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THE HENDON AIR PROBLEM

DISPLAY.

THRILLS FOR 250,000 SPECTATORS.

AMAZING SKILL OF PILOTS.

The Royal Air Force Display, held at Hendon, was attended by

OF MENTAL

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STERILISING THE UNFIT.

STATE INQUIRY ORDERÉD.

HOOVER'S TM TRUMP CARD..

·RUSSIAN VIEW OF THE DISARMAMENT SCHEME.

BRITAIN'S DECIDING VOICE.

proposal, saya

"This proposal has caused a very great sensation in the world press. How upset the French millitarists were was shown by Pertinax, in his

The appointment of the Govern"

Moscow, June 30.—Kar] -Radok, an enormous crowd, which must ment Committes which is to inquirerditor of Investin, in the Inter- have almost equalled last year's into the sterilisation of the unft national Review column of that great record of 250,000. The Dukisa announced in the House of paper, referring to the disarmament

Commons. of York, who last came to a B.A.F.

According to the terms of refor diaplay în 1929, was present.

Brilliant sunshine and high temence the duty of the Committee is perature under a chequered sky limited to examining the facts and made the air "bumpy," a condi- suggesting what further inquiries tion which added liveliness to the might usefully be tidertaken. flying spectacle, and made even more manifest the skill of the pilot There wero occasional brief over cast periods.

Mr. L. G. Brock, who is the chairman, stated that he hoped to call the members of the committee together within the next few days.

"We shall hold a preliminary

article in L'Echo de Paris, a news paper associated with the French General Staff, referring to the book "Mr. Hoover's Strange Career.”

"This should be a sufficient warn. ing against French attempts to Three squadrons of Regulars, Nos,

represent Hoover's proposal, na 18, 33, and 57, on Hawker "Hart meeting," he said, “to work out

puroly 'an election manœuvre the details of our mode of proce-Hoover's proposal is an outstanding day bombers, and three squadrons of Auxiliaries, the three Metropoli-dure, and to decide how and from political act from the viewpoint of tan squadrona, Nos. 600, 601, and whom we are to take our evidence. its origin, aims and possible.con- "It is a big subject, and we sequences. The sources for Hoover's realise that we have a responsible

604, oh Wapiti" day bombers, had taken the field ready for the

first item of the main programins at 3 o'clock.

Twenty-seven

sharp-prowed

"Harte" "panting,” as one might Ray, "for cooling airs," their en ginca warm from the waiting and taxying. Twenty-seven blunt-nosed "Wapitis," their air-cooled "Jupi ter" engines quite happy in the heat. Each of the six squadrons a squadron formation of a triangl of three threes.

Spectacular Formations. They took off squadron by squad- each ron, the Harts," first, squadrón thundering across the field, but quickly spurning the ground and bscending, edch Wing of three squadrons, making for a different féndezvous, théro to

form.

The Harts" were first to re turn, after an interval filled by an other item. They cande heavens-wide formation

in.

of

task to perform,”

Terms of Reference.

The terms of reference as an

sounced in the House of Commons by Sir E. Hilton Young, Minister of Health, are:-

move are hidden in the economic situation of the United States of | America and the whole world. The United States is incapable, without that programmas of armaments which the greatest stenin, to fulfill even

arises from the London Naval To-examine and report on the insures himself against any attempt Agreement. By his proposal Hoover information already available re of European powers to demand an- garding the hereditary transnalment of the War debts. The mission and other causes of mentalUnited States of America will re- disorder and deficiency;

tain this trump card even it To consider the value of steri-Hoover's proposal to the European Jization as a preventative' mca-

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powers to economize on armaments sure, having regard to its phy should fail to achieve its direct sical, psychological and social aims, but there is no reason to be- effects, and to the experience of lieve that the Government of the legislation in other countries per United States is acting on the be- mitting it; and

lief of an inevitable failure of its step. While the financial situation of all the Imperialiat powera is growing from bad to worse, it will not be easy to reject the American the proposal, especially should

To suggest what further in quiries might usefully be under taken in this connection.

No Research Work.

able for the purpose.

EL Our Politics! Correspondent limited States of America conduct one states that, in the opinion of the an energetic fight for it.. great V. Then in rapid succession Government, the scientific nud Mr. Karl Radek believes that the of formations crossing and recross-statistical investigation of this United States is beginning this ing the sky first in three V's, each difficult question to be undertaken fight in a relatively favourable squadron of nine Harts" mak by the Committee alwuld be regard. position. "Throughout the past ing one; then in a long snakelike ed as preliminary in character. year the United States was under succession of flights, each a triangle. Tho object of the investigation is pressure from France which with

Gliding Display.

to prepare the ground in such drew its gold. Now France had The new items introduced this way that if a further inquiry, de-withdrawn practically all of its gold year were great successes. The eigned to elicit public opinion on and no longer is able to resist spectators took very grant interest the subject, should be decided upon, American pressure. in the gliding display, in which full and accurate date will be avail. three motorless aeroplanes, each.

