1934-12-13 — Page 7

MANY FRESH

TIN

Flying in the sub-stratosphere, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, anter war ace and speed pllot, took off from Los Angeles recently in his superpassenger plane to lower his ቀበ transcontinental transport plane record by 58 minutes.

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-CHINA-MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER

USES FOR AERIAL TRANSPORT DEMONSTRATED

VALUE OF THE EMPIRE

FLYING MAILS

VACCINES AND MEDICINES BY PLANE

SPEED SAVES MAN'S LIFE IN many other directions, besides the carriage of passengers, mails, and ordinary freight, is the value of air transport being demonstrated nowadays.

More and more urgently-consigned medicines and vaccines are being sent by air. Not long ago, for example, a regular supply of a certain medicine, prescribed by a doctor in London for a patient in India, and needing to be taken as soon as possible after it had been prepared, went out regularly on the weekly air-mail, from Croydon, reaching its destination within five days of leaving Lon-

don.

was

.

This picture shows the blue Lady Bouthern Cross in which Bir Charles Kingsford-Smith, Bri- tish airman, Inset, winged his way to the western coast of the United States from Australia in the first weat-to-east crossing between the two points. The Byer reached. Honolulu, 24 hours and 45 minutes after taking off from the Fifi islands, his first stop after leaving Australia.

THE GREAT

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AIR ROUTE 47 RAJAHS LEND THEIR SHIPS

DRIVING SHARKS FROM TIMOR SHA

PLANS FOR NEW BRITISH R.A.F. BASE IN SOUTH

Negotiations Proceeding For Site Near Portsmouth

Negotiations are proceeding, it is understood, for the acquisition by the Air Ministry of land at Thorney Island, near Portsmouth. If they ara successfully completed, an aerodrome will be established there for alreraft of the land type. It will not be used as a seaplane or flying-boat base.

The new aerodrome is intended. to form part of the five-years' -expansion scheme of the Air Force.

US: PLANS

NEW BOMBERS

ORDERED FOR

BRITISH R.A.F.

|SECRET MECHANISM OF GUN TURRET

CARRIES BIGGER LOAD-

An order has just been placed by the Air Ministry for a number of new twin-engined day bombers, The order is of unusual signi- ficance and may mark the begin ning of a change from reliance on speed alone to reliance on power of rapid manoeuvre and a high degroe of self-defence.

.

The new bomber also earries a bigger load than the aingle-en- gined type and may not be not ably slower. Its important fea- tures are a rotatable gunturret in the nose to allow of accurate fre at any speed and two other gun positions for defence againat tail attacks from above and below.

This bomber, produced by Messrs. Boulton and Paul, and called the Overstrand, was Beer for the first time at the R. A..F. Display in June (writes "The Times" Correspondent) and was not at that time open to close in-

THE FASTEST

AIR FORCE spection.

BOMBERS TO FLY TWO OCEANS

300 M.P.H. AEROPLANES

Protection For Gunner. The mechanism of the rotating turret is still a secret, but it has bean evident in public demonstra- tions that gun and gunner are wholly protected from the stream of fast-moving air and yet may be America is to build the fastest swung round bodily in an arc of air force in the world. It will about 270 deg. have high-speed night bombers Provision has been made for capable of spanning the Atlantic simultaneous elevation or depres- and Pacific, single-seater fighting alon of the gun, so that even In-a airplanes able to outfly anything fast dive, when air pressures in the sky, and two-seater day would be greatest, the gunner may bombers with the speed of present-easily keep his sights on his day fighters,

target. Until now Britain's 250-m.p.h..** Power Of Manoeuvre R. A. F. fighters have been the The Overstrand, a biplane with fastest in the world.

two Bristol Pegasus engines set. Aizcraft firms in the United in octagonal Townend ringa on States have been invited by the the lower wing, has two other

