1934-12-20 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1934

BRITISH AIR MAIL HELPS TO POPULARISE FLYING BY PUBLIC

ECKENER'S

AIRSHIP

DECISION

AWAITED ON

GAS AND ROUTES Sufficient Helium To Be Found Only In U.S.

HYDROGEN WOULD SUSTAIN NONSTOP WORLD FLIGHT

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Can Germany's

new airship, LZ 129, now under construction, be filled with noninflammable helium gas, or must it fall back on hydro- gen? This is a question Dr. Hugo Eckener hopes to answer during his visit to America.

The advantages of helium are obvious, but, owing to the large quantity required for a ship of this size, the process of filling undertaken in could only be

America. This again can only be carried out if Dr. Eckener can return with contracts for regular Europe-America alrship trips in his pocket, it is declared.

Dr. Hydrogen, according to Eckener's experience with the Graf, Zeppelin, is quite reliable. Its use as a filling agent has one great advantage. Owing to the bulk of the airship which was built for helium, enough gas could be taken

"Soviet civil plane.

Sowing seeds from the air.

An old moujik takes a flyer,

Soviet Russia is nearing, the top as the world's premier aeronautics! nation. With the populace air-minded to a fantastic degree, Rusala is showing the capitalistic world that it, too, has Lindbergha Although the Red army air fleet is fumous, the U.S.B.R.'s civil alreraft system takes second place to none. Passenger mail, and freight sky routes now criss-cross Rússia's vast areas and aviation schools are springing up by the score. Planen are bringing civilization to remote cor ners, and are being used in farming, seeds often being planted from the air.

aboard to make a nonstop fight DIVING_BOMBING AT

possible, around the world.

4 Motors Not 5

The new airship, which has been the subject of much

presa conjecture and description, will have four motors instead of five) as on the Graf Zeppelin. They will be made by the Daimler-Benz mo- a maxi.

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KINGSFORD

SMITH AGAIN

SEEKS FUNDS

Stage Appearances To

Finance Flight

POSSIBILITY OF SOUTHERN CROSS "NO SALE"

tor factoriea, and have mum capacity of 1250 horsepower, Trial Aights are expected in Germany about the beginning of May, 1935. In the meantime settlement is expected to have been reached with Holland on the ques- Sir Charles Kingsford Smith tion of a regular airship services made the first of a series of ap

Jungle Research

with the Dutch Indies.

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£1,000,000 FOR NEW SWISS WARPLANES

Vital Defence Question

Plans for the entire reorganisa- tion of the Swiss Air Force are now under consideration by the Federal military authorities.

The amount to be devoted to air armaments in the near future has not yet been revealed, but le be- lieved to be about £1,000,000, The expenditure of so large a sum by such a small country shows the

thorities to this question.

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350 M.P.H.

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SIGNIFICANCE

NOT YET BECOME ·

FULLY REALISED

EXPERIENCED ACE

TALKS A

NEW ELEMENT OF SURPRISE

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BANK HOLIDAY RUSH GREATLY INCREASED

IMPORTANT TOWNS NOW LINKED UP

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ADVANTAGES DISCOVERED

VIDENCE THAT BRITAIN IS NOW BECOMING MORE AIR- 'CONSCIOUS IS SEEN IN THREE RECENT EVENTS — THE INAUGURATION RECENTLY OF THE FIRST INTERNAL AIR MAIL SERVICES, RECORD - BREAKING TRAFFIC FIG- URES FOR THE AUGUST, BANK HOLIDAY SEASON, 'AND' THE LONDON-TO-MELBOURNE AIR DERBY. -

Hitherto, air transport has played little part in carrying | either mall or passengers within the British Isles. Shortness of distances between important towns has been held out as a reason: against. air mails. Now, however, a start has been made whereby a number of Important towns have an air mail service; namely, London, Birmingham, Manshester, Douglas (Isle of Man), Belfast, Glasgow, Liverpool, Cardiff, Plymouth, Bristol, Southampton and Cowes (Isle of Wight).

TRANS-OCEAN AIR SERVICES

Hawaii To California Route Proposed

Michael M. Gromov, Ľubové, in the pilot Sr, the Soviet aeroplane for which is élaimed the world's record for non-stop, non-refueling- flight. Gromov, and two fellow air-, men flew 76 hours, covering 7,707** milès at an average speed of 102

These are served by three main routes, London to Glasgow, Liverpool to Plymouth, and Bir- mingham to the Isle of Wight. For letters not exceeding 2 ounces and for postcards there is no ex-miles an hour without stopping er tra charge, but a penny extra for each ounce in excess.

