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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1932.

AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

NEW CO-OPERATION those employed in the intercepter.

'PLANE

DETAILS OF THE HAWKER "AUDAX."

FASTER THAN MOST SINGLE

SEATER FIGHTERS,

squadrons and fur in advance of speeds attained by any comparable » neroplanes built abroad,

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GREATEST AIR DISPLAY.

200 MACHINES TO PARTICIPATE,

'BLIND" FLYING ACROSS THE SEA

JAPANESE AVIATOR'S COMPLICATED EQUIPMENT.

Elaborate instrumental equip- ment, including several kinds of compass, turn-and-bank indicators and other ingenious devices for air navigation when the horizon is ob

Two hundred aeroplanes, includ-scured by fog, cloud, or darkness,

Yoshihar

of his dying journey from Garip to Japan.

The "Audax" carries fuel suf-, fcient for fights of 000 miles in still air a detail of performance which indicates the likelihood of future extension of the duties allot. ! ted to army co-operation aircrafting some of the newest military will guide the Japanese pilot Seijo The interior of the fuselage is and civil aircraft built in Great Air co-operation with the Army warned by a cunningly devised Britain, will fly on Saturday, June Display-the show of arrobatics, is a task calling for vertain quali-mechanism, which diverts hot air 23, in the annual Royal Air Force from the radiator into the pilot's ties in the acroplanes employed, and observer's cookpits an effective fight and squadron formation fly. Perhaps the most important is widely than on the coldest day neither in. mass air evolutions and mimie other than warfare which is acclaimed by ex-' range of speed: the tumy co-opera-occupant need webr tion plane must be able to fly ordinary clothing. Gloves may be peres of all nations the greatest steadily and slowly for purposes of discarded, a point of considerable aerial display staged anywhere in Kunnery spotting and at the same importance in the rapid and carrot

Last year no fewer than 170.000 time its top speed must be bigh handling of maps, wireless appar

No forth. Photographs spectators were admitted to Hendon "to enable it to evade the attack of us, and

remy fighters detailed to bursas can be taken in thren positions-erodrome" on Display Day-are- the artillery hy destroying the over the side, through a special cord for an outdoor event to which machines that aut as the cyou of the glass panel in the side, or prone admission is charged. Altogether gune, and to fight bark with deter through a sliding panel in the between 100,000 and 500,000 people moved into the district around the bottom of the fuselage. mination and venom.

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Recently a new machine of this ype has been added to the equip- ment of the Royal Air Force--the Hawker Audax biplane power- ed with a single Rolls-Royce "Kes- tre" motor. The first squadron la Ecovive this aircraft in the pier of obsolescent equipment has just completed and extended tests with satisfactory results, and Audax planes are now being despatched to a second unit.

Engine Endurance.

The Kestrel engine Atted to. the Audax biplane in the power

anit equipping the

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the world.

He proposes to reach Tokyo by way of the North American coast and the chain of islands which form

"Aleutiany and the a series of stepping ones to Asia-the

Kuriles. Much of the island route ia fog-bound for most of the year, and the pilot must be prepared to fly for hours as a time in condi tions known to the airmen as

nil visibility"

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Mr. Yoshihara is now making i aerodrome that day, and every ñeld or other vantage point for miles Anal preparations for the flight. around was black with watchers | His machine, a "Cutty Sark 2421- absorbed in fents of air matery

a monoplane specially phibian, is tint aucceeded one to another all

modified for long-range operation "Fury." "Nimrod," Osprey, through the Display hours.

and driven by a single Lynx" "Firefly," "Fox." and other machines built for the British and

radial engine instead of the two Belgion air forres. Engines of this The Display marks the culmina

(usually fitted. With the extra fuel my details of construction the of intensive" instruction and practice tanks full, the machine enn remain ispe, which closely resemble in tion of squadron training. Months smaller and less powerful motora famous Rolls Royce racing motors reach their climax in a single gouloit for distances non-stop up to developed for the Schneider Trophy geous afternoon. But from firse to The machine is developed from i contests of 1929 and 1931, relust the Display demonstrates the 1,300 miles, eraising at 100-105 miles

severe

Routine Training.

an hour.

the grave disadvantages of nadi. added weight is down to less than tional weight complication, and 2 per cont. of the total structural "drag" for resistance to movement weighs of the aweraft, and the ad through the air) associated with vantages of the amphibious flying the fitting of amphibian gear. muthine,acen certain consequently Much progress has been made, in to get wider appreciation than in Great Britain to a point where the the past.

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the Hawker Hart," the exeep now running regularly in Service anutine flying of the service. Pilots

Amphibious Plane. tionally fat and offcient CILY machines more than 500 and 600 are not picked specially for the bomber which set new standards of

hours between overhauls-remark-mathematically precise formation

Adoption of an amphibiens aero-. performance when it was originallyable evidence of their trustworthi-flying and mass evolutions: last supplied to Royal Air Force squad- | nesa and durability.

year a pilot was brought in to take plane for a fight of the kind con- rone some two years ago. It flies"

moment, but not the most expers not without precedent, is unusual. under full control at less than six

observer could detect which was Amphibians possess obvious advan even greater multitude inside the

from any relative lack miles an hour and accelerates as

his handling of the tages in their ability to operate at the throttle is opened still a full | aerodromo, Traffic to and from the af skill in

the will of the plot either from power it moves at more than 180 event will be accelerated by the machine.

This year the Display authorities

land or water, but only recently (Continued on préatulia column, } has the design begun to eliminate

another's place literally at the lass templated by Mr. Yoshihara, though REISS, MASSEY & CO.,

"stop-up

.g.h-faster than any single introduction of improved system ofure planning to accommodate "no Senter fighters in the Service except control.

