1935-12-14 — Page 9

FURTHERING CAUSE OF PEACE

Essays By Children

LADY SOUTHORN PRESENTS THE PRIZES

In the Kwok Siu Lau Hall of the St. Stephen's Girls' College yester-: day afternoon Lady Southern, wife of the Colonial Secretary, Hon. Sir Thomas Southor presented the prizes to successful competitors; from local schools. in the essay: competition conducted jointly by the League of Nations Society and the Hong Koax Peace Group,"open to all local schools.

The gathering was presided over by Mr. S. . Boxer. Secretary of the League of Nations Society andį Warden of Morrison Hall, others present including Miss Griffin. Warden of the University Women's Hostel and representative of the Peace Group, Mrs. W. F. Cheung. Headmistress of Fairlea School. Mr. Wei Tat. Mr. A. B. Reynolds. Lecturer in English at Hong Kong X. University. and Miss M

Baxter

Letters of regret were received

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1935

The new Reichs flags which were hoisted with solemn ceremonies by the Defence Force for the first time on November 7 last at 8 am. show the following aspect: In the left top corner the Reichs war dag, under it the jack of the men-of-war, top right the flag of the merchant marine and under it the ag of the Reichs-War Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Forces. The colours of all flags are black, white and red.

from Dr. K. L. Reichelt and Mr. CONSTRUCTION IN

G. R. Sayer, Director of Educa

tion.

+?

Lady Southorn, in the course of

ENGLAND

a short and pithy speech, said that Sikorsky Seaplanes To

it was good to see the younger

generation working for peace. She urged her -bearers to advance in the cause of peace with the bravery

of soldiers advancing to battle.

The Prize Winners

The prize winners follow:

were as

Be Built

BASE CHOSEN AT HAMBLE

London.

and

To-day's Short Story

THE LONELY PLACE

the

By Patrick Kirwan

OLD AIR PROBLEM SOLVED

British Chemist's Invention

ICE FORMATIONS ELIMINATED

tely

This is the time of year when xir, liner pilots often complete a jour ney in Europe with the wings and struts of their aeroplanes coated with ice.

Ice formation is a peril and when serious can interfere with controls, throw instruments out of gear and force machines down."

It is going to be one of the perils of Atlantic flying in all weathers. and means to overcome it have exercised the minds of scientists in many countries.

The "Antice?"

It has remained for England to produce the right antidote or “an-

This is the invention of Dr. Joha Edwin Earshotton, chief chemist of the Air Ministry's aircraft establishment at Farnborough Hants.

Ice generally forms on the lead-1 ing edge of seroplane wings and j tail units; adheres to struts, and hlocks up instrument recording parts and tubes on which the pilor is dependent for a correct uiter pretation of his aeroplane's speed and altitude.

* ·-· When this happens the machine TEE shore was deserted save "I will" I replied. "if yourself becomes heavily overloaded, the shape of the wing is distorted by for the swooping, shrieking will join me."

He rose and drew the beer from the accumulation of ice, controls gulls: and then I noticed that the long line of sandhills was the barrel in the corner, and we may be jammed, and with incor-

rect or non-functioning instru Pians have been completed for merging into the flat extent of drank together. the construction of the Sikorsky the beach: the waters of the

"It's lonely here,” I said. Iments the machines cannot be Chinese Essay (15 competitors) S-12 fiying boats in this copaty tle creek can down to The old ran agreed with me, handled with safety.

Prevention. 1st prize-Ng Yan-shan (St. Ste-A base has been chosen at Hamble sea. The tide was ebbing, and and he said in a striking voice:

The best method of prevention the pher's College); 2nd prize (Southampton) for hangers

on the mudbank six smacks lay"It's the loneliest place in rotting in the sun. They lay world." Then he added: "And the has been found to lie in providing Cheung Yum-mun (Mumsang Coworkshops." lege): Commended-Fan Chi-tars The boats will be improved ver- there on their sides, forlorn and poorest although once you might a fitting over the leading edge of (St. Stephen's College) and Ray- sions of the "clipper ships" lately deserted.

say the street outside was pered wings and tail units. delivered to Pan-American Air-- A wooden jetty ran down the with gold”

The leading edge is covered with son. Huang (Munsang College).

