1937-06-24 — Page 4

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At 2.30, 5.10.

7:15

9.30

.m.

For Fun's Sake

Meet Hank, the "blind data” Romeo who picked his girls out of phone books ....... and Eleanor, the red-headed honey who showed him how to put marriage on a playing ́basis) It's a scream!-

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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 24, 1937.

M. BONNET RETURNING FROM UNITED STATES

FULL

CONFIDENCE IN FRENCH CREDIT

London, To-day.

The Royal Air Force display which the King and Queen will attend at Hendon on Saturday: will present an unequalled pa- geant of military aviation in a remarkable formation flight of 250 aircraft in a set piece show- ing an attack on and the defence of a port and in individual and formation aerobatics.

Considerable interest will also be aroused by the presence in a new type of aircraft park, alongside the latest examples of military aircraft of one civil aeroplane.

This is an Albatross mono- plane, with four Gipsy Twelve five-hundred horse-power en- gines, which is designed to cruise at more than 200 miles · hourly across the North Atlantic with at least 1,000 lbs of mails on board and which represents the landplane aspect of Britain's comprehensive ex- periment in trans-ocean flying. Weighing, with

a full 28,000 lbs,

approximately

load, the

Albatross is notable for its novel

construction.

Another feature of technical in-

Site For British Embassy

London, To-day. Negotiations are still pro- ceeding with the Chinese Gov- èrnment with a view to acquisi- tion of a site for a new Bri- tish Embassy in Nanking.

This was announced in the House of Commons yesterday by the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, in a reply to Mr. Geoffrey Mander (Liberal, Wolverhampton East). Reu-

ter.

ASTOUNDING

CHINESE

BUYING

SPREE

The Shanghai Municipal Police

has ordered goods to the value

terest is the method of lowdrag are on the look-out for a Chinese cooling adopted for the engines who within the past few days which are completely housed in streamlined cowls and obtain cooling air through apertures in the leading edge of the main plane. --British Wireless.

BELGIUM WINS GORDON BENNETT BALLOON RACE

Brussels, To-day. Belgium has won the annual Gordon Bennett balloon race, ac- cording to preliminary returns of distances.

in

of $160,000 from large foreign firms without paying.

Amazing feature of the affair is that the Chinese has not obtained any of the large stocks of merchan- dise ordered, the man apparently being a hoaxer out of the ordinary.

First to suffer from his pranks were Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw and Co., at whose stores the Chinese, representing himself to be an official of the Shanghai City Government, ordered $10,000 worth of goods.

$40,000 ORDER

Continuing his buying spree, the man ordered $40,000 worth of prn- aments and watches from Messrs.

The Belgian balloon landed Latvia after having covered a dis-Hirsbrunner and Co., the jewellers, to be sent to him "Before Christ- tance of 1,380 kilometres.

mas.**

Second is the Polish balloon, which also landed in. Latvia, after travelling 1,350 kilometres.

The German entry, it will be re- called, was forced to land in Cze- cho-Slovakia by Czech police

planes.-Trans-Ocean.

Stratosphere Attempt

According to the Polish press, the third balloon ascent to the strato- sphere planned by Prof. Piccard could not be realised owing to financial difficulties.

He then visited the Robinson Piano Company, where he select- ed $80,000 worth of radios and pianos. He next ordered another $30,000 of goods from a chemist and photographer, after which his little pranks came to an end. None of the stores concerned having received the cheques pro- mised for the goods, the police were informed and are now combing Shanghai for the unique practical joker.

Government Radio Activity

As the Polish Balloon Works at Legionowo, near Warsaw, have,

Winifred Shotter

Nearly four million words were however, already worked out the transmitted as paid traffic by the complete plans for the new Piccard Government Radio "Office during stratosphere balloon and as con-1936, the annual report of struction of the latter has actually Postmaster-General reveals.. already started, it is now intended | Total unpaid traffic amounted to to have the balloon completed and 1,971,606 words.

the

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United Artists' Release

TO MORROW -Lily Pons in “THAT GIRL FROM PARIS”

to have the ascent to the strato The main feature of the year was sphere made by Polish scientists. the introduction of aeronautical The ascent is, finances permitting, services which was responsible for to take place some time during the an exchange of 3,639 messages con- summer-Trans-Ocean..

taining 122,008 words.