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ters to arrange leisure facilities for school-children. Some local authorities

anti- have already tions for enrolment are coming cipated the suggestions. in steadily from people who are

In East Suffolk, for example, not at present under medical it has been decirted to plant trees specially for climbing in school There is no time limit on re- playgrounds. This, says the local gistration, but people who walt education com.illee, is being too long may And that their done to offer scope for tree favourite doctor has reached his physical activity, and imaginative maximum of 4,000 patients and play," is ynable to accept them.

Among the most popular out now on nobody in the of-school acilvities are conducted Country

ever again receive lour to learn how Britain's in- bill- and that goes for

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Editor-in-Chief>-W. J. Keates,

In the race for leadership in only for types which have yet to international airways, the chief make their appearance but also by the United Kingdom Govern- These are all types sponsored Asst. Editor:-Ian Mackenzie. contestants are Britain and the for later versions of those already ment in its efforts to repair.

United States. The services of flying with piston engines.

Britain's Business Manager: W. H. Nolloth both countries are evenly matched.

aircraft industry's break in the

new "eradlo to the participation The SR/45% will have ten turbo- design and construction

aro still if judged by safely standards, re- prop engines; the later Brabazon tran

ot air grave" State medical service isject of discussion) transports. gularity and frequency, but

Others that have had only a few days old. But it is made a good start. the

I's cight; the Apollo, the Viscount Government backing for different already possible to say that it has 24354 United States has one advantage and the Hermes V will each have reasons include the Bristol 170, been

If in the light of experience over Britain. Her airline

successfully com-four. Types for which change the

The Viking,

Inunched, modifications are found necessary

of modern airliners. Why this

this clude the Ambassador, Marathon and the Tudor series

reform, affecting Amphibian, the Prince spread

everyways been a keynote of Britain's four-man, woman bels explained by history, and Dove.

UTTA! should

chri

In the notional planning that it should engined long-range Eight years ago, war forced

airliners. country, come into operation with be flexible. H.K.$18.00 Britain to choose, either to aban-is Britain's only pure-fet opern-Industry's

So far as is known, the Comet

The United

Kingdom aircraft so little fuss and trouble.

"Don't rush the new production and H.K.$30.00 don the making of transport air-tional airliner at present under planned prodution of civil air Don't expect too tauch to begin worked out in the darkest days of

service.

The reformed education system and imperil the mobility of Armed Forces, or

or to continue

covers wide and with," said Mr. Aneurin Bevan, the war is developing. The Cen- defeat in

diverse range of types. If pre- manufacture, and risk

Britain's Health Minister. There Iral Advisory Council to Britain's sent progress

was no rush for treatment on the Ministry of Education has, for in- force more numer-

maintained, and an nir ous than her own. She could not

all airliners yet to

"no doctor's bills" basis. stance, been finding out what make their new appearance the military

reveal the aircraft of the

Existing patients simply register- boys and girls do in their leisure buy calibre she needed elsewhere; at

qualities as those now flying, thed themselves with their doctors time and whether they have suffi- that time her own factories were

United States' advantage, within and by the time the service was clent facilities to recreation. the next five years, will gradually 24 hours old 7,600,000 people had ce of supply.

They have now raked the Min- her only

source OZORIO.-On Sunday, July 11,

decline and vanish.

put down their names. A pact with the United States

Applica-ister to recommend to local au- 1948, at ha residence, 051/D

thorities

that an equal terms with her problem.

facilities Under it, construction.

play [resolved her 23 Welhalwei Road, Shanghai,

aircraft industry con Tudor and a Viking have both a

GRAFTON they should set up local commit-

should be improved and Britain's

that Francisco Carlos (Chico) centrated on

on warplanes; In return,

more vigorous challenge. dearly-beloved hus-the United States supplied the former with four in two nacelles, with gratitude, the oddly assorted been fitted with jet engines the Then, too, she will remember band of Mrs, Aline Ozorin, balk of Britain's needs in trans- the latter with two. father of Mae and brother of port

The all-let fleet which enabled her to over- Britain knew that Viking won the honour of being come what might have been nircraft. Hilda and Josephine.

a price would have to be paid, the first airliner in any country crippling handicap and to build but in those

desperate days ali to take off and fly on jets alone. up the globe-encircling system of her thoughts and

energies were in previous British experiments air routes from which she will on survival,

with airliners the jet engines have launch her bid for airlines supre- That agreement, although logi- been partnered by piston engines, micy. cal and wise, meant that the in- dustry which was then building the world's Пnest

warplanes There have been many would suffer a break of unspeci- changes since the last meeting fed duration in the design and of the Commonwealth Prime construction of transport aircraft Ministers held in 1946 and it

when aeronautical engineering

more advancing

rapidly is widely agreed that other conference is urgently than at any time in history,