• Government to tender. for sin, gun positions aft of the wings, gle-seater fighting - airplanes one for defence above and the with a top speed of more than other a prone gunner's place to 300 m.p.h., dass

deal with attacks from beneath Four Guns Per Plane

the tail The rotating turret is

In Africa there is a life-saving Club had a number of young trout task in which air transport is swimming round in a hatching pond now playing its part. This is in belonging to the Club; and these the transport of serum from la- trout had all been, hatched from a boratories to outlying districts special consignment of eggs which where epidemics may arise. An had been sent by air from the Gov- instance occurred recently at ernment Hatching Station at Jon CLEARING HUNGARIAN EXILES Broken Hill, where a doctor sent kershoek, in South Africa.

an urgent wireless message to At Juba the local baker now re- Salisbury one evening, asking celves a weekly consignment of for a supply of a special serum to fresh yeast from Khartoum by air- Nevertheless, the British Govern-tion of a patient he was treat-so fresh has a great deal to do, he be sent by air for the inocula-mail, and the fact that this arrives ment were impressed both by the

ing. This serum arrived at Bro-aays, with the excellent quality of hardship to those concerned and by ken Hill air-port at 9.15 the fol-his bread. the importance of avoiding any lowing morning. The doctor One of the renidenta in Juba was thing which might further embitter

on the aerodrome waiting explaining, the other day, how alr a dispute which had been referred and, as he signed for the serum, transport has banished that feeling to the League Council, and they had he said:-

jof Isolation which those in Juba accordingly made representations to

"This will probably save my used to experience. the Yugoslavian Government to

The Timor Sea, which for cen patient's life. Thank goodness you bring these expulsions to. an end. got it here straight away":

"Before the coming of the air-turies has been the home and mail" he said, "if we wanted any breeding ground of sharks, is to The Prince Regent, an his return to

Food By Plane

thing which did not happen to be in Yugoslavia on December 8, at oncel

At Mpika, a small township in stock in the town it used to take us

Įbe cleared. ordered that the expulsions should the heart of the jungle at Tangan-weeks in obtain it, and that made us following the recent fights to This is because the Timor Sea, cease and he, Sir John Simon, was yika, the manager of the local hotel feel right out of things. But now Australis, is to become, the great informed that they had ceased. He now obtains practically all his sup-this feeling has gone entirely, and international airway, to the south. did not know whether any of those plies of perishable foodstuffs such one of the most frequent remarks expelled had yet returned or whether as meat, butter, eggs, and bacon-one heara is:

Sharks are so numerous in this they desired to do so;

by air. Those are dispatched each

great stretch. of water which lies "Wire to Khartoum and have it between Timor-an island owned Replying to supplementary ques-week

by the air-mail flying sent down by air"." tions, the Foreign Secretary said northward from Cape Town. They

by Portugal and Holland-and the Boon To Persian Gulf that he thought it was quite true are loaded on to the 'plane at Broken

almost uninhabited north Austra that hardship was involved in some Hill, and reach him two or three Persian Gulf are small colonies of crushed by them a few months Along the southern shores of the lian coast that a small ship was cases, but inasmuch as the mattor hours later. The only other method Europeans, stationed amid the Arab had been met, he felt that the best of obtaining supplies is by motor-tribes. This coast is desert coun- ago.

The forthcoming launching""at course in the interests of peace and van, travelling over rough tracks, try. and the amenities of modern good relations was to be very well and occupying two days or more on life have hitherto been lacking them, and they have multiplied the largest flying-boat in the world Several squadrons of these will not applicable to such positions:

No one has interfered with) Toulouse of what is claimed to be satisfied that it was ended.-British the journey."

sadly.. The advent of the flying enormously.

Isi announced in the Paris be built. Designs will be based its fitting resembles an egg, hald Wireless Service..

One of the difficulties experienced mail has, however, changed all this by farmere in South Africa has considerably, the big air-liners on

Forty-seven Timorese ruling

The craft will carry 70 passenders will be for single-engined it is free to revolve, and therefore on recent racing types. The ten-between finger and thumb so that been to obtain pedigree poultry the India route now passing regu-

rajahs are leading their ship gers, will be over 100 feet long, monoplanes. Each will be armed it can only be set at present at and men for the great hunt, with wing span of 160 feet and with four machine guns. atock from Britain. The transport larly up and down this Arabian side which it is hoped will so reduce height of 28 feet.

one or other extremity of the. of live poultry over distances of of the Gulf. Even in some of the the numbers of these sen mon-

British night bombers have fuselage in twin-engined .or 18,000 or 9,000 miles is too expen-most arid districts, where it is diff- sters as to minimise the peril to mercial Bring speed of 150 miles m.p.h.

