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PROBLEMS OF

ECONOMIC AIRCRAFT

£25,000 PRIZE

OFFERED BY

AIR MINISTRY

Speedier Transport Planes Needed

CHEAPNESS OF OPERATION

ESSENTIAL

The Air Ministry has decided to offer a prize of £25,000 for the best medium-sized air transport machine produced by any United Kingdom aircraft firm.

Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Se- cretary for Air, made this an- nouncement when introducing the Air Estimates in the House of Commona

Emphasising the necessity for the further development of Bri- tain's ale transport system, he said:

"There is one type of aircraft In which American development has been very striking, and that is the fast medium-size commer- cial transport. machine, though the, majority, if not all, of auch mia- chines produced to date would be incapable of economie operation on our Empire routes.

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"There has hitherto been real demand for this type in the

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1935

STRATOSPHERE

Two snapshots of Laura Ingalls, are made in the prepared to hop off from Burbank, California, fur Floyd Bennett Field, New York, an her dawn-to-dusk nonstop fight.

United Kingdom, but in the near STABBING CHARGE

future it does seem that there

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ANZAC DAY

IN COLONY

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THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN

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April 25, 1915.

Complainant Gives. Evidence

person

LIFE IN NEW YORK

FLYING BEGIN AT 50,000 FEET

THEORY CLASHES WITH ACTUALITIES

ENOUGH OXYGEN FOR ENGINES NORMAL PROPELLERS FAIL

TO GRIP THIN AIR

THE problem of stratosphere flying is opened up when a plane reaches a height nearing, or beyond, 50,000 feet. Theoretically, owing to the rarefield atmosphere, the lack of air resistance at such a height a plane should be able to travel at speeds far in advance of anything attainable nearer the earth.

But the experts offer three major problems to be overcome hefore such a thing is possible. The petrol engine, as at present made. has to be supplied with air to mix with its petrol. vapour, this air being pumped in at the pressure found near the earth's surface; in order to provide this at the higher altitudes where the air is thin, the engine has to be "supercharged" — that is. the engine has to be furnished with machinery to compress the rarefield air until it is capable of giving the best results when mixed with the petrol in the engine's cylinders. ready been proved to be possible.

This has al-

ALLEGED FORGED 'BUS TICKETS Defendants Allowed Bail

$5,000 EACH FOR MEN AND $250 FOR WOMAN

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It should also be possible, it is said, to build an hermetically

The British Air Ministry is offering a prize of £25,000 for the fastest. transport plane design, coupled with economy in operation. The photograph hour for 1,000 miles, carrying 1,000 lbs. of mask, shows the present fastest British plane, capable of a speed of 150 miles un

YOUNG

NON-STOP RECORD FLIGHT ROUND THE GLOBE TO BE ATTEMPTE Clyde Pangborn T Make New Bid PLANE TO BE REFUELLED IN THE AIR

Mr. Clyde Pangborn, the aviator to fly a non-stop hop tween Japan and the United Sta recently announced plans fo

ENGINEER'S four and one-half day non BABY PLANE

"FLYING FLEA" BEING BUILT AT HESTON

(By William Courtenay)

flight around the world," start and finishing at San Diego, formin.

The non-stop feature will attained.. Mr. Pangborn hopes, refueling in mid-air.Pangbo and Bennet Griffin hope make the round of 15.000-mile northern route wit out landing at all. In separa ventures, both pilots have ph

sealed cabin in which the pilot MRS. VILLIERS-APPLEBY, the 23-year-old official in the viously failed to circle the glo and passengers would breathe

Traffic Office at Heston Airport, has been spending his spare alone. Together, they hope air at the correct pressure for time designing a novel type of cheap aeroplane. their lungs. Like the engine they, too, would require super- with air passengers each day was revealed by him in a talk

have better luck. How he has done this in between long spells of duty dealing charged air.

