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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1933.

"Aviation, Building and Engineering

BUILDING DECLINE

IN U. S.

46.4 Per Cent. Drop

During February.

REPAIRS SHOW DECREASE

Money outlay for building con struction in February was 46.4 per cent below the figure for January;

Hong Kong University And Its Purpose

Western Science Is Changing The Face Of China

in 756 cities of a population of 10 THE ENGINEER AS MISSIONARY

000 or more, according to statistics) compiled by the United States De- partment of Labour.

THE CHINA MAIL.

ON REPLACES STEAM

Enormous Increase Of

Motor Tonnage.

DECLINE OF THE STEAMER

Since the beginning of this year. according to The Motor Ship, the total tonnage of all ships ordered, excluding those of under 1000 tons grosa, amount to 329,000 tons gross. Of this total, motor ships' ac- count for 242,000 tons, or 74 per The "coming of age" of the Uni- the world. Those two nations, cent, steamers being only '87,000 The number of residential build-versity of Hong Kong, officially rooted in antiquity, lived for centons, or 26 per cent ings decreased 18 per cent. New opened in March 1912 by Sir turies their own quaint lifa amidst

Other facts also show the in- non-residential building decreased Frederick (now Lord) Lugard, curious conditions behind closed creasing adoption of oll-engined. 13.4 per cent in number and 66.6 Governor of the Colony at the time, doors. The engineer has changed vessels compared with steamers. per cent in indicated expenditures is the subject of an article, repro-fall that. Steam, radio, the talkies, At the present time 67.5 per cent. Additions, alterations and repairs duced below, in the July issue of and the whirling printing, presses of the total tonnage building deciensed 1.9 per cetu in number Engineering,

have created a social revolution in throughout the world is to be pro-

by the Far East in two decades that pelled

internal-combustion is without a parallel in history. machinery.

The reaction of Japan to Western,

The tonnage of steamers laid up

cost.

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It should be there to dispel attacks of pain, it should be there to

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and 12.6 per cent. iu estimated The writer deals with the enormously important part played Various agencies of the United by the University in the opening-| States government awarded Coup of China, which offers an almost influence caused her to move for is 25 times as great as that of IF tracts during February for balld-unlimited field

for engineering ward with rapid strides. Sir Alfred motor ships. ings to cost $6,140.195, This is development.

Ewing, F.R.S., one of the British During the past year steamer break up colds and influenza when they first appear it should be nearly $10,000,000 less than the Hong Kong University, which pioneers of technical education in tonnage has declined by over, there as a guarantee of sweet sleep to the sleepless. value of contracts awarded during has been termed a "Lighthouse off four engineering societies. He and tonnage has increased by 162,000 greater and deeper, for it dispels the cause of the pain and so pre- Japan, is still an active member of 1,900,000 tons gross, whilst motor not just a soother of pain in 5 to 10 minutes. Its mission is far January, 1933, and more the value of contracts awarded by symbol for those who have faith in negligible factors in the creation of

than the coast of China," stands as his other British colleagues were no tons gross.

vents the development of serious illness. Its service in reducing the Federal goverament during China and the Chinese, in promot modern Japan.

feverishness is of great moment. Keep "ASPRO" in the house February, 1932.

They surely never HE BUILT HIS OWN facts demonstrated by thousands. A trial will demonstrate it to but never mor the

and you keep out illness as well as, soothing away pain. These are Comparing permits issued in 351ing good understanding and friend- visualised the rapid transformation

You leave home as "t an Identical effies having a populationship between British and Chinese, that has taken place in that country

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you, too.

"ASPRO" Tablets are easy to take — of 25,000 and more

one of the chief factors in improv-through the introduction of scienti

there are no fate will prove unkind in the form of in February,!

harmful after-effects they create. no craving-no nausea noa headache-neuralgia or nerve pains, moment. when 1933, and February, 1932. there ing trade between the two nations.fic knowledge, China has moved BITS OF MATERIAL COLLECTED digestive troubles they just do their work of soothing away the or maybe it will be a theme pains, was a decrease of 61.2 per cent. in and in training young Chinese in more slowly, but there is to-day a

pain and of dispelling or dissolving the cause, leaving Nature to go sour nervous system may make .FROM OLD MACHINES

tack. The alightest daringement of the number and a decrease of 44.9' Western scientific principles. great change going on in modes of

unhindered in her great progress of activity, healing and expres- feel "nervy or Irritable. The sight per cent. in indicated expenditures-The article reads:-

life and in methods of living in that

sion. "ASPRO," not only stops the pain, but it saves your money After nearly two years' work Mr. it enables you to work when otherwise you could not have worked day.

