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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20th, 1929.

OCEAN SPEEDSTERS. largest vessel at present is the

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FRANCE ENTERS MARITIME CONTEST.

WHITE STAR LINE THROWS

DOWN THE GAUNTLET,

London (UP)-With the an- ouncement that France has now a plan on foot to build the " largest and fastest liner in the world," the present battle royal between Great Britain, Germany, Italy 'and the United States for

the speed supremacy of the seas takes on a new and even more thrilling in

"terest.

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popular Ile de France, of 43,500 tons and a speed of 99 knots.

No details of the projected liner's dimensions are so far available, though it is understood it will be built to specifications which will | require it to exceed 26 knots in speed and be over 1,000 feet in length. With it, the promoters, it share of the ever-increasing and is said, hope to capture the lion's very profitable American tourist business.

Italy Watching Points.

Italy watches every move that France makes, particularly where concorned with naval or mercantile development, and in the light of this fact, it is interesting to note

MOTOR

CADILLAC SAFETY

FEATURES:

SILENT AND EASY GEAR CHANGES.

SIMPLE GEAR-CHANGING DEVICE.

FITTED TO ANY NORMAL CAR.

PRINCE E OF W

WALES AND MINERS.

A VISIT TO THE COAL

FIELDS.

SHAKING HANDS WITH

." REDS."

Nowcastleton-Tyne (U.P.)-Fairy

Details are available of an inventales came true when the Prince of tion that is likely to create the Wales visited the poverty-stricken. liveliest interest in the world of coal-fields of this district. motor engineering.

The

And

Safety features such as the From Germany are soon to sail that the Lloyd Sabaudo line hs syncro-mesh transmission, shoe-type links up the transmission system will continue to be discussed for.

already ordered from a Trieste the new express liners, the Bremen yard the steamer Conte Atuzzie, a brakes, and security-plate glass are and the Europa, with which Gership of 35,000 tors with a speed of the ones that are making the most many hopes to capture the blue knots. ribbon of the Atlantic now held for plans have been published the

Similarly, although no lasting impression upon new and ed Cunard liner, the Mauretania, discussing the construction of a announced Cadillac and LaSalle twenty years by the tried and trust Navigazione Generale Italians are prospective owners of the recently

which has crossed the Atlantic at

new ship of 43,000 tons with, a An average speed of 26.03 knots. The designers of the Bremen and speed of between 96 and 7 knots. Europa is is understood. hope to raise this average to 27 knotą, and if they do, it is not unlikely the Mauretania will make one final mighty effort to squeeze just one more knot of speed out of her trim

How great an advance these

cars.

It is a simple coupling that event remains the main topic of conversation among the miners. It of a motor-car automatically, En- problem for 30 years. gineers have been studying this many weeks to come.

Many tiny and hitherto barefoot. In the ordinary motor-car theed Cinderellas have the Prince to

of the driver. If he makes an since the trace of royal footprints exact time when it is desirable to thank for the shoes which they re- change gear is left to the judgment ceived soon after his visit.

error-that is, if the engine speed marked the coal-soiled carpetless is not in harmony with that of the floors of some of England's humblest led gear change results. To the be least in the minds of those who transmission system-then a bung-|cottages, most of these cottages at ginner; gear-changing is the most dwell in them have become, and few ex-difficult part of his driving lessons will always remain, “historien."

vention lies in its simplicity and Prince most of them vate Labour The importance of the new in- Those who were visited by the

their hands in their pockets, they moment of their lives when, with spoke to His Royal Highness He, with royal tact, also invariably con- cealed at least one of his hands in one of the deep pockets of his vast fan overcoat, making those whom be addressed feel at home.

With the now transmision, the plans represent over Italy's present" most spectacular features are the Lloyd Sabaude line's largest liner shifting. But after liners is shown by the fact that the silence and extreme case of gear at present is the Conte Grande of

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lines and mightỷ engines and raise while the N.G.I. largest liner is are most impressed by the easier the fact that it can be applied to at the polls-and spent the proudest

her average to $7.95 knots.

This, it is said, is not impossible, because the Mauretania many years ago, before more recent refinements

in her engines had been effected, maintained aa average speed in excess of 29 kpats over a two hour run while racing to the assistance

of a vessel in distress.

