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CHINA YEAR BOOK

(1938 Edition)

EDITED BY H. G. W. WOODHEAD, C.B.E.

The new edition of the CHINA YEAR BOOK will add another volume to the series (dating from 1912) which constitutes a very remarkable contemporary history of China. It arms its reader with all material necessary for forming correct judgments on the Far Eastern situation and embodies all important documents and statistics of the year.

Among the subjects dealt with by foreign and Chinese experts are the following:-

Sino-Japanese Hostilities (Documented) Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan

Public Health and the Leprosy Problem

Finance and Currency (including War measures) Chinese Art

Chinese Army and Navy

Catholic and Protestant Missions

The Kuomintang and the Government

Modern Chinese Industries: Labour.

Royal octavo, 620 pages, cloth bound, $18 net.

Obtainable at all booksellers or from the publishers: THE NORTH-CHINA DAILY NEWS & HERALD LTD.

P.O. Box 707; Shanghai

THE CHINA MA

FIRST AIR GIRL IS

Britain's Bravest Woman Collects Wild Flowers

London, January 22.....

The pioneer airwoman of Britain, Mrs. Ger- trude Foggitt, is sixty-four now and lives in a quiet Yorkshire market town. But she is still keenly interested in flying and only recently went for her first glider flight.

Mrs. Foggitt was the first woman in the world to go up in an airship, the first to take a seaplane flight, and the first to fly to Paris in a commercial aeroplane.

Her love of the air was born before airplanes were invented, for as a girl she took part in many daring balloon ascents.

DROVE IN 1899

Once she went under water in a diver's suit. She drove a motor-car as long ago as 1899. During the war she served with the Red Cross.

Sitting in the parlour of her home at Thirsk, Mrs. Foggitt described some of her greatest thrills to a Sunday Express representative.

"I inherited my love of flying "He from my father," she said, made many balloon ascents with the Spencer brothers.

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"We came down with a bump, wire crashed through a barbed

an oak tree fence, bounded into

.de- which....snapped, and we were posited in a field.

"I escaped with a broken arm. My father had a torn leg."

MID-AIR THRILL

70,000

WORLI ing pilot an ford Univer

shows youn tude. Pictu

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with Farman

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was the

In 1904 at. Shrewsbury people saw Mrs. Foggitt make the Rheims meetin first airship ascent by a woman in a they toasted m craft that had only a 5 h.p, engine.

Household gas had been used to fill the airship bagaces

Gertrude Fo other senses." lous looks when

When they were 2,000, feet up a bicycle with Stanley Spencer had to climb out along the bamboo framework to clear a rope.

"I first went up in one at the Crystal Pai... when I was twenty- Later came the invention of the four and had many trips afterwards. airplane and the first flying meeting "The most hazardous was in 1899 at Rheims attended by pioneers like when Stanley Spencer, my father, Bleriot, Farman, Glenn Curtis, Paul- and I went up before dawn to see a han, and Latham. Mrs. Foggitt shower of shooting stars which flew with Roger Sommer. scientists were expecting.

"We had to throw out all our ballast to get above the cloud

layer and then found ourselves helpless as the balloon soared

higher and higher.

"Stanley wrote a letter

which

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"There are many now who know the glorious gliding sense you get, as a machine leaves the ground," But picture said Mrs. Foggitt what it meant the first time, when the world of aviation was young, Then to rise fresh, and untried.

"After, drifting for hours we heard the sound of the sea below. nt all was a glorious adventure.. 18 and knew that we faced

"In that experience I have death.

record- something which the breakers of to-day have missed -the rapture and glory of the very beginning. "After Sommer and I had flown past the 250,000 people in the grand-

1 am sure?

sage to be a farewall

wife. "Then

our joy, we found our- selves descending over the South Wales coast.

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The Vauxhal trial, over 1,00 the 10 h.p. Sal

40 m.p.g. On

And it has Hydraulic Br chromesh and: features.

Bringing Up Father

THERE'S MICKEY MCMICK- I'LL GIT HIM TO GO TO ME HOUSE AN' TELL MAGGIE AN' ME DAUGHTER I'M RICH - THEN I CAN GO HOME AFTER THE EXCITEMENT IS OVER-

YOU SEE-MICKEY-1 HAVE HALF A MILLION DOLLARS IN THE BANK-AND I WANT YOU TO JUST GO OVER AND TELL ME, FAMILY - WHEN YOU COME BACK. I'LL GIVE YOU FIFTY DOLLARS-

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WELL-HE'S BEEN GONE HALF AN HOUR -- HE SHOULD BE BACK SOON.

NOW-COME RIGHT ALONG- ALL RIGHT.

WE'LL CALL YOU NAPOLEON YOU WANT-

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