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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

PUBLICITY TOUR BY BLACKBURNS.

SHOWING THE FLAG"

OVER EUROPE.

Determination to secure yet wider markets overseas for British air. craft is evident in the high speed demonstration tour of Europe, begun recently with 'a dívolny at Brussels by three Black n' air. crift which had flown in formation from Brough aerodrome, Yorkshire.

THE SCHNEIDER TROPHY.

FINAL COMMENT ON OUR TRIUMPH

(BY MAJOR E. D. BRASIER- CREACH, M.C]

There has been great "deal" written in both the English and Forqign Press about the British Supermarina. Toils-Royce special

LIGHT PLANES IN THE ARCTIC.

FLYING UNDER APALLING

"CONDITIONS.

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO.DAY. (November 11.) Armistice Day. Public Holiday, Ceremony at the Cenotaph,

HOW THE ARMISTICE

-WAS SIGNED.

(Continued from Pags 1.).

Fosh then asked the reason of their visit and they said they had come to hear the Allies' proposi 11tions for the creation of an Armis- tice." The Marshal than said that

Obendorff read an extract from by had no propositions to make, s

Street Sale' of Poppies. -South China A.A. Athletic Moot, Caroline Hill...

When members of the British Arctic Air Ronte Survey Expedi tion left England fifteen montha ago for Greenland they took with 'thom two "Moth skiplanes--

light acroplanes mounted on skiners.?' undercarriages instead of landing wheels or floats. Recently the piloter William Rimols.

inspired by Mr. Robert Black racing craft which now hold the attached to the expedition return and Hong Kong Hotel.. Dinner of the Mission and then did the

burn, one of the pioneers of British aeroplane construction, the tour is scheduled to last about twenty days from start to finish and to total

5,700 miles in length, including

more than a thousand miles of demonstration flying at ten great cities Brussels, Prague, Vienna, Buda-Pesth, Belgrade, Athens, Stamboul, Bucharest, Warsaw and Amsterdam. Altogether the little Rect will fly over thirteen con- tinental countries.

Side-by-Side Seating.

"

The Bluebird" light biplane,"i type associated with the fine flight round the world accomplished last winter by Mrs. Victor Bruce and winning machine in this year's race for the King's Cup, was the first practical touring 'plane to have side-by-side seating instead of the usual tandem arrangement. - Mr. Stack's "Lincock" is one of the latest all-metal examples of a highly efficient small giver which employs only about half the power of the usual service single-saator fighter but is nevertheless ex- tremely fast and capable of excep- tional aerobatic performance.

Because the Lineock" is in e pensive to buy and to operate cer tain foreign nations have recently allopted it for service. It carries the normal fighter armament of two: 6ixed-forward-firing machine guns with synchronising gear. Stripped of warlike equipment the craft is admirably suited for certain civil duties, demanding high cruising- speed and low cost of maintenance and operation, such 49. forest patrol and fast mail carrying.

speed record for aircraft. What is Schneider Trophy and the "world's

the true value of these great achlovéimunita ( How are wo bu hasess the work" that has been put

into their construction and the experiences gained by their use?

To my mind, they mean this that Britain now.

··possesses `an

engine which can develop, under service conditions and for as long as is required for it under those conditions, upwards of 1,200 horse-

power.

Relative Ineficiency of Do.X,

The Germans, wishing to put into the air the Do.. had to install no less than twelve engines of 000 hip each, because they were un-* able to provide anything more powerful that was considered ficiently dependable.

Our own

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Queen's Theatre: "On with the President Wilson's last despatch. That would not do for Foch and he World Theatre: "Heart Ache.naked them definitely to state if "Star Theatre:"Free and Easy. they had come to ask for an Armis King's Theatro: Ladies" Man," tice. On then saying that such was Central Theatre: "Young Sin the case, Foch asked for their credentials and he and Wemyss opule Bay Hotel, Los Dejehans retirod to examine them:

On their return, Fooh asked Erzę Toa Caness as King's Restaurantberger to introduce the members give some details of the work done Repulse Bay Hotel. ed to London, and be was able to Dances at Peninsula "Hotal and

same for us. He then informed by these small aircraft in weather European Mail:Quæard-them that he was, empowered by conditions that can scarcely be Europe via Siberia (Tatsuts Maru) the Allied Governments to com- aurpassed in "frightfulness" any-(Catches) noon.

8.30 a.m.; Europe via Marseilles

municate to them the terms "pu where in the world. Frequently the

Tides:High at 10.30 and 9.41; which the Armistice would be grans temperature sank far below zero Low at 3.09 and 3.16.

ed. The terms were then rand out and the heavy storms of wind and

to "tham mid evidently made them snow which at certain seasons of

squirm, but they were probably the year were daily hazards aug mented the severity of the test im-

prepared for most of them as they must-know the present military. posed on the "machines and their

position and the state of mutiny engines:

that is in their fleet.

