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AVIATION.

AIRWAYS AND AVIATION,

HISTORY TOLD THE AIR ESTIMATES:

IN MODELS.

GREAT EXHIBITION STAGED AT ATHENS.

TWENTY-TWO BRITISH FIRMS PARTICIPATE.

The history of the British con- tribution to horonautical salones from 1800 up to the present day is told in a fascinating unllection (f exnet-scale models and magnificent pictures which is being sent to the British section in the Zappion Palner, Athons, where will be held during the whole of next month the First International Aero Ex- hibition evor to take place in Greeou 4

A WARNING.

HOME DEFENCE FORCE TEN SQUADRONS SHORT.

MAKESHIFT EXPEDIENTS

WHICH CANNOT BE REPEATED."

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BOOKS ON CHINA."

to brode for peace, with the tuutor writs shout him with the onthar the first time in sinam of his teacher the late Sir the hiqtory of China. Of Nanking James Cantlic. Perhaps it is un- the British Admira) and General fair of me to judge. Dr. Sun' as a on the "flugubin, Cornwallia-re- result of one interview for he wae time when this power of the East erived the Chinese Commissioners, a sick man when wo mot; a disap India Company in Canton was on

The look was abinze with officers in pointed man. the wans and Hong Kong of this pomp and pageantry of full dress uniform. "In the midst

ceded to the British-say 1800 to 13. The name that stands out in

court and war, a slim fairhaired

exte

EMINENT AUTHORITIES."^

He mentions so many books that after I had rond this work is seem-

Last year, Kelly and Walsh pub- my memory in this connection, is hoy with bager, young face and, ishod Eminent Authoritiva on. China' by Ronald Half, who, ax- not the famous missionary Dr. Mar. vivid blue eyes was formally pre- rison, not the activa Mathesons, nursented to the Imperial Commis-plains that he has found no really. Captain Eliot, but Sir George 'signers, is The "Life" gives na

conclusiva book on the subject. He has noticed the Thomas Stanton. I came scross his glimpses of Hong Kong in the very

"bewilderingly "Miscellaneous Notices Relating to early days which are of great inter-diverse and not infrequently flatly China" quits accidentally

contradictory" judgemonts of the Sonic ten years ago.

In this period" another name different writers. There Were two Stauntous, father and son, who standy out-that of a British Con- lived in Canton, and the son was sul TT. Meadows. His book probably the most romantic Euro-The Chinose and thoir Rebellions". ed to me thas my efforts had been penn is Chinn of the nineteenthis diffienis to obtain. There is so contury..

much of wisdom in it that I think I learnt more from one chapter on the philosophy, morality and polity of the Chinese, than from any other source of information. It taught me to respect certain views often much misunderstood by Europeans, THE AMAZING YEHONALA.

wasted during my long love last. year, when I spent quite a lot of time preparing this address. I had to re-write it. But I might havé coms here and simply said “a man named Hall has published recently a book on this subject-it will give you all the clues needed to lead you☛ and the Chinese" and that would on to a complete study of China

Next comes the phase of the have served my main object. Boxer rebellion. In this connection A list is given of authorities on let me remind you of Putnam China and their works. Ton years Woale's "Indiscreet letters from ago. I tried to persuade my publish- Peking," which gives a vivid aoers to include, such a list and count of the siege of the legations. falled. It was, therefore, gratify. But beyond all other books of ing to me to see this guide to the this period there is "China under industrious in print.

** Makeshift expedients which cannot be repeated," in the words of Lord Londonderry, the Air Minister, have brought the Air Easinates for 1099 down to a gross figure £1.800.000 less than in the previous year. Important items in the programme of RAF. develop- ment has been snerificed, the rota

IN THE EARLY DAYS. far the supply of new acroplanes He was a great Englishman who With the help of the Air Minis "drastically cut, and even the reserved the East India Company in try, the British aircraft industry placenckt of unsatisfactory housing Canton for many years. On his re- has prepared a display which ranks and other accommodation at certain tirement he lived at Leigh Park, in as the most informative exhibit stations is again postponed.

