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Inside the Comet
THIS
AT EIGHT MILES A MINUTE, SEVEN AND A HALF MILES UP.
able to will be
stretch their
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will go lu. when flying completely that now, it's a certainty-has altions in flown on an averago an hour a proximale day inco its maiden trip in
Span 115ft. Length 93 ft. Height 279 ft.
For tho Comet at 40,000ft, will he realed, and con- the cabin wli ap- to
allitudo of
July. And every day it de- 8,000ft, monstrates new wonders and
Envy of the rest of the world !MOVOT bad tempered char--the Comet, I hear, is likely to cost no more than the Constella-. tion (about £250,000), and con- alderably less than the piston- Boeing Stratocruiser (£375,000), which will lag 200
the
Is the way 600- mile - an hour pas- sengers will travel on the air routes of the world within two years. It in tho frst view of the the main cobin, and passengem acteristic.
Soon the four-jet-engined Comot's interior lay-out backs in the chairs at an angle As planned by de Havil of 53 degrees for sleep comfort, airliner is to go back to
hangar until after Christmas engined lands, the makers.
Ench pair of passengers will Its 2,000lb. of testing equipment The drawing shows the have an oblong window, but at will be partly stripped from it, miles an hour behind it.
40,000 feet,
uperational and new pressurization fittings main cabin with adjustable height of the aircraft, the cky alant-back rents for 28 will appear mauve and darken- smoke ed, and below, if the weather is passengers, and a room forward for another really clear, they will see only De outine of countries la map- eight passengers,
like panorama.
This verson will be for 1.000-mile hope, spanning Europe and stretching out to the furthest points of the Empire routes, when passengers will not be air. borne for more than two to three hours non-stop. For longer non-stop (London--Gandur-New inte will be only
rides York
the
Captain of the Comet wiji sit
on the teft, in the nose; his first offer on his right, with duni controle, Behind the captain and sitting nt right angles to him, the navigator will slutty charts. Almost bach-to- ho back to the first officer (also the
be the englucer) will
Fadiu hig knuin officer, manipulating and switches
Britain's brilliant white bop: Bun
24 ply to of aviation--8
MIDTO
Why Won't Britain Use
Her Idle Acres?
LONDON.
N view of the scarcity in Britain of good home-grown beef-and the very high prices the present Government has to pay for meat bought over- SCAR my experience in feeding and rearing cattle
30,000 neres of decr forest in Glen Strathfarrar may be of interest.
1 firmly believe that we i*༣༦ neglecting immense food producing
which, if properly managed, would break the back of our chief food problem-the urute and chronic shortage
The Kooxd of
meat workingman's talde
0921
Maak of There are more in 16,009,DVD
acres
of idle or semi-ulle land In Britalo, and test of thal
errage Is In Seolland
In the Highlands, deer forests alone occupy 3,187,6 acres.
I believe the 1 has rea
fo drastic change In food-producing methods,
Asks
LORD LOVAT
are notably thick, low-set, and suppy.
Cattle created good pasture
HERE Úན AND
a very The number fact, rurious
never very bigh in it deer. Clen Strathfarrar, has greatly tnereused sture 1 put the catth into the forent
in [39]
They hary moved a good thing and feline the rafite
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THISI talking one.
for then! 19 N
As you pass up Glen Strath- farm you cannot fail to water Hart where the ratite have kemi grazing during these past few years the long coarse heather has been cropped down to the
vonlahdet pont
liter atting grann
10% er
come thr The cattle, in fact, have
the each
Cattle-Rearing was the key- stone of Highland economy 160 years ago.
Immerse
were
druven
أن
Caille town tr the inoved markets every nutumn, but the trade has withered away and today we have only herds of
Betala
More wal more land fell into
Gover disuse ON SUCCPANÍVE
1 Beglected! agriculture, air! the British people beente dependent on more and more Dieal.
tou
Chilled beef, frozen mut-
Lir and
refrigerator ship put pahl to Recount
parable with that of the New Forest.
And there schemes under
construction!
I am for progress.
aro 107 OF survey
I am not opposed to the development of cheap hydro-electric power for local needs, but I am strongly opposed to the wholesale flood- ing
food-producing of broad, valleys.
Huge drop in meat production
FOOD
musi
-(London Express Service)
The Christmas
Mail Rush
Is Under Way
B
By J. W. Taylor
RITAIN'S
postal rush
already begun.
South the
stack Christmas the mail at
Lighthouse, Anglerey, will be. has
very tired if he has D Renvy load, for there is a climb of 408 though it's still little more steps before the journey is end- than a trickle compared to ed.
the deluge which will CHRISTMAS mail for the Hwamp the post offices
the happy day approaches,
45
Navy oversens has to be ready long before Decem- ber, For those In distant despatched confiden- several
in
None of the good tidings waters
bear und
will presents much trace of the adven
it accordance with tial instructions from the
Postings for mirnity. parts of Africa must be
Ad-
made
turca Bome of them may encounter In reaching a almost as soon as those for the destination. Only Ap in Arctic Plants, trains, ledger, bullock wagons and native run- triguing stamp or postmark ners are put into service as the may hint at a unique story needs of a particular
demand. Despite jungle of travel begun. În nome cases, weeks ago.
not
Cricket had
ended la Britain before the post offices of the world had begun to handle Christmas mall.
