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PORTSMOUTH TO

Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, seen with his. Child, may attempt to break the London to Melbourne, record.

KINGSFORDSMITH'S PLAN

FLYING BOATS SEEN AT HENDON

Formation Flight Away From Landing Facilities

Seven glasfying beans, in- cluding the last and www powerful in sctivé commission in the world, were seen in formatian fight at the RA.F. Display at Hendon on June 28 and 29.

It is cananci to see dying boats far inland where landing facilites are limited.

*SC

The biggest of the feet was the

MAY FLY TO

MELBOURNE FROM LONDON ALSO FROM US.

TO ENGLAND

“LADY SOUTHERN "CROSS” TO BE USED

Air Commodore Sir Charles

THE CHINA MALL THERSDAY, JULY 11. 193

UNDERGO AIR DEFENCE SCHEMES

TESTED

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST

AIR RAIDS

CO-OPERATION OF PUBLIC

ASKED BY AUTHORITIES

RAID TEST NEXT MONTH

THE Admiralty are now collaborating with local authorities 1 £t Portsmouth to arrange a “black out” as an air raid test precaution. It will be along the same lines as those re- cently held at Chatham, Rochester and Gillingham. “

A date in August has been considered by Conncillor Frank, |Privett, the Lord Mayor, and the Town Clerk. The "black- out" will probably be held in the small hours of the morning when there will be few lights to extinguish.

"DO-X" HOUSED

IN MUSEUM

IN BERLIN

Safe In Harbour At Last

SLOW AND TRICKY LAST JOURNEY

"Wing-Commander Eric J. Hod- sell RAF, who is in charge of new Air Raids Precaution Dept. of the Home Office, said: "These ex- periments depend for their sUCCESS on willing co-operation from the public.

we

Quite Voluntary.

"They are quitë voluntary and hope always will be At Chatham. Rochester and Giling- ham they went well and the public gave

extraordinarily fine co-operation.

We had a maroon signal at 11 pm, and for half an The world's biggest flying-hour the towns were plunged in boat, the 12-engined Dornierį darkness.

Do-, has come to end its days

in a Berlin museum,

Berlin.

The Air Ministry co-operates:

Los Angeles. The last journey of this huge by laning EAF. machines contrast to the which ascend at night for the machine was in Kingsford Smith may By from the high-speed fights she has made pilots and observers to note the in the past over oceans and con- degree of visibility a town pre- six-engined Short, which United States to England and then inents. It took eight hours to sents when in complete darkness.

to Australia, according to his move her one- mile from a canal friend and adviser. Mr. P. G.in Berlin to the museum.

On Special Lorry Morris. of Los Angeles:

carries a crew of 10.

APPEAL FOR

FINANCIAL

CO-OPERATION

(Continued from Page 1}

FRANCES CONTRIBUTION

"One light carelessly left on of course rains everything.”

He will fly the "Lady Southern machine

The weight of the body of the The sea coast towns are being

was so great that a chosen fast for these experi Cross," the machine in which he special lorry had to be built to menta Appeal is made to local

intended to take part in the Lon-carry iz. All traffic along the jauthorities for help..

year,

At one point there is a slope in the road. The brakes of the lorry carrying the aeroplane would not hold, so 2 small lorry had to *be attached at the back-and }

of the day and time of the signal

1

A scene at the start of a ¦ previous ascent into the stratos- phere by the U.S. airmen Kepaer and Stevens.

STRATOSPHERE ATTACK

FLIGHT TO CAPE TOWN

*

AND BACK

New British Air Filin In Preparation

Mr. E. D. Wainwright, A.F.C. set out recently to get to the Cape and back by air in 19 days. While in Africa he was to make arrangements for the bew Slm "Air Lines,” from Charles Lone's novel, which he is mak ing in association with Gaumont-- British and Imperial Always, Ltd.

ENGINE MADE

PASSES TESTS

dor-Melbourne air race last

street was diverted and the cur- The Mayor of the town then land will attempt to establish ahead tramway wires to

rent was cut off from the over issues public appeals by way of prevent placards and newspaper notices new record for the flight between danger of a short-circuit from the to the public, who are instructed LIGHTEST AERO A Trans-Ocean Service message London and Melbourne, should be huge machine from Paris states that the Gover decide to make be flight, said mor of the Banque de France, M. Tannery, speaking at a luncheon Mr. Morris. given by the American Club here, i warmly advocated closer collabora-! tion between Paris, London - and. New York, declaring that the economic fate of the world depend- ed in a large measure upon the adoption of a common policy by these, the world's greatest financial centres:

GENERAL BUDGET FOR CHINA

(Continued from Page 6)

Ordinary Receipts' Party. Expenditure....$ 5,665,800 Expenditure of Organi

zations directly under National Government

M.. Tannery emphasised that France would remain faithful to Military Expenditure the gold standard. In any case Expenditure for Domes the devaluation of the franc ar tic Affairs this juncture would avail nothing. Expenditure for Foreign

Affairs

The Banque de France was deter-Financial Expenditure mined to defend the franc against Edcuational and Cultural all attacks, which it was quite in Expenditure

'a position to do.

