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EMPIRE AIR POLICY. ·

CIVIL AVIATION-FOSSIBILITIES. ·

Then there was the question of moles. He did not know how far the problem of the drone of the engine had yet been Pickled, but he was sure it must be mitigated before there could be a

4 very He agreed large expansion of air travel Holt

Thomas as to the un- desirability of

much stress on passenger traffic. they must concentrate on transport.” Be could not understand why it was 'im--| tive members of all sections of the compossible for the Post Office to follow the

The third conference called by the Air Ministry to provide an opportunity for the examination, and discussion, by represents

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Mr. Handlay

Page disagreed with the Parliamentary Sec-suggestion that profit was not to be made retary, Overseas Trade Department, drew out of passenger traffic. He held that an appalling picture of the next controlled passengers would always pay before he when of *. neroplanes

the new

electrically from their base, and without

of. The most important thing to day pilots, would leave at night, in completed the research side would not be lost kilenco, to trop bomba upon any town was to ever

up the traffic between sutamer against which they might be directer.

winter. Incidentally on reduced and

he mentioned IMPORTANCE OF BESKARCIL",

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The Duke of Sutherland, Under-Secretary freedom from claims.

in the past year in consequence of the for Air, presided at the morning session.Major-General, J. B. Seely rejoiced Describing the conference as a parliament of the air, he said it would be a good there was real progress in civil aviation. In the interests of the country as a whole it thing, in future years, it would be would be wall worthwhile, he said, if we BLANQSAJ

As could extended. over-three or four days.as soon as the future air policy of the future lay largely with the air, and, that the air. No doubt the expand Government bad been settled by the

Arve the air Cabinet it would be communicated to being so it was not wise to starre

or military did

eida thone

who were interested. In the mean service either on its civil

Admiral Mark Kerr, speaking fe

'aghaidh, time the results of that conference would rocoire the deep and interested attention in the air.

£10,000,000 we could put ontsalves

Frighten the people of this of the Air Ministry. (Hear, hear:) When the time was ripe something really sub frighten the Government. That is the only

country, he counselled Tal; let them nOENZU stantial and busineslike would cierge way to get anything done. But frighten but it must always be remembered that them truthfully. Let them understand the for

ne, who was keen on civil every one

strategy speed and range. aviation thought the government both wicked and

there were many thousands who simple law of

the speediest and the Ringest-range oney were not roads, bything to the seroplane. Williamson (Gob extravagant if ther means of econguies in every direction, to feral Post Office) said that from the postal reduce taxation each year. Noue the leas

for

it was

was fully realised that sviation-the point of view the Continental Air Service

was disappointing in 1922. The gront new fotos-had one of the strongest service went down 40 per cent, the res claims to consideration BY the Govern- ment, and they looked forward hopefully to sympathetic policy

being

laid down, and to a great future for the

dam service went down. So long as services service oven more, and even the Ameter- were run on short distances they could be very

At a later period of the useful for postal purposes: There Vifah?

distinct improvement in

Duke wade etter

letter from the Secretary for hich

Air

allend pessing his regret at being unable to future.ndoubtedly had a considerable

the closing session of the conferencere.

Major-General Sir W, S. Brancker, reply Sir Samuel Hoare wrote in conclusion: A

long as I air Secretary of State I shall waling on the debate, referred to the pos

sibilities of the London Paris air service. come the free discussion of air questions, and I have been dancing in London at two ROD resent criticism nor repudiate sagge tious."

