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MOLLISON'S GREAT FLIGHT.

AIR TRANSPORT

ENTERPRISE.

STRAIN OF TIWENTY HOURS SCOTMISH-IRISH SERVICE.

CONCENTRATION.

NEW RECORDS ESTABLISHED.

PROPELLER FALLS OFF

STAINFORTH GLIDES 14 MILES TO SAFETY.

Farnborough (Hants). →Flight- Licut (icorge Hedley Stanforth, A.F.C., the famous R.A.F: airman, who holds the world air speed re- cord of 407.5 miles an hour, took up a new British Bulldog 'plane to test

Stainforth was not a bit diacon. certed. With perfect calm he start ad te manoeuvre the propellerless machine.

And he made a perfest landing near Odiham after gliding nearly fourteen miles through the air..

The first of an entirely new type of British aeroplane, designed and built at Croydoc aerodrome by the General Aircraft Company, wan

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The Summer Flood, by Caronwy Rees, a d. riet. (London: Faber and Faber.)

BATTLE, MURDER, CHIPPENDALE CHAIR.

revolution.

Adventure

Blackcock's Feather, by, Maurice, Mexican Walsh, 78. dd, net.' (London: Chato-rushes pell-mell upon adventure, and Klig's Crew face death in sud- bers.)

King's Crow, by Frank R. Adams cessive horrid forms are the last 7 od not. (London: Constable) chapter sacrifices, poor George to a English Comedy," by John C. happy conclusion. A sequel is in- Moore, 78 6d net. (London: Dent.) evitable.

Billy Ditt, by Thomas Roba, IN SEARCH OF ENGLAND.

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From such animated scenes one 78 ed net, Boon.)

turns to the quietness of the Eng- lish countryside, and Mr. Moore is the most pleasant of company aa ho leads us by lane and hedgerow Mr. Walsh has apparently writ-"

through the southern shires. His ten his latest novel as a holiday hereus are John Benilac and Jere- The from his more serious art, for he mish Tillinghast Browne.

plain cloak-and-'

former is a solicitor's clerk who entitles it "a sword story"; but in characterisa comes into a small degacy and is tion and descriptive writing it is sacked for turning a lensa ipto no whit inferior to anything he blank verse; the latter is New

historical

Englander who flees from the bur romance it may be, built of the den of excessive wealth. Together" materiala common to the type they go in search of England, trie battle and duel, flashing swords, real Engineel that knows nought beautiful maidens, gallant foes of law offices and newspapers and and brutal tyrante, hairbreadth es frenzied taxi-cabs. John's adven- tures start when he becomes part of a Communist demonstration on a very tama

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London, August 10" Air ferry ing over comparatively short dis- |tances, usually above water, is a fit.

form of air transport that is par when he was ten thousand feet London, August 23.

ticularly well suited to certain re-above the earth, between Reading Mollison's marvellous Transatlan.gions of the British Isles. This and Odiham, the propeller of the CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., Ltd. tie fight has demonstrated to the week a trial flying boat, servico will innchine bruke aff.

It fell-still world once again the matchless begin plying between Glasgow and spinning-near some cottages on the skill of British pilots and the Belfast down the Firth of Clyde Hampshire-Berkshirs border. efficiency and trustworthiness of and above the North Channel British aircraft. Flying in a small which separates Ireland from south cabia monoplane similar in all main western Scotland. Down in the details of construction to craft south of the country passengers are flown by amateur pilots in many carried between London and the lands he spanned the ocean alone in Isle of Wight by a combined conch- 22 hours, passing over Halifax air air service which substitutes a fight port, Nova Scotia, the morning of a few minutes across the Solent after he had ascended from Port for the hour or more that must be marnock Strand, near Dublin. spent in the ferry boat. Other NEW BRITISH AEROPLANE. as yet produced. An

