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CHINA

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1955.

TRANSATLANTIC PHONE Mail

MAIL Century-Old Dream Notices

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Next Year

London, May 30,

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British and American telephone engineers following postage rates and fees

have their eyes fixed on Christmas 1956 when they hope to realise a century-old dream of talking across the Atlantic by cable instead of by www.the present radio telephone, which is subject to

costly atmospheric interference.

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December 1, 1956, is the date which they have set themselves to complete the first £12,500,000 sterling trans-Atlantic telephone cable project, replacing the radio telephone system.

extreme caution in the mami- | the work, and do not Worry

one

shall take effecti-karverEMUNĖS (air letter form)-50 cís, each, Second Class airinan (Zone D- $3 et par 11⁄2 oz Postcards (xir. mali zone 2)—45 cts. each and Registration too-40 cc, each,

TUESDAY, MAY 11 By Air Philippines. 8. p.m.

Thailand, India, Pakistan, Middle

East. Ot. Britain & Europe, 8 p.m.

Karos, P.m.

Hawali. USA., Canada, 5′′p.m. Japan. 6 p.m.

Formos, Diawn, 6. p.m.

By Surface

Macao. & D.L

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 By Air Thailand. Malaya, Indonesia, Aus- tralia, New Zealand, Ceylon, Mauri-

Thailand. 1 p.m. §... Formosa. 6 p.m.

They are proceeding with i Atlantic storms can only delay facture of the equipment, de engineers as much lash out from us. South Africa. 9 am | simed to last 20 years. For the Caribbean towards the end they do not want to have to be of August and early September.

It the Monarch ran into pulling cable lines back up from ocean depths of more than two of these, the cable would prob- ably have in be cut and picked miles.

If all goes well, by the end again later, according to a British Telecommunications spokesman. It might set the project back months.

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of next year, anyone in Europe will be able to wish anyone, in North America "A Merry Christ- mas" without having to shout through disrupting crackles and bad fading.

For the £5,000,000 sterling! cable, running nearly 3,000 miles from London to New York and Montreal. is designed to carry the voice as clearly and steadily as an ordinary inland call be tween two towns 40 miles apart EXTENDED

From the London end, calls may be extended to any part of

Britain

and by cross-Channel

cables." to any city in Europe:

The chief problem which has blocked the project - ever since 1864 when the first successful frans-Allant:e cable

for tele- was laich is not the pe

the develop- cable-laying, but ment of a deep-sea repeater.

This is a device which "boorts" sound on a long cable by ampli- fying it at regular intervals. It is needed to strengthen the wide modulations of the human voice.

52 REPEATERS

Fifty-two of these repeaters, and from New York and Mon-made to withstand pressures of treal, to any part of the North three tons per square inch, will American continent...

be spliced into the cable every "MDJ" Finest quality English Mili Blotting

ધનાં Paper is buff. pink

are In addition, telegrams will be 37 nautical miles. They Kr. 171 x 130 cents payable to travel on the Australia beginning 10 arrive from #bert, 124 per 100, Cut to any size, Available at South China Alerting and New Zealand from Mon-America now.

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SOMETHING

STAMPS

Present

OVETSERS

Thailand, India. Paklitan, Michila East, Great Britain, Europe, 6 p.m

Japan, 8 BJ, Indo-China, 8 p.m.

By Gurtes

China, People's Republic, 9.30 alm. Japan, noor..

Macao, 29.10. North Borneo, 2 p.m. Indonesia, 5 pr Macpo, 8 pti.

29th Arrest

Lyons, May 30.

A deaf mute, Leon Chaine, aged 58 who said he had no job and no fired residence, was arrested here today for the 28th time, for theft.

Courthouse circles said he had become a familiar Agure there as he had already been convicted 28 times.--France- | Presse.

Dartmouth, May 30. The Dartmouth Nova Scotia, Town Planning Board reported today that some of its mail to residents of Pleasant Street had

Great Britain's Bid For DC3

POPE HOLDS

AUDIENCE

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Leaving a Meteor fighter at Cardington RAF Station is a dummy in the "elector scat" of the machine. It is part of rehearsals for the EAF Dis- play in the Royal Tournament at Earls Court in London...

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Vatican City, May 30,' Pope Pius XII discussed the

Strange Accident drive for United Europe today in a 15-minute audience Proves. Fatal with French Foreign Minister M. Antoine Pinay,

Burlingame, Calit., May 30, James Schatz, 48-year-old San The 79-year-old Roman Catholic

ceived M. Bruno upholsterer, died at leader Pinay in private audience for hospital today from the effects 15 minutes and M. Pinay of swallowing a mouthful of conarmed they discussed tacks. European integration, The Pope feels the nations of Western Europe should speed efforts toward full unity.

their

Schatz gulped the tacks down last week when he tumbled over backward while working.

He

Replacement Market

London, May 30,

British aircraft manufacturers are making determined attempts to solve one of the biggest of current feeder airline problems--the replacement of the DC3.

Many of the world's airlines operating short to medium routes are using DC3's, some of which have now flown more than 40,000 hours.

