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TUESDAY, JUNE 5th, 1928.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,

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It is hard for the average person to realize that it is safer to travel by air to-day than by any other means. Some of the largest insurance companies have set their seal upon air trans- portation ahead of rail and motor bas, and secondary only to ateamers. This will prove to you that aviation has come to stay and will contribute to the development of any country, writes Capt. Theodore Ching in the Far Eastern Revier.

Aviation in China, although still in its infant stage, is not a new means of transportation, for a

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The Vickers Company Contract. were the first to study the air with The Vickers Company had a ten- aircraft or kites Aviation took year contract to supply the Chinese place in China immediately after|Government with seroplanes and the Revolutionary war in 1911. It materials, and during the ten years was during this time that some the Bureau ofle Aeronautics was far-sighted military officials were prohibited from purchasing planes convinced that aviation has some from America and other nations, thing to contribute to the country's it was Agreed to use a few Ameri development.

свов as instructors. 1920 that steps were taken to em- ploy two pilot instructors, and it was in this same year that I re- ceived my appointment through the recommendation of the British Advisory Board as Chief Field Superintendent.

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CINEMA NEWS...

THE SECRET STUDIO AT THE QUEENS.

VICTIMISING THE HONG

KONG BANK.

MYSTERY OF FOUR YEAR OLD THEFT CLEARED,

A picture dealing with the romance of an artists colony, en- titled The Secret Studio," is the

With the arrest of a Chinese in chief attraction at the Queen's Canton, the mystery, which sur Theatre. to-day, and to-morrow, rounded the disappearance of Olive Borden plays the part of a modern dapper. Convinced that she 840,000 from the Hong Kong and сап look after herself," she is Shanghal Bank in January 1994, soon in the clutches of a sinister has been cleared. artist, portrayed by Ben Bard, Clifford Holland has the role of the. hero. A special incident in the picture is an artists ball with a tableaux of beautiful girls.

The Frontiersman," which comes to the Star Theatre to-day and to- morrow is a stirring tale of the carly frontier days of Tenessee when Andrew Jackson and bis militia crushed the power of the Creek Indian Confederacy in 1813. Colonel Tim McCoy plays the role of a young officer of the militia who faces many dangers in his efforts to prevent war between the settlers and Indians. Claire Windsor is the daughter of Andrew Jackson while Russell Simpson portrays the general himself. The picture wak directed by Reginald Barker, who specialises in this type of adventure and hard fighting films.

On February ath, 1924, the Police issued a report announcing the loss of this huge sum by the Bank and to the effect that it was believed that the money was paid out on. a forged cheque. It was then ascertained that the Chinese cashier paid out this sum on a cheque just before the Chinese New Year and that the cheque was placed in a drawer with other cheques.

When the cashier came to look for the cheque after the day's work, it was found to have disappeared. With the loss of the cheque the Bank was able to trace either the drawer or driver.

The arrested man was brought before the Central Magistracy yes- terday on a charge of larceny of 840,000 by means of a forged cheque or alternatively larceny by servant

In the year 1912, two officers of the Chiness army returned from

Colour is the predominating note

The accused pleaded guilty to the Europe with airplanes and suß-

in the programme at the World Theatre to-day and to-morrow, when charge and he was remanded for a cient training to By upon arrival

Zane Grey's "Wanderer of the week so that the Police could make in South China. An aviation

Wasteland" will be screened again. enquiries with regard to the dis school was established, and these

Filmed entirely in natural colour;posal of the money. two officers were very successful

While holding the "Wanderer of the Wasteland until one of them was accidentally this post, it took me fourteen was produced in the original settings |=== killed. An aviation, school was months to find out what was going of Zane Grey's book, the Desert of started in Peking and students on. It was wholesale smuggling from the various military insti of war materials, and taking ad- Aribona and Death Valley, Cali and the east includes Kathlyn tutes enlisted. This school, which vantage of the eagerness of the fornia. Jack Holt plays the lead Williams, Noah Beety and Rillie

(Continued at foot of next colume.) Dove. is still known as the New Yuan Chinese to develop commercial Aviation School, turned out hun-aviation. They have spread propa dreds of expert flyers. The Chinese. ganda about civil aviation which military acudents make excellent they are developing for the Govern- aviatore, and no situation be- ment of China: wilders them "This school was suc- cessful in every way, and id all other schools it was made compul- In the summer of 1991, the sory to take up elementary aria-longest route, which was tion. One academy was converted Peking to Shanghai air line, cost factory and, assembling the Government thousands of dol- plant employing approximately lars.

into &

The Peking-Shanghai Air Line.

the

800 skilled men and scores of ex- Hangars were built along the pert engineers and instructors, way posts, and mainly in Shang This assembling plant and advance bai. Negotiations were completed school of aviation functioned as

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THE COMMUNIST ROAD TO INDIA.

