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BLESSING IN DISGUISE

According to the waiters at a big London restaurant absent- mindedness can be a blessing in disguise for some people"

On one occasion a man walked into the restaurant with the aid of a crutch and a stout ash stick Be was seen to sit down at a table with a friend and became engaged in a heated argument.in

Finally the man pushed back his chair, and red with anger, he

CHANNEL TRIP BY GLIDER

FUEL COSTS LESS THAN SIX SHILLINGS

FLYING DEVELOPMENTS OF THE FUTURE

(By Robert Kronfeld)

OBERT KRONFELD, the Austrian gliding expert, recently com

Ro

pleted a flight from. Croydon to Paris inja motor glider pro». vided with a 5 hp motor cycle, engine. In 1931, he won the £1,000. prize offered by the "Daily Mail" for the first gliding flight across the Channel and back

My object in undertaking the Both the British and the stamped out of the dining-room London to Paris flight was to French Air Ministries, it should He completely forgot his crutch show that flying to day is well be pointed out, are eager to help and stick, and never troubled to within the means of the average this new movement in cheap fir return for theza.

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IT HAPPENED IN UGANDA

person---just as cheap and every ing, and it is thanks to both af bit as safe as the small touring them that I was able to obtain the necessary permits without My recent achievement was no difficulty. Many curious examples of "Eng-

There are heaps of people who lish as she is spoke have been fantastic stunt I was simply culled from "time to time" from showing how easy it is for any-want to fly but who cannot do so newspapers published in Africa one to fly. My wife has been because of the cost. They must The Uganda Guardian publishes among my many pupils, and she have a cheap mashine on which items of Native News by Our has learned to fly a glider in a they can rely. In trying to create African correspondent, but adds, few lessons, and was able to take this cheap plane swall wing load- in brackets, the information that over full command of a glider ing has been made a feature, an the News Ba question is with a small motor like the one I experience has proved that o

light weight per ("unedited").

used recently after only one week chines with a

square foot are extremely safe "On 8/3/35 we startled to be of tuition.

With the machine with which I intervened by a most probably, The glider I brought over with lunact woman standing uprightly me is to be delivered to a French crossed over recently & BAC to build it in Drone all kinds of risky things in a dock of the Mengo Bezger firm, who intend road Junction giving hands to series for the French public. can be done which could not be every passenger, even though That shows the interest in these attempted with an ordinary is no danger : of being a pedestrain. She made us, gliders which is being taken in plane. There

"stalling whilst in a lorry, halt still though France

A flight of 800 40 1,000-miles there were

Interest In England not any proceeding

or not!

2

I must say that in England also would be possible with this same The China Mail tions were only got rid of after cars at the moment, and later per-

they had done the maximum of mitted us to go off. She had been I am continually being asked machine equipped with a bigger damage; and the special dis- clothed in a barkcloth tied from about gliders; and I do really tank.

Machine Described provisions that neck to feet "

think that it would be of immense use to the British public, not only I may point out that the RAC were well enough for a period of recovery after the war have Your Daily Smile! for sporting purposes but also Drone is fitted with a 600 c

amended. never been

for the really important objective Douglas engine developed out of" time limit would have saved

The Next "Time

of making as many young people standard motor cycle. It is (the revival of the military Driving down Dublin's main thor-as possible air-minded, if the practically the same as that of spirit, and avoided the appear- Sackville Street)

oogitare O'Connell Street (formerly science of gliding were to be the motor-cycle, but with st

a motorist passed come more widely known

[modifications"" for "aviation was a the traffic constable by the bridge on The German dictatorship, of ance that the League

For young men and young girls poses. course, has at its disposal not combination of the victors to the wrong side.

The glider which I have just Recalling him, the policman as-I cannot think of any more use only a very highly trained mili-enforce the penalties of defeat tary staff, but a highly quali-o the vanquished Just as wat for did ye not go round ful and at the same time entranc-delivered cost £275. The French ing pastime than learning to use glider company, however, with The reparations only disappeared by

The motorist said he was "very

the subsidies which are given for fied diplomatic service..

possible sony, but he had not noticed the of a glider. most interesting development the worst of all

methods repudiation so haseer was there,

A start may be made with a such craft by the French Air lat the moment is the emergence

"Well, now the constable warned simple glider, and then the be Ministry, hope to be able to de- of the professional assistant to the one sided disarmament dis-

ginner may go on to a glider with liver to their client a glider built take charge of the affairs of appeared only by the action of him, just remember next time,

small motor runaboutin series at from something like the Dritte Reich, and to adapt Germany in proclaiming that go round me whether I'm here

plane, as it might be called, such£150 to £180. the very undiplomatic opinions she would no longer regard

Obedient.

