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THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1933.

THE CHINA MAIL.

CONVOY BATTLE IN NEW AIRPORT FOR HELP FOR DEVIL'S

MEDITERRANEAN Lesson From French Naval Manoeuvres.

WIRELESS A DRAW BACK

the

miles. The

-Colbert's

the

Toulon.

SPAIN

Passenger Services From Bilbao.

SEVEN HOURS FROM LONDON

Bilbao.

ISLE CONVICTS⠀⠀

New Governor Urges Need For Changes.

PUBLIC INTEREST GROWING

MOTORING NOTES.

PLYMOUTH CAR'S RECORD:

Crosses Desert Without Radiator.

TERRIFIC HEAT ENDURED DURING TEST.

Another Record For Britain 2,773 Miles Non-Stop In Car.

dan was driven for ten hours

CAR CLASSED AS ́

A LUXURY.

*

New French Tax Law.

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In an attempt to cover the Port of Spain (Trinidad).

greatest "distance without a wheel- "Hymns alone cannot make A new international airport is The bombardment of Toulon, the

stop, and without outside re-fuelling assistance, the Hon. Victor and Mrs. destruction of a wireless station and to be established at Bilbao, Spain, the convicts of Devil's Island re- an attack on a convoy on its way An official announcement of sume useful lives. They need Recantly, in America's hottest Bruce attached a trailer containing from France to Africa have been the site is expected shortly, and expert direction to take up civil and lowest area, appropriately 100. gallons of petrol to their stan- the salient, if necessarily imaginary, it is hoped that construction will occupations again."

called Death Valley, an automo-dard Jowett saloon car, and set off This was the view expressed bile was subjected to one of the Paris, to drive until the fuel was to run on the Montibery Track, near features

naval start immediately. of the Freuch manoeuvres in the Mediterranean. The landing-ground, which is here by M. Georges Lamy, most severe tests ever devised to exhausted.

"The Battle of the Convoy" in the expected to be at Lamiaco, near Chevalier of the Legion of open sea south of this base was the the harbour, should be available Honour, when on his way to suc-test the effectiveness of efficient. They finished the run after hav

for public use in a short time. climax of these operations.

ceed M. Bouge as the Governor fuel and correct lubrication. ing covered 2,779 miles in 72 hours A Cruiser squadron led by the

Two hangars are to be erected, of. Devil's Islands, the dreaded Stripped of its radiator and with- per hour. This is claimed

at an average speed of 381⁄2 miles Colbert-nick-named "The Hare of of which the first, will accomo- penal settlement off the coast of out a drop of water in its cooling world's record for this type of run.

Seas"--was ordered out of date two passenger-liners and French Guiana Ajaccio (Corsica) to attack and three light aeroplanes. Later, a Besides Devil's Island, his ter-system, the car, a Plymouth se turn a convoy going from Toulon to restaurant, cocktail-bar, and ritory will include the whole of Bizerta (Tunis), a distance of 300 other "modern conveniences" French Guiana, convict settle across the desert.

Ten hours in the scorching cruiser will be provided.

ments on the mainland, and the aquadron was accompanied by five Negotiations are on foot for vast inland regions where gold- heat,, with the thermometer at 130 degrees F, was too much for destroyers;

was the purchase of two bi-motored mining is being carried on. convoy

by powerfully protected three De Haviland Dragon aeroplanes, "I hope to be able to initiate one driver. Drivers were chang- craisers and seven destroyers. with seating accomodation for a programme which will make ed without stopping car or en- At 10 o'clock at night the inter-eight passengers each, and when French Guiana, live again as a gine so that there would be no cepting aquadron got under way these are delivered-it is hoped great Colony," M. Lamy said. stop to the punishment to which

The possession of a motor car will and steamed due west with all lights within the next month-passen- "For some time inere has been car, fuel and lubrication were be taken as one of the three visible dowsed in true pirate fashion. The ger services will be initiated to manifest in France a growing subjected.

signs of revenue, for taxation pur- route of the convoy, which was go-Madrid, Barcelona, Biarritz and interest in the affairs of this Temperatures were abnormal- poses, under the French Budget ing due south, lay about 100 miles Paris.

