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Saturday, May 2, 1931.

Third Moon, 15th Day.

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BLISHED 大英伍月二號

中華民國辛未年三月十五日

1846

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1931.

BY AIR EXPRESS.

THRILLS OF A JOURNEY HIGH

ABOVE THE EARTH.

What is it like to make a journey high through the air in the saloon of a big, luxurious modern pus- senger-plane?

MR. BALJEFF MAKES A "HASH OF SPADS."

Ballet Full of Hot News.

"'Ello, 'ow are you, please? aDon't go," grinned Mr. Balief.

As I had only just arrived, this was a trifle startling. I raised my hat and began: "Mr. Balieff, I am

reporter from the

"Please, 'ow are you, SIR?.

like

"

some

AN AIR TROPHY.

AWARDED TO AMERICAN RECORD-HOLDER,

The 1930 trophy of the "Ligue! Internationale des Aviateurs" has been awarded to Capt. Frank M. Hawks, the Superintendent of the Texas Company's Aviation Divi- sian, for his outstanding lights during that year. Capt. Hawks is: also

to be given the title of "America's Outstanding Aviator of the Year."

have smokings and drink. Don't Capt. Hawks, flying his Rero. go," chuckled Mr. Balieff, pirouet-plane "Texaco No. 13" from New York to San Francisco in August, established and still holds a coast- to-coast record of 12 hours and 25) minutes, and by the return journey

By way of answering such question, which is asked so often now, the writer invites you to join 1 him here, in fancy, in a voyage along that famous air-route be tween London and Paris in one of the latest-type multi-engined flying liners of Imperial Airways.

Free from the dust of earthting round the room trafle you wing your aerial way, huge bumble bee.

What an amazing little fellow and the panorama spread below you keeps you engressed from the this Nikita Balieff is! He is back moment your ascend until-very re again with his "Chauve Sourts," luctantly--you step down from your his infectious gurgle, and his ac- | snug saloon at your journey's end.

tionable English for another Lon- Assembling with other passengers don season. at Airways House, London, you are escorted to waiting motor cars, and, driven out to the London air station at Croydon. Here stands the air express in which you are to embark, while dominating the air station

building you will observe the tower from which

is the airway traffic controlled. Here sits the Officer in-Charge, with wireless operators in an instrument-room adjoining, and with a big map in front of him on which he plote out from moment to moment according to the wire. less signals he receives, the posi tions of aircraft in flight.

Roomy Saloon. Now you embark in your winged express. The saloon of this craft is roomy, lofty, spacious.

You are given a softly-cushioned armchair, In which you settle yourself luxuriously; and, as you do so, a signal from the control-tower tells the pilot he may begin his flight. Promptly he taxies out his big machine and brings it into position

into

He is a gay, rollicking person- allty with the face of a comedian and the figure of a monk, and he can. do more to the English language in five seconds than Messrs. Nuthall could do in five

years,

Mr. Balief has been trying to learn English for twenty-five years. aided by an earnest study of "masters so great, Dick Hens and Shake Speer." He is also an admirer of the writings of Mr. Edgar Wollop.

"Don't go," laughed Mr. Balleff happily.

Landon will soon be chuckling again at his superb announcements before the curtain. They go some

thing like this:-

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

established and still holds a fur- ther record for the forward and re- turn journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast.

In March of the same year, Capt. Hawke, piloting the Texas Com- pany's Glider the "Texaco Eaglet" was towed at the end of a 500 ft. cable across the continent by the Wright-Whirlwind engined aero- plane "Texaco No. 7" from San Diego, California, to New York City, a distance of 2,690 miles.

The "Texaco Eaglet," which has been towed for a distance of over 4,000 miles by "Texaco No. 7," has now been presented to the Smith-

sonian Institute.

"For ze second scene dramatic we as one mans and one bull.

"For ze third scene dramatic w as one bull.

"You all like it all I hope."

At present he is eager to fulfil the ambition of his life-the establishment in London of a per- manent theatre for "Chauva Sourin."

