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MOTORING

SAFE BEER FOR MOTORISTS.

PROBLEM FOR THE BREWERS.

LOW ALCOHOL CONTENT

ESSENTIAL,

[BY SIR W. ARBUTHSOT LANE, BART-]

NOTES

(CONTD.)

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25th, 1928.

Water The Best Drink, The ideal drink for one driving a Car is obviously water, and any alcohol should be constmed, only when the car has been replaced in the garage. It would appear that it is practically impossible to insist on this counsel of perfection, so that the next best thing is to effect as perfect a compromise is possible. It is abvious that drivers of cars

should abstain totally from spirits or strong drinks while engaged in this form of activity, and should always bear in mind how absolutely necessary it is to posses a brain that can function rapidly and efficiently, since the riska to which they and others are constantly exposed are

very great.

NEW MOTORING · IDEA.

FRONT WHEEL DRIVE..

TEST OF CAR.

I have now had an opportunity. writes the motoring correspondent of the Daily Mail, of testing the new sports 12-h.p. Alvis car with front wheel drive and each wheel independently sprung.

Ite the first British car bodying these principles to be placed on the market.

"MONOPOLY OF THE ROADS!"

F.R.I. FEAR OF THE RAILWAY BILLS.

OPPOSITION,

Opposition from the Federation af British Industries, the London Chamber of Commerce, and other emergariantions was offered against the railway companies road trans port Bills at the sitting of the joint parliamentary committee con- sidering the Bills on June 25th.

hearing. It was the thirty-first day of the

This new motoring idea is attract- idg widespread interest not only among motor engineers but also

kinong car owners.

ple. The only difference from rear Front wheel drive is quite sim.

wheel drive is that the driving shafts are coupled to the wheele by

couplings) which turn

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Major-General. .S. S. Long, A Lever

CAPE TOWN TO JOHAN

NESBURG BY 'BUS,

NEARLY 1,000 MILES RUN

VICTIMS OF A NEW “LANDRU."

THE MARSEILLES MURDERS.

WOMEN BAITED WITH MATRIMONY.

PARIS, June 29th. The notorious, Landru ene. LS

THE VERY DEVIL"AT COVENT GARDEN.

CHALIAPIN AND MR, EUGENE GOOSSENS.

ACTING OR THE REAL THING."

OVERHANGING ROCK NEGOTIATED.

Leyland Motors, Limited, of Leyland, Lancs, recently despatched

LONDON, June 3rd. to their Cape Town Depot a

One expected an exceptional per- Leyland "Titan" double-deck 'bus has already been reported, is reformance of "Faust" at Covent complete, which although uncased, called by murders at Marseilles,

writes the Faris correspondent of Garden since M. Chuliapia was the had been" so well stowed that on arrival it was driven from the the Jianchester Guardian. A few Mephistopheles But one did not expect an exceptionally dull one, Docks to the Leyland Depot and days ago the corpse of enlivened by happenings which are

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not properly in the province of the

a, as such, at all,

Nothing could ebscure the magni- ence of M. Chaliapin' from the purely histrionie point of view. From his first utteraner of "Here we are again "or, as the libretto has it," Me voisi "he was a very Galliard had Devil of a man, and a very Devil of Not even the

In view of of the vital importance of not impairing the efficient can trol of the driver of a motor-ear, so important in face of the steady and rapid increase in the number of wehicles now on the road, too much thought cannot be given to the described. Those who were familiar wheels and transmit power through the Transport Committee of the of the vehicle the railway offrist a man who passed under the name nature of the liquid nouenishment which can be aade available to him, The recent expériences of the British courts of law have indiest ed clearly that an amount of alcohol far below that necessary to produc" eren mild symptoms of drunkenness i may be fatal to the proper fune tioning of the driver, of a car.

Two facts are evident. One is that the vast majority of motorists are not content to drink the sh called "soft drinks," which are generally regarded as containing no alcohol-most frequently very in- accurately.

The bitter taste of the products of hops appeals to most people, and there is no reason whatever why a good beer or lager should not be" Accessible to motorists at every public-house and hotel on the road, And why it should not possess a very low alcohol content, low enough to enable the driver to drink two bottles without risk to his capacity a control the machine he is driv

ing.

with the beverages so popular in Germany, especially in Munich, know how safely the delicious brews of that country could be drunk in quantities without affecting the | mentality of the consumer,

them at any angle. Instead of being at the rear of the engine. clutch, gearbox, and differential are forward of it.

