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WHERE RALEIGH SMOKED

The first house in which tobacco was.smoked in England is said to have been South Wral Manor. in Wiltshire, the seat of Lord Long of Wrasall.

Here Sir Walter Long and Sir Walter Raleigh used to mee: and Walter Raleigh used to meet and

called the Raleigh Room

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One of!

VAST FORTUNES IN THE AIR

DESIGNERS WHO HAVE MADE GOOD

PATENTED DEVICES BRING IN HEAPS OF MONEY

(By Victor Burnett)

HERE is gold in the sky.

than £1,000,000..

war

Frederick Handler Page is

Handley Page

an

More than 44,000,000 of another pioneer who is still at His fortunes started public money has been poured the top. The house was let for many into the Eritish aircraft indus with the successful aeroplanes years to the late Major Richard-ry in the last three months lhe designed in pre-war days. son-Cox, who rescued it from a Every public issue of aircraft His firm still builds warplanes purpose machines. more or less derelict condition and shares has been oversubscribed-great night bombers, speedy filled it with a unique collection! Today the chances for young general of English furniture. This collec- men to make a fortune from the Great Imperial Airways liners

lair have increased a hundred- came from his works..

Great Safety Device tion is now to be sold.

!fold.

of his inventions: It includes samé Pers rare T. 0. M. Sopwith set off on But one pieces, dating from the fifteenth to the road to fortune when he brought the greatest safety fac- in tor flying has ever known. He the eighteenth centuries.

started flying aeroplanes the most remarkable items is a 1910. He was a cycle manufac- thought of the slotted wing. James L oak refectory table, which

turer then but he believed in This is a slot formed by a little extra wing that fits along the was originally the altar table in

the future of the air. Crewkerne Church.

in the war days he devoted front edge of the main wing. practically An amusing item is an early himself entirely to aviation. That slot makes it nineteenth century "bobby-horse" His Camels, Pups, and Snipes impossible for an aeroplane to whose frame is in the form of a dic much to win superiority install and crash if it loses flying. Icantering horse.

the air for Britain and helped speed.

It is a little thing-unicom- to make a fortune for the man

plicated, simple, nothing to look COST OF CHARTING THE DEEP who designed them.

After the war be returned to at-yet nearly every country in Out of the 400,000 charts pro-

This cycles. But he soon came the world has paid large sums duced by the Admiralty last rear, back to aeroplane construction for the manufacturing rights.. some of which were seen at the

Now, at the age of 47. he is oneilt has saved the lives of count- That simple idea exhibition of charts a: Portsmouth

of the most successful aviation less pilots during Navy Week 240,700 were! bought by the Merchant Service men in the world, worth more brought wealth to 50-year-old Major Frank Halford was a and by private owners at a priceļ

Saowed Under

renius at engine design. Now, Read-of $41.640.

The rest went to HM. Ships and His firm builds the high-speed at the age of 41, he can see. The China Mail for many generations.

Jing in this easy way the history

Hawker warplanes the world's nearly every light 'plane built. engine that of many centuries he can see Government departments free.

The Hydrographic Department fastest Eghters and bombers-fying on

Elis Hong Kong, Saturday, Aug. 3, 1935. how successive conquerors from

Arabia have established king-in the course of the year spent half So snowed under with orders is originated in his mind.

have early engines were ideal for doms over dissonant tribes that million. This covered the cost he that rival air firms had bred true to their own of upkeep of their eight surveying been ordered to build Hawker light aircraft. and thousands blood, because to wander beyond ships, and the engraving expenses machines for the RAF. expan-were sold

But they were not perfect.. Geoffrey De Havilland is 53 Cylinders stuck up right in the vision. They In the midst of reflections on their own grazing ground was at the Admiralty establishment at sion

He started designing aeroplanes pilot's line of the importance of the proceed to invite a hostile spear-thrust Cricklewood, where the charts are

Admiralty charts are always in 1908. He built some famous were difficult to house in ings that are going on at Genava that would enable the young printed.