The aeroplane will have a com-speed of, little more,, than, 120 pusher aeroplanes. aive, and, when the importing of cult, if not impossible, to grow any airmen and their passengers, or hatching eggs by steamer is tried. thing but dates, fresh fruit is now The committee on war profits it is often found that when the eggs (available, regular consignments be

drive them to acens‘still unused comprises the Secretary of Stats, arrive in Africa they are unfertile. ing flown from India, by the weekly

by man. Mr. William Cordell Hull, the Trea- Experiments in having eggs sent out air-mail, to the various points of call sury Secretary, Mr. Henry Morgen-by the air-mail have proved ex-along the Gulf.. thau, the Secretary of War; Mr.tremely successful, the

average The value of this service George H. Dern, the Attorney-hatchings which have resuited be-illustrated at Bahrein, not long ago, General, Mr. Homer S. Cummingsing in the neighbourhood of 60 or the Secretary of Navy, Mr. Claude 70 per cent.

MOVE SEEN AS CHECK TO ARMS ENQUIRY

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COMMITTEE COMPOSITION

I

A Swanson, the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Henry C. Wallace, the Secretary of Labour, Missi Frances Perkins, Mr. William Phil- lips, under-Secretary of State, the Assistant Secretaries of Navy, Agriculture and Labour, Generals MacArthur and Johnson, the Rail- way Co-Ordinator, Mr. Joseph B. Eastman, and the foreign trade ad- viser, Mr. George N. Peak.

Mr. Baruch emphasised that the President intends to consult mem-1 bers of the House of Representa- tives and the Senate in regard to the proposed legislation. Reuter.

COTTON INDUSTRY TAKES A

· LEADING PLACE IN SOVIET

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The recent strength of the Wall Street market has had the effect of Impressing European economists,| and assurances that President Roosevelt is turning a deaf.. Ear to inflationists are likely to bring about foreign buying of American securities.

Russia is about to enter Ameri- can and 'British markets for the purchase of textile machinery. The cotton industry in, Russia. has takon d' leading position. In the second Five Year Plan.

ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION

INCREASES

New York, to-day-The weekly electricity production in the United States was 1,748,000,000 kw hours, as against 1,684,000,000 k.w. hours last week, and 1,619,000,000 W. hours for the corresponding

eriod

of last year United Preža: per. 8. E. Levy and Comp

Isolation Banished Recently the Tanganyika Angling

.

Great Hunt Planned

WORLD'S LARGEST FLYING BOAT

French Craft To Carry Seventy Passengers

Excelsior.

an hour.

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New American machines The two engines add greatly to are able to travel at more than 200 the machine's power of mangent- It will be fitted with a dozen dem.p.h, and so will be able to does by affording thrust on either It is expected that Dutch and those on

luxe cabins of the same size as without an escort of fighting ms- Portuguese naval airmen, using each having two bunks and Its

side when turning movements Trans-Atlantic liners,chines.

have to be made, i bombs and special guns, will take own follet fittings.

Tactical Importance New day bombers to be built was part in the hunt

The aeroplane is intended for ing machine with those of a bom-i

will combine the duties of a fight-Hitherto only one squadron of the R. A. F. has been equipped Southern and North Atlantic ser-ber. These will have a speed of

with twin-engined day bombers. 250 m.p.h.

The present order appears to au gur, the multiplication of such units during next year.

Qusting Jungle Denziens

on the occasion of a picnic party Wild beasts have to be ousted vices. organised by the staff of one of the from their strongholds. Forty companies which are investigating years ago tigers roamed from the (Continued at Foot of Next Col) Ghata into the outskirts of Bom- bay, now the second deity of the Empire, Civilisation scared them away.

