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F.MS, RUBBER.

FUTURE TERRORS OF THE AIR, DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILISATION, SIR GEORGE MAXWELL REVIEW

PROBLEMS OF FAR REACHING

IMPORTANOE

The great flight that Mr. Alan Cobham bas accomplished from London to the Cape and back, a journey of sixteen thousand miles through the air, em phasizes the extent to which serial re search has developed and creates pro- blems of far reaching importance to Britsin.

PAST YEAR.

The rubber market made an Excellant recovery during the year (saya bee Chief Secretary's annual report to the F,M.S.) due partly to restriction output and parily to increased netivity in the mater trade, especially in America. The price of rublier opened at 87 cents par Ib., and remained at about this figure until the end of March, when it rose steadily to 81.74 per 1 in the middle of July. The It will, therefore, be of interest to price then dropped fairly rapidly to give some indication of what sir supre-1.20 per 1b, but rone again in October, macy means for the Power-possessing it, and reached its highest point (81.80 por for whoever gains that advantage holds b) in November. It then dropped 30 an unassailable position. The implacabl. cents and finally recovered to $1.53 per lity of nations, the mutual jealousies. at the end of the year. The general and the difficulties that constantly arise prosperity which has been the result has in adjustment of clashing, faterests the excellent effect of cetates and small stultify the cherished hope that there holdings being cleaned up and maintain- shall be no more war. The recent deed in good order, velopments at Geneva are an indication that the dawn of the millennium'has not yet appeared upon the horizon.

NEW COMPANIES. Another result has been the sale of a number of estates and the formation of! Mr. Cobham's remarkable tight, and

now companies. Prices realised in these the rapidity with which the final laps sales have been as high as 81,450 por acre. wore covered, proved the value of sur-Whilst the prosperity of the plantation prist, for that is the most potent factor of all, and an initial advantage that the opposing sides will do everything to gain.

rubber industry has had the disadvantage of diminishing the attractions of oil- palm cultivation, it is satisfactory to be able to record that there has been but little tendency on the part of the Malays to neglect the cultivation of their padi

fields.

A hostile air fleet, from wherever it is started on the Continent, could be over England within from one to four hours; and could, for instance bomb the Em-

The rubber exported from the Federat pire's capital though the attackers were ed Malay States during 1925 was 118,500 unable to spot a single house in the city.

Developments in detection, and the tons, including 2,292,282 gallons (4,180 location of given position from the air, tons) of latex, as compared with D1,731 are reaching such a stage that it is impa (including 783,401 gallons of latex) material whether the target is in view in the preceding year. The export in

Indeed, the menacing 1023 had 102,818 tons. or concealed. drone of the giant bombing planes a they awept overhead would be heard only" by the sound loenters, instrumenta se delicately tuned that they are capable of detecting the approach of enemy aireral at great distances. But even with such of surprise is not eliminated.

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300 MILES PER HOUR. The leading feature of the war in the air will be its amazing rapidity, for we The following estimate of the area un- aru. dealing with forces of destruction der rubber in Malaya in December, 1925, that will more through space with all the has been prepared by the Controller of confidence with which an ocean liner Rubber and the Secretary for Agricul ploughs through the sens, only at no inture. It is only an estimate, but it has Buitely greater rate, and fully cognisant been compiled with care from the figures of its position in the air throughout every at their disposal:- noment of the flight.

The fast bombing planes of to-day, and those now. in, the making, will have en- gines of 800 to 1,200 horse power, able to travel at not less than 300 miles per hour, and moving in the skies at an altitude of 35,000 to 45,000 feet. They will climb at the rate of 1,800 feet in a minute, and in the caas of the single seater plane, when its manoeuvers have placed it in a favourable position 'above the enemy, the terminal velocity in the downward dive will exceed 800 miles per hour, a speed actually in advance of sound itself.