Sir W. Jayoson-Hicks, M.P., who presided at the closing session, emphasised that the prosperity of the Air Service déponded on- tirely on research, Throughout the war,

A., and

at tea am." the same day ference in Paid an international

that by do esWe can only

Inne" (Laughter.) He mentioned, that aeroplane." tendere bad been called for three air transport machines; suitable for (A) Euro- pean work, (b) use on the Indis route, (e)

the Air Bervice developed at such wonderful rate, it was owing to research that that development was disce possible. Height from London to Malta. sppealed to the Secretary for Air and the t be necessary Cabinet, however much it might be, ta. FBstrict

editors not "tò affect

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economies at Foxpense of rosearch. We must be in the van of the whole world, in regard to this question of reearch, he proceded. We mist, keep, qui

aims not merely abreast the

of other countries, but I should like to see them for ahead. Who would have thought in the early days of the war, for instance, of metal pro polfers and of metal serpianes? Yet to-day

certainty.

zeroplane' me of the 000

they are ancho

have got your

have saved pilots.

terrors of their

while in the air. These

you

WEATHER REPORT.

-- Mar. 14thnk 1113.-Pressure has increased. considerably over central Japan and decreas colderably over the lower - Yangian Valley. It has decreased lightly in southern

he anticyclone has wenkound and mored Foastwardy It is now central over the Bas

of Japa

OPModerats monsoon may be expected along.

easibility of f

are merely

improvements incidental to the ordinary

carrying out of aviation work. But

what

the 8.E. coast of Chins, and dyer the, N.". China Bea

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending

has taken place in the last ten years. Those 10 a 14th Mar, 0.1 inch, Tom Fince of us who

who prophesied, ten years ago, the com-January 1st, 0.56 inches, against an ivérage of speeds of 200 miles an host and of 14 inches. Ling

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at from 15,000 to 20,000 feet were noon, 15th Mar is as followe heights laughed at as fools. But t the

phecies have

DISTRICT: 21 been fulfilled. Speeds miles an hour and a height of 30,000 feet are well within the range of possibility at the present time, and I am convinced that the improvements of the next ten years will bo as great as those in the past ten years.

A TERRIBLE PROSPECT.

200 to 300

Hongkong to Gap Book N.Einds, mod.

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There is one direction where I should like South Boast of Chins between (The ime av constructors and inventors to consider the Hongkong sad lamocks possibilities, and that is in regard to the electrical side of aviation. We at that now have wireless telegraphy and telephony: is not the end of radio discoverios.

Birds. The men discoveries in radio-

who are to-day making are appalled th

مان

of

telegraphy and selves month by month at the discoveries they

are making. There is no doubt that years it will be perfectly possi ble to listen to the conversation of anybody in a private room, oven though there be no recover in that room. It will be an added terror to life, but we are in the age of terrific discoveries. Apply these to actonautics

aeroplano will be driven se who discussed.

the bombs on London in 1919 were" laughed at for their pains. Think of the possibility my mind the certainty—in the next war of large foets of aeroplanes carrying high explosive bomby far more terrible than any in the last war-possibly containing something worse "travelling

out without mere explosives

any pilot, at night, with perfect silence as to engines, controlled alectrically from their base, and CARRYING death

to any tow Do

on which they may be dilected This prophesy, and I should like those who ar engaged on research and particularly the electrical side of research, to consider in the very near future what enormous strider are certain to be made in aleatro-radio science, and apply their minds to it, so that

mere extreme

if that terrible timp should ever come again when there was a European, wat Great Britain will be in the van, instanci of behind in any aeronautical discoveries.

AN EMPIRE AI MAIL SIKVICE. Mr. Holt, Thomas, opening the morning discussion, said at the present timo a great deal of attentiuri was paid to jussagors--| Wing in his opinion moved

γίου of the necessity of increased rapidity of communication, within the in- piro and in view of the progress made by other nations in civil aviatiya, this con- ference calls upon the Goveniment to giva due and immediate consiranticnto the foundation of an air mail throughout the Empire"

Admiral Mark Kerr, woconded the mption, and euphasised the importance of the nero plane for the carriage of freight, which would always pay wherover the train and steamboat could be

was curried,

Lord Doroll, formerly Tailor Secretary for Air, said the three main his country routes, alongs which all air transport must go, until Atlantic fights win - pou- ible, were those to Paris tantinople, Lady Moscow and those routes must be developed. There was good deal of room for making air travel more comfortable,

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