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The Death Dive

The test pilots to British aircraft constructors are the men who take the real risks in flying. They are picked men and command high salaries.

Mr. F. B. Tomkins, whose ma chine lost a wing lu mid-air`re- cently, was putting it into what American film producers call a "death, dive" or a "hell dive.Mit

Its technical name is a "terminil velocity dive.

SATURDAY, MARCH 17 1934

AIR ARMAMEMTS MUST COME FIRST

BRITAIN IS NEGLECTING DEFENCE PREMIUM

POSITION WITHOUT PRECEDENT

(By Viscount Rothermere.)

London.

Whether by reduction of our To stint insurance is universally naval and military expenditure or

national affairs, neglect a precau-jof the State.

Is this manoeuvre the pilot admitted to be folly. Even in the by increased allocations to the case of a bankrupt it is the "in-Royal Air Force, Britain must be climbs to a height of over 5,000 variable practice for the trustee to given greatly Increased protection feet. Then, with the engine full

insure his property against every from air attack. The physical safety. out, he puts the machine into the foreseeable risk. Dare we, in our of the subject is the first concern steepest dive it will stand.ad

Normally an aircraft is built to

Neglect of proper defence against withstand stresses up to about tion regarded as so imperative in

this new and deadly danger of the seven times the amount it is like-commercial and private life!

The safety of these Islands and air makes all other national expen- ly to meet in normal flying.

the security of their seaborne sup-diture futile. We are throwing plies are the primary and slemental away the £50,000,000 we annually needs of the British nation.

spend on the education of our chil No Government since British dren if we leave them unprotected If Dimitroff, the acquitted

Governments began has betrayed against massacre. In voting £14- Reichstag fire prisoner who is them. Our territory has always | 000,000 a year for housing we may now incarcerated in a German

been free from invasion and our be only providing more targets for Ikaol is to be allowed to go - to trade from interruption. Bad enemy bombs."

Russia, he will receive a great re-times and good alike, we have

Further delay may be fatal. We ception in Moscow,

paid the full premium, and the

has never failed. have drifted far beyond that "edge protection back from the United States, with we are not paying the full pre-blinded by its own self-esteem almost

Dimitroff As A. Hero

When Litvinoff was on his way

President Roosevelt's recognition in his pocket, rome of the Bolehe- yists proposed to hold a demon. stration in his honour.

mium to-day.

uf risk to which a Government

boasts that it has brought us. The country does not realise the There must be a very substantial' risk it is running because the dan increase in the Air Estimates for

But Stalin said: "He has done ger is a new one of which it, as yet the new financial year which starts well. We shall congratulate him. has had no experience. The few two months hence,

led by the nose, it matters little Dimitroff There is much talk of disarma-make a noise," ment. Is disarmament the solu-) Although the Bulgarian Govern-jour Bong Kong, Saturday, March 17, 1934. tion? Is disarmament practical ment do not wish to have him modern sound-film.

politics? Not so long as the back, Dimitroff is almost à national manufacture of arms and muni-hero in his own

Peace Or War

man may

country.

But be

is one of us. Let us, relatively trifling air-raids of the

Use For Budget Surplus Great War were as far behind the therefore, have no noise.

Part of this can obviously be ob- comes, then We can present-day possibilities of aerial

invasion as the "magic lantern" of tained by saving money on the childhood was behind the other two Services which the pro- xress of science has reduced to Large-scale, long-distance bombing subordinate and subsidiary functiona Eveu is new development of which the in the matter of national defence. world's first terrible experience still But no economies will redeem the ties ahead. But it is alrenay cer-systematic neglect of our air aria- tain that the next war will openiments ever since the war. The with mass-attacks from the air upon rapid development of the Royal Air the most densely populated portions Force: to the minimum strength re- of an adversary's territory. quired for the safety of Great Bri- To that danger Britain is more tain demande substantially incress- get exposed than any country; against ed expenditure. .. the it she has taken fewer precautions

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|than; any.

tions is left to private enterprise, anti-Communists feel that he has Now as always wealth connotesįput Bulgaria on the map. The last war we were told was power and the manufacturers of im-

Your Daily Smile. n war to end all war a noble the materials of war are sentiment, the genuine expres-mensely wealthy. The malaise Le sion of the world at the time lies deeper... It is not to

cursed by disarmament, by the "I'll show you where you The misery and cruelty and

The country la fortunate enough. management of currency, or off," said the pot-hole to

to be in a position to find the neces inane stupidity of war had been such pallister There are few pillion girl.

