1933-10-19 — Page 5

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19,

1933.

CAPTAIN WALLACE 'DANGERS TO

INTERVIEWED

An Ordinary Routine Visit.

COMMENDS ESTABLISHMENT OF

R. N. V. R.

"The Singapore Naval Base procreasing favourably and is go

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FREEDOM OF

MOTORING NOTES.

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE PRESS Remedying Mechanical

Journalists Meet At Eastbourne.

LIBEL AND LICENCE

London.

libel

The "exploitation of civil was described as a danger to the reason why Jackson's con-freedom of the Press by Mr. J. R. held not le completed with Scott of the "Manchester Guardian" at the insitate of Journalists' Con- Terence at Eastbourne.

in contract time," wated Capt

13.

Euan Walla, M. 2, Civil lærd of

"Freedom, of course, can never be the Admiralty, in an interview with compiete." he said "There are even

restrictions, Today man? the Press yesterday afternoon.

More-

Breakdowns

Ignition Most Frequent Cause Of Motor Troubles

TRACKING DOWN THE FAULTS

Statistics compiled by motoring, and if the current is then found to organisationa throughout the flow it can be assumed that it is

"AUTOMATIC GEAR

CONTROL

Gear-Lever Entirely Eliminated.”

FOOL-PROOF AMERICAN DEVICE

While British car manufacturers have been busy, for, the last two years or more, on the problem of The automatic gear change. Ameri- ca has not been idle.

One pro- minent automobile firm ahnounces that it will shortly place upon the market an automatic, fool-proof gear-abift of which it is so con- Adent that in future cara turned out by the firm, fitted with this ap- pliance, will have no gear-levers,

"When dealers have been amply

a were delighted that the Royal foniste ning which either is or is mechanical breakdowns are caused and one should look for a dirty (supplied with the new cars,” 1838}

aptain Wallace and the Admir. Lover 14oetam of the Press is not world disclose that the majority of the resistance which is defective.

Naval Volunteer Reserve movement no

Like other forms of liberty it

had been started in Hong Kong and is a debeate adjustment of rights Therefore the hints given below wire resistance coil. and hoped that there would be a land duties. There are three aspects shoold prove of benefit to motorists]

big response to it.

by faults in the ignition systems. contact or a fracture in the fine the general sales manager of the

| firm. "we expect to make full an-! Failing that, it may be found nouncement of this new develop- im which I suggest that tins ad who are held up at the roadside with that although the contact points ment. Dealers will then be in a justment is open to criticism to day-electrical trouble.

Jare apparently clean the current position to demonstrate the Inven- "We may well question whether.||

does not flow through them when tion and let the public see for it- Anyone coming to Hong Kong

The Primary Circuit. In sex can realize the tremendous in the invasion of private life,

thay are closed, a condition which self how revolutionary It is. disconcerting and not un- hereherty has not outran ita legit! of shipping

can easily be tested by "shorting" male bouses and degenerated into common trouble met with in bat- the metal of the rockey arm and and the obvious thing to do in

tery-and-coil ignition systems is the standard carring the fixed case of emergency would be to have licence.

On the other hand exploitation the failure of the battery's current point by means of a penknife blade. minesweepers * reliable pair of

the to dow through the primary circuit. {" clear of evil libel,

If the rest of the efreuft is in protected by

concentration

manne

Reservpis

hes

yourselves. En 2eed Capt. Wallace.

A

distri-

"Dealers are arriving daily at

BRUNSWICK

RECORD

NO. 6503.

MELOTONE

RECORD

NO. M 12603.

“HALLELUJAH.

the factory in large numbers, plac- I'M A TRAMP" ing orders and hurrying back to clear the docks for what they all believe will be the biggest automo- hand crank gave way

to the self-

atarter.

No Gear Lever "Yes, it is true that the new car has no gear shift levar--but |

reason it is impos. “YOU ARE TOO

sible for me to prove an arduous and detalls.

go further into

BEAUTIFUL.”

most important. It

the math passages to the Colony in vagaries of the law and the caprice The general indication of that order, but the points are not func- tive senaation since the old time

stated of juries has become so systematic condition is that when the ignitioning property, slight sparking

as appreciably to impede fair com- tion switch le turned to the "on" will then be noticed.

Test Your Ignition Switch. Asked if and when the unit was ment and the publication of legiti-position the ammeter does not re-

gister "discharge," and the engine If It has been ascertained that formed in Hong Kong. would the mate news

"More far-reaching is the danger refuses to fire.

the current in not reaching the opinion! Before making a general search coil, the obvious Admiralty supply the minesweep-

cause is some ers. Captain Wallace said he was to the free expression of

con for the defect one should see that breakdown in the ignition switch for obslous not in a position to give an answer. which has resulted from the

itself, or in the wiring. The Commodore, Captam Frank centration of power into the hands the contact points of the

butor are closed, If there is still no. It may Elhott, interposed here and said he a few individucis.