A
unce
territory dan-
дега
the flooded rivers, and
snow, the menace of ice and Christmas, mall for any of these parts is rarely inte.
a
There is the romantic yet in- trepid journey of the mail from Canada for Bain land and the T some post offices the post- Arctic Circle. The load of
man only calls twice or even Christmas Joy is put on to. PRODUCTION
at little steamer alwaya A year but
In September, AC- reliefs for the come first, in my opinion, and | Christmas. This has not always led by
meat when you consider that
been an easy task. When people
missionaries, In Britain has stilt ved on St
Kilda, off the tra
and omcials whose production
The trappers
und 410,000 Cons dropped by
since Scottish coast, the mail
tour of duty is completed, 1930
how thebe realine you
the
wis mainland
put into it chugs its way to Baffin land has played Governbunl
inte sheepskin bags. These were in-
and beyond. From some of the anted, thrown into the aca and ports of call 'planes will take
the hands of the foreign meat
Producer
The past increase in dairy farms has been responsible for this decline.
There is room for both mcal and milk productires das Bellun ! I Rubin't Thant my final) Glen Strathferar 19 effort i the
only on example of how the fundamental change us food pluction
IMC brought about.
Housewives could have plenty
F
We ARE paying dearly for thint
tralay neglect Iniserably short inent rations.
12 creates good hull pasture mut of heather of ent se
chunge which will release us the fasule
វ the Government really Lexik hold of this problein.
from the bard grusy of foreig9 and bracken which covers inost instead of playing #round it Treat producers, wixt in that of our deer foresla. betet i have turned the devs forest of Gien Struthfurrar rafo
range for beef cattle.
Grazing herds in
good condition
is 1- with ther red tape--1
to put up Now, what has been done in possible nowadays
hen-house without LL talen Strathfarrar can be done even
of good In milar
throughout permit--great droves
let cattle would come out of the
Highlands again,
forests
the
the Highlands.
£1 11 bren said--rather British housewife would have urly, thought-that I have
good home-grown been favoured by a succession plenty of
table, and we bient on her 1 BEGAN the experiment of mild winters, and that i am three years ago, with Irish furtunate in
having sheltered could map our fingers at the
Beaufort foreigner. park-lands around Castle on which I could winter my ḥ catlle.
cattle.
There are now 050 enfile of good quality feeding on the
That is true, and I am graft- #opes and corries, and, they are
fncts, but I feel still grazing right up to the ful for both high shoulder of the mountain confident that hardy cattle of cailed Sgurr ma Lapaich, which the right breed
ta 3,723 feet above sea level. through a severe
Io addition to these cattle, 170 steers were sold off
thla the forent range wniamer.
would come winter well enough-although it might be a tough job getting a bare main
Ieuence ration when roads with snow. Losses
Flooding valleys,
losing pastures
MILLIONS AND millions are being spent of pounds abroad by this Socialist Govern- ment-mostly for quite useless more milions purposes-and
of hay to them are being spent to submerge became blocked valleys in the Highlands-so
ore inevitable,
tada
delivered to the slanders the currents that converge the island.
doctors,
By
of mails and later
Itoly
Christmas mall for Island, of the Northumberland roast will cross the muddy tide waste left by the receded in a pony and trap following a route marked by stakes driven into the sen bed,
There will be
drop it on others 10 lonely outposts. At dog-sleigh teams take over the delivery,
A month after the steamer
Montreal's hts salled,
post
and
offices start handling the for the trappers, settlers policemen in the frozen North- hu West. Most of t travels by 10-mille Gleamer until the rivers freeze. Arudge of Yorkshire moorland. Then teams of sleighs take over for weeks nver travel Let us develop the resources maybe in snow wal-deep, for nnd
Tall frozen tralis delivering Christ- the palanan perving the H Inn, loneliest pub in Eng mina fare to the 1,000 or
men domiciled land, and he who has to deliver while
1,000,000 square miles of forest and wasteland.
at our own door.
- London Express Service)
There Really IS
An Iron Curtain
Russian frontier near the Black
over
moto over
Dwellers on the lonely Cocos- Keelung group of Islands In the Indian Ocean have an emelent postal service which is always on time with the Christmas mail. The mail is packed in overboard barrels and thrown
currents at points where the will carry it to the beaches.
Sea. The party photographed A cuak chained to a rock in
are in Turkey, Russia is on the other side of the iron gate.
Russian side
is a
the Straits of Magellan, op- posite Terra del Fuego, com- prises the loneliest and smallest Mali
On the barbed wire fence, but beyond post office in the world.
It strip of sand 30 feet wide. for it is dropped in by any ship The sarid is swept regularly happening to pass it, and out- is collected and to keep it smooth. Thus any-going mail
when the next port. is
one
crossing in
night posted the
letves his footprints in The reached.
sand,
Then there is Niva Fo'ou, or
After dark the Russians have Tin Can Island, the shores of a dog patrol. When the dogs which are too dangerous for the #ivo
the
alarm, searchlights close approach of any
Those with, or waiting for, that cheap hydro-electric power WHAT do you think of the are switched on,
stand oft ផ distance and To cross in daylight is almost specially-chosen Island swim but can be sent to factories in the Iron curtain? Do you say it
is an abstract thing? Well, here impossible. The sand strip is
battles mer
through the It is only a beginning. Every this risk has to be faced in the South.
by
machine-guns breakers with a tin can strap- Is a picture to prove you are enfiladed where you look, you will see pioneer spirit which usually
In one of these hydro-electric wrong, and that the iron cur- mounted on watch towers 60ft ped to him for receipt and de- rrazing herds in good condition. wins through in the end.
Glenmoriston and fain exists in fact.
high and only 1 quarter of and the young stock-sired by The possibilities of cattle- schemes--la pure-bred Shorthorn and Aber raising in the Highlands and Invergarry-about $8,000 acres
The picture was taken at a mio apart, deen-Angus bulls, themselves in England and Wales as well of hill and wintering pasture
on the Turkish-
-(London Express Service) ruised lower down the valley are enormous and challenging. will be destroyed, an area com- Kizilcakcak
m
of letters ilvery
which postmarked "Despatched by Tin Con Mall"
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