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A BOOK HONOUR

Sir Geoffrey Enox, has received la curious honour.

After the Saar plebiscite the French, Government wished to show proof of their appreciation] of his services As British diplo-| mats are barred from accepting foreign decorations, he could not

EIGHT AIRMEN IN BRITAIN

VAST CHANGES SEEN

IN 25 YEARS

HOW BRITISH AIR FORCE HAS

UP BEEN BUILT

(By George Fyfe)

THEN King George came to complications might result in the be giren the Legion of Honour throne in 1910 he did engine not functioning as desired-

Daring Pilots

to

A compromise was sought. Sirį Geoffrey is a connoisseur of not hold a review of his armed French literature. So the French forces in the air-and for a very

Looking back, however, the Government bought a beautifully simple reason. There were none.

really extraordinary thing, is that bound copy of Rousseau's "Social That, perhaps, is the outstand- Contract from the sale of thejing reflection on the recent scenes the daring pilots of the thorough ly unsound machines which were late M. Barthou's library, which at Mildenhall How could any-!

Cody relied they bare presented to Sir Geofone even contemplate an air reat first produced were able

view at a time "when, out of a avoid being killed. frey.

jon a bamboo structure. Sir Alliott population of millions, only eight THE CAMELS ARE NOT COMING persons had qualified as pilota Verdon Roe used, a special kind.

all of them civilians? A British filmm director is on his way to Iran under the aus-) pices of the Anglo-Iranian Company.

2

Oil

Frightening Horses

of paper with which to cover the wings of his early aeroplanes. Engines at first had a chain drive.

It was not until shortly after Wright machines ran along a rail

If, as is, likely. he decides to the Coronation celebrations that in order to take off. make a film of the country: it will an enthusiastic Army officer gain- All the pilots who flew before- have to be the sort of film that led his flying certificate and took the King at Mildenhall wore a At the time- pleases, the Shah. The result may his machine to the autumn man-parachute as a part of their or

oenvres. He was the subject of dinary equipment. not be altogether picturesque.

When the

Crown Prince of dignified curiosity, and that was of the Coronation, and for long Commanding officers after parachutes were for all Sweden was travelling in Iran re-about all cently he stopped his car to photo-made a joke of the enterprise.practical purposes unknown. At- graph a camel But the Iranian Cavalrymen were particularly ob-tempts to ensure safety were be officials prevented him. He might noxious. The shooed the machine ing made from a different angle. because they feared it. Mr. Rudyard Kipling expressed the opinion in 1910 that some photograph the car, they said.

of bumb-proof clothing bat not the camel Camels are might frighten the horses!

So far as aeronautical effort inform

at would be an advantage, and unprogressive.

the Services was concerned Motor lorries are likely to pre that time, activity was limited to French inventor went to the trou-

P

Song of the "Sun-Bathers "John's Brown Body.

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about

"Flying Cathedral”

Who Owned The Air?

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dominate over camels. and approached

mosques, in the work of a few balloonists at ble of producing it. One recalls to the padded pneumatic suit he de-" Farnborough. It seems odd

He asked people to- The China Mail Government had

France with suggestions in the cement-works over

economic lany film which is made

think that a weapon which at the monstrated. erent of war, of an

Iran.

beginning of the King's reign was hit him with a sledge hammer, in now order that they might see how he Hoax Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 7. 1935 blockade against Italy is not

militarily non-existent is known. It was categorically

escaped injury from a heavy im- dorzinant in warfare. denied by the Foreign Secre Your Daily Smile!

Only a few months before July pact Itary, and it is to be hoped that

1910, had the real possibilites of those who have assiduously ex- ploited the rumour will take

aviation begun to attract atten- first equal

tion. The Rheims meeting had Among many other problems. note of the denial.

and the ownership of the air caused Sir Samuel Hoare's

place. Doncaster Foreign Secretary (Britain has seen no proved jus- The boxer who counted ten every taken

Blackpool had held fying meet some concern. Had the owner of Ispeech as

was the most comprehensive re- tification for war and believes time he knocked out his pipe.

ings. Latham, had won' the lead-la house or of land a legal right view of international affairs that Italy can obtain

satisfaction

Ging! Glag! of

at which Parliament has had for a measure

"Diving is quite simple," declaresing prize at the latter place in to the air above it? Would not fying a dis-pilots be guilty of trespassing if a swimming expert. It's the coming October, 1909, for long time. It was, in fact a Geneva.