Propeller Problem

The third problem may be

recently.

more difficult to surmount that FORMOSAN

of designing an air-screw to get sufficient thrust against the thin

AIR ROUTE

PREPARED

Giant Douglas Ships Ordered

TOKYO WILL MANUFACTURE

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fuelling in New York, Moscow

They will leave in August,

Chita. If the fight is delayed

til October, the aviators plan

He said: "When I was 20 I had a job as a journalist intake the warmer route, via Itap France and was given a motor-India, Manila, Honolulu, eycle."

The attempt will be made in "I speak French fluently and, freak bi-motored plane with after making contacts with fuselage fourteen feet long and French aviation enthusiasts. I wing-spread of 84 feet. conceived the idea that my motor-cycle engine might quite casily be used to carry me about. by air."

A Monoplane

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AIRCRAFT WORKERS

ON STRIKE

800 Men Leave Work At Hawker Factory IN SUPPORT OF OUTSIDE

DISPUTE

At yesterday's hearing of their. Kowloon Motor Bus ticket forgery case at the Kowloon Magistracy in peller of coarse pitch and large Possibly a four-bladed,, pro- The case in which Chan Shing-which 10 Chinese, including six diameter might be designed to jshun, husband of the complain-conductors and & widów, are meet the situation, when it arises. jant, Yu Sze-mui, and another charged, Mr. E... I. Wynne-Jones

named Ng King are noted that the Assistant Attorney to obtain in the stratosphere is The main advantage believed charged with having on Decem- Generat had. informed him that he that it lies above the region of ber 23, 1934, and March 27, 1935, would oppose bail under $5,000 in storms. Yet although variable counnelled, procured or com- the case of the male defendants, weather may be unknown, there

Mr. Appleby's engine was a manded Wong Tai and Li Chan but would accept bail of $250 in is some indication of the exist

LATER UNDER LICENSE twin-cylinder horizontally oppos

ed type.. to: wound or do grievous bodily the case of the woman,

lence of steady winds, blowing at han to Yu Shemaui with intent

Orders for three complete.D. C The magnitude of the swindle greater speeds, ̈*

He was introduced to Mignet, to maim, disgure or disable her, was approximately $9,000 a month

2-type 14-passenger seroplanes the French aeroplane designer. The War at last! The first was continued before Mr. W. and the prosecution could not tell stratosphere planes will one day Aircraft Manufacturing Company orthodox machine. With this as The speeds which, it is hoped, will soon be filed with the Douglas Who had already built an un- brigade have lunded the third Schofield at the Central Magis- how long this had been going on, obtain, are purely conjectural of Los Angeles by the Nakajima basic design and with improve- landed at three-thirty, followed by tracy yesterday afternoon. his Worship was informed by Mr. but 600, 800 or even 1,000 miles Aircraft Manufacturing Company ments and ideas of his own, the second, and then us-we have Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant Fraser. began our entry into the War in Attorney-General, is appearing

an hour are suggested.

Lunch of Tokyo for use on the Japan which flew at Nice in December Eight hundred men employed

young Appleby built a monoplane earnest! Ship's boats, loaded with for the Crown, while Mr. Peter the defence of Li Luen, one of the

Mr. M. A. da Silva appeared for in London and dine in New York. Formosa air line, which is due to troops, denvi

1931. be inaugurated on January 1, 1938, I had to get French profes- Kingston-on-Thames, came the transports for Sin is representing the defen-conductors charged.

the Hawker aircraft factor the shure. Turkish machine-gun-dants.

The defendants were remanded

a Ministry of Communications of sional pilots to fly it," he constrike last month. They ners spray the water and the boats In evidence Yu Sze-mui stated for seven days, on bail of $5,000

ficial announced & fortnight ago. tinued, "so decided to return to supported by any of the trade -men drop their oars and fall that she had married her hus-cach, the woman

The Nakajima Company has re- England and take my license. back-others take

being allowed their places-band when she was 15 years old, out on hail of $250.

ceived a license to manufacture

lons concerned. but still the boats

Douglas aircraft in Japan, but be tain Baker put me through in ten smiths, members of the Nation

"I came to Heston where Cap- move to the and that four or five

The trouble started when 80 shore. Men jump over-board-up after the marriage they sailed months.

cause of the lack of time to to their arm-bits in water-came for New York.

