1938-07-09 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 9, 1938.

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R.A.F. SET A NEW RECORD Longest Nonstop Flight By Organised Unit

Four Big Planes Cover 4,300 Miles In 32 Hours

ALL N.Z. FOREIGN PARIS REVELATION

MAIL BY AIR

Wellington, To-day.

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OF DRUG GANGS

Paris. In New Zealand, as from July 26, Louis Lion, the wealthy Paris the entire postal communication be- restaurant owner, who was ar- rested last week on a charge of tween New Zealand and those parts| London, To-day.

drug-trafficking. was questioned The longest non-stop flight by an organised unit of of the British Empire already in- at length recently by M Theve-

aeroplanes was completed yesterday by the corporated in the Anglo-Australian nin, the examining magistrate.

and Anglo-South-African air ser- Lion's counsel, Maitre Lionel Royal Air Force.

vices will be carried out by

de Tastes, a former Paris De- Four Vickers-Wellesley aircraft, fitted with Bristol Thus for example the entire New that he is opening proceedings

air.

puty, announced this evening Pegasus XXII engines landed at Ismailia, zealand post to Canada and New-against M. G. Chebat, who yes- Egypt, after covering 4,300 miles, thus exceed-foundland will go via England and terday accused him in an open ing 1,000 miles the previous long distance re-be forwarded from there in order letter of complicity in drug tra- cord of organised units held by the Italian Air to accelerate delivery.

Trans-flicking. Force from Dakar to Rio De Janeiro last January.

The R.A.F, formation which left Cranwell at 4.15 a.m., on Thursday were 32 hours in the air.

CHINESE WAR CHARITIES

Ocean.

FAMOUS FRENCH PENAL COLONY TO DIE OUT

Paris, June 30.

Chebat, a Tunisian naturalised Frenchman, was sentenced to 13 months' imprisonment after the discovery in May, 1935, as the re- sult of an explosion, of a secret drug factory in the Rue du Fau- bourg St. Honore..

The charge against Louis Lion for complicity in this affair was subsequently dropped.

The Paris Press recently states

Sir-One of the members of the "Devil's Island," the famous that the world's police have now French penal colony, dramatized in full details of the activities of books and films, has been abolish-two powerful groups of drug ed by a stroke of the pen, together manufacturers and traffickers. with other penal establishments in French Guiana.

The aircraft flew at an average height of 10,000 feet non-stop on the Great Circle route to a point between Koweit and Bahrein where, according to plans, they turned west-Red Cross Commission sent out to ward to their destination, Ismailia, succour the wounded was Dr. Milch, of Vienna, who has now accepted the The flight was commanded by position of Medical Officer of the Pak

Yan Squadron-Leader R. Pellett.

Wing hoi Po

Hospital (C. M. S.). Through him we have received a re- Commander Gayford who directed presentative selection of woodcuts of the organisation of the flight was striking originality and beauty by his By a decree published in the pilot of the Fairey-Napier

wife, Dr. Emma Milch-Bormann, official journal, the provisions of plane which in 1933 established the Professor of Applied Art at Vienna University, whose work in this me

the Government's Bill of December, world's non-stop record from Cran- tier has a European reputation. The 1936, dealing with the matter are well to Walvis Bay. Reuter.

artist has sent out these impressions enforced. These provisions, al- One of the agents of the "Blue of the scenery and old-world towns though not voted, have been ap- Gang," according to the Jour of Austria and Germany and some of plied in practice since the Bill was nal," went to Tientsin, China,

AIR MINISTRY ANNOUNCEMENT

mono-

The Air Ministry announces that

the cities of the New World and Eng-

land, to be sold for the benefit of the drawn up. Chinese Red Cross, and we hope, the

Hong Kong public will give a hearty Convicts at present confined in a formation of four Vickers Wel-response when they are placed on ex-settlements in French Guiana will lesley aircraft of the long range hibition at the St. John's Cathedral not be repatriated, but the penal

two development until of the Royal Air Hall on Monday, and the next

settlements will be allowed to die days. Force has successfully completed a The exhibition will also include the out. nonstop development flight of 4,300 work of Mr. Wong Oi Hung, who was miles.

These are the "Blue Gang" and the "Green Gang," which are said to have been conducting a bitter warfare against each other.

Agent's Visit To China

with a letter of credit for £240,- was watched by the police, who 000 for the purchase of drugs. He

made a number of arrests on his return to Europe.

Two murders are said to have been committed in the United

a Hong Kong boy, though he received The preamble to the Decree states States as a result of the w war- his training in Canton. He was one that the settlements have recently fare between the gangs. One of of the most brilliant and promising been criticised as "not inspiring these murders, it is stated, was of the younger artists of the modern school, and returned to Hong Kong sufficient fear to prevent crime, and committed by the late Jack Air only to die. It is hoped by the sale at the same time not affording a Diamond's gang. Diamond was

of his pictures to provide for his means of moral recovery." Reuter. 'himself murdered in 1931. widowed mother

This is the longest nonstop flight that has been accomplished by an organised unit of the Royal

Force.

The Very Rev. Dear J. L. Wilson

The long range Wellesley is fitted with a Bristol Pegasus 22 engine has kindly consented to open the ex-

The four aircraft left Cranwell at 4.15 hours B.S.T. yesterday morning and landed at: Ismailia, Egypt, at 12.10 hours B.S.T. to-day.] The average” ground speed was 135 miles per hour.-British Wireless.

CONDITIONS FOR NURSES

of

Mr. Walter Elliot, Minister Health, giving the inaugural address of the special Post-Graduate Course at the College of Nursing last night, said that the army of medicine must always be rather a calling than a trade..

hibition at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, the 11th, and it will remain open from two days. 10.30 am to 7.30 p.m. on the next

Yours truly, Irene M. Ashby Macfadyen.

NEW CHURCH PLOT IN RUSSIA

Moscow, Monday. Another plot by church members is alleged to have been discovered in the Volga city of Kuibysheff, ac- cording to the journal "Godless:”

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announces that

The newspaper the Commissariat for Internal Affairs has “liquidated” an organi- sation composed of 49 members. Seven church sextons and 20 priests He added that the conditions of are involved. that calling should be such as to Under the name of the Clericalist make it possible 1 for those in it to Monarchist Group, the members are give their best work, and for en alleged to have advised parishion- trants to feel that their working ers in confessionals not to vote in conditions were reasonable and fair. Soviet elections. The announcement Referring to the possibility of air coincides with to-day's first reports raid casualties, Mr. Elliot said that from Georgia and Armenia con- if such an emergency arose the nur-corning the elections which were sing profession would find itself in- held on Sunday for deputies to the stantly one of the most important Supreme Soviets for the two re- In the whole nation,

publics.

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