Cinderella of French Colonies. ly high. The carburetor tem-proposals now before Parliament. to

was 176 degrees, the The other indications are rental and the west of Corsica, The The new airport, the distinc-The problems of the penal settle-perature Colbert continued to lead bertive mark of which will be "Bil-ments have been discussed in-crankcase oil, 200 degrees, cylin domestic servants. squadron through the darkness till bao" in bold white letters on the side the French parliament and der wall, 405 degrees, cylinder The law gives the tax collector: dawn. At 7.30 a.m. visibility be-hangars and

head 490 degrees. These landing-ground, out of it.

are power to refuse the sworn state- came clear enough to get a distinct will be the first of its kind on "Public opinion seems to be much higher than any car would ments made by tax-payers and to view of the horizon.

the north coast of Spain. It will working towards a gradual ex- encounter in actual service.

estimate revenue arbitrarily on Against the skyline showed abe situated within seven hours' tinction of the penal settlements. Socony gasoline and Mobiloil these three visible signs.

flying distance of London.-Reu. They will go by two stages. functioned perfectly. There was Thus, the man who possessed a "The first will be a gradual no vapour lock, no loss of pow-modest 10 h.p. car would be assumed suspension of the 'doublage' sys-er, no bearing failure and no to have an income £70 higher than tem by which convicts who have scored cylinders. The tests con- the non-motorist, while the unfor- finished their sentence are oblig-firmed in a dramatic way the la-tunate possessor of an out-of-date ed to stay in the Colony for aboratory tests of fuel and lubri-20 hp, car would find that the au- period equal to that of their cant.

thorities had added £300 to his as- original sentence.

Following the endurance test, sumed income.~("The Autocar”). "Then the Salvation Army in the car with full equipment, made France is to send out an officer to a grueling 1,000 mile drive in se- see what can be done towards cond__gear at 30 miles an hour.. encouraging the ticket-of-leave! Then the car was driven on a men to resume useful lives, rough, brutal jaunt, from Death "This cannot be done only by Valley as far as motor-cars can Johannesburg. singing hymns. The hymns, no go up the side of Mount Whitney. Dissatisfied with the condition doubt, inspire them, but they highest mountain in the United of their school-building at Brent-need expert direction to take up States. wood Park, Benoni, more than civil Occupations again. In The car is now on tour of lead- 125 children went on strike and prison they have that. When ing cities of the United States. In won the day. The chil-they have gone out hitherto they each city it is driven for a con- dren will now go back to have been left too much to their siderable time through the city streets without water in the cool- ing system.

little feather of black smoke.

The "Hare of the Seas" surged ter. forward and her casending bow- waves rose steadily.

Warned by her scouting aircraft, the convoy steamed off at full speed, but the attackers succeeded in clos-}| ing the range and forcing the convoy to run back for Toulon.

One lesson drawn from these manoeuvres, appears to have been that a minimum of wireless trans the enemy to locate positions with mission should be used, as it enables embarrassing accuracy.-Reuter.

SUITS DAMAGED IN WASH?

·

SCHOOL-CHILDREN

ON STRIKE.

Pupils Demand New Building.

AUTHORITIES ACCEDE.

Dry Cleaners Sued For their studies after having secur-own devices.

$414.70.

ed from the Provincial Adminis "Embittered by prison life, by tration a guarantee in black and the difficult climate, so many Further evidence was heard be-white that they will be provided have despaired of fighting for a fore Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell at the with a new school.

living out of the soil, and have! Some of the strikes rode round sunk to the lowest depths, re- Supreme Court this morning, in the case in which Mr. G. W. Fisener, the district in a donkey-cart la sorting to brigandage and plun- of Reuter Brockelmann and Com-belled "We strike for a new dering in order to exist. pany 18 the plaintiff in a claim for school," the inscription being "The Salvation Army hopes to $414.70 from the International Dry roughly executed in both official rectify this, I am encouraged to Morris Plant Completely Cleaning Company. The claim is in languages.

believe that it may be able to do

BRITISH MOTOR ENTERPRISE.

Re-Organised.

respect of four tweed suits and one According to the medical of something, and I am supported palm beach suit, which he alleged ficer, who investigated the posi-in the hope for the programme they had ruined.

tion at the request of the school of economic development that of fighting trade depression is by Convinced that the best method The allegation was that the de- committee, the walls of the envisage by the excellent condi-enterprising action, Sir William fendants had not dry-cleaned the school were filthy dirty aadition in which my predecessor Morris has, at considerable ex-

clothing but had washed them in cracked. The ventilation was has put the finances of the pense, completely reorganised and

spoilt

the air was polluted.

