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SUMMER

SALE

NOW IN

PROGRESS.

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SALE

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1930.

R.100 OFF TO CANADA

EXPECTED TO CROSS IN THREE DAYS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).

AUTUMN CAMPAIGN FOR CONGRESS,

pleted until 1989. it is driven by AMERICAN POLITICS. six water-cooled engines of 650 horsepower each, and unlike its sister-ship tho R.101, constructed by! the Air Ministry, uses gasoline in stead of heavy fuel oil. Additional power is given and a saving in fiel |weight is effected through an in- senious arrangement for mixing with the gasoline small proportions of the hydrogen gas with which the huge envelopes of the dirigible are filled.

Hydrogen Mixed With Gasolene,

This use of the hydrogen is eal- culated to an exact proportion so

REPUBLICANS EFFORT TO KEEP FARM STATE VOTE.

[UNITED FRES9.]

Senator Frederick Steiwer of Oregon will direct the Western campaign.

LONDON, July 29. The airship R100 leaves Carding- ton for Montreal at 3.30 a.. on July 29, commanded by Squadron

Washington, July 22-Republi- Leader R. S. Booth, and will carry that as the total weight of the can party leaders to-day reorganiz Eve officers and a crow of 32, all of dirigible, is lessened through the en- whom are civilians with the excep-gines consumption of gasoline, theed their forces, in anticipation of tion of two officers and one non-litting power of the dirigible is the autumn campaign for Congress commissioned officer. She will also reduced to the same extent by the It was decided that Senator George earry seven other officials.

withdrawal of hydrogen from the

W. Moses of New Hampshire will The route will depend on meteoro-envelopes and its use as fuel gas logical conditions at the time of mixed with the gasoline. Many hereafter have charge only of ter the start, but it will probably be a advantages are clained for this ritory lying east of the Missis northerly course, via North Ireland.

arrangement, especially as related The flight is expected to last three

to material savings in the weight of sippi river.. days, but the airship carries pro water hallast ordinarily carried on. visions for five. The most import all lighter-than-air-craft. ant mateorological observations will

The 100 shares with the R101 be made during the fight, also

the distinction of being the largest botanical experiments in the upper dirigible in the world, with a capa- The R.100 and R. 101 are at pre-city of 6,000,000 cubic feet of hydro- sent the largest airships in the gen. Since its completion and test world. The .100 is driven by six fights, however, the R101 has been Rolls Royce Condor engines of 830 enlarged by the insertion of

additional section in the middle of borse-power each.

the body of the dirigible, which has Weather Satisfactory at Midnight.increased its capacity by 300,000 cubic feet and increased its lifting This work capacity by pine tons. was reportedly necessitated by the fact that the heavy oil Diesel en- gines, with which the R.101 was fitted proved to be considerably heavier than earlier calealations indicated they would be.

air:

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LATER The airship R.100 left for Canada at 3.43 am, to-day.

LATER weather

satisfactory. The airship was en route to the Hebrides via Liverpool,

At midnight the most were

perte

tic in 1918).

re-

On the eve of departure Lord Thomson sent the following message to the crew:-

an

This alteration of system was construed as a recognition of the fact that special efforts must be made, by men familiar with the territory, in order to keep the Western "farm state vote because of dissatisfaction with the result of the tariff and of efforts at farm relief.

Income Tax Increase Likely.

Washington, July 29-President Hoover is concerned with the poɛ- sibility of an increase in American income taxes, it was learned to- day.

Such an increase would prove doubly unwelcome as coming at a time when the President is attempt ing to reduce expenses everywhere in the Government and save a total of G8100,000,000, thus erasing the deficit.

The Air Ministry was thus con- Those on board include Sir Den- nistoun Burney and Major Scott fronted with the problem of either (who flew the R.34 across the Atlan-substituting lighter gasoline sa gines, or enlarging the dirigible The latter course was chosen because one of the primary reasons for con- structing the R.101 was to test-out the value and economy of Diesel-

Mr. Andrew Mellon, Secretary type engines for long-distance air ship flights, and to have changed of the Treasury, has already pre- over to the lighter gasoline rngines dicted that in spite of all efforts would have defeated one of the ex- at economy, such an income tax perimental aims of its construction.boost may be necessary at the end of the present fiscal year, and the Administration is well aware how unpopular such a move would be.

The 100 is setting out on the first flight yet made by an airship to a mooring tower erect ed by one of our great Overseas Dominions. I confidently hope it will be the prelude to development of Imperial com. munications."

Heading for Atlantic.

↓ Trew

LONDON, July 29. The R.100 wae sighted at neon over Inishowen, North Ireland.

The airship was going well, and was heading for the North Atlantic Occas

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

RUGBY, July 28.

tons.

Novelties In Construction.

The length of the R. 100 is 709 fect, and its gross lifting power 156 It is slightly shorter, blun- ter and thicker than the R101 and its structural work incorporates any novelties, including a new girder form of construction based on steamship construction practice. Its maximum speed was demor strated in test flights last autumn to be approximately 81.3 miles an hour. For cruising purposes this

All members of the Cabinet have been requested to suggest plans for effecting savings in their depart-

ments.

Iowa Democrats and Prohibition.

Des Momes, Ta.. July 22-When' the Democratic party state conven- tion met in session here to-day, Senator Daniel F. Steck deliver. cd a keynote speech wherein he

KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL

In Lots of not less than

-ton-

Delivered to Peak Distriot

(above Bowen

Road), $22:00 per ton.