Peace revealed the true measure

benent under this scheme was a tural exhibition, the Royal Show, needed. Among the ques- of the penalty which the break The Royal Air Force Trans- craft were in fit passing to and walked into a doctor's surgery the centre of Britain's largest Canadian visitor to London who which is being held at York near tions likely to be discussed imposed on Britain's commercial port Command's share in the fro over their obversation point compinining of a sore throat.

economic co-air services. To maintain essen- carrying of necessities to Berlin at intervals of about an hour and

county famous for its agriculture ore defence,

itial

routes on a scale matching has been organised on much the

When he was told there would as much as for its lextiles. operation, emigration and their importance, Britain had to same lines as the big air trans-

be no charge he said: "Well, the concept of the Western convert and adapt warplanes to port operations which served the early in 1945 they would

If they had been in Belgium. this beals anything I ever met be- It is a 100 years since the

have fore." Union. Britain is

Joyal Show today civil ure, buy United States airy swift advances of the British

was first held at use Ju.52s army

scen an equal intensity of trans- craft and bring into both

It was the same in 2,751 hos- through

Vork and 109 years since it be- Europe-minded more

Belgium and port operation for the benefit of from Germany.

South-West Germany

pitals throughout the country. So ran. At that fri show which and more Commonwealth-

later stages of the war. That is New Air Network

nerea there were far as the patients were concern- covered seven minded than she has perhaps

to say, it has been based

ed there was no change at all. 18 horses and 12 pigs. Contrast ever been in the past. For These were drastic but neces- tried

system of air control

Treatment went on in exactly the that with the 1,103 entries of 18 the security of the world it was to, cut down services; a step quick turn-round at both ends.

Isary measures. The alternative relatively short halts and on a

same way: accident

breeds of cattle, 50 horses, 490 is necessary to build up

ceived just the same prompt at entries of 20 sheep breeds, 736 which would have robbed Britain! During the first week of the

tention. But there will be no

100 pigs and gouts exhibited third power, which can stand of her place among the leadera operation, restricted though

bills.

there today. the on its own between Russia in on the international airways. With air corridor is between the West

This great show-another proof the East and the United mixed and variously contrived and Berlin, nothing like satura- the

And what of the comprehensive that Britain is still the home of States in the West. Britain she has now built up an air tion had been reached on the air largely fuel and ammunition for

flect

National Insurance Scheine uftworld pedigree stock-Includes in route network of 80,000 undupli- route, The limiting factor was

which the medical service is its mechanical sections nearly 40 is necessary as a link be rated miles.

Ilkely to be. the capacity of

often saw part? When the day arrived 1-inventions. King George VI, who tween Western Europe and Some years may pass before the Gotow Airfeld for handling and field. at one time and the busi- the Ministry of National

60 transport aircraft on an air-000 clerks at the headquarters of is a keen farmer, is one of the

exhibitors. But lost traces of Britain's handicap unloading aircraft on the ground.

varish, The design, construction Taking the fleet of transport of bringing in fresh arrivals ance at Newcastle-on-Tyne were questions

and sending out empties and testing of a new airliner, and alreraft as it stood at the end

waiting to deal with the 30,000

For 10 days the King and which Commonwealth govern- then its production in large num- of the first week, the rate of the fashion while lorries, backed up handle each day. The first claim organet, have litry to the winte being conducted in an orderly claims which they expect to Queen Elizabeth with Princess want to ask. Field-bers, is a slow process, and the turn-round WHA Marshal Smuts raised some larger the aircraft the longer the good. The distance Temably to every transport, swiftly clear-was received at 9 a.m. It had combining a holiday with visits

Rk Wunstorf, neor

Dae boon these been dealt with by 9.25 a.m, and to many sections of Scottish life of them in his Empire Day period before it can be used com- airfleld

meretally.

Hanover, to Gataw was just 150 dry weather. That is even more ister. Mr. James Grimihs, at the one day, the King went to Muir

130 operations needed was reasonably a telegram was sent to the Min- from factories to folk dances. On broadcast. "Can Britain," he "But new types are on the way. miles, Two-engine Dakotas fully essential in Germany.

House of Commons telling him feld to watch Henry asked, "be a leading or im- Some have advanced far enough loaded new that journey; were

Cotton portant member of both the to kindle optimism to offer proof unloaded at Gatow

Little trouble had been taken that the system was in operation. plaving in the cencluding alages and were by the Germans up to the end of root back at Commonwealth

Wunstorf the that the Ingenuity, skill and na- back

within two the war to make their airfields ganised that any one of the 26, strong American competition.

