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Hong Kong, Monday, Nov. 24, 1930,

LOCAL LETHARGY!

and

business

magnates Chambers of Commerce?

CORRESPONDENCE.

CHINESE MISSION TO LEPERS CONCERT.

(To the Editor of "China "Mail"] Sir, I shall be grateful if you will permit me through your columns to express most cordial thanks to all those who helped to contribute to the диссеяя of the

concert recently given in aid of

the Chinese Mission to Lepers.

To Mrs. R. Sanger, Mra. Balean,

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1930.

WHEN THE FLY FEELS WHY AIR MAIL IS NOT

A DRAUGHT.

Absence of Pressure on Wind-Borne Bodies

PARADOX OF THE GALE.

SUPPORTED.

London Chamber of Commerce's Criticism.

London, Oct. 20.

The London Chamber of Com- merce. In their letter to the Air

From time immemorial birds Ministry and to the Post Office an

Mrs. Bruce Wilson and Mrs. Lai have been depicted by poeta and the subject of air mails to India Dudley naturalists alike as creatures gift- and Australia, referring to the

"An air service which does not

Mesars.

Man-sing, and Bartlett, W. J. Geall, W. Houston ed with some almost miraculous Indian air mails, says: Bailey, Lui Man-sing, Pun In-tat, knowledge and skill with which

Ma Ping-lit and the members of the they master their blusterous and take advantage of the speed which A. ad S.H. Band wo tender our stormy element, writes Commander can be offered to

the public and runs only once a week cannot hope Bernard Acworth, D.S.0., R.N. sincore appreciation for their cx- cellent items to the programme

and to Mr. W. R. Fleming for be ing so largely responsible for or ganising the entertainment.

It may, therefore, come as some- to attract more than a small and thing of a surprise to those who unimportant portion of the com-

are unaware of the fact to learn munications passing between Bri- that alone of all creatures in this tain and India.”

Night-Flying Plans.

Our thanks are also due to the wonderful world birds in free contributors of donations as well as flight and insects on the wing bave to the management of the following firms for their courteous assis. tance: Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Y Old Printerie, the Anderson Muste

The first steps are being taken

never felt a breath of wind that is to light the India air mail route blowing, no matter how fierce or east of Cairo for night flying. By the beginning of next Summer, tempestuous the wind may be,

Birds, Insects and aircraft ex-Buperia Airways should be able to perience, nothing but a dead calm accelerate the mail service, not per-

Co., and the City Hall Committee. so far as wind pressure is concern-haps immediately by regular night

I am pleased to state that the net proceeds of the concert will draught from right ahead exactly ing day, so that the start and finish ed. A bird or a mosquito feels dying, but by lengthening the fly-

exceed $1,500,

Yours, etc.,

LI CHOR CUL Hong Kong, November 24.

the darkness.

Two mobile floodlights have al-

Thanking you for your courtesy.equal la strength to its own proper of a day's stage will take place in

flight-speed,

Thus, for example, a sea-gull with a flight speed of 40 miles per ready been delivered on this route hour feels a draught on its benk and five more will be ready before and between Its eyes of 40 miles May. After that it should be pos- per hour whether the air is still able for mail machines to land or or moving with gale force at 60 take off from any of their termina! miles per hour from ahead, behind, aerodromes east of Cairo in the

dark, or across the direction of the bird's flight. In short, air-borne bodies, whether birds, insects or machines, fly always in a dead calm, but the dead calm is a moving calm.

WEDDING.

CEREMONY IN ST JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.

JEFFRIES — BURRAGE.

-An-Einstein-Situation,

So much for the fact, unknown

scientists In Britain and abroad.

!

LATEST THING IN MONOPLANES.

Innovations Embodied in the Valetta.

The wedding took place in St. John's-Cathedral-on-Saturday! afternoon of Kathleen Margaret | our Burrage, eldest daughter of Mr. For Charles Burrage, of Davenport and until recently to many famous the past five years they have A. E. E. Jeffries of Blackheath, Those to whom the fact comes as

London, Oct. 8. been bemoaning trade depression,

Forthcoming a revelation will rightly wish for

the of trials The Very Rev. Denn A. Swann with their eyes only on South officiated

"Valetta," Britain's biggest float a reasonable explanation. and Mr. C. Dudley

Picture the saloon of an ocean seaplane, are expected to reveal a China, but closing their eyes: to Bartlett presided at the organ.

liner travelling over the sea at 20 number of Innovations. the opportunities that are con- Mr. W. J. Shenton and was attended so that the enclosed air is still. notable for their size, being 40 The bride was given away by miles per hour with windows clos- The Rosts of the monoplane are

Kent.

tinually arising for 'fresh outlets ed by Miss Patricia Hynes 49 in Canada and Australia. And, bridesmaid, and Master Michael now that they are at the moment Hynes as page boy. Mrs. C. D. favoured with a Trade Mission The duties of beat man

Bartlett was matron of honour. were dis- all the way across the Pacific, charged by Mr. J. D. Lenox. eager to ussist them in develop- ing trade with Canada, they are apparently passive to an almost stubborn degree. It surely is all wrong!

