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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1932.

AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

GROWTH OF CIVIL

'AVIATION

2,250,000 LETTERS CARRIED IN AIR SERVICES.

ANNUAL REPORT.

Perhaps the most striking feature

of the annual report on civil avia

tion, pablished for the Air Ministry by the Stationary Office, is the

series of mape provided in a pocket at the back of the report. These show-

(1) Main trunk nir routes. (2) British Empire air routes,;

oxcluding Canada.

(3) Canadian air routes. (4) European air routes. (8) United States oft routes.

Tho nups show at a glance the

TWO-SEATER FIGHTERS.

GIANT FLYING BOAT

·ALOFT,

LONDON, July 12. Handled with ease remarkable in so large a flying machine Britain's biggest aircraft-and the largest military aeroplane in the world- was demonstrated in flight over the

development of civil aviation in the R.A.F. SQUADRON OF NEW river Medway at Rochestör yester-

world generally and in the Britishr

Empire in particular.

MACHINES.

A year's experiment with a flight

Chief

BOOKS and READERS

DETECTIVE TALES.

By (London:

WHAT IS THE IDEAL

DETECTIVE STORY?-

only to be re-dispersed in 1917. Then followed the restoration of the Manchu Dynasty, which gave birth to six years of civil strife in China with all its inevitable consequences

misery, poverty, injustice, rorrup

HINDU FEARS OF A "MOSLEM" RAJ."

ALLOCATION OF SEATS IN COUNCIL.

Calcutta, July 14-A meeting of the Bengal Provincial Hindu Subha. was held in Calcutta on Thursday, '- Mr. Hirendra Nath Datta presiding.

The following resolutions were adopted unanimously:-

(1) Tho Bengal Provincial Hindu Sabha having had its attention directed to the proceedings of the Another question that occurs to recent Moslem Conference held at-

tion."

day. Built by the Short company, world famous in the design and

Inspector McLean. construction of fine flying boats, tho George Goodchild, Tho letter sir-mail service has

Hodder & Stoughton). new giant first moved from the slip- developed considerably during the

The trouble about detective year. About two and a quarter of Hart day bombers adapted for way only a fortnight ago. «Yester- million letters were dispatched by use as two-seater fighters has led day's was only the fourth flight stories is that they are all either too air, the increase over 1930 boing to the decision to equip a whole since the launching-evidence that easy or too difficult. Either the half a million letters, while the total squardon of the R.A.F. with these no important modification of any clue which leads to the denouement ono is: How does Wang Ching Wei the Calcutta, Town Hall places on weight of the letter air mail was machines. This marks a break in kind has been necessary to the ori a kindly given to us on the first explain his support of the Northern record its deliberate opinion that 5.4 tons-an increase of 29 per cent, the custom of several years. The ginal design-and all of the experts page and the deductions which arine Coalition in 1830 and of Ch'en Shin that confe: ence represented only a over 1930 and no less than 74 per Bristol Fighter, produced in the invited to watch the fight were from it run childishly on to the ex-Tang in 1032 in the light of his handful of Moslem communalists cent. over 1920.

later stages of the war, was the astonished at the speed and handi-pected end; or we are presented statement in the last paragraph on had their claim to speak on behalf last two-scater to be used in any Dess of the great craft.

with such a mard of irrelevant de page sixteen: "Militarism cannot of the Mohammedan community of numbers as fighter aircraft. Tho Then boat weighs 33 tons with full tails and synthetic paychology to be destroyed by setting up rival Bengal is wholly unfounded. The This is not the Sabha rogurds with grave disap- progression from the Bulldog to the load on board and is intended for gether, with incidental micides, Fury, with an increase in speed of long distance reconnaissance with murders and love interest that the way to destroy militarism; nay, it is proval the proposterous suggestion put forward by the said conference, some 60 miles an hour appears at the Royal Air Force. Incidentally, process of reading the book becomes to foster it"

The foreigner will be interested in with a patronising show of genero- last to have bred' doubts as to who it was insured last week in London like eating shrimps, in the course of ther performance is snonymous with

which pastime you spend half an this sentence on page 101: "Not sity to the Hindus, to allot to the only are the people deprived of Mosleme 31 per cent, of seats in the fighter efficiency.

hour removing tails, whiskers, legs! and pinto armour and half a second their private and public rights, but whole House which, in effect, would their very lives and property are reduce the proportion of Hindur eating the aquare milimetre of

without any protection." If the seats to about 30 per cent, in the shrimp which is your reward.

