1935-06-27 — Page 7

HL CHINA'SHAISHUKSDA

FINE RECORD OF BRITISH COMMERCIAL FLYING OVER 16 YEARS

His speedy Lockheed monoplane Litunaica II is ready, and Felix. Waitkus of Kohler, Wisc., awaits. only favourable weather for the start of a non-stop fight from New York-to his birthplace Kaunas, Lithuania.

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AMENITIES OF THE PRESENT DAY

CHEAPNESS, COMFORT

AND SPEED

VAST IMPROVEMENTS ADDED SINCE PIONEER FLIGHTS

British commercial aviation has just reached another milestone

in its history

gress.

the completion of sixteen years of pioneer pro-

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It was in May 1919, that civil flying in Great Britain re ceived official permission from the Air Ministry to start operx- tions, and immediately a series of demonstration flights was organised, culminating a few months later in the establishment of a daily service for passengers and freight between London and Paris.

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From that pioneer service the European airway system has grown from year to year until it now comprises over 50,000 miles of routes; while this summer more than 150 cities and towns on the Continent are connected with London by regular high-speed flying routes.

REAL

The NEW TYPE OF

Modera progress, on the main day's dying of London. Continental air routes, is illüs- other, operating twice weekly in trated by two new services now each direction, makes it pos- operated by Imperial Airways sible to fly through from Lon- One brings Budapest within aidon to Rome and Brindisi in a

day.

EDEN SATISFIED

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Political circles here are asking with some bewilderment how this

To bare missed this opportunity of limitation in the sphere of aval defences would have been,” he said, "to miss a chance of

Switzerland, by air is now only ja little over three bouts from. London, and Berlin not much than four hours; while Prague can be reached in less than six hours and Vienna in 71⁄2 hours.

Remarkable Progress

to

An American naval board of enquiry je" D= vestigating the cause of the erask of the Mar- tin, seaplane EPT (shown in fight) which plunged ints the Pacific off Midway Island carrying Lient Harry Brandenburger (left), Chief Machinist's "Mate. P: C. Litts (right) and four others to their deaths. The plane was one of the 43, in the re- tent mass flight from Hawaii to Midway Island

HOPE FOR AIR PACT

MAIL MACHINE

*FOR AUSTRALIA

Accommodation For

10 Passengers

LOW-WING METAL MACHINE

It is learned that Australia is

Air travel has made remarkable to buy five new monoplanes of the rezark can be reconciled with the eliminating, we may hope for all progress, not only in regard

of speed, but also in its increase in "Monospar" type employed by declaration made by the British time, that fatal competition Government, the Lavoro Fascista naval armaments between Germany comfort and decrease in cost On General Aircraft. asking whether the satisfaction and this country which did so much the first. Paris

clusion of the bilateral agreements of a century ago.

NO PREJUDICE SHOWN

service, sixteen

It is probable that the estimated

The system

£4,000 FOR CHARITY

FROM AIR DAY

200,000 Visitors Te Civil

Aerodromes

The Air League of the British Empire announced recently that 60,000 people attended the civil aerodromes open to the public on Empire Air Day. The combined total of paid - attendances. RAF. and civil aerodromes was 200,000, and the RAF. Benevol- ent Fand will benefit to the ex- tent of not less than $4,000.

29,000 APPLY

IN FOUR DAYS

TO JOIN RAF.

GOOD RESPONSE TO APPEAL

9,000 Want To Fly

London

EXPANSION IN

RAF. OUTLINED BY SASSOON

NO NEED FOR ANXIETY

British Policy Re-stated

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BOMBING BY PLANES PROBLEM MUST

BE ATTACKED

WITH VIGOUR

Itor

IS THERE NO DEFENCEZ

APPEAL TO BRITISH GOVERNMENT

Prof. Lindemann, FRS, Direc

of Physical Laboratory, RAF. Famborough, during the War, recently wrote as follows to the "Daily Telegraph";

Thanks to the Royal Navy, Great Britain has enjoyed im

munity from enemy attack for 300 years To this we owe our free institutions, to this prob- Jably we may trace many aspects

of our national character

In the circumstances, it is not surprising that the frink contes

by the Government that our

Air Force is not in a position, to

guarantee the safety of the great centres of popolation has produced · 2. ware of feeling such as the country has not experienced since the war.