?Fizing two hours ahead of schedul plane, Bir Charles Kingsford-Smith and his Taylor, arrived in Oakland, Call after-con passage of the Pacific/From Honelata: 15: 'hours, and 59 minutëa. - A pole:

ford-Smith 1 shown at top, right, upon his artiy pictured below is it swooped suddenly from the 1 mandeljal, sleport

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the oilfields believed to exist in this territory. Early of the day before

· FOKKER'S BRITISH

INQUIRIES

No Site Yet Chosen For Possible Factory

Amsterdam

KINGSFORD-SMITH HAS TO SELL HIS PLANE

Up to the present the inventors of the mechanical turret have: not been at liberty to do busines abroad, though many inquiries Air-Commodore Sir Charles King-have been received, and it is to sford-Smith, who recently flew to be concluded that the Air Coun Los Angeles from Australis, has cil regards this new piece of ap given up hopes of further flights in paratus as being of much tactical his aeroplane, "The Lady Southern importance.

the picnic they sent a cable to Kara- chi, asking for supplies of fresh Mr. Anthony Fokker, who return-Cross," and has to sell the machine fruit and other dainties to be sent fed recently from England, admitted to "balance his finances." down to them by air. And this con-that he had been carrying on

signment duly arrived, after a flight negotiations there for building both time had not yet come, however, of. 1,500 miles, at 10.15 the follow Fokker and Douglas aeroplanes..

ing morning-that is to say, on the day of the picnic,

Batisfying The Native

for a definite statement of; his

England, he declared, was, only plana

OCEAN AIR LINER CONTRACT

now realising how far it was be Folitics, Mr. Fokker added, play SLEEPING BUNKS IN hind in aircraft manufacture. The ed a part. While one English

Another interesting development capacity and construction of certain group was willing to promote the 150-M.P.H. PLANE of the air traffic along the Persian types of aeroplane--he mentioned establishment of Fokker works

Gulf is that it is benefiting not only two-such as were built in Amater England, another group was op-Tenders have already been re- the Europeans but also the large dam were unknown there.

posed to such step...

ceived by Imperial Airways for a Indian population which has settled The site for a possible factory Meanwhile, telegrams from al-Transatlantic air-liner.

Ayins

It will be the largest air-liner yet constructed in Britain.

in this not-too-hospitable country bad not yet been chosen, although most every big, town in the English This machine will be a

These twothing, the average, in- certale English towns were favour Midlands, are arriving at der fok boat dian worker loves so rauch as his able from the point of view of both iker's headquarters, offering altes betel leaf, which he chews as assi- landing grounds and factories. The for a factory. ⠀ ** duously as Americana chew gum. The betel leat must, however, be But hitherto these, Indian

fresh.

JIKA

Jones And Waller Considering workers on the Persian Gulf have ones And Waller Considering

been deprived of facilities for satia- fying, this craving. Now, however, 162 quantities of fresh betel leafare carried by the air-mall machines leaving India, and all along these southern shores of the Gulf one can see the Indian workmen contentedly chowing their betel

OPIUM IMPORTED BY AIR

and an opium pipa and

It will seat from 20 to 25 passén- gers, have a speed of about 160 m.ph., and a flying range of more

Two Routes For Record Flights will be convertible into

night flights. Cathcart, Jones and Ken Waller, the made first at Oran, the gateway to the ton aircraft firm is likely to receive

FUNGUA It is understood that a Southamp Australia and back airmen are con Sabera, at: Niamy, and at some point the contract to build the liner.

ing alternativo routes for their to be chosen on the West Coast

Cona nction will take tenipt on the Cape fight record. While the "Comet" ha One is the "all red" Imperial Airways 2700 to 3100 miles, stages have to be months, ronte over Cairo, Khartoum," and the chosen to admit of using big Grest Lak It is about 7000 milles, dromes for the take-off with full fonda. serves the

populous parts of Three or four atopa

British territory |sary?")

European section. By the Empire routs tha rente is by the West be completed in about 30 to

over, the 11 Bahara; £/There would notitbe much bited jungles of

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