Chinese Goveernment protects and Rengal Legislature. I imagine that the perfect detec

A tabular statement showing the export of aircraft engines and spare parts from Graat Britain is given. (Continued on next column.) ·

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The new fighter has been named the Demon. It is the product of the Hawker Company, and in all essential points of design it ia similar to the Hart day bomber,

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for £100,000, which is easily the big gest

*eover" yet placed on any British aeroplane.

Though the craft wne not Bown at full speed she gave ample evidence of ability to fly exceptionally fust

militariste

cares for Chinese thus, what will (2) The Sabha expresses its em-

which hus a top speed of 180 miles for an aircraft of such size, and it/tive story would be, of its kind, like happen to foreigners f" It is also phatie disapproval of the solution

was noticed that three or four light aeroplanes Aying overhead during

a fugue, and that you would get interesting to, note that, on page of the communa! problem in this

five or six different subjects, start-

the demonstration failed to keep up ing in different places, running Treaties" is qualified by "80-sible persona on the basis of equal

called.”

As a fighter it carries a smaller

68, the celebrated phrase " Unequal | province put forward by irrespon- load of armament and fuel, and may be expected, therefore, to have a

division of seats in the Legislature a moment and eventually converg slightly higher speed and rate of with her. And Major H. G. Brack-across each other, then parallel for

As & Anal comment: if this book as well as in the services, and re- climb than its prototype. In any ley, Air Superintendent of Im- case, it must be a full 30 miles an perint Airways, who sat beside Mr.ing to make the final chord.

this, however, at least three hun represents the best of modern Chi-padintes the claim of such persons Lankester Parker in the pilots' hour slower than the Fury intercepi

For

tor. The question which retains to cockpit, spoke afterwards of the dred pages are needed and so Mrness political thought.. it is fortun to represent the Sabha or any Goodchild, in writing a book ofte that the unhappy country is still section of Hindus in this province.

he answered is whether or not the advantage of the movable gun in the tear cockpit outweighs the extra chance of overtaking a quarry in pursuit.

brilliant handling qualities of the giant.

All-Metal Construction.

short detective stories, starts at a disadvantage and erra on the "too casy" side.

The great craft is constructed largely of duralumin, and the plan- To turn over definitely to the twning bottom of the immense bont hull seater fighter would he to confess in stainless steel. The six" Buz the odds against dealing with a sur-ird" water-cooled motors, ench of prise attack, and to announce tacit- which develops up to 930 h.p., are arrows from the local manor-house.

in the hands of the Militarists.

NEWMAN, CURZON AND PARNELL.

Adult Population. (3) In this connection, the, Sabha desires to emphasise the fact that, A good example of this is the

taking the numerical strength of the 17th story where a series of murders

adult population of both the com evidently committed with a bow and arrow are finally attributed to a de-STUDIES IN SUBLIME FAILURE-Byunities, which should really count

Shane Leslie,

in political life, the Moslems are not ranged ex-soldier who has stolen the

"Witty" and "pungent" are the in a majority and that, from the for Mr. standpoint of education, culture, ly that the chance of the fighter, mounted in beautifully streamlined On the other hand, however, somo publisher's adjectives without fair warning, is very small. nadelles between the planes, three of the stories show remarkable in- Leslie's studies of Newman, Curzon, sacrifice, wealth and extent of taxes Given sufficient warning by coast pairs of engines arranged in tangenuity, perhaps the most subtle Parnell, Coventry Patmore, and paid into the State coffers, they watchers, the two-seater might be dem. Thus the craft has three being that in which the culprit is Moreton Frewen; and they will cannot hear any comparison" "with the Hindus. Therefore, is any expected to come up with the tractor airstrowe in front and three detected through his use of a split serve.