He seemed pleased with his porous leather to which a liquid English Essay. (64 competitors) ways for use, on the services side of the creek, a skeleton of

(St-operated between North and South black timbers, and the shreds of eloquence, as though delighted after which lowers the freezing point of 1st

Whittick prize-G

College); 2nd Joseph's

prize America and across the Pacific to some old bunting fluttered wanly such long disuse to find resonance water is fed continuously. -

from its cracked white flagpole in his voice, and meaning in his A suitable liquid-has been found (Specially presented by Mr. A. Honolulu.

in ethylene glycol to which some Reynolds).Peter Simon (Central -Each bost will be equipped with At the further end of the creek words.

"Yes," he said, "this place was ethyl alchohol is added. This British School): 3rd prize-Tang four powerful engines; will cruise was a little cluster of cottages: old Hung-tak (St. Stephen's College); at 170 mph. as a minimum; and skulls that gazed out on the world ruined by riches. It all happened lowers the temperature at which 4th prize. Raymond Tang (St will be capable of carrying up to through blank, eyeless sockets, mary years ago, the night of the the liquid may be effectively used.

in front of the cottages was a Big Wind.

a pleasant About two pints of the liquid Stephen's College). Highly Com-32 passengers according to range.

The per hour have been found suficient mended (because of age). Oswald The British Aircraft Manufac-tle green, an old madbank that enough place before then. Victor Cheang (Diocesan Boys' turing Company of Hanworth the sun had baked, and from which men went out in their smacks, and for a length of 70 feet of wing.

A-layer of rubberised fabric is School); Commended Andrey Hol Aerodrome are sponsoring the coarse green herbage sprang On brought back their catches, poor

Girls' School) and venture. They have orders for the fringes, where the mand (Diocesan

was for large, according to the winds Arst doped to the wing, with the Freda Salmon (French Convent, £225,000 and other inquiries for still soft, juicy spikes of tender and tides and the queer ways of rubberised surface exposed

The special "anticer" liquid is number of the flying boats.

The decay of the fish themselves. Causeway Bay).

samphire jutted Some are to be used for the old boats, old fishing gear, littered

conveyed by a rubber tube punc- opening of a new air service be the green. On the higher slopes

tured at quarter-inch intervals along its entire length. The tube CRIMINAL SESSIONS tween Australia and New Zealand beyond the village the shells of half

ie made to adhere to the leading edge partly by rubber solution.

When Doped

Calendar For Next Wednesday

NINE CASES FOR HEARING

Altogether nine cases are to be

"Key Men" From America a dozen or so gamt, barrack-like Mr. W. A. Phillips, managing villas lay scattered. director of Aircraft Industries I left the hard mud and heard Corporation, who are interested in my steps ring with a hollow noise the venture, said:

on the cobbles of the little street.

It was

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "The Climb," By C. Gordon Glaver.

tried at this month's Criminal key engineers will be coming over the shrieking of the guls, the dithe washing and baking, and gold the leather covering firmly ir

arms, two

to start construction.work.

position

A porous cotton fabric layer "Arrangements have bet There was no sign of movement they'd land their catches on the spreads the liquid to wet the negotiated in America for the pre-save for the futtering of the jetty there beyond, and haggle leather covering Strips of ordin- paration of the tools, and Sikorsky on the flagpole, and no sound save with the dealers that came here ay aeroplane fabric are attached

from the town The women did to the leather jacket

When doped to the wing they tant roar of the sea, and the beat Sessions which comience

The "Work will be begun, we hope of my own feet. Presently I came the men the comfort of their love. Wednesday, December 18.

Lightly constructed piping car- It was a hard life; cases include two of possession of before the end of the year on to the ins; an old board creaked There were children playing in the

of counterfeit coins, building the factory at Hamble, from a rusted iron bracket. It street then. one of wounding with intent and Next year we expect the first boats held traces of some primitive de but I've been long enough in the lies the liquid to the protected tall and the flow can be controlled six, and I read its title in faded world to see it's small joy a soft parts of the leading edge or the

fone brings one of uttering and possession of will be fiying."

The S-42 broke many world relettering: "The Herring Cran.”

"Then came the night of the by the pilot forged bank notes.

cords for seaplanes on her tests. On the roof above, a plume of The cases are:--

It forms; or its adhesion is des- Tam Yeung, 34, charged with Built to take off fully loaded at grey smoke waved from the little Big Wind. The men were sitting Ice is ther thawed as quickly as

I went inside, thronghug in the bar here, 'drinking and

troyed after a few minutes and the wounding an assistant of a pork 40,000lb, the boats bave flown chimney. stall in Wanchai Market on Sep-loaded to 42,000lb. The empty the deserted bar into the kitchen king, and thanking God that ice is blown away.

they weren't out on the saz. weight of the machine is 20,9241b. beyond

The weight of the equipment tember 26 last.

