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PERSIA SIDE-TRACKED

Air surveys have already establi

The uneasy régime which permit- shed themselves a much quicker ted British air liners to fly deross Question of Time Saying V Air-freight consignments, picked system than the ground survey met Persia is definitely ended, afer at random from way bills, hod. Recent work by the Air Sur years of argument and short term vey Company in the Sudan cecupi- agreements, and from now on the lands which now leave our London ed only about 18 months, as com Imperial Airways' 'planes will fol air-port, and are increasing to such parod with the period of 10 years low on their way to India a route an extent that, at the present time, which a ground survey would pro-along the Arabian shores of the from 60 to 80 tons of urgent mer bably have required. The method Persian Gulf. Though the new air- chandise, inward outward has been adopted for a variety of way is longer than the route across handle at Croydon purposes. It has been used for or Persia there is general relief at the dinary map making, for forest sur prospect of freedom from unsatis veys, for geological surveys, for factory dealings with the Persian engineering purposes, and for the authorities, and the operation of service of towo-planning schemes, highly efficient biplanes equipped An oil surveying expedition is with extra fuel tankage for the to be undertaken in Aus- longer stages demanded by the about

Arabian section will render un- tralia.

With normal visibility ordinary

necessary any lengthening of the photography has served remarkably scheduled time for the Egypt-India

journey. well, but there are some countrion and some secasions in all countries!

every week,

In addition to the growth of air freight on Continental routes the development

of Empire air-links has led to a rapidly-increasing vo lume of goods traffic from Londen, In the table herewith the actual air-transport times for urgent par eels, compared with thoss of the fastest surface routes,. are given in such typical cases as Cairo, Bagh- dad, Karachi, and Nairobi:-

by Air by Land & Destination

(days) Sea (days)

Caira

Baghdad.

3.

4

Karachi Nairobi

8-15 37 10-23 20

BOOKS and READERS

MR. MONTAGU NORMAN

A GREAT

FINANCIES

dle of August following upon the acceptance of the Bank of France eredits in support of the £

This holiday," according to Mr. Einzig, was as much due to

MONTAGU NORNAN: A Study in Fin-j

ancial Statesmanship. By Paul Einzig. Kegan Paul, 108. 6d. There can be no doubt that the diplomatic reasons as to ressons of Olympian detachment of Mr. Mon-health. Mr. Norman was opposed to the terms asked by the French, tagu Norman is. in great measuro

which, however, were supported by responsible for the controverRY which has grown up around his a majority of the Court of Direc long stewardship in Threadneedle tors. This was the first time that Street.

M

Mr. Norman had found himself on- posed by a strong section of his co- Directors on a vital issue.

Democracy always tends to mis

Time, however, in Mr. Einzig's trust what it cannot understand, and with. Mr. Norman, it is a car opinion, vindicated him in his con- dinal principle to bury his light tention that the French terms had unduly onerous, and his under a bushel. The veil that is been drawn across the Holy of Holics is unanimous re-election in November hot even lifted for the occupants of is described as his greatest personal the Holy Place, far less for the victory throughout his career. mob beyond.

**Rather than volunteer the briefest of explanations in defence of his policy," says Mr. Eintig," "Mr. Norman would go down to history as the cause of all our troubles."

CIRCUS SKETCHES

"Writ In Sand." By E. B. Oun-

ninghams Graham Heinemann,

For the halts at Bushire and Jask in which delays are caused by are substituted calls at Bahrein ground hate. Air surveys in such and Sharja, whence the air liners circumstances have been almost it will fly direct to Gwadar on the. possible. If it is found by further way to Karachi. Between Basra, experiment that the infra-red rays the point of divergence from the is that of a great public servant namo offhand the fewest books.

can be recorded through the haze, the process will certainly prove of the greatest value in this work,

Altogether 25 special flights have been made by a speciál photo grapher of The Times in the Air Survey Company's survey machine,

old route, to Gwadar along the Arabian shore is 1,070 miles, a dis- tance which the airway planea will accomplish with ease well with in two days.

If anybody were to ask who were The picture which emerges from the two best English writers of Mr. Einzig's well-balanced analysis whom the general reader could who may have made mistakes, but Many of us would say Mr. Cunning- who has nevertheless, conferred en- hama Grabam and Mr. Maurico during benefits on his country and Baring, with a shade' of odds in on the world in a time of unparal- favour of Mr. Graham.

This writer's lack of popularity leled difficulty. Mr. Norman's

"In comparing air charges for parcels or urgent packages with those by surface transport one must of course remember," remarked an official of Imperial Airways, "that

Emergency landing places have outstanding achievements, accord. is due to two things, the extra- speed has to be paid for, and that

been prepared at close intervalsing to Mr. Einzig, lie precisely in vagant sanity of his writing and time is money. The air charge a De Havilland Puss Moth which At first the idea was to employ fly that sphere in which a superficial, the fact that he insists upon writing for a 2 lb. parcel from London to has been specially adapted for this ing honts over the Arabian section, judgment would account him de about South America, a country in Cairo is, for example, 4/2d. For a work. The comparative, slowness, and here the raises made by Royal feated and discredited. He saw which nobody takes any interest, similar paréel by the fastest sur for air photography by the infr. Air Force flyingboats which are more clearly than anyone else that including the South Americans.

"Writ in Sand" is a delicious face route, via France, the poatal red process was the first difficulty stationed at Basra proved of great Britain's paramount economic in- chirge is 2/4d., but the vital point to be considered, in all cases of argency, is that the air journey zaves five clear days. Or take the case of a 21. parcel from London to Baghdad. Here the air rate is 8