'But another might have been add-scheme of redistribution of political raiders, and in that once its addi-pushers at the back. The hull is infinitive on a dictaphone. tional armament would be of un-80 feet long and contains within its Mr. Goodchild's style is easy ed. Mr. Leslie is nothing if not power, the Hindus may justly claim doubted valuo, The Demon is capacious lielly comfortable living enough to enable us to give aur "spicy." He retails a scandal with a superior position in the future fitted with a Rolls-Royce Kestrel quarters for the crew of ten men, whole attention to the plot, and in the staccato enthusiasm of Tacitus governance of the country.

(4) The Sabha, while fully en- (200 h.p.) engine supercharged for four machine gun emplacements, the character of his here, which is and chronicles the discomfiture of operation at high altitudes space for the carriage of a spare convincing enough, he has made no the great, especially if they are also dorsing the manifesto issued in engine, ingeniously contrived der attempt at prycliology, for which pompous, with all the zest of Horace April last by prominent Hindu lenders of all shades of opinion in ricks for changing engines at sea, attempt ata psychology, for, which Walpole.

the province, is, however, prepared,

In spite of the world-wide fusacial claborate wireless equipment and ko is much to be commended. Ho No man in the days can expect | depression the total value of exports during 1931-41,860,398--was only much other gear. The bout can be also gives us several entertaining to be a hero to his biographer. But with a view to instering a spirit of slightly less than during either of fitted to carry an immense load in varieties of fraud, blackmail and it is a platitude that biography, to national solidarity, to support the the two previous years. During bombs, torpedoes or other warlike robbery. It is the fault of the pub- be really first class, demands love resolution of the Bengal Presidency 1031 there was actually a substan tial increase in exports to European equifinent; transformed into a com-lie and of this insensitive genera or at least sympathetic understand-Moslem League, demanding joint mercial aircraft it could provide tion, rather than the author thating, and for these Mr. Leslie sub electorates without any reservation

countries.

There were altogether 52 accidents

in civil aviation requiring natifier- tion, one less than the previous

:

SHOT 600 ELEPHANTS.

year. No lives were lost on the re- BIG GAME HUNTER'S SUDDEN

POLITICAL ESSAYS BY WANG CHING WEI.

At the end of 1931 there were luxurious travel for sixty or more the nucleus of seventy per-cent of stitutes ironic laughter and a hard. of sents for any community and 57 licensed "permanent " serd passengers.

these stories is a corpse, or corpses, bright, wit. Mr. Lytton Strachey insists that the communal question plane stations in the United King-

preferably mangled

showed how successful the "new" should be settled on the same basis dem, as compared with 50 in the

biography at its best could be. Mr. for the whole of India, year previous.

Leslie is less urbane in temper as in ale. His etchings have a sharp and effective line; but one is re- minded too often of the acid.

There are times when his method Earry's and Documents by Wang is justified, as when he says of Ching Wei and others. (China O'Shea that he "had been sent to Oscott to make fine Catholic friends "The Chinese National Revolu. tion" is

gulur transport air services.

A total mileage of 623,000, repre- senting a total of 708,339,000 h.p. miles, was completed during the year in the course of subsidised: fights on regular European acr-

vices.

On the services to India and Central Africa 663,000 miles were

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DEATH.

The death is announced in a cable; to his sister in Barrow-in-Furness of Captain James Sutherland, a fam ous big gume hunter due to heart failure.

WAS

Death was

The Chinese National Revolution.

United Press Mex, 86.00),

The Sabha has read with grave concern an unconfirmed report oir- culated in the Press to the effect that the Government of India has recommended the allocation of 117 seats to the Mohammedaus und 78 stats to the Hindus in a House of 250 members in Bengal on the basis of separate electorates.

