1937-08-13 — Page 11

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS TO HAVE OWN RAILWAY STATION

Linking Central London With Croydon Airport

Big Scheme Now Developing In London

London, To-day.

Imperial Airways is to have its own railway terminus in London.

SOVIET

GERMAN PLANE FLIER'S NORTH AT LISBON FOR

POLE FLIGHT

Moscow, To-day- Sigismund Levanevsky, the So viet Air ace, flying a four-engined plane with a crew of six, took offx here at 6.15 am. yesterday on a flight to Fairbanks, Alaska, via the North Pole-Renter.

It will be alongside Victoria Station and spe- cial trains will run from it directly to Croydon and FRENCH

to Southampton for passengers on the Empire and Atlantic flying boat services.

Foundations of the new building which will in- clude the headquarters of the Company are now being excavated.

ATLANTIC HOP

Lisbon, To-day.

The German seaplane, Noormeer,

of the German Lufthansa Company, which had arrived on Wednesday for its first flight to New York via the Azores, fueled here yesterday

FRENCH PLANESd will leave for Horta, in the

BOMB RIOTOUS NATIVES

Jerusalem, To-day.

Azores, at noon to-day."

The trials for a catapult start on the steamer Frieseniand will be car- ried out at the Azores under the direction of Captain Heja, who is the representative of the Portuguese

At the same time, plans for linking other air- ports with the London Railway termini are being Grave disorders in the North Government. pushed forward

Under these arrangements, Heston airport will be 18 minutes rail jour- ney from Paddington and the new aerodrome under construction for the City of London Corporation at Ilford will be within 25 minutes of the City by electric train.

LARGE FRENCH

CREDIT TO CHINA

Syrian province of Djesirch, near the Turkish frontier, necessitated The Chief Pilot of the Noormeer, bombing operations by two French Count Schacht, declared that

the military planes according to dis-first flight of the plane from Trave- patches here which add that the muende, on the Baltic, to Lisbon, attack was made by inhabitants of had been satisfactory in every re- the village of Amondah on mem- Ispect: Trans-Ocean. bers of the Franco-Syrian Commis-] sion which arrived there in order Paris, To-day. to investigate causes of the unrest Regarding the special credit pre-in the province.

local authorities were obliged to Four more docble journeys across viously reported as having been

appeal to the French for assiste group of The attack proved to be a signal ance. Order has since been the North Atlantic are to be flown granted to China by a

Trans-Ocean. by the two Empire flyingboats, French banks, it has now become for a general revolt so that the restored. Caledonia and Cambria; which have known that the group, led by the already participated in experimental [Banque de Paris et des Pays-bas, to Cie., work on the North Atlantic route, which the Legard-Freres et are scheduled before the winter ice Banque de l'Indo Chine and Banque at Newfoundland closes down the Franco Chinoise por le Commerce et route.

COMPOSITE CRAFT

Industrie belong, have opened credit of 100,000,000 Francs, which may possibly be raised to 200,000,000 Francs in favour of the

Central

Meanwhile interest temporarily Bank of China centres on the Short-Mayo composite The strengthening of the currency- aircraft which has been designed to reserve of the Central Bank of China overcome the difficulty of launching is stated to be the purpose of the long-range aircraft with a maximum credit-Trans-Ocean. load and which is now ready for it trials.

The first experimental flights will be made with the lower component a large four-engined flying boat similar to the standard Empire boat except for the mechanism by which the upper component a four-engined float aeroplane will be attached

SCOTLAND

INVITES SCOUTS

London, To-day. The International Boys Scouts' Association, at the close of the In-

The lower component is powered by four Bristol Pegasus "X" en-ternational Jamboree recently held gines of 950 horsepower each.

in Holland, have announced that in- vitations have been issued for al Not until both components have world Scout conference to be held satisfactorily passed their trials will in Scotland in 1939. the critical experiment of a joint France is not expected to accept flight with the launching of the the invitation, as she expects the upper component at a height of next Jamboree to be held in France about 10,000 feet be carried out. in 1941 Renter.

THREE ATTACKS

WORLD BRIDGE

Local Winners Announced

The Short-Mayo composite. craft is one of the three lines of attack on the problem of commer- cial Transatlantic flight, the other two being the Empire flyingboats ich have already been on trial

the De Havilland Albatross mittee that the Far East North, experimental flights South Championship in the recent are not yet fixed-Bri-World Bridge Olympic was won by

F. A. Gill and L. A. Ozorio.

The World Bridge Olympic Com-

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