Now suppose a fly to leave its feet long and displacing 22,500 perch at one end and to fly at 10 pounds. The craft has been de- miles per hour towards the other signed with the idea of obtaining end. What Is the fly achieving comparative performance data of and what are its sensations. float and boat-hull seaplanes of

Taking sensations first, it will} equivalent power and size. A reception WAS held at the

be appreciated that the fly feels a Three motors of approximately residence of Mr. and Mrs. T. Hynes, draught of 10 m.p.h, from right 1.500 horsepower will carry 10 and afterward the happy couple ahead, and nothing else. It clear- tons when the seaplane is fully weat to Repulse Bay for the honey-ly makes no difference to the sen- loaded. Already it has been found sations of the fly whether the en- that the large craft has shown a closed air of the saloon is station- maximum velocity of about 140

mood.

It might have been thought WORLD COURT PLEA ary, as when the liper is secured miles an hour,

.

cam-

PROMINENT AMERICANS' APPEAL TO PRESIDENT.

RATIFICATION URGED,

New York, Yesterday.

'OMESICK!

SAD STORY OF A DUTCH

SAILOR.:

SOBBING IN SYDNEY.

with

to a jetty, or moving at 20 m.p.l. Among the interesting features in any direction, when the liner is of the internal equipment is the under way at that speed.

wireless receiving and transmit-

course

is accomplishing 10 knots back- wards to Liverpool (fly's speed 10 knots minus liner's speed 20

when

EUROPE.

An-

knots). The fly's sensations under- Great Britain Has An go, however, no change whatsoever, for it feels throughout its little aerial voyage

a draught of 10] m.p.h. between its eyes.

Unenviable Precedence.

Geneva, Oct. 8.

In

that the carlier. visit of that great American trade paigner, Captain Robert Dollar,

But what is really happening to ting gear. Under normal atmos- would have acted as a stimulus to

the fly when the liner Is under pheric conditions the set has a local trade interests--that they

way? If the liner is steaming transmitting range of 300 to 400 would have paused to consider

from Liverpool to New York at 20 milos

using telegraphie the meaning for themselves in Many prominent Americans, loknots, and the fly is flying at 18 signals, and between 200 and 250

cluding Field Marshal Pershing, knots in the saloon and towards miles for direct telephony. the direction of making greater Admiral Sims, and the banker, the bow, 'it ip making for New other special arrangement' is the use of the opportunities for trade Mr. T. W. Lamont, have signed a York at 30 knots, (the liner's provision for a derrick which may with the United States and, inci-letter urging President Hoover to speed of 20 knots, plus the fly's be fitted above the engines when submit to the Senate for ratification speed of 10 knots). If, however, needed, for the removal and refit- dentally, reflected on the proporpratocols for the adherence of the the fly continues its fight as be- ting of any power-plant while the tion of overseas trade done with United States to a permanent court fore, but the liner alters

craft is afloat.-United Press. We have in our midst one of the United States in comparison of international justice-Router's towards Liverpool, the fly still the most important Trade Mis- with Canada and Australia. It

American Service.

heading at 10 knots for New York UNEMPLOYMENT IN sions that has ever visited the would have been imagined that Orient the Canadian Trade they would have been by now in a Mission. It is to be feared, state of mind prepared to give however, that it shall be permit the utmost welcome to the Trade ted to leave our Colony with no Mission from another portion of flare of trumpets beyond that the British Empire, ready to which its members sound them-combine their intellectual forces

Now a dy dying in the enclosed Europe's unemployed now total selves. There has been no public in a scheme of commercial ex-sallora of the Dutch fleet to their liner is the same phenomenon as the latest statistics gathered by Some Sydney giris invited three caim of the saloon of a moving more than 6,000,000. according to welcome to the Mission, nor is pansion tending to their mutual home for teo,

dancing the flight of any air-borne body, the International Labour Burena. any arranged so far as we learn..

benefit.

to the gramophone to. follow. animate or inanimate, in wind. It This number, however, is admit There has been no special meet- It scarcely helps matters Two of the visitors could speak ex- anyone is disposed to challenge ted to be far from complete. ings or tifins or dinners arranged locally to reflect on how different youngest could only manage to listen respectfully invite such a reader available from all of the European cellent English, but the third and this statement the writer would, the first place statistics were not by the General Chamber of Com-ly the portals of Australia are intelligently and say, Tank you, to expand the liner's saloon in countries..