He told me about it. He went

"Fur ze first scene dramatic we 'as two means and a bull. your 'plane passes over the Varne lightship, which has its name clear- for the language like a bull at a so that it is facing

wind.ly painted on its side. Tiny black gate. When consonants got in the Then he waits for another signal specks, recognised as ships only by way he swallowed them and used indicating that he may take off, the smoke from their funnels and vowels. He laughed and gurgled When this flushes from the tower he the wake they leave behind, pass, and glugged. opens the throttles of his engines far beneath like toy boats on a pond. "Ze small teeter in Lun Dun I and the big aeroplane runs smooth Soon Grisnez, on the French coast, have," he triumphed--"don't go. ly forward until its speed is auth is seen a trifle to the left, and All ozer teeters close and I have cient for its curved wings to bear it your winged express approaches 'Chauve Souris in leetle teeter, aloft in flight. Then, by a gentle Boulogne, with its black breakwater room for vive 'undred peoples- movement of his control-wheel, the stretching seaward, and its busy don't go. Nobody do anything," pilot operates his elevators and the docks. After passing Boulogne,; "I beg your pardon." express leaves earth for air.

you fly parallel with the coast above "Nobody do anything," said Mr. The aerodrome buildings appear wonderful stretches of sand. Then Balieff firmly. to slide away below. You catch a the machine turns inland. On the "Mr. Balleff's iden is not to have glimpse of the word "Croydon"; left, now, les the famous forest of a set programme, but a sequence written in white letters on the Grecy--a great dark patch on the of

improvisations, topical, and aerodrome, while behind outlined landscape and a well-known airplayed at full speed." ne a rule mlatily beneath its pall of man's landmark. Onward from smoke-lies the great city of Etaples to Abbeville the air express follows the main railway. Then, from Abbeville the air-line follows the main road, with its typical rows of trees.

London,

The pilot, setting his machine on ļa steady climb, heads towards the Channel. It is now that he calls up Croydon on his wireless 'phone and gives the operator in the control tower a message, indicating that he is en route for Paris.

Looking down, you realise the difference between the landscapes of France and Britain. The French fields are larger; there are few A prominent landmark, after you hedges; and most of the roads are have left Croydon, is the Crystal | straight. Towns and villages are Palace away

on your left, while less straggling than those of Bri- Immediately ahead He the Surrey { taín.

hills. Your big multi-motored 'plane sweeps serenely on and, sit-

A Belt of Forest.

Now a belt of forest lies below, ting in your comfortable armchair, and soon afterwards, approaching you survey the passing earth_from Paris, the Eiffel Tower, pointing its a bird's eye point of view. Below, skeleton finger to the sky, can be now, there is a wonderful vista of pleked out ahead and a trife to the Kent, "garden of England," with its right. Then, quickly, the air-port magnificent expauses of pastures, of Le Bourget, with its many hops, grain, orchards, woods, and park-land. Winding roads look like little white ribbons and the motor cars on them like tiny mechanical

toys,

"Yes Sir," chirruped Mr. Balieff. "And idens would come from the news of the day, thrilling incidente from the evening newspapers, and

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"Murders," gloated Mr. Balleff joyfully.

One Big Cabaret. "He wants all the actors to come along in a body and have cast and audience united in one big cabaret. He will probably have this new theatre underground.”

"Zundergrund. Yes, Sir-don't go," smiled Ballett.

"All Mr. Balieff's numbers aro new this time, and there are to be seven items with ... .”

! "Hash of Spads," prompted Mr. Balieff. "Yes, sir, Hash of Speeds."

"Ace of Spades," it was explain- hangars, appears below. The roar ed, "a play adapted by Balioff from of the engines dies away. There is Poushkins's novel. It will be play asmooth, wonderful glide earthed by English actors." ward, followed by a passing through Mr. Balief then said something Customs and another motor-car which sounded like an excellent drive into the heart of Paris.

imitation of A nearly empty siphon.

Above the Channel Soon Lympne, coastal air-port, So your ultra-modern journey has appears ahead with its big hangars, been accomplished high above tho while away to the right lies Dunge earth. It has not only been the ness with its lighthouse and wire- effortless speed which has so im- less station. Now you pass out pressed you; It has not only been above the Channel, and the pilot the feeling of detachment from the gives Croydon another routine call turmoil of an overcrowded earth.

on his wireless 'phone, informing It has been the sheer fascination of the control-tower of his exact peint being passed up there, high aloft, of departure from the English coast and of seeing auch vistas of air, and of the spot for which he is sea, and land, as have almost taken steering on the French side.

your breath away by the thrill of On its passage above the Channel their unexpected beauty.

BAYER

"Mr. Ballef," I was informed, "said that he does not want people to think he has been away for four years without thinking of anything new.”

"No, Sir," grinned Balleff, "Hash of Spads."

I rose. "Good-bye, Mr. Balieff,” I said, "and thank you."

"Yes, Sir-don't go,” chortled Mr. Balieff-Daily Express cor- respondent.

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