Gales wrecked one machine and damaged the other. Otherwise the aircraft gave very little troubľó, Gad the ease with which minor Brockages were repaired enabled the expedition to keep one machine in constant use with the exception

suf-cupied almost entirely by repair of about twenty days, a period oc

of the gule damage. No control showed the slightest sign of freez- ing up and every instrument work od well even at the lowest tempera tures recorded during the star in the Arctic circle. The engines-100 hGply I." air-cooled unita- run perfectly all the time, a matter of vital importango. when flying over territory where a failure would mean inevitably a crash with Berious results. The special bent- ing device supplied proved quite satisfactory and each engine invari- ably started after the oil had been warmed over a blow-lamp for about twenty minutes.

ARRIVED DARWIN' FOUR TWENTYTWO MONDAY MOBILOIL PERFECT MANY THANKS FOR YOUR EFFICIENT SERVICE; ARRANGEMENTS WHICH HELPED ME MAKE RECORD TRIP ENGINE AND MACHINE IN EXCELLENT ORDER.

ARTHUR BUTLER,

manufacturers, in designing the latest Hannibal class of freight and Dr. Blackburn-Pioneer» .

passenger cralt, "have ind to depend Mr. Blackburn, whose firm now-n- on four engines each of 925 h.p., days produced a diversity of big having nothing better. flying boats and small and large. They can now safely calculate on Tandplanes, actually designed, con- 1,200 h.p. structed and flow his own aeroplane in 1907. Four years later he pro- duced an all-steel military mone- plano-clearly many years in ad vance of its time-and Blackburn design has been marked from those early days by originality and 'a readiness to test new ideas. Lately

Mr. Blackburn has concentrated on the production of torpedo-bombers and other coastal defence aircraft. Outside England his retention of control of the Greek Naval Fac- tory in the face of severe foreign competition is one of the most im portant success achieved by the British aircraft industry since the

war..

This accomplishment, secured in the short space of six months by the generosity of Lady Houston and

ly, thousands of men and women the selfless co-operation of, literal- engaged in the work of designing, testing every minute portion of both manufacturing, constructing and

the craft and the power-plant, has put

British Aviation six gears ahead of all competition. We can-, we cannot let it pass without a not sufficiently acclaim this miracle.

thrill of pride that we are made of the same stuff as these people. We must not allow their efforts and their success to fade away without taking ourselves to task, und emulating them in our own sphere of work." :

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THURSDAY, (November 12.) Anniversary of the Birthday of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen.

Customs Holiday," University Examinations begin.. Ladies Night at Y.M.C.A., Kow- loon, 9 p.m.

"Recaptured

Love,"

Queen's Theatro:

(Chinese Alm).

World Thontro:

Star Theatro Broadway.'

Contral Theatre: ners."

Heart Ache"

Lord Byron of

Ruthlessness of War,

When the reading of the terms. we complete, Winterfeldt asked for the suspension of hostilities in order to save further loss of life. Foch refused and they then asked for copies of the terms, for facilities Young Sin-to send a radio message to their Government, and for sending a their Government. This was agreed courier with a copy of the text to

to, and they then retired til 4.30

to go through the clapses when we are to meet them again

King's Theatre: "Hends Up.' To Danca at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.

European Europe i Siberia (Iyo Maru); Mail: aard: Europe i Negapatan (Somali).

Tides:-High at 11.48 and 10.19; Low at 4.48 and 3.44.

FRIDAY.

(November 15.)

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Hockey: Chibs A" . H.E.S.R.A. farina ground) 5 p.m. Queen's Theatre: **Recaptured Love?

World Theatre "Taming of the Shrew.

Star Theatre: "Lord Byron Broadway,"

of

Central Theatre: "Young Sin- ners."

The World's Worst Weather?

Flying hazards in the Arctic circle are, at their worst, probably incom- parable. Visibility is frequently completely obscured by most, or blinding snow storm. The airman Peninsula Hotel. flies.long distances over hummocky

King's Theatre: "Heads Up" Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant. Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and

Tides: --High at 12.50 and 10.58;

YOUTH, AGE," AND

""AVIATION.

COMFORT OF CROSS- CHANNEL SERVICES.

.

Erzeberger was very nervous at first, and spoke with me dificulty. the General very and, the diplomat very much on the alert, and the sailor very sullen and morase.

Later.

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The only thing than hap pened this afternoon was that Cap- tain Vaneelow

came to discuss certain points in the naval torma with Marriott and myself. He said the country and army would starve if we did not remove our blockade, that their army did very well in April and May, but that after that Bolshevism crept in. Von Winter- feldt told Weygand much the same. Shadow of Bolshevish. They evidently realise that "the game is up, and are trying to im- press on s

the seriousness of

Bolshevism.

The army is badly shaken, the Staff discouraged, so much that the lines last night as they fred on courier was unable to pass the

him in his car and he had to turn back. This means that we are not" likely to hear anything to-day.