"For reasons which will readily indication of discharge the ponts long task to detect the precise seat "I can only add that this is an could give att answer

"In 1929, when the movemen was verur to you, there is no assignable should be cleaned with a magneto of the trouble, and in such circum-important feature, but not by any

Admit to the commercial advantage fle, and often that treatment will stances the best course is not to means the

winch accrues with the growth of suffice.

Linker with the car at the road-simplifies driving as nothing has If the trouble still persists, the side, but by means of a short before 4 newspaper combine.

"Amat may run a cotton mikil at best plan is to begin one's invest piece of insulated wire to connect | "There are a dosan major advan- ittle or no dhaadvantage as against Kauns at the battery and check the battery directly to the coil. tages that will appeal instantly to The lead from the switch is de-anyone who has ever operated a the owner of twenty, but with news-the circuit methodically.

coil, and one car, The Bet saptain Wallace said impers there is a law of crensing/ If the lights and the self-starter inched from the

same coil terminal, the "The tendency In recent years returns which ensures that to him are satisfactorily it may to the Adoratty were pia pared for et

that bath anall be given even more be assumed that the battery and bared end of the wire is connected has been toward multiplication of abondantiy The growth of the Its main leads are in good order other hared end being attached to the driver's problems. Every year TSANG FOOK PIANO l'rekk during the last generation has and It becomes necessary to deter the positive terminal of the bat he has been confronted by a new galazy of buttons and gadgets-

a. Waliace salt

defineace of Parlament and the pot dup diphter to hear that Talalga and!tical meeting. Nasy Pass were to be celebrated in!

to mantan the vessels.

British first magittaled the miralty offered the Vidony to miner-

finne Wen Jurf, but sting to inch t

12 mai pal support The Colony

$15 vated

In a duding his email mulț

The autheliom Doody an Be Colony

Nny Day.

egret 20M

feninded with a decline in the inmine whether the open circuit is tery.

Lo a fault In the Ignition, 11 must be understood that mostly tricks to lure his interest,

are

breakdown in the coll itself

switch and the wiring which con- when that is done the current will but actually devices that added to neets with the coil or to some flow continuously through A Considerable Menuce.

the bis confusion.

"This is different. It is sim. coil, and it is accordingly a good "Increasingly men's minds Une Colony.

Single-wire Systems.

plan to sever the wire at a con-plicity itself. And it is practical. that he would be unable to attend filed and their thoughts are cukur.

Most electrical systems are now 'venient point and scrape off the We have been testing and perfect. either, a h was leaving a Satur-Jed by what they read in the daily

Wo of the single-wire sort, and if the insulation for an inch or two on ing it secretly for two years. day in the 1' and !) Mantoanewspapera. which was mailing at noon, and it "It cannot but be a considerable wire from the Ignition-switch to each side, so that the igntilon cir- know now that it is foolproof--and was superative that he should keep menace, Inerefore, to effective free the primary terminal of the call uit engine stopped whenever the that it marks the beginning of a

and flicked against car halted.

new era in automobile operation." blum that access to the minds of the is detached

No More Crowing. "What is more,

shrani.

"I have been insited to stay longer people should in so largely controll some clean part of the metal of The course advised is merely a

Porticu- the

taking care that the unmodore laut am unable est in

COMPANY.

9, Ice House Street,

Hong Kong.

a handful of mea

car.

noring," stated.

which will! the temporary makeshift,

the absence of the "on" position, it jenable the motorist to reach hie the gear shift lever provides a sur- to che sei. I stall, however, attend urls in that so when the qualities (switch fa in

observe if the cur home or a service station with-prising amount of extra room. No The Cenotaph Service on Saturday by which they have achieved this is possible to

out undue delay, and proper re- more crowing and straining to position nave little or no relation to rent is reaching the coll.

If such is the case, the defect is pairs should be carried out

shift as make room for the driver "My tour is no secret one,

but the wise exercise of the power which

Jobviously situated somewhere in oon as possible.

gears when three ride in the front merely a routine service. As Cica carnes with it."

of the primary clrcult; The ammeter Mr. Scott said that to-day, vast the rest

will not register seat. No more bruising of knees in "respect of the and sluna. And no more oily brakes

Tel. 24648.

