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A JADA PRIN

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EDWARD EVERETT

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ESTHER RALSTON LAURA LA PLANTE PATST RUTH MILLER

A Bois-Bursting Jamboree of Joyl

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The

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ESTABLISHED 1845.

HONG KONG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1932.

THE WORLD'S FIRST

AIR FORCE

IN ACTION IN 1794.

Balloon in Franco-Austrian War.

|RAILWAY RIGHTS IN

MANCHURIA.

Japan to Publish Text of 1905 Treaty.

The Japanese Government has

I was much surprised recently to, there were daily ascents by been stirred to action by the re- encounter, among some old. French Coutelle, accompanied by a general cently published statement from records, detailed tidings of a pro- staff officer, who more than once Dr. Wellington Koo, the former perly organised air force which was sick. The Austrians took pot Chinese Minister for Foreign was used by the French armies in shots at them now and then. There Affairs, that no agreement was their operations against the invad-was one sticky moment when an ever concluded between China ing Austrians so long ago as enemy field gun, hidden in a ravine, and Japan regarding the con 1794 writes a Manchester Guar-opened up on them, and

struction cannon

of railway lines in dian correspondent.

balle

Manchuria parallel to that of the came whizzing by as they The project began by the urgings were rapidly hauled down.

South Manchuria Railway, says a Tokyo message. of the balloonist Guyton-Morveau Orders came to join the comman-

It is learned in authoritative that his fellow-members of the der-in-chief, Jourdan, who was ad- Scientific Commission

circles that of the vancing on Charleroi. It

the was

Japanese National Committee of Public Safe L'Entreprenant's Arst "march" on to reveal the full text of a Sino- Government intends very shortly ty should test out the possibilities active service, and an exciting out. Japanese agreement in of aerial co-operation with troops. She left Maubeuge on June 19 at

1905, This they agreed to, with the stipu- noon, the basket and equipment ed, in which it is stated that the with the various minutes attach- Intion that no sulphur was to be travelling on a waggon covered with used in the making of the necessary an awning.

Chinese definitely promised to The balloon herself

refrain from the construction of; such parallel lines in Manchuria. It is understood that the text of this agreement was revealed and America at the time it was confidentially to Great Britain concluded, but it is stated that Japan has so far refrained from publishing the text in deference to the Chinese request that she should not do so.

| hydrogen gas, as the war with Eng-]"marched” 23 low * possible. land had put an end to imports of Fully inflated, she staggered along that commodity from Sicily. Just over the heads of the cavalry, France's powder mills already were to the disapproval of the horses. running short. Lavoisier had pro- A stiff breeze was blowing. It was duced hydrogen by playing a steam a difficult job, but the Charleroi jet on red-hot iron. It seemed region was reached without class-

doubtful, however, if by this means ter on June 22. enough could be obtained to inflate

"An Important Ald.”

a balloon. Captain of Engineers At the Battle of Ficurus, fought

Coutelle and Citoyens Conte and on June 26, L'Entreprenant put in Charles were put to work in the old the first eight-hour day of aircraft main gist of text of this treaty Officials in Tokyo state that the Salle , des Marechaux of the battle in history, observing at appears in "MacMurray's Trea- Tuileries. Passing numerous steam various points. A high wind blew. ties," the volume published some jets through a series of cast-iron They dared not rely on the entire years ago by Mr. J. A. V. Mac- pipes filled with iron fillings, they Air Force holding her in. Fifteen Murray, the former American soon made more than 500 cubic feet horses were attached to each of the Minister to China, but up to the of hydrogen, which appeared to two guy ropes. Divisional General present no authority has been show that the Lavoisier discovery Morlot was up two hours with quoted for this agreement and was of practical use.

Coutelle, watching the Austrians, consequently its validity has fre-

Then came trouble with the Guyton-Morveau, present at the quently been questioned. "brass hata" The cavalry com-battle, wrote to the Committee of The Japanese Government con- mand especially, in the true cavalry Public Safety next day: "I have siders that the time has come tradition since the days of Xeno-had the satisfaction of seeing the when the full text of the Treaty phon, opposed this new develop-General approve the use of this should be broadcast in order that ment with bitter scorn. However, jmachine of war." "The balloon is all further questioning on the sub- the project went through. At the an important aid that must not be ject may be silenced. chateau of Meudon, Coutelle, now neglected," wrote Carnot.

L'Entreprenant.

i

POISON IN END OF A CIGAR.

Alleged Spy's Attempt To Kill Himself.

made captain commandant of the Soon afterwards two accidents new force, established a filling sta-Joccurred. The balloon was punc tion, called L'Institut Aeronauti-tured by a splinter of wood in a que of which the engineer .Conte sudden gust of wind, but the hole took charge. Here a large brick was soon mended. A more serious, furnace was built and the world's matter was a rip against the side) first military balloon was made, of a tree, in another gust, which A former Italian officer, Yugo deflated it. It was sent back to Monteflore, was arrested by the L'Entreprenant, as she was call-Maubeuge for repairs. Coutelle police at the Gare du Nord, when ed, was about 30ft. in diameter. went to Paris to organise an addi- he was about to board a train for

Belgium. She was able to carry two men. Her tional company of Aerostiers. Pre-

Montefiore, who is charged deadweight, without passengers, sently, mended and reinflated, she with espionage, was leaving the was 2% cwt. She lifted 5 cwt. She was rafted across the Mense, to station with the officers, when was held by two guy ropes, each base near Aix-la-Chapelle, where he took a cigar casually from his about 1,370ft. long, attached to her furnace-filling station WAS built. middle. A signal system of red, She did useful work at the battles

pocket and placed it in his mouth. white, and yellow burgess and pen-of Chartreuse and Aldenhoven and nants was devised for communica at the capture of Bons. At Ehren- give it up, and when the cigar tion between the basket and the breitstein she was hard pressed by was examined by a chemist the ground force. The first method of the Austrians, but escaped.

end which Montefiore had placed sending down reports by guy rope The new: Aerostiers, under his mouth was found to con- did not work well, so they were Contelle, got their baptism of fire tain a deadly poison.. tied up in little sandbags to which with the army of the Rhine. Their coloured pennants were attached. balloon was named Le Telemaque,

Now came the great day when Coutelle's letters tell of the dis

The detectives forced him to

the world's first air force set out comfort and danger of the work balloon dashed up again with 30 to war. It arrived at the Maubeuge "I received orders to make a re- much force that 64 men 32 at each camp on May 8 without its balloon, connaissance of Mayence. I ac- guy rope-ware dragged to some which followed a few days later. It cordingly posted myself between distance. Had the guys been made was received with sarcasm, jea-jour lines and the town, at about fast to grapnels, as had been sug lousy, and contempt, blended with half cannon-shot distance. The gested to me, they must certainly not a few forebodings as to what wind was very high, so to counter- have given way... would happen should the enemy act its affects as far as lay in my "The enemy's soldiers were fully pick up the sandbag messages or power I ascended alone, with 200mb persuaded that every movement of capturing the balloon, extract from additional buoyancy. I was at a theirs was observed by us. A like ita passengers, by torture, informa height of 500 metres when three idea prevailed among our own mes, tlon about the positions of all the successive gusts dashed me to the who had by this time discovered in detachments of troops scattered ground, with auch violence that the ballooners a novel sort of about the battlefield. However, several portions of the car were courage, which gained their con- L'Entreprenant was inflated, and smashed to bits. Each time the fidence and won their admiration."

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