TESTING PLANES FOR
SERVICE BY U.S. AIR
BUREAU
DESIGNS THOROUGHLY
EXAMINED
TILTABLE ROTOR AUTOGIRO
FAVOURED
DOWN at Langley Field, Virginia, at the "prov
ing ground for the private flier," or, to give it its official title, the Langley Memorial Labo- ratory of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, design of a safer, cheaper and easier operating private plane has progressed so rapidly that indications point to a not oo distant future when that portion point to a not too distant lic, grounded by the present expense of private flying, may be as conventionally hopping off on its recreational and business trips as unconcern- edly as it now piles into its automobiles for that
purpose. «
Under the impetus of the first federal campaign to help the general public to get and operate a plane within reach of its purse, the development section of the Bureau of Air Commerce now has on hand several invited and tested private aircraft de- signs, which though they have outraged the flying fraternity that believes that "what doesn't look well won't fly well. Jess have produced results to merit the bureau's "okay.”
EGYPTIAN MISSION LEAVES LONDON
*
neverthe-
To get these designs was a case of the "mountain"going to Moham med." The Bureau of Air Com~ merce is charged with the duty of testing every plane manufactured in the United States for an “ap-i proved type" certificate. Instead of sending out invitations for de- signs for private planes and sitting back to see what would happen, thej 1.
Bureau. went
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Doctor Hafez Afifi Pasha, in reply, said: “My colleagues and intend to make a most careful study
ahead on its own
initiative and ordered several ap of the full information which we parently noteworthy designs and have collected since our arrival brought them into the Langley! England, and of the.. proposals! which the representatives of the United Kingdom Government andị :) of United Kingdom commerce and industry have made to rs. We feel
laboratory,
Autogiro Design"
THE CHO KI, THEO SOÀI MÀY 16 1935
PRIVATE FLIERS AT SPECIAL AERODROME
General Italo Balbe (top), who commanded the Italian mass light to America, was considered a pos- sibility for the command of the Italian air force on the Abyssinian "front. Operations there are under the direction of General Emiho de Bono (lower) High Commissioner for the colonies of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland.
EMPIRE AIR LINES
Passenger Fares Reduced
NEW IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
SCHEDULE
Reductions in fares for pas sengers who fly by Imperial Airways from England to In- dia, and points beyond, became operative with the departure of the India service from "Croy- don on April 2
Route
New Fare Old Fare
£85
£ 95
£122
£135 £180
AIR PRESSURE SECRETS TESTED
WIND TUNNEL OPENED
BY AIR MINISTER
MAY SAVE ROYAL AIR FORCE
£40,000 A YEAR
LATEST IN AIR RESEARCH
Farnborough.
HE Marquess of Londonderry, Secretary for Air. pressed à To which started a 2000 direct-curren, slectric motor at the Royal Aircraft establishment at Farnborough" re- cently. This motor drives the fan of a new 24-feet aeronautical research wind-tunnel
This was the great theatre where
Poised in the hurricane of wind the tremendous winds of the ma thus created, a single-seater fighter chine whirled and eddied and were aeroplane quivered and trembled drilled into even flow for the work It was a Gloster Gauntlet, and its to which man had called them. Ju presence in this test chamber was other chambers. they were after- due to a resolve to analyse secrets wards dispersed and tamed. of its performance.
Late in the day though, it may
seem, there remain many mysteries 5 YEARS OF
of the air to clear up. Aeroplane ; foreseen frustration, and some- designers are often baffled by un-!
times, as in the present case, are rewarded by unaccountably good! results. +
PROGRESS
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June 19-Presides for Srst time at Professor Malville Jones, of meeting of the Legislative Council Cambridge University, explained Vote of $614,000 passed for Shing Man for the first time the other day that July 18-Visits Po Leang Rak with
Valley Water Scherze.
worth following.
Wind At 115 m.ph.