This policy. said M. Tannery

Judicial Expenditure Expenditure. for Com Industrial Expenditure.

munications

was France's contribution to the world's return to prosperity, be-penditure for Mongo

would facilitate She lian-Tibetan Affairs

cause

Expenditare

driven in the opposite direction

Ito act as a check.

Finally, just as the aeroplane

had reached her destination the

wheels of the lorry sank through the rough stones of the roadway. It was dragged out by means of a windlass-and now, at last, the 11.911,833 -Do-X" is safe in harbour. 293,014,500

FREE FLYING TUITION

Offer To Youth Of Yorkshire

4,280,328

9.082 242 65,789,523

35,061,422 1,657 520 3,854,948

4,803,909

1,722,844

Coa-

general process of stabilisation

struction which was the surest means

of; Subsidies bringing about the real and lasting Compassionate Grants rise in the price level essential for Expenditure on Nazional

Loans the return of the prosperity of the!

·world-Trans-Ocean Service.

Secondary Reserve Fund

BERLIN BOURSE WARNING

Berlin, To-day. A clear warning was issued to the public yesterday by the management of the Berlin Bourse, + the effect that

many share prices had at present attained a level quite unjustified by normal economic considerations.

274,803,279

limited

1,766,293 tuition

tandard.

York

SUCCESSFUL AIR RAID REHEARSALS

Loyal Co-operation By Civilians

Newest "Bristol"

Product

DETAILED

MEASURES

NEW NAVAL GUN

REPLY TO

MENACES

FROM AIR

Machine-Gun Of

Heavy Calibre ":

HIGH EXPLOSIVE SHELLS ·

» AS AMMUNITION

A multiple machine gun of heavy calibre, firing high ex- plosive shells at an almost fabu lous rate, is the Navy's newest weapon against attack from the lair.

The details and even the ex fistence of the gun, with which eventually all major vessels of the Navy will be equipped have hitherto been an official secret. Now the ban has been lifted.

Already, "during the last two yeaza. many battleships and cruisers have mounted the new weapon. While for obvious rea- 300s, exact particulars must still be withheld. it is permissible to state that the new weapon has revolutionised the Navy's me thods of dealing with low-fying bombing aircraft and torpedo planes.

Having watched the zunin

CONCLUDED action at sea, mout naval officers

RECORDS TO BE ATTEMPTED

SCIENTIFIC DATA ON AIR CONDITIONS

fare of the opinion that it is the

MOST

effective reply to low altitude sir-attack which has yet been devised

:

"Planes" Outranged

Its rare far exceeds that at which a torpedo" "plane could hope to launch a successful at- tack. The stream of shell lash-

Rapid City, S.D. The most careful and detailed the water and detonating preparations ever made for a 30-either by time or percussion fuse mile trip have been completed the latter so sensitive

23 to bere in Rapid City's rockwalled cause a burst if an aeroplane wire natural bowl Any day now the through which no machine could 18 touched sets up a barrage igiant stratosphere balloon of the

Second National Geographic-So- pass ciety-Army Air Corps expedition

and

In the House of Corimons, res

may take to the skies in the dual cently Mr. Churchill compared the attempt to break the existing al-usual form of anti-aircraft gar- titude record for such flights and sery to a pea-rifle fring at a fy | NEW TYPE WEIGHS bring back valuable data on con- ing duck. But the Navy's new. ONLY 1 LB. PER HP.ditions existing in the upper at-Sun has altered all that. The rife has, as it were, beer super- mosphere.

Capt. Orvil A. Anderson, who seded by an automatic shot-gun will pilot; the huge craft,

firing heavy explosive shot at the Capt. R. P. Williams, in charge of rate of hundreds to the minute, ground operations and alternate and the "ducks" themselves are A Bristol Pegasus" nero en-pilot, have completed tests of the pow hopelessly outranged. gine of a new series, designed to instruments made in two short replace the standard - "Pegasus hopes into the substratosphere by III" has just completed the 100 open basket balloon. The following statement on the hours official type test.

Twenty-six thousand feet was recent air raid tests

This engine for a take-off the greatest height attained in! ham. Rochester and Gillingham power of 920 hp. and a maximum there tests flights, sufficient for was issued by Vice-Admiral Sir power at 6,000 feet altitude of the experiments. Hugh Tweedie, Commander-in-875 np. weighs only 995Th..

Every possible precaution is Chief at the Nore:-

VALUABLE INFORMATION

GAINED

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Chat

NEW YORK STOCK MARKET

(Continued from Page 6):

The estimate of the corn crop is

conditions.