Hampaaire. As this Park adjoined ever staged outside this country. Housed in two of the larger and ! Lord Londonderry declares, in his my father's small estate, 1 know more important rooms in the Zap memorandum pion, the Britishi stands and models Estiantes, that the serious dia-

necompanying the it well as a boy.. will cover altogether nearly Boven

He made a voyage out to China thousand square feet of floor area, parity between the first line at the age of thirteen, to join his and enable the visitor to survey in strength of the Royal Air Force father in Canton. A year later the in a few minutes the astounding ' development of the flying machine and fereign air services remains famall.boy is amongst the first of from the first curious but strikingly as tangible evidence of the efforts the British to visi Feking and is prophetic machines projected erly made by this country to further conversing in Chinese with the last orntury by Sir George Cayley i

aged Emperor.

Eater comes the struggle to main the Empress Dowager." it is the Hali gives lengthy extracts from tain the monopoly of the East history of the life and times of various books including "Annals India Co. against the attacks of Yohorfale. There is a promise of and Memois of the Court of Pek the Mathesons and the other free romance simply in the sound of the ing, and R. F. Johnson's "The traders. Finally he is a Hamp-name. It would easily be possible, Lien and Dragon in North China." shire, squire, an M.P., L.L.D. and to give not ön, but many lectures, Also from "Humanity and Labour F.R.S., the, foremost authority in upon the dynamic character of in China" by Dame Anderson, England on China, an able writer Yehonala. Born in 1985, the ruled' He mentions the "Memoirs of the teeming millions for balf a Thomas Hickey, very race auto- century nearly cycle of Cathay, biography giving a glimpse o with the autcerasy of which only Canton life in the late 19th con-

to the latest types of irigh perform-, the cause of disarmament, alike by ance military and civil aeroplanes precept and practical example." of to-day.

Today the Home Defence Force ia Air-Minded Public,

still short by ten regular squadrona The enterprise is unusual. British of the number laid down as a bars constructors are supporting the Ex-minimum in 1023 For the fourth Thibition because of their profound

belief that the future of aviation time since its initiation the defence depends on" the right education of programme is again retarded; the public The Grock authorities envisaged the Exhibition solely as means of encouraging "air-minded- 6653 among the general public.

Many Duties.

The memorandum brings out, in

and a notable scholar.

I cannot resist quoting from one of Struxton's book two sentences.

It is not a trade show, and the striking fashion ther widespread be the first, written in 1980, is from when alio first came into the "pic- tury.

putting of business is much less.

than a wrcondary consideration.tivities of the Royal Air Force."

MANY CIVILISATIONS.

No full-size military aircraft mayThere is mention of operations in his own pen, It reads "Our pre: ture, as a power, rebellion was be shown, and models are preferred Kurdistan, on the north-west iron-sent position in China is generally rife all to actual civil machines. Instruc

over the Empire. This tive diagrams, sectioned engines tier of India in Aden, Iraq, felt to be a critical one." The haughty, and very determined, but

He also relies on The Chines with parts of the structure cut Trausjordania, Cyprus, Arabia, other is from the Report of a Par-yet attractive woman, was not oven Empire" by a Boman Catholic away to show the arrangement of Land Burma as well as details of liamentary Committee of which he the Emperor's wife but his concu Priest, M. Hue: Dr. A. H. Smithla ¦ important components, working models and clear photographs are the routine inadplane and flying was a member.

bine; yet in her masterful manner, warka, and Woodhead's Truth required. “

boat cruises through Africa and out

It runs as follows:-"Your she ignored the stricken Emperor, about the Chinese Republic" He Tho twenty-two British rms in the Indian Ocean which con-

Comittee regret to state, on un-brushed naide the Empress Consort contrasts the views of authors whom which are taking part in the Ex-

doubted evidence, that the trade hibition-manufacturers and users stitute one of the more picturesque of aircraft, aero engines and necessides of the work of the service. sory equipment-have spared no No other fighting air service in the įįpoins in planning and building thể

stands. Beautifully constructed world has equivalent duties, an ad Reade models worth up to fifty ditional fact to bear in mind in pounds and more apiece have been carefully crated and sent to Athens, making comparisons of relative air Among the machines that will be strength of the leading powcas illustrated in model or drawing are- all kinds of military aircraft- fighters, night and day bombers, reconnaissance craft, flying bonts and seaplanes and the latest types of British giant passenger carrying

planes and light aeroplanes.