Thia recommendation, if in fact

made or given effect to, will, in the

a pleasantly, produced and into the Hussars to make finer book, the contents of which fail to Protestant ones. He was a gentle opinion of the Sabha, be a blunder The cable sent by the come up to the expectatione arouced man by courtesy and an officer by of the first magnitude and will bring purchase"; and again, touching on into being a Moslem Raj in the pro- O'Shea's connivance at his wife's vince and inevitably lead to aggre Governor of Vau, in the Southern, by its outward appearance,

| The author. 18 known for affair with Pamell: "Capt. O'Shenvation of the communal trouble and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.

his delight in travelling: first was described as a retired officer,' perpetuation of a state of grave Poking when You Hai Shan and but his true position was that of a internal commotion in the country and inflict irreparable injury on Feng Yu Hsiang were there; then retired husband."

Bengal, Canton, where Marshal Ch'en Chi Tang lives; and now Nanking (or is it Loyang 1) where Chiang Chich Shih may be found.

Captain Sutherland had hunted elephants for 38 years, and claimed a world record of more than 600 bulls that fell to his rifle in the African jungle.

A fellow of the Royal Geographi-

he

The Sabha will desist such a scheme, it inaugurated, to the ut most of its power.

Onear Browning at Eton. With mobler, subtier soul. Mr. Leslie's fireworks are less illumina- It is a melancholy fact that, ex-ting. cept in the case of clever men, the He contrives, however, to get some cal Society, he was reputed to have Chinese language tends to stop good clean fun even out of the chief George Curzon as the innocent oc- shuffling by the casion of Browning's leaving Eton & more intimate knowledge of East- those who use it from thinking and Tractarian,

lures them into the way of ingenious Athenaetim in his seedy Oratorian will give offence, as will the refer- ern and Central Africa than any proverbs and platitudes. There is rig" and weeping copiously ence to Lord Curran's relations with

crises, Ind very little thought in this book, but in

writes of his daughters ("he adopted the bear other living man-

many delightful phrases: The intrigues

against Newman in ing without the excuse of a K ̈ng His understanding of the natives fact is that China is in reality a Roms and at home with the Lear'), and the statement that to sumusement aroused sarvaate and the subservient he was and his knowledge of German East quasi-colony kept in bondage by cynical Africh proved invaluable to the Bri- foreign and feudalistic influences. him by Monsignor Capel's banish as unpleasantly rude as he thought

the neo-militarists, the most from London and the dismissal necessary." fish operations in that territory mandarinate, the country bosses, the of Oscar Browning from Eton in cir- On the whole, though, the eseng "the | eumstances that fadirectly concern on Curtala man often ridiculous during the War, when he was Chief unscrupulous gentry

ed George Curzon,

and futile, but at his rare greatest Intelligence Officer to General Nor- lumpenproletariat "

Ho pays After her centuries of " splendid

tribute to Lord one of England's great men"—is they's forces.

isolation" it is not surprising that Curzon's courage and high ability, the best in a brilliant, unever book. Two years ago, while hunting in geography is not a strong point of and writes with sympathy of what. If he delighte in the Afghan Amir's the interior, he was poisoned by the Chinese people. But the Chi- must have been the bitterest moment belief that young Curzon

nete usually pay a very commendable that proud and sensitive man ever likely suitor for the band of Queen Lord Stamfordham Victoria, confirmed by his return as natives with a drug which brought attention to their long and interest knew-whon ou a form of creeping paralysis. Although he recovered he did not escape the effects of the poison en tiroly, for paralysis gripped him in the legs and necessitated 16 montics

of rest..

Was a

ing history, so one would be forced visited him on behalf of the King, Viceroy, there is sympathy in hi to the conclusion that the author and conveyed, instead of the portraiture and real regret in the of this book: misunderstood the term invitation to form a Government final vision of the great man's re

democracy" rather than ignored which he had worked for all his life gret in the final vision of the greate the conditions in Chint under the and confidently expected, the news man's royal progress through some Ch'ing dynasty, were it not for this that he had been passed over for Mr. celestial jungle, poised upon the But his allusion to white elephant of Destü, "with sunrème piece of rct on page 58: Baldwin,

Parliament reassembled in 1910, (Continued at foot of next column.) his Blessed Damosel by his side.