There is an immense field open to those enterers, who will put on the market such a beer as seans of universal joints (flexible managing director of

with the Brothers, Ltd., and chairman of

F.B.I.. who was Director of Sup. plies and Transport during the war, giving evidence on behalf of the F.B.I., said that as the Bills stood there was every possibility and likelihood of the railway com- panies securing a monopoly. There was, no ultimate protection for the

Getting Rid Of Risks, During the Wae much of its per- fection was diminished, or even des troyed, by the use of chemical sub stitutes for hops. Whether or not it has been restored to its pristine purity I do not know.

I presume "British brewers are quite as capable as the Germans of

producing a good, tasty beer made from hops, which will be very at- tractive to the palate and at the same time possess a sufficiëntly low alcoholic content.

It will yield an excellent return to the manufacturer because of its popularity. It will also eliminate much risk. much injury, much mortality and much unhappiness, besides affording great freedom from anxiety and danger to 'bus ex cellent and efficient police force.

SAFETY FIRST-

EVERYWHERE.

Every House, Garage or Car, Every School, Office, Godown, Hotel, or other Public Building, should Avoid the Danger of Fire by installing

IMPERATOR

FIRE EXTINGUISHERS

The Imperator is the most powerful powder Fire extinguisher in existence and is guaranteed to be proof against explosion.

It hurls a jet of powder 12 to 18 yards which is far more. efficacious than water, but it is so easy to handle that anyone with- ont previous experience, even a child, can work it.

For a small

The Imperator powder keeps good indefinitely, is non-corrosive, odour less, causes no damage

There is no back, axle in the ac- cepted sense of the word. With no fixed axle there is no need for a rear differential, each wheel being free to travel at its own speed.

Advantages.

There are several obvious adynn- tages of this principle. With so public. much weight.on the front axle one

With froat "wheel

Mr. Macmillan. K. C.."appearing might imagine that steering would for the railway companies: So your be heavy. But the contrary is the fiew is that the railway companies ease.

With the drive on the back might abuse their powers-Not wheels the car is being pushed i

might," they wil I should always in a forward direction. It is necessary to steer, against the myself.

"Vast Trade Union." inclination of the car to travel in a straight line.

"A railway monopoly," added drive the power is transmitted, in General Long," " would mean

the whatever "direction you are travel-

vast. trade union ling. When you turn the steering reation of a wheel to take say an acute corner among the transport workers which, the power le being transmitted in in the event of a strike, could bring that direction. In other words you are being pashed round the corner, the life of the country to a stand- I made some tests in a private still to a far greater degree than park ef cornering and the stability coal strike or strike in any of this car at epeed on stiff bends

other industry vital to the life of was a revelation.

the nation."

Referring to the position of the railways, General. Long said: "I do not see how you are going to make any more money by buying motor-omnibuses and running them to Brighton and other such places

Another interesting feature of this design is the scope it gives the bodybuilder. He need not allow for the rise and in of a propeller shaft or the humped easing of the differential and gear box. The ear. I drove had a two-seater sports body which does not provide the coach-builder with an opportunity

hot showing the real value of the principle. But a saloon body on a front wheel driven car should be a most comfortable affair, close to the ground with at the same time plenty of headroom.

The way the two-seater sat down

not

The police then discovered that Gaillard's real name was Jerome Prat, and that he arrived in France- in March of last yea: from Algiers,

living for many years, and where where he appears to have been he is said to be wanted by the police on several charges of swindling under various false names,

a gentleman, too. Miltonic Mephistopheles was more dignity was relieved by malevolent tragically dignified, though the

humour, touches of acting which made the past seem a new thing altogether, and a grace of pose and Resture that was pure genius.

An Unhappy Evening."" Moreover, the voice is still a thing to wonder at. Sparing use was made of its full power, and the ex- pert could detect many perfectly legitimate tricks for glossing over little pieces at evidence that this mighty organ is past its zenith. I do not hope to see or even to hear a better Mephistopheles than that of M. Chaliapin on this somewhat unhappy occasion.