Accessories,"

The display will be rounded off by examples of the multifarious Accessories that are employed in one brance or another of aviation. Thone on view in the Zappion will include oxygen breathing apparatus for vac when flying in the rarched air of the great heights, wading suits, ingenious chambers for the

CI

AEROPLANE AND MOTOR CAR.

COMPARISON OF RUNNING

COSTS.

'PLANE DEPRECIATES LESS "THAN CAR.

That the present day light acro-

GUILE AND CHARM.

with that country has been for and, while yet in her early twen-he labels "realists," "pessimista" some time in a very unsatisfacties, seized the power of the throne, and "optimists. tory position, and that the result Is there anything on record to: In summing up, "he says with of our extended intercourse has by no means realised the just ex-

'cqual the astounding personal spc-regard to the pessimist party, it is pectations which had been natu- cess of this amazing"adventuress i

not surprising that t should con- rally founded on the freer access

tain a fair springling of mission- to sa magnificent a market."

aries." I have noticed that; in their writings, this class is either unduly optimistic or every pessimistic. of the British Economic Mission

different if Cleopatra'a ose had

Or is that, they come out keyed that visited China in 1830-31.

been half an inch longer. If you up with enthusiasm and write in Staunton was appointed deputy read carefully you w

will come to the bayant style refleeting that mood; to Lord Amherst in the Second conclusion that, whatever L hand then gradually find themselves Embassy to Peking. Henry Ellia wrote a "Journal of the Procced-length of Yohonala's ing of the Lato Embassy to China”.

Both of those sentences might It has been said that the history have appeared in the recent report of the world would have been very

ANOTHER PIONEER "IN CHINA.

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nose, what disillusioned? Do those of us who ever handicap of personal appear. live longest in China grow more anco she might have possessed, she and more pessimistic ? And is that would have conquered in the end. altogether the fault of China or is For sho had guile and charm · 09

some of it due to Anno Domini ?

Valuable is. Hall's opinion:-" It well as brains. She always knew what she wanted and, as is not un-is sometimes said that Chine is not The other remarkable figure of

usual with her sex, she invariably nation but a civilisation. It is, testing of instruments, safety har plane costs no more to run than a this period, of whom biographies got it. She probed into life in all however, not a civilisation, but ' ness, dinghies for scaplanes, all 27 hp. motor-car was proved the are of interest, was the Revd. Ro-its varying phases eager, inquiai- many civilisations ranging from the kinds of navigational apparatus. other evening by the Master of bert Morrison the pioneer mission-tive, determined to satisfy every most primitive to the most refined." wheel brakes, sparking plugs, magSempit himself a leading owner-ary who arrived in Maeno in 1800. emotion of her complex nature. But neton, and many other details which play a part in the officiant work-pilot, and aeronautient expert, få a

Great as was big piety and miss the terrible tragedy of the Boxer ing of the modern British nero- lecture to members of the Royal Ein- sionary zee), his claim plane and sero engine. L

to fame movement was Yehonala's supreme pire, Society.

must rest upon his remarkable Ho asumed that aeroplane and

iistako. True it is that she suf- work AS A motorcar ench travelled 12,000 miles

sinologue. It was fered but little for it, in compari- in a given year. The total cost,, Staunton and Morrison who fratson with those whom she aided and excluding depreciation, he tears be opened up any sort of national com- abetted and who subsequently paid £20s for the motor car arid £20s for munication, between the Chinese with their lives the penalty of their Ewope in China" which is really the flying machine. Expenditure on petrol and oil was approximate and English peoples.

ALL-METAL WARPLANES.

WOODEN CONSTRUCTION

ALMOST EXTINCT,

4. Talikoy

!

years ago, lent me a bulky life of Morrison in two volumes, but cannot remember the name of the

author.

name

ABOUT HONG KONG.