1,000 Fest Vessa) Building,

25,061 tons and I knots spred,periences of actual driving, owners the Augustus of 3,650 tons, with and more instant control of the car speed, like the Conte Grande, of which the new transmission pro 21 kaots. A year ago there was vides. With present driving habitat much discussion in Italy of the and present traffic conditions, the construction of two super-liners et result is a most impressive embodying a new system of propul- addition to the factor of safety, sion, which would give them a speed of over 40 knots, but the

Easy Gear-Changing. In the big cities, the instanrane plans seem to have progressed „no further than the paper stage. ous getaway. in traffic with no paus The United States is known tong in neutral, is particularly em- find they can shift quickly and without effort at any speed. The simplicity of the operation is found for women drivers. Shifting of

hesitation. There is no delay in Loiseless that in an emergency they perform the operation without figuring out the mechanics of the shift.

normal gearbox. La mass produc- Any car that is driven by the tion, its cost is likely to be less

than £2.

"

Quite Unperturbed.

Meanwhile the White Star" line be an aspirant to Atlantic speed Phasized. Even unskilled drivers | Committee of the Royal Automobile when some of those he honoured ad- 1

is already engaged in the construc- tion of an enormous 1,000-foot grey hound of the occan, details of whose

divulged but which it is understood will be very fast. largest and fastest liner in the The French project to build the

world has been put on paper by the Compagnie Générale Transatlan- tique, one of the most important shipbuilding firms in France, whose

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boncurs, and it is believed here that as soon as some definite disposition has been made by the U.S. Ship

including the Leviathan, new

money and ingenuity America is speed free-for-all with all the krown to possess, in an effort to turn out a Trans-Atlantic speedster that will make the whole world sit up, and take notice.

Smooth Ohanging. If the experts are correct it is A motoring discovery of the very highest importance. In a repart on the invention Mr. G. W. Wat son, chairman of the Technical

Nor was the Prince perturbed Cluby states:-

I am of the opinion that the of their own:

dressed him as though he were one Synchronostat Coupling is an in-

"I'm very pleased to meet the expected speed have not as yet been ping Board of its fleet of linera to be a Eig safety factor, especially vention which, in mechanics, máy Lord Mayor "called out septuaga be considered to rank with such narian ex-miner's leader, Frank private enterprise will enter the stars they have found so simple and inventions as the cardan joier and McKay, shaking hands with the comes into action directly the the Prince of Wales was expected. the differential gear. "

The Synchronostat

Prince whom he had mistaken for Coupling the Lord Mayor of the town in which speeds of the two ends of the trans And when someone hastily whisper mission are identical. The connected in the old man's ear: That For Hill-Climbing.

tion is thus positive and smooth. ain't the Mayor, it's the Prince," The same holds true in moun-

The coupling is placed between MeKey replied with great assurance tain driving. Shifting from high the gear box and the universal joint and much to the amusement of the to second gear gives added power at the front end of the propeller for a steep incline or in heavy shaft. It consists of an ordinaryOh! All right then. I'm verra going. With this syncro-mesh trane dog clutch between two members of mission, the shifting is done in- which is a ring. The function of Wales."

pleased to meet the Prince of stantaneously and without loss or the ring is to prevent the dog mem- The Prince smiled too when the momentum, Quick shifting to second bers from re-engaging one anothe gear is equally useful for braking except when they are moving at the wife of a miner whose cottage was purposes when one meets a sudden same speed.

being visited suddenly interrupted sharp descent or an obstruction in

her royal visitor to introduce her. the highway. The shift can be

daughter. made at a high rate of speed and without clashing.

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The new transmission, was in- stalled particularly to give this greater driving control. The ease and silence of gear-shifting also give the driver greater confidence in his ability to control the car. Both of these features are primarily safety factors; and the promotion af safety in driving is the most im portant single task which is facing the auto industry to-day.

MOTORING BURDEN ON HOSPITALS.

Ti

65,000 CASUALTIES A YEAR.

Prince:

"Prince, this is my daughter

The coupling acts as a free-wheel device. It has this advantage over the normal free-wheel-the car can be codsted whenever the driver de Martha she said, indicating sires simply by depressing the clutch Martha he had just entered by a gained at-any moment by a second corner of the room. pedal, and normal drive can be re-small door concealed in a dark depression of the pedal. The

Then, before Matha had had time to approach in can therefore be used as a the Prince and scarcely before the brake when desired, which brings

Prince had even had time to see the modern practice of free-wheel- A much-desired safety. factor into

her:

ing.

"Martha," continned the woman motioning her head significantly afr. B. M. Salerni, an Italian, who was entering to the spot where the The coupling is the invention of from the direction in which Martha has devoted ten years

Prince stood smiling:"This is the problem..

Prince of Wales."

to the

MARRIED WOMAN AN "INFANT.".

COUNTY COURT JUDGE'S RULING.

These and a few similer incidents. enlivened what was otherwise un- doubtedly the saddest trip OTOF taken by a Prince of modern times.

