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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1932,

BRITAIN'S YEAR OF THE ELUSIVE

AIRWAYS AND AVIATION AIR TRIUMPHS.

AT WORK.

A TRANSATLANTIC, BRITISH AIRLINERS HONG KONG'S AIR NAVIGA-

TRIUMPH.

TION DIRECTIONS.

BERT HINKLER'S GREAT FLIGHT.

BRITAIN'S FLYING GENIUS,

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HANDLEY PAGE "HORSA " 'PLANES.

LARGEST LAND-PLANES IN

THE WORLD.

Few people realise the immens," amcunt of work that is done by the

Squadron Leader Hinkler's plain! story of his marvellous fight from! New York to London by way of the South-Atlantic Owan, told a few hours after his triumphul and efficiently operated hirliner, plying ing in hü “Puss Moth" monoplanel day after day to time-table on an Hanworth aerodrome only established route: Commercial ef. heightens the impression of match ficiency demands that the craft less skill and daring which earlier shall spend a great proportion of information had made. Ha apcke,

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FASTEST FLIGHTS.

The year 1991 has been one of the most remarkable in the history of British aviation.

Britain's crowning Aerin achievements of the year were un Fees chargeable art as follows:-- "doubtedly the winning for all time

A Licence:-Medical; 815: tech- of the Schneider Trophy by Flight

nien, tests, $10: licence, Liout. Boothman, and the creation 83--Total 935,

of a new world's air-speed record

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108.8 miles-an-hour by Flight Liens. Stamforth.

13 Ligence:-Mediend, 830; tech- nical. 8 teata, 800: licence, S-Total 800.

In the realm of air transport. Medial re-examination, $10. Imperial Airways put into tommi Renewal or validation of ficrncussion a fleet of the largest and most

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SUBMARINE

BY V.C. WHO CAUGHT A FEW.

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The

difficulty LY destroying. enemy submarines was illustrated. by Ronr-Admiral Gordon Campbell, M.P., the "mystery ship" V.C., ig an address tothe 1010 Club in. London

Won

Rear-Admiral: Campbell great distinctido de commander of evoral of the seemingly inoffensive, hat heavily armed, merchant ships which lured Gorman U-boats to the Burface and destruction,

During the war, he said, WO sub.

as for frat issue, the charges for luxurious air-liners in the world, destroyed only 200 German

42-senters. Handley Page mariries." Technical and Flying Tests bring the new

Lanving out those wrecked incurred only when these are con biplanes of the Hannibal type,

issued. sidered metssary before a licence is while a fleet of passenger dying blown up by accident, we could ships, also the world's largest, were only account for 150 destroyed by in terse, anemotional sentences ofite ife" in actual use on the air.

Licences must be renewed after placed on the Mediterranean" sccur own direct methods.

tions of the Empire air routes. .. During the four yours of the flying in for six hours over ways; the more it is used and the 125 flying hours within 30 days.

war we had more than 5,000, mix. the Almatie with only the Fumiin.

·less it requires long periods off aftor illness or accident, confine-

xiliary crait spocially fitted out to oug diah of his compass and taru

ment or misondrriage, and, in the

deal with them, and note to catch indicator to help him, of houre service for cyrrhaul and inspection ense of private pilots, in any event. spent five feet above the scean, at jthe more economical and profitable after 12 months. B licences must tremendous thunderstormtheit is to ran, given a sufficient is renewed in any casa after six lightning flashes locked as thick a volume of traffic. But the figures months if the hoider is a man, after tree trunks and terrific squalls.

| three months, if, a woman,

Prospective Ground Staff and Navigators, also, are, given the de- tails of the qualifications which they must prove themselves to possess before they may obtain licences. Charges running from 810 to 845, respectively.

His extraordinary powers off of hours spent aloft and distances navigation, helped by a sort of flown are, nevertheless, sufficiently sixth sense developed in a vast exstriking. perience of long distance flying, brought him to the coast of the Afrienn centiment only ten miles a new fleet of eight immense Hand from the landfall he had selected ley Page Type 42 biplanes, the before leaving Porb Natal, in largest passenger-earrying land. 1

Brazil. He flew entirely by co-

In the middle of June the first of

- pass, and dead reckoning, the vary. planes in the world, made the ing shapes and movements of the maiden trip from London to Paris! clouds ambling him in some un-and back. Four similar machines canny way to estimate the extent)

have since been delivered. The of drift caused by changes of wind direction. His map, was

latest of them, styled "Hora," is sheet na or from an atlas, and the only on the way to displace smaller and instruments he used apart from the older craft on the Cairo-Karachi the turn indicator, section" of the Imparial Airways conspass and which kept him flying level wher all was blackness around him, were clock, air, speed indicator, and altimeter.