Sunday,Hore wo are still in the samo place and are no further at present as the courier did not pass the lines till after two yesterday afternoon, and besides that there in a revolution going on in Ger many, with a new Government in. power, and it is really impossible to find out who we are really deal- ing with,

leo where a forced landing would Low at 8.41 and 4,09, involven certain, wreck, perhaps hundreds of miles and weeks of ground travel from human habita- tion. The building up on the wings and control surfaces of a heavy akin of ice is an ever-present pos sibility; this dreaded happening is believed incidentally to have play- ed a vital part in the failure of some transatlantic flight attempts.

Comfort is generally a matter of Yet the advantages to be gained deepening concern JS one grows from a properly "organised route older, and Sir Alfred Yarrow's pro- between America and Europe" by nouncement at the age of so that way of the Arctic route are be will never cross the English important that the solution of there Channel again by boat if he can go difficulties is worth immense effort by air is significant of the growing was signed, at 5.15. this morning Monday, Paris: The Armistice: and experiment.

esteem in which air travel is hold after a three hours meeting; ao we

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In this spirit shall Britain regain of acrial survey and reconnaissance her pride of place.

A Speed King's "Aeroplane, The "Segrave" is a new machine especially suited for fast air tasi work developed from the "Segrave

exactly as it was planned before the expedition began work;

tial regulations their seventeenth birthdays. One of them, a student at Eton College, is the son of the

The Armistice Was Bigned." We had a very busy evening after. dinner discussing a paper aent us by our neighbours in the opposite train. This morning I have had another interview with von Vange- low.

There could be no better proof nowadays. The aged ship builder were up all the night. There were that the dream of an Arctic air emphasises the risks of catching ing the day between Weygand and.."

one or two informal meetings dur line is not widely impossible than cold on the train and boat journey, von Winterfeldt, and between Van- the performance of these light the dreariness of sea-sickness and selow and myself and they sent in Mr. Blackburn is travelling him-

skiplases, which, in spite of all the the fatigue at the journey's end.

a long paper protest against some of the terms, but it was evident perils and obstacles encountered, The fight across the Channel, from their manner that they thenght self in one of the aircraft, a fast

haye ngcomplished the programme expecially if the airliner selected be they would have to agree and new saloon monoplane styled the

one of the new big four-engined the evening they got a telegram "Sograve," which is steered by

from the Chancellor telling them British craft, knows none of these to sign with certain rosarvations Captain A. M. Blake, chief test

unpleasantnesses. There is plenty but they eventually signed them pilot of the Blackburn Company, Mr. H. J. Andrews, foreign repre-

of room, pure air to breathe, B

with cply a few modifications... almost entire absence of vibration

Distressing Scene. sentative of the firm, is at the con-

or disturbing movement, and not a

Ericberger did most of the talk trols of &.

“Bluebird "all-metal

the of the trouble, and bother at ing and was evidently plaused to either air terminas. Experience of get it over, as he must want to light, plane and Mr. T. Neville

many years has proved that nor get back. The soldier sensed to Stack, the famous long distance Meteor," a craft originally designate Lieutenant W. B. Rhodes sickness is much less common than feel it greatly, the sailor, did so Byer and aerobatic "star" com- ed in accordance with the ideas of Moorhouse, the first pilot to be who succumb to the air do not but I expect he was thinking t sen-sickness, and the small minority leas, the diplomat didn't say much pletes the formation in

the late Sir Henry Segrave, the

awarded the Victorin Cross. die know the appalling prosteation of good deal. After signing they read cock" single-seater fighter. Day famous racing motorist and speed

mother was one of the first women tages that there is no changing was on the women and children and the sea-sick. Add to these advan a declaration saying how hard it by day the fleet is scheduled to boat driver. The four occupants

to fly across, the, Chanel before about from train to boat and from how well they had fought. move in stages of botween 400 and are carried in a saloon planned like

"the war.

The boy has spent nearly beat to train and the lesser time 000 miles, reaching Athens at the the interior of a luxurious motor

Tribute to Foch. every day in the air thin summer, taken on the journey, and every end of the first week and return-

sensible traveller will agree with The Gipsy III inverted

Foch was splendid, very quiet and much of the time piloting a light Sir Alfred Yarrow. ing, after a stay of four days for

dignified and very Ara. Winter- air-cooled 120 hp, cugines, mount acroplane owned jointly by his

feldt's father was one of the people a promised exhibition and business ed in nacelles streamlined into the

Chips of the Did Block. mother and himself.

who made out the terms of the at the Greek Naval. Factory as wings on either side of the fuselage,

The other youthful aviator in fred's declaration of faith comes Almost coincident with Sir AL

surrender at Sedan in 1870. The Phaleron (which is organised and

Edgar Humphrey, also the son of the announcement that two-Eng various countries and the continua. things they minded most were the ahort time for evacuation of the operated by the Blackburn firm)

Royal Flying Corps wartime lish schoolboys have qualised to to Brough,

pilot, who passed all bis teste at take the air pilots ticket" on much more fuss about them than tion of the blockade. They made. (Continued at foot of next columser.).

Reading aerodrome after only the enricst date permitted by off the giving up of submarines and hours of instruction.

(finatimes on precious Column.) | slips.

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provide the power. The machine has a high cruising speed and can maintain level" flight on the power

of one motor alone,

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