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NEXT STEPS Though no final decisions on the Palestine Report cars he ex- pected after so short a period, Mr. Attlee has done the obvious thing in making it clear that the Government appreciate the grave burden which acceptance of the Report would throw on Bris tain, and that they will

not

[In Sydney"Now

GREATEST ANZAC DAY MARCH EVER

Sydney, 30th April, 1046. Sixty thousand ex-Servicemen World and women of the two Wara marelted Sydnicy streets lu

grey

LM.S. In contingent and Bri.

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1946.

TODAY IN EUROPE

By

RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

stocks

of

The Gas Turbine Plane Comes Just In Time

The advent of the gas tur- All modern types of powerfulho safd is only justifiabloat bino is a revolutionary develop-piston aero-enginca neem to auf- speeds of less than about 450 ment in the history of aviation. fer froth personal and peculiar m.p.h. At 300 m.p.h. the air-

cials responsibilities that Govern-ard sunny, and hundreds of age of an Australian war-bride Europe, Russia was at first en- and long-range planes. The gas! April, 1944,

By OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

the beat. By 1 a.m. there were 5,000 wreaths laid at the Cenotaph. There was a record number of

የቤ Mountbatten Louis

saya,

keep alimin. Esta

day

and Poland Thus a sensible at-

By Air Commodore L. G. S. Payne

Daily Telegraph Air Correspondent

i

In the interim stage, until we can produce suitable types of purely jet-propelled commercial

Few laymen, however, realise | mechanical problems. To over-crew's efficiency is double that how very opportune that re-came these sometimes required of the jết. Largely for this. volution is. It comes at a time five or more years' work on de-reason, the fuel consumption of Despite the ill-will and hos- when definite limits appear to sign and development before tho jet engine at that speed is the youngest competitor. The next|tility which the Kremlin con- have been reached both to the the engine is ready for large more than double that of the five were Pamela Hookham, Nor- tinues to direct against Britain horpe power and to the number scale productions. Dr. Hooker piston engine.

and America, most thoughful of normal piston engines that maintains that jet propulsion At about 500 m.p.h. the jet ma Gencave, Betty Ormo, Joan people in the Western world can be Installed in an aircraft. ongines behave far more ren- and the airscrew Fahoy and Lorraino

are equally Matthews. would still be prepared to make There are technical difficul- sonably, Once a typical tur efficient. At spoeds in excess the greatest Anzac Day march Two readers picked the six inconsiderable concessions If, ties in designing piston en- bine problem has been solved of 500 m.p.h., the simple jet en- ever. They were cheered to the correct order 63,720,300 to 1 thereby, Kussia's whole-hearted gines of 4,000 h.p. or more for orn engine. it can be re-gine la far better than the re- echo by a crowd of quarter of a chance and shared A£400....cooperation in building the Apart from the great weight garded as solved for all cagines ciprocating platon, engine for million who had been in the At the R.A.A.F. station at Dubbestructure of world peace could and bulk of such engines, there of that type,

propelling aircraft, and just as the streets from

time Dawn Service until the parade at du may deteriorate

of the materials which cost A100,000; be obtained. But many who are obvious mechanical com+ Consequently tlic porlod economical. 0.30 am: and the marchers took lack of staff and limited storag

because of have laboured long in this cause plications in trying to equip a necessary for the design and Dr. Hooker maintained that are beginning to view it as a plane with inore than four development of the gas turbine all objections to jet propulsion two hours to pass a given

spaco....Donations to the Food

heart-breaking task. It is be- motors. Heading the parade

engine la far shorter. The first can be overcome by flying high Fund now for Britain

exceed

This makes it essential, as Rolls-Royce version of the and fast. He summarised the General Gordon Bennett, former A£175,000....The final issue of ginning to look as if the Rus

in "Salt" made its appearance

sinns have no desire to co- | Dr. S. G. Hooker, of the Rolls- Whittle engine was the Wel- situation by saying," "If wo commander of the 2nd A.I.P. Malaya, dressed in