Finkler stated that bis maximum range with the tanks full was 5 hours at cruising speed. When he Janded at Bathurst in the Gambia, about two hours' fuel remained in

the tanks.

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route to the east,

The second of the fleet was de

livered about a month later: In!

the period of four months since the middle of July, four of these new raft have flown between them more than a thousand hours and covered

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7,000-Mila Ranga, During the year the R.A.T. bo gan the equipment of its fighting submarines in which 9,000 miles of squadrons with the fastest and most wire were used. dendly dghting aeroplane, over de Aircraft attack on submarines vied, and built the great Fairey had resulted in only eng submarine Napior long-range, memoplane de being destroyed, while the distanc signed to fly for 8,000 or 7,000 flown by our aircraft on the look- miles without alighting, with which out for submarines totalled 230,000 it is. hoped that early in the Now miles.

The submarine would be a menaco Year Britain. will win the world's non-stop long-distance record.

as great, if not grunter, if we had another war, because the size and

In adidtion Britain's amateur pilots, both men and women, creat cruising range of andersen · craft ed a number of world's records, by had increased. piloting British light planas to the funthermost outposts of the Empire in record time.

No Photography. Among the general conditions is one forbidding the taking of aerial photograph of any part of the.. Colony without, the special written permission of the Governor.

Adequate firat-aid- appliances

dromes. A master pilot's certificate, must be kept at all licenced acro-

obtainable only after five years (1,000 hours) piloting, and if the| pilot,,is also a qualified navigator, needs to renewal.

FIGHT WITH AN EAGLE.

BIRD ATTACKS A

SHEPHERD.

ALPS THRILL.

CHINESE REFUGEES FROM MEXICO.

OVER FOUR HUNDRED TO

- SAIL FOR HOME.

San Francisco, Cal, Jan. 11- The Abel Island Immigration station in San Francisco harbour to-day was crowded with Chinese refugees who have been exiled from Mexico and who are being deported 'to China: ny" the American authori- - fight be ties.

meats a flight in the course of A flight over the high seas"

which an aircraft finds itself over A thrilling story of a the sen at a distance of more than tween a big royal eagle and af Arrangements have been made for 05 miles from the nearest point of shepherd in the Alpine region near 425 of the exiled Chinese to sail on the coast. Wireless must be carried Omfico, overlooking Lake Maggi January N. Others will be deport on every era, with a capacity of ore, has been revealed at Stre, ed on ships at later dates.

a distance equivalent to wall over 100,000 miles. The individual ten or more persons, including the Italy." records are still more impressive crew.

Hadrian, second of the fact to

Safety belts must be carried for each occipant in all planes, and, if she over fies more than ten miles out to sa, lifebelts as well.

Prevention of Accidents."

No passenger machine may leave the Colony that has not been phased ft to By within 24 hours of its time

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away

The Chinese now crowding Angel

While the shepherd, named Island have been brought from Peretti, was taking his flock home points on the Mexican border. For to the village, the angle swooped several months there has been down upon a young sheep, killed anti-Chiness campaign in Mexico and tried to carry it

which some weeks ago reached its The shepherd, armed only with height with raids on Chinese homes, shops and ranches. Special arrange- his stick, to which was attached a

ment's wen made to allow the Chi-. strong iron hook, succeeded in

nese Boeing from Maxies to evous beating off the eagle, but the bird

the American border and proceed turned on him, and a fierce fight

to parts of embarkation despite the American immigration laws which fail to establish a quota for Chinese immigrants-

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may not be touched, except to save The engle swooped down upon passengers, crew, mails or goods the shepherd with the intention of exceps under orders of the DA-5.attacking him in the back, and the who is fully empowered to hold en- quiries.