years streamlined cowling. The pro- to the prestige and future existassailant who had blooded his ance of the League and the unspear to claim full citizenship being revised. Last year 252.209 machines in the

be-Until the epoch of European corrections were inserted by hand. But civil aviation brought him peller had to be fitted low cown

his real fortune fortune on the nose of the 'plane. javoidable recriminations:

Engine Upside Down- tween the Roman Dictator and control the traveller could pass

Your Daily Smile! founded on an idea

Ten years ago he thought Then Halford had an idea even anybody else that has anything in a day's march three or four to say about the question of the tribes who could not

other's lan- Teacher: "Your son is very back that hundreds of people would He simply turned his engines fy if they could buy an econo-upside down The crankshaft hour, there is one element in understand each

Father: This does not matter. Wemical light aeroplane-not was then at the top, the cylin- this problem that gets rather guage, and here and there inward in geography.

Abyssinian the mountains of the interior have no moocy for travelling glider with an engine, but a real ders pointing downwards. This overlooked the

(Continued on Page 7), himself. What would be the there are small tribes that are

When the work for the day started aeroplane. So he designed the best thing that could happen still totally. foreign to all their

The neighbours.

the Teacher asked Jack Tell me now famous D H Moth-a two- for his own interests?

way by which news is carried quick-seater light biplane costing Sometime in the future, when?" The boy replied "Telegram"little more than a car to buy and essential fact is that, whatever brand of civilisation he

may history bursts its present un-He next asked To for another, when unreliable, steadfast, safe.

Its immediate 'success have picked up he is still an naturally narrow bounds, there he replied "Telephone" and when he African native. It was on the ill be a good account compiled asked Stanley for one, the boy after

The design went all over the |a-woman.” recommendation of Italy that of the fascinating adventures of some thought, smarty replied "zel- astonished even De Havilland.

"conquista-

world More than 4,000 of Arab great his country was accepted as a the

Unsuccessful author"After my them have been built in ten "member State" of the League dores" who adventured forth

Great records have of Nations, and theoretically all and founded Empires like the death the world will realise what I

on a level of Sultanate of Zanzibar.

The have done."

Companion-Wels. don't worry been taken by the Moth. Near members аге equality, and able to perform all Arab is at least the equal of the about old chap. You will be on every airman who has learned to y since 1926 had his training, the functions of a civilised Gov-white man in brain power and of harm's way then."

The inquest was concluded yes first solo, on a Moth. ernment

The trouble is that courage--as an individual His

Dolly was just home after her

His latest move foreshadows terday at the Kowloon Magis without a certain amount of help racial power has been limited by some of the members are not his individualism which drives ärst day at school.

"Well, darling," asked her mother, a great change in the future of tracy. Mr. E L Wynne-Jones sit private flying. He has prosting as Coroner. into the death of able to manage their own affairs him, except when under the what did they teach you?"

cabin Mr. G. E. Boylance on Sunday. with the standard of efficiency strong hand of a despot, to "Not much," replied the child. "Treduced the Hornet-a

biplane with two seats side by July 7. The jury was composed which entitles them to freedom spend his time in intriguing got to go agzin.

side. It is to replace the open of Messrs. W. Sharp (foreman) from supervision, though the against his. neighbour and his

Moth. De Havilland thinks the L J. Castilho and L. G. V. Ri ideal would be that such super-strength in fighting him. How

Itime has come when people beiro. vision should always be accom-to combine loyalty with arbi- nanied by disinterested assist-tion is a key to Empire that few ance The recognition of Man-nations have found. Chano by San Salvador was a In the Abyssinian Empire noble gesture no doubt, but it then we find a limited upper did not cause a flutter of excite class of Semitic descent more Chancelleries or less diluted, and subordinate the ment m Liberia is also a member, but its classes of men whose first alleį

tribe. social conditions are an open giance is to their own scandal, and the only question Under a strong ruler they obey,

The marriage was solemnised

her by her late husband that he is whether it should be brought under a weakling they become

had, while Home on leave "with- under some forcible control or practically independent; and yesterday at St. Andrew's Church, expelled.

near the frontier the distance Kowloon, of Miss Elsie Goodman

George Edward Roylance, 20- Like all the lands of the of the ruler leaves them per and the Ber: Ronald William Car In 1905, a 28-year-old locomo-out her, married another woman. these year-old son of the late Inspector Eastern side of the African manently in a condition of practer, both members of the Church tive and marine engineer turn-

Kweilia,/ed his attention from Continent Abyssinia presents to tically ruling themselves. To Missionary Society in

His dence. the most casual traveller a great the administrators of neigh-wangsi, the Rev., J. R. Higza solid forms of transport and Boylance, gave corroborative exi-

looked-up into the sky.