There are many references to Hong Kong in various books, but. there is no complete history of the Colony.

fel in 1894 published his

a story of the first fifty years of loyalty to this astounding female.

d's the authors remind us, the Hong Kong. The book is dull yet

useful, but is not of print. fond Ideening and ernes stupidi of the Laws and Courts of Hou

Norton-Kyehu wrote A History of infantile gaiety and sudden Kong The tale is carried only as frigedy of Bashing fortunes and far at 1883. It is tedious reading

walt

dooms,"

has been recently published. The "Hong Kong, Around and About”

Barker..

ly level as around £40. The car tax | The Revd. Or. Pearce, so life of her Court" was one of pro- The march towards metal con- was 20 and the aeroplane tax five struction of seroplanes, in which guinen Tyres cost £18 on the car the British aircraft industry has, and only £3. 12.8, on the seroplane. played a chied part, is evident in Maintenance as 204.15 for the the statement that in 1938 frat-line motor car was five pounds less than units of the Royal Air Force will for the aeroplane. Housing was

Vierce as an effective oriental but in a mine of information for

a really "live" story. be wholly equipped with machines exactly the same.. £39. The chief

ruler of her period had to be, aho either of all-metal structure or com- | differatçe shown was in the cost of

PUSH AND CO" PARKES could on occasions be kind. And posite of metal and wood. " Wood," insurance-£23 64, for the car and

she had a rough sense of humour states the memorandum, is now 280 for the 'plane.

The next period of interest is which must have been a great asset Authors are Mr. Peplow and Mrs. employed only for the wings and

about the time of the Taiping Re- 2nd was possibly her salvation. They make no pretence that the tails units of a very small number

bellion (say 1850) and the

At times sho was extravagant and work in complete account of of the older types, and for certain

licentious at others she was just things Chinese as seen in the anall components."

The figures should dispel the that comes to my mind in this con-

an engor: gomip. She won the Colony. Its aim is to throw some Experience is showing that air-widespread belief that the privato nection found: a biographer in respect of scholars because of her light on scenes and incidents of craft of metal construction un-neroplane is only for the rich. A Lane-Poole. He wrote an excellent love of literature and profound daily life which may interest or doubtedly have a longer life tanu further important point is that "Life of Sir Parker'' in 3.vols, Knowledge of history. Sho....s

puzzle the non-Chinese onlooker; those of wood, and in consequence, practically speaking, an neroplang

Alisi am, limited in time.' Ihavo sent to neveral friends and considerable economics in mainten-is always in new "condition. This remarkable man entered the Turn to the book that gives you the to my children at home" copies ance conta ara being effected,”. The attic airworthiness régula, public service in China, at the age true, true story of the world's won of Mrs, Southern's "Chips of In a sentence, the memorandum tions provide for severe inspection of fourteen. He was interpreter, der-woman, and be thankful you China and every one has been tells of an air ervice which is and overhaul at stated intervals, vice-consul, consul and Minister, have lived outside the circle of her pleased with it. Often have “ mightily eficient, but alarmingly when very defective part must For forty-two years Parkes worked wrath.

raised a laugh with the "Apple small for the work it is designed to be replaced and all repairs done in the Far East. During most of

Pia" story." do. The British Empiro is becom-up to the standarth of the original the time he was the dominant Euro- ing more and more dependent on | construction." "Qriel, too, modifcalpean personality. His daughter, cir power, and the Opvernment,tions decided by the makers are Mra, James Keswick, entrusted to again adopting Lord London- mnde "compulsory" in machines his biographer many letters which derry's words, night well view the already in use before a new certi "show the softer side of the in situation with anxiety were it not fiento af airworthiness can be grant domitable Englishman. At the for their hopes that the Disarmed. Thus depreciation in un nero,age of fourteen (1642) Parkes took ment Conference in Geneva will plane much less than in a motor [bring about a reduction in air fear and secondhand prices are ro Harinaments:

flatively much higher-

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YOUNG CHINA'S HERO. ` Sir John Davies was a very indus

triogs, ex-Governor of Hong Kong Then we come to books about the who wrote Afteen volumes about overthrow of the Manchu dynasty China and the Chinone, over a and the minersence of the now na period of neatly fifty years (1823 to tional baro, Dr. Sun Yat-sen. 1870),

It was my good fortune to meet These books will interest those his place in a great historical this graduate of the Hong Kong who like to read about the early scone-the reception of the Chinese College of Medicine. I am afraid days. Imperial Commissioners authorised that I should find difficult" "to"

"To"le Continued.)"