Eugenio Foce was discovered buri- was finally received without much as a scratch of any kind.

ed in a garden of the Villa des It was decided to exhibit this Eglantines at Sainte Marguerite, Marseilles, which belonged to her, vehicle at the Agricultural Show, Johannesburg, but owing to the size and where she had been living with of Gaillard. Investigations were refused to transport it It was, then made at another house, the therefore, decided to send the 'bus Villa Genevieve at Les Madets, by road, one of the Company's re Marseilles, which Presentatives, Mr. S. W. King, and rented, with the result that two more corpses were found which two assistants, setting out on the journey. The two assistants, with have been identified as those of a a Trojar car, acted as scouts. and Ebel, both of whom had been seen Mlle. Bonnet and Jille. Jeanne although the roads belied the name

there with him. All three women in places, and the journey was un-appear to have been strangled. dertaken during the rainy season, smooth progress was made until the Binns Kloof Pass was reached, where a famous overhanging rock was encountered which had been reckoned with. The overall height of the bus was 12 feet 101 inches, but the height of the rock from the road was unknown. One of the crew, therefore, climbed up the side of the cliff where he could.

The Matrimonial Method. whether theno

The investigations of the police enough clearance for the bus to pass under have revealed the fact that Prat the rock. On the other side of the like Landru, made a practice of road was. u steep drop, and al-decoying women on large scale, though there was an alternative and it is feared that he may have this would have added a further 92 women known to have been in rela route which could have been taken, had other victims, as some of the

tions with him have not fet been fancy the fault lay in the first in- What, then; made it unhappy? I miles to the journey-

portant difference between his case the conductur. Mr. Eugene Goessens. traced. There is, however, one im-

stance in the deliberate methods of and that of Landru, namely, that for which he may be criticised. For wherene Prat was solely actuated at the behest, roram populo, of the the latter was clearly & Sadist, his refusal to alter those methods by mercenary

Like Landru, he proceeded by matri- principal singer, Mr. Goosecan de- monial advertisements and appli- serves not cations to matrimonial agencies. praise. There is no justification for usually describing himself as He advertised under various names,

any artist, even of M. Chaliapin's eminence, endeavouring to take rentier of 56 years, of pleasing ap-charge in this fashion, even though mony with a maiden lady or widowcident upset the atmosphere for the correspond with a view to matri- pearance, and invariably asking to he may be honestly convinced that the conductor is wrong. This in-

sing small capital between forty and forty-five posses whole revening,»

Tempo And Temper. He must have had numerous different women are said to have know, and this; in any event, is answers, for letters from about 500 tually in a good temper, I do not Whether M. Chaliapin was ac- been found in his villa." When bait beside the point, which is that he was taken he appears, in some

was

tempt the passage, and although the It was therefore decided to at- bus was as near to the edge of the road as possible, at least two Feet of the rock projected over the roof of the vehicle. It was decided, therefore, that all stones and loose objects on the road, or any obstree tion that would be likely to lift the bus at all, would have to be removed.

Inch by inch the "Titan was cleared the rock by one and a half moved forward, until it eventually inches.

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as the same or lower rates than the existing read firms, considering Apart from getting bogged and their own position at the present stuck in the bed of a river the rest moment. Speaking as a commer-pleted. The total distance covered

of the journey was safely com cin iman, the last thing in the was 968 miles, and when it is con-

sidered that this journey is a for

motives.

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adverse criticism but

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on the road was certainly striking. world I would dream of doing 18midable one for a touring car even casca, at any rate, to have signed seemed to be in a bad one: The ad.

The springing also impressed me.

By springing each wheel instead

of the chassis it absorbs its own

hock when it strikes a pot hole, transmitting very little, of this to the car itself.

One

This 0.m.p.h. sports car proved most farcinating to drive. I should like to see the principle adapted to a more modest touring car. curious effect was the throwing up of stones from the front wheele These eluded the front mudguards and took the paint off the bottom of the rear mudguards. This will have to be guarded against.

MOTORING WITHOUT

FATIGUE.

[BY A WOMAN OWNER DRIVER. ]

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However comfortable your car, however, easy the controls and light the steering, a drive of several hours can be very ring physically and much of the good can be un dune, and much pleasure lost if precautions are not taken to avoid fatigue.

to put money, into motor-omnibus undertakings.

Mr. W. H. Gaunt, distribution manazer of Messrs. J. Lyons & Co. Ltd.. supporting the opposition of those who feared a road monopoly the F.B.I., said that he agreed with by the railways.