Yet the most fundamental ques-- tion of all was scarcely touched pon in the many notable speeches in Parliament. Almost throughout it was taken for

Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Se-granted that it must always be cretary for Air, speaking at a impossible to discover an effective. Jubilee Incheon of the Holborn defence against bombing zero- |Chamber of Commerce at the pianes, that they can never be. Connaught Rooms recently, said prevented from reaching our there had been need for prompt cities and unloading their deadly and energetic action in Air Force cargoes, that the only hope is to expansion, but there was no need deter potential enemies by the threat of reprisals more ghastly and more bloody than anything

for anxiety or alarm.

Germany is sincere," he they can inflict. said, “and there is no reason to Task for Inventors believe otherwise, there is once;

It would really be interesting to more

some real hope for the know how this fatal obsession Western Air Pact which this

has arisen, and how it has been country put forward hast Fe implanted so firmly in the minds bruary

of nearly everyone in authority. In the whole of recorded his-

expressed in Germany at the con- to poison the atmosphere a quarter years ago, the air fare. 10 day cruising speed of 176 miles per

¡was twenty-five guineas. Today. in the air-liners of Imperial Air-Our will prove an under-estimate. is not nearer to the truth.

It would be a great mistake to ways, passengers fy between the he machine will have a range of Beferring to the general Euro- pean situation this paper voices assume that in accepting agree two Capitals for an air fare of from 800 to 1,000 miles

It is a low-wing metal mone the criticism of British policy ex- meht with Germany the Govern- $415.

An ilustration of how favour plane, with accommodation for two. pressed in some circles, where it ment had done anything to preju-| is said that although England is dice the situation of the other ably, in certain cases, air travel pilots, 10-passengers, and mails. Laval Powere. The Government now compares with surface trans-Its gross weight is 9,000lb, of very active in eliciting the attitude believed that by setting a fixed port not only in speed, but also in which 8,5101b. will be "useful of other countries, she is careful not to reveal her own Trans point of departure for future dis- the matter of cost, is provided by load." It has a retractable under cussions, both as regards Bri- the Imperial Airways service from carriage and variable-pitch pre Ocean Service.

tish and German armaments. London to Rome.

This accom-pellers.

"An air pact, whereby the se- MR. EDEN LEAVES ROME

they had done a great service to plishes in 9 hours a journey which

of construction London, To-day.

curity of each of the air Powerstory no weapon has ever get been In precisely by surface transport would occupy affords a high percentage of pay-

The call for recruits for an en-in Western Europe will be guar-invented, to which a counter has Mr. Anthony Eden, Minister the other Powers.

the same manner, if those other over 30 hours; while in regard to load, by minimising the number of larged Air Force is receiving ajanteed against aggression by the not been found-

To anyone of for League Affairs; left

other members of the pact, is the inventive turn of mind with yesterday morning by rail for Powers could succeed in coming cost, whereas the air fare is 18, massive structural members with magnificent response.

with Germany the cost of a first-class journey by out loss of strength. This has Paris, where he will have a furto an agreement

In four days the Air Ministry only hope, as it seems to me, of some knowledge of the ther conversation with the in regard to land or air

arma boat and train, including various been proved in "practice over has had 9,000 inquiries from avoiding a race in air armaments, Aumerons - possibilities French Premier, M. Laval, before ments in such way as not to supplements for de-luxe Train several years. A monospar mono- young men who want to learn to with its inevitable conclusion, a themselves which might returning to London. British commit this country to any par travel, amounts to just over £20. plane won the King's Cap air race f

officers or as airmen disastrous war ticular strength, the Government Commercial air speed has been last year

pilots. : would believe they had done` DEBATE IN LORDS

us increasing constantly since the in- The two engines are Americai At Victory House, where men had always been that the strength technical officers in the Gore- London, To-day- and the rest of the world a ser fancy of civil aviation in 1919. "Wasps," each of 400 Lp. Daring a brief debate in the vice.

On the first Paris service. the In the new "Monospar" it has vice are being enlisted, 20,000 men that of any other Power within be wuzking on such proposals; House of Lords yesterday Admiral Before the agreement was con- cruising speed was about 80 miles been possible to make good use of have presented themselves or have striking distance. Lord Beatty welcomed the Anglo- cluded the French Government, an hour. Soon after this it went the margin of lift for the intro-written asing for application German agreement. A gesture of in common with the other Pow up to 100 miles an hour. Then duction of an exceptionally fine forms for enlistments the kind Germany had made did ers signatory to the Washington came air-liners cruising at 120 outfit of instrumenta, for sound- Altogether 22,500 men are re- away with all possibility of com-Treaty, was informed on June 7 miles an hour and with a top speed proofing, and for exceptional pas-quired 2,500 pilots and 20,000 European conditions were worse

Wireless Service.