.

These internal air services are

refueling.

ECORRESPONDENCE.

flown by the Railway Air Services ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶||||£££}£}£££¶¶¶Ø¶Ã¢¶¶ While Pan-American Airways are Company which was formed early pressing their plan to start un air in 1934 by the four main railway service between California

and groups. The only exception, so far, China. Inter-Island Airways have la the private passenger servica proposed the maintenance of a plane flown between Bristol and Cardif¶¶__¶¶¶¶¶NS service between California and across the Bristol Channel which Hawaii, the Post Office Department will now carry mails as well. Em Monopoly Profiteering at Washington has announced: Aspire mail services to India, South a result, the Department will re-Afries, and to Australis when that quest Congress at its next session service comes into operation, are to subsidise American transoceanie to be fown by Imperial Airways subject which to-day must be of air services.

Company 'which was subsidised by

Dr.

[To the Editor, ""China "Mall.”J

Sir,It is a great pity that ́

It was also stated that a decision the Government in April, 1929, vital importance to the welfare of will shortly be made in regard to with a sum of £2,700,000 spread the public in general should be made the proposition of Hugo over 11 years,"

Ja topic in the usual Ice-House-Street Eckener, commander of the Graf ADVANTAGES

veln. Your correspondents, what.. Zeppelin on its epic round-the-world}

ever their objects may be, fail to flight, to establish a trans-atlantic As far as passenger service is understand the human aide of the zeppelin passenger and mail service

concerned the British people seem pictures they are attempting to with the provision that during trial to have at last discovered the ad-draw. "Consumer" tells us that the (By ROGER FULLER) flights, the Post Office Department Vantages of air travel. During the China Light Company are profitear- bank holiday season, services were ing by charging 2 cents more than Diving bombing, the new techni will pay a aurtax où the mail

carried."

quadrupled.

the Hong Kong Company. "An- que in attack from the air

air threa

Other sources here have atated, People have found, too, that they other Consumer" asks for fair play tens soon to set a defence problem however, that the American govern- can see quite a number of conti- for the China Light Company in so WORLD FLIGHTS" which will be almost impossible to ment will refuse to support a for- mental towns in the course of far that in the first 18 years of

solve.

eign enterprise carrying on a per-week's holiday if they use the air, operations, this Company paid no BY TURNER

If the speed and efficiency ofmanent air service. According to say, between London, Amsterdam. dividends at all (Incidentally I be modern warplanes are developed Dr. Eckener's project, the capital Copenhagen, Berlin and Vienna, lieve dividends must have been even Speed King Announces along the present lines of pro- for the proposed service would be and returning by Zurich and Paris, then quite substantial in the way of Globe-Circling Plans gress, ground stations and the supplied by Netherlands, German A tour like this saves from 24 to strip given to the original investors

personnel of warships will soon and American sources. have to defend themselves against bombers launching dead- ly missiles at a faster speed than sound.

importance attached by the pearances on the stage at Oak- The German press writes of the land, California, to raise funds for possibility, too, of an airship being his next flight. chartered by

This will be a return flight to private research groups for. flight in the jungles of Australia, but across the Atlantic Brazil. It is stated that a Brazi-instead of the Pacific, and by lian group to Rio de Janeiro ex-way of London. pects to finance this flight by giv- It is hoped that this new ing away rights to the world press, tare will avert the necessity of

The German press

is speculat-selling the Lady Southern Cross, ing, too, upon the possibility of the the machine in which he made his

Los Angeles, Dec. 10. construction of two new airships great flight from Australia to the Col. Roscoe Turner, holder of in America in the near future.

United States, and that he will be many air speed records, has an able to fly her back.

nounced tentative plans here to- Already a new type of day Although the Federal Cabinet day for two world flights in 1985, bomber is being developed that can made. Sir Charles a gift of £3000 the first around the equatorial (dive`at 850:m.p.h. from a height of, in recognition of his solo flight belt and the second by way of the say, 12,000ft, release la terrible from England to Australia in 7 worth and south poles. to wit, freedom of the press, trans-

days, 4 hours 44 minutes lust He says the flights would be fer of the central troops In Kiangai! and Fukien to Szechuen, and the to admit that, in

year, he has since been compelled 'solely of a scientific nature and he common with would make no efforts to set speed suppression of the terrorist gang others who "blaze that trail," he records. which had murdered important had little to show for it.. political and other leaders.

