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U.S.A. AND BRITISH FLYING WITHOUT

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BOXING.

STYLES COMPARED.

ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCES. THAT TELL AGAINST US,

-Play-is-natural impulse, it is

AN ENGINE.

THE HUMAN ALBATROSS.

"RUSSIAN'S AMAZING

CLAIMS.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd, 1928.

MONEY! PARLIAMENT: TO-DAY "AND TO-MORROW.

PLENTY OF

BRITISH BANKERS' GOOD YEAR.

20 NEW BRANCHES IN 192

A fresh record has been set up by the 1947 total of £41,330,541,000 of the London Bankers' Clearing House

The function of the London Bankers Clearing House is to enable banks to lear cheques in

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QUALITIES AND DEFICIENCIES.

THE CULT OF OBSOLETE

RITUAL,"

By R. MITCHELL BANKS, K.C., M.P.]

I have han five years in the House, and am just wondering whether any opinion of it is worth central and specified spot, anything, for I have been trying instead of being compelled, each to form one and the past year pro- time they receive cheque drawn vides some nisterial, because the on another bank, to collect the pro-House has been in many moods and shown itself both at its best and eeeds from the actual bank on

nt its worst, and I am by no means which the cheque is drawn

The London Bankers' Clearing the only man who wonders what its House has been in existence for future will be. Frankly, I am un- 150 years, and is the pioneer clear rasy, and uneasy because of my ing house of the wond

great love for Parliament.

Lastes. Jan. 3th. expression of temperament.

Capt Victor Divorsky, Tormerly The fanblo-witted cackney shines

an aviator in the Imperial Russian leather-weight box: the bis service and the inventor of many slow-thinking, low-moving High

devices for aeroplanes inlieves that lander likes to grapple with the bammer. The are his recreations.light-that is fight with only paber, heave the store, or burl the he has solved the problem of buninni The brawny fellansa finds suitable human power, His machine, which his superfluous still to be built, de designed to expression for energy in Cumberland and West have a length of body, with tail, of 1 feet, with a pan of 23 feet morland wrestling.

"This and weight of 150 pounds machine," he declares, will en able a man to By himself, and be

Starting vicarious operations in independent of the engine, petrol."

1770, single room in the "Five oil and all elements connected with the present principles of rings Lombard-street, where where the speed of the machine is ro useful when fving and so dan

ortus when that speed is inst or in Fading. The man himself will be the master of the air. He will rely only on the machine and his own power. He could remala in the air as long as he likes accord ing to his desire or to his physical faculties."

In the days of prize-fighting, which, included wrestling, as wel as toe-to-toe hitting, our big mon prospered, for that type of fighting was a true refretion of their tem- perament. We possessed the un- disputed champions of the world, the exhibitions in the prize ring made no appeal to the foreigner, they were so typically British." Bul even in the record of the prize-ring the arresting feature is that our most brilliant champions were not men of brawn, but comparatively small men, who could combine strength with spood.

average

Fitzsimmons punched with evers fibre of his lean body; be loughi with a concretrated energy that savpt all before it. His attack was determined, ambitious, and relent less, and his defence was imbued with the same aggressive spiri

His methods are the American methods of to-day; they suit the The bix American temperament, American has mich quicker reas tions than the

big Britisher. He is stimulated by his climate, for climate has a far reaching influence on toupament. so alten, too, he is still further fired by the mingling of Latin or negro flood in his veins. It suits the American to Los at a quarter mile speed; our-ig men prefer to acttle down to a marathon jog trot Americans train their boxers by making them fight countless ener getie, sparkling contests of frow six, eight, and tea rounds; we mechanise our boxers by making; them perform monotonous and stereotyped movements for fifteet We pander and twenty rounds. to our temperament, and put a premium on endurance. Our con tests are chiefly pesta el endurance We must bear in mind that boxing is now Americanised; it is a spaen of violent and rapid reactions lightning thought, and always full Steam ahead

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Copying The Albatross. He explains that in the construc. tion of his machine he has followed closely, all the elements of the simple and wonderful principles of flying disclosed by nature in "the albatross. The position of a mo ou his machine is horizontal, the

for most suitable position economical use of his powers. The organs of steering are concentrated in his hands, and the organs of flapping in his legs. The body of the machine has a special form with a minimum of resistance to the air, and will have on its sur- face a certain area of depression which will give automatic propal sion power. Such an area of de-

pression in the body of the albatross makes it able to move forward against strong currents of air. The BRITE principle applies to the wings The inackine will have an enclosed body made of aluminium, with steel tube frame inside:

The only other details of his machine which Captain Dibovaky will disclose at this stage is that the machine will bò fexible in all directions and horizontally-moving pedals will be connected with fexible wings. He declares that, by pushing, the machine forward on an inclined smooth surface for 100 yards in calm weather it can rise from the ground and fly with The Right Spirit.