So eficiently has it been or- of the British Open Golf Cham- and

pionship which he won against tural gifts that made such war- hours and a half. The Western Union."

foster we pro

Runways

were 000,000 names recorded as being planes as the Spitfire, Hurricane, four-engine Yorks, with nearly Then again, after the Brus Beaufighter, Mosquito, Halifax and twice the cargo to be unloaded, were not many perimeter tracks. ed in one minute.

few and there eligible for beneftr can be check- sels pact was signed, there Lancaster unsurpassable in their made the same double journey Finding good standing ground for

BULGANIN It will be many months yet be- was a statement to the effect arduous years of war, to produce disposal and knowing that some airfields. That trouble was met be assessed. There wilt doubt

time are still able, in spite of six in two hours ten minutes.

Having these facts at one's

dects of aircraft in wet weather fore the full effects of Britain's that the five countries might air transports which bear com two hundred journeys were made at Wunstorf during the first week less be "teething troubles" to be

is still difficult at many Germon new social security system can RATTLES have to consider a new "de-

parison with

any made through- } ** velopment and re-orientation out the world.

on n normal day there would be of the air service to Berlin... The evidence comes from the number of aircraft on duty. The little-dimculty in estimating the of the pattern of production," so that the industry of each first three of the true postwar

generation of Britain's airliners; **

rs:ussians apparently distrusted country can to a certain ex-that is from those types which reports of the high intensity of tent be part of a general plan. owe little or nothing, structurally the operation for they had ob- Mr. Ernest Bevin, the For-10 any

any previous aircraft. They servers noting the identification eign Secretary, has stated are the Dove (8-11 seater) the number of all aircraft using the

the corridor and they must (14-20 seater) and the satisfied themselves early in the Marathon that the ultimate goal must Ambassador (24-48 seater). be a wholly new conception three have grace and beauty; they

second week that the same air- of sovereignly throughout have obviously been designed the world. He has also re- with fastidious care and built by

conscientious craftsmen. peatedly insisted how impor-

them

the Commonwealth. there

ments

are many

All

come

tant it is to integrate the Closely following

iners of

of the some generation.

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on

on

from tho

KWANGTUNG CONSCRIPTS

have

planning for a new Western Largest of them all is the Dra- Europe with planning for bazen 1. The first of this series Commonwealth and Colonial of eight-engined, 127-ton trans-

Canton, July 18. Atlantic landplanes will be used development. Then there is for research and experiment still the end of the year Kwang- In the five months from August the important question of that later Brabazon Is may pro- tung Province will have to pro- emigration. Some people beft by dis

discoveries made with the

vide

a large number of young lieve that the Dominions prototype.

men to swell the ranks of the army.

Various unoMcial estimated

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Army. Then, londs were

mechanised units. I

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MESSAGE TO

THE "RED DEAN"

London, July 17,

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London, July 17. Armed Forces Minister of the Soviet Union, Nikolni Bul- ganin, said tonight Russia "is successfully developing our multi-engined and jet propell- ed aviation," the Moscow radio announced.

The broadcast, hoard in Lon- don, said Bulganin had broadcast day calling on Russian airmen to "strengthening the

A tologram from Honry A. Wallace was loudly an aviation order, of the

choored today by 1,100 delegates at the open continue

airliners, regarding the number ot. con- tions of

In-

ing of a peace conference sponsored by the might of the Air Force of the British Communist newspaper, Daily Worker.

USSR."

His order was brief and 'ad- The Daily Worker editor, William Rust, read to the dressed to Soviet aviation

audience the following telegram Mr. Henry A.dustry workers as well as mill- Wallace sent to the "Red Dean" of Canterbury, said Bulganin wished to both tary Biers. The Moscow radio Dr. Hewlett Johnson, who is the conference pups "new successes In the would benefit by opening Another "guinea-pig" is

chairman:

sphere of further development of modern avaition techniques." their doors wide to immi-cady flying. That is the four- engined Hermes II. predecessor

"Delighted to Icarn how for the present international ten- -Associated Press. grants from Europe as well of the Hermes IV and Hermes Vave been forthcoming recently vigorously the peace organisa~ sion. :

He quoted Mr. as from the United Kingdom medium-to-long-rango

Britain are

Wallace that scripts required, but the most re-

joining for every line of abuse of the as the United States did in the prototypes of which will

liable one-sald to have

together. Please express be in the air. the past.

my Western Powers written in Rus- The Apollo and from a responsible officer of the regards to the conference and sia, 1,000 lines of abuse of Rus- the Viscount, two medium-range Conscription Office-gives 45,000 my hope that public sentiment stat National exclusiveness, will fairliners, are nearing completion, probably make such ideas and three huge transocean dying-men as the total to be conscripted in England will be aroused uns States. unpopular both in Britain Brabazon I in size-are beginning Headquarters here has lasted an that the atomic bomb be outlawed.

boats, the SR/45's--rivalling the from Aug. 1.

behalf of abiding peace." and in the Dominions.