Only the worst weather luck foil-"ferry" air services are planned for the Western Isles and the Isle ed his attention to reach; New York

of Man, non-stop. Over the North American const dense fog and low cloud beld The Belfast Glasgow service means sway; fatigued with the strain of startling eut in the time for the his long ocean crossing and held journey. Experimental fights have delivered to their first customers capes and wedlock in the, inal! back by adverse wins Millison was taken thirty minutes for the trip, yesterday. The new maching, which chapter-but it is immune from the unable to find a

way quickly as against several hours by the is called the Monospar, because it garish artificiality that is almost "i Di," but it is through the murk, and finally he fastest steamships and, with the aid has only spar under each wing, is inalienably associated with the little adventure, for Jerry is not landed at Pennfield Ridge, New of motor launches and motorcars, built very much on the same lines name. The protagonists are real for wrong in his discovery that Brunswick. There and at St. John's the journey is made in the utmost as the modern notor-car, the struc though not storical, and the everything in England is a kind scene, if it is not the actual Irish of a joke." Their next encounter he had a great reception, only ex comfort and with the least possible ture of the plane, which is of me cceded two days later when he exertion on the part of the passen tal, being built on to a chassis. countryside, deserves to be so. The of any importance is with Robin, of Queen who remains throughout the novel reached New York.

His total ger.

It is driven by two Pobjoy-Hadical period is the reign

Elizabeth, and the narrator of the a fugitive, knowledgeable figure, flying time for the Dublin New York

engines, and can be flown with a journey was 30 hours.

full load on one engine, The Mono- tale is one who fights desperately symbolic of the English country- spar, which of the cantilever in the doomed cause of the Irish. side. But just as English in their A deur, ugly syordsman he is son

own way are "Good Old Joe," the monoplane type, with a large on-

of a proud, penniless Scot who racing tipster, Ferdie Fawkes and closed fireproof cabin, carries a pilot and three passengers, and is lost his fortune in the service of his Follies, Mr. Gosling of the his Queen and of an Irish bride Green Dragon, Marion who lives capable of a speed of 139 miles an hour. It is stated that the Mono- willingly abducted from her noble and loves mostly on horseback, and spar shows a saving in wright of family. This gallant Gael, at a the pathetically heroic Death Rid- from 30 to 40 per cent, over contem- loose end upon the death of his ers of the travelling circus. The porary types, and an outstanding father, sets off for Ireland with no whole saga is redolent of quaînt set purport in his mind, is almost and contradictory England with feature is the case with which it can

woo to the Englian side by the ite simple courage and its lovable. be manoeuvred on the ground,

chivalrous Sir Francia Vaughan, swindlers, a back not to be missed but, falling into the company of by anyone who is, like the Ameri- TO BECOME "AT HOME IN two ardent young Irish patriots, can dreaded af Jorry, inclined to.

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Queen Bess' men. Soon the black- cock's feather, which is the sole

It is the same England that is homage of this saturnine Celt to A member of the council of the the decorative in dress, is familiar reflected in Mr. Rohan's quiet British Oliding Association states throughout all Northern Ireland. tale. The author has already made that by taking a pupil in a towed His main object in life is not real- bis reputation as an antique deal- er with a soul and with the ability glider up to a height of 10,000ft.,ly the emancipation of a con- and then releasing the glider to quered country but vengeance on to write entertainingly of the ob descend in the care of the pupil, the captain who slew his friend jects he loves. It is still for theso much of his training can be easily like a rat and is now, of course, qualities that he will be esteemed.

paying court to the Hero's beauti- As a novel his "Romance of and safely undergone.

It takes about one hour for a ful sweetheart. There may be those Chippendale Chair", has. empty and terrifying waste of which carry altogether 162 gallons and in the course of that hour the olash of weapons that rings out in censorious literary critic. The of fuel. When he rose into the pupil acquires familiarity with the almost every chapter (we als have framework of the story, the at- Records.

air from Portmarnock Strand the control of an aroplane and become our misfortunes), but even they tribution of the narrative to the His flight broke old records and machind weighed no less than 2,754 quite at home in the air. On the will feel the loveliness of hillaide chair itself, has a established new ones. He accompounds, of which 1,438 pounde learner's type of glider, be cannot and lonely village as they encoun ter them on David Gordon's wan plished the swiftest serial crossing more than the inladen weight of go wrong, provided he has had one yet made from cast to west of the the aircraft-represented the load or two brief preliminary exercises derings, and will sigh over the peacefulness of the waters in North Atlantic. He is firat to fly of fuel, 63 gallon of lubricating oil with it.

and the pilot. This "useful" load:

which wise old Father Senan an. the North Atlantic in a light aero- plane and first to cross alone on in equivalent to the combined the westward trip. Before him, weight of nine aduits. only three much larger and more powerful aircraft had flown success fsly from east to west, and eich of them carried a crem of two or three airmenter

This is the third and greatest of the flights credited to the Scoth fyer, who in only 27 years of age, He also holds the record for the. fastest journey from Australia to

Ho planned to fly most of the way. with the engine running on about half throttle, cruising in still air nt 105 mph

Fuel consumption was rather more than 20 miles to the gallon and bis maximum theore- tical range was therefore in the neighbourhood of 3,500 miles and his endurance 3 hours. In addi- tion to the compassc relied on a pitch indicator and a

Mollison

The cost by comparison with the same flying time spent in power-gles for trout. driven aeroplanes in. trifling.