You for new residential buildings!__ In March, 1912, the University of country.

an accident And every small transi. Harold Chater, of Hampden Park.it is the medicine of the new age-safe, sure and effective. It may place you in the quick grip of a

may uplet

you for the New non-residential buildings de-Hongkong was officially opened by tion from Oriental to

In crowds germ contamination Occidental Eastboume, Sussex, a 24-year-old stands up to all claims made for it. creased 40.4 per cent. in number His Excellency the Governor of the standards among that huge populaairman, recently took up a machine stops pain.-

"'ASPRO" stops illness and for such emergency is to make eer- cold or influenza. The best protection and 50.6 per cent, in indicated ex- Colony, Sir Frederick (now Lord)tion means trade opportunities for he has built himself. When seen at penditures. The number of addi-Lugard. The "coming of age" ofjalert people throughout the world. Lympné after he had landed after

tain that you put a fow 'ASPRO' tions, alterations and repairs de- this institution presents a suitable And there are eighteen provinces in a trip in it, he said:

Tablets in your pocket or parse BEFORE YOU LEAVE HOME. creased 24.4 per cent, while the opportunity for a review of the pro-China, each of about the area of "I collected all the materials biti cost decreased 41.9 per cent.

gress made by this centre of British Britain, and with a total of 400,000,-by bit, ex-R.A.F. stuff mostly, and Total

building operations in influence in the Far East, particu-luuo Chinese.

put them together here myself. these cities decreased 32 per cent larly as 12 affects applied science in We have been startled in number, and 46.9 per cent.

by the Sometimes I almost despaired, but, in China. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, changes in Japan during two gen-despite leg-pulling by club members, Indicated expenditures. The num- who received the degree of LL.D.erations; but the advances in China, I stuck it ber of family dwelling units de- honoris causa in person in 1922, inevitable because of the spread of "My idea was to put a modern en- creased 513 per cent. comparing sent a cable offering his congratula-knowledge about. applied science, gine into an old type machine, and February,

February, tions on the twenty-first anniver-will be more remarkable. The pri- this has answered very well. The 1932.

mitive sedan chair and the man- machine has a cruising speed of 65 As Brien engineering firms as power rickshaw are being slowly to 70 miles an hour, and the petrol sisted very materially in the carly but surely replaced by motor consumption is 51⁄2 to G gallons ‘aa days, by presentation of valuable vehicles. Instead

of hour at half-throttle." equipment, and look to China for in-coolies carrying creased export trade, readers of this their backs, journal may be interested in this only method in use twenty endeavour to train Chinese geers. There can be no doubt that and Canton, the motor truck and But they must

years ago in the cities of Hong Kong big engineering schemes difficult.,

be carried out inj [the countries on the rim of Le well-built highways now provide time. Pacific, with their hinterland, have western means of transport.

The Chinese Industrial Mission. Paris. asumed a new significance. China Water supply, electric power sta-

A great fillip to British engineer-

1933 with

FRENCH AIR LINES

TO UNITE.

Another Step In Move For Co-operation.

Cat.

are

sary.

en-

be

of gangs

freight

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Was

ont. them

Plans

for unifying French air offers an almost unlimited field for ons, roads, and other engineering ing trade with China was given by lines under Government control engineering development. while maintaining the principle of tremendous potential market if the of financial and political difficulties.nity

It is a schemes are being developed in spite the remission of the Boxer Indem- privule ownership have moved a demand

money. A Hong Kong for machinery can stage forward with an offer by the 'stimulated.

As Mr. Wells makes one of his graduate, in an official position in The type of trade is Cockney characters say in another Hankow, only yesterday informed companies concerned to co-operate enanging; in the early days British connection, "This with the Air Minister, M. Pierre'merchants were chiefly interested in keeps going on.

the writer that £4,000,000 has been 'ers progress the exports, of silk and tes in de'ow it keeps going on."

It's wonderful handed over for the completion of The lines

the Hankow-Canton Railway. the Aero mand in Europe. Then came the Postale Company, the Air-Orient, products of British mills sent out!

The fruits of science are the com-

At this time of writing there is

England a Chinese Industrial- C.I.D.N.A., Air Union, and the Far-to China. Lancashire now finds it mon property of all nations.

The in

Mission. It has expressed its keen; true cosmopolitans. No one can

training for Chinese in Britain.

of the extreme portion of the remitted Boxer funds Act, 1931, authorised the use of 4 denunciations of the greatest of its Western

for purposes connected with the and East-

[education of Chinese students. Mr.

man.

Their representatives have more and more difficult to competatrader and the engineer are the interest in this problem of technical

informed M. Cot that they are ready with Far Eastern mills in textiles escape the machine age; it impinges The China Indemnity (Application) to participate in a Government-but can make up for that by selling controlled scheme.

on

machinery. There are difficulties in sant in spite

even the Chinese pea-

The French air lines receive such trade, but there are great pos- heavy subsidies from the Govern-sibilities of developing the natural ment, and it is claimed that increns-resources of the country. Even to ing subsidies have made the Frenen day foreign trade in China is im-ern critics. The age-old silence of T. Silcock has been appointed air lines the most costly in Europe portant. The Far Eastern ports of the desert and the jungle in Eastern secretary to the Universities China in proportion to the traffic carried, Hongkong and Shanghai are

Asia has been shattered by the Committee in London, and he has Subsidies have increased more than great commercial emporiums equall-crone of engines in the skies. You informed the University of Hong three-fold since 1925, and in the lasting in trade value the biggest porta can fly between two cities or the Kong. that 500 has been allocated financial year amounted to £1,000,- of Europe and Anierica. 609. at par.