./
Issue
A
T. Campbell-Back, wimmer of the England Australia air m'a- thos, is honeymsoning with Floe ence Desmond, the actress, after a wedding that was defered when they had a quarrel, and broke their engagement. They lek on a fyng honeymoon after this picture was taken
CORRESPONDENCE
Governor's Advice On SpeculationTM
To the Edit, “China Mail"] Sir-Mary there are in Colony who will echo the hope pressed by His Excellency Governor in his reply to the habitants farewell addresses homage and good wishes, that would be far better if less specula tion were indulged in and legiti mate trading adhered to in Colony That this hope should expressed on an occasion when" speeches would receive very wi attention was probably influenced By the special circumstances that brought the gathering together- must be the fervent prayer many that Sir William Peel's wise comsel be taken to-heart
Sir William's advice is evidence of his knowledge of one aspect Lamong many others of prevailing
conditions in
Hong Kong; it is moreover, an aspect which many have commented upon but regard- ing which few have had the moral courage to state openly their con victions, and none have been found to condemn outwardly the specula tive activity that is working 30 mach injury to the Colony's come mercial and industrial life.
Feb. 23-His Excellency and Lady24) leading article arguing în con-é
I remember a recent (January
Territories
"the
a 10 per cent. reduction of friction Lady Peel Opens St. Paul's College Re attend Requiem Mass in honour of in what is known as the "boundary Bazaar
memory of King Albert of the Belgians nection with New izyer of air sweeping over the
July Currency Committee
*Fch. 26. Chief Justice, Mr. A. D. Ajagriculture that wing's of an aeroplane in flight final report advising abilisation
adverse MacGregor, welcomed at Supreme balance need not be so unfavour might be translated practically into Kemp, EC, presented with white Colony.
Aug 18-Chief Justice, Sir J. H. Cours prior to taking his first case in able if more of the capital which ja 100 per cent. increase of speed gloves at the Assizes.
for a given output of power. The Sept 18-Chief Justice presented gunboas, guided by fire at Bliss Bay, other parasitic activities were em
Mar. 14-USS. Fulton, American at present goes into speculation and boundary air is that which rubs the with white gloves at second maiden as- Officers and crew rescued by HALS ployed in manufacture. For his surface and is known to be often
size in succession-unique occasion for Wishar
outspokenness the writer deserves Hong Kong. very turbulent
Mar. 17-His Excellency opens new the community's thanks. Sept 22-His Excellency opens new pavilion of the SCAA. at Caroline. It may not be possible to make good Biological Building at HF. University. BALA all this theoretical profit, but it is
The Governor hopes speculation Oct-Defcit of $2,299,096 disclosed obviously a line of investigation!on 1931 Budget His Excellency issues Mar. 24 Her A. Wood, former cannot be done away with by moral
Norviken pirated.
might be done away with If It Memorandum to Retrenchment Com Secretary for Chinese Araim, leaves suasion, it is earnestly to be hoped mittee Ordering drastic cuts in. the Calory on retiremen personnel of the Civil Service...
Mar. 31-MS. Cornflower handed that His Excellency's locum tenenx The new wind-tunnel is designed (85,000 worth)
Det. 8 Record haul of heroin over to HE. Naval Volunteer Force. for his successor will see the need for such research it is not the steamer Hüda.
made CT Italian Apr. 6s Excellency and Lady for framing legislation in order to biggest in the world, but it can deal! Nov. 5-His Excellency lays foundaJapan--
Peel leave Colony on brief visit to Eurb a form of activity for the with aeroplanes up to 562£2în spanion stone of the La Salle College of May 14-Texible explosion at Gar
existence of which there can be no the Christian Brothers, faad 3 tons weight, an aeroplane under investigation tural Show, His Excellency being un building of Tang Wan Hospital at Po
Co.'s works at West Point Forty excuse, and much less forbearance The speed of the air swept over
Dec. 8-Inangal Dinner of Rotary deaths. Dec. 21-Lady Peel opens Agrical May 2-Eis Excellenes opens new
on the part of the authoritie*:
It has been urged more than once by the current may be as much as well
Yan Street
that no
"grand-motherly legisla 15 miles an hour. There are
June 4-Mr. Eobert Baker, the Rev. tion" should be introduced whereby Jan. 1- His Ismaller wind-tunnels in
Excellency which R.C.M.G. in New Year's Honours. Mr. and Mr. A. P. Sutherland honoured interfered with. On the other hand, created G. TWaldegrane, Mr. G. T-Padget the "liberty of the subject” is "in"" twice that air-speed is swept over W. W. Hornell, CLE, lighted. iscale models.
the Birthday Honours. His Excellency orders census for June 22 Five Feb. 12 Revision of Canton-Kow death of 8 years old Michael Pine
British children!"liberty of the subject" must not March 7.