HU HAN MIN NOT TO GO NORTH

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DISAPPOINTED

high-explosive bomb at 2,000ft, and awoop upwards again in a matter of seconds only,

The significance of this new form of attack is not yet fully realised.

Combined Manoeuvres

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PURSUIT PLANES FOR AMERICA

Construction Now In Progress

3 days compared with surface very much under market rates). travel, the time saved being avail- Then "Visitor", writing in a morn- able for sight-seeing.

ing contemporary, justifies Kowloon rates by making comparisons with (Singapore. He apparently forgets

that "Two wrongs don't make right." Further, if all of us were to adopt the lines of least resistance jag he advocates, the world would be

a still poorer world to live in.

LEADING CANTON FIGURE PASSES

Mr. Teng Chak-yu

(From Our Own Correspondent]

Let us deliberate in earnest, “Un- employment Is Increasing daily; Fifty double-acater pursuit pinnes

salaries are being reduced; the wage- have been ordered by the United

Canton, To-day.

earner is having a thin time, If States War Department, according Turner recently returned to Los

Mr. Teng Chak-yu (Teng Tae-ju), our social system is to continue, he to information made public by Mr member of the South-west Political must be nursed. What is the re Angeles from Melbourne where, "I see that Nanking has not done

It is barely a year ago since I Harry. H. His entry for the great air race with Clyde Pangborn, he finished took part in the first full-scale Secretary of War, recently,

Woodring, Assistant Council and member of the Central lief he is entitled to? A reduction anything in fulfilling these terms," from Mildenhall to Melbourne was third in the England-Australia air manoeuvres between the Air Force

Supervisory Committee of the in his cost of living. To keep him Mr. Hsino added. "I feel certain only made possible by public sub-derby. No such fights as he con- and the Navy, in which diving Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, at Teng Fung Read at six o'clock be placed within his reach.. In this The contract was awarded to the Kuomintang, died at his home here satisfied, the necessities of life must that in these circumstances Mr. Huscriptions and private backers. templates have ever been made, bombing attacks against the fleet of Buffalo, New York, and is in the last evening. will not go to Nanking, nor proceed Then when he set out from Sydney though both the North and South proved an important phase; again, sum of $1,996,700. The construe-Born 67 years ago, Mr. Teng had lighting, the telephone, and trans- enlightened age, I submit that to Europe. I am sure that Dr. for England he had covered only poles have been visited by air by during the big R.A.F. manœuvres tion of the planes is now in been ill with pneumonia for the portation are as much a necessity Wang Chung-hui, the Canton-Nan-1000 miles when the machine was Admiral Richard E. Byrd.

last July, I took part in a series of progress. diving bombing attacks

past few daysHe was attended as food, clothing and shelter. The And there is nothing like per-

by both European and Chinese cost of food, clothing and shel- Mr. Hu will go to the North," of the great race.

sonal experience to Asked whether it was true that

test a new take; at that speed split seconds doctors, but, despite their best at-ter have come down considerably.

Cannot the directors of all utilities ---- In order not to disappoint the

count. theory.

tention Mr Teng passed away.. Dr. Sun Fo will come to Canton subscribers to the venture he made

member of the be prevailed upon to bring their The Signal Is Given

Nor at that speed can any liber- A veteran again, the official spokesman said recent record-breaking, flight to that there is no occasion for his America. He had previously

On both occasions our squadrons ties be taken. Gently the pilot Kuomintang, Mr. Teng had been in rates down to meet present cond! coming. Mr. Hsiao added that the flown the Pacific from Oakland, tsin that the Japanese authorities swept from the base into the sky winds back a wheel altering the recent years interested in mining tions7. (not 2 cents per unit, but

king go-between, has not sent any damaged and delays in effecting telegram to Nanking indicating that the necessary repairs put him out

Bix members from Canton who have California, to Australia.. been attending the Fifth Plenary Session will leave Shanghai to-day for Canton.

BANISHEE RETURNS

MR. TANG SHAO-YI RETIRES

JAPANESE AERODROME AT DOLONOR

It is reported to the Sinwenpao, that information has reached Tien-

LABOUR" TROUBLES IN CALIFORNIA

MURDER SUSPECTS ACQUITTED

One Still Retained. In Custody

substantial reductions all round); Comparisons, statistics, and Inves Immediate and perhaps temporary tigations are innecessary to-day,

rallet is necessary. Utilities are cer tainly in a position to give this re Ref.