out difficulties, and that it can rise We have boxers in plenty in our

from the sau ground against the country filled with the true fignt wind at 12-13 miles velocity in 30

as proved by our ing spirit, Amateur boxars; they are still the Yards, and by adapting his power to the wings and to the steering world's best, but then amateur methods are conceived by boxers organa he could fly horizontally or could rise up to 3.000 feet. I imbued with the right spirit for

calm weather he believes that he the good of boxing. To get up to could reach a speed of between 15 date we want to learn what we have and 25 miles an hour. He is con

How to hit with the forgotten. power to end a fight, and to undervised that soen men will be ab- stand that this power can only be sobte, mastera of the air and derived from the biggest muscles succeed at last where, learus failed.. of the boulder and arm alone a useful for a jog-trot vontest, but aut for a six-round-sprint battle. In-fighting is now a lost art, hit- ting in the holla, slapping on the back is the miserable substitute for it; no more does one see the light ning half-arm body-iolts, hooks,

A War Invention. Captain Victor Dibevsky, who nuta forward these amazing claims. was awarded £3.500 by the Royal Commission of Awards to Inven- tors for an invention of synchrons ing gear for firing through the

average

I am proud to think that the member of to-day is clears both in his private life and his public life than bis predeces

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bank runaera met, it has now

If the secret book of every grown to Be an indispensable ad-

career were unsealed low really junct of modern banting, and is housed in a large bulking in Post binck blous would be disclosed, and we could. I honestly believe, satisfy Offer-court, Lombard-stret. where are employed several hundreds of the publie (or disappoint) by clerks appointed by the banks who showing that in the main we are a respectable and an incorruptible are Clearing House members.

· Modern business methods are assembly. The lenders of parties, used, and inechanical means, such however fiercely they quarrel, are as adding machines and type not suspicious of one another's in writers, make possible the transactegrity, and our behaviour in de tion of an ever-growing volume of bate (with occasional Japses) is a

most tediously correct. Nor are we business.

lacking in good will and a desire to do our duty as we see it. Truly there are marrow, petty people, ant there are fanatics, and there are cowards, for where will you get 800 nasorted human beings without finding such types! But Britain ean be sure that her. British Legis- lature is wholesome and sober, and will not be found unworthy, on. grent occasions, judged by any standards and compared with any other assemblies in the world Therefore, our country is still in notice the dio terested in us, and

9,400 Banking Oces, The past year has witnessed an- other great stride in the growth of English banking.

Although during the year the number of banks in England has fallen from 20 to 18 owing to na amalgamation of two of them, there have been more than 200 new banking branches opened in various parts o the country. There is a total of 9,400 banking offices in England. -

Of the Big Five," the Midland Bank has perhaps shown things of M:P.s are still good copy" greatest progress. A year ago it for the Frers. had 1,904 branches, but this figure has now risen to 1,980, an increase of 78.

It is difficult to estimate the exact amount of money actually on deposit in the banks throughout the country, but according to the latest figures available the avenge week ly amount of money deposited in the nine English clearing banks for November 1997 was £1,894,000, which is 3 per cent. better than in November 1926.

A Portantons Exception. Yet, I repeat, I am uneasy, Per

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great occasions " haps the phrase which I have just used is signifi- cant. Such occasions come bat seldom, after all. The debate on the Prayer Book provided one, of course, and the most recent. There tore, I select it for a comment. The Whips were off, and the vote was free; the au ject one which is never dead for Englishmen. Votes To stimulate national thrift the were actually changed by impas greatest efforts are being made by signed appeals, and observers, with accord, described the pro- bankers to popularies the banking one habit in all classes of the cemceedings as the most amazing Bince the subrational war in munity.

Why was that? There was prejudice, there was much bad his even worse theology, and strange allies ranged themselves by the tory in some of the speeches, and heroes of the Trojans and the Greeks. But the thing was a por National Provincial and other tert because the House was patent large banks have already attracted.

ly sincere; and is it not portentous more than a million new deposi-that sincerity should be a portent

The heavy stamp duty on cheques still is regarded by many people as a deterrent from opening banking accounts.

Home Sales Popular.

The idea that bir banka" are too

The popular home big for the little man is gradually dying out. sales introduced by the Midland Bank and now in use by the

tors.

Nevertheless, the banking habit is growing from year to year, and with every rise in the population as well as with every stage in the grow greater still..