Shrown into Albany, nollab, resulting in be made to commote an abuse of Mar 23-His Excellency lays four-fie device, erected at cross roads of such, that liberty, if exercised in a loon Railway contract agreed to..
itizenship which is prejudicial to dation stone of new Po Leung Kuk Pedder Street, Des Voeux Eoad and detrimental way, calls for legisla- Aug. 11-"Eva" HK's latest the Colony's best interests. As- Leighton Hill Road.
Apr-20-Railway disaster near San-
Chater Road Twelve killed, 20 injured.
Ane 16-Ma Parker trimmel
tion which should be enforced in Aug. Typhoon strikes
pleted: another step in Colony's water the best interests of the common Jardine *s.
Colony-supply system Kwongsang lost: three
weal Sept. 12-Budget speech read, show- SHITÍVONS.
Sept. His Excellency opens long-
ing surplus balance of $12,601,258.
Among the designs acquired by certain these proposals together the bureau an autogiro of the new. with any recommendations we can tiltable rotor type is perhaps the The reduced rates, as compared make to our Government with the most interesting from the amateur with previous charges, are indicated object of increasing the volume of flier's standpoint. The rotor wings herewith: trade between our two countries of this two-place cabin ship can will be examined by them in a be folded back along the sides. The spirit of most friendly co-opera-propeller can be disengaged from Lordon-Karachi... . tion." --British Wireless Service: the engine so as to eliminate high-London-Calcutta..£108. way hazard. A power drive con-London-Bangoon...£120. nects the engine to the wheels of London-Singapore ..£156
Lord Londonderry, in his speech the landing gear, and. presto, our
at the function, translated the!: Proportionate reductions also bework of the new wind-tunne! into autogiro is ready for highway came effective as between inter-money terms. He said: "If by its operation. The following quotations have)
mediate stages east of Gwadar. Be-means tween Delhi and Calcutta, for ex-can be reduced by one-tenth
the resistance of aircraft been received by Reuter.
Advantages of highway opera- Prey. Yesterday tion, of course, are obvious. The s. 230 to Rs. 200.
ample, the fare was reduced from should save no less than £40,000 2 Closing Closing,autogiro can be housed in an ordín-
year in the petrol bill of the Royal ary garage and driven to the flying With the departure of the Eng-Air Force."
COMMODITY PRICES
*New York Cotton:——
May
Jaly
October
December
we
1931
May 14. May 15. Seld, and proceed on its own powerjland-Australia service from Croy- The construction of the tunnel distance telephone to Canton by contras to Colony after absence of nearly meriting condemnation. There is,
back to its garage. The autogiro's don on April 12th the complete has been no mean engineering feat, versing with Provincial Governor of two years. ability to land on "postage stamp"route of approximately 12,000 for which Messrs. Boulton and Kwangtung. airports, which is, indeed, what miles, from London through to Bris-Paul, of Norwich, and Messrs. Halst
Sept. 22
There is no need to state speci- Sept. 29. Robert Ho Tung re-fically any form of speciation.
However, one recently introduced Oct 17-His Excellency lays for-that is indefensible from whatever Shanghai Bank.
Oct. 18, E. D. C. Wolfe, Lo gambling pure and simple, in the spector-General of Felice, retires.
Now, 8-New Cheers Club opened by calls for early investigation and form by which it is conducted it
many private landing fields will be bane, will, for the first time, be- and Co. have been mainly respon-complete owloon Bre-wash Damidation stone of new Hong Kong and point of view one regards it. It is
-11.78 11.90
1139 11.94
11.78 118
11.84 11.89
Jan. (1936)
March
Sexot
1188 11.94 11.43 11.97 12.30 12.35
New York Rubbers-----
May
12.202
July
12.28
12.19 12.313
bile.