FIRST HOME-MADE 'PLANE

Exhibition Flight To Up-river Ports

Shanghai.

The Economic Mission.

now

Yangtze Klang in a fraction of the for studentshipe for engineers, but time it takes to make the journey no selection has yet been made, as by junk: the service by air is re-far as we are, aware. The Far East has figured very gular and less dangerous than that much in the newspapers during reby water. Asia is listening to the above it is clear that the subject From all that has been written cent months. It has been a cause roar of the machines that have of increasing British englicering of anxiety in Britain, both on ac-wings. count of political and commercial

problems. The British Economic

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trade with China, through, the A City Without a Wheel. medium of technical training: in Twenty-one years ago the writer British standards and in British Mission was sent out (1930-31) to visited Canton, the most populous factories, is one that very much is investigate the possibilities of in-city in China, situated about 100 in the minds of British ereasing Anglo-Chinese

trade That Mission reported on the tre- It astounded him

trade. miles up the river from Hong Kong, organisations and individuals inter- Despite threatening weather, the mendous

then to find, a ested in Anglo-Chinese trade. field for seaplane Kinng Feng. China's first activity in China and directed the without

engineerlag city of more than a million, almost That, at any rate, is a very great home-made plane, piloted by Herr attention of British manufacturers closed this amazing hive of primi-tween 1912 and 1927. It has been a wheel. Huge walls en-advance on the state of affairs be Brill and with Capt. Y, K. Tseng, to that fact But the Chinese must tive industry, There, was not a brought about by a ceaseless director of the Kaochangmino Aero-be trained to initiate such schemes, street wide enough for a rickshaw. endeavour to interest those most nautical Bureau, as passenger, took The ever-widening activities of the To-day all that is changed. Motor likely to benefit: off from Shanghai recently on an Hong Kong University, which has care, lorries, and omnibuses run As engineers we believe that it exhibition flight along the Yangtze been called a "Lighthouse off the along wide highways. A new rein is to the advantage of all nations Valley.

coast of China", is highly gratify-forced concrete bridge spans the that the natural resources of the Upon its return to Shanghai, the jing to those for whose faith plane will be overhauled and will China and the Chinese it stands a supply Hospitals have appeared.veloped. That is the only way to in river. There is now proper waterworld should be more fully de- start its exhibition flight to then symbol. It promotes a good un- Radio is a popular recreation raise the average standard of liv south with Amoy as its final des derstanding and friendship between Machinery is replacing muscular ing. In the minds of many British tination. Before reaching Amoy, British and Chinese, one of the effort in local industries. There is people the word China is associated the plane will stop at Hangchow and chief factors in improving trade bea long-distance telephone service to only with missionary enterprise. Ningpo.

tween the two nations, and it trains Hong Kong. The huga city walls, The chief obstacle to efficiency in

An officer of the air The purpose of the exhibition young Chinese in scientific princi-symbol of a secluded community, such work is the lack of inland

SKY LANGUAGE servies who is employed on the Alght is to arouse the people's inter-¡ples, ::

ground (that is, a bird with wings est in aviation and Chinese-built All of the progress of the Univer-penetrated into this ancient icty of the peasant It is obvious that a

have disappeared. New ideas have communications and the poverty of Hollywood Stunt Flyers

which does not fly term, handed aeroplanes. The same plane made afsity has been due to the combined China. trip over the city for about half an benefactions of British and Chinese The British were the pioneer of people indifferent to moral stand-

low standard of life must - make New Vocabulary. hour, arousing great interent among alike. Large suma have been sub- Western trade in Canton and in arda, Therefore it can be claimed the Chinese,

scribed in the endeavour to extend China They have a remarkable that the engineer and the doctor Built at the Kaochangmino Aero-the facilities for instruction nautical Bureau of the Ministry of

base In Hong Kong. They have an in China are doing missionary ser- Amazing Changes, New at a cost of $20,000, and,

intensa interest in the transforma-feite of great value The two great civilisations of tion that is going on in China, It There are, therefore, many rea equipped with an American engine, Eastern Asia, China and Japan; are is true that political chaos in the sons why efforts should be made the plane is able to attain a speed to-day in close contact, commercially country makes the development of develop the natural resources of of 190 kilometers an hour,

and diplomatically, with the rest of (Continued at foot of mist Column China.

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ship.

Among the Hollywood a special

always

Here are some of the other

tive terms in usa:

there is

"crave":

on from the old Royal Flying

$100,000 TOWN HALL CONTEST

More than 300 applications have

Corps)

Bailing-out-Making a parabeen received by the Hornsey Bor- chule descent.

ough-Connell, No for Instructions

Binging

Clipper Younde

-Firing

to architects in connection with a Competition of designs for the new aken out of Aying is proposed that the

} town hall, -ydal

Many of these terms are, working their way into the vocabuary man in the

building be erected on a site at the Broadway, Crouch End, at an ap proximate cost of £100,000