Delivered to Bawen Road and Lower Levels,$21.00 per ton. Delivered" to Pokfulum Road, $28.00 per ton. Delivered to Kowloon, $19.00 per ton.

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Note Reduction in Prices.

Orders Edad Media should be sent

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All orders must be ac companied by Cash, Choque, or Compra dore Order payable to "The Kailan Mining Ad-

ministration."

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION

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緊不緊飯:

“Work may be hustled, but not food

Work may be hustled with little ill result, but food should be taken slowly or the system suffers. When you are tired and fatigued by the rush and wony that modern business entails, then is the time for Houck's MALTED MILK,

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"Rum Runners' Code Wanted.

listened to a false landing order,

The airship Rico is now riding will probably be reduced to 70 miles. urged that a prohibition referen- San Francisco, July 22.-Revela. it was revealed to-day, watched.

at her mooring mast at Cardington and may leave on the fight across the Atlantic to-morrow morning.

The exact time of departure and the course she will follow will be determined after a careful stuuy of the probable weather conditions over the Atlantic.

Despite its larger hydrogen capa city the R:100 is shorter than the German Graf Zeppelin which last year flew around the world, the specifications of the Graf Zeppelin being 3,708,000 cubic feet gas capa city, 776 feet long, 100 feet in dia meter and equipped with five en- gines totaling 2,650 horsepower.

Search For Stowaways."

The flight is being undertaken as part of the Air Ministry's development policy for airships

One of the last acts of the per- with the object of testing out the reliability and behaviour of an song of the R100 before she cut loose from the mooring mass and airship on a long distance flight.

Data will also be acquired which headed for Montreal, was to make will be of value in deciding upon a vigilant search for any possible the future policy with regard to stowaway. Every conceivable cor ner and cranny of the cabin, engine the development of airships for commercial purposes, with particu. gondolas, crew's quarters, and in- lar reference to speeding up Em-side passage ways through the huge envelope were peered into and pire communications.

probed.

arc

When the R100 was designed she!

However, whether or not there was approximately twice the size of the largest airship, and she and may be a stowaway aboard there was definitely stored away aboard her sister airship, the R101,

a plentiful supply of wines and still the largest in the world. The beer, as since Montreal instead of experimental nature of the flight New York is the dirigible's destina- therefore emphasised, "for the tion no fears of possible rum run- vessel incorporates many novel feaning complications with Customs

Euthorities are entertained.

tures..

This will be the second flight of a British airship across the At fantic, the first occasion being in 1819 when the R34 made the first Atlantic flight from East to West. The R34 made a successful return Bight a few days later.

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The airship, which is equipped with aix Rolls Royce Condor en gines, each developing 650 horse- power, has a gross lift of over 156 tons. She is 709 feet long and has a maximum diameter of 131 fest She attained a speed of 81 miles per hour during the trials. The airship will have on board food for Eve days, rezerve rations, and one day's emergency rations, and ave hundred gallons of drinking and washing water will be carried. Throughout the journey the vessel will be in constant wireless com- munication with land stations.

Also

there were ample supplies of cigars and cigarettes, for, unlike the Graf Zeppelin, smoking is permitted. Before departure the chef's kitchen was will stocked with food, and the travellers will be supplied through out with hot meats and a menu nearly as varied as could be obtain- ed in a West End hotel.

Laxurious Fittings,

The luxurious lounge of the R.100 is fitted with comfortable chairs, its foors carpeted and its walls lined with pictures. Given good weather the personnel should be as comfort able as if they were aboard an Atlantic liner, but they expect to make the crossing in somewhat less than half the time of the fastest steamship.

There are parachutes aboard for all the members of the crew, and there is a possibility, it is said, of one or more of the crew making a

GIANT AIRSHIP DESCRIBED. spectacular descent over the Mont-

NOVEL STRUCTURAL

FEATURES,

[UNITED PRESS.]

LONDON, July 29.

real laading field, partly to test the utility of the parachutes and partly to assist in directing the mooring of the huge machine:

If the light is successful and the return trip also demonstrates the practicability of the R.100. for trane Atlantic lights, it will prob With the roar of its six engines ably be followed, after & short totalling almost 4,000 horsepower period of overhaul, with other reverberating in the cara af han-trans-Atlantic. trips carrying dreds of spectators, Great Britain's freight, and possibly, a little later, second largest dirigible, the 100, with passengers.

left Cardington aerodrome, 50 miles Major G. H. Scotté, who is in com ferr Lension today on its fight mand, ie remembered as the com to Ganado

Contracted for in 1024 hy the Air New York and back. He has had Ministry, the R.100, owing to devast amount of experience in inys, and the desire of the construe handling lighter-than-air-craft both tore, the Airship Guarantee Cor in England and Germany, and has poration, to incorporate the latest contributed a great deal to the developments in the art of con- science of airship construction and structing dirigibles, was not com air navigation.

dum be held in view of "wides tions made to-day showed that rum pread dissatisfaction prevailing runners possess an extensive radio under the Eighteenth Amendment. system along the Pacific Coast for It was expected that a referencommunication with ship, at sen

The system evidently operates by dum plank would be adopted as

means of a code, however, Prohi part of the party platform.

(Continued on next Column.) bition enforcement officials who

one portion of the coast while the alcoholic cargo of one large rum ship was tunded elsewhere.

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Efforts are being made to obtain a copy of the code in order that use may be made of the radio. for intercepting quor shipments.

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PICNIC TIFFINS

FROM $1.75 PER HEAD.

PICNIC TEAS

FROM $0.75 PEB HEAD.""

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