There has been and there is

always the trouble, of tance of less than six miles in a they went through that air with-

out jup that's

the -owner's permission? considered Cabinet statement of

high wind

Comical enough these questions British foreign policy, and there no drawing back on the British course.

may seem to-day, but when the is good reason for stating that side. Nor is there any desire to

Client-"How long have you work--- it represented, the views of a secure an independent agree

Sir Herbertiment on Air strength similar to ed in this office??

S. F. Cody had gained praise King came to the throne ther Clerk-"Ever since they threatened united Cabinet

to sack me.”

Because, in September, his "Fly-were subjects of interested spe-

|culation" Samuel was critical bat disposed that on Naval strength. The!

Jing Cathedral" flew for 80 yards.

Unexpected problems were to in the main to agree, if not to wisdom of the latter agreement, bless; Major Attlee. unfortun we are convinced will be better Musical Note

“Everyone can hum the melody of Mr. Handley Page had produced lately, allowed himself to see in appreciated in Paris, as the dif-

simple old German ballads, what was to be, a little later, the come with the war. Nothing the ordinary than the red. lit nothing but a retrograde ficulties of driving even three those

asserts a correspondent They can don. It was called "The Antisepore

white, and blue cockade painted movement back to the old pre awkward teams abreast becomes even if they don't know the words,first aeroplane to fly over Lon-King saw at Mildenhall seemed

The attempt to

tie" because it was coated with al complete apparent.

on each machine as an identifi- alliances-a

COL non-rusting composition. travesty of the Foreign Secre drive four would have proved What Sir impossible. "Sir Samuel made a

Moore-Brabazon had won a prize cation mark. When we went to

war in 1914 it had tary's exposition.

of £1,000 in March, 1910. fer evolved. Machines of the R. N. Samuel Hoare formulated was strong appeal to Herr Hitler to should take the next necessary step

ing, a circular mile. Aviators the principle which

tish by carrying a Union Jack govern British foreign policy, forward and help on the nego

A dinner dance will be held at who had learned to fly on the AS. revealed themselves as Bri- and it may be described in brief tiation of the Eastern and Danu- as the unfailing pursuance of bian Pacts, thereby giving a the Repulse Bay Hotel tonight. Continent were being given huge which was lashed to one of the

Not until after the Coronation

After about three months this peace through the agency of the great impulse to the conclusion The last bus leaves Repulse Bay fees for brief demonstrations.

did a Frenchman succeed in win- League and by the method of of the Air Pact which I know at 100 am "collective security.”

from London to Man- of the R. F. C method, which was be held in the open-air at Welling-a flight ton Barracks, on Monday next chester in stages. and the effort to have a representation of the was rightly regarded as wonder-Union Jack painted on the lower Even that did commencing at 8.30 pm -

ful The world's speed record inside of a wing.. Two cases of enteric fever and the air for the year 1910 was less not serve for long. It was dis one of diphtheria were reported than 68 miles per hour, and the covered that in certain conditions Įtaken at a distance for the Mal- as occurring in the Colony in the first fight from London to Paris one of the crosses could be mis-

was still unattempted 24 hours ended on Monday..