September
12.41. 12.43
October
12.48* 12.63 12.62 12.70.. 12.69
12.48
Chicago Wheat:-
May
90% 917
91% 923%
September
92% 93%
Chicago Cora:—
May
July
87% 80%
87-4-
-81
September
751
75%
Winnipeg Wheat:--
May
86% $7**
December
January
July
Nov, 20-Piracy of . Hanyang Ave Sucellency opens Peel accounts, has become more and
Dec.
19352
coupled with the ability to move come available for passengers assible.
Sept. Anti-Japanese riots, loot- under its own power, is going 10
well as mails Hitherto, during
ing and murders, After the artificial hurricane Sept 24 Increase of petrol and bring an aircraft of this type well the initial phase of operation on started by Lord Londonderry had tobacco duties. Other new duties in Lady Peel. within the flexibility of an automo-the new sections between Singapore subsided, an observer went behind posed:
and Darwin, mails only have been the scenes and found himself in an near Amoy.
Nov 22-Royal Weich Fusiliers ar-Prompt suppression.java carried on these stages, passengers almost dark chamber of vast size,]
South Wales Borderers. This form of gambling, from all Rudderless Plane
Dec. 16-Betting Duty Ordinance in Engineering Laboratory a University more popular because of the facility from London not being booked and in which were almost endless 1 troduced. Among the fraternity who already
farther eastward than Singapore serried colurens faintly lit by al Dec 30 His Excellency opens new By sport planes of their own, the Darwin, Australia, the passenger
From London through to. Port mysterious electric bine
tuberculosis wards at Tung Wah Ros-zounces Sanidry Board to be dissolves the fact that farge
January— Government Gazette a for its indulgence and also from Weick rudderless plane, designed fare is £180, and from London to into pitiful insignificance in
Groping there one felt dwarfed
pital.
small and replaced by Urhan Council Filst amounts, according to the size of by Fred Weick of the engineering Brisbane £195, with reductions at strangely lovely
2 Mar, 16-War Memorial Hospital
reading of Billy Jan: 24: ̈·· staff of the N. A. C. A.. has evoked the rate of twenty per cent, on the close-serried columns of pillars
temple, where opened by His Excellency and Lady raty degree of LL.D. from Hong Kong those whose business should keep
Jan. 7-His Excellency receives ho placed at stake. Quite a few-of-
the purse of the speculator, can be much interest. A low-wing mone return portion of tickets paid for in soared upwards to an indiscernible Colony plane with cabin enclosure
May 1-Serious water shortage in Jan. 27-His Excellency, as Chief them occupied at their desks, or in
University advance. In the reverse direction, roof..
Scout, appeals for more fancial say-the service of their principals by May 6-His Excellency goes on-six port at annual meeting at Sandilands whom they months' leave.
May 26 First Empire Froducts Jan. 28-His Excellency and Lady under the allurement of this new mare paid, have fallen Fair opened at Peninsula Hotel by the Peel visit the Horticultural Society's "get-rich-quick" form of specula Hon Mr. W. T. Southern, Officer Ad Show His Excellency presents dict, that if the growing popularity tion. There are those who pre-
powered by a pusher motor, Weick plane features
and
the
and in Australian currency,
the
2 landing fares are £244 from Brisbane to
gear which is opposite to a conven- 1995 from Port Darwin to London.
tional landing gear, Le.. the tail
wheel, fixed in the new design, is well ahead of the front of the plan» and the pair of wheels supporting the body, of the craft itself are located aft of their usual position in a conventional aircraft. **
*86 July
8734 New York Sugar:--
No. 1 No.3 No. 1 No.3 Con Con. Con. Con 2.48n 2.46n 2,48 2.44n] With a three-wheeled carriage of 2.49 2.47 2:45 2.45
this sort the Weick plane can be 2.57 2.53. 2.54 2.51 much more quickly braked to a stop. 2.64 259 262 2.57 There would be less tendency to Jan (1936) 2.48¤ 242 2460239-ground loop," or rose over, after New York Silk
May July
Sept
Dec.