Chief Sanitary Inspector Brew- deal of its history quite literal-bouring territories it is none the officiating at the ceremony.

Deaconess Edith Coucke, of name was Alliott Verdon-Roe.

•He started designing and er (Kowloon), in the course of ly on its face. He need only less exasperating to meet the

aeroplanes. his evidence stated that the de- look at the men he meets on excuse that some chieftain has Yungchow, Hunan, acted for the

At first they were not very successed had applied for his pen- safari" or in the narrow and acted contrary to orders because bride's mother, while Miss Mar-building his own Crowded streets of the towns to it happens to be true. In any garet Nash was the bridesmaid

The bride was given away by cessful. But he refused to be sion about a fortnight previously. see the squat features of the case to expect any great deve criginal descendants of Ham,lopment of what is no doubt Dr. H. D. Matthews, whilst the beaten. After three years in About two days before apply- "Inspector Roylance mentioned stil, after all these years rich territory, so long as capital duties of best man were under 1908 he became the first man ing for his pension, he said, hewers of wood and drawers of requires protection, is to expect taken by ME F. Selk: Assis-to fly in England

In those days all trouble with his wife told water, working for the children something that has never tant Secretary of the YMCA. He went on building zero-suicide. He said he was having of Shem with their lithe bodies, occurred in any Native State Appropriate music was rendered planes aquiline noses, and keen eyes The degree of discipline, to be on the organ by Mr. G. W. Evans, machines had their propellers him that was no reason for him

After the ceremony, a reception behind the pilot's seat-pushing wanting to go on pension And he will note the difference expected in the event of war

set of people he will eve

The types will not

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MISSIONARIES MARRIED

Carter

Goodman

ST. ANDREW'S WEDDING"

YESTERDAY

Fears

INQUEST ON LATE MR. G. E. ROYLANCE.

Evidence By Widow And Eldest Son

VERDICT OF SUICIDE BY POISONING

want comfort and warmth in Mrs. Emily Irene Boylance.. the air. They want to fly as widow of the deceased, gave evi- they motor, in ordinary clothes, deace as to what happened on not wrapped up in furs, scarves, the morning of her husband's to jand helmets.

death. She also testified as So he goes on to new success. the frequent quarrels that had His Hatfield factory is working acrusted between them on overtime building his high-count of deceased's drinking ba speed air liners, Comet racing bits and to a confession made to

Verdon-Roe's Success airplanes, and Moths.

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of type even among the abori-will largely depend on the early was held at the home of Dr. and the plane along Verdon-Boe "His words to me were, I gimls. He will be able at a encounters; an initial success Mrs. H. D. Matthews, 89, Waterloo thought that this was wrong-can't stick it any longer. I must giance to tell the difference he would unite all the tribes. And Road, Kowbor. On leaving for He built planes with the pro- get out of it. If I don't I shall Now nearly every aeroplane was distressed at the time and tween a Gall and a Dinka, the there is a probability that many the honeymoon, Mrs Carter wore peller in front on the nose do her in and myself as well. He

Sudanese and Somalis some of pale blue crepe-de-chine dress is built that way. Hatter being perhaps the tal

Scried, although perfectly sober He built the first totally en-

Following a lengthy sumuing the toughest fighting men in with cost and hat to match the world will sip

closed cabin aeroplane in 1912 up by the Coroner, the jury, after boundary to

One could is Ayro 504 type planes flew consideration, returned a verdi deity

of death due. that Duce through the war akies. advantages for Now he is Sir Alliott Verdon drinking lysol

COFFRETE fluence of obtain-Boe, a rich man-

an opinion bject without resort to the successes that

Road Kowloon

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