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GERMANY PRODUCES NEW HELICOPTER

Berlin, To-day.

Germany has at last produced her own type of "windmill plane" and it is claimed that remarkable results have been achieved.

Based on ideas worked out by the German aeronautical engineer, Professor Focke, of Bremen, the "hub-screw, plane" has no

new

wings.

the

ordinary

It consists of fuselage fitted with outriggers made of two big three-bladed horizontal propellors.

During trial flights on Saturday, the new plane attained a height of 7,500 feet and a speed of 122 kilome: tres an hour.

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY, 5, 1987.

AMERICAN COMMUNITY'S JULY 4 RECEPTION

CONSUL'S TRIBUTE TO H.K.

A's

WU TE CHEN ARRIVES IN SHANGHAI

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the

of Greater

General Wu Te-chen has come to America's Independence the courtesy and protection accord Shanghai to participate în Day, the Fourth of July, felled to them and to their nationals. celebrations of the tenth anniver- yesterday, the Consular recep Their remarks on this subject have, sary of the Municipality of tion was held this morning at the in their felicity of expression, been Shanghai, of which he was Mayor American Club, when Mr. Arthur equalled only by their sincerity. As for five years. O'Donovan, Acting Consul-Gen- the junior member of the Consular After the official celebrations here

said:

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to Nanking for a short visit, after which his next destination will be Kuling, where he will report General Chiang Kai-shek on affairs. in Kwangtung, teater,

to

General, Wu will also attend the conference of educational and civil leaders convoked in Kuling by the Generalissimo. Kouter.

eral for the United States, and Corps their is little I can add to on Wednesday, he will travel Mrs. O'Donovan, were hosts to a them. large and distinguished gather- However, I am sure that I speak ing including H.E. the Officer for all my countrymen in Hong Administering the Government, Kong when I say that we who reside Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith. -

here fel that our mode of has Mr. Arthur O'Donovan, ad- indeed fallen into pleasant ways; dressing the gathering This is the first time it has been

no small part of which is due to the excellent administration and my pleasant privilege to welcome government with which we are pro- Your Excellency and our other vided. guests on our national day. May I add, on behalf of our Both these figures are internaThere is an old saying that pa- government and the American tional records for "windmill

triotism is the last refuge of a colony of Hong Kong, that we are planes," capable of taking off and scoundrel but I trust that you highly appreciative of the honour landing at a vertical angle. Trans-will bear with me while I make bestowed upon us by your presence Ocean.

a few observations on this day here to-day.. which means so much to all Your Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen: I ask you to raise your

Americans.

Ex-Premier Of It means to us the anniversary glasses and drink to the health of

Rhodesia Passes Away

Bulawayo, To-day.

His Majesty the King.

ALLEGED BOMBING

No Steps Planned By Britain

London, To-day.

No steps will be taken as a re- sult of the alleged attempted bomb- ing of the British destroyers en-

of a day which saw the begin- ning of our existence as an in-

TOAST TO. PRESIDENT dependent nation. But it means Mr. N. L. Smith: replying, said:- even more than that in so far as

I feel it a great honour to hav we and the rest of the world are been asked to propose the health of concerned. It marks the begin- the President of the United States gaged in control duty off Vizcaya ning of a great experiment in de- to-day, and before doing So. Tby insurgent Spanish planes, it is mocracy an experiment which should like to express our grati- officially announced here.

It is pointed out by the Admiralty was to test whether or not we tude for the delightful hospitality

that the bombs fell into the could evolve a civilisation in offered by our American friends. which every man should have an I saw quoted the other daya almost a mile from the destroyers, opportunity to work out the fu- chance remark made by one of the and the opinion is expressed that The late Mr. Mitchell was born in ture to which his own ability or wisest of living Americans to the “it was a mistake" and that England and went to South Africa his achievements should entitle effect that the only dangers to An- bombs were not intended for the

glo-American relationships was British warships. civilisation when one side or the other set out which should remove, in so far to try to improve them.

The death occurred here yes- terday at the age of 70 of Mr. George Mitchell, banker and for-

mer

Premier of

Rhodesia.

Southern

in the service of the Bank of Africa in 1889.

He opened the first branch of the

Bank in Matabeleland in 1895 and resigned in 1901 to become General

Manager of the Rhodesia Explora-

him.