FAILURE IN CHINA HAS LED TO REDOUBLED

EFFORTS IN INDIA.

INDEFATIGABLE RUSSIAN INTRIGUE.

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everything to encourage the Mo- hammedans; they give permission to build new mosques and some- times give substantial assistance to the mullahs.

Nothing Overlocked. The well known Hindu Com- in every way, necessary and the long as the British were willing date of the inauguration was act to make loans to the Government and it was heralded by the whole munist, Roy, in a paper published In Kandahar, in the centre of organized a Communist cell. They for maintenance and operation, world ns. the greatest tribute to the in the "International Press Cor-fghanistan, the Bolsheviks have and also salary for their nationala | new progressive movement

respondence" touching the ques have organized very efficient com-

with India tion of the Communist movement i munication. who may be employed through China their Legation. This aerodrome is This Feking Shanghai air line, in India, ays that only by terroris Chinese Turkestan, where in many not only the best equipped, but the one of the greatest aerial enter tie acts against the bourgeoisie and places they have inaugurated n pent a Broximately 175 airplanes. In the boldest move to emerge from to maintain a revolutionary movelationa with different bands which Targest cast of Suer, and housing prises in the world, and certainly against the white race is it possible consular service and entered in re- the year 1919, China as one of the age old decadence ever made in ment in India. Roy, having left are operating in Afghanistan and signatories of the international air China, has collapsed, apparently China in company with Borodin, India. Owing to the anarchic state convention, while formulating through the militarist parties who visited Moscow and then again of affairs in Yuunaa and Szechuan, rules for air travel, laid special have seized the reins of government with Borodin went into. Turkestan they have a free hand there. They emphasis on the free development and are working strongly against with the object of propaganda plan organize an aeroplane 'ser- of aviation in the country, Chins; any peaceful evolution of so useful work. No doubt that propaganda vice between Kashgar and Samar however, has failed to ratify her a development as aviation. adherence to the convention and It is very disappointing that penetrates into India-through the kind, Frem Kashgar, Bolsheviks takes the arbitrary attitude of commercial aviation during the northwest, From that point Mas launch alleged scientific expedi cow has organized political, econotions to Yarkand, sending from strangling efforts to promote. the past few years was welcomed with development of commercial avia such great warmth and enthusiasm mic and military penetration. there their men to India and tak tion in the country.

and to be immediately confined to Since 1927. Moscow has worked ing back tired propagandista

against India undisguisedly. Hun While persecuting religion in their This action was taken by the a few selfish factions. War Department immediately after It is through the air that Chinndreds of propagandists are sent ORD country, the Bolsheviks do the change of administration in will eventually be united and there through Chinese. Turkestan and Afghanistan. The number of the capital. During this year the develop her great natural resources, official newspapers in Central Asin Chinese Government rules that almost untouched except along the

Central Asiatic Bureau of Props aeroplanes are instruments of war, coastal previdnes. The vast and and of periodicals issued by the and therefore they forbid their in- rich cities which are centers of pro- ganda proves the gigantic scale of

Liisi Penetrated. portation for any purpose what-ductive districts and which are now Moscow's work in India.

section

Lhasa is visited, very seldom by ever by Chinese or foreignere. shut off by long days of tedious

A propaganda Aeroplanes since classed as instru- Tand and water travel, would be. Bureau of Deliverance of Asiatic foreigners, but Bolsheviks have ments of war, America and Eure only a matter of hours were com- Peoples have their seats in Merv. found means to penetrate there too. pean nations supposing to have mercial airlines established

They publish there a newspaper in In Astrakhan, on the coast of agreed not to sell China any You need not necessarily picture three dialects which are spoken in Caspian Sea, there live a nomadic materials, aeronautical activities country criss-crossed with air Afghanistan and Beluchistan. The tribe of Kalmucks numbering

They are were again suspended Immediate lines and carrying all traffic. Eastern department of the Comint about 1,003,000, ly after the Great War, Great Through that is not an impossi Britain with all her surplus war bility for the future, we all realize dra Section and the Central Com Buddhists or Jamas and their mittee of the Persian and Afghan language is very similar to Mongo materials, soon found a dumping the aeroplane will never entirely Communist party are also in Merv, Lian. At the time of the Bolshevik ground, and that was China.

supplant the rail or water transWhile the intelligence service for advance on, Mongolia. Kalmucks Through British diplomacy again,

played the part of instructors. A she has made China a loan of apportation, but it would be ap-India is established in Bokhara

number of princes and priests, in plied where it is moet useful. Mên

Intricately Organized. proximately four million pounds, will not settle in any great num-

In Samarkand there is a school June 1927, were sent to Lhast with a proposal to enter into a "union". sterling, all in war surplus aero-bers in places where it takes days. planes, and interest that 148

