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THE HONGKONG DAILY TRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH, 1924.

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Queen's Buildings. Chater Road

Phone C. 2004.

VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDSCHE

SCHEEPVAARTMAATSCHAPPIJ

(United Netherlands Navigation Company)"

HOLLAND-OOST AZIE LIJN

(Holland East Asia Line)

(Members of the Straits, China and Japan Conterences);

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Regular monthly Service between JAPAN PORTS, SHANGHAI, HONGKONG AND MANILA

AND

* AMSTERDAM," ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG AND BREMEN

Taking cargo for Belgian, Netherlands, German and all North European ports' on direct or optional Bils of Lading, also to United Kingdom ports on optional Billa of Lading only.

"Arrivals from Europe.

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Sailings to Europe subject to alterations.

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8th Apr. 6th May 3rd Jans

Sailing on or

about

5th Mar. 1924. Beg. of Apr, Beg. of May, Beg. of June,

25.8. "SAPAROEA" | Bottardam, Amsterdam, Hamburg & Bremen SS. MAPIA" Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hamburg & Bremen S.S.ALDERAMIN" | Botterdain, Amsterdam, Hamburg & Bremen ¡S.8." DOSTKERK " | Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hamburg & Bremen

For full gachkdsumer vicair upply to

York Building.

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIN.

Claveral Agents.

KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART

MAATSCHAPPY.

(ROYAL Packet Navigation Co. of Batavia)

ETRAMSHIF »

"VAN CLOON

will be despatched to

SINGAPORE, PENANG via BELAWAN-DELI DIRECT,

13th March, 1924.

» 1st Class Fare to Bingapore-$100.1

This vessel offers excellent saloon accommodation.

All lower berths.

English cuisine.

Doctor carried.

Wireless telegraph.

ANOTHER TRADITION

BROKEN.

PREMIER WITH NO OFFICIAL EXPERIENCE

Mr. Ramay MacDonald is the first Prime Minister since the office became part of our system two hundred years ago to reach that position without any pre- vious experience of administration.

Such a case would have seemed fantas- tie to our ancestors. Even as läte as 1980 Gladstonë maintained that a man should serve an apprenticeship before being admitted to the Cabinet, and it was nu article of faith with the govern ing families for many generations that the higher offices of State should be jealously guarded for themselves. Men like. Canning or Disraeli who broke into the circle were bitterly opposed and grudgingly accepted. Government was by family compact, and if he was of the right stock a man might reach the top of the tree rapidly. Rockingham formed his first Ministry at thirty-five, and Mr. Pitt was Premier at twenty-four, having already received as apprenticeship at the Exchequer. "*

Disraeli became leader of the House without any previous administrative ex- perience, but he had led the Opposition. and was steeped in political lore. Grey's experience was rather out of date by the time he reached the Premiership in 1830, but he had been, for a short time and" many years earlier, at the Exchequer and at the Foreign Office. Melbourne had been

Irish Secretary and Home Secretary. Peel had filled several offices. Palmerston hail an accumulated experi ence in connection with two opposite parties and was indeed a pretty typical placeman. Gladstone himself had follow- ed the natural line of advancement for a young man of a rather new family, and he had been a good deal more than thirty years in politics before he became Prime Minister for the first time. Salisbury Kad been long in public life when he became Premier nr the first time in 1955, and Rosebery had held minor office in addi- tion to the Foreign Secretaryship.

Of this century's Premiers, Campbell Bannerman had been Irish Secretary and War Secretary, Asquith had been House Secretars, and Chancellor of the Exche quer, and Lloyd George had filled several offices of importance. Mr. Baldwin is spoken of sometimes As one of the amateurs, but he was by no means with- out knowledge of administration, especi ally at the Treasury. The ense of Mr. MacDonald stands alone.

BIRTH OF FLIGHT.

CONQUEST OF THE LAST ELEMENT.

Twenty years ago, we are reminded in the Suring Observer, mechanical flying was born. In 1903, after years of ex perimenting "on engineless aeroplanes, Orville Wright flew the first power aeroplane for 12 seconds at Kitty Hawk, N.C. This was followed by three other flights, the last one of 30 seconds, after which, while the machine stood unattend ed, a gust overturned and damaged it.

There were only five persons present besides the two famous brothers. News of their triumph was not generally credited and although it was not long before French experimenters also showed that mechanical flight was, practicable, little notice was taken of the fact until 1008, in which year the Wright Brothers visited Europe and a number of ying machines were exhibited at the Grand Palais. Paris.

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THE "NEW FRENCH RINKT

THERAPION No. 1 THERAPION No. 2 THERAPION No. 3

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-Wilbur and Orville Wright owed their sucess brst of all to a conviction that mechanical flight was possible and this despite the fact, that eminent" scientific men, who certainly ought to have known

ON BALE. better, emphatically declared it a chi mera The Wright Brothers were not

POUND VOLUMBS of the HONGKONG scientifically trained, but they more than D WARKLY PR856, January to Juss,

B made up for educational deficiencies by 1929, determined study and the capacity for

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Fe regst in passage apply to:-

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN-LYN,

Telephone Central No. 1574.

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K.

Agents.

K.