Itese Cross used by the Germans. Because of this the French cock- jade was adopted with the colours It was not until 1911 that the of the concentric circles reversed. allowed Incidentally, the Germans had Admiralty graciously

war

That he desires." A ready accept-

fall follow the Lieder.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

Istruts

not been

was the kernel of the speech ance from Berlin would be wel-A Whist Drive and Tombola will ning a prize of £10,000 by making device was abandoned in favour The British attitude to Ger-come throughout Europe. many was described as one ofj

"practical and comprehending

realism." That should apply

SENTENCED Gangster Element

In Colony

Later Developments

no less, however, to our attitude STREET HOOLIGANS

The Socialist to the League. spokesmen, if they declared for for anything. declared. "an unpractical and uncompre-

Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 hending idealism." But Britain.

hours ending at 10 am. to-day was jcannot afford, nor, indeed, is she

A case of street hooliganism 0.75 inch. The total since January strong enough, as Mr. Churchill observed to act as the law-was severely dealt with at the 1 has been 54.12 inches, against an four naval officers to learn to Ay trouble later with their Maltese givers and the police of Europe Central Magistracy this morn-average of 56.47 inches.

Collective security, pertinent-ing, by Mr. W. Schofield, when

од

machines which a patriotic Cross. The limbs, thickening to civilian had generously present-curved ends, brought abort in The following telegrams areled, together with an aerodrome the distance. a resemblance to a ly observed the Foreign Secre- he passed sentence of six tary, means that the British weeks' hard labour on four men lying at the Great Northern Tele-On one thing, however, the Ad-circle, and to avoid it the limbs Empire must make her "propor-and bound them over on a per-graph Co.'s office: Fanhinalex, miralty was very firm. There were made straight, as in in ore tional contribution" thereto and isonal bond of $100 each to keep from Robe; Paints (Wah Lam, 15 must not be any flying on Soudinary cross

Lee Tang St.), from Shanghai: days. The War Office at that be able to play.ber full part if the peace for a year.

Itime had not even formed the Air The men were Lau Yu-lan, Chnland Hawhowl, from Kobe It in- occasion should arise.

Battation which preceded the Lau Yo-wan and volves also that she should be Kwan-yu.

Charged with assaulting the con-establishment, in 1912, of the ready and willing to take her Cheung Nin-kang, all of whom are share of "collective responsibili-tailors living at No. 55 Leightor cabine of his brother-in-law, a Royal Flying Corps.. ty." To that she is pledged. Hill Road.

machine was not how fast or how far it could go, but the very much

torch maker named Six Chenk was The Coronation celebrations but not to go beyond, and it is Det Sergeant Fitches conduct fined $25, in default one month's came at a period in which flying strictly on those lines that she ed the prosecution and said that hard labour, by Mr. E L Wynne was a most hazardous affair. The has been acting in relation to there had been a lot of rowdyism Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy speculation in regard to a new the Italo-Abyssinian dispute around the district in question for this morning, The terms of the Covenant en- some time, and warnings had al

For snatching the hand-bag of more doubtful one of "Will jam collective, not individual, ready been issued by the Polise Laction Whether the tentative in this case two Chinese cn-Mrs Ozorio, of No. 1 Torres y Many in the old days sim- Zela offer was a mistake need stables apprehended the four men Building, wife of Dr. F. M. Ozorio, ply would not leave the ground, not be argued. Sir Samuel re- who were asing knives, scissors Lam Sing, unemployed, was this and all had to wait for perfect solutely said that he was not and other instruments in a fight morning sentenced to six months weather conditions before making

involved. | hard labour by Mr. Q. A. A. Mat-¡the attempt." ashamed of an essay in realism in which many

But at any rate, it was obvious-It had been impossible to arrest fadyen at the Central Police ly made without an ulterior all of them motive of any sort or kind, and

if there is a more practical way Ya Hing, unemployed, was this of averting the threatered morning sentenced clash, the British Government months, hary labour by

will be more than happy to

amine the proposal with pathy

How the mischievous was started that the

Macfadyen

lice Court for

Court.

Chung Suo Po, who had been three banished for 10 years from the Colony in 1932 and for life from Singapore, was

this morning sentenced nine months' hard Labour by HQ A. A. Kacfadyen! at the Central Police Court for r tuming from banishment

At the outset, pilots judged conditions by means of beir anoke smoke. If the cigarette ascended vertically the were safe. The slighte of wind along the grass

ersion them with “app tators had for ho

way one of

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You mix. Your colours

Spec