NEVER TOO OLD TO FLY

petition in armaments and rival of the outline of the agreement of 150 miles an hour. To-day the senger comfort. on sea between the two countries (and invited to communicate any Imperial Airways feet includes The agreement for 35 per cent of observations they might desire express air-liners which have a Britain's strength established a to offer. The French view was speed of 170 miles an hour, while permanent relationship and en-received before the agreement certain of the Company's special- sured that with at least one coun-was made, but their criticisms charter aircraft have maximum try in the world there would be no did not appear to be of such

a-speeds higher even than that. competitive building, which was character

as would justify the something to be thankful for. British Government in withhold- Another effect of the agreement ng its consent to an agreement allowed to Germany would be based was that there would be no repeti- which held such promise for the on the particular paragraph of the

agreement tion of ruthless submarine war-peace of the world. fare in the future.

jus definitely to safeguard

capital against attack. The Government's air policj Fifty or a hundred of the best

for the rank and file of the ser- of this country must be equal to ment research institutions should

skilled and unskilled aer drome personnel.

The Inquiries are coming from every comer of Britain. Letters. received include from a fisher- man in the Orkney Islands, a North Devon colour manufactur er, and an Isle of Man shop 23- sistant In the lobby of Victory House there was a deep-sea diver from the Antarctic, aged 26, tiene ing disconsolately away. He had COMPARATIVE STRENGTHS Answering a further question,

How to spend 10,000 at the no teeth, natural or artifcial, and The opposition leader, Lord Taking France's present naval Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell said that

age of 105 was what M30 no chance- Ponsonby, confined his criticism to strength at about 50 per cent of the Deutschland and her sister Mathias Ferguson, of Moher,

Irishman Aged 105 To Try His Hand

“All Right, Son”

the method adopted in concluding the British naval strength, the ships were under the treaty de Near Lavey, County Cavan, dB Another 1,000 men applied

The

begun to arrive an hour before the doors opened. A recruiting, geant (the only recruiting

of the RAF geant in the was lining thes

Germany's Air Aims

When it became evident that

ning rather than improving, and (Continued on Page 10)

BRITISH RAF. EXPANSION

COSTS IN FULL YEAR

£8,000,000 Extra Expenditure

every priority should be given to their experiments; no question of cost should be allowed to stand in the way.

Yet for some obscure reason 8

strange, hopeless apathy seems to infect the departments. For the Hlast fifteen years very little has been done. To press for action camises resentment and hostility. The word has gone forth that no defence is possible, that we must submit, to our fate, anyone who refuses to accept it is regarded as

heretic, not worse, med

Perhape the Committee whose formation was announced by the Prime Minister some months ago is at last providing the necessary. drive. Perhaps the romerons possible Lines of advances

It is understood that the

Furce, which Mr. Baki in nounced in the House of

recently, will entall ditional expenditure of about £8,- that

9,000 a your

they

the agreement, and declared that it agreement to Erance at present finitions in the capital ship class, cussed the other day- was in essence not a disarmament levels a permanent superiority and would remain in that category Mr. Ferguson has been left this Victory House the next day bling of the Home Defence but a rearmament agreement. of about 43 per cent, over the under the definition proposed for sum by a daughter who died in Young men of a splendid type had

·GOVERNMENT REPLY · German navy, as compared with the future treaty in the British America. Lord Londonderry, replying for an inferiority of some 30 per draft ditanament convention. Tve never had so much money the Government, said that the rescent before the wIE storation of confidence and the Government believed that when.

prospects of peace amongst the the French Government mations would be most effectively jable to review the situation as promoted by a general settlement whole through expert represen Treely negotiated between Geritives, whom it was hoped many and the other Powers. The would appoint for this purpose, Government would adhere to that they would admit that this ster view, which in effect they reaffirm has been in the ultimate interest ed at Stresa, but as a practical to France. people they had to face the facts

the situation: Germany

TREATY TONNAGES Several questions on

LA GENERAL AGREEMENTS:

Foreign Secretary, Sir my life, this cheerful centens

rian said and it's hard to say Hoare, reparing to sque what I shall do with it tion, said that the conclusion of a Then, amiling from eyes

armaments agreement to

ammyriad wrinkles and ace, so far as Germany as he long white beard, ha

Part 3 of the

in this rich Krish remained the object jesty's Government's

Foment

This will bring the net cost of Service to abom †000,000.~ For the present

cial year however, mentary Estimates cal he increase) are

more than

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