as the one.I used in my Paris] That is the proper spirit. There of "Mein Kampf" to a world in those clanses as part of the

lis no doubt that we are now in Wille WZES. almost through his fight' which it is not practical politics, Treaty. By the complete in-

Remember that for that flight the Flying Age For the spirit to antagonise everybody at once. transigence of France, to which reading lessen when he came to a

word he could not pronounce. Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, she had persuaded her post-Barque prompted the teacher. I used under four gallons aand knowledge of flying to be- who has been negotiating in war Allies to accede, she lost willie looked at his classinates and Petrol, and some 68. worth of spread everywhere among our

all chance of bargaining and the Taughed:

oil: The Journey thus cost me youth we want fiying gliders to London, belongs. of course, to the professional class, and it moral effect of concession Itaque, Wilier exclaimed the barely 55. 6-far cheaper than be available for them as cheaply lis quite probable that he and seems that the Council is not teacher harshly,

Willie, looking up at the teacher, and delivered it as freight

If I had packed the machine up as a runabout car, and, soon, per-

|haps, almost as cheaply as Sir Samuel Hoare have between capable of dealing with major finally cried out, "Bowwow!!

Not long ago I had to deliver motorcycle. them succeeded in "breaking questions of hot controversy

just such a glider in France, and the ice over the frigid political just the questions that cause

the most devastating wars, and Mistress: "Marie, when you wait at the carriage cost me nearly £19. QUEEN PRESIDES AT situation on the Continent”

a state of table w-night for my quests, please Think of the difference! I came If that is so, the cracks may babbling irritation that "recent

keep Europe in

don't spill anything * be expected to spread rapidly,

the boiling T'm very tight-mouthed."

Maid: "Don't you worry, ma'am for the frost was becomingly was very near oppressive and dangerous.

Our Point

Last weeks we enumerated own special interest is in the

*He called me a bare-faced boom- wider circumference that the Der Fuehrer's thirteen points cracks may be expected to It must not be supposed for a "Never mind; perhaps he didn't reach. for Herr von Ribbentrop moment that a settlement of notice your motist has already shown that he the whole lot has been made i knowns well how dangerous it There is the stuff of some years CAT BURGLAR AT have got over just the same. With Sandringham towards the end of

is for the outlying portions of negotiations in that long pro- the world, including the Far gramme. The point is that the East that Europe, should be removal of the special di- entirely absorbed in her own criminations against Germany affairs and unable to speak with enables her to begin to nego-| any authority when the issues hate without any sacrifice of of peace and war hang in the self-respect. There is no trace balance in Asia Europe, he of disloyalty to France in sign-

the ing an agreement which recos says, has a mission for

No Tattletale

Overlooked

WORK

St. John Brigade H.Q. Entered

over for less than fis

The taxicab Journey from Le

COURTS

London

Bourget aerodrome to Paris cost Returning To-day To

me more!

A Good Journey

I had a very good journey with

London, To-day. good air conditions, but if I had His Majesty the King is ex-- had a contrary wind I should pected to return to London from

my machine I can fly extremely the week In the meantime the low, and can therefore seek an Queen will return to-day to hold, altitude where wind velocity does alone, the 3rd and 4th Courts this not hinder me

evening and to-morrow-evening- My machine takes off in 80-British Wireless Service. yards, just like the majority of

Two wrist watches valued at planes, but instead of having to $80 were stolen from the head-continue running in a straight whole of the civilised world" nises that the period of post quarters of the St. John's Am-line after rising, I can turn with It is some years since Europe war

balance Bridgade at Tai Hang dur-in the limits of my take off feld limitation which has has remembered that

usually lasted about five years, ing the early hours of yesterday, and gradually rise in s spiral,

Mrs. E. Langley, who resides at Practically like an autogiro. The actual nature and scope can be brought to an end after

Afeld of 200 yards in length of the break in the ice is worth fifteen years That it would the headquarters, reports that

{is quite suficient for me to take examining, for however unwill-have been ended by violence if the robbery was committed be ing some of us may be to aban-nothing had been done has been tween 3 am and 6 am by some to the air. I can land at 13 miles

TOUR IN WESTERN MONGOLIA

Investigation By Japanese Party

According to seed 1per hour, and therefore I

don the ideal of a unanimous clearly indicated by the recent person who gained entrance to 3not fear a crash. Should I have from Chahar, the Ta

and collective security, the main was mentality of all the the room by climbing thing is to achieve the results nations, as shown by prepara drain pipe to the window. that we all want Like the old tion for gas attacks, and

Diet of Poland, the Council of new armaments the League has requir

The moral of it is tha

unanimous vote before any League cann

official action

can be taken.

The temptation to stop all pro-

gress when

or at least

of quid vote, has

Luin of

demand some sort quo for

Pleadi

to land on rough ground I-sir

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Pairing

JAPANESE VISIT TO SIAN

Trip Continued To