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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

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THE DESERT.

BAGHDAD TO GALILEE,

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OF MAN.11 to 11.30 p.m.-Stock quotations.

11.30 am-Chiness programme..

REVEALED BY AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY.

London, Aug. 10.-Boginning September 8, travellers between Europe and Iraq will be able to save time and avoid discomfort by Further evidence of utilising a new desert air service. rendered by the flying machine to At present the desert way from archaeology rests in photographs

services

19.30 p.m.-European programme of. ... records from Z.B.W.'s Library. 1. p.m.-Local time and weather report. A rolay of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestra by cour tesy of the management; (Dur- ing the intervals recorded music will be broadcast from the Studio.)"

BOOKS and READERS

FOUR WOMEN NOVELISTS AND SOME STATISTICS,

RE-ENTER SIR Jons. By C. Danoj sonal experience of Intelligence and H. Simpson, A Chinieso work, and he demonstrates clearly Triangle By L. J. Miln, Look that the Admiralty was well inform to the Spring By Ruby M.jed of what was going on bahind Ayres, (All published by Hod- the veil of secrecy which the 'Ger: der and Stoughton).

wans believed to be impenetrable.

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solely by motor-cars, and the travel- coincide with the ponderously en-1 ler has to face the trial of two titled, but nevertheless important, 5 to 7 p.m.-Chinese programmé. days' jolting over the track, often First International Congress of 8 to 6.20 p.m.-Children's Concert. with a burning an overhead. Now, Prehistoric and, Protohistoric 7 to 10.30. pim.-European pro- Imperial Airways have planned a Sciencen. service which involves at the most

7 to 9 p.m.-A programme of re

corda from Z.B.W.'s Library! eight hours of travel over the same

7 to 7.33 p.m.- route.

The time schedule provides 5 hours for the westbound journey from Baghdad', to Galilee, and hours for the eastbound trip against the prevailing winds, Negotiations going forward with the Lloyd Tries tine steamship company are expect ed to lead to joint air and steam ship services, with through fares in either direction.

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Many of these pictures, which show in axquisite detail the re- mains of long-dead civilizations, bavo nover been published; of many of thom it is true to say that they reveal secrets that would have remained hidden for over had man not taken to the air. Details which are imperceptible on the ground stand out clearly in the aerial photographs, even when centuries of subsequent cultivation or build- ing have onormously altered the face of the country.

Thus, neolithic campa found at points such as Windmill Hill in Wiltshire and inside Iron Age fortifications at the Trundlo, over-

course,

Europear officials serving in Iraq will benefit particularly from the new service, which means quicker communications with all parts of Europe. It will provide, too, new link between Iraq and the coun. looking Goodwood Race tries and islands of the eastern can be seen oasily in the serial. Mediterranean, and the Iraqi Gov.pictures, though all kinds of later ernment may use the new service tracks and cultivations completely to accelerate its westbound mails obliterate them from the sight of To begin with the fare in either the ground observer. The ancient direction will be £20, a figure which Leircle called Woodhenge, forgotten compares favourably with the char for more than two thousand years, ges of the desert car company. is revealed in other pictures. Avro "Ten Monoplanes. Knowledge of Stoachenge has An Avro "Ten" monoplane craft grown considerably with the com. will operate the service, leaving ing of the air-borne camera; the Galiles every Monday and retura existence of concentrically ditched ing every Wednesday. This is

hell-barrows within the famous trimotored 'plane, employing air circle and of avenues stretching cooled 218dp"Lynx" radial from Stoushenge as far as the engines; similar machines operated River Aven was first made clear in with exceptional regularity and this away. Other beautiful photo- success the services run between

graphs enable the archaeologist to Brisbane and Melbourne for some distinguish between arese cultivat- two years by Australian National ed by the Britons and the Saxons, Airways, and it was in an Avte though all traces have been lost of "Ten" machine that Sir Charles their furrows and ditches in the Kingsford Smith accomplished his course of more than a thousand high-speed mail flights between England and Australia acar the!

Few aspects of aviation are more end of last year.

glamorous than this looking back Carrying fuel load sufficient for into the past. Man's most modern fights non-stop of 400 miles, the vehicle carries him back to the Ten" has accommodation for dawn of history. Every day the eight passengers in a comfortable saloon cabin. Its guaranteed oruis ing speed is 100 miles an hour, though the craft employed by Aus tralian National Airways consis-

уецка.

of the days when the ox-aled was aproplane adds more to knowledge the only means of transport,

OCCASION.

BRITISH AVIATORS ENTER- TAIN FOREIGN CONFRERES.

London, Aug. 16.-British-private

tently averaged 105-107 m.ph. in AN INTERNATIONAL all weathers Maximum speed ja nearly 120 miles an hour and the craft climbs to a " ceiling" of 18,000 feet. Performance of this or der means that the times allowed on the new schedule for the fight of 300 miles between Palestine and] Baghdad are conservative; in prac-aeroplane owners are planning to tice they will frequently be improv-entertain in England a hundred specially invited foreign amateur ayers during the first days of next month. The scheme began to assume shaps some months ago in the wish of a small group of enthusiasts to do sqmething in return for hospital

ed upon.

