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Seven young men walk quick- Hong Kong, Monday, Jan. 25, 1937. y from the office down the wooden pier to the huge silver-

TRADE AS WAR ALTERNATIVE

carries

crowd, assembled to see the re-

winged flying boat. The small the skipper cuts his engines keeps the Clipper on her course.

gular weekly sailing for Manila, to three-fourths of their full pow- over there on the other side of er, yet he doesn't lessen the angle

+ +

landa

the

Spray hides the their intersection he fixes his posi- race. The navigator.greets the Editor, and be accompanied by ican terminal on the shoreline as in seconds the Clip- tion.

sin with his sextant and a few the Writer's Name and Address

But radio is not emet, and the minutes later announces that we miles an hour. There is a lift to Clipper is moving ten times as should soon be seeing land. Duty Paid cessarily for insertion, bad shores of San Francisco per moves from a standstill to fifty

the whole structure and there are fast as the average surface craft. Up ahead out over the ship's the bumpe under the hull The Clip Other checks must be found. In blunt nose a great mass of white Clipper has climbed to the "step, is the daytime a sun shot with the rises 20,000 feet above the broken Under that white of sextant helps. At night the friend- cloud carpet. breaking clear of the suction go the water and then, suddenly, so ly stars are "moving in their or are the islands and soon the black

quickly and easily one cannot tell dered paths and from them the bulk of Molokai rises into view. when, we are flying-sixty seconds navigator learns where he is more The Clipper skirts the northern from the start

accurately than in any other way. "shore, and the passengers. with Thus with stars and 'son with the news of the first landfall, look TOT 500 feet, above the water radio and compass the navigator at the green shoreline turning to darker hue at the heights. Again there is open water; here are the first seabirds and a fishing boat or another - doorway two, then the easter shoreline the world, watches curiously of climb. The junior flight officer THROUGH

forward the way leads to of Oahn comes into sight. Mr. Walter Runciman's these trim young men in their unbuckles his safety belt and

We turn south, and then west failure to take expert advisers back uniforms, double-breasted moves swiftly from window to the "bridge" There in the nose along with him to Washington coats and white peaked caps window, inspecting each strut and of the Clipper with slanted win- around the black maw of Diamond for his talks with President with the gold braid...

every part of the wing and hall dows ahead, sit the two pilots. A Head For an hour we have been and in that he can see.

third pilot is there enclosed in a slowly losing altitude Roosevelt is advanced as a 209-

roaring above He goes aft and studies the hull small box. Two gyroscopes, one minutes we are son for diminishing the import

the Waikiki's rolling sard with the ance of the conversations. We is a definite part of the pre- beyond the cabins. He climbs the turning in the vertical and

paration for fight There ladder to the after hatch and ex- other in the horizontal plane, make city behind it half hidden in trees should have said that, in these days a clear understanding on are three routine drills to be gone amines the tail structure and then up the automatic pilot which ac and the green of sugar cane roll- broad outlines

far through-fre

drill, emergency goes forward where he obtains a tually does the flying as the ha- ing like another sea to the high- greater importance than elabor-landing drill and abandon-ship detailed report from the naviga- man pilots stand guard over it.

drill. The captain takes his station tor, the radio man and the engine- ated pacts and protocols.

Here is noise, the roar of mighty Again the junior flight officer comes back and puts on his seat engines; here are clicking recorders belt and the passengers follow his The Washington talks cannot on the bridge the cockpit. The ering officer.

A few minutes after this first and twinkling lights, dials and me- be considered altogether apart steward is in the cabin where the

example. The drum of - mighty from Anglo-French efforts in passengers will be. The navigator scrutiny, the skipper himself goes ters which two expert pilots watch Europe to secure Germany's is at his station manning a fire over the ship from nose to tail during every minute of the flight engine drops to a bum. Swiftly: collaboration in a discussion on extinguisher, and the flight officer, looking into baggage compart- The pilots sit relaxed, studying the glide to a landing on the waters

and cloud formations ahead. They economic adjustment. the junior flight officer, the radio ments, examining the food Casual hints have been dropped man and the engineering officer all water supplies and then stopping see conditions which their meteoro and a little more from the Golden lately venturing the belief that take their fire stations.

perhaps for a chat with the pas logical training tells them may The first stage of the journey is Emergency-landing drili sees a sengers.

mean squalls and a shift in wind byer. The next day there is the President Roosevelt would issue:

He expects to fly mostly at 10,000 The automatic pilot shifts the a call for a new world economic member of the crew stationed at conference. Mr. Runciman quite each door and balkhead, sees belts feet, he tells us; these clippers fly controls again and again to meet 1200-mile hop to Midway, and on possibly has the mission of in-ready to strap each passenger in most efficiently at that altitude and every gust and flurry, every change the following day the flight of spiring the President to early his seat and the passengers dis- most economically.

in air pressure, while the human 1,500 miles to Wake, both ting wide action. Germany would be tributed through the three cabins As we talk we lower our voices guardians look ahead to the next atolls that are lost in the

Pacific except to our navigators. more likely to fall into line on to give the best balance for the to match the skipper's quiet tones problem.