Above all its other qualities, the DC3 or its Service variant the Dakota, has been available at artificially low prices, going down after the War to a very few thousand pounds sterling.

cabin

ddler-

Operators nowadays do not to the DC3 in size. It is de- want merely another DC3; they signed to carry a similar load want something better and more (up to 36 passengers or freight) specialised, an aircraft that will from restricted spaces with the full their

'of own particular re-added advantage

tricycle quirements more exactly. Prob pressurisation, a ably the only detail that every carriage and twin

turboprop engines (the well established Durta) Smaller Rolls-Royce than the Herald, its provisional price is naturally lower than the Herald figure, and deliveries are expected to begin in 1957 from

operate would like to see ex- actly replaced is the price and that is unattainable,

MANY GUISES. Some of the more important altline companies have found

a new factory at Southend. that the best

"DC3 replace- mant" ia the Viscount. AF There are several other not. every operator has his own able British aircraft in use and idea of precisely

come what form under development that the replacement should take, into the DC3 sphere of opera- tion. The Scottish Aviation Twin Plonder (two 650 hp Alvis Leonides) is designed to fly "at 48 mph and take off, with fuel for. 800 miles and 18 passengers, in approximately 100 yards in still air, yet cruise at 130 mph. This performance will have great appeal, capecially for bush operators. Deliveries are due to this" year is very

successors

to the DC3 must assume many guises.

Appreciably larger than the DC3, there is the Herald for which deliveries are promised in 1957, Already, state Handley Page Ltd, orders for 29 of thes? 14-seater, high-wing monoplanes have been placed. Its ample

power

in

(four Alvis Leonides Mejor engines of 870 bp each), begin in December

and the initial price pres- competitive. good performance and surised cabin will appeal par. ticularly to overstas operators More than 500 de Havilland

A spokesman says that there gone astray because the homes yesterday received 1,500 persongency operation because of a

The Pope, in good health, was unable to undergo an emer-who have to contend with high Doves and 75 Herons have been

terrain and high temperatures, sold at home and overseas telegraph lines under the Pacific. ere now no big obstacles to were wrongly numbered.

the beth factors which lengthen the order to fulfil many of the

take-off run, It can telephone hinder the Atlantic project.

also be duties performed for so long by The Board said it was doubly including 800 bank workers in skull fracture suffered in calls are carried on only 16 But, he adds, "just the same, frustrating because that

his Arst general audience since WIS

swiftly

freight the ubiquitous DC3. The wide adapted for EXCLUSIVE, Collec- radio telephone circuits, which when We finally hear. those what it was trying to tell the his collapse last December 2. Physicians said tacks were carrying.

acceptance of these popular air-

the ascen all going

The Aviation Traders Account-craft foreshadows are always subject to fading. voices,

to people in the latters-China almost seven months ago-lodged in the victim's stomach,

com- United Press,

throat and lungs.-United Press, ant approximates more closely dancy of other British South Last year, traffic reached a post-celebrate!-China Mall Special. Mail Special.

petitors in the race for the DC3 war peak of 10,000 calls.

succession. By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

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STAMP ALBUMS

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But

the number of circuits cannot be

increased because not chough

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The new cable will have 35

avaliable, $3. From South Cham high quality telephone circuits.

Morning Post,

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and

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Salusbury 29 to New York and six to Mon- treal. One further circuit will be divided into at least 18 tele-

To. ADVERTISERS

Space

for

graph channels, for use

to Canada.

mainly

New-

The first of the cable's three SUNDAY POST-HERALD sections will be laid in June this commercial year. It will run about 350 advertising should be miles from Sydney Mings,, Nova than Scotia, to

Clarenville, foundland. The British 380-mile end-section will link London with the town of Oban, on the northwest coast of Scotland.

beaked

not bater noon on Wednesdays, For the 8OUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the CHINA MAIL, 48 hours before date of publication.

Special

Announcements and Classified Advertise ments as usual.

August

ANXIOUS "MONTH.

will be an anxious for month

the engineers for then the Arst of the twin cross- ocean cable lines, one for each direction of traffic, is due to be luid. The. second will go down next summer.

This middle section, with the longest submarine cables in the will stretch across the world, alternating mud, gravel, ooze and volcanic rock of the "moun-

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The ticklish job will be done by the British ship Monarch (8,058 tons), the world's largest cable-laying vessel, which has been refitted for its task.

seven

Travelling at an even knots, given good weather, the Monarch will payout 1.950 nautical miles of cable in 12 days.

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SAILS:

NOTICE TO PASSENGERS

BAGGAGE:

Friday, 3rd June at 12.00 Noon for the UNITED KINGDOM vla Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, and Fort Said.

Passengers are requested to send ALL BAGGAGE to the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf Co's Godown'at No. 2- GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE; by Noon on Thursday, 2nd June,

SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hard packages

carried by passengers themselves, ALL BAGGAGE must. pass through the Wharf Col's. Godown for loading on board by ship's elings only.

EMBARKATION: Passengers should embark between 9.80 and 11:00 am on Friday, 3rd June, 1955.

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PROFITABLE VISCOUNT,

Mir Athol Towles, Aus- tralian Minister of Civil- Aviation, announced last week that Trans-Austexila Airlines has ordered three more Vickers Viscount pro-

Deller turbine siriiners. Mr Townley stated: "These new Viscounts will have im- proved performance, and ahould be delivered by mid- 1958, bringing TAA's total fleet of Viscounts to niue,”

Viscounts have now completed some 80,000 flying hours in service with BEA, "Air France, Aer Lingus Trans-Australia Alelines and Trena-Canada Air-

lines, and have shown ive operating return report

..For. example, BEA's

for the year ended March 31, 1954, states that the Corpora tion's fleet of 12 Viscounts made - a preft of 2315,000 at a rate of : £19.8 profit for each revenue hour flown.

that

Air France atmounce that they are now. operating | Viscorinta, over the whole of their European - network and

During the winter, a distance equivalent to three times thai 'afrcumference of the earth, will:

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During the ten months ended December 31, 1954, Aer Lingus Viscounts carried

sengers on 2919143 pas-"

passenger load factor of 84.3 per cent, while over the period. December 18, 1954 to Marchz 10: 1956, Trans-Australla Air- Ines carried 40,078 passengers at an average load facter of 85.7 .... | per cent, MENT

With these achievements and two years, of operating

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