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Progress In Empire Airways.
FLIGHTS TO INDIA.
Important Air Ministry Memorandum.
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ORIENTAL BANK.
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second mortgage for $10,000 was granted to Messrs. Wo Cho-tal and Leung Yel-koo on the sécur ity of the Bank" premises, Copenhagen, Dec. 14.
payment of The elections for the Folkething granted against resulted in the Liberals and Con-$10,000; that at the same time.. servatives, combined obtaining a $1.000 had been requid to Loo majority of five over all other Fu against a fixed deposit which parties, and eight against the was not due until November 2, 1026; that sums amounting to united Socialists and Radicals.
$16,039.50 were paid to Lai Hin- man, one of the liquidators; that. the 'same date over on $16,159.60 was paid to Leung Chat-tsun, d director of the Bank; and that at the time, these pay- ments were made the Company was insolvent and unable to pay
Rugby, Dec. 14, The Air Ministry's mencran- dum to the Imperial Conference! The position of the parties in dealing comprehensively with the Folkething is now similar to Imperial Air Communication is that in the Eandsthing.
results follow:-- now, published.
Socialists Liberals
Conservatives
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Righteous Spate Party..
The
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In consequence of the defeat of i
its debts, the estimated deficiency being over $900,000:
New Liquidators.
After surveying the substantial progress made regarding aere- plane services and their suggest- ed development of co-operation with the Dominions, it indicates," the great adyances made us a re- sult of research experiment and
At a meeting of creditors held trial in airship development.
the Socialists, the Previer. My on August 4, continued Mr. Hesherto the chief cause of the Stauning, has resigned. The Sheldon. Messrs. J. H. Seth and irregularity of airship flying has Socialists refused to participate 8. H. Ross (on the proposition of been the difficulty of handing in the formation of a Coalition petitioner) were unanimously ap- ships on the ground and the risk Ministry."
pointed liquidators in substitu Finvolved in taking them in and Mr. Mygdal the well-known tion for those appointed by the
out of sheds except in favourable agriculturist member of the Bank.
Folkething, has formed a Liberal Subsequently. this resolution ministry with himself as Premier
weather.
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Mooring Masts.
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was considered by the legal ad As a result of the development Fund Minister of Agriculture. The visors to the petitioner and it of a system of mooring at masts, other members of the Cabinet was thought that it was not auf- Fairships can how be moored to ajare:-
Scient and that a further resolu
mast by a mast.crew of ten, and Mr. Moltesen.. Foreigh Affairs tion should have been passed. Mr. Meergaard.... Finance. Consequently, this resolution was
it should be possible in the future
16 operate from the mast for long periods, refuelling and changing engines and even the gas bags while se moored.
The airship shed should then #be more anargous to the dry dock of the surface ship than to its ordinary harbour
In connection with the experi- mental voyage to India and back, two airships have been designed, and are in the first stages. of pro- duction.
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Mr. Rytter..
Mr. Slebsgger. Mr. Kragh...
Mr. Brdrset..
Justice. not proceeded with.
Commerce On August 13, the petitioner Interior.obtained an order in Miscellane- Defence. [ous proceedings in the matter of Mr. Bruun Rasmussen.
the appointment of an additional] Public Worship liquidator. On Nov. 5 at a meet- Mr. Bystkav......Education.ing of creditors attended by up- Mr. Rubbw.....Public Health, wards of 48. creditors
re-
Mr. Stensballe. Public Works. solutions were passed that "in
-Reuter..
the opinion of this meeting, the rights of creditors will be pre- judiced by voluntary winding up; that application be made for re- Iviously appointed; that the at- torney for trustee of the afore- mentioned firms in San Francisco should make the application for RIGHTS NOT YET CONFIRMED.the winding-up of the Bank by the court and the removal of liquidators." New York. Dec, 14 The association of producers of
Case for Enquiry?
The masts at Cardington and DILATORY MEXICO. moval of the four liquidators pre- Ismalia have been completed, und! a shed at Karachi on the site presented with the grant-in-aid by the Indian Governmiens, had been begun.