QUEEN'S

COMING

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TIL UKONS

Lord of the Admiralty it is my joh ku look over the Naval Estabala was their influence to educate the perhaps in the primary winding of any diecharge vents all over England for the bis before a crisis arose news the coil itself, but more probably drain which the ignition makes and levers to soil the ladies' hose.

themselves Loin the resistance unit or the con- upon the battery, and it may be all seems too good to be true. evection of buildings and such like. Papers had shown

feand that at urdinary charging as this really comes under my care. have even less power to resist an tact points of the distributor.

"Having had the opportunity of tack upon their liberty when

Visiting the East. I thought jt would be R excellent idea if vited the Navni Establishments ut here, and have so far been to

managed Singapore, where

spend 48 hours."

For Far East Squadron.

in

"There is a simple 'selector" on

It The resistance can be tempor-¦speeds an unduly high "chargo" the dash. You set that when you MCLAUGHLIN-BUICK

came The Reichstag fire occurred arily eliminated from the circuit, reading is given.

12.17. At 10 p.m. the whole of [ine

newspapers Opposition isuppressed.

Travelling Backwards.

were

The nineteenth century. every- where an era of change and libera- !

PETROL ECONOMY COMPETITION

tinit, witnessed a widespread exten- Saturday's Contest At Continuing, he said, "Singapore sich of freedom. It was taken al- a naval mosi as axiomatic that in due course

Is the obvious place for hase.

It is an important shipping all countries would establish a free junction and it is necessary that Press.

we should have facilities

some-

"Recent events," said Mr. Scott, where in the East for docking and "have administered a rude shock to repairing naval vessels, It doce these easy assumptions. Much of

Kowloon.

FULL RESULTS FOR ALL CARS ENTERED

163,000 MILES DONE BY BRITISH CAR

Story Of An Epic Run.

want to start or stop-and that in

the end of your work for the day. breadth of the downtown district

Think of driving the length

and

SALES AND SERVICE The McLaughlin-Buick has bee

Drc-

without once shifting gears!” made in Canada since 1907. Na

"There are many other equally local tax. No Canadian surprising and gratifying advan- mium. Delivered Hong Kong tages, such as the astonishing prices from $1,390.00 U. S. Cur

rency.

•

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR

COMPANY, LTD...

Telephone 30228

33, Wong Nel Chung Road, Happy Valley,

smoothness and speed of the "get- Endurance test motor-car drivers away," the elimination of the jerk- should ponder this story of an epic ing and lurching to start from a run, made by Mr. Alfred Bradley, dead standstill in "high." There |of Répiney-road, Yeovi, in a nine- is a decided new feeling of ease] year-old Morris-Cowley, which had and security, too, in being able Complete particulars and results already done 165,000 miles, equiva- to keep both hands on the wheel shift gears so: necessarily mean that we shall the ground gained has been lost, of the Ford Economy Contest held lent to more than six times round instead of trying to

available the world.

with one hand and dodge traffio bring out a big flect to the East as and in many countries restrictions last Saturday are now

Mr. Bradley left home at 11 am. with the other.

notable soon as the Base is completed, but severe as those in force in the and are subjoined for the informa-

"The Self Shifter is a ears At Shepton Mallet the car was bur- I suppose in time Singapore will 18th century have been reimposed." tion of those owners whose

"In the face of great movements were unplaced, but whose co-opera-fied' in snow.

contribution to the progress of a SEWING MACHINES become the base for the Far East like those we are bound to ask our-tion contributed largely to the auc

great industry. It should, as the Facing a Blizzard. Squadron."

economists have said, stimulate in-

Best Makes selves what leason they have for us cess of the occasion,

He dug himself out and made for terest and sales. But, like the self Explaining the purpose of his Do they perhaps portend

V-8 Modela.

Bath across the Mendip Hills, starter, in mere few years the Treadle Models from H. K. $90.- visit. Capt. Wallace said: "Ia phase in the growth of our social Car No. Owner Average Place where the snow was six feet deep day of its introduction will have on this trip because I believe it is structure, an era in which nations

m. p. g..

Also the Intest in places.

been entirely forgotten, our dear, very much helter to spend half-an-will condone the loss of these great 4126 Capt A. Pederson 29,71

4023 A. N. Betta 27.80 5

From Bath he drove to Bridg placid publie will be taking it for PORTABLE ELECTRIC MODELS hour with the man on the spot than liberties in order to achieve a power 1222 W. to write hundreds of pages of ful single direction of national af- 3643 G. Forder Co., Ltd. 22.47 1 north, through Gloucester, Worces granted and asking, "What next?"

19 ter, and Kidderminister.

matter to people thousands of miles fairs?