Among derived from the 1sans was to be and weeks to reach, and coloniza- for propagandiste among Asiatic with the U.S.SK. and to offer them

tion never precedes transportation peoples, a number of women beingstructors and arms.

members of this mission the Central Committee of the

now mucks are

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spent in developing China by en-One would readily see what outside among the students. In Tashkent, the

the Central Asiatic gaging British instructors, British the War Department. Occasional, of China. North China shows Brit-Bureau of the Central Committee there wore representatives" of the coal industry will, it is believed, engineers, and British, advisers to influences sweep the different parts there are ly, when the payments of interestish Enfluence, and in South China, of Communistic Youth, a club for Communist Party, because Kal result in renewed, prosperity for that

organized into trade. where the city of Canton and other Hindu Communists, several schools for propagandists, military schools

republic under are in default, their diplomatic re- Government administrations are

On the Pamiran autonomous rua practically by young Chinese for natives, etc.

This mission has not yet returned, use pressure to get money from ho acquire their education in table-land, the meeting point of direction of Russian Communists reference was made to the "drastic.

Since the contract was signed America, naturally American ideas India, Afghanistan," U.S.S.R. and

Beside doing propaganda work, the with the Vickers Company, through predominate; the extreme south China, the Bolshevika have placed and there are rumours that they changes" taking place in the in- the British Air Ministry were west, by the French, and North detachments for assisting Hindus a prerred to remain in Lhasa, dustry, and a prominent authority

Bolsheviks improve means of com on the subject, has said:- permanently planes of the bombing and other Manchuria by the Japanese. refugees,

Affairs in China are not, as chaotic Bolsheviks are military types began to arrive con- tinually, and how they got passed as the world thinks Naturaly, as watching Great Britain and are munication. For example the by the Customs I will leave to your after way overtum of government, using every opportunity to hinder ronds between Kabul, Meerut and own judgment, Remember, the there are many remnants of revolu- her policy. Thus, for instance, U.S.R are so organized, tha Secretary for War to the Afghan one can get drinking water and British controlled the Customs ad-tronary factions which would create the recent visit of the British there exist many stations where

disturbances here and there, ministration then

People living in America to-day frontier was countered by Moscow petrol for aeroplanes. In the year 1990 aviation was

are enjoying life, freedom and with the issuance of thousands of They have started also to build again revived and there were sc

vince the native population that with Siberia. On the northern sec tivities of all kinds in North liberty, the results of a hundred posters in an endeavour to con- milway lines to connect Turkestan the British intend to annex Af- tion of the Siberian-Turkestan rail. road 14,000 man are working. Huge ties, under the War Department,

By order of Revolutionary Mili sums, totalling over 40 million mapped out air routes Almost year of a republic. It is in fact ghanistan and Turkestan. covering the whole of North China. not a Republican government nt I am sorry to say only a few were a. The form of government in tary Council of December 28th, roubles, have already been spent on pointed to the Afghan and Chinese trade delegation which is just now in operation two years after. Up still in process of moulding, and 1927, the ablest persons were ap- the southern scations. The Soviet frontiers. Many natives, who had staying in America bas bought & to 1922, approximately 200 aero- let's give it a chance.

obtained their education in props great number of Cleveland" en gands schools received posts of ines and miso numerous motor pars The Cam for the milway line which is to

Nove 47.23/32 minor importance. 4.88.23/04 munist Party during the Arcos connect Tashkent with *case in London published in Sibira (Novo-Nikolaievak). mary Asiatic newspapers state The Franze Tokmak railway is ments saying that Red cavalry, to almost completed and the Bolsho gether with Afghans and nomadicks are pergetically working on tribes, could at any moment be sent the development of aur air morvice, into the valley of Indie: Several with which object, they have intro- foreigners who arrived in China duced new taxes and are building 5.59/81 from Moscow and who had occasion new aeroplanes In a series of 1/5.61/04 to visit Boviet Turkestan tell that Turkestan towns, as for instance, 1/10.15/16 between, Tashkent and Kabul many Mew, Samarkand, Khiva and Bok- Hindus were travelling to Moscow hara, not to mention Tashkent, 2/8.1/3

or back to India. The Soviet Em-aerodromes have been organized 2/0.1/3

bassy in Kabul in fulfilling the and large storts of foodstuffs and 27.15/16

same functions as did the Soviet munitions accumulated - North 27.0/16

China, Daily News. Embassy to Peking.

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There are more than 200, schemes being developed for the produc tion of smokeless fuel and gas and oil. Several are of very great promise indeed de

Perhaps the greatest development of all has taken place in connec tion with the pulverization of coal Sir Charles Parsons and other experts have spoken of pulverised coal as having certain advantages. over oil as a prime mover, and it things develop as they now pro- mise, there will soon be a new type of ship which will use pulverised coal, for, motive power