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questions put down every day, and ant half of these, each costing the taxpayer more than a guinea, are Five minutes*

with entirely useless personal conversation Minister or Under-Secretary will do more for an aggrieved constitu ent than pages of questions, and if members would confine them. elves to interrogating the Govern ment on genuine. public affairs. where it is desirable to have an Answer from a responsible Minis ter, publicly recorded for future reference, we could save weeks of Parliamentary time and thousands of pounds of the taxpayers' monny in a yearl

Then there is the insane theory that a debate must be kept going, long after every point has been covered and every argument used- presumably on the ground that the electors will judge our enthusiasm and efficiency by the mere number of hours we consume and the mere we speak: number of columns Human endurance cannot sustnic fit; therefore, we go out, and write our letters or converen tall, in the fullness of time, the division beil rings, and we troop back and ask

aye whether we are voting "no." and wonder to find how t- tle has been dono sifter so much talk.

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The electors are not deceived; they will know very well that where the Socialist Party has fail- ed this session as an Opposition is not in the matter of verbosity (at which they are unrivalled), but in feebleness of orticism and barren- For here we nces of suggestion. touch the worst feature of all the monstrous doctrine that the sole

business of an Opposition is to op- je. That doctrine is going to ruin Parliamentary Government if coarage and we have not the honesty

to abandon it How eloquent have the Socialista been-- how hysterically eloquent-on the

when moving thair sufferings of miners and the un- employed, various votes of censure on the If they had been Government! sincere would they not have tried. to help the miserable million out of werk, by offering practical, con- structive gestiona?

Pernicions Old Doctrizë, But on the pernicious old doc- tring which I plone so much, they would say: "That is your business

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not cure; if we have a soberne, lished row, so that you may get the credit; but carefully concealed it is our copyright, not to be pub-

till our time cornes, when we can get the credit ourselves. while, the million can feed on our sympathy-which we shall further demonstrate by refusing to hear Nobody in the division lobbies Ministers and by destroying, with said that night what dozens of organised disorder, the debate we

have ourselves demanded.' weary members have said to me in

then they go away pluming them. of futile divisions,

selves their ingenuity, and we "Heavens. Isn't this a farce

Have I not, by marking this ou go away much gratified because we contrast, given a good ground for have scored by their mistaken tac

lock up and are not fed' my uneasiness! The fact is that weties, and the hungry sheep are still Keeping up, out of sheer

Let me be acrupulously fair; have long ceased to enshrine a faith. Mark the weary, cynical, rather crude exhilation of the vice that has tainted every party grin on all our faces.when at 4 a.m "LADY GODINA" TO PAY some member of the Opposition Nearly a whole evening was recent moves to report progress," on they consumed by speeches complain- measure of such ing that the time allotted for the DAMAGES,

ground that importance, Mr. Speaker, cannot discussion of a certain Bill was in sufficient! The indignation was adequately be discussed at this late PARIS, Dec. 18th. Mile. Morangys, a blonde dancer hour, when the House is so fatiguentardly artificial (an alf such out- cc! ctc., etcm, according to the bursta on the allocation of tiane long year in a Montmartre music hall, was

trite formula of which Hansard have been for many si furnish hundreds of models past), and, of course, we could have ordered to pay the management £33 damages yesterday because ste re-

And the man who moves knows that proceeded well into the commetter fumed to appear nude....

The court. breed its decision on everybody else knows that he know stage before it was over. Could the fact that Mile. Morangys had that it is all for the purpose of China produce an example of a already been dancing nude in the wasting another 15 minutes, on an- same music hall for eleven months other hopeless division, in an al

and upper-eats, legacies from Mac propeller of an neroplane. He is recovery of trade it will assuredly ritualis, elaborate forms that their conduct has only been

and Fitzsimmons. We want a Dri coll or Wilde to again inspire our boxers with the finesse of the art and show them how to anticipate,

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second intention.” The first step in our return journey to regain our boxing pres. tige is to init championship texts to eight or ten rounds and all ninor ones to be four, or six.

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Russian of almut forty-three years of age who has been excern- ed with Aying since 180s and re ceived a gold medal from the All- Russian Aironautical Society for his fight frem Sebastopol to St. Petersburg (1,600 miles), He served with the Russian Imperial Air Force in the wor and received.

Не саме many decorations. England in 1018 as chief of the Russian Naval Aviation Commis will stimulate life into our

sion, and in 1918 went to. America boxing, it wil put, a premium on

as a machine-gun expert. He has skill and speed, rather than on en. durance. Champions will get mere arranged to lecture in London on contests and many more boxers will his machine at an early date. have an opportunity to take part in an evening's boxing entertain THE GOVERNING FACTORS.

