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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1955.

BRITAIN VERSUS AMERICA

IN BLUE

RIBAND RACE

London, June 27.

Which country will be the first to operate a non-stop London-New York air service, one of the most arduous in the world?

Recent announcements from British and American manufacturers indicate that the race) for the Blue Riband route, together with its accompanying prestige and great commercial benefits, is entering its penultimate stage.

The first generation of con- fuel economy. A civil develop- testants are the long-range turment of the Vickers 1000 turbo- boprop Bristol Britannia and the jet transport which is scheduled urbo-compound Douglas DC-7C, to fly next year, the VC-7 will, and it looks as if the British it is stated, accommodate more airliner has got the edge on its than 100 passengers and cruise as the DC-8 empetitor in some important at least as fast respects, while there is little to claimed performance. choose between them in avail- ability

~ both are due to be delivered in 1957. The Britannid, for a however, is designed passenger capacity of 93 as com-

If not prepaid a booking fee pared with the 62-seat DC-TC. et 50 centa is charged.

Both aircraft will have to be able to cope

with headwinds and to of" up to.90 m.p.h. operate over the London-New

route-3,520 miles--the Ser-York

Britamia is designed to have a still-air range of 5,350 mites and the DC-7C of 5.000 miles.

DR. SCHOLL'S Foot Comfort vice, Telephone House Mezzanine) Honukung provides the expert att tion your feet deserve-by London qualled Chiropodist...

COMPARISON.

* VISCOUNT

ORDER:

Last week wis a notable one for Vickers-Armstrongs. On Wednesday, K.L.M. placed an arther for nine Viscount 800's,. | while on Thursday a 700D was Ordered by the Howard Hughes Tool Company

of Delaware, U.S.A.. and an "Executive" Viscounța „by the Standard Oil

of New Jersey. B.O.A.C. Co. then ordered 12 700D's, and Fřed HOME & OFFICE STATIONERY

Olsen Air Transport Ltd. of Address and pole books, childreth's

Norway increased their original bocies, chess seta. Vary wide selec

order for two Viscounts by one, tion is available at South Morning Post, Lunited, Hong Kong The Britannia, with a gross The sales score

for the week and Salsbury Road, Kowloon Trade weight of 185.000 ib. compared was 24, bringing

the total enquiries invited.

with the

b. of the number of Viscounts 139,000

on order Douglas, will be able to marry to 227, of which 58 have been de its full passenger capacity west-livered. bound and, the makers claim, IIK GOVERNMENT Import

and do the journey in shorter time. Export

and Licence

Declaration Forms on sale at South China Morning Post Ltd., Wyndham Street Both airliners will be able and Salisbury Road, Kowloon,

to fly above the turbulence and ANNUAL RETURN FORM-Form of storms that prevail at lower

FOR SALE.

China

South China Morning Post, Lil. 30

Annual Return of a company, not altitudes, but the Britannia, with having share capital. Obtainable at its turboprop

engines, should passenger appeal than the turbo-compound piston- engined DC-7C, if the popularity

corts each.

SOMETHING

STAMPS

EXCLUSIVE, Collec packets of assorted

stampe

have greater

of the Viscount is any guide.

The second gencration of non-

airliners is From 20 cents per packet upward stop transatlantic

South due for 1958-59. The Comet

W

AB entirely

series. China Morning Post Ltd., Wyndham is intended for service the world Street. fiongkong and Salisbury

size, range and Road, Kowloon.

over, and its speed have been designed to

Bullder series,

Morning Post, Street Hongkong Road, Kowloon.

STAMP ALBUMS → “Collection meet several different require

New sock now ments. At present, it is scheduled available. . From South China. M

into service law during to go Wyndham | 19. LLS,

Salisbury 1958 and it will begin operations And

backed with 30,000 hours of airline experience gained with the Comet 1. I will carry. 58 passengers over a stage length of 2,870 miles against a head- Increase Height with "White wind of 50 m.p.h, at a speed Pills 2 to 6 inches. Suitable of 490-506 m.p.h.. A refuelling for both sexes upto the age stop at Gandar will therefore be of 80. Results guaranteed necessary, but its superior cruis- ing speed compared with the

or

BE TALLER.

or

COMET 4

fee refunded in full. turboprop airliners wil com- Please remit 30 Shillings pensate for that lost time. British Postal Order Money Order or Bank Draft, payable in India or England. Address-Activities (Dept. 3) Kingsway, Delhi-9, India.

TO ADVERTISERS

The Cornet 4 is a development of earlier models and is, there- fore, not an entirely new con- ception.

DC-8 The Douglas turbojet, which is due to fly during 1957, and the Vickers VC-7 by-pass turbojet airliners are comparable in size, and

BUNDAY. POST-HERALD availability must depend on the Space for commercial outcome of development trials. advertising should be booked.. not intor than noon on Wednesdays

"The DC-8 is a large seroplane with a scaling capacity of 80-125, and she makers claim that it will be able to fly non-stop

For the 80UTH CHINA, MORNING POST and the from New York to London at

n cruising speed of 550 m.p.h.