1.342 1.34
May
1.341.35
July
September
1.34 -183
Montreal Silver:-
May
July
September
December
77.05
78.00b
78.85t 80.50
AIR RAID SHELTERS FOR PARIS
City's Catacombs To Be Used
Paris.
hitting a ditch or low obstruction. A Paris municipal councillor bas The stability provided by such a asked the city authorities to cox- gear would make landing at air-sider the advisability of organising fields where there are established the catacombs of the capital as runways much easier if the wind shelters for the population in the 75.50,
77.150 happened to be blowing across the event of bombing from the air.^ 76.20 78:152 line. Once again the amateur flier The catacombs are of, artificial would find less trouble in these worked-out stone quarries, some hese origin, and consist almost entirely cross-wind landings,
of which were exhausted as long Automatic Throttle
ago as the period of Romam occupa- Second in
importance in the tion. They are to be found in For the theft of a fountain pen Weick plane is an arrangement of nearly all quarters of the city, and from a ship's steward, Wong Yin engine and tall surfaces so that some have already been fitted with was this morning sentenced to four when the controls are set to fly at a
electric light months" "fmprisonment by Mr. A. certain speed the plane will auto Access is easy by special, stair- W GEL Grantham at the Central Police Court.
A Asked, B-Bid, T-Traded, N-Nominal:
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ways from many of the streets, and ventilation is, in most cases, good
More than 250 scouting fighting and bombing plases are under com mand of Henry V. Butler, Arst *f the American aircraft battle force to be
accorded the rank of Vice Admiral makes him one of the "hig
the feet high command
Peel
1932
ministering the Government.
H
Jane Water situation relieved by awards at anual inspection of the St. of this new speculative craze is not heavy rains.
John Ambulance Brigade
ed
Sept 12 Cheng Kwok Tau convict. Mar. 2-His Excellency becomes curbed, disaster and ruin are bound
of procuring murder. Oct. 9
of the S.P.C. S William Peel to overtake the speculators, with Sandilands Hat for Girl Fund Gričes
opened by G.O.C.t
the inevitable consequence Oct 11as. Helikon pirated for Aberdeen Industrial School
Mar 26 His Excellency open.
the their innocent dependants will be second time.
Nov. 17-His Excellency and Lady Charity Ball at the Hotel Cecil in and bare necessaries of life.
Mar. 30-His Excellency attends robbed of the wherewithal for the Peel return to Colony.
of the Children's Ecstal and Clinic,
Dec 30 Enthronement of Bishop Kowloon Ronald Owen Hall at Cathedral
1935
Jan. 1-Mr. Wiliam Shenton knight
Canton Govern
In his solicitude for the
of Hong Kong, to which Sir Wil
· Apl the Kangtung Provincial Govern- has issued forth a sound word of ment officials, trending the Chairman Liam Feel is saying good-bye, ba ed, New Year's Honours List
Jan. 6-His Excellency presents de farewell visit to His Excellency will that warning fall on
ment and the Mayor of Carton, pay warning from his exalted position. zrees to University graduates.
Mar, 6-First run of vehicular ferry Peel Frisit the Yenig Wo Hospital the satisfaction in his retirement deat ears? Or will His Excellency have
steamer
Apl. 10 His Excellency and Lady
Mar. 30-45. Nanchang piracy; salute at the Silver Jubilee Review,
May-Es Excellency takes four officers carried
Apr. 10. Sir Cland Severn dies in London.
-May 24-Hix Excellency opens Ein- pire Fair at Kowloons
Garden party at Government House some of his many friends whom he of receiving the good news from May 8-His Excellency t takes the salute at the Jamborally leaves behind on Friday next, that May 19-Hie Excellency ays Town his counsel, given in the wisdom: dation stone of Queen
Mary Hospital, his ripe experience and the sound- May 265 Prominent pirated and Pokfulam. taken to Bias Ray Captain Jensen May 12 Lady Feel opens The Violets of judgment acquired during wounded. R
Frel Health Centre in Wanchsia long period of Colonial adminis
14 Communities Farewell to tration, has borne dod May 15His Excellency lays for otherwise eat into the His Excellens at the University the evils of gambling
Colony's commercial pros
Aug. 16-Hong Kong's first brewery | opened at. Sham Taeng th
2023 Beri Riviere pirated
Dear Gap Rock
Ja 2012 CC Wodies in Hong
stion stone of the new Cestral Bri-
tish School Argyle Street. Kowloon.
May 16His Excelency's Farewellibeen arrested in good time? "speech" to the Legisla
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