**Buin Of Road Hauliers." Sir Lynden Macassey, K.C.. sum- ning up earlier on behalf of the Commercial Motor Users' Associa tion, said that in the process of competition which would result if the committee gave the railways" a blank cheque to all up as they chose, and to any amount, the busi ness of the road hauliers would be irretrievably ruined.

"The railway," he added,de not claim that existing road ser views for goods are inefficient. On the contrary, their pinint is that they are too adequate, and draw trafic from the railways. They have failed to establish that any advantage will result to the public if the powers be granted.

Sir Lynden urged that the ordi- mary burden of proof cast on all promoters of private Bills had not been discharged by the railway companies. In fact, they resented the suggestion that they should be called on to do so.

of a vehicle weighing over six tons mishap at such a time of year is in completing the journey without really, reinarkable.

MAP-READING.

in the dry season, the performance & contract with the victim under vantage of this type of realism, taking to marry her or live with even in a diabolical role, is ques- copy of such a contract has becn her naritally as she preferred. A tionable.

Mr. Joseph Hislop., the Faust, found in which he also undertakes with comiderable beauty of to provide for any children that tung, but he became young and she may have. His favourite serious at the same time. The Mar- method of procedure for the pur-uerite, Mme. Benujon, "was well pose of getting money seems to have above the average, and Mr. John been to say that he was buying a Charles Thomas's Valentine rightly villa, and had not enough money won round after round of applause. to complete the purchase, and then But all this could not redeem the borrowing from the victim the sum evening from medicerity, tinged Though much map reading is ur required. In other cases, when the with the sort of excitement with necessary in so small an area as victim owned a house he seems to which we can very well dispense.— this Colony the following hints have made a contract to buy it and P.P. rom the Sunday Times may be of then sold it or tried to sell it to interest-especially to those who several people at don't intend to pass the rest of their lives here:

HINTS ON THE ART.

The best friend of the motorist is the map, whether he is making a short local run or a tour, as men tioned above.

once. This

WHAT THEY BOTH SAY. method seems to have been adopted "The performance of Faust in the case of the unfortunate last night, unkss I-am crazy, was Mile. Foce, for a receipt has been precisely the same in tempo and in found, signed by her, evidently ever way as it was at the rehearsal just before her murder, for 15,000 on the previous day, at which Mr. francs on account of the purchase Chaliapin expressed himself ax There are signs and colourings money of the Villa des Eglantines. perfectly pleased. And the opera need on maps which will assist him

An interesting aspect of this rehearsal was an almost unexpected- considerably in his travelling.

affair. which is otherwise merely smooth one." We will imagine the case of a vulgar crime for gain, is the Mr. Eugene Goossens, the con- motorist making a local circular psychology of the women that were ductor, made this remark to an run, during which he wishes to so easily victimised by a man pre- Evening Standard representative touch certain towns and village viously unknown, to them, whose to-day. For such a ran a map based on the acquaintance they had made "I am perfectly willing to Ordnance survey to a scale of hair through the advertisement of aallow, of cours, for what is called an inch to one mile is very useful. matrimonial agency. It is evident artistic temperament to allow for The route to be taken should be that some women between forty a slight divergence from the normal marked out in pencil, lightly, so and fifty are so anxious to get a on the part of the singer, and to that it may be rubbed out after husband at any cost that they do follow it.

not take even elementary precau- wards.

But I am not concerned with. The map should be folded so that these women is particularly re do not notice any. I am too ab- The gullibility shown by people's gesticulations on the stage. the portion required is visible to the driver when seated at the stear-markable in a country where most sorbed to bother whether people on people, and women in particular, the stage are fussing or not, unless far and away the best solution of

For the distances between the hesitate a long time and consider there is something quite out of the the trouble, particularly if the car

various villages et "towns measure parting with a sou.

the matter very carefully, before Yet his con-

ordinary. I certainly did not is not already fitted with pneumatic upholstery. The cushion

Dr. J. P. Lenke, of the Unitemente may be made on the map.duct should have aroused suspicion, notice the expression of anger that can be

or one of the good road guider may for women whom he failed to en-.

has been attributed to Mr. Chalia- used in any number of positions States Public Health Service,' gave be employed. The names of the

pin and I did not hear any remark for instance, tucked down behind evidence at the Office of Worke,-86. more important places and the trap say that he insisted on mere the shoulder blades, or under the James's, S.W., before the Com-intermediate distances should be private agreements for loans and about Plus vite." knees wide part to the front), or mittee which is inquiring into the noted on a postcard to be fastened contract before a notary was sug-gives the impression there has been,

purchases, and that when a formal placed under the elbow to relieve a possible dangers to health from the beside the map. tired arm.

use of motor spirit containing lead While driving the motorist will gested he at once cried off.