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Greater Safety, As a result of the knowledge Nanning, Kumsang, Aki Maru, Kashima Maru, Pres. McKinley,
the oil in Mexico on behalf of 16-lead- One of Mr. Sheldon's submis Pros. Wilson, Borelis, Andes Maru, Klungchow, Haining, Sinkiang, accumulated during the meteoro- Gemma, Fushimi Maru, Fingal, Chaksang, Japan Lungshan, logical investigations of Mausang, Hozan Maru, Hector, Tjikarang. Tiipanas. Myrmidon, rute, experimental flights will be ing British and American com- sions was that there was a case Prosper, Koisu Maru, Fortuna, Anhui, Uga Maru, Daininisshim Maru, made, with a greater prospect of panies, has telegraphed the Mexi-for enquiry.
safety than would otherwise have jean Secretory of Commerce "eam- His Lordship made an order in Talma.
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plaining that many months have accordance with the petition, It remains to build airships to elapsed since they applied for cor- Messra. Lai Hin-man and Kwok Lovercome the mechanical difficul- frmation of their rights in respect Tat-son to be removed from posi- ties of the Heavy oil engine, to of leases acquired before May, 1917, tion of liquidators and liberty to establish a meteorological and land they are still without an in-apply in Chambers being given wireless organisation: "to carry swer.
petitioner in respect of the two
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out home trials; and to fly the The companies submit that they not served. two airships to India and back.
It was indicated that Messrs. are justly entitled to umpie op- When this experimental pro-portunity to consider the final terms Seth and Ross would continue to gramme has been successfully of any confirmatory concessions the be, liquidators under the order of completed, says the memoran Government expects them to accept the Court. dum, airship design and construc-as a valid recognition of their tion will have been placed upon an rights..
entirely new and more practical The telegram reiterates that the basis, and the way will be closer law does not provide adequate pre- for carrying out the further ex-servation for valid recognition of periments which are required to their pre-constitutional rights. establish the practicability of re-Reuter's American Service. gular airship operation through- out the Empire.
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AIRMEN'S TROPHY.
MINERS' HOURS.
Rugby, Dec. 14. Colonel Lane-Fox, Secretary for Mines, stated in the House of Com- Imons that the number of miners working on the new basis of an 8- hours day is 456,764, while 266,530 are working hours. At the pits in various districts the 7-hours day fis still in force.-British Wireless
Aeroplane Transport. Dealing with aeroplane trans- port developments in various parts of the Empire, the memor- Jandum refers to the in- vestigations conducted by the Air
Rugby, Dec. 14." Ministry committee, into the op-
The Air Ministry announces that: portunities for the operation of civil air transport in the neigh-Viscount Esher has presented a handsome trophy to be awarded un- bourhood of the West Indies.
VISCOUNT ESHER PRÉSENTS Service.
CUP.
It states that, consisting as nually to the squadron of the they do, of a group of islands ex-auxiliary Air Force adjudged to be tending over roughly 1,800 miles the best all-round squadron of the
One of the London squa- {}" and separated by considerable your distances, the West Indies are in a drone commanded by Lord Edward. position to derive the maximum Grosvenor wins the trophy this benefit from the rapid transport year.-British Wireless Service. facilities, afforded by the air ser- vices.
Too Soon Yet.
The Committee's report is not yet complete, but it recognises that a service throughout the West Indies is impracticable at present owing to the compara- tively small volume of traffic like-
DUBLIN RAIDS.
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It therefore considers that local Stute under the emergency act re- services should first be establish-frontly passed by the Free State ed on those sections which offer Parliament following the raids on the best chance of early commer barracks have been released by or cial success, with gradual extender of the Executi, Cornell,- aions subsequently.
Reuter,
The Committee proposes that these initial services should in-
elude a service in British Guiana, Washington, December 14.- a service from British Guiana to Mr. Kellogg has sent a letter to Trinidad, a coastal service from the Senate on the German claims Trinidad to Curacoa and Mara-saying a settlement has been caibo and a service from Trinidad reached, without any modification to the Barbados.-British Wire of United States, rights-Reu less-Servize,
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