"WORLD'S LARGEST

AEROPLANE.

FOR SERVICE IN SIBERIA.ity frequently meted out to them

The largest zeroplane in the world, the "A.N.T. 14, will soon be seen in Berlin. It has punts for forty persons, ave engines, all ing capacity of nearly six tons, and an average speed of 112 miles per hour.

abroad and should provide a strik ing demonstration of the real in ternational amity that exists among all who fly.

grace.

Orchestral. "Summer Days Suite" (Erie Coates).- New Queen's Hall Light Orchestra. "Wood Nyniphe" (Erid Coates) -New Queen's Hall Light Or chestra

"Tales from the Vienna Woods" (Strauss), Philadelphia Sym. phony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, "Love for Three Oranges" (Pokofief)-London Symphony Orchestra.

7.33 to 8.20 p.m.-

Light Opera...

8 p.m. Local time and weather.

report

A

sailar

We have here three novels by four

a Dramatis Story, women-roughly. 350,000 words. I

The first chapter relates how tion "Current Literature" wa Russian woman spy "planted" find that, of the 800 odd volumes Bctitious plans on a Germa classed as fiction in the July issue, who was in love with her, with the a fair half was the work of women. result that some of his country's In other words women writers are warships sailed into an ingeniously responsible for the stringing toge- prepared trap, More dramatio ther of some 25,000,000 words per the episode of the renegade German

300,000,000 words

avery sailor who supplied us with infor year! What an appaling prospect, John Knox, 'tis lucky you're deadl

When we come to examine our small sample of the sands of female's words, what do we find One slight

month!

story (By C. Dane and H. Simp- son) about a semi-dectective actor manager, written in., a pleasant style, but

with nothing in it to on-

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able it

it to rise above the level of a pleasant means of occupying a wet' afternoon, A book (by Ruby M. Ayres, who seems already to have over forty books to her "credit") about a girl called Simeone who is adopted by a may, with a velvet dinner-jacket, loves a poor man despite herself and seems to intend marrying a rich man with Gemea gammy leg. But the book was (Jones).-Light Opera Co. slovenly bound and when it jumps

and

"The Belle of Now: York"

Vocal Gema (Morton Kerkor), Columbia Light Opera Co. "The Geisha "Vocal

www

"The Quaker Girl" Gems (Monckton), Opera Co. "Veronique "

(Elder Messager). Light Opera Co

¿

Vocal Gems - Columbia

"Tom Jones"-Selection (Ger.

man). Reg. Band of H.M. inconsequently from p. 32 to p. 257 Grenadier Guards.

one doesnt find the style or the sub-i Vocal ject of sufficient interest to make one Light search for page 33. Arid one book (by L. J. Miln) which seems to deal with China. I gave up on page 11 (the third page of print) but "an 9.20 to 9 p.n." Symphony No. 8 accomplished female friend!?

in E Minor from the New aged to reach the end of the first World" (Dvorak, Op. 95) chapter before throwing the book! Played by Sir Hamilton Harty from her with an unladylike ex and Halle Orchestra,

(This Suite is by special pression denoting exasperation and request).

boredom.

9 to 9.30 pm ---

From the Studio,

0.30 to 10,37 p.m.-A programine of Selections by the Molody Team.

records from Z.B.W's Library,

DEATH

M&B-

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mation which assured his own death, He reported that U-boats would be leaving Zeebrugge on a given date for the English Channel, and the Information having been received in time, a strong, counter-attack was " prepared. But by a curious cir cumstance the spy was transferred at the last moment to a U-boat which was sunk in the Channel with all hands.

Another chapter relates how the Admiralty came into possession of plans for striking a blow at the Grand Fleet by an Iron Divl sion" of uusinkable, battleships, to ba plated with armour thicker than

that of any existing ship.

Students of naval warfare wil! be particularly interested in the account of the latest developments in gunnery and the investigation into the disappearance" at Ju land of the Black Frince and other ships. This is a valuable piers of

reconstruction.

THE PADRE'S STORY.

This ALSO HAPPENED ON THE WE

TERN FRONT. By Harry Black- burne, (Hodder and Stough. toni. 5.)

There have been war books and

to spare in the last fourteen years, Know, you old purian, I give you but Canon Blackburne gives us one a toast,

The Ladies, God bless from an entirely new angle. It is 'em."

in the form of extracts from letters By. written to his wife during the years (Lon- 1914-1918, from France; and it will ↑

at least prove to the lay mind that the life of a conscientious Army Chaplain was very far from being an easy one.

LEAVES US NAKED. Leonard Hollingworth. don: John Murray).

When one opens a book and finds the first word is "deod,” and a Scotland Yard Superintendant is G

A Concert. Song-"Annie Laurie." Song "Afton Water" (Burna).

