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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1932.

AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

ENGLISH WOMEN

AVIATORS.

ONE OF EVERY FIVE NOW

PILOTS.

Englishwomen are learning to fly' fit ever-increasing numbers. Study of the lists of active members of the light aeroplane clubs and of the pupils at flying schools shows that approximately one out of every five budding pilots in Britain to day-excluding "Royal Air Force personnel is a woman. Already there are nearly 2008 women in the country who have qualified for the Air Ministry's A licence, the" usual badge of proficiency sought. by the nmateur pilot, and several have advanced to the "B" or pro fessional pilor's certificate. A. Iew have taken up aviation still more! seriously, and are to-day skilled aerial navigators had ground en- gineers competent to maintain aero engines and aeroplanes in flying order.

All Classes Smutta!

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AIR ROUTES OVER ARABIA.

PIONEER WORK OF R.A.F.

Landplanes and flying beats of, the Royal Air Foren are engaged

an air route along the shores of on the survey and development of

Arabin between Basra at the con- Aucace

of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, and Aden, nearly 3,000 miles away,'

Over this vast land, which has seen the rise and decay of many civilisations in the dawn of his tory, the flying men scopursuing steadily a work which will result in the establishment of landing grounds and supply basos competent for the maintenance of regular air services all along the way: Where from time immemorial' the camel and the horses have provided the

only means of travel the modern counterpart of the magic carpet

AIR TRANSPORT IN SIAM.

FOUR "PUSS MOTHS

CARRY ON,

A report that reached London recently of the first six months of operation of the "routes in Siam opened Just year by the Aerial

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Transport Company shows that the "Pusa Moth" monoplanes which make ap the fleet at present employed did not suffer a single forced landing or give the slightest engine trouble.. Minor modifica tions were made to the wing struc ture and two oil tanks needed at tention; otherwise the machines have called for nothing more than routine maintenance and inspce tion.

Regularly each month these small machines y an aggregate distance of between 0,500 and 12,500 miles,

BOOKS and READERS

CONFESSIONS OF A BUSINESS MAN.

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS.

THE LIBRARY LIST:

"Chaueur." By K. Chesterton, Faber and Faber. 12s. 6d.

"Wold Without End." By H. J. Massingham.

Cobden Sanderson. 10. 6.

City of Encounters: A London Divertissement." By Thomas Burko. Constable. Be-ed: "

"All Ye People. By Merle Colby. Toinemaun. 78. 6d.

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"Fair of St. James." By Bleanor Farjon. Faber and Faber, 78. ed. "Memoirs of Other Routs." Anonymous. Putnam. 78. Od

Gallipoli.

command of the Mauretania, has written a velame of reminiscences, In Great Whters, which Menara. Faber and Faber will publish.

The second vahimë of what" wna. probably the best volujne of literary and artistic ruiniscences of our time-Sir Williate Rothenstein's "Men and Memories"-will be pu blished

on the 9th by Messrs. Faber and Faber.

WHY DO THEY DO IT?

FEAR, AND BE Stuis, by Major- General' the Right Hon. J. E. B. Sealy, PC, CB., D.S.O., (Lon- don: Hodder and Stoughton- 12/6.)

Why do people write memcirat

of the famous landing at Gallipoli,becmaso they have fallen from their On April 23, the 17th anniversary tedium of retired life; others do it I imagine some do it to ease the

the second and final volume of "The high estate and, from governing a Official History of the Gallipoli

Campaign by Brig. Gen. CF.revines where they had 'n vast re- Aspinall-Oglander, will be publishing of servants descend to exist." the aeroplane uraising at speeds of carrying between them 3.500-4,000 ed by Masary, Heinemann. Then, with two maidservants, so they live" ing in North Oxford or Cheltenham

from breakfast to lunch and from

will carry men and cargo. a hundred miles on bour or more---

Already, the whole of the South Arabian coastline between. Aden and Bas el Badd, which stands on a promontory that is the most easterly land in Arabia, has beef inspected. Landing grounds have. The airwomen come from most

been chosen and at soine points stocks of fuel aid down. classes of society. In the wealthier names of the sites so far approved The strata flying an aeroplane is becom-revent in themselves something of ing fashionable, appealing especial the romance of this introduction ly to the woman who is fond of of horse-riding motoring and athletic pursuits, while lower is the social scale London girl stenographers and waitresses are planning their own flying organisations.

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western achievement to the changeless cast-Khor" Jaramab, Ras el Hadd, Masira Island. Mirbat, Salalah and Mukalla.

