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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL-NTH,

GREAT BRITAIN'S NEW AIRSHIP.

NO. GONDOLAS, PASSENGER SALOONS INSIDE BODY.

WEATHER REPORT.

April 28th & 18.00-Prestare has decrosed lightly at thefeo. It has increased slightly at the majority of other reporting stations.

The anticyclone has strengthened. Moderate mensenta utay by expected along the S.E. coast of China and over the northern part of the China Sex.

During the period which has elapsed since the late Government place an

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours anding at order with the Airship Guarantee Com-18 hours, April 28tà 0.00 inch. Total sinda new Ave million cubie fest January 1st, 2092 inches, against an average pany for a airship remarkable progress has been of 10.2 inches. made in the design both of the airship which the company was authorised to construct and of the mooring mast. "Ay a result of these changes it is now inob able that we are entering upon an entire. ly new era of air travel.

Airships will in future travel more safely and at higher speed, and it will la possible to nor them to Hoating As As one indication of the extra ordinary advance which has been made con fer. may now be stated that at nce recently held in London the tech nical experts of the Aurrican Goodyear. Zeppelin Company and the German Zeppelin Company agreed that the new Burney Wallis mooring must. which alone makes the new Barney airship possible; shall be provisionally "adopted

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The forcast for the 24 hours ending at 18 hours. April 29th is as follows-

DISTRICT

-Former Channel.

Hongkong to Gap Rock (

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INDO-CHINA

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED

BAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.".

TSINGTAU SWATOW

SHANGHAI

MANILA

STRAITS & CALCUTTA SHANGHAI via SWATOW

KOBE via AMOY & MOJI HAIPHONG EUI HALFA BANGKOK in SWATOW

HANDAKAN

“TINGBANG*

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Thursday, 30th Apr,

YUENBANG.Saturday,

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Saturday, ...Sunday,

*FOOSBING*

•LAISANG ...Sunday,

**MINGSANG*

Sunday,"

HANGSANG" Theoday,

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*CHLONGSHING "Wednesday,

2nd May,, 3 pan.

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Snl May, 7 J

3rd May,

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Wednesday, 6th May......... 8 pm

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standard to which all commercial Barometer muarine masts in America and Germany Temperature

Bumidity will hereafter conform.

Wind Direction...

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The main points in which, the neg Barne-Wallis airship and mooring mast differ from existing types may be out-j lined as follows:-

The airship is designed on the stream. line principle, all excrescences being as far as possible removed. The passenger saloons are within the body of the vessel. the foural and obervation compart pants are within the nose. This simpli fication of design ensures a considerable increase in the range of fight. Within greater fight range it will be possible to plaes the bases for stops on the Eng

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distance from av another.

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SHOWROOM; 62, NATHAN ROAD, Kowloon,

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NEW ZEALAND IN NINE DAYS.

Commander. Burney estimates that the Wed.

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE From April 29th to May 5th, 1925. Hog WATEL

LOW WATER.

Days of

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Standard

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Height.

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will be Baghdad, which should be reach Thur, 30 No inferior

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Carefully worked out designs provide Batar.m accommodation for

passagers within the body of this new stream-line vessel superior to any yet devised for airship travellers. There will be ample sleeping, enting and rest rooms, Hot meals will he provided, and passengers will enjoy far greater amenities than those provided by long and journeys

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MANKIND UNWORTHY. THINKER SAYS CREATION WAS HARDLY WORTH WHILE.

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The mooring mast provides at entirely new method of attachment for, an air- ship to a mast. Highly important com- mercial as well as strategie results must follow from the use of a mooring mast We have reason to think that the anti- which can be constructed on a floatingquity of the solar system is enormous, base,

declared Sir Oliver Lodge, in an address In the mast we And the usual central broadcast recently from all stations of lift by which passengers asered to the the British Broadcasting Company. The platform and pass to their saloons in ages of the earth's past, he said, "seem the airship At the platform jovel the to have been a sort of preparation for design provides a revolutionary the life and mind which now is, and for The outcome change. Two arms extend on a horizontal that which is to come. plane, and embrace the nose of the air so far may seem hardly worth all the ship when moored. Along one of these labour and time spent in preparation. arms the passengers pass to a gangway We may hope, however, that mankind by which Eccess to the interior of the will gradually become worthy of the airship is gained. The rotate magnificent scene in which its lot is cast. around the fard centre, thus enabling Everything points to a rational scheme the ship to approach from any quarter or plan, of which we know neither the according to the state of the wind. beginning nor the end, but towards the fulfilment of which we can help. Shall —-we-craw-abous on the surface of the When the airship is approaching planet and ating each other here in the Boating pas she drops two bridle ropes dust and die? Or shall we realise that from either side of the nose temporarily we are the heir of all the ages, that united at the extremities. These are the destiny of mankind is being partly picked up by a motor boat from the entrusted to us, and that humanity has moning vessel, to which they are con-a-potential future beyond our dreams? veyed. They are the main guides to safel hartourage within the arine of the mast.

FLOATINAL BASES......

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Ou reaching the mast other guides and the upper floors, will be arranged the ropes are attached, and gradually the Famous Captains Ron of Lloyd's, with great vessel is not only drawn into posia smoking-roma and special dining-room. tion but so anchored there that whatever in the basement floors there will be the the weaker en rigid connection is made printing establishment of Lloyd's List. between the arms and the vessel at two safe deposit and strong rooms, and heat,

ing and ventilation installations. points on either side the nose,

It is understood that the Airship Guranter Company will proceed with its constructional work on the lines in diented above so far as the airship is concerted, and it is expected that the construction of mooring-masts on the new plan, will also be undertaken.

THE NEW LLOYD'S. FOUNDATION-STONE TO BELAID BY THE KING.

The King bus consented to lay the foundation afone of the new Lloyd's building on May 23rd..

A guard of honour consisting of 100 officers and men will be furnished by Lloyd's Anti-Aircraft Battery, under the command of Major J. S. Allen, M.C., present Queen Victoria opened the Royal Exchange (the third), in 1844.

The new building is on a site on the East India Avenue estate, opposite the P. & O. offices in Leadenhall Street and close to be Baltic Shipping and Mer- cantile Exchange and to the Commercial The Bale Rooms in Mincing Lune, building was designed by Sir Edwin Cooper When completed, the block will house both Lloyd's and the Royal Mail. Stof Packet Company. The main frontage to Leadenhall Street will be 262 fret long, and the Lime Street facade will extend 372 feet. There will be nine storrys above ground in two baseinant floors.

The rain entrance to Lloyd's will be "is in Leadenhall Street, and its design

the one of the most imposing fratures whole plan From here a vaulted ap- proach will lead to the great hall or Room where the business of under- writere and brokers will be done. Each side of this approach will be occupied hy a tmak There will be other entrances and approaches to the Room" from Lime Street. The Room" is designed to occupy the main part of the area of the site and will be 160 feet square. There will also be a library, committen rooms, and various offices. On one of ¿Continued on next Oğlumn).

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