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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1958.

COMET 4 BEAT THE SUN!

London, Sept. 15. Banner headlines today pro-

claim that Britain's Comet four jet airliner "beat the sun" in its record-breaking Night from Hongkong to Hat- field, Hertfordshire.

Total time taken was 18

hours 22 minutes 05 which actual flying time was 16 hours 16 minutes. Average speed was 487 mph.

De Havilland's or the Bri- tish Overseas Always Corporation. They had breakfast In Hongkong, mid-morning "second breakfast" over Siam, lunch over the Arablan desert and tea over Italy.. There were two stops for Bombay. refuelling. At

the airliner stayed one hour and there was a 66- minute stop at Cairo. The dying time compares with 33 hours taken on the flight to Hongkong by Britannia turbo-props and RO hours by Super- Constellations.

Because of the nine hour difference between flong- kong time and Greenwich Mean Time, the flight was made entirely in daylight. Aboard were 31 crew and Mr Basil Smallpeice, Manag-

passenzers either from ing Director of BOAC

who flow in the airliner yesterday, is quoted today as saying: "When we put the Comet four into ser

American Residents In Formosa Concerned

Taipei, Sept. 14. "Despite the comfort of their

and tho HE differences between existence

fact that The

their alay United

never exceeds to States Government and that of can colony

years, members of the Ameri- have never been People's China were giving enthusiastic about Formor al rise to apprehension and though, up to now they have

uneasiness

regarded it as acceptable.

the among American Colony In Formosu today.

For certain

vice on the Far East route next May we shall make shore slops to pick up passengers.

members of the we will do the coy, which has reached

record "Even so,

figure of 11,000, flight in 22 hours and cut sense of anxiety was heighten- the present time by one-ed by 011 atmosphere of third."

instability in marked contrast to the farmer air of security.

Mr Smallpefco described the Comet as "a really magni- cent aircraft."

He added: "To go around a third of the world start- ing at sunrise and to arrive with two hours of Kun

left is a remarkable Achievment."-Reuter.

A 50-cent coin stands on edge at 35,000 fect, 523 mph.

It Was Like Floating On Foam Rubber!

DE Havilland's Comet

IV Britain's new intercontinental jet air- liner-lived up to all

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY that has been written

CLUB

The Annual General Meeting of Voting Members will bus held at the Club House, Happy Valley, on Friday, 26th September, 1958, at 4.45 p.ni. for the purposes of!——

1. Receiving the Report of

the Stewards.

2. Considering, #d if thought fit, passing the Accounts for the year ended 30th June, 1958.

3. Confirming the Amend ments to the Club's Rules of Racing made by the Stewards on the following dates:-

26th November, 1957 24th February, 1958

26th March, 1968

30th June, 1958

2nd July, 1958

26th August, 1958

4. Appointing Auditors for

the ensuing year.

5. Electing Stewards for the

ensuing year.

All members are cordially invited to attend und partici- pato in any discussion which may ensue. They are invited to forward to the Secretary in writing at least seven days pofore the meeting is due to

take place, any matters whigh

about it in my estima- ions when I went up with 50 other guests on a demonstration flight on Saturday.

I have travelled in many airliners from the small Vickers Viscount to the huge Douglas DC-7C and the Bristol Britannia, but the trip on the Comet IV was the most comfortable flight that I have ever

taken.

The trip was as smooth as

tealing on a foam rubber mat- tress and the complete absence of vibration and quite remark- able degree of quietness per- milted ordinary conversatiori en board.

No Vibration

To satisfy myself that there

was no vibration on the plane,

Gordon Hung gets champagne

I stood a 50-cent coin up on the nude my way up to the flight

"The only noise in the front

arm of my seat. There it stayed deck and sat down behind the cabin a skin friction, while at unl!! the plane started to furnilo.

by GORDON HUNG

China Mail

Staff Writer

He was explaining some the rear of the akcraft you can

of the finer points of the plane hear the nose of the jet, but

to an RAF officer, while and her very little."

crew member walched the mazy 25 Years Ago

of dals and every now and again switched one up or down. The plane was flying on the auto-pilot.

Suddenly I was struck by the silence in the cabin. Apart from the chatter of the pilot, there was no noise in the cockpit. If I had not known where I was, I would have thought that I was on the ground in some sound- proof room.

Veteran alman Dudmun

an

first fight was made in Avo-504K trainer over a quar- ter of a century ngo.

"She had a rotary engine and had a Top 100 horse-power end of 85 miles an hour, M Dudman recalled with a smile on his face.

the

Now, atler several peaceful years, the Budden crisis in the Formosan Stralis has jerked them abruptly out of the torpor of peaceful family life.