mufti

April 22 With tho passing of operate with other nations ex-Royce jet division, pointed out land, which passed its 100-hour really must crawl about the and wearing three rows of decern this small but virile Army maga- cept insofar as they can gain in the paper he read before the type. test in April, 1943. In skies at 200 m.ph., then I sco tions. The Royal Marine band of zine goes one of the best Cobbers' some advantage for themselves. Royal Aeronautical Society on the same month Rolls-Royce no hope of displacing the pro-

headed the of the Digger shoulder either the immediate Royal Naval

.350 officera for- Consider, for example, the March 13, that n now lype of began to design the improved peller and, as a punishment, case of the European Coal Orpower plant, making a complete and more powerful Derwent. we shall have to put up with long-term commitments involved tish sttached to 11.M.S. Golden

Hind, IN. shore station in Byd-ganisation. This body was set break with the reciprocating It was first tested in July that the propeller noise and vibra- single-handed. They intend to ner inscribed "Good old Fammies." find out first

be developed, year, passed its 100-hour type tion, from the United Sluny stayed up all night to en-ave left for Columbo by up to try to apportion the limit-engine, should"

H.M.S. Vindex and will there ed available the

Dawn Service, view of

Gould,

coal not only for high-speed military test the following November, "If, on the other hand, we transfer to H.M.S.

R.N. States Goveranwent to whom the sure a

attended by 10.000 shore station in Colombo...

countries ....Lug among all the

of types, but also for commercial and made its first flight in regard a journey by air as a Report is equally addressed, what which was

preple

The

weather was

was bright d

boring thing to be got over as share in the inilitary and tunna.

to supply the was stolen and replaced with rub-thusiastic in its support of the turbine acers

The rapidity with which now soon as possible, and are pre- A... men who had only just re-

of the ECO.. But answer. bish while it was being transformation

and improved types of gas turpared to consider transport air- ment will undertake. This is an covered from malaria were forced ported to her new home in America when they found that, the rules. The new engine in likely to bines are likely to be produced craft with speeds greater than The Re- to fall out of the parade beforThe week-old fire in Cessnoch of membership required them to supersede the piston engine will constitute a problem for 400 m.p.h., then we can begin elementary precaution. port itself is quite vague about their sections began to move, du: No. 2 colliery has been controlled disclose figures about their own

to think of the jet propulsion to exhaustion by standing and Two films have been banned coal stocks and also how much

unit, with the advantage of its what assistance Britain will te-

by the censor this year"Dillin- they were obtaining from Po-

reduced noise and vibration for ceive from others in discharging

ger" and "Blackmarket Babies" land, they walked out, quickly

the passengers. the unpleasant task of holding the

Stage star Support Madge Elliot followed by their satellitics, ring in Palestine, and quite pes-:

diet to Czechoslovakia, Food sibly in a wider area, until Jews

scarce enough to any figure Jugoslavia. and Arabs come to terms, though

next"

tempt to apportion the coal of altogether, both Sydney's largest queues

for military aircraft designers, who may aircraft capable of cruising. nt in several passages it indicates

are at

the Taxation Dept. More

More Europe in a fair manner has

and commercial flying. Taking find difficulty in producing 500 m.p.h. or more, gas tur- than 4,000 call ench

After been largely aabotaged by Rus- that refusal of practica! assis

a long-range view, some, ex-suitable airframes to keep paco bines can be used to drive aire- several threats the police have sia-and countries like Jugo-

crews. In this way, most of tance would be intolerably u casualties, in

in the crowd-1,2001 several

closed Cown ali

ali Sydney's eating alavia will have to pay the price. perte believe that the turbine with the engines.