soup and water, with the result that very poor and the children all Colony," they had lost their shape and looked pale and sickly. They M. Lamy, who was formerly tories, and a new range of trucks reequipped one of his largest, fac- texture, and the colours had been were packed like sardines and Governor of Madagascar, will re- is being produced. The details of side at Cayenne, the capital of these vehicles have been kept a Mr. H. J. Armstrong, represented The Administration has now French Guiana, with his wife close secret in spite of the exhaus- the plaintiff, and Mr. J. B. Prentis, promised in writing to erect ajand three daughters.--Reuter.

tive trials to which they have been appeared for the defendants.

subjected in different parts of the Evidence was given Chan Fook children will return to their old;

end such subterfuges as using old lorry bodies and various kinds of radiators on test runs have been {resorted to.

hew school. Meanwhile the

Wing, the head dry-cleaner of the school and continue their studies MYSTERY BROADCAST country, and to achieve this International Dry Cleaning Com-there until the new school is pany, who said that he had per-ready-Reuter. sonally attended to the clothes when

received.

The usual method of dry-cleaning had been employed and he denied that the clothes had been washed.

Kong Sik Lin, the accountant of the Company, said that he received the clothes when they were brought. to the Company on June 6. He noted that they were dirty and had; spots on them, and he remarked of this to the "boy" who had brought. them. He said that all clothes sent

CHINESE PILGRIM

IN ROME.

10,000 Mile Walk To

Holy See. AUDIENCE WITH

TAPPED.

Alleged Secret Station

In Bulgaria. MESSAGES HEARD IN BRITAIN

The new models represent ad- vance in design and in value, and Sir William Morris believes that

this latest venture will be a suc- (cess and have a favourable effect jon employment. The anticipated Sofia. (influx of business will mean the Reports from owners of receiv-placing of larger orders with the POPE.ing sets in the South of England ancillary trades supplying material and the North of France have used in the manufacture of the stirred the. Bulgarian Police to trucks, while the increased spend- Joseph Louis Wei, a Chinese action against a secret revoluing powers resulting from these to be washed at the China Laundry Catholic pilgrim from Singapore, tionary wireless station some-orders will have a beneficial effect were recorded in & book. There arrived in Rome after walking where in Bulgaria. The trouble in several parts of the country."

no entry in respect of the 10,000 miles in two years and is that the police do not know clothes in the present case, and the two months. He received an au- where. clothes, he said, were dry-cleaned dience of the Pope,

WAA

and not washed.

Rome.

-Messages in the Bulgarian

For refuelling."""aircraft" atany!

As though in answer to his language prefixed by revolution- TAKING PETROL TO THE "PLANE]. Ting Chiu Fan, Manager of the prayer when Wel got to Jerusa ary greetings have been heard by China Laundry said that the clotheslem he heard that a Holy Year English wireless amateurs and were not washed at his laundry.

The hearing was adjourned until July 20, at 2.30 p.m.

NEW BEER HAS KICK.

Brewery Workers' Luck.

Baltimore, Maryland.

Take it from Mr. McGuire, this new American beer does have a "kick,"

had been proclaimed, and that the authorities here believe them point on the landing ground, a well- his long pilgrimage to Rome to be instructions to Communist known petrol company has designed would gain double significance agitators in the Bulgarian pro an interesting tanker of 800-gallon

Wel had many thrilling and vinces. painful experiences during his The mysterious wireless station are mounted on a special six-wheel capacity. Both tank and equipment long walk. Near Rangoon he is also believed to be the means cross-country commercial vehicle was captured by briganda, who of conveying news of Bulgarian chassÍR. beat him on the soles of his feet Communist activities to the So It the vehicle happens to move and left him half-dead on the viet Union; for some time the while refuelling plane, Baye roadside.-Reuter..

Russian newspapers have been "Motor Transport," a safety device singularly well and promptly in automatically closes the main de- formed regarding such occurren-livery valve Another Interesting cer.

feature is that if the vehicle 'Itself

A LOAN AND A LION

Prague.

The police here think that the russ short of fuel when away "from" The other night he was knocked A circus now playing at Piza wireless station must be in or a filling point the delivery pamp out when he fell 20 feet while has paid a debt to local trades- near the capital. They have no may be used to pump spirit Into the working - over a vat in a local men in the form of one llon and special apparatus for detecting its valiicle's pétrol tank - First-aid brewery.

one elephant

M actual whereabouts, but they are equipment is carried in the ---Next day he was sent to the The two animals have now redoubling their efforts to trace cab and also detachable cros

hospital with injuries to his head been purchased by the local au- these secret messages to their tracks for use on soft pro caused by the explosion of a bot. thorities to form the beginning source-Reuter, tle of beerReuter

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