Other nations sent in merce or the Chinese Chamber of thrown open wide in honour of missus," and a few odd things like imagination into a vast trans-only the unemployed that belong Commerce in their honour; nor distinguished visitors from over that (thus Douglas South in the parent dome, 1,000 milea into labour organisations while still

Sydney Sun).

diameter and suspended over the others sent only the number that have any been planned so far as

seas, commercial and otherwise,

When the gramophone was in full sea or land...

are receiving benefit funds. we can gather.There is a gen There the utmost publicity is swing, rattling off "Happy Days,"

It is estimated that the mint While the dome is stationary- eral spirit of lethargy and indif given to Empire Missioners; the two lingulate were outside on and therefore the air which it en um total would be at least ference toward the Mission and hospitality knows no limits; civic the verandah, dancing with their closes let us release all manner 7,000,000 were full figures avail- its objective that is sadly out of receptions are plained in order sat on the sofa with their mother, in its depths. Supposing the dome young hostesses, but the third boy of flying creatures and machines

Germany and Britain.' harmony with the progressive that the local authorities, Cham-who tried to make appropriate

Britain still leads in unemploy-: ness that this Colony considers to bers of Commerce, and the entire noises that might sound like Nether-to be stationary, a person standing

total of over be traditional in its history. The community alike may combine hand over his face, and then helped to stalk away with the dome in his with over 1,900,000 while the

Landese. Presently the boy put his beneath the dome is thus in stillment with

air. Now imagine a giant Aeolus, 2,000,000, Germany comes next members of the Mission have not alone in holding out the hand himself not even been invited to Govern of friendship but of acquiring a All at once

to his handkerchief hand, as we might carry a bird Agures given out by Soviet Russia ment House, nos has any such in-first-hand knowledge of the pur-bing like a little child. Father Instantly, the person on the fixed

cage, at a speed of 40 m.p.h. admit over 1,500,000,

Italy has a total of 360,000 be- vitation been extended to them,

who had onco paid aland or sea beneath the fabulous tween wholly and partially an so far as we know. To the mem/Pose of the mission. They fully ing business trip to Amsterdam dome will feel a wind of 40 m,p.h, employed. while Poland has recognise the ponsibilities of was called in to take charge of this from the direction in which the 275,000, in the mining and mau- mutual advantage. They are unusual situation. Between his sobs, deme is moving. This will be facturing industries alone..

Other countries range from readily admitted... alert to the potentialities of with Father's arm round his should-

10,000 to 50,000 unemployed.. future commercial intercourse. "Omesick! Three months gone But the birds and machines fly- Austria, however, has 153,000- In his interview with the

This Colony may even yet-be from Amsterdam. Since when this ing enclosed in the moving dome United Press. [China Mail, and the representa

fore our distinguished Canadian is the firat ome I ave been in. are physically unconscious of the visitors leave us take a leat out Excuse, missus, Better now." movement of the air in which they tives of other local newspapers of the book of our Australian boy sees his home in Amsterdam wind-pressure, as are passengers It will be three years before that are flying, and as free from any- the head of the Mission stated cousins and make them feel that again: The Java station, where the in an express train walking| that it was a desire for closer their journey here has not been Beet is bound for, will be served for and more intimate contacte, with business interests that had brought this Mission across the Pacifle, from Canada; their com ing was prompted by friendliness And goodwill and the hope of mintual benefit. Is there to be no

bers of the Legislative Counc}} they are strangers and are like ly to remain strangers. Why should these things be?

of the nature of chase.

d-goose

ers, he explained:-

he was Bob

....

the front. The enclosed gir in our through the train from the rear to that period.

fabulous dome is identical ‚with what we call wind. depe Mr. Sumumu Shiral (24), a clerk employed at the Japanese This simple fact of sbsence of News in Brief. Consulate was yesterday sent to wind-pressure on airborze bodies the Government Civil Hospital shade a food of light on three Subscribers and guests attending after he had been found in an un-fatters of great human interest St Andrew's Eociety practice, dance conscious condition at his residence, birdlife, including malgration, to-morrow are saked to note that 262 Wanchal Road, He had ar aviation and the theory of evali Dea will be served in the Rose Room paréntly taken an overdose of tion-too large for discussion

shaping mixture.

here

able.

1

Ten Years Ago.

From the Chin Mall, November 20, 1920.) -

To-day's dollar is worth 3/7dt

The Nanyang Brother Tebacoo Co. has contributed $100,000 5 the famine relief funds. Messrs, Kan - Chiu-nam and Kan. Yok-kaf,|| (twe brothers who organised the Company) have also each gives [$50,000, making a total of $200,000.