The jet-propelled aircraft is the advantages which the gaa engine, owing to its lightness fair. After all, criticism of Bri-Lady

houses ut iu p.m. on Sundays... ECO has no executive func- tish policy and administration les mobbed fast times by admirers To facilitato navigation all ships tions. It can only recommend and simplicity, will be the type driven by the reaction from a turbine has to offer, such as

19-hour

used to propel airjot of hot air and gases escap-cheapness of manufacture, cane day entering and leaving Sydney har- to

eventually been extremely vocal in stune in an exhausting

Its members where they

craft when Asked whether she was tired or States.ENE

bour wil dy destination flage

they derive their ing at very high speed from of maintenance, low weight, re- of the United

should well their coal. In prac- power from atomic energy: quarters

the rear of the engine, in much liability, and freedom from Lady Louis replied. "This all they and I want to meet a jockey who became overweight tice, however, various Govern-

A The Report, signed by

during war service will be.

pioneer work of Alr] the same way as a rocket is risk of fire, can still be obtain- American representatives, shows all the Servicemen, particularly

Whittle, Commodore for a rehabilitation loan but not ments always act on ECO's ad- I can." Two

as Dr. propelled by the reaction from ed, although the speed will not this criticism to have been wholly ex-prisoners, that

for medical

Now that Jugoslavin has Hooker said, has enabled us to the burning charge emerging, be so high. reducing treatinent British warshins and freigh withdrawn from ECO at the rachieve a flying start in the from its tail.

Planos powered by gas tur- unfounded. The problem is ad- Anzac Day marches from different

starting points, but both

tera are rushing huge. cargoes of quest of the Kremlin, she redevelopment of the gas turbino. Pure jet propulsion engines, bintit driving airscrews are inittedly an international pro

ing at the Domain, will prob

wheat and flour to relieve famine ceives no more coal from this It will ever redound to our dis-such as the Derwents used in likely to be operating on United blem, and that is why the Unit- be held next year as this year a

In India....The first shipment of source. Yet, strangely enough, credit if we allow any other, the record-breaking Gloster Stafes internal air routes in ed States cousted to join in the Divine Service at the Domain com-

Tasmanian beer since Octobe, U.N.R.R.A. continues

to send

of 1947. The Ministry of Supply It has already been meneed late and had to be con- 192 inquiry.

1942 has arrived at Goulburn coat supplies to Jugoslavia and, nation to get ahead of us in this Meteor, consist basically

field.

Aircraft Production, I rotary air compressor in and 1,200 dozen bottles of Cascade ironically enough, most of it made clear that adoption of the cluded before its termination.

Briefly summarised, Label....Eles-

the front and a turbine behind, understand, has ordered two Report would have serious reper-

Rod and Green

comes from British and Ameri-

together by a central or three prototype Vickers 24- tricity black-outs may occur in throughout the Amb

turbine are: cussions

shaft; and of a number of com-seater airliners, which are to ho with British and American world. For all these reasses Bri- that it was really heartrending Sydney this winter unless better can pila and will be paid for principal advantages of the gas joined

Simplicity of construction bustion chambers around this similar to the Vickers Viking, for her to leave: she had had a quality coal is produced....

money.

makes it cheapor to manu-shaft and between the compres- but equipped with gas turbines tain must refuse to face the con wonderful line. She guid,

The following engagements are At the moment, U.N.R.R.A.

and air crews. sequences alone. Some may think was particularly proud to be announced: Lieut. (S) Stanley is able to

facture, less liable to, mechani-sor and the turbine, supply Jugoslavia cal breakdown,

In a paper read to the Royal and easier to Anzac Vine, R.N.V.R., of Cheshire and with only one-half of what is questionable whether engaged actively in your it even

Aeronautical Society on the these consequences should be in-/ Day celebrations and was deeply Peggy Elaine Martin of Vaucluse considered to be the country's keep serviceable than the pia-

Air is drawn imprewed by their sincerity." Eric William

through the same day as Dr. Hooker's, Mr. ton engine. Atkins, R.N., off

the Re vited by the Western democracies

Round or maimum requirements. So the Betty

The absence of reciprocating compressor in front and forced R. M. Clarkson, of only, or by them and others of: Sydney is in the grip of another London and

of Jugoslavs are being kept colder Duffield

parts reduces vibration and into each combustion-chamber, j Haviiland Aircraft Co., made a between with kerosene detailed comparison Fay than they need to be, and their the