RWAY.

new

4074 Dr. Lee Shin Kec 3730 K. Chan 210 C. Little

2.

20.21 0

20.00.11 24.87 10

27.22 B

At Bridgnorth the car was buried

again. The road from Bridgnorth

|to Whitchurch was impassable, so

21.18 20 lafter a rest he detoured twenty 27.287fles by Shrewsbury,

26.83 10

25.88 0

Grasping Al Censorship. "I am responsible for all works, "The very fundamental and com 807

C. Crofton buildings, labour questions-every-plex issues of nationalism and in-8232 A. W. Smith thing relating to everybody con- tes nationalism are also everywhere 3047 M. A. Xavier nected with the Admiralty who is profoundly affecting the form and 4172 G. Fahnestock 3295 G, A. Netland not a maflor comes under, ma.” the powers of Governments. - 3870 J. D. Lloyd

"It is my intention of visiting "It is very evident that in the 8728 O. C: Bergheer our Base at Coylen on my way strife, and contention on both of 41973

4197 1. W. H. L Home, and will probably 'spend these vital matters there reside 120 + Makiczoff

26.00.11 grave clemente of danger to the 105 Mrz. 8.

3688 3 Panizzi

26.00' 11 A Govern-1610 R. R. Roxborough.

$24.91 18 "I have, unfortunately, not been freedom of the Press. able to keep strictly to schedule, ment striving to control and to 8022 P. M. Hodgson

General average, 20,60 m.p.g.

nbout three days thore,

37.40 1

28.50 4

24.86 17

27,46 82

2247 18

NEW MORRIS CAR SURPRISE.

Whitchurch to Tarporley was also "Ten-Four" Capable Of

impassablo, so be was compelled to make another twenty miles detour

by Aston, Mast

~ All Di@culties Burmounted.

70 M.P.H.

A four-cylinder sports model four-seater car, pquipped with

owing to a slight mithap at Cardirect lecónomic activities for Bent738 Chan Fu Cheung 47.67: road to Windermara, but that was) of every)mótoriae, fast pack cutta, when the aeroplane was sionate homogeneous rocial unit, 3742 Ng Chiu an

upon fusing the nation into a pat, 5000 Inam, IL. & Paterson 1925.

R

HELMUT NOCHT French Building, 5, Queen's Road C.-...

Tel. 21291.

Paramount

LIVE LADYBIRDS BY AIR

Rushed To E, Africa To Combat Pest.

From Tarporley, to Lancaster all every Tenement, capable of a road trace of snow had gone, His next speed of seventy miles an hour, attempt was the Kendal-Keswick, and sold at a price within the reach

Port Elizabeth. impassable, so he returned to Kan: This is one of the features t

In reponse to an urgent cabled travelling in stuck in the mud.”-

Ful confident of its own rectitude and 9752. Dr. Mokiing Fair 48.55 3dal,

the 1934 Morris programme just order from the Government of Captain Wallace will be enter Impatient, as authority always, is, of 1810 Miss A. Chan

16.805. He carried through a six-hour announced, which includes cars of Tanganyika, 185 live ladybirds tained by His Excellency the disintegrating criticism, may easily 3750 U. Man Kit).

hill climb, to Carlisle, where again, all classes from the luxury to the were dispatched from Port Elles- Governor to-night, at a banquet at grasp once more at the reins of General average 40,33 m

sunshine, T

there was no snow, but brilliant run-about JAPAN 2% beth to Tanganyika by air. Only Government House.

Censorship:

Kent There are two sports models, one of the Insects died on the Last night Captain, Wallace Manhou That is the danger which, in the ter-relations of nations. Far be it. Finally he reached Workington, tan-four and a ten-six. I

way They will be used to "com". entertained by the Commodore, turmoil of the Aght, Journalists from me to belittle the importance with no engine trouble at all, and "The Morris ten-four has grown a bat the meally bug, a prevalent Captain Frank Elliott, R.V., 0.B.E, should never forget... Each of us, of such views, but let us remember no worse injury, than's damaged ifttte larger Into a ten-siz, and it is post in the coffee plantations,,{

his bungalow. Among thosd doubtloss, has his own Ideal as to that our freedom to contend tran- mudguard.

believed that it will act new atan-|-· ́ For their sustenarice en, roula prenent were the varions, heads of tile best way of organising ** the sends an importance even that about" Altogether a distance of about dards; in handiness" and perfor- the insecta were provided with a the Dockyard Department. functions of government or the in- which we contend.. Beuter 800 miles. Can you bast that?,

quantify of méaly bug.-

781

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The Greatest. Dramatic pectacle of Our Generation. A picture which will proudly lead all the entertain. ment the world has

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