REMOVING BARRIERS It was to be a

That I

all barriers of class or birth, and When a car is ticking over comfort

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as might be humanly possible, think was a very sage remark. SERGEANT at the same time it was to guar-ably on all cylinders there is real- LEAVES DINNER tion and Development Company. antee certain rights which were ly not much point in getting out the

He later became joint Resident to be embodied in a constitution, crank handle and trying to give it TO ARREST Director of Gold Fields Rhodesian subject to change only by the a helping hand. In fact this is Development Co. and retired fro people themselves, in whom the liable to end in a broken wrist. So SNATCH THIEF active business in 1918.

ultimate power should reside.

:

the less I say about Boston tea par-

MOSCOW LEADER tion which has survived in spite of Mr. Justice

sea

the

From 1911 to 1919 he was a mem- A great English writer once said ties and democratic ideals the bet-

Hearing the sound of a police ber of the Southern Rhodesian that one of the chief merits of the ter. Surely it is fool-proof by this Legislative Council, and member of American people, in achieving their time, and if so why not just let it whistle outside a friend's resi- dence where he was a dinner the Legislative Assembly from 1929 independance and afterwards in tick over?

MANY GUESTS

guest on Saturday night, Ser- to 1933.

framing a constitution which should

Those present included:

geant Sullivan rushed out and From 1930 to 1933 he was Minis-give stability to that independence His Excellency the Officer Adminis- ter of Mines, from 1932 to 1933 was their firm determination to tering the Government, Mr. N. L. arrested a bag snatcher.

The incident occurred at about 9 holding the post of Minister of consider the facts of their own case Smith, accompanied by Mrs. Smith,

of Agriculture simultaneously. From before all else and to be misled A.D.C Commodore E B. C. Dicken, No. 1, Hillwood Road, was walking

Miss Smith, and Captain Rickcord, p.m. when Mrs. Shizuyo. Hara, July to September, 1933, he was neither by logic nor by history in accompanied by Lt. Commander Way along Nathan Road with a lady Premier of Southern Rhodesia.

deciding their course of action. mouth, A.D.C., Admiral S. Kobayashi Reuter.

As a result we have succeeded in and Officers, Hon. Mr. T. H. King, Hon. friend towards the Star Ferry. The Commander JB. Newill, Hon. Mr. R. accused snatched the bag and ran making precedents, not in following H. Kotewall, the Misses Kotewall, Hon into Kimberley Road. An Indian them, and have built up a civiliza-Mr. W. J. Carrie, Sir William Hornell, tion which has survived in spite of Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell, Hon. Mr. constable, No. B685, saw what oc- R. A. D. Forrest, Hon. Mr. R. A. Ccurred, blew his whistle and gave economic storm and stress and even North, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. T. Paterson, chase. the violent throes of Civil War. It Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, Mr. E. I. Wynne-

Glover, Officer Com- Sergeant A. Sullivan rushed out has endured because we have never Jones, Comdr. ceased to believe in it or in our own manding the South China U. S. Pa- into the street just in time to see trol; Mr. Eldon Potter, K:C., Mr. H. the accused turn into Carnarvon ability as a people to carry through Gipperich, Consul General for Ger- Road. Accused saw him, threw the what we set out to do. There may many, Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, Mr. C have been wanderings by the way Champkin, Major and Mrs. Duclos, M. bag away and kept on running. He

Leurquin, Mr. H. Okomoto, Sir. V. was caught near Granville Road. for the road has not always been Grayburn, Major and Mrs. R. D. Walk- easy nor the pathway clear.

er, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Shields, Pro- Before Mr. Barnett, this morning, But when we remember how far fessor Gerrard. Mr. H, M. Bixby and accused pleaded guilty to the charge of snatching the handbag and was America has come since this day many others.

' At 12 noon to-day, a salute of 21 sentenced to four months' hard lab- one hundred and sixty-two years

guns was fired by H.M.S. Tamar, our and 20 strokes with the cane. ago and through what hardships flying the Flag of the Senior Naval *** and vicissitudes she has passed we

Officer in Hong Kong, Commodore could not

araged, even Dicken, in honour of the

er the im-

Independence Day, while all Bri and foreign warships in port dressed overall,***

PASSES

Moscow, To-day. Jossif Kossor, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party, died here on Saturday night following a long illness.

He was one of Lenin's first colla- borators and was prominent in So- viet heavy industry. Trans-Ocean.

French Parliament Meetings

if we medt

Paris, To-day. The French Seaste and Chamber of Deputies will both be in session yezr to-morrow for the purpose of giving final ratification to a series of Bills. In all likelihood both Houses will adjourn for a recess on Thursday,

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HONG KONGEET

the Long leagues,

Kong I have on the occasion of their various.na- tional days, press to you, and to your predecessor in the high office which you hold, their thanks for

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