A Dimoult Stretch.

In this volume, the author will tell for the first time the full story of the historie ovbcaution. Ha des-

pounds of mail, "half a ton of presumably, the whole bitter con- freight and passengers. Day after troversy about the wisdom of the day the company's pilots--all of offensive of the Eastern Front will whom are Siamese and excellent break out again. nirmen-cross hundreds of miles of jungle, some of it particularly un- inviting as terrain for emergency landing beenuse of the presence of thousands of tigers of decidedly non-pacifist tendencies. The wea tremely bad, heavy rain and low ther for part of the year is ex- cloud making visibility poor and obliging the pilots frequently to fly

lew over the ground for long dis tungar.

Under Trying Conditions.

A Bright Future,

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oribes also the June and July battle

-of Helles in 1915 and the great au- tuma offensive of the same year. M. Maurois on England

Andre Siegfried, gets nearer to as derstanding England than does M. often

No Frenchman, unless it is M.

Andre Maurois--and Se is amusingly wide of the mark.

In his new book, M. Maurois has torn himself away from the de-

other toitry.

lunch to dinner on the memories. of their glory evoked by the writ for the fun of appearing in print. ing of reminiscences; others do it

or in the hope of making a littl

and hope to gain immortality by money thereby; others fear death.

writing memoirs wherein thair name will live; yet others write memoirs because of the conceit they

of interest to strangers have that their deings will prove

"Fear, and be Slain" seems belong to the lass category. It is a futile collection of pisting anec dotes, inconsequently jumbled toge tlier in a carelessly produced book with a stupid and misleading title. It is books like "Fear, and be

"J

M. G.

The balloon tyres fitted to the lights of "writing biography, and Men and Women Compared:

There is difficult stretch foring the monsoon period, enabling pation of making remarks about an Slain" that add, bitterness to our

aeroplanes helped enormously dur-turned to the other alluring ocau- landplane operation between Mir the pilote to take off with full' Broadly speaking, instructors find hat and Khor Jaramah, a distance load on board even from wet and that there is little difference in ap

teara, when we are comparing the He call his book. of approximately 500 miles, büt

"A Private present state of hook-production". situde between men and women

Universe," and writes not only of with the old days when the papyrus. the choson on Masira Island for

Boggy fields.. ilots, granted the necessary stand-in intermediate hals will consider-

the national characteristics of the supply failed and many priceless On the power of It ards of health and mental alert ably lessen, the length of the hon-

single English but of their peculiar poli-works were lost-erased to provide Gipsy III" inverted 126 hp.tical and social problemos. Mesars. Women usually grasp the stop stage required, in regular engine the "Pass Moth" craft Cashell will publish it,

a surface on which to write. details of aeroplane control a little working. At present none of the supplied to the Aerial Transport Sir Josiah Stamp. more readily than the men, but they reute is sufficiently developed for Company cruise at well over 100 are more easily satisfied and the regular flying by landplanes orm.p.h.

How Sir Josiah Stamp finds time

THE COUNTRYMAN.“ They were men are generally slightly better marine aircraft, but progress is careful consideration for the open Scottish Railway is one of the my

thosen after to direct the London Midland and Tat CouNTRYMAN, (2/€ Quarterly), pilots at the end of the course of satisfactory and not many weeks ing of the services between Korat,sterius of our time.

We who live in Hong Kong and trition. This murgin at the end of ago the Air Officer Commanding in Roi Etch, Khonkaen. Udorn and

the China Ports live a pegaliarly the normal training period has led Iraq was able to use the present Nakon

Not only is he a financier and artificial Pnom, and when the industrialist, but he is one of the life. We are completely divorced

and entirely instructors at certain clubs, to in organisation to fly to Mirhat, where volume of traffic expands to a point most

urban sist on their women, pupils taking he met the Officer Commanding at where larger machines become speakers and authors in the coun-with a low standard of living who indefatigable after-dinner from the land and have a peoplo a little extra dual training he Aden, who had travelled to the necessary the intention is to use try. Year by year his paragraph are ready and willing to serve us fore allowing them to fy alone. rendezvous with a flight of land them for special charter work and in "Who's Who" swells visibly with--and excellent and cheap servanta This precaution has had good machines.

the operation of branch lines foed-new publications. results and serious accidents to

ing the main routes.

they make. women, pilots in their early fring

Between Asia and Africa.