-Mary Garden (Soprano). Violin Solo Concerto in

Minor Adagio (Bruch)inentioned in the second paragraph, irent from Mous, and at first the The record opens with the Re

Louis Zimmermann,

ご

it is not unreasonable to expeot to Vocal Duet The Swing Song" be thrilled by a detective story.

duties seem fairly simple, if un- (Mensager).

ending. There are funerals to ‘be "Death leaves us naked" is not, conducted, and a complete record Vocal Duet "Trot Here and

There" (Mossager). Winnie however, a detective novel, for the with map references of all graves Melville and Derels Oldham, murderer confesses, as yet unaus to be kept, Any spare time is oc Pianoforte Solo-" Sonata Appeated, on the last page, or there cupied in helping the doctors with passionata" (ín: F Minor) abouts, before succumbing to a heart their overwhelming task of dress (Beethoven). Harold Bauer,

attack. Bongs (a) "Jock the Fiddler"

ing wounds. (b) "The

Ballad-Monger" Nor is it thrilling, for it deals As the war setiles down to the (Easthope-Martín).

with the confusion into which more orderly affair of trenches, Songs~~ (4) Fairings" (b) non-conformist family is thrown by there are services to be taken be Come to the Fair" (East- the sordid vices of its head, a pro-tween funerals, the writer riding hopro-Martin).-Percy Heming (Baritone).

minent Baptist diving, when he from one regiment to another firet 'Cello Solo-" Goyescan "--Inter- comes to die.

on a horse and afterwards on a mezzo" (Granados).

Yet is the book pleasantly writ-bicycle. A little later clubs and a Cello Bolo Adagio" (Bachten and well, planned with a chap soup kitchen are organised-holy ·

Siloti-Casals)-Pablo Casals.

ter devoted to the evidence of each grocery," comments the Canon-fur witness. The characters of the wit- the men coming down exhausted nesses are neatly described in thir from the line; and occasionally the way but I found the parsons of the task of acting as anesthetist in the family somewhat, nebylous-probabField Ambulance falls to him. ly because it is not a type one com monly mesta..

31. G.

news.

10.27 p.m.--Rugby mid-day Press 10.30 p.m.-Close down

interpreter. A breakdown lorry in the shape of a large multi-en gined aeroplane, attended by two light aeroplanes, will patrol the

routes.

From the moment when the for The entertainment is planned to sign visitors land at Heston nero end with a flying meeting at druc, near Londen, till their de Lympne aerodrome, Kent, but avia parture they will be the guests of tion will not occupy the time to the the British pilots. None of them exclusion of other enjoyment. Cock-

Never before has a mass concen.

NAVAL SECRETS.

THEIR SECRET PURPOSES." By Hector C. Bywater. (Constable 108. dd.)

Mr. Hector Bywater's new book

Presently Canon Blackburne is. moved to headquarters to his sor row, away from his beloved brigade -and given the rook of Senior Chaplain to the First Army. There his work is rather diferent, and pro- bably more trying thin the

the actual

Imires.

dit,

contact with the men he so

It is a record of treme fioulties doggedly surmou The machine, which is Russia will be expected to spend a penny; į tail parties, dinner on the Thames about Naval Secret Service work the latter pages them, the hope is to be on service between Moscow the arrangements are coniplete for at Maidenhead, and banquets have during the Great War is powerfully the Church may not on Push T

somewhat wistfully expressed, that, and Vladivostok-& distance of their entertainment from the moru- been arranged.

written and evidently aims at a times of peber when the 6,900 miles, and will, it is hoped, |

wide rather than at a specialised has gained in tip of Mer provide the quickest connection being of September till late on

like Satel flat bume hap September 5. If the weather betration of private aircraft of manyudience. The whole story has not learnt their paddle Christianity. tween Western Europe and the ne, the programme includes flights | nations taken place in England. Yet been told, and no doubt, the in the forefront of the battle, will

The first of a series of similar pour, an alternative programm the British hoste, dround 150 craft

to Bristol and Liverpool; if it be With the aeroplanes belonging to Pficial. Secrets Act ensures that it never lose touch with the questing

human heart. Will not be pe

We yet while, but it ie machines built for the Soviet Gor- ernment, it is to come from Mos which eliminates these journeys will will be cruising together above Eng clear that the activitips of this de be immediately placed in operation. land during the visit. And mans partment were remarkably success coy to Berlín, sie Kovno and

British airmen will escort the guesta of the guests will arrive in ful, Mr. Bywater is not only an Konigsberg, and will stay in the about the country, each small for their own British light or authority on navel affaire-be is German capital a few days, mak-

bmation of three or five-machines planes no other country appros the Naval Correspondent of the ing demonstration fights over the having an English leader and enches Great Britain in the number

{{{ontinued ul foot of next column,) of these "aerocars" sold abroad. "Daily Telegraph—but kiss had per...

For East,

city.

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