It is the lightest and most er being taken this time to insure "The air raid observation test ficient production type of sero success. was a great success, and the loyal engine ever made, for although New radio. equipment, using a bullish. Weather conditions in co-operation of the civil popula the Holls-Royce racing engine in broadcasting beam so short in the corn belt are improving. Oats, To promote air-mindedness in tion was to a large measure res the Supermarine seaplane which Wave-length as to behave more likere and barley estimates are Yorkshire, the York County Avia-ponsible for this. Observers sta- won the Schneider Trophy for light than electrical energy, has bearish, Total sales: Wheat: 2.212,130 tion Club has now established a tioned at various high positions Great Britain weighed only 1,640-been designed and installed in 40,543,000 bushels Corn: 7,044,- 59,797,613 scheme under which they are of in the three towns were entirely lb. for its 2,350 hp, that engine the gondola Draving the fight, 000 bushels 4.936,699 fering the youth of the county a satisfied with the darkening ar-was not a production type, albeit!conversation and comments of the Cotton: Weather

amount of free dying rangements, which were carried it afforded data of enormous balloonists will be rebroadcast are, considered favourable, with Extraordinary Expenditure It is proposed to hold trials to thoroughness.

cut very rapidly and with great value for its makers numerous over a nation-wide hookup by the high temperatures in the South-

NBC. standard types."

West beneficial to the crops 235,000 select candidates and the finalists "Unfortunately, aeroplanes The famous Gnome rotary air-

FlashAverage daily produc will be trained to "A" license coming from Manston were forced cooled engine took the flying

BIG ADVANCE IN ANGLO- tion of petroleum for the week **** 665.299:

to turn back at the outskirts of world by storm in the years 1910- CHINESE CO-OPERATION

Lending July-6 was estimated at 27,985,400

Gillingham by thick clouds above 1914 with its weight of about 21⁄2-

2,677,000 barrels, compared with [800ft which at times obscured lbs. per hp. The Rolls-Royce Rac-

2,690,000 barrels the previous, 90.980

(Continued from Page 1) [even the wing tips, and the pilotsing water-cooled engine of 1931

¡week MR. WELLS REPLIES 268,452 Army, navy, and commercial considered the visibility in-was only 2-3lb. per hp. The new

Mr. HG Wells, responding estimates weekly electricity pro- The Edison Electric Institute 2,221,820 planes flying at altitudes of more sufficient for safety.

Pegasus, a moderately super-said that the time to make vague duction at 1,655,000,000 kw.h, an than three miles makes daily "The exercise achieved every-charged-air-cooled engine for generalisations about the East and 2,150,138 fights from 20 different airports thing it set out to do, and the in production, barely exceeds 11h the West were

increase of 6.4 per cent from the completely past 543832 throughout the country, carrying formation gained was extremely per ha

People once thought of China as The following cable was receive corresponding period of last year instruments to record weather valuable, in spite of the fact that

Fuel Economy

almost a non-existent land of fairy 125,200 conditions in the higher air for the aircraft

unable to Together with steady reduction tales and monsters, but wireless, ed last night; de U.S. Weather Bureau 34,362,750

in weight there is a gradual im-seroplanes and other drvention

Grains Rust reports continue provement in fuel economy The had abolished distance and people and there was some profit-taking steady progression of lightness were feeling more and more there before publication of the Govern- in relation to power output may common destiny. There were airment estimates We would rather be judged from the following (ferences between usin

buy on farther declines. table of approximate values:

Expenditure of Organi- Party Expenditure

zations Directly Under National Covernment Military Expenditure Expenditure for Domes

tic Affairs Expenditure for Foreign

Affairs Financial Expenditure The prices of many shares are

Educational and

tural Expenditure so high that prospective dividends Judicial Expenditure.. will not offer a fair return on the Industrial Expenditure invested capital This state of Expenditure for Com- affairs has arisen because xt moment insuficient stock is offer-

Cul-

the

munications Expenditure

straction

National Operated

Cop

payable

ed from which investors can ranke Capital

choice.

Past experience suggests. That Business

the price level will again decline,

Subsidies

especially as commerce and indus- Grand Total of Ordinary

try have to reckon with new tevier,

and hence savers are advised to

and Extraordinary. Expenditure

Chekiai Agency,

877-285

60,971,166) 42,182,476

WEATHER RECORDS

operate."

were

Lord Londonderry Pays

Tribute To R.A.F. Club

$957,154,006

Lond

re-terest securities were eratic

use caution in investing at this moment and above all to consider tions actually taking place showed whether first-class fixed interest that prices were firmer. Fixed in- securities do not offer better turns than share investments. SOBERING TENDENCIES Doubtless this warning helped damp down enterprise for it was very noticeable public held aloof,

were les

all sections, and price changes I'were small Call money was 22/2 to 2% per cent Trans Ocean Ser

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