The fighting airplane of the future will resemble the submarine; it will penetrate to heights hitherto undreamed of and to enable the pilot to bear the low tempera- ture and rarefied atmosphere he will wear epecial suit, and be entirely enclosed within the plane, as are the crew of submarine beneath the water.

The immense height at which air planes will fly raises another problem, the question of light. During the next war, attacks will be mainly by night, and we shall need searchlights spreading wide angle beams across the skies and flooding them with light.

But the searchlights will have to passess great powers of, penetration to cope with the altitude at which the enemy aircraft will be operating and already experiments are being made by experts in Britain to evolve light abedding beams that will penetrate to an enormous height, to blind the attacking fores by the power of their rays, and enable the fast single seater defending plance to swoop down and deliver their altack.

Federated Malay Stoles Straits Settlements Johore

ACTOR

1,140,000 205,000 450,000 185,000

. 33,000 7,000

Total

2,110,000

Kedah and Perlis Kelantan Trengganu

LATE EARL OF YPRES. CHILDREN'S TOUCHING TRIBUTE.

Touching scenes were witnessed on a recent Saturday at the village church. yard at Ripple, near Deal, where lie the remains of the late Field-Marshal the Earl of Ypres. It was the anniversary of the great soldier's death, and in the morning children from the St. George's School at Deal, who retain fond memories of the distinguished warrior when he last addressed them on Empire Day, searched the countryside for bluebells, which they gathered and placed on the gravo, with the inscription: few children in remembrance of Empire Day, 1924."

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Then in 1596 came the Dutch, "under Houtman, who 6 years later

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In the afternoon Field-Marshal Vis count Allenby (now, in residence at Deal Castle), accompanied by Lady Allenby, visited the grave, and placed a floral tribute on it. After Lord Allenby had retired James Rainford, who was Earl Ypres servant during two campaigns, and who acted as his steward at Deni Oriantal charms are jealously preserved intact smuldet the most advanced Oriental Civilization

Castic, laid a wreath on the grove.

The petrol supply is the governing animal, completely out of action unless factor in the air. It will be necessary provided with a special protective cloth to remain aloft for extended periods, the ing capable of withstanding its penetrat consumption of motor spirit will ho halting power.

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a gallon a minute almost as fant as it'} If the physical aspect of this material can be poured into the tank. The quesis auliciently alarming it cannot be com- tion of storage does not admit of casspared to the moral effect that would be salution, for every available inch of annce set up. will be required for bombs, machino Coinridont with the advance from an guns, flares, and lights.

aerial standpoint are the rapid strides in chemical warfare, and the substances now made available as munitions of war. It is now feasible for an enemy Power The bombs ovbived contain elements that to send over Great Britain a fleet of will contaminato large areas, and, being several hundred airplanes, each with a mostly odourless, will not prevent troops KEIJO carrying capacity of thirty-five to fifty marching over the districts so treated; one-hundred pound bombs. Those exindeed, their most sinister fenture is ceeding a weight of three-quarters of a that large numbers of troops may cross ton have already been designed and the ares, and only when they have done others of greater weight and destrictive so will the effect manifest itself in a form power vill, of course, develop

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We are confronted with still other phase opened out to us by terial research, and that is the poisonous gas, vapours, and sprays designed to flood a particular area to such an extent that it will be unappoachable, and all entry into the gassed region will be barred. Although experiments have been carried out on the Continent and elsewhere, the full extent of the serial spray has not yet been. gauged, but we know that when released from the plane it will descend in an invisible-current, of so highly polponous a nature that it sots up in tonso irrita tion, and places any beings, hudan or

(Vontinued on nezt column.):

Finally, the question whether the human being can withstand the terrife strain involved in a flight at 300 miles and more per hour has been shown in the latest type of plane evolved in America. This moves over long distances at 240 miles per hour without incon venience to the pilot.

As regards our position, we are in the van of air power development; our ma chines are admittedly superior, and those controlling our air policy pro fully cognisant of the meaning of air supro macy, Bio obvious corollory to which is a well-equipped fleet?

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