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TRANSPARENT NOSES FOR AIRCRAFT

A means of enabling the pilots of a sub-stratosphere aeroplane to be seated in a transparent nose, with full view in all forward directions, has been invented by the German Junkers aircraft company, writes our air correspondent.

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NEW FRENCH

ARMY CHIEF

Brilliant Career of General Georges

Little was known publicly, of Gen- eral Georges, who, it is understood, is to succeed General Gamelin Chief of the Army General Staff, until he was seriously wounded at Marseilles on October 9. 1934, by the Croat revolutionary who killed A cupola, made of two shells of both King Alexander of Yugo-Slavia transparent plastic material, forms and the French Foreign Minister, the front of the aeroplane's fuse-M. Louis Barthou. Marshal Petain General lage.

Between the two shells is at that time said that if a narrow space, which is kept full Georges died the loss to the French of gas

under pressure. The gas Army would be irreparable.

General Georges is sixty-three maintains the correct shape of the outer shell against air pressure years old. Immediately after he had when the machine is in flight. passed out of Saint Cyr he

Seats for two pilots are contain-active service on the frontiers "of Until the ed within the transparent cupola. Algeria and Morocco. The seats are mounted on a tube war his experience had entirely been extending into the cupola from the in Africa, except for two years at front of the fuselage. An advantage the Ecole de Guerre.

a On recovering from severe of this device would be that the aerodynamically favourable form wound in 1914 he was attached to the front of the aeroplane could be the General Staff and passed two "kink" caused years in the Near East. Then he preserved, and the by a windscreen eliminated. More- was placed at the head of the vitally over, the outlook of the pilots should important Operations Bureau of the be improved if distortion Army Staff;

the. curved shells of the cupola can be over- come.

arising from

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KNOWLEDGE OF NEAR EAST

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It was as a specialist in the Near Eastern questions that he was sent by the Supreme Council to advise the Greek command in Asia Minor in 1920, and afterwards took part in the Inter-Allied conferences in with London, and was entrusted supervising the execution of the Hong Kong Bank $1365 b., $1365 sa military clauses of the Saint-Ger

Following is the list of changes and enquiries in local share quotations this morning:

BANKS

INSURANCES

Canton Ins, $220 s.

Union Ins. $450 b., $460 s.

H. K. Fire Ins: $170 b.

DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS,

ETC...

H. K. Docks (Old) $16% b., $17%

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MINING

Antamoks Ps. .43% sa. Atoks Ps. .33% sa. Baguio Gold Ps. 26 sa. Benguet Consol. Ps. 13.20 sa. Coco Grove Ps. .45% sa. Consolidated Mines 'Ps. .0025 sa. Demonstrations Ps. 21 sa.

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China (Rights) $3 sa.

H. K Electrics $56 b., $561⁄4% sa. Telephones (Old) $231⁄2 8.

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Cements $15.70 sa.

STORES, &C.

Wing On (H.K.) $36 b.

MISCELLANEOUS

Entertainments $7 b.

Marsmans Inv. (ILK.) s/- 2/6 b.

HAS BROKEN HER FOOT 20 TIMES

Having fractured her foot for the twentieth time, Miss Betty Parry, aged 27, is in Bangor In- firmary.

She was found lying in the road near her home at Bethesda, North Wales, having fallen. Un- til she was 14 she could not walk. Miss Parry is an excellent swimmer and keen hiker.

main, Neuilly, and Trianon treaties. As a specialist in African ques- tions Marshal Petain made him his Chief

to of Staff when he went

the Morocco in 1925 to suppress Abdul Krim revolt. He was quite recently made Inspector-General of all the troops in North Africa.

But

Morocco, before going to General Georges had been for sever- al years with the French Army of and Occupation in the Rhineland;

he was intimately associated with the planning and construction of the Maginot Line

PUBLIC AUCTION

The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auc- tion on

Thursday, the 2nd. February, 1939' commencing at 11.00 a.m. at their Sales Room, No. 2 Connaught Road, Central, Ground Floor. A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD'

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700 Pieces Steel Tubs.

30 Doz. Felt Hat Cones.

7 Pieces Steel Casements. 4 Cases Torchlight Lenses.. 3 Bags Mineral Ore.

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