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AIR DEFENCE OF
BRITAIN
Special Volunteer Reserve
SCHEME OUTLINED IN HOUSE OF LORDS
London, To-day.
The formation of a new Volun teer Reserve for the Royal Air Force was announced in the House of Lords yesterday by the Secre tary for Air. Lord Swinton stat- ed that the King had approved, the creation of a Royal Air Force Vo flunteer Reserve, open only to men in civil life. The number of pilots) required annually for the Volun teer Reserve will be 800, and as this section is most urgent the ur-
is ganisation being proceeded with at once.
The pilots will receive their fly- ing training at aerodrome centres: which will be established imme diately in the vicinity of import- Jant towns and areas with a large population. There will be a net- work of such centres throughout
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Ground instruction will be pro-i vided at town centres at which lectures on the theory of fight. fairmanship and other essential subjects will be given, mainly during the winter evenings, when
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POLITICS IN
FRANCE..
ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE
Four Governments To Participate
EXPERIMENTAL FLIGHTS SCHEDULED
London, To-day. A statement on the posed trans-Atlantic air service W25 made at Commons question-time yesterday by the Under-Secretary Re- for Air, Sir Philip Sassoon. jealling the arrangements to which approval had now been given by the United Kingdom. Canadian, Irish Free State and Newfound-j land Governments for survey flights to be undertaken and an experimental air mail to be es- tablished as soon as possible, to be followed eventually by a mail) and passenger service on a mini- mum schedule of two flights week- ly in each direction, and the sub- sequent discussions with the Unit- Jed States Government, Sir Philip Sassoon stated that a joint oper- ating company incorporated at the instance of Imperial Airways and two companies nominated for that purpose by the Canadian and] Irish
Free State Governments would participate with Pan- American Airways, on a basis of reciprocity, in the operation of the services,
All practical preference will be POWER TO ALTERven to the direct route via the
the opportunities for flying are ne-CUSTOMS TARIFFS Irish Free State, Newfoundland
cessarily restricted. The Volunteer Pilots will be recruited from ean- didates between age limits of 18 and 25. The minimum period · of service will be five years.
SPECIAL CONVENIENCES
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Faris, To-day.
By 497 votes to 36 the Chamber prolonged the powers of the Blum Government to alter the Customs
and Canada, but it may be reces- sary during the initial period to operate the services via Bermuda during the winter months.
EXPERIMENTAL FLIGHTS Experimental long-distance flights and other necessary inves-
Flying instruction will be artariff by decree or to annual any tigations will be carried out in ranged to allow pilots to train at supplementary Customs duties and the near future by Imperial Air- week-ends, in the evenings and at
important dues.
ways, Limited, and the results: fother times convenient to them.
By 322 votes 233 the Chaniber will be placed at the disposal of They will be encouraged to spend
as much time as possible in the yesterday decided to adjourn. Be-she joint company when establisk-
[fore the close of the session the ed
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Pan-American Airways will air in order to gain fiving exper Right Deputy, M. Louis Marinaiso conduct experimental flights. SHOWN IN ience of value to the service. I moved an urgent motion, signed During the experimental stage the addition the Volunteers will have
by 50 Deputies, that women should to attend an annual flying course be enfranchised, with both active lying operations will be financed by the United Kingdom Govern- jof 15 days' duration.
and passive voting powers.
The ment.
When the joint company In the first instance pilots will draft of the new law was approv-assumes responsibility it will re be trained on elementary types of ed without discussion by 498 votes ceive an annual subsidy from the light aircraft and later on,
to L-Trans-Ocean Service. vice types, to enable them to oper ate in service squadrons in an emergency. Arrangements are be ing made for the scheme to come! into effective operation early in 1937.
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GRIM DESERT ORDEAL
Greek Castaways In Fear Of Attack
RESCUED BY LONDON STEAMER
several Governments on an agreed same basis.
KING CHEERED BY TAXI DRIVERS
Strike Settled By Royal Intervention
Sofia.