Let us shelve for the time being "high finance, bonus issues, and increased dividends and lend an ear

JUSTICE.

have constructed a new aerodrome at a speed of about 200 m.p.h, and "trim" of the machine, and then activities in Kwangsi. in Dolenor where modern hangars sought our targets under cover of gently eases back the stick.

In the observer's seat one sags accommodate seven aeroplanes in cloud at a height of more than cluding bombers and scouting 10,000ft much lower, of course, down helplessly as the machine machines Should Mr. Sun come South, his

than would be the case In war time."flattens out," and in a second one (Continued from Page 1) object is said to be that of seeking |

Once over the target the squadron slumps down as helpless as a jelly, The South-west Political Council

leader gives the signal, and forma-with a violent desire to laugh for the support of the South-west

tion is broken. One by one the no apparent reason, leaders to enable him to become appointed Colonel Leung Hung-

warplanes, carrying "bombs" weigh-i When power of movement returns once again President of the Execu-kwong as successor to Mr. Tang tive Yuan, à position he has Shan-yi, who was then not inclined

(Continued from Page 1) ing anything up to more than half one peers out of the cockpit once

Appearing on remand, four to those who are really in need. to leave his post and home town in aspired to for some time.

In the event of the Pacific ton, nose downwards. more, and the target-perhaps, a Tong Ka Wai.. The Premier is one Electric employees striking, it is

Down, down, down the machines great battleship in the North Sea Chinese, who were arrested in [of the founders of the South-wast

expected that the steam lines will roar at nearly full throttle, descend-or a busy aerodrome is swirling connection with the murder of administration, and because of his immediately strike focally, uttering almost vertically Insome-away below, for the mighty plane Lam Ming, alias Lam Chan-hing. who was found stabbed on antional eminence he was persuaded ly paralysing Los Angeles har thing less than 80 seconds warplane is climbing again,

Queen's Road East on October to head the signatures in manifes bour freight. N

after warplane has appeared low "To Have Feeble Legs toes advising the Nanking Governor Roosevelt held a con- over the aerodrome, each one from It is the element of surprise that ing by Mr. W. Schofield at the 28, were discharged this morn- Attended To”. ment what to do in foreign and do-ference with Messrs. Myron a slightly different direction, each is one of the chief benefits of this Central Magistracy

A dance will be given by the War mestic affairs.

Taylor, Eugene Grace, William one travelling nearly as fast as a form of attack, and it is because of Shing, alias Li Ying-wah, 25 rant Officers and sergeants of No. Nine months' hard labour was

Since the Council did not support Green and Michael Tigue at the bullet.

the tremendous increase in the years, who was also charged with 27 Company, Royal Army Medical imposed on Chan Mun when he Mr Tang to retain his Chungshan White House and announced that It is the moment to release our speed with which the bomb can be the murder, is still in police cus- Corps at the Military Hospital, appeared before Mr. EI Wynne post and accepted the impeachment he had discussed the question at bomb. The electrical switch is launched that it is so much more tody, and on the application of Bowen Road, to-morrow week, com- Jones at the Central Magistracy against him by the Chungshan pee issue for the past six months, but operated, and then comes the terri- deadly than other forms of bomb Sergeant Titches a further re- mencing at 8.30 p.m. to which Civi this morning, charged with a ple, Mr. Tang sees no useful pur-no labour truce had been reach- fic moment for pilot and machine. ing.

mand until Monday was granted. lian members of the Royal Army breach of the Deportation, Ordin- poss can be served by continuing ed, the decision, however, in For It is necessary to pull the aero Bombs used for diving attacks The discharged men were Ho Medical Corps Association and their ance. He had been banished for his membership in the Council volves continuing the discussions, plane out of the dous dive can carry much more explosive than Cheong, alias Hak-chat Cheong: wives are cordially invited. Owing a period of 10 years on January Through the intercession of Mr. It also involves the question while traveling at more than five the ordinary shell of twice their Lam Kau, allas Lem Fo-choi; to the fact that addresses of nuin- 8. Defendant pleaded that he Hu Han-min, Mr. Tang has, how whether a Union, majority, shall miles a minute, Pict

size, and the accuracy, percentag

Kwong-cheung alias bere are not known, it has not been returned to have his feeble legs ever, consented to affix his name to represent all employees United

hita is also far greater than in the Chung SL-

Yau- possible to send, indiviäna! treated by a doctor Za

circular telegram on the policies of Press, per S. E. Levy and Cosw There is no time to make a mis-case of ordinary-shell-fire

cheung, alias Tau-Pei-cheung, the South-west.

Distinct New Menace

RAM.C DANCE WEEK TO-MORROW

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