Then, on another day, there is the America's invitation then she ship for a landing in a hurry. This young man, "the "Old Man"

To the right and on the same longer jump to Guam and, finally, t From this manoeuvre the crew to his fellows aboard the ship, is would to enter upon a purely European parley

moves naturally into the abandon- not much over 30. He has been deck, aft of the twin pilot seats, the 1,600 miles to Manila are cover- Britain's newfound interest ship drill Life rafts and belts with Pan American for at least is the cabby of the radio ma ed. At each oceanic station me- feet chanics, work on the plane. Mean- peper. He time meteorologists study the ele- in endeavouring to satisfy Ger-are inspected, rubber boats pre- six years and has down a million He has a desk about

Emergency miles over water. He has passed aquare and pads of man economic ambitions is, of pared for inflation. course, merely an insurance food and water supplies are ex-examinations in navigation, in in- can reach his messages forward meats to chart the weather, and policy. Europe is fast headed amined and the emergency radio ternational law and he speaks one to the skipper or use the telephone radio men keep their tubes hot to if the kipper isn't paying atten- farmish news for the sailors. Thus towards war; only a diversion set is tasted.

or more foreign languages. of its interest from armaments. Hours before, the Clipper's load Those who assist him are moy. tion. After a glance at the mass- the Clipper crosses the Pacife. to means of widening the chan-has been weighed and the weights ing upward along the same path age, containing radio bearings or nels of trade is likely to save distributed throughout the plane Four of the five are, accomplished news of more passengers and mail.

at the next stop, or warnings of LOCAL NEWS according to a definite Formula pilots and licensed radio opera-

BREVITIES "In all wars the economic The first officer or senior flight tora

Our navigator comes from storms ahead, he sends it back to A nation takes oficer reports to the captain on Princeton; our junior flight officer the navigator. The radio man has his scheduled contacts with the

Lance Corporal Morgan, of the up arms because it seeks new these dispositions, and the captain is a graduate in aeronautical en-

land stations every thirty minutes. Royal Welth Fusiliers, was admitt gineering not five years out

Behind the radio cubicle and oned to the Military Hospital yes- Washington; the University of our first officer is a 28-year-old mother deck perhaps three feet terday suffering from an injured

finished his engineering higher in the centre of the very

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TOW the Clipper

10

two

of Pearl Harbour, seventeen hours

Gate.

annex or control, ze a mean Nat Camper is ready to studies at the University of wing itself is passageway foot received when he was their own population, or pro the plane has been put through a Florida in 1931. These three are long which one travels on hands viding products not domesticat two-hour flight-test, and the en- navy trained both in the air and and knees for ten feet to reach ed in their own land. It would ineering officer has signed as the sea; our fight engineer the station of the engineering offi- 23, of No. 450, Prince Edward by Wah Hospital suffering from an not be true to say that this chart which tells the story of the came up through the airline's own cer. Here he sits in a canvas deck Road, was admitted to the "Kwong dials. On his knees is a large overdose of Aniytol and died at profit motive is the cause of all performance of each one of the school from a position as engine chair, completely surrounded wars, or the sole cause of any, four power plants Weather charts mechanic.

but it can usually be detected have been prepared and studied.

as one of the elements present The skipper in consultation with

hostilities.

in the outbreak or pursuit of the navigator had laid out his ON the long flight schedule record of engine performances.

shead, many times these

course and knows to `within minutes

A Chinese roman, Yu Yam, aged

pad lined like a bookkeeper's led 10 o'clock yesterday evening. ger. On this he makes a detailed

A decree nisi was granted to Dials and meters tell the en- Mrs. Doris Elizabeth Whitehead by Here is where the trade al almost how long the 2,410-mile men will swap jobs, with five of gineer what is going on inside Judge P. Grant Jones in E. M. revolutions per minute at a given Friday, in an undefended action ternative comes in. The money jump to Honolulu is going to take the six on duty at all times. Their the four engines. He records the Supreme Court at Shanghai, last gains and industrial advan-He has even planned at exactly stations on board are connected b throttle setting. He sets down brought by her against her bas- a local telephone system, and they tages of foreign commerce may what altitude he will fy. far outweigh anything that can A second bell rings in the wait frequently move from station to the temperatures not only of each band, Mr. Ralph Jackson White- engine but of individual cylinder head Mrs Whitehead was grant- be won by force of arms.. Ifing room, and the voice from the station to consult with one

other. Let us make our own in- he writes the altitude at which ed the custody of her child, and war is to be dealt with on a loudspeaker says: commercial basis, and a strict Passengers for the China Clip spection of the operating part of this action takes place, the ten costs. She was represented by Mr.

the ship to see these flying seamen Perature of the oil, the amount EL Harta~~

consumed, the gasoline consump account kept of its profits and Per vill please go aboard.”