A Flying Genius. Though he depended to utterly the perfect running of his 120 h.p. "Gipay motor, Hinkler's · flight" eoapes, the charge of fool start work, has spent 346 hours in hardliness because of the minute the nir and covered approximately forward preparatione, involving 36,330 miles. The third, "Hanno," the most exact knowledge of fuel is credited with 347 hours and 36,- and oil consumption and the per

135 miles "Hannibal," the first of fort, conditioning of every detail of machine and engine, and also the fleet, has flown 220 hours and cause of his exceptional qualius. "Heracles," fourth in order of de-of departure, Damaged machines took place. Aircraft designer and builder, inglivgry, has alrendy"spent 181 hours venter, brilliant test pilot and

on the London-Paris airway. navigator, Hinkler has the rarer} perhaps instinctive ability dos Mileage in the Air, and on the cribed in the phrase he had a

man struck it with his iron hook, ecompass in his head." When every-

sending it floundering on to the Every motorist will appreciate possible allowance is made for

rocks, apparently stunned; knowledge and the precision of the at once the magnitude of theno

Soon afterwards the eagle return This phrase has particular appli- elementary instruments he employ figures. In one-third of a year two cation in Hong Kong sinec it is ed to attack, and struck the shep ed for the 4,000 miles danh" acc

of the giant biplanes have each officially defined as applying to any herd with its benk on the forehead, the open sen, there remains as in

carriage in which the place of de knocking his stick out of his hand. explicably something which raises covered a distance that few motor-parture and place of arrival are. The caglo made a third attack.husband because he insisted upon Hinkler and a few other pilots ists have ever attained in twelve in the territories of different states, but the shepherd, who had regalo going to sleep when she wanted to right above their fellows To call months. And the comparison is or where there is an agreed stopping ed his stick, struck out ab the bird talk to him was sentenced to threa

and sent it once more it genius gives it a name, but does justified. Aeroplanes and motor: Pines on the soil of another Pawer.

The convention for the unification rocks. of certain rules relating to Inter-| Then the eagle thought it had stances" being found by the jury. nitional Carringe by air was held had enough and flew away.

not dispel the mystery.

Penalties of Fame.

Road.

"International Carriage."

KILLED HER HUSBAND,

BECAUSE HE WOULD SLEEP RATHER THAN TALK,

A woman who shot and killed her

on to the years' imprisonment by the Seine

Assize Court, "extenuating circum- ↳

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Her husband, it appeared from

cars are driven by internal com- bastion engines. The motorcar

The woman, Mane, Louise Buis- Now "Bert is faced with a long. series of dinners, congratulatory power unit may get more shaken at Waraw in 1920 and lays down, On his return to the village, the son, oollapsed in hysterics on hear-

eetings, decorations and so forth.about. It may suffer damage from inter alia, that every passenger andhepherd was found to be bleedinging the sentence None has ever deserved them mure than the gallant little Queensland-she intake of road dust and other every piece of luggage not carried from the head and arms. er who, in making the first light

by the passenger-must be provided aeroplane crossing of the Atlantic, foreign bodies. But the motorcar with a ticket. Air consignment the first west" to cast aeropan engine is relieved from lond with notes and the liability of the carrier flight over the Scuth Atlantic, and the first solo transatlantic fight each lifting of the accelerator are thoroughly explained and pro- since Lindbergh's journey in a much pedal. The aeroplane engine works vision is made for the trial of bigger and more powerful machine, under constant load for hours on

actions for damages arising out of has credited the British aircraft

Air Carriage and Lero engine industry and end with the throttle probably British pilotage with one of the three-quartera open. groutest, achievements in the bis tory of aviation,

The Rules of this Convention do not apply to the carriage of mails by air, this form of carriage hing

or accident to read it. I would re-controlled by the terms of the Inter- AIR SERVICE FOR SHANSI.commend it to all as another indien-national Postal Convention:

tion pointing to the inevitableness In all, the Government Gazette Slains is contemplating a com of the forging of an air connection No. 3 of January 15, 1932, has morcial air service connecting Tai between Hong Kong and the great given . personally, much food for yann, the capital, with the border world over the sea.

thoughts and it will, I think, hold province of Sinking! General Shang Chen, Chairman of the Pro- congratulate the Government on the interest of many others, framt it Taipan to shipping clerks, who may be induced by inquisitiveness

in

vincial Governmont Commitice, has its foresightedness in promind to appropriato a Num publication, $800,000 for the purchase of air. jplanes.

E. B. BRASIER-CREACH.

(Continued on previous column.)

the evidence, was a nursery gard oner who, after dinner at the end of a long day's work, placed biz elbows on the "table and closed his

tired," he said

me

DONT FORGET eyes. "Leave alone, I am

THAT WHEN ........ You are at Home you can get the

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KONG PRESS

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The Last Straw.

When sho shook him by the shoulders he told her roughly to go to bed and leave him in peace..

"I shall throw myself in ... the; river," the threatened,

"Don't be silly,!! was his reply. Mme. Buisson then seized a re- volver from a drawer and shot her husband through the hond."

She stated subsequently that she thought the weapon was not land-r

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