re days in March, 1932. I then Society of Sheet Metal arrange its production schedule 89 went back to Nice, bought a Cau-ceased work in sympathy Her husband to grips with the Turks. Capture would not work and forced her machine-guna Krupp gun to become a prostitute. Turks run up the gullies-the Aus-made between H.K. $70,000. and She sics after. them-ammunition is H.K.$80,000 and they then re-. expended, so fists, stones and rifle- turned to Hong Kong. While in butts are used. The Turks co-America she had bought two tinue to restreat-

With daylight the fort of Goba girl. After further hearing the children, one a boy and other a Tepe enfiladed the beach and casu-case was adjourned until this alties are heavy. The beach and afternoon..

the water arb blood-stained and men lie dead and wounded in the

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TROUBLE ON THE

RAILWAY

Customs Officers. In Dispute With Guards

RIO TO NEW YORK

AIR PROJECT Authorisation Not Yet Secured

BIG FINANCIAL; INTERESTS READY TO SUPPORT

Worke

as to turn out the huge, passenger dron machine and with a French dispute at the Gloucester aircraf ships, the first three craft of that pilot we opened a flying school at factory regarding non-union type will be bought complete in Nice and taught about 14 pupils, bour.

the United States, the official including some. French girls.". plained. One other Douglas ship

Later, workers in other dep An Ambition. The Ministry of Transport in

is now in Japan.

Appleby then took the 34 hpa resolution informing the mans ments held a meeting and pas ed on the Chinese section of the Trans-equator Inc. to undertake Loochoo Islands Fares will be 60 difficult to overcome, he decided The men left the factory in

The projected line will link Fuengine from this machine and ment of their intention to A strike was narrowly avert- American company,

Brazil has recently authorised an kuoka, in. Kyushu, and Talhoku, fitted it to his own monoplane work in sympathy with the Kowloon-Canton Railway yeater-trial Bights to study the possibili-yen for the Fukuoka Naha jump to return to England.

known as Formosa, by way of Nahs in the but, French regulations being smitha. day when a party of Customs ties of establishing a service be-and 100 yen for the entire trip of In 1938 he got a job at Air- lice officers were posted near Officials, under the direction of twoen Rio and New York." the the guards on the train arriving Havana, Porto Principe, Curacao

a European officer, became in-understood that the route will in-cording to the official.

It is approximately 1,800 kilometres, ac work, Ltd., In the Traffic Office factory, but there were no scenes

orderly fashion. A number of volved in a quarrel with some of clude calls at Tampa pit at Shum-chun at 10.18.

at Heaton, and he has since as- (Florida),

and fact that serious trouble was Venezuela the line will follow the

The and Caracas. From the capital of AIR LINE TO LINK nverted was chiefly due to the Orinoco valley and enter Brazilian tact of the Manager of the Chin- territory at the Rio Negro river,

JAPAN AND JAVA

pired to be moved to the Service It was stated that a number, Department, where he will see men have refused to come out on

thing of actual aeroplane strike. The technical staff, clerks,

construction and repair

and some other sections of the This ambition, I learn, is soon employees were not affected. Mr. to be gratified.

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Hawker Company.

But Gallipoll was a short cam-ese eretion, Mr. Lee Lu-chao, continuing over the Amazon forests Support From Japanese (Co

From here. there will be two Chamber Of Commerce

water and on the beach--the land- was 20 years ago; I am one ing has been effected and press onwards the fighting grows the remaining years in France

men lucky ones to be still alive, heavier. The Turks put up a gal- lant fight, but

Belgium. the Aussies push on, and the Turks either fall back

PROVED THEIR WORTH slaughtered. The "Bacpaign, only eight months. are chaute" bombards Goba Tepe and

Yet it who made a timely appearance by way of Manaos and Cayaba. blows the gun enplacements to Zealanders their first insight into It appears that owing to some branches, one to Geyaz, Bello Hori-! the Aumales and New on the scene of the incident. gave

a real war and they proved their difficulty the TURKS HQ, CAPTURED worth even though they had but a refused to leave the train after zonte and Rio de Janeiro, and the The powerful Japan Chamber