As a result of intervention by King Boris, the taxi-drivers' strike in Sofia, last month was settled. So pleased were the drivers with the "result they paraded in front of the Royal palace and cheered the King en- thusiastically.
that
The drivers, after having been on strike for a week, secured a reduction in the price of petrol.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
DEBATE
Opening To-day In Commons
London, To-day.
Each of the four Governments has undertaken to grant the ne- cessary landing and transit rights! within its own territory to the joint company and to Pan-Ameri- can Airways. It is contemplated that such rights will be exclusive! in respect of the trans-Atlantic air services for a period of 15 years. An inter-governmental committee on the trans-Atlantic air services will be established. British Wireless Service.
BERLIN STATE THEATRE
Wing And Scenery Store Destroyed
Berlin, To-day.
Fire has destroyed a wing and the scenery store belonging to General Goering's State Theatre. The huge confiagration was watch- ed by thousands and was finally
A-London steamer's rescue of 33 castaways on the Spanish Moroccan coast after the ship- wrecked men had spent four days in tents on the edge of the On the motion for the adjourn-subdued by the combined efforts desert was described when the ment for the Summer Recess to of Black Shirts, Brown Shirts, po- steamer Temple Mead (4,427 day in the House of Commons lice and half the Berlin fire brig- tons), reached Glasgow last there will be a debate on foreign ade, equipped with gas-masks, month.
affairs, which will be opened for Reuter. The castaways were the crew the Opposition by Mr. Philip Noel]
of the Greek steamer Chryso- Baker who was recently returned BRITISH CABINET CHANGES polis (5,291 tons) which went at the by-election at Derby. At ashore near Cape Blanco.
the end of the debate, which is re-
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Chief Officer. L W. Tucker, garded as an opportunity for the Shakespeare, Parliamentary Se- of the Temple Mead, said the expressions of back benchers'
cretary of the Ministry of Health,
Chrysopolis, bound from Ger- opinion, Lord Cranborne will will become Parliamentary Secre
many to Madagascar in ballast, speak for the Government-Bri-tary to the Board of Education. stranded on June 17. The fish Wireless Service..
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
ORGAN FUND:
crew, except the skipper and wireless operator, who remain- jed in the ship, lived in tents lexposed to the danger of attack by marauding bands of natives. S.O.S. Sent Out
Already acknowledged While the Temple Mead, in Hong Kong Singers Bach- answer to an SOS sent out by Rich Baines
Parry Recital the wireless operator of the Greek steamer, raced to
the
Mr. E. S. Hudson, who has been Minister of Pensions""and" was formerly Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, be- comes Parliamentary Secretary $2,400.25 to the Ministry of Health." "Eari| de la Warr, "at present. Parlia- 540.00
17.80 mentary Secretary to the Board of Education, will be Under Secretary for the Colonies-Bri- tish Wireless Service.
rescue, the Chrysopolis was Mead signalled to the wrecked being pounded by heavy seas crew to row out as it was im- With the passing of each hour possible for him to make a pas- the danger to the captain and sage through the dangerous, operator increased reefs.
away.
WEATHER REPORT
Pressure is highest in the vi- Chief Officer Tucker said The crew of the Chrysopolis that the Temple Mead first re- picked up their captain, and cinity of the Bonins, and is rela- ceived news of the Greek wireless operator before pulling tively low over Chins generally. steamer's distress at 2 pm on out to the Temple Mead. They The typhoon is situated about 80 June 22. They were 60 miles confessed that they had lived in miles south of Frates Shoal (220 constant fear of marauding miles south-east of Hong Kong); It was evening when they natives. They were landed at is stationary or moving slowly west-north-west the forecast for arrived, and a very heavy sea Las Palmas, bet Printed and Published, for the Proprietors, The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., was running. It was decided The Chrysopolis when ahan- to-day is: North and north-east by DAND CHRISTIAN WILSON, Manager, at SA, Wyndham Street, to wait until morning before doned was in imminent danger winds, moderate, probably fresh- fattempting a rescue, b jof breaking The crew ening to a gale commencing in the Crew Rows To Ship salved their belongings, but north; cloudy, rain and squalls Victoria, Hong Kong.
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