The impression of danger is heightened by the fact that new arrivals are not, for the mo nim, allowed to bring their

by Philippe

Bernard

with

Tho American calony com- familles

them, while prison some 4,500 officers and woman and children already men of the permanent United installed may now nsk for im States Military Mission charged mediate repatriation. with equipping and training

the

1,800 Nationalist Army,

Only.a very few

have ac- civilians, including the mem- fually asked to be sent home. kers of numerous missions The great majority prefer to which the US, ha established trust to the minutely workedi nt considerable

expense in sul evacuation plan set up long Formosa, a low private busters before The present crisis, and

which would only ຕະ

if the operation

smen and industriuusly, 4,700 wives and children.

impressive

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inlo eune responsible

As in many other Parts of American authorities decided the security of its national was tho world, this colony had organized for itself in danger,

purely American way of life. In such

von, the It enjoys' a privileged status, families of this little Amurienn and has installed itself in the world would be evacuated to beat houses of Talpet or in mild- Japan or the Philippines, — western style settlements.

France-Presse

BY

THE

3

WAY

by Beachcomber

"No wonder they call it a ingles, tractors, pillow slips,

stately "ome," said in and Jewellery will be on sale al vlattor to 4 famous country the tobacconists, stamps and houst, as she was presented postal orders at the shoemakers, with a coconut she had won in uncooked mait, flowers and an egg-and-spoon race along the derricks the tailors, uilcloth minstrels gallery.

and horse collars at the Inn.

nght Nothing to do with me

In the rosu-garden Was in progress between snifle-group and a party piny-

Up

ing teap-frog. Rotten tornatoes, NO wonder the authorities cre thrown from the windows by Nald to be "rowning on" other visitors, burst over the the lonely lighthouse-keeper who combatants. In the great hall rigged

4 Lightrope ard men and women in comic hats praclined the art of walking were playing darts. A man who along it in his spare time. Such was collecting ice-cream cartons frivolity takes one's mind off the and other filter was thrown into tending of the light, and nobody be goldfish pond, and rescued looks alllier than a lighthouse-

by a youth in armour. Among keeper on a wire, with I the motley throng was a man in Japanese sunshade in his hand. a tez, selling brass souvenir jugs, carpets, and falso moutaches.

Printer's frolic

A

PARAGRAPH congratulating

a couple on the "854th, an- niversary of their wedding" will come as a salutary shock to the couples who cannot stand the sight of each other

after 1ivo years.

Planned economy

can

be

NEW council estate hos drawn up a few rules to simplify muliers for shoppers. Saucepan handles bought from the fishmonger, but the saucepans themselves must be sold by the local garage. The post office will supply eggs, fishing tackle, and tyres lorries, and at the butchers you will be able to get Wellington boots, wallpaper, boo - skips, blotting-paper, and corks. Bird-

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Telecrit

by

-JOHN LUFF-

[TELEVISION is big business, Commercial Telòvision in the United Kingdont made a profit of over four million pounds last year. The three groups, Associated Rojiffusion, Grannda, and Independent Television Associu- tion have cleaned up the money in the entertainment work, and are rightly vary pleased with themselves.

The other side of the pictura England Has a Television sei, or is: necond mio cinemas are clos- to use the horrible_diminutive ng quicker than raided night they have chosch, a 'Telly.' glubs. The old variety halls ära

Only one in every ten has a almost extinet; only the Finsbury Park Fampire bolts out in North refrigerator; about three in ten, London, and judging from what a washing machine; about one in saw there, they will soon go a hundred, a car, But the Telly, the way of the lesser variety the omnipolent, omniscient, omipresent, Telly is there. And there to stay as I see .

halla,

Everyone who lo anyone in the entertainment world wants to get It is the Juggernaut of the onto Television; it is the yard- entertainment world. Everything stick by which թ

before its success. performer has gone measures his progress.

Writers. producers, directors, script-men, artists, designers, in To state the position con- fact, all the elite of the enter versely, almost every home tatnment world are on the pay

red!..

MAIL Notices

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The latest posting times for registered articles are generally one hour earlier than the times shown below. Particulars KATHINE pareci inalis eun De ascertained by enquiry any post office.

MONDAY, SEITEMDER 15 By Air India, Pakistan, Egypt, Europe, Pormest, Japan. 8 p.m.

UT Borac

·Macao, & p.m.

-TUESDAY, SENTEMDES, 10 By Air Lood, a.tit. China

Young artists no longer dream of standing on the stage of the focal Empire receiving the ap- plause of the locals; now they Bream of performing in front of an invited audiencë but their

are trained on eyes

the cameras which are relaying their performance to millions of homes.