United Nations together. strike. This time it is the abat- Bagowlah: Walter

London and Shanghai and Also, and for, equally good rea duo to

toirs, and it all began at River- Landa of Randwick: Sub-Licut industrial recovery is being de- practically eliminates' loss of where it mixes

mechanical fric-fuel emitted from a tube and two hypothetical small twin- burning continuously with a engined airliners, with accom- sims, Mr. Attlee has firmly re- missed for ringing a "smoko hell Peshawar and Judith Ann Hatrick

minutes carly, The

The design of the gos tur- flame similar to a blow-lamp's. modation for 12 passengers nad Union fused to act on one section of the

The heat reinstatement. Devonshire, R.N.V.R., of their

generated, ex. a range of 500 miles. One was Report alone. It must, he said demanded

the air and causes It, to be driven by piston engines repeatedly, be dealt with "as in Sydney is withent mest and

of its proportion

maximum with the gaacs formed, to rush and the other by gas turbines A on its supplies. But it is into.

at a greatly Increased with airscrews, whole." This can only mean that there is a wild rush for rabbit of Launceston....Lieut. R posing any political conditions faster cruising, at a far higher pands

CH married

the only exits He reached the conclusion Safer and cheapor fuela can velocity, from the immediate issue of 100,000

Anzac Day to Margaret Geddes lerable..that a country like Ju-Pawer than the piston engine. aut.

the open rear ends "that the turbine aeroplano, to immigration "certificates recon

pressed to release 2,000,000 tins of Roseville....The farewell ball goslavia, which is deriving beba used in the gas turbine and available,

nefit from this great humani- inended by the Report must avait of sardines and salmon now being given by Capt. C. Hughes Hallei tarian scheme, should be able to greatly reduce the risk of fire of the combustion chambers, carry the same payload as the the decision whether the whole held.

and of H.M.S.

Last but by no means least, and through the turbine blades piston version, is 22 per centr was vood the best RN. show sabotage the work of other or it gives much greater power in immediately behind. The tur- smaller, 18 per cent. cheaper, gist of the Report will he adopted

Four Sydney tram conductors Sydney has seen. There were 200 ganisations which are working proportion to weight and jointly implemented by Bri-

In for the same purposes, tain and the United States. The ordered footboard travellers queste...Seen at Romano's

er differcat parties него Lieut.- The vast majority of the o get off their trags on Monday Comdr. Peter Hankey, R.N., and peoples of the world hoped we Dr. Hooker estimated that. { shaft.

were now going to build a sys-during the record runs of the

Artice

agrees that the

Lady Louis snid before leaving

Adelaid Mascot aerodrome for

five

.

of

of Vaucluse: and Comdr. John

vice.

The

politics of the Kremlin,

Under its charter, U.N.R.R.A.

tion

The dispute spread and the result hire and Louise "Ted Hamp is rightly precluded from imbine enables it to be used, for i

fish and exes. Poultry is hard

Government procure.

being

The tramways threatened to stop

con-

Wadley, R:N.. was

the Cont

Capt. Annesley, R.N., of

that

* W

Report, and cannot be was given, and on Saturday police Douglas Helt and as Austra-hat this disillusionment should thing approaching this horse- is set alight by sparking plugs,

*

*

bine is thus made to rotate and 22 per cent. lighter, 16 per cent. to drive the compressor on the faster, requires 21 por cent, less opposite end of the central inatulled power, ls 32 per cent. cheaper to run, and can per- delay cannot be long, since Mr. | were badly manhandled by angry cut. Dan McKinnon, MStem of society in which Govern- Gloster Meteor, its two Holla up, exactly like the engine of a year.