Yamashita Steamship & Mining Co., Ltd.

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REGULAR FREIGHT & PASSENGER SERVICE

KHELUNG, HONGKONG, CANTON & HAIPHONG.

For CANTON

BAILING FROM HónGxong,

For HAIPHONG vis Hollow & Pakhoi

For KEELUNG via Bwatow & Amoy

For further partscalars, plesao sypły tom

* Branch Office 2

So. 31, Bonham Bizand, West,

Tel Central No. 168,

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Wilbur Wright, who was generally typhoid in May, 1912. He left about. £60.000, not a large sum considering the importance and revolutionary character of the inventions in which he shared. For the Wright patents were held by the American courts to cover, practically every fying machine made. Those patents. expired in 1923..

The aeroplane of today is very different from the Wright machine of 1903, which, in accordance with its in- ventors conception of mechanical fight, had no self-balancing properties, but bad to be skilfully controlled by the pilot. That does not detract from its merit as the achievenient which proved to the world that fight was possible and was the main inspiration of the flying move- ment in those early years. The famous brothers had, moreover, evolved a wing- section and 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.

Instead of the forty miles per hour speed, the height of a couple of hundred fees, the duration of a minute or 80, of the earliest fights, we do to-day 950 miles an hour, we climb to seven miles, and we stay up a day and a half. For more important lines of research in many fields are steadily converging, so that wê 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.

TOMB OF TUTANKHAMEN.

Further despatches from the Valley of the Kings provide additional details of the burial place of the Egyptian Sover eign, 3.200 years ago. It is now definitely established that Tutankhamen's body has not been plundered or disturbed during the intervening period.

INDO-CHINA

STEAM ĪNAVIGATION COMPANY. ŚLIMITED.

SALLINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. SHANGHAI via SWATOW *TINGSANG”

STRAITS & CALOUTTA MANILA

KORE vis MOJI A SHANGHAI SWATOW HAIPHONG HOIHOW BANGKOK via SWATOW

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vis SWATOW &

104. IK

SHANGHAI via SWATOW... SHANGHAI

SHANGHAI via SWATOW

SHANGHAI via SWATOW... SANDAKAN

"KUTSANG *

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“NAMBANG”

"YATSHING*

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"RUPSANG*

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"KINGSING" ..."FAUSANGTM

WOSANGTM "MAUSANG"

Friday,

Friday,

1.

29th Feb., 7 mL, n9th Feb,

putti

Saturday, · 1st Mar, 11am.

Saturday,

Sunday, Sunday,

1st Mar, Noon.

Sud Mar., 7

2nd Mar 10am.

4th Mar 10

... Wednesday, 5th Mar., 7am. Wednesday, 4th Mar, Noos,

Thursday, 6th Mar Noon Friday.

7th Feb., 7 am

9th Mar., 74m

9th Mar., 7.

Tuesday,

11th Mar 7 am

23rd Mar, 1 pm"

...Tuesday.

CALCUTTA EISE —¡Thia Lina 'afforda regular mitingu je Calentia, Penang and

Bingapore z rezurning from Onionngs steamers proceed via Straite ant Hongkongbe Japan, sausriodálly calling af Shanghai,

All 116iners have” szošiljat passenger scoscomodation, farm „Atsed with. Wirslom 'and carry a fully-qualified Surgeon.

“HANGRAI, LINS →→gadings approzmaity syncy ikaw days Deiwnen" Canten und khanghal, sometimer calling så jwisow. Through tickets can be obtained and through. BUF of Lading Mes isexed to Noribers and Yangitis Parte via Buanglah

KANILA LOUI —–—–Ä ▼Nkly servien le malassfind with Minils by versait, with good assenger cammadon állings from both perta avery Saturday, at 11 At

HAIPHONE L 1-3 Alfars BORNEO "

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approximately weekly fer partagere and joargu- Alling ni Baihow

When inderengas ofere ---- Fortnightly callings to and from Bandahan by www.1000 was CORATIONS LE * HINBANG* and 4.6 ***MAUSARG” both maesars exoslané passenger (socommodation. Cargo Naken si trong& Bub of Ladies for Kadas Jessien. Labuan, Tarse and Lahad Datu

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Hongkong and Tientalo, calling xa Walhajasi and, Chelse, MANGKOK LINS ĮMA weekly servios is provided berwena Bangirang sad Banghuh yia Bwatow, by Eva- tionators fiind with up-to-date panicare

CALCUTTA

LINE

“KUTSANG" will be despatched on or about Friday, 29th Feb., at 3 p.m., før BINGapore, penang

* CALCUTTA.

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For Freight or Piùmgé špply táma

Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.

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Steel Twin-Screw Ocean-going Tag and Salvage Steamer

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Built, engined and equipped complete by The Hongking & Whampoa Dock Co, Ltd, Hongkong for their own service, 1921. Ligth 105 HP. Breadth 84 (m) Depth 17 (m) LHP. 2000. Fitted with electrically driven submersible and centrifugal pumpe, air compressor, wireless, searchlight and sil modern appliances for Balvage Work.

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B. M. DYEB; B.Sc., M.1.N.

KOWLOON DOCK, HCKARONG,