worst week-ends of bush fire fighting recorded. For over 22 hours 1,000 men fought a fire which swept over hundreds of neres CANADA
SOCIAL CREDIT
APPEAL
Ottawa.
The judges of the appellate division
of the Supreme Court of Alberta 10- day unanimously dismissed the
ap- peals
Credit of the two Soctol
Mr. experts, Mr. J. H. Unwin and G. F. Powell, who had been sentenced for defamatory libel, They were alleged to be responsible for a pam- phlet giving the names of nine
business prominent Alberta
men 019 "bankers'
and
tondi cribing them
Unwin, who
was
Social Credit party whip and is a member of the Legislature for Edson, was sentenced
ຜູ
on Nov. 10 to three months' im- prisonment, with hard labour. Powell,
who came from London, received a six months' sentence with recom- mendation for deportation.
Ontario Floods-Damage estimated
bren caused by at £800,000 has floods in Ontario, the danger of which is now for the time being ended by a sharp fall in temperature. Two hundred persons have been evacuated} from their homes at London, Ontario.: INDIA
CAWNPORE RIOT
Calcutta. Thirty-twe persons have been sent! AIRPLANES CARRYING MILLION POUND CARGOES THAT CAN CROSS OCEANS IN A FEW HOURS WERE FORESEEN HERE to hospital in Cawnpore following BY MR. I. R. METCALF, HEAD OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY rioting, owing to Hafiz Ibrahim, now United Provinces Minister, leaving COMMITTEE ON AERONAUTICS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF the Muslem League and joining COMMERCE.
the
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10 procession through
supporters of
Hafiz. the
The second group comprised number of foreign volunteers known;
"Within the next ten years such super machines will¦ as the Foreign Legion under the com- manti of on American, Colonci Che-be commonplace," Metcalf said.
city, were stoned. One motorist who The
Pliols French, Canadian and Australian, The aeronautical expert explained that engineering was mistaken for Hafiz himself was
nault.
were American,
action and others as the result of
power
The rioting was in no sense
very badly beaten. of whom have been killed problems practically had been solved for the construc-purely political, and
racial. accidents. The 14th squadron, com-tion of planes weighing up to 250,000 pounds. posed entirely of foreign pilots, was
increased. Mechanical NEW ZEALAND commanded by an American named The large planes, he said,, the craft
und fuel will be the only Schmidt.
probably will move through the limits to the size of the craft con- KING AND CENTENARY This squadron on Feb. 7 dropped sub-stratosphere at a cruising structed 10 years from now, he said. 150 bombs on Nanking aerodrome, [speed of 400 miles an hour. now occupied by the Japanese. They will cross a State while a construction of planes was
by the engineers. The pusher Florein said. One of the pilots, an guest is cating breakfast and motor may replace the radial
SUPERIORITY PROVED
Little change in the shape
and
Australian named Whitehead, Jumped move out over the ocean
beyond because of less wind
was shot through the shoulder.
EXHIBITION
Wellington.
consented" The King has "gladly to become the Royal patron of the New Zealand Exhibition which will
But the body of the pusher motor open here in November, 1039, ac-
from his plane by parachute after be the sight of land while a passen wit be hidden inside the fore part curding to an announcement by the Japanese planes followed him, firing ger is taking a stroll around the!
of the wing and will be connected Prime Minister, Mr.
Mr. M. J. Savage. their machine guns as he Boated glass encased promenade deck. by a shaft to a propeller at the rear. His Majesty has also expressed the down. When fie lunded hls para- Metcalf was here for the semi-Vibration of the present pusher hope that the exhibition will prove chute was riddled by machine-gunnnual meeting of the maintenance bullets.
"Japanese superiority in the air division of the National Air Transport has been purely on account of their Association. Engineers from all parts of the Uniled States and Canada overwhelming numbers of planes,"
construction said M. Florein. "As
combatant me! pilots they are not good. They al- maintenance problems to be solved by airline manufacturers In the ways flight in formations of three and
next few years. will
not break up into dog-fights. "One Russlan pilot could tackle Metcalf to the engineers that three or four Japanese and bring experiments by his bureau und most of them down. They proved manufacturers had proven that the themselves in Spain, and they are ratio of the carrying load of a plane proving themselves in China." increased indefinitely as the size of
10
discuss
und
part of plane wings, engineers said, motor is too grent for the thin rear
a very great success.
The exhibition is being planned as The Kiant
planes will be more one of the outstanding features of comfortable. They will be complete New Zealand centenary celebrations. with
promenade decks, bars and re-Reuter.
Trade Prospects-Sir Josiah Stamp, creation rooms.
Metcalf belleves air travel will be President of the Executive, London, as safe as along traffic congested Midland and Scottish Railway, says highways, when the gtant crafts ar-that New Zealand can confidently ex- ive. Engineers reported that cet a continuation of good overseas mechanical faults caused less than markets for her products for at least 3 per cent. of the air transport ac- cidents in the United States in the last three years.—United Press.
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Glass Dresses Are Here
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London.
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I'm just going
out for an hour, dear. I want
to see some
"of the boys
NEXT MORNING
I know it's all right Jim having his own friends, Mother, It's the modern idea, but it does worry.
| me- I see,so
little of him
AT THE DOCTORS/
Oh Jim, I wish you didn't go out so often in the evenings. I see so little of you these
days
These modem theories are all very wall Ann; but when I was young we'd say that a man
who stayed out in the evenings usually had a dull,
lifeless wife at home
You say you always wake tired, and feel washed out and dull, that's bound to tell on
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6 WEEKS LATER
My goodness, the nícést place in the world is
here with you, Ann, by the fireside!
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Darling Jim!)
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THINKS:
I'm glad! got rid of my tiredness-
thanks to
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2 EVENINGS LATER
Sorry I can't be home for dinner darling I've got to attend. that Sports Club
Committee tonight. I'll have a bife
Tin town
THEN ANN HEAD 'A' MAGAZINE `ARTICLE- IT SAID:
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