CHINA MAIL, 48 hours The VC-7, about which few de- before date of publication.tails have been released, will employ the Rolls-Royce Conway by-puss engine which combines with exceptional

Special Announcemente

and Classified Advertise great power

ments 28 usual,

PENINSULAR

AMERICA New Douglas

Jet Design

1991

UK SUBJECTS

IN RUSSIA

Information

Sought On Detainees

London, June 27, Mr Robert Turion, Foreign

said Under-Secretary.

today was making the Government inquiries to identity Charles Hammond, a Bristol man, and "other alleged British subjects who are reported to be detained in the Soviet Union."

Also on Thursday, the first of! He was answering a questipa Capital Airlines' Viscounts left in the House of Commons. for the United States, where it used, Initially, to will be publicise the advantages of turbop-engined air travel.

INCREASED EXPORTS

Mr Turton told a questioner last week that Britain had asked Austria for permission to ques- tion repatriated Austrians about British subjects alleged to be detained in the Sovies Union.

DUGLAS

America's first fit passen- ker transport, the new DC-8 la model forn, clearly showing the wings and the jet-engine pods. The airliner, which is to have a top speed execeding 550 miles an hour, is to be the Douglas constructed by

BRITISH GUIANA

CONSTITUTION

Parties Seek

NEW ZEALAND

PIG SWILL

Licensing

Laws

Under Fire

Wellington, June 27. New Zealand's licensing laws are again under fire.

Early versus late closing for public bars is the main topic of conversation-and criticism- among "the men on the tram," at social gatherings, in the press, and in the bars themselves.

Was

For since World War 1, when | Zealand's important. tourist introduced 29 an trade. One speaker said that emergency measure, the law has the "outpouring at six o'clock caused New Zealand bars to every evening (except Sunday) war one of the black spots of close at 6 pm. After that war, It was written into the Statute New Zealand for the fourist," book and every effort since then Many visitors, too, members of to get It removed has failed. the Association argue, are per

to

Restoration between 5 pm, and 8 pm. earlier announce-

Aircraft Company and is ex- pected to be ready for initial flight testing by December, 1957. Airline deliveries at scheduled to begin in

1959. Though an ment said the plane would be powered by an advanced ver- sion of the Prait and Whitney J 57 cogines, Mr Ivar L. Shog-'

chiet project ran,

engineer for the DC-8, is paritentarly interested in the Rolls-Royce Conway by-pass engine and * its possible application to the new airliner, Span of the DC-8 will be 134.8 feet; length 110.6 feet, overall height 40.2 feet The plane will span the New York to London crossing In Ites than 62 hours, -Renterphoto,

Dialect Samples

Brunswick, June 27. The German Language Archive here has begun a three-year project, to record samples of all

Figures for May 1955 show He said the. Austrian authori-German dialects on recording that British aviation exports ties were prepared to give full tape.. totalled £5,460,721 in value, an facilities when the prisoners bad

time to settle down.. increase of more than £im, over had the figure for May last year.

Reuter.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

THIS WAS THE ENEMY KING,

YOUR HIGHNESS. THE WAR IS OVER

FERDINAND

& ORIENTAL

NANCY

YES---MY DAD HAS HIS OWN NINE-HOLE GOLF COURSE ON OUR

ESTATE

AW---THAT'S

NOTHING---50 HAVE I

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

R.M.S. "CANTON"

SAILS:

NOTICE TO PASSENGERS

BAGGAGE:

Friday, 1st July at 12.00 noon for the UNITED KINGDOM via Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Aden and Port 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, 30th June.

SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packages carried by passengers themselves, ALL BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Co.'s Godown for loading on board by ship's slings only.

EMBARKATION: Passengers should embark between ,9,30 and 11.00 a.m. on Friday, 1st July, 1955.

SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE -

JOHNNY HAZARD

PROBLEME ALWAYS PROBLEMES, SNAP'S DEAD AND THE MINITE I. LAND THIS CRATE SAFELY, I JOIN SKAP? SURE.LT COULD-DVE HER Į INWAND TAKE THE KILLERS DOWNE

WITH MELLA

The recordings will include those of expellees from the east-China Mall Special,

to

So, for years now, the "five sonally inconvenienced by the six bediam" has been the early closing time; even though

of heated arguments hotel mests (ubject

can obtain liquor among New Zealanders and of at any hour. frequent comment, mainly ac

CONVINCED

is convinced companied by mised vyebrows, The Association by visitors from overseas.

that the tourist trade will con- COLOURFUL

tinue

be restricted until "Pigs at

14, indeed, such time as the licensing laws a trough the colourful description often are. revised. applied by overseas tourists to Important though the tourist New Zealanders drinking beer is, however, many people feel hotel bars that the country's licensing laws rapidly in crowded

must be designed for and ap- Now, the Government is said proved by the people who live to be considering taking a re-hee all the year round. ferendum on the Issue

Opinion among these is divid- of early Georgetown, June 27.

late closing. A little ed. There is no doubt that many. Two party delegations intend to versus

than siy

six years ago, the New Zealanders like to be com- leave here for Britain shertly more to ask for a restoration of the proponents of six o'clock closing pelled to complete their day's suspended constitution, early on a three-to-one victory over sxial, after-work drinking in

those in favour of ten o'clock.one crowded, smoke

- Alled, relaxation of the emergency on that occasion, only $27,000 clamorous, beer-stained hour, regulations and speed-up of the country's 1,000,000 voters

Many wives, too, fear that an and expansion of the develop exercised their right.

extension of the drinking hours ment programine.