Our georgraphical position, the sary money without adding to its brought home to all the people countries, where, a

ia JEST THE SAME

climatic conditions of these islands, burden of taxation. There is every on the globe. Over large secr speak his mind and retain his

freedom. The press is muzzled; Don't tell me the world has and the concentration of the greater reason to hope that the present fin tions of the earth there WAS broadcasting is a government changed. Why, the modern girl part of their wealth and population ancial year will close with, a surplus scarce a single nation but was preserve and propaganda re-laughs at exactly the name jokes |Involved in the great catastrophe: places education in the schools, that, amused her grandfather.

scarce a family that did not What hope is there for peace in a mourn the loss of kith and kin. world like that? The mysteries

A famous trainer says that he Even women were entangled in of nature, animate and inanim- the web and in the neighbour-ate, are being cleared up through knows a horse that dearly loves the efforts of our men of science a joke. This sounds cuspiciously hood of the fighting zones non-but knowledge is being withheld like the one we backed yesterday. combatante suffered as terribly from those whom it most con- Pros- cerns the fighting forces.

One of the surest ap

A STRIP CARTOON?. world peace 赳 A daily, paper is running pority was destroyed and wealth proaches to that represented the effort of through control of population. special feature for nudiats.

Nature's way of controlling popu- many years of arduous toil was

lation, is by famine, pestilence as though it had never been and war. We are attempting the It is estimated that there are Morally and physically the world Impossible if we try to dam up 487,600,000 women in the world. received a shock that paralized these outlets and exercise no con- And yet you would go and pick on it. Is it any wonder, that people trol over the increase of popula-that one.

It is only within the last hoped. and prayed for the abolition.

THE JOKE ON US

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YOU POOR FOOL

in their most advanced and exposed of £40,000,000 or £50,000,000 in the corner are facts that place us at the hands of the Chancellor of the mercy of any ruthless. Continental Exchange. That, surplus should be, Government with a well-equipped earmarked in its entirely for the Imperative needs of aerial defence.. air force..

Our present position is without There are many classes in the. precedent in history. No great na- country who can make out a good tion was ever so defenceless. An claim to benefit by it. The teach enemy country within a few hours of ers, soldiers, sailors, and Civil Ser the declaration of war, and without vants whose pay, has been, reduced; the slightest risk, could deal us the income-tax payer whose imposi- such a shattering blow by way of tions have been augmented,...,, all the unimpeded air that crushing deserve satisfaction as soon as it defeat would be imposed upon us can possibly be given them, without even the possibility, of But it would be a direct injury to resistance.

their own interests, to yield to those claims now.

Aerial

Or, if it Ckade Seen

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The peril of remaining defence- as that supreme less in a Europe that is manifestly disaster, its aircraft could starve preparing for war would be, too us to submission. Fifty thousand. tons of imported food are landed high a price at which to buy the benefit of a few more pounds of tion of war? Efforts were made century or so that population The New History of England.

has increased to such propor And then there was the fellow each day at our ports by merchant

personal income. to give tangible form to the tions, and this is almost wholly who thought pedestrians had ships that approach them through plous hope to create a lasting due to the efforts of men of rights. A very nice funeral, his narrow and congeated waters. Over there the long range of the modern peace. The League of Nations science in diminishing Lamine was.

aeroplane would make it possible to was born; Locarno Pacis and and disease through frrigation,

malofain a ceaseless patrol.

One hundred Fand Kellogg Pacts were entered into vaccination, inoculation and good

sanitation. Wer is now prac "Hurrah for the open road!”

submarines, peers by governments

tically the only way laft to re- carols an enthusiast, Sentiment moving German their people. Great minds in lieve the pressure of over popu-schoed by the gas companies, the Ing for their prey through the

on behalf of

UP AGAIN.

many countries were devoting all lation. Our men of science are Water, Board, the sanitary author prisms of a periscope,

rities-oh, and a few moré. - their energies to the cause of showing the way out of this im- peace to the creation of means Passe but passion and prejudice, tradition and superstition, na

FAIRY STORY

There was once a man

who

whereby outstanding and future tional pride and bind perverse disputes could be settled by conservatism stand, in the way, really did stay Ists at the offic mutual agreement. The end was The highly Industrialised and and his wife believed him. clearly visualised, but were the superlatively fertile regions of means of attaining that end as the earli are over populated. The clearly rceived? It was plain: Possiblilies of emigration are severely limited Wh more ly seen that the fundam

natural than that the inhabitants Causes of

of these regions should force the doors that are shut against them! Does this not ex France's fer

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BOY'S LIFE SAVED BY TURKEY.

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