Sitting in the same position for hours on end can be very wearying Some people advise one to get out of the car every two hours or so and walk sharply up and down; others suggest altering one's driving posi- tion now and then by sitting a little farther forward or farther back or lounging in the corner of

U.S. VIEW OF ETHYL.

to furniture, draperies, wedge-shaped air-cushion is DR. LEAKE AND RESULTS OF

ing wheel. the seat cccasionally. Bat the use

etc., and gives off no fumes.

first cost Imperatori are a perpetual safe-guard and insurance against damage to life and

property by Fire.

It is better to be sure than sorry!

To-day is the time to get full particulars of the Imperator from

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MOTORISTS' PRIVILEGE.

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AS MUCH ENTITLED TO THE

ROAD AS PEDESTRIANS."

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"The whole thing puzzles mé. It

in the Continental acceptance of the term, a scandale as Covent Gar- deri.

be able to glance at his "route The clothes one wears may make Dr. Leake said that he was in card and then at the map to sec

"There WOL no Buch thing. or mar a long journey. In an open charge of experimental investiga- if the road he requires turns to the

Chaliapin is far too great an artist car a close-fitting hat with enough tions carried out for a committee right or to the left, or proceeds brim to shade the eyes will be set up by the United States Govern etraight on. Preliminary study of

himself or to me." to draw that kind of publicity to found comfortable. But be sure ment. This followed a number of the map is necessary to become before starting that it is not too fatal poisoning cases in New familiar with the required route.

"I Was Not Angry." tight, or before, many miles have Jersey, where ethyl petrol was The driver will be able to tell by

-M. Chatian. passed it will feel like an iron extensively handled. The commit the presence of railway bridges, "Remember that in these daya Chaliapin's description

"A storm in a teacup," was. M.

of band. A long coat which is wind- tec came to the conclurion, he said,hille, etc., if he is on the correct motorists are not expected to have

the proof, which will button up to the that there was no evidence at a route. In the case of towns and a man before them waving a red

affair.

"I remember nothing about it. neck if necessary, and which is wide that there was danger to public large cities. a street plan is in- flag," said the coroner on June We always make signs to conduc. enough in the skirt not to gape at health from the use of tetra-ethyl valuable. To make proper use of 25th at an inquest at Boughton, tors, in order to have perfect har the knees, will be found most petrol.

this, a passenger is necessary, as Nottinghamshire. practical.

The members, as scientific men, its use by the driver alone would In a closed car one can dispense however, said that they would like necessitate frequent, stoppages.

With this ever-increasing traf-mony on both sides of the footlights, fic on the roads," he added, and I have done that so regularly with a hat altogether, which is the observations to be continued. A careful study of the map will brond view must be taken of these during my 38 years on the stage that much more comfortable; and most for another year. It was the ac show which are the first-class roade unfortunate accidents, and it must I cannot recall what happened inst likely the coat can be discarded too. cumulative action of lead of which and which are the secondary, and, be recollected that a motorist using night.

The feet should be kept warm by they were afraid. Farther observa- in the case of long journeye, it is the road properly is just as en-

At any rate...was not angry, wearing short golf stockings over tion had confirmed the origina! often possible to find suitable de titled to the privilege of using it and I am sure Mr. Goossens did his the usual stockings. Old shoes with conclusion..

tours round towns which, while as a pedestrian.”

best. thin soles and low heels, or even a They reported that there were no perhape slightly longer, will take The inquest was on ... woman "But it is a pity that opera in change of shoes on a very long and good grounds for prohibiting the considerably shorter time to cover, who was knocked down by a motor England cannot afford to arrange strenuous drive, will add much to use of tetra-ethyl petrol, provided and also present lewer possibilities car and killed. A verdict of Ac-sufficient rehearsals for there to be one's comfort.

it was subject to proper regulations. of getting lost.

cidental death" was recorded""

complete harmony.??.

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