Customs officers The "Triumph" and "Majestie" brief four or five months-train-making their usual search, and other continuing through Corumba of Commerce and Industry has put shell the Turks and onward go the ing. Ausales-more troups land and the Turkish headquarters are captur- Peninsula came after a visit from and a railway official. Mr. Sun from New York to Rio will be recently by the Netherlands East The decision to evacute the ver was accidentally discharged, Buenos Aires. Following this sal to establish an air-mail line a dispute arose in which a revoland Asuncion (Paraguay) to itself squarely behind the propo- ed. New Zealand troops land and Lord Kitchener in November, and Tong, was hurt.

route it is estimated that the trip linking Japan and Java, advanced rush at the Turks-what a day! it is marvellous that it went off so The guards eventually return covered in thirty-six flying hours. Indies Japanese Chamber of Com- Prisoners are brought in Bullen and well, Positions that were usually ed to their work and the train "scared-water is running short and held by 30 men wore held by five. procceded. many are in a bad way-but this For several weeks before the

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So much for the first evacuation periods of complete MORE DOGS UNDER Combined Air Service

allence were mahtained and when

OBSERVATION

Three Animals Sent To Kennedy Town

To Channel Islands

SECOND MYSTERY

AEROPLANE

Trial Flights Over Caribbean

RADIO COMPASS CONTROL

Another "mystery plane

took

AIRCRAFT BUILDING IN GERMANY Dessau's Population Grows Rapidly FAMOUS JUNKERS WORKS RESPONSIBLE

day.

to the air just a month ago from On the morsing of April 20 we Johnny Turk rushed the trenches

the Norfolk (Virgins) Naval Air sce the Narrows-Ahl; we will he was mown down so that when

Station, flew over land and later Striking evidence of the develop soon be there-But not our own the time came to weaken the de-

was sighted off Virginia Beach. Itment of German aviation during ships are shelling and the shells fences poor old Johnny was used

was reported to have been in radio the last two years is supplied by fall amongst us-We have come too to the allences and was wary of

communication with several sta the report that the population of far-how can we let the ships know attacking, and so came the evacua

Negotiations, which have been two railway companies jointly, the Boston and with Buffalo NY 100,000.

tions along the coast as far as the city of Dessau is now ove where we are we cannot so we tions with its relief and regreta Another dog, belonging to Mies tween the Great Western Railway, third each. Channel Islands Air- during a three-hour flight,

continuing for some time past, be other two parties holding one where 18 was manufactured,In 1983, Dessau had only 84,400 must retire beyond the ridge-We had left too many pals behind Bascombe, of No. 56 Kennedy Road, the Southern Railway, Jersey Airways Ltd. will operate dally ser-The plane was assembled at the generally exlained as due to where are our re-inforcementa 7-yet we were so glad to be going has been removed to Kennedy Town ways Limited and Whitehall Sevices between the mainland and Naval Air Station but it was

Inhabitants, The swift intreRSO There are note we go back and back to civilisation-a comfortable for observation after having bitten curities Corporation Ltd. have the Channel Islands with machines led at the station that nothing ing, since it is the centre of the many men are left-What has hap-bed-real food. But that was 20 Fusilier Roch, who is now receiving Been brought to a successful con- of the latest and fastest design, and could be given out for pub pened to

developments in aeroplane build "Bhioy" "Where 18 years ago and much tingil has been treatment at the Military Hospital, clusion, with the result that the operation in conjunction with main from that quarter o Billy?" they are left perhaps added since then would I go Two other animals, owned by Dr. parties have become folatly inter line railway companies and Im- nothing to do with they are dead-perhaps they went again? Perhaps I would not but C.-C. Cinaval, are likewise being eated in the recently formed com- perial "Airways, will ren

famous Junkers factories, back first Bat we do not see I can still watch a battalion drilling, kept under phaervation, after one pany known as Channel Telnada able

avall- Arst fight The

them again. They are gone and martial music

Need I go on any further about make ime get in

the remaining dght months. That back wonder

to of them had bitten the doctor at his Airways, Ltd.

residence at "Ellenbad,

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