7, Queen's Road, Central, 1st Floor, Mercantile Bank Building. Hong Kong.

Engineering Dept.

HUMANITY

An outstanding Chinese Film showing the horror"

of the great famine in Shensi in 1930.

PRODUCED BY

The United Photoplay Service, Ltd.

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A heart-stirring drama of life and death. A throbbing story from the pen of a master.

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Raymond King, Lay Shao Shao and Lim Cho Cho

HONG KONG.

WITH ENGLISH SUB-TITLES AND MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT READ THE VIEWS OF SOME WHO HAVE SEEN THIS FILM

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AND "LAND INVESTMENT

AT THE

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I wish to congratulate you on your latest production "Humanity" which I saw at the pre-view at the Central Theatre.

You have chosen very fine Chinese sceneries as background for the picture, which incidentally gives a truo glimpse of life in China The cast also is worthy of note, and in my opinion the acting represents marked improvement în films yet produced.

I feel confident that this picture will appeal to Forciga as well as Chinese cinema fane,

Wishing you every success,

Yours faithfully,

(gd) LIANG CHI HAO,

Managing Director,

-China Entertainment and Land Investment

Co., Ltd.

CENTRAL

THEATRE

SHOWING

ALL THIS

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LETTER FROM

THE AMERICAN TRADE COMMISIONER

Through your courtesy, Mra, Barringer and I had the great pleasure of Being a pre-view of your picture Humanity Saturday, April 23rd,

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We both greatly enjoyed the picture. As the writer spent two years in European Russia in charge of American relief opera- ́ tions during the great Russian famine of those years, I can rouch for the excellent "shots" that you have showing real famine conditions. I think that this is a eplendid picture, and, as you say, should appeal to both Europene and Chinese audiences. The close-ups were particularly good, and although in spota the photography. might have been improved upon, on the whole I consider is a very high grade production.

Thanking you for having remembered mo when you showed this picture.

I am,

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SHOWING

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I wish to thank you for your courtesy in giving me an opportunity to attend the private pre-view of your latest film "HUMANITY."

In congratulating you upon your success in its production, I wish to star that the picture discloses a most pathetic # story, very finely told, acted and photogra phed. The fumine problem is very vividly portrayed and the film should give the world a true glimpse of village life in the interior of China.

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THE BANDITS OF KURDISTAN.

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lake, until only a few deaparato hoads wore to be seoq. Thows who hysterically tried to elamber back to the shore were ruthlessly shot.

General massacro. That is the warfare of the Kurds. But they have shrewd respect for the Bri. tish. The Assyrian lavies of Irak are the only troops that can really master these mountaineers. They tell of the adventures of the meat famous bandit of all, Agha Telle. This freebooter has raided more Turks caravans and killed more than any man on Mount Araral, There are sougs yelled in this duop valleys of Kurdistan relating the prowess of Tello.

Thoy say that Tolle's favourite wife was a Levantine girl, newly married, and captured in a caravais raid wish her husband. The bridal pair were on their way to the Mosul oilfields. With consummate cruelty Tello murdered the husband, while the beautiful Lavantine wife was forced to look uri.

And then 1" 1 naked. "Then she married Tello and has given him four cons," murmured my bandit' friend. By Allah, u'wile worth the wining."

When the war was ranging against the Turks, the women followed their husbands into the fight. They also yelled the name of Tello, and took up rides dropped by the wounded. Soon they were in the midst of the great sport of killing Turks.

In the mountains of Kurdistan 1 discovered that mothers not only carried their babies on their backs, but also rifles. No one on the slope of Mount Araras is without a rifle. Gun-running over the Persian bor der is a profitable occupation. 15 is wise to go to bed fully dressed. One rifle shot in the night and the whole village starts firing enthusi astically. One becomes mixed in a through general pandemonium, which charge herds of goats, sheep and fanatical women.

AMONG THE CREVICES.

Secking the villages where thes bandits live needs a destept into the crevices of the mountains. The sky is barely visible. The mud houses in which they live are cram- med with the loot of caravans and raida into peighbouring territory I saw in one house a cheap alarm clock and an old motorcar tyre. Both were considered beautiful ob jects. They, had been taken from a caravan. that had dared too "nea the mountains.

Individuals they ignore. Armies fill them with a desire for blood and loot. The bandit chief sende out a shrill whistle that echoes in these deep crevices, and within. few minutes the army of goatskins are clambering upwards, rifes and knives ready. They descend, a swarm of grey devils, upon a group of enemy acoats or some passing caravan. In hand-to-hand fighting the Kurds are desperate man.

There A strange, lost people, are Devil Dancers among them," Sitan Worshippers, and many functical Moslema. Some, worship the fish, which is not unusual an this mountain where the Ark reated during the Great Flood. And when the mountain people are not being massacred by enemies they are killed in their thousantis by the earth- quaken that crumple up villages in these regions like concertinas. Then the nomads trek to another place.

WATCH ON THE ROADS.

Today the Kurds are watching with suspicion the roads built by the British and the Perdana, which slowly crawl towards, their moun- tain fastnesses. They liesisate about raiding the workers' camps. After all, these roads will see many rich Caravans passing between the Cas pian Sea and the Mediterranean. It means more loot for the bandits: The abril whistle will go echoing Among the mountains and the sons of Noah will rush forward în înë of their blind charges. Once again, As throughout history, the grey roads of Asia Minor will be stained red.

But it is worth it," murmured the bandit in the bedroom of Tabriz He gazed rount at the stooping fifteen. "Brave men bathe in blood. Only the bloodless uso plain “water:?! mythagi

And a grin stretched across his swarthy face,

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