The dramatic entrance of the son of their king" into their cheerless homes will live for many years in the memories of those thus favoured in the very midst of their misfor-

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Judge Greene,

AT. THE at Bow County tune. The warmth of the snow. Court, approved of a settlement of white royal hand which grasped that a case under the Workmen's Com- of each occupant in silent and £230,000 SPENT, ONLY £28,000 pensation Act in which the appli- sincerely sympathetic greeting acted

RECEIVED.

cant, woman, was an “infant" almost as a blood transfusion opera- in the legal senar.

tion would have done. Mr. F. E. Sugden, for the woman, It temporarily flushed faces which asked that £50 be paid out of court in a number of cases, several years to her now. She would be twenty of malnutrition had rendered almost one in three months,

as white as sheets,

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The voluntary hospitals of Great Britain are being crushed by the burden imposed on them by motor- ing casualties. The annual report of the voluntary hospitals of Great Britain (excluding London), pub lished by the Central Bureau of Hospital Information, states that: "Many hospitals, especially those

Judge Greene refused. He said that the woman was an infant," and he must also have her birth certificate to ehow her exact age. Mr. Sugden: She is married. Judge Greene: That may be, but

of

In the Midst of Poverty.

it

entire families who cannot even It permanently warmed the hearts

afford to buy the coal which some of their own brothers dig out of the

maines.

From his trip the Prince emerged,

on the main lines of traffic, have she is aa "'infant "until she is I will make a small with difficulty been able to provide twenty-one. beds and treatment for the injured, order regarding payment until she in the opinion of observers, not whether motorist or pedestrian, is twenty-one. without encroaching on accommo

dation already too limited for the WOMAN ASKS FOR PRISON. locality in which they аге situated."

A questionnaire was sent out by the Central Bureau to 160 of the larger provincial hospitals, and to 412 other hospitals, in order to as certain how they have been affect-

ed.

MAGISTRATES REFUSE HER REQUEST.

only as the most popular Prince of

bravest,

TO-DAY at 230, 520 & 9.20. TO-MORROW at 5.30 & 9.20.

Hong Kong Weekly Press

STORY OF THE HOTEL FIRE.

British history, but also is the COMMERCIAL MORALITY

"Indeed," said a member of the party,history records the fate of Kings and Princes of days gone by who suffered many indignities at the hands of poverty-stricken masses A remarkable case of a woman in their respective territories. But pleading to be sent to prison was nowhere in the history of the entire heard at Christchurch Police Court, world can there be found a record Hampshire, when Mrs. Marion of any royal personage who, as the. The replies showed that:- Ethel Ponchaud was fined 10s. and Prince of Wales did, voluntarily Twenty-six thousand in-patients ordered to pay £2 148. damages on plunged into the very midst of those and thirty-nine thousand, ont- a charge of wilfully breaking the whose sufferings, after all, might patients were treated in the pro-glass of a conservatory at hor have led them to seek revenge." vincial voluntary hospitals da a

But revenge was not what the {father-in-law's house..! result of motor accidents last father-in-law enticed her husband wanted sympathy. And because the Mrs. Ponchaud alleged that her miners sought. Besides relief, they year.

The cost of this treatment was wages, and that when she visited brought them sympathy personally away and took his pension and King's oldest son came and approximately £230,000, towards the house her husband" and ther accepted it in as simple which only 228,000 was received brothers-in-law knocked her about, manner as it was offered to them. from or on behalf of the patients. pashing Chairmen of hospitals were asked which brokent

Then they thanked him royally. the glass,

Sometimes they cheered lustily. by the Central Bureau for sugges- She asked the Bench, Cannot Sometimes they clapped their hands tions on relieving the burden on you send me to Winchester for instead. Sometimes they simply their incomes and also as to how to fourteen days 1: My husband gives waved buge multicoloured bandker make people injured in motor-car me no money. I would willingly de chiefs at him. accidents pay for hospital services. fourteen days.

But most of the time their thanks Among the suggestions were

The magistrates refused to com- were far more dramatic. They were Compulsory insurance, from fourteen days in which to pay.

ply with the request, and gavo her silent, DAN

They were reflected in dampened, payments on which hospitale

grateful eyes somewhat like those could claim.

with which a half-starved dog gives an almost human look of gratitude

An amendment of the law so na

to allow hospitals to recover coste His Excellency, Lord Irwin, Vice to the man who has just comforted in all compensation cases, these roy and Governor-General of India, him. Indeed, no king's son could

· costy" "to include intorcat on has granted "a Warrant to the have been accorded such a reception capital.

Dunlop Rubber Co. (India), Ltd, as the Prince of Wales received (at who are also appointed contractors the hands of England's miners, to His Majesty's Army and Royal sometimes referred to as the "red- Air Force in India.

dest of Britain's red element."

A grant towards the cost of hospital treatment of motor ac cidents, from the Road Fund.

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