Thus yesterday the Oxford Uni-

And to us "The Countryman " days are unknown in Great Britain. Not only does the new

versity Press published his study is of special value as it recalls us route possess obvious strategical advan

of war-time taxation and the week to the essential sanities of the soil Better at Flying than Motoring.

There should undoubtedly be a after next Messrs. Benn will iseup and recreates for us in all it fresh- tiges. It promises to open up & bright future before the Siamese air a new work of his entitled "The ness and glory, in all its stupidity new way between Asia and Eastern Hard-boiled misogynists among Africa and the Soudan, along which lines. The country is well-fitted for Financial Aftermath of War" motoring men will be relieved, but lying boats would travel from aerial communications, the Siameso

and dullness, the English country. sceptica!, at the considered state-sian Gulf and then along the whole make fine pilots and mechanics, and India across the mouth of the Per.

side-and those who live there. ment that women are better as of the southern shore of Arabia to the Government is deeply interest-

The April number of this Quar aeropiane pilots than they are at the wheel of a motor-car. Actually, which the R.A.F. is quietly blazing

Aden. And the enterprise is yet ed in air development, Actually poets in the country who are makerly is well printed on good paper another example of the way in Prince Purachatra Minister forng & living by their verae alone.

in a pleasing, format and contains there seems no reason to suppose

Mr. Austin Clarke, the Irish some very good stuff.

The Arst that women pilote are not capable

poet, is the latest to turn to other, thing that strikes us is the excellent of attaining the heights of skill

and more profitabic, forms of cartoon by Mr. Thomas Derric reached by the best men pilats,

literature. He has written a novel. Then, as we start reading, we come given the necessary flying experi

"The Bright Temptation," which across My Lord's Potty Cash,” ence. Miss Winifred Spoover, whe

MERRTS. Allen and Unwin will

"My Island and our Life There, has never spent nearly two thou-

publish. It is a story of the min.)

Ranning a Small Country Hotel" sand hours in the air during the last

diaeval world in which a monk and As one Countryman to An- five years had has qualified "for

envon the shelter of his holy other, all of them most interes -school-at-Cluanmore, swims the ing and showing how happily vari "every* degree up to the second

Shannon and Ands himself at mid- class navigatore's ticket, must eer- tainly be considered in the nume class as the majority of professional men pilots, and other women are sure to reach equal rank in the near future.

Women may never rival men pilots in the flying of 400 m.p.b. racer or in the long-distance specta- cular dashes across the world that demand abnormal powers of endur- ance. But in every other sphere of flying activity the airwoman pro- mises to become more, and more. important as time goes on; within quite a few years the India air mail may leave for Croydos with a seated at the controls. And

Woman

the lightness and case of control of the modern British light plans. make it an ideal vehicle for the birwomen.....

the air trail over many thousands Commerce, wields the final control | of miles in the lesser developed in the activities of the new air countries of the world,

transport concern.

The Woman's Page

The Woman's Page. a special two page supplement published every Friday, is written locally for the women of Hong Kong.

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It is read by all women who wish to learn what can be found in the local shops, and offers an unique advertising prospect.

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A Post's Novel, There cannot be half a duzen

night in a world of peril and the interests of this magazine temptation."

are.

M. Karel Capak Again.

As to the faults pf the paper they. Ever since M. Capok terrified the Countryman, with the excep are chiefly the faults of the Eng- whole of Europe with his play,

R.U.B., he has been delighting us tion of the advertisements, which, with the diversity, of his talents, in the worst American style, en- Thore was his "Letters From Engerench irritatingly and unashamed- Innd," and that wonderfully funny book, "The Gardener's Year." ly on the reading matter Women. Now he has turned his clovar who write verse are, with very few mind in the direction of the detec exceptions, horrible-and, the War- tive story. In a volume, strangely nutitled Tales from Two Pockets Messrs. Faber and Faber will publish short stories of mystery, murder and imagination

In Brief. "The New Movement in the Theatre, a sumptuous. volume con- taining 600 illustrations, will thort ly be published by Mesurs, Bate ford. The author is. M Loon Mous ains Mr. Gordon Craig has con- tributed an introduction

ner woman is no exception. "My Sparrow "ie An article of sickening and perverted sentimentality. And Young Bill's Rural Guide," dis- plays all the complacent stupidity of some English yokels,

As afinal comment we would strongly recommend our reader, for his great pleasure as well as.. for the good of his soul, to fake Advantage of the extraordinarily Captain 8. G. S. McNeil, whose attractive offer on page 189 and be 147-years-of-service at nea were "oome life subscribe

crowned by his being given the Countryman

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