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TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1933.

Aviation, Engineering & Building

190 M.P.H. TRAIN-

FOR RUSSIA.

Mono-Rail Cars For

100 Passengers.

Moscow.

new train which hurtles along a single rail at enor

Tests of a

mous speed are

Moscow.

10 be made in

raised on trestles, and the cars are double- in the form of a saddle.

The single-rail is

cars

will hold

England - Australia Aerial Service

Part Of Regular Empire Defence Scheme

THE CHINA MAI

NEW MANCHURIAN RAILWAY.

Tunghua-Tumen Line To Be Opened.

Dairen.

It is announced that the newly. completed Tunhus-Tumen railway will be opened to traffic on June

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As the eastern terminus of the new line will be connected by a regular steamship service with the

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS" CONDITIONS Western coast of Japan, it is plan

ned to connect the railway with the Kirin-Tunhun and Each of these

the Kirin from 80 to 100 passengers and will

Sydney, July 10. certain to be favourably considered Changchun lines and to operate be equipped with

It is understood that all negotia-by the Federal Government. Trans through trains between Chengchun two 530 h.p. motors. It is hoped that these tions respecting the aerial mail ser-port is an outstanding factor in all and Yuki, the port near the "trains of the future" will achieve vice between England and Australia these developmental schemes. That Korean-Manchoukao border where and satis-the Tunhua-Tumen line enda., *:** a speed of 190 miles per hour have related not merely to the need can be economically

This will enable travellers to more than three miles a minute.-for rapid transport between London factorily, provided only by aeroplane. Reuter.

and Sydney, but to strategic con- An effective aerial trunk line ser-journey from Changchun to Tokyo siderations and the fact that the new vice brings Darwin within two or, in about 50 hours. mail service would be an auxiliary to at most, three days' journey from The first batch, of 45. open the regular defence scheme, if need- Sydney.

freight cars ordered from Japan Further, the strategic importance has already reached Antung and Jed; the object being to oprate the

has rapidly become a will be transported to the Tunhua- perial lines as a single unit for the of Darwin

first-rate issue, with the defence de- Tumen railway for use bn that purpose.

It is further stated that, if the partments of Britain and Australia. line. Australia-England route is section.Recent happenings in the Pacific alised, Imperial Airways, Ltd., will have caused the British and United

IDEAL HOMES IN SWEDEN.

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Sunshine Houses For Workers.

roofs.

and an

not tender for the Australia-Singe States Governments to concentrate in a day, or less, by air.

direction without

ang

A colony of workers' homes fapore service. In any circumstances, on Singapore and Philippine bases. Co-ordinated Imperial Services

The intra-The extension of the naval and

transcendently Important Stockholm, Swen, has just been it will not tender for any

military garrisons at Darwin follows aspect of all these services, from the completed. The houses, facing Australia service.

B natural corollary-Imperial point of view, is that they. south, are built on a slanting site,; It was anticipated that the con-follows as

co-ordinated and are capable! and are planned as a one-storey ditions governing tenders for the Aerial transport is essential for the are continuous building with a three-future Australian air mail contracts rapid movement of personnel be-of being brought under united

would have been made available at tween Singapore and Darwin. It is united storey portion on the crest

As a result each house has un-the end of last week by the Federal doubly important for rapid com-dislocation of the ordinary ad. interrupted sunshine

uu-Government. That they were not is'munication between Sydney and Mel-ministrative routine. It is hoped obatructed view. For this reason accepted in aviation circles as an bourne and Darwin. There is every that a similar arrangement may be also the houses are built with flat, assumption that the conditions are probability that within a very few come to respecting the trunk line being reconsidered by the technical years the garrison at Darwin will service to an Australian terminal. Each house contains two rooms, advisers and responsible Ministers be regarded as one of the greatest Australian Empire Airways, Limit- kitchen, porch and a basement prior to the final submission to the significance in Australia..

ed, is incorporated locally with an Serious Matters. The three-storey part Federal Cabinet. There is reason to

Australian directorate, and in which workshop. contains about fifty apartments, believe that this is so.

These are matters now receiving Australian capital will be largely consisting of one room and a kit During recent weeks increased at-very serious consideration by the invested. This company has formed establishments a working arrangement, but without chen. The entire colony is heated tention has been given to the pos-naval and military

Queensland and by one central heating plant. The Bibilities of developing the Northern in Australla. It has been repre- absorption, with

ta the Federal Gov- Northern Territory Aerial Services, one-storey group is of wood frame Territory. British interests have sented construction; the three-storey part under consideration important ernment that there are neither Limited. Mr. Hudson Fysh, the

nor Alying aeroplanes

boate managing director of this company, |in Australia capable of satis-is travelling by the Astraea to Lon- factorily meeting urgent national re-don to consult with the directors of quirements. The defect will pro-Imperial Airways, Ltd., concerning

of brick..

schemes for that area. These are

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in the forthcoming naval, military,panies in Australia, and air force estimates. It is, how- It is now definitely under stood jever, now realised that the new that Imperial Airway, Ltd., is not in Aug. 25. Aug. aerial mail contracts can be made to any way interested in the purely 1933 1912 form an efficient auxiliary to the local Australian aerial services. It Cts. Cla

regular defence scheme. It is will not compete with Qantas or the realised by experts that, to do this West Australian Company, or any even moderate satisfaction,jother organisation or company `for having regard to probable early na-any sectional services in Australia. tional requirements, there must be the Federal Government should). reliable and commodious passenger- decided to sectionalise all the con-j carrying machines on the main tracts from Singapore onwards for aerial trunk line, giving rapid com-the proposed new service Imperiali 18 munication between both Singapure Airways, Ltd., has definitely stated 25 and Darwin and Sydney.

that it will not tender. The consul-

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BUTCHER MEAT.