The gas turbine is started form 16 per cent. more work in matter mobs, and the upshot was that torious. Comdr. H. Rolfe, R.N..monts would refrain from tac- |

It is the substantial inust be treated as urgent.

unit 'weight issue of certificates would

- trams going to and from sporting H.M.S. Black Prince and Majorites of this sort. It is becom. Royce Derwent V engines were a car, by rotating it with an saving in power

functions over the week-end unless

Peter Spittail of H.M.S. Duke of

at 600 m.p.h.. the electric producing doubtedly invite the same

motor. The fuel in- per horse-power which is the

combustion chief cause of these improve- · equivalent of about 10,000 hp. troduced into the sequences as the adoption of the they were given police protection or

were visitors in different ing increasingly obvious against footboard travellers. It

Prince's... Comdr. this hope is illusory.. whole done as an isolated act. Mr. Att made 30 arrests when, with loud ilan lanceo Alloo

It is particularly disquieting each. No piston engine of any chambers, during this process, ments." Brown have

called primary igniters, which Adaption of existing types of lee, indeed, went further. He sneaker cries of "We're not

bought Billy Hughes house in be in the economic field. Of all power exists or is envisaged.

One of the most powerful are used solely for this purpose aircraft to take gas turbines kidding," they swooped on over- Sassafras.

Victoria....Suzanne the fundamental beliefs of Mar-

con- driving airscrews will not solve the disbanding and disarming of

paralys of her

problems of really high- American 28-sequently the aircraft's speel, the factured, the lightning striko a

her departure, to work for doctrine that wars arise from the illegal armies the Haganah ed Melbourne's bus and tram ser-

Pratt and Whitney aro controlled by a throttle speed flight, and is likely to U.N.R.R.A. in Chi

China. She is

merely economic. causea. In the case Wasp Major radial engine, de- which regulates the amount of constitute

a passing and its branches described in the vices and enused great confusion

Victorian

Young

Con- League 100,000 do

boware, We should Passengers. The mento

phase. clied above, we see convinced tingent vice-president. ...Kathie

Dr, Hooker declared that the therefore, of reactionary and port-and this implies resumption which they were cailed on to start Benaventure to resume work for an experiment in international atated to weigh 3,405lb. Tha tenth recommendation of the Re- objected to the system under Man left for Hong Kong by the Marxists deliberately wreaking velops about 3,500 h.p., and is fuel admitted:

levelled äti vocate expenditure weighs only tion is continually by the Jewish Agency of co-earlier and anish later than nor-cha-HK Government Former-economic cooperation. There is Derwent engine, despite its criticisma of high fuel consump-misguided enthusiasts who ad- # large criticam, sums on conventional-type air- craft fitted with gas turbines and airscrews to give them an

improved performance.

made the issue conditional upon crowded sporting trans. In Mel-Crouch was farewell on the evexists, the most cardinal is the Piston engines now being manu-Engine revolutions, and

bourne

the-cpul, steel, and car battery In-

cylinder

enormous power,

tun- particularly

1,250lb.

gas turbines. This

Birthday In The Sparrow's Nest

Tho high-speed, purely jet- propelled aircraft of to-morrow will banr little resemblance to "I've forgotten this one, too,"

of to-day. Wings the planca said the Sparrow.

will probably be smaller and "You only remembered to backswopt to reduce air re- said drink my health," said his wife, sistance.

"History is going to repeat As Mr. Clarkson declared, itself" sald the Sparrow, pre-"For a given unit payload,

operation with the Mandatory meant 10 hours instead of ed for England with her family, savoury going on. -

dan handle the football crowds. II.K. resident Jane. Moss has sail-something Pawer, upon which the Prime the usual 8-hour day. It is in- Minister was equally insistent.' deresting to note that strikes in The Goverment recognise what, thres industries cast N.S.W. a is involved in the Report, and to production loss of A£500,000 in be disinclined either to accept, or March. The money was lost in to reject it lightly. The Report, dustries.