The

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ment. The publie will enjoy the

[UY MAJOR : A. DE V. HOBERTSON.) variety of talent and learn to ap preciate skill, they will come in

make The ambition promater greater numbers. will not lose, in fact be will be a ornithopter, or flying-machine in gäiner also. Let him be of good which a man can raise himself by beart.

flapping wings, is as old Perhaps the ridicule of the world days of King Minos of Crete, when will shame some force into action. Dedalus and Icarus made the first Let the lamentable exhibition of reported attempt. The study of Phil Scott, the manufactured aeronautics has now adranord suffi- champion, be the curtain to the eiently to permit of scientiße kiserable burlesque which our pro-

fore the world. It is not their fault, but, the stage managers'. Observer.

WHEN CORN GREW IN LONDON.

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The interesting fast that gardens

in St. Martin's late and at Bethnal

the of examination.

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system so grotesque ?

It must stop, all this antiquated ritund of obsolete nonsense, or elke

And had never complained. Might sitting which he and his Parliament will be stopped. I am

caught a cold and did not want another one.

Useless Questions.

plained:

The practice of putting useless questions on the paper is another agrant abuse of a system cace de tenhle and, indeed, necessary in There are some 70 or 80

The three grave judges conferred apart, and then stated that the dancer knew the terms of the con- tract when she signed it, ant be-off. cause she caught a cold could not caruch it without paying a penalty.

states that his ornithopter" will

science.

THE JEWS AND THE CRUCIFIXION.

WERE THEY HOSTILE TO JESUS?

Rabbi Mattock, preaching at the

fessional boxers are performing be- factors. A man can, by pedalling have on its surface a certain area or otherwies, produce about one of depression; thus it will give automatic propulsion power, Such Lenth of a horee-power, not con- tinuously, but in burate. Supposan area of depression, giving the ing that the man weighs 150lb. and

propulsion power, exists on the that his apparatus weighs nothing, body of the albatross." This is the one hint which he gives of the he would have to raise in flight 1,500 per horsepower Now an discovery of s-new-law It is well RABBI ON CRIME OF A FEW. Acro engine, in an heroplane has known that a "depression" on the lifted up to 30 per horro-power camber of an aeroplane wing in and that was far higher than the erensen the lift of that wing, but

of an ordinary the idea of a depression causing Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St. power-londing Green were once the scene of im neroplane Consequently we may propulsion is, I believe, new to John's Wood, NW., yesterday, on portant agricultural experiment with absolute confidence rule pur

the film The King of Kings," is recaled by the exhibition of

Undoubtedly much yet remain i manuscripts and printed books, flight by man-power as "an im

to be discovered about the soaring agked: Were the Jews hostile to Jesus The answer, be said, de illustrating the history of agricul-possibility.

Soaring fight, due to rising Bight of birds, and if Captain- ,ture,

At the British or view

currents of air, is no novelty. La Dibovsky has found out a new lawpended on the difficult question: Museum

It was Sir Hugh Platt, who properly designed gliders men have and can demonstrate his point be Did Jesus claim to be the Messiah I

I do not believe a personal's. seems to have been a sort of remained up for hours But when may yet rank with Señor de la The Rabbi ssid: Elimbohan Lord Bledisine, who they have got out of the rising Cierva, who produced the autogiro. practised the now and admirable rent they have had to glide to One would, however think mote Messiah." I do not believe that

Dibovsky' there ever was or ever will be Arte of setting of Come on the earth. Probably the vulture and highly of Captain site of modern London. He in the albatros soar without flapping claims if he had concentrated ou Messiah. I believe a better time their wings because they are able to this alleged novelty and had not in- must come through the efforts of vented all the necessary tooles "

find rising currents in a way still cluded in his design man-driven men ander the guidance of God with-such success that he was knighted in the second year of unknown to man. Capt. Dibovsky #apping wing, which science is spread over uncounted centuries. The Jews are not hostile to Jesus. (Continued on next Column.) able to dismiss as impracticable." James 1st.

are going to stop it. The answer And the party is, by stopping. that stops first will do more to the Commone to public restore esteem than has been done by all the Reform Bille since 1631.

In the same way as my Chris tian neighbour does not feel it necessary to exonerate the Chris "tiana of 400 years ago from blame for the Inquisition, so I do not feel, the necessity of exonerating "the Jews of 1000 years ago from

blame for the Crucisxion.

The Jews loved Jesus as á pos Bible King. The priests hated Him as a dangerous rebel. The

FAT Romans crucified Him as a pos sible successor to their power.

As well blame all France for the martyrdom of Joan of Arc in the fifteenth century as blame all the Jews for the martyrdom of Jesus in the first-century. Yet for nineteen centuries the Jews have been made to suffer for the crime

of a few. They have out- fered more because of Jesus than the Christians have ever suffered for the sake of Jesus.

Until the Christiane-showed- the epirit of Jesus towards the Jews, how could they expect the Jews to show to Jesus the ad miration which was due to one of their own great men i

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