The Public is informed that losses, the case against going A fight of metal steps on wheels at work aboard the Chipper. tion, the setting of the propellers,

and he notes, for example, just Street: Vaccination is being start- to war becomes stronger than leads from the float at the pier's. The navigation room is just for ever. There can be little doubt, end to a hatchway atop the hull ward of the lounge. A table eight what he does to cool No. 6 cylinder ed immediately by St. John Ambu- for example, that if a correct it ahead of the tail. The pas feet long and a yard wide takes up Na 2 engine on the port side lanes Members. The service is eD

tirely free. Employers of labour," financial statement were to be sengers are met at the hatchway a large part of this compartment if it is running hot. given of Mussolini's conquest by the steward, who informs them Two big Facile charts are fasten He makes 170 entries an hour heads of schools and other institu in his log, more than 10,000 sep tions who wish to have those in of Ethiopia, it would show a that they make take seats anged to it. On a shelf shove the

Baggage Charts are books of navigation rate records for each voyage of their charge vaccinated, should ap heavy balance on the debit side where for the moment.

the Clipper. At each stop this ply to the St. John Headquarters for years to come. His osten-has already gone aboard, fifteen tables and two sextants. Padr of

scratch paper, a loose-leaf leg and history is studied by the chief me when suitable, arrangements will sible objects could have been pounds to each passenger."

The steward closes the hatch and a dozen pencils complete the equip chanic, and the motors are treated

be made. much more cheaply obtained by

according to the prescriptions in- peaceful methods. When a wakes it fast and, watertight and ment.

dicated by the record victorious war is waged for follows the passengers through to economic reasons, it proceeds the lounge. The Sunior fight off large box of aluminum bombs, by the method of killing atcer joins them there and straps Hght-weight metal halls with

Beneath this work desk is.

番

great many possible foreign himself in; the passengers follow tall to guide them as they hurtle UE Clipper flies on Half

ten to stewed the blue water. thousand miles for Golden

The RMS. "Empress of Ja- pan" is due at Hong Kong on Fri- day at 9 am and leaves for Man- fla on the same day at 5 pic

The E. and A. sa Nellore left oil for this port yesterday and is due here on Thursday morning.

|consumers, ruining most of the his erupta.

others, and then expecting a At the controls are the skipper They are filled with aluminum Gate the sun drops into the ocean large and profitable demand for and the first officer. The radio powder and when they strike they almost abruptly, the clouds change its exported goods! If the cost man is playing with his dials in burst, spreading the glistening from white to silver and gold, AK of war is thus counted, the a tiny cubicle just behind them. particles on the restless waves and the last minute the red sun ignites

The Craigengower Cricket Club contention that reciprocal trade Below, on the deck with the pas giving the navigator something a the whole horizon and lays a path

announce that their whist-drives is a preventive of it might be senger-lounge and just ahead of which he can train his drift indica of crimson and gold straight to strengthened by asserting that it, the navigator is spreading his tor to discover what side winds the speeding plane across the and tombolas, which have hitherto been held on Wednesdays, will in it is also the most fruitful fust chart. Outside, mechaises may be doing to drive the Clip moods.

With the navigator the passed the future take place every Tues- alternative to war. Trade hath and boatmen have cast off lines, per off course,

Farther help in charting the gers watch the twinkling guides day. its victories no less than war and a police boat has warned other

harbour craft to stay clext": plane'sTM position comes from the on the night sky and then, one

The directors of the Club Lusi- Įtano and Club de Récréto have

(ranged a reception, to be

the Club Lusitano“

at 6.30 p.m. in, honour of

P. Braga, retiring, memb

Legislative Co

d'Alm

the Clipper taries out in shore stations, from ships and by one, take to their roomy berths. With a view to the prosecution and turns into position from the islands ahead. With Mist streeks the windows and then of a Health Campaign throughout lsted, bits of clond Bash past, the Colony, The Hon. Dr. Li Shu- engineer- radio direction funders these zla

wraiths speeding east in the fin, District Surgeon, has deput

stop tips pick up the Clipper's signals

stem and

messages informing the

plane's bearia

Morning, and the

bearings and

before the sun star

ed Dr. Li Sha-pai to deliver a Lecture at the S. L. A B.-Hend- quarters on Friday at 7.30 pm

the Lecture will