Primrose petals and pink

By NATHANIEL GUBBINS though it deserves tributes to the

Offers of a half case of Vat almond blossom decorated the

LONDON SUNDAY EXPRESS HUMORIST industry and impartiality of its co, 2,000 English cigarettes or! Sparrow's Nest. signatorics, is essentially a fact-liquour Scotch whisky are mado On the doll's house table in row, "but they always are."

flict with a close partner," finding document; and the facts for a flat in Sydney. A circular the central was a fragment of "But older established part- his wife.

the bitter clash between the as-that removal expenses or a sub-the garden, with tiny candles handle," said his wife.

boing distributed announcing currant cako picked up, from nerships will be tricky to

The man's a genius aald paring to leave. "What else czoplanga will tond to get pirations of Arabs and Jews, the stantial sum for the key would be stuck in it.

the Sparrow, fearful sufferings of the latter in paid by the advertiser for dat.

"I'll say they will," said the It was the Sparrow's wife's Sparrow. Europe, and so on were already He is desperate,

"What man is?" birthday. She was ronding her well known. When it comes to

"And one open break is pos Here's a nice newspaper blunder horoscope aloud.

sible on Tuesday."

The

man who wrote the policy, the Report bases itself it was reported that a guard of "I'm going to have such a

"Make it tomorrow," sald horoscope," anld the Sparrow. upon the hope that the apparently 2016 Royal Marines from H.M.3. wonderful year," she told the the Sparrow.. irreconcilable can be reconciled.

Implacable would perform the Sparrow. "It's

"I don't see why I shouldn't "But on Wednesday I'm go be extravagant for once," said going to be of "Bealing the

o ever so exelting "

"Is it?" asked the Sparrow, to make another forward his wife, a tear starting in her

cap," said his wife.

Jerusalem, May 13. Adgeting in his little armchair.

"Where?" asked the Sparrow.

Emir Abdullah, ruler of frame- "With lots of new acquain-

"I don't know," said his wife, "What are you going to use

Bydney, May 13, fordan, has sent letters to filma tanoca and interests."

"but isn't it exciting?" for money?" asked the Spar- Arthur John McCarthy, George and President Truman ex

"Vory," said the Sparrow. row.

manufacturing chemist hero, pressing, the hope that they will "And Baten, to this," said his Some are lucky enough to has invented a solution which use their good offices to prevent the Implementations of the Anglo- wife, "Vanity and impulsive have money given them on their produces durable bubbles, and ness are going to lead me to birthday said his wife, the them. He alma tax commer American committee report on

Palostino. some frightful extravagances tear rolling down her beak

cfalise the solution and predicts The Emir added the opinion "And some are not, sald the has made a hobby of blowing that the committee suggested that on Thursday, Fancy, little me.”.

“Fancy,” said the Sparrow. Sparrow.pn and that "Australia will become a che solution would threaten the What's happening on Felday?!! “During the war you forget nation of dubble blowerk."—An-| Middle East ponce and security,

"I'm going to come into con all my birthdays," said in wife, sociated Press.

Associated Press,

Stockholm, May 13..

on reporter, howell

wasn't used to the Royal accent. What Royal Navy was not two thousand and sixteen Workers excavating for a new marines but two sergeants and house in the district of Guld-ton marines... Tho State "Good," said the Sparrow. heden, northwest of Gothen-Government has increased State "I wonder what the new no- burg, came upon the bones of:a Groenland, whale cuvered, Wita 31 15 to 22 pur cont, robrosper, his wife

Bohol teachers alarich quaintances will be like? asked Avril blue clay, Similar discoveries Live to

12,000 are affected

“Like hell, I expect," said the have been made In Lboss régions 20. Ailstralia may soon have one

Sparrow. before, but never in such a Brower, 10, won the Bund

or more aircraft-carziorskomJoy

"I don't see why they should elevated position, 197-feet abovo Teletraph? Beach Girl Contest. ho said his wife, aca level. Asacolated Press. She left sohoo! last year and wa

“Nor do I., sald the Spar-

eye.

does the horoscope man say?". smaller; this means that fusel- "He says that on my birth-nges will tend to get relatively day an abrupt happening will farger, Le, wo are moving in

the direction of the "flying"con-- cause me discomfort

"I told you the man wasntainer rather than towards the genius," said the Sparrow, as flying wing." he flew away to the Tree Tops Club.

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