The old man with the trimmed was pitch black beyond the wincunts to only 30th. including Tam Tai, alios Tam Loi-tai, 37, leaving about 50 per cent.--19,076

b-for a useful load. This will beard crouching over his driftwood dows, and the wind was howling,

It

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Lullaby of Broadway I'm going shopping with you Gipsy moon Marta

a Esherman, charged with posses include provision for pilots and fire rose to meet me. He set down like the souls of the damned the...quid for two hours in the case According to the moonlight

Range of 3,030 Miles

sion of an automatic pistol, a ma- gazine and 100 rounds of ammo-Crew, fuel and oil, passengers and the black clay he had been suck-selves.

baggage, mails and freight, food ing. nition without a licence.

Lam lu and Kwong Chin-piu and water. charged with possession of - 11 moulds for counterfeiting Hong! Kong dollars, tent-cent pieces and

of 1,200 miles is sufficient. This "You will not,” he told me, but five-cent pieces.

Mok Kwan, 30, charged with in-will be enough also for the New Tve a drop of beer in a barrel

porting 249' counterfeit Hong Kong five-cent pieces into the Co- lony, and with possession of them.

..

was Somme

of a light bomber, though it is of "Then, through the window, they course greater for big passenger “Good morning to you," he said, saw rockets going up in a great monoplanes and biplanes. "and the blessing of God on yonblase, near the month of the creek; On the run between the United

"Good morning." I replied. "T and they knew there

ship there, dismasted mybe, and States and South America a range drink a glass of stout.”

hard set to it to ride clear of the rocks. The men put on their oil- skins, all of them, kissed their wives and children, and put out. for |the ship.”.

York-Bermuda service, which is to You can drink that.” be opened next year when the base now under construction at Ber

|muda is ready.

The boats can be given a range Wong Fuk-ko, soldier, charged with uttering a forged $50 bank of 3,000 miles and still take a limited payload. With shorter note of the Hong Kong” and Shanghai Banking Corporation, range they carry up to 9,000th of and with the possession of seven mails and freight.

TWO RA.F. MEN INJURED

Plane Hits High Voltage Cable

Hall

He paused, and stroked his beard thoughtfully.

CO-OPERATION IN THE AIR

Between England And Australia

London.

"AT, that is," he added, "save The increasing measure of co for one man He was too drunk operation between the Royal to go. He had been in the Navy, Air Force and its Australian and it happened to be quarter day, counterpart is shown by the des and he was drinking his persion" patch of Air Commodore S. J. They never came back There Goble, second in command of the An RAF training "plane-struck as not a man, tave one, was left Royal Australian Air Force, for a high-voltage cable while flying in the village. The women were duty here.

Air Vice-Marthal Richard WEL over the village of Rowley, East distracted out of their minds, won- Yorkshire, last month, and crashed dering what way they would live,liams Chief of Staff of the in a field Flying Officer Frede and grieving the loss of their bus RAAF, has only recently return rick McNeill and Sergt. Edward bands love.

These boats are of the high wingi kufa other notes of similar denomina monoplane types with four 700 hp. tion.

Glad radial-air-cooled engines. "Yau Sang, dias Li Sang, charg- ed with possession of zamk and breach of the Deportation Ordin- ance.

14 Fuk-sang, Li Loi and Chan Yuen charged separately - with breach of the Deportation Qrdin-

AIR EXPANSION IN CONNECTICUT

The Connecticut State Aväti Commissioner has applied „for Bef money totalling $942,000 to Patinançs to amenduar the used in a wide programme

Police Ordinance, 1932, is publish-port improvement through

"ed in the Government Gazette.

effects minor changes in the

cedure in respect of faci

enquiries into and the release bail of persons charged with offences, before there taufty for the charges to be before the qualified ma

Jack were taken to Hall Infirmary, "Then the newspapers started

A gimekeeper who saw the ac great subscription fund, to give the cident said: there was a flash widows and orphans's fer

of bine fame and a terrifie

of the fuselage was left

ran to the spot, expecting

find the men dead.

Both

feme

Fying

elag broken. and Servt

ed from England.

Amusing, Ex

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Hunkadools Wine song Happy I'm happy

Merry Widow. Waliz Vibia

She's a Latin from Manhattan About a quarter to nine

Poetas

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When I grow too old to dreams

The night is young

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Jock Little's orch.

Bill Cottons band.

Harry Rosenthal orch

Bill Cottons band.

Lew Stone's band.

Johnny Greens orch

Spanish orchestra.

Henry King's orch.

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