Now this entertainment, and incidentally financial, success, It | has not happened by chance, is the result of careful planning. a long term policy that has scooped everything Info the Television net, They have not overlooked the fact that the ultimate arbiter, the declder, the awarder of success or failuro is the public.

No performer, no announcer, Do producer, no writer, but he is mercilessly exposed

this Lo urdeal. Does he go down with And that includes The public? the parson who prenches the Sunday Evening Sermon,

I

There is nothing new about this really; but for the first time 113 history, performers ore assessed and rewarded on K People's Republi. 8.30a.m. universal scale. To crash In alland. Malaya, Indonesia, 10 Manchester is to crash in London as well as Little Puddle on the Australia, New Zealand, I p.m. Philippines, i p.m.

Wash. And one failure and Deion, India, Middle East. Great; you're out....for good! Britain. 2 p.m.

.m.

Gum, wall, U.9.A., 2 p.m.

Kawall, 8 pm.

Burma, India, Pakistan,

In the States, It is mone

50.

Midae A larger populallen, therefore East, Africa, Great Britain, Europe, larger advertising fees, more

Cada, U.S.A.. 9 p.m. Korea, é p.m.

My Surface China, People's Republie, 3 .. Malays, Indonesia, Noon. Macao, 1.m.

nco, 0 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBEit 17 By Surface China. People's Republic, 9 a.in. Indonesia, Noon. Sarawak, North Borneo, Noon. Macao, p.m. Macao. p.m.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 By Burface China, People's Republic, 9 a.th. Macao, p.m. Macao,

p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 By Surface

China, People's Itepublic.

Thailand Lace, 10 a.m. Burma, adia, Noon.

Macro, 1 m.

..

golden opportunities, fame over- night, riches galore, No wander every you entertainer says,

Television or bust,"

Which brings us right back tɔ Hongkong. Why has not that It success been repeated here? was the question asked of me in the Offices of Rediffusion in London. The answer not hard to neck, and I've been trying to say it as kindly as I could over the past year. So let us put it hypothetical manner,

in

If, say, Marlon Brando was down to perform under leak- ing matshed root in Shek-O, the place would be packed. But if Miss Smith, the pride of Båtter-

Hawail & Venezuela (P/P Direct), sen Town Hall was to perform

3 7.m.

Macao. O p.m.

In The University's Great Holl I would be empty. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 By Surface

Success degins in the Tele China, People's Republic, a.m., ttalon Studios, Malayo, Aden, Egypt, Great Bri-value is played out in Hongkong, The novelty

tain. 10

0.1.

Philippines, tay. Netherlands and if it la to achieve success Germany (Baltzerland Via Genoa), here, it must be organised on

ID a..

Macao, 1 p.m. Cambodia, 1 p.m. Formosa, 3 p.m.

Indo-Chins. France, Baigtum & Cyprus P/P vis Marseilles). a p.m. Japan, U.S.A., C. & S. América, Pio, & p.m.

5

China, People's Republic, & p.m.

a scala in keeping with the un- questionable local technical efficiency. But the friest sels and the finest technical servico do not make a Television Pro- gramme. It to what comes on the screen.

CHINA MAIL ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE

'The Comet was now In 4 cloud bank and was gradually letting down for the return 15 BOXY Kul Tuk. The plane broko through the clouds as I wo

Mure people were coming onto the Bight deck so. I returned to the interior of the plane. On returning to my scal

my way back, I bumped into My Inished my last glass of

they may wish to bring up for and bank from side to side. We "Bill" Dudman, one of Hong- champagne and as we came

discussion.

By Order of the Stewards,

A, E. ARNOLD,

Secretary,

Hong Kong, 9th Sept, 1968.

To ADVERTISERS

BUNDAY POST-HERALD Space for commerolat advertising should Ne booked nat fator than noon on Wednesdays.

For the BOUTH CHINA MORNING PORT and'the OHINA MAIL, 48 hours before date of publlontien. Announcementa peolai

and Clamified Advertise -

• Mahkama' iamJMË.

were assured that in usual kong's early aviation ploneers, "for a perfect landing I thought flights the plane was "os steady Asked his opinion of the Comet about the hard time Boeing as a rock" and that the "rock he replied: "It's a steady, as 707's all-jet airliner was going 'n roll" was enused by de Havil- the Viscount which was land's No. 2 Test Pilot, Peter steadiest plane that I hnd travel milllan-pound Comet IV on the to have computing with the Wilson, showing some guest ted on up to then. pilots on board how the rudder

and alleron worked.' Although I was

Hitting next

world routes.

to the port wing of the signer Duo Recital On New Building

by two the mighty Rolle

Royce Avon engines, the engine

sound was nothing more than a Radio Hongkong

whine the whole trip.

--

cost

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