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TWENTY YEARS OF FLIGHT.

ANNIVERSARY OF WRIGHT

BROTHERS TRIUMPH:

To-morrow (wrote Major C. C. Turner id the Observer of December Juch) will be the twentieth anniversary of the first Bight on an aeroplane fitted with an engine, for on December 17th, 1909, after years of experimenting on engine-Tess" aeroplanes, Orville Wright flew the first power-aeroplane for 12 seconds at Kitty Hark, .C. This was followed by three- other flights, the last one of 30 seconds. arter which, while the machine stood un- fattended, a gust overturned and dainng-

ed it.

A cold winter wind prevented a qum- her of neighbours who had been invited by Wilbur and Orville Wright to see this historic achievement, from attending, and there were only five persons present be- sides the two famous brothers. News of their triumph was not generally credited in this and other countries, and although it was not long before French experi menters also showed that, mechanical | fight was practicable, little notice wis taken of the fact until 1909, in which year the Wright Brothers visited Europe and a number of dying machines were exhibit- ed at the Grand Palais, Paris,

Although Wilbur and Orville Wright won a dramatic triumph, and a well- deserved one, there were a few other rarnest workers in the same fascinating field, notably Professor S. P. Langley, of the Smithsonian Institute, Boston. U.S.A., whose machine was wrecked at its launching just before the Wright Brothers first few. At that time the world at large considered mechanical fight an impossibility, and left it to ** cranks."

WEATHER REPORT.

24TH, 1924.

January 23rd at 18.30-Pressure has de crossed slightly from Chefco in Shanghai, Lover - N. Formous and from Haiphong to

kong and over the Philippines Tourane. It has increased slightly at Hong-

The anticyclone is eatre over N. China. Fresh monsoon, will continue along the S.E. coast of China and over the N. Chins Sea

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Hongkong rainfall for the ti hoare ending SWATOW

Ti SWATOW at 18 hours, 3rd January, 0.00 inch. Tota rinco January 115 0.25 inches, against an

BANGKOK VI HOIKOW.. SHANGHAI vis SWATOW... average of 0.82 Inches

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3th Jan, 10 LM. 26th Jan, 11am Tuesday, 39th Jan. 10

29th Jan, 3 pass. Wednesday, Suth Jan, 7am Thursday, 31st Jan, 7am Thursday, 31st Jan, Noen. Sunday,

3rd Feb 7-

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MANILA

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

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HAIPHONG 1:1-moda-don, ralliers from both peris svarý Bring

FORNIO

Hongkong Observatory, January 23rd,

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Barometer Temperature Humidity Wind Direction

Force Weather Rain

6,00 0.00

Lowest open-air Temperature on 23rd Highest open-air Temperature on 22nd...

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HONGKONG. TIDE TABLE

From January 24th to 30th, 1824

HIGH WATER.

HOW THEY WON. Wilbur and Orville Wright owed their auccess first of all to a "conviction that it was possible and this despite the fact that eminent scientific men, who certainly ought to have known better, emphatically declared it a chimera. But the Wright brothers were not cranks; far from it. They were severely practical men who, having first taken up printing and jour- nalism, turned to cycle manufacture and repairing. At a very early age, however, they had discussed flight, and bad studied the work of Chanuke. Langley, Maxim, and others. They were not scientifically trained, but they more than made up for Thar. 24 m educational deficiencies by determined study and the capacity for taking Pri pains," which is one of the best defini tions of geaius."

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Wilbur Wright, who was generally re- garded as the principal, died from typhoid in May, 1912. He left about £60,000, not a large sam considering the importance and revolutionary characters of the inventions in which he shared. For the Wright patents were held by the Wad American courts to cover practically every dying machine made, These patents expired this yesří...

His brother Orville, who is an extra- onarily versatile inventive genius, carried on the work at a member of the Wright Company, and has made many contributions to the technique of fring

THEN AND NOW.

The aeroplane of today is very different from the Wright machine" of 19, which, in accordance with its in- ventors' corption of, mechanical fight, had no self-balancing properties, but had to be kilfully controlled by the pilot. That does not detract from its merit as the achievement which proved to the world that fight was possible and was the main inspiration of the flying move. meat in those early years. The famous brothers had, moreover, evalved a wing. section and a propeller remarkably efficient for the slow speed for which they designed their apparatus. Not only so, they designed their own engine for it, and they taught themselves to fly it.

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The flying machine in twenty years has grown almost out of knowing to those who saw in 1903 To the generation" that saw its birth it is still an alarming and disturbing fledgling, inspiring far more distrust, and fear than love and confidence. It will be for the next gese- ration, that comes hard upon the heels of this to take full advantage of the glorious conquest of the Kira, “

Instead of the forty miles per hour speed, the height of a couple of hundred feet, the duration of a minute or so, of the earliest fighte, we do to-day 250 miles an hour. we climb to seven miles, and we stay up a day and a half. Far mora important, lines of research in many fields are steadily converging so that we can declare with absolute certainty that the day is at hand when the flying machine will be as safe as the railway train and as comfortable. Truly, even in a century of scientific and mechanical revolutions, the work of those humbly born, but nobly gifted, brothers, one of whom will to morrow see the twentieth anniversary of his first light on a power-aeroplane, stands out a pinnacle of achievement, a world-changing discovery,

ABOLISHING PARLIAMENTS- SIGNOR MUSSOLINI'S REACTION- ARY VIEWS.

Signor Mussolini is seriously considering the idea of abolishing Parliaments alto gether. He expressed this view recently in the presence of a delegation of labour experts and industrial syndicates. A con- with legislative powers gress of experts wit might, according to him, be more useful.

political body thin

which jast masse,"p appeals only to the

Pandering their cupidity, or their

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to their igre hould be for the|

vices,

benefit of the greater number, but not the greater number, is the principle 07 which Siguor Mamolini bases his policy, and his profound conviction is that Parliaments representing only misguided, ignorant, and capricious masses are obso Tete and ringer have any useful fune tion in a motern State.

The sense of humour is the one sense that grows stronger with advnacing years.

Dr. Ethel Smyth,

SAYINGS OF A WEEK,

There is piore doggerel in the word, of many hymns than is to be found anywhere thetan Charles.

The economic recovery of Europe cau never be achieved without the help and cou- currence of America. -The Fiernunt Cur-

20th.

In spite of the authority of Moses, I do not think that his methods of softening Pharaoh's heart were well chosen-Dan Inge.

Under no circumstances do the Aineri- cans appear in a better light than after one of their catastrophes.-Professor Joḥn Adams.

Britain is still the financial centre of the world, but the owners of capital are some what shy of anything but first-class invest menta.-H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.

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