Certainly the Government is would mean that their husbands

would stay

in the bars rather The British Government keeping a very close watch on

the effects 健 the recently than go home to their families... suspended the constitution of British

to prevent introduced 10 p.m. closing in At present, they have no option Guiana

PUBLIC OPINION subversion in October 1953 New South Wales. The Minister

Many newspapers, however, in charge of Tourist and Health when the extreme left-w9228 People's Progressive Government was depostal

Party arts. Mr Eric Halstead, in an believe that public opinion has

.

of

to the recent anual apved considerably since 1949- meeting of the New Zealand and that a referendum now Trav and Holiday Association, might well result in a change in said that the Government was

the censing. Mr John Carter, Chairman

those who would the Moderate United Democra"watching with

Obviously great interest"

be most tic Party, is Having next week this exp

experiment.

affected by such a be the hotel The Travel and Holiday As-change would to seek an interview with the

for thesociation

showed considerable industry, which dednitely favour Secretary of State

concern at the meeting about 10 o'clock closing. The director Colonies, Mr Alan Lennox- the effect

which the leasing of the National Council of the. Mr Perthe Licensed Trade, laws are Boyd. China Mail Special.

having

New

recently;

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

"OF COURSE HE'D BEEN A MAN ALL THE TIME--BUT I DIDN'T HAVE TO

TELL YOU THAT, MANDRAKE..

"BUT THERE'S SHARI „I CAN'T SACRIFICE AN INNOCENT VICŢIA AND YET THERE CAN'T BE ANY İHALFWAY MEASURES, FOR MS line:

ASUS OR CAN THERE ZAVE

ENCHANTRESS/

ERNIE

DUSHM

SO THAT'S HOW THE LEGEND STARTED THAT I YOU TURNED MEN INTO 42

THESE ANIMALS!

YES. THE KING GAVEME BALD MOUNTAIN ASA PRESENT FOR "WHAT I DID. So YOU SEE-1 EARNED ALL

THIS FAIRLY!

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

By Frank Bobbing

FIFI BELLY-LANDI. SHARI WOULEX- BE SHAKEN 12... BUT ALIVE! AND I MIGHT STIR UP JUST ENOUGH CONFUSION SO GOONFACE THERE WONT KNOW WHAT HIT HIM „UNTIL

EVEN

MAGICIANS

Lyn

Can't Carlsberg

Beat

IGADI

*THE JAM THAT MADE TASMANIA TAMDER="

BLACK MAGIC

ASSORTED

CHOCOLATES

this situation

calls for a

San Miguel

K

declared

Coyle,

Government repealed the six o'clock closing lawas it should dothe hotels would see to it that the new that

new system operated

to the satisfaction of the public."

On the other ha

there are

few suburban 47 New Zealand

A man wanting an after-dinner drink would often have to travel several miles the heart of the town to get it.

Nor

into

are the bars themselves designed for social 1 drinking

Few

In some

EXTE

provide

To

except

provide seating, and there are no recreational Mellilles

districts. BUILDING sufficient

suburban hotels of suitable tyype would entail an extensive building programme for which there are not sufficient materials, labour or readily available capital

The New Zealand Alliance, the country's

country's main temperance recently made a organisation, vigorous attack on the ten o'clock that

principle, arguing wills

rould result in two instead of one-one *at six velock and another

at ten.

Declaring that

general drunkenness would also be in-

it blamed congestion on

Cican and the brewer for

the

falling to provide reasonable facilities for its customers "in

of its huge

'profts and tust monopoly."

The battle root

continues. Once again the repealers have taken the offensive, but their. ogposi- Lion may well prove, as they have before, to have the majority If the issue is taken to the polls. -China Mail Special.

US Near

Atomie Agreement

With Korea

"Washington, June 27. The United States and the Republic of Korea' are to comm |clude in a few days' an agreem ment of co-operation atomie energy for peaceful purposes, it was Jearnext In Washington from Korean diplomatic

sourver

The planned agreement wil be similar in terms to the agree

meals signeda. the same pose the United States with 24 other friendly countries.

It calls for the lease of siz kilogrammes of enriched uranium as fuel for an experimental stemic reactor.

·

Atomic wer development

power

It was explained, will be

the efforts 10 rebuild devastated South Korea.

of

The Republic of Korez is also reported to A have formally requested the United States to ald in the construction of an atomic power plane

Korean scientists will be sd- Titted to the Oak Ridge atomic: laboratories, for subratzing, in isolones techniques. -- Stance-