POULTRY.

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each 16

Steak

Bullock's Brains

Steak Sirloin Sausages.... Tongue, fresh corned

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Eggs, lien (cooking) per doz. 38

Egge, Hen (fresh)

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Turkeys, Cock

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Heart Hump, Salt

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Calves' Head & Feet set $1.50 $1.00

Mutton Chip.

Leg Shoulder

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Pig's Chitlings

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Water Fish

Cuttle Fish

Eels, Conger

Carp

Codfish

Crabs

Dace

Yellow

Frogs

Garoups Gudgeon

Herrings

Lobsters

Mackerel

Mullet

Halibut

FISH.

Oysters Perch

Pike

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Prawns

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Shark Skate

Srapper

Shies Turbol

Turtles, small freeis

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Carambola

Coconuts

Lemons, China

Lemons, American

Lichces, Dried ... Oranges (Canton) Organes

Pears (Canton)

Peanuts

Persimmons, Large Pumelo,,Siam

Walnuts

Grapes

14

each

1b.

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VEGETABLES, ETC.

Artichokes

Beans, Sprout

Long

Beet Root Brinjale, Green

Red (Shanghai

Cabbage, Chinese

Cauliflower (Large).

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Carrots

(Medium) (Small)

Celery, Chinese

Chillies, Dried

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Curry Stuff, English.

Cucumbers

Garlic

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Old Horseradish, Sh

Indian Corn

Lettuce

Okroes

Onions, Bombay

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Green

Shinghai

Potato, Sweet

Pumpkin

Japanese American

Phubarb (Fresh)

Radish

Spinach.

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Turnips, Pant

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It is also accepted by the Govern-Itations which have taken place with ments of the British commonwealth | representatives of the British Gov- of nations that such a service must erament, the Federal Government, be dominated by British interests, and the directors of Imperial Air- so that it may be possible to use the ways, Ltd., have all related to the of resources of the different services as establishment of a direct

ja single unit should the necessity trunk line service between London for doing so hurriedly arise. Such and Sydney. It is felt to be ex contingencies are carefully safe-tremely desirable that this object guarded respecting the trunk line should be accomplished for strategic services between Singapore and and other national reasons, as well London, and between Capetown and as for the fostering of rapid trans- London. All these services are con-port between Australia and England. trolled directly or indirectly, by Im- Comfort For Passengers. 12perial Airways, Limited, and could In all these consultations it has be converted into defence units at a been emphasised that to encouragej 25moment's notice.

travel by air between Australia and The section of the trunk line be- London it is essential that through| tween London and Karachi is con-passengers be assured of safety as trolled absolutely by Imperial Air-well as good catering and service on ways Limited. The extensions from the journey. That has been assured there to Singapore, via Calcutta and on the Indian and African routes, 12 Rangoon, are controlled by an In-with the result that on almost all the dian company, in which Imperial trips the big monoplanes travel with Airways, Limited, owns 51 per cent. from 75 a 100 per cent. capacity pas- of the share, capital. The agree-senger load.

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ment with the, Indian Government Reference to map "pablebed on is that the section between Karachi another page shows the favoured and Singapore shall be dually run on route for the trunk line service be- a fifty-fifty basis by Imperial Air- tween Singapore and Sydney. It also ways, Ltd. and' the Indian com- shows the trunk line route between

pany, so that the British_control Darwin and Perth, on which the pas

will be really 75 per cent, between senger carrying capacity of the aero-

Singapore and Karacht, and 100 per planes to be used need not be so

cent. between Karachi and London. great as on the main line to Sydney.

Local Indian companies run feeder Other feeder "routes are also in-

20 services between Bombay and dicated. Many of these lines are

16 Karachi and between Delhi and being run at present and giving very

10 Karachi. Additional feeder services valuable service to sparsely

for the new sections will be or populated communities. For in ganised as soon na "circumstances stance, the Qantas service last month warrant.

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On the London-Capetown trunk stages of lis route, as well as route Imperial Airway, Ltd., con- 59871b of freight. The company's trols the section between Landon and aeroplanes flew 20,281 miles for the Kisumu in the Kenya Colony. The month, and their, record, to the end section over Egypt, the Sudan, and of last month was 1,921,505 miles. Uganda is directed exclusively from In none of these services is Imperial London. The section south of Airways interested. It holds that to Kisumu is directed from Capetown the policy in Australia, at in Africa 8 by a local company in which Im- and India, should be that interual perial, Airways, Ltd., holds a con- services should be developed by Incal trolling interest. There are, foeder companies and organisations, and nir lines along, different sections of that the trunk line should be run in the southern African route which conjunction with the other British link up with the trunk line. These services, so that in any eventuality Ifeeder lines provide ordinary trans- that may arise in the fature all the port over large tracte of country serini trunk lines of the Empire call. which previously had only the most be instantly, co-ordinated, and their primitive means of travel. It took resources fally mobilised for: ns- weeks to cover a journey now done Honal purposes,

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