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naivėte that

rany be charming but is entirely unconvincing. The adventures that befall the chair during its passage' from Chippendale's workshop in 1760 to mansion, cottage, brokers shop, and auction introduce the reader to characters completely and conventionally English, and to idylls of family life. The title is derived from the name of a dealer who, reclaimed from drunkenness, attains the summit, of human bliss which, for Mr. Itohan, is an un- derstanding love of old things.

"Blackcock's Feather" is, then, a thriller but a toriller of liter ary quality."King's Crew" is a thriller pure and simple. It has, however, the added grace of hu- In England, big-visioned electri- moar too often absent from sur re

Objectively viewed, the story that cians are forcasting that street paid light literature. It is cpp- lighting will Lecome so effective fessedly, in fact almost truculent- r, tees has to tell is quieter-and- that motor drivers will not need to ly, imitative of the "Beau fleste" less eventful than any of the four switch on their headlights.

cycle, but the differences are suf- here dealt with, being simply the

of how Owen and his Speaking to his shareholders late foient to make forgiveness easy, narrative? Sigland, accomplished in severn turn indicator for guidance when hours less than nine days, and the flying blind" in cloud or misty Sir Hugo first, one of the and the flippant dialogue, if imita- cousin Nest fell in love with one "Big Four" who visited Mel- tive, is undeniably homorons. The another and died in a storm. But England Cape Town record of 41

Mechanics sont to New York by bourne a few years ago, and chair-band of adventurers in this case is the whole book is surcharged with days. It is fitting also to recall

the Canadian branch of the de man of the General Electric Com the Californian family named emotion, and the pace,, at time that the first Transatlantic fight Havilland company found on in-pany, said that the company had King, David the oldest and gentle with the calm Bow of Weith in history from Newfoundland to

but village life, at others rushes tor Ireland was achieved in 1919 by spection that aeroplane and engine for some time been experimenting adored, Stanley tho small

with an entirely new kind of lamppugnacious, and his twin sis-rentially onwards with intoxicating John Alcock and Arthur Whitten were in perfect condition which, for the moment, it called tot, whose likeness to him is dis- speed Owen's is a case of divided Brown in a British wartime bomber Loader, chief of the Canadian con- the hot cathods lamp,

tressing to him, but ultimately of loyalties, one part of his nature service to the author. King's clinging to the unsophisticated equipped with extra tanks, and that

This inventimi would says 70 per Crew, admits, no stranger until the ways of big fathers, the other pas corn. was able to

to report to London

cent of current compared with advent of the giantic bat childish-sionately

the the first west to east crossing of

recolling from the South Atlantic is credited to that the unching looked as if it had flown fifty miles, instead of (Continued on next Column.)

nearly 3,500. No replacements were required, and the oil gauge showed at St. John's, New Brunswick, that only. 31 millions-half the supply carried-has been consumed in the thirty hours of continuous flying.

TARZAN

ARRIVES TO-MORROW

the present standard Inup: Owingly attractive motor lorry driver stamping love, of his family that to its brilliance and efficacy, it whom they collide with and then endloses him around and thats him would probably lend itself, in the fight. The story really commences off from the outside world which with the murder of Themayns, a Oxford has taught him to love. It first instance, to street lighting.

visualize said Sir Hugo, the possibility of lighting with those lamps artarini ronds between London and such cities as Bir mingham, Bristol and Glasgow. Motor cars will then be able to opted along at night without the necessity of headlights.

financier with whose wife David might be objected that the author King is openly intimate, David spends too much time telling de and Holen diappear, a messenger about Owen instead of getting arrives who is murdered on the ghead with his story and trusting Kings threshhold and the quest to our inteligente for the rests for the missing men leads the but the fine lyric fervour of what, twins and the adopted member of despite its tragic ending, is an the crew into the middle of idyll, silences criticism. Ve