Dr. Johnson in a speech urged A

to take shape. world organisation, such as Most ambitious project of all is order that every soldier should Britain would be the chief suf- has been outlined, is still a the Comet, not because of its size be given meat four times a month. ferer in atomic warfare, he said,

-Reuter.

He blamed the United long way round the corner of but because of its novelty. It is history. But because the to be Britain's first operational

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Must Say Yos

Van Mook To Be Supplanted?

Bandoeng, July 17.

The Dean said that Britain should have stepped in Just May when M. Molotov, the A plan to supplant Acting Russian Foreign Ministar and Governor General Hubertus J. Mr. Bedell Smith, the Ameri-Van Mook, with a three man can Ambassador In Rutela, had Indonesian directorate will be their exchange.

submitted at Batavia and to

"It is dreadful that Britnin

the Dean sald.

govern

failed to use the opportunity, the Netherlands, it was learned

reliably today. The Dean added however, that

Informants and the plan, call- there is a new opportunity for ang also for the earliest possible British pencemove because

formation of an' interim Russian note on Berlin opened a

ment, was drawn up eight days way for four power discussions. ngo by chlofs of autonomou

England has the choice to any areas and by Prime Ministers of states not part of the Indonesian gan assembling here today to arrange for the peace of the world and the Republic. The directorate

would party's first national convention which opens security of mankind are at stake," be chosen from among Indonesian next Friday,

Pacifists

The Third Party movement of Honry A. Wallace be-yes and must say yes because the stat

he said.

member

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leaders.

about defence systems with- tions. The situation is altered, in the Commonwealth which too, by the fact that Britain

The proposal-was reported to would be integrated by a cannot afford to bear alone

be in the hands of Professor The three-day convention the keynote address, the report The peace conference was pri- Karel Enthoven, who will leave Commonwealth General Staff. the cost of a large navy to will adopt a name for the party of the Arrangements Committee, marily attended by Communist on Monday for the Hague.-Asso- Such ideas were discussed maintain security along the and officially choose its stand-the nominations, and election of unionists who claim to speak on

ond pro Communist trade clated Press. when the Prime Ministers trade routes of the world. In-ard bearers in 1948. ⠀⠀⠀

permanent convention officers last mot in 1940 but they vilations to the next Com- Wallace will be elected Pre- the party.

and the adoption of a name for behalf of several million persons.

The Labour Party is boycotting GUN ACCIDENT were not popular.

monwealth conference in idential nominbe and Senator Prominently mentioned for the the conference of Parliamcat, but a Conserva-

Singapore, July, 17. Secretary of State for Ex-the Prime Ministers of Indla, running mate., They are expectand Des Moines newspaper pub- an invitation to speak,led Chief Secretary of Barawak, died

Mr. St. Laurent, Canadian London will of course go to Glen T Taylor of Idaho will be keynote job is Charles P. Ho- tive

picked as his Vice-Presidential ward, 03-year-old Negro attorney Major. Tull

Mr., John B.Archery former Tullon Beamish, ternal Affairs, has re-Pakistan and Ceylon. This ed to make their acceptance Usher,

there today' from wounds received A minority of the •. free nations of the world represented before at Im The convention will open on ward, who was formerly chair. They choored contly recommended that the great sub-continent has been speeches on Saturday night at a C, B. Baldwin, Wallace's camare pacifists belonging to town a gun accident, the Singapore rally aut Shibo Parku palan süanager, - inld that Ho

National P

the Bunday Times reported, Pones Council, According to the should form their own closer perial conferences but this Friday morning in the conven- man of the Negro Division of admit the delegates of the Eng- Mr. Archer, who was 65,war

a proposal to rawak, correspondent

Kuchin

of the paper, association for collective de- will, be the first conference tog hail, scene of the recent to Towa Republicans, resigned from fence under article 61 of the they will attend since be publican, and Democratic con- the County Central Committee llah Trotskylto Party, but the found lying warlodialy wounded at

ventions. Charter of the United Na- coming full Dominions,/^

ourly, this year to support Wal Communist majority categorically his home and died later in hos The first session, will feature | Laco.--United. Press. U

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