The Committee will not embark with an R.A.F. pilot, were towed into the air by three Moths, upon any research work, but may and at a height of about 1,200 feet advise, if it thinks it desirable, released, the glider pilots simul that further research is necessary taneously operating the release mein connection with a particular 28- chanism, and the Mothe" fying pect of the problem. away to another aerodrome with the cables hanging free. Alterna tively, by the way, an automatic | cable-cutting contrivance is some- times used abroad, and there is in existence also a cable-winding goar.

The released gliders came to Without anticipating the ground very prettily, their pilotssions which the Committee may come the war danger. Wars way, be able to keep them in close company to, and in which other social and waged even with armies reduced by for quite a long time.

Disquieting Facts.

Laver Against Japan,

Degradation of Japan's finances resulting in inflation and. Japon's buying of dollars places an addi- tional weapon in the hands of the

United States of America for pres sure upon Japan.

"The decisive diplomatic position in the coming struggle belongs to England. If, he reported, sho sides with America, then Japan and

The Daily Telegraph Medical France will be isolated." Correspondent writes :—

In conclusion Radek writes, " The conclu-American proposals cannot be re

'garded as any guarantee against

Two items were full of instruction political considerations will have one-third. Tho. assertion that the for the spectator. In one of them to be weighed, the medical position stricted to this third which is to bo offensive funétion of an army is re- two pastmasters of the art played, is, briefly, as follows:-

abolished is absolutely baseless. respectively, the parts of instructor and pupil, the latter trying dents of most big mental hospitals fention as an expression of the Many alienists and superinten- The American proposals deserve at- claulate the manoeuvres, oft havn viewed with increasing dis- general crisis on the one hand, and other, but always just failing, and quisinde the fact that during in- as the American imperialist plans usually getting into amusing mud- dle predicaments from which ac-tervals of quite legitimate release on the other. However, any bitch. tually only supreme skill could save from hospital patients suffering in armaments or any reduction in him. Then a tortoise race," in from certain forms af recurront of their tempo is in the interest of the probably recurrent inannity, are masses oppressed by a growing hur- which the winner was the pilot who rendered free to ud, in fact, often den of taxation. Even temporary could keep his machine slowest without actually stalling and fall become, the parents of children. In cessation of preparations for chemi- ing...

many cases these children perpetal warfare and construction of tuate the tendencies or mental de bombers will hinder preparations First Thrilling Combats,

fects of their parents.

for international slaughter. Theso

"Balloon-bursting," in which other instances of persons not per

There are undoubtedly also many are the causes which prompted the Soviet delegation at dneva, gas-filled bags of monstrous form haps certificably insane, we are, through the mouth of Mr. Maxim and aspect were attacked by nevertheless sufferers from some Litvinos, to support these half- weirdly bedecked "pterodactyl hereditary mental defect that may hearted American proposals.". (tailless) flying machine and by ohanged on to the next genera another eraft, both flown by good tion. It is the existence of these pilots and marksmen, gave an op unfortunate strains that has lain portunity for Flight-Lieut. G. behind the movement in favour of Stainforth, who holds the world re cord of 407 miles per hour, to discomo carefully-guarded, form of

aterilisation. play his shooting skill: he is the

In the form in which it has al-

INQUEST ORDERED ON MR. REYNOLDS.

best revolver shot in the R.A.E.ready been tentatively legalised in DOUBT REGARDING THEORY Buta shift of wind took-most-of-

the enemy" immediately clear of ly trivial surgical, measure that de the aerodrome, and one was brought prives the patient of nothing be down a mile away,

|_some_countries, it is a comparativa.

Two set-piocez instead of the usualyond the possibility of parenthood, one: the morning programme began

with a story," in which supplies

OF SUICIDE.

Winston Salem, N.C., July B Mrs. Jibby Holman Reynolds, former Broadway singer and widow

were dropped by parachutes and donbt nrose concerning the theory of the late Mr. Bmith Reynolds, troops were sent by big transport of nicide. KEEN #3 | 20-year-old heir to part of the great planes. The afternoon ended - with Baltimore, Maryland, July 8.—Ad-Reynolds tobacco estate, told ♣ the thirteenth and final item in the mission to prooste to-day of the coroner's jury to day that her mind thirteenth RAF display Bix will of the late Mr. Smith Reynolds, was a blank from Monday until squadrons were engaged in it, with tobacco magnate, revealed that Wednesday save for a brief interval much air fighting, the destruction widow will not inherit his during which she saw her husound of kite balloon, and of a fort G18,000,000 Hortines shoot himself and storehouses. Shell bursts about | the machines In-the-air and there

was broming of heavy gunk

The Welder Reynolds left his An inquast, was ordered after the estate in trust for fit tom until the case was previously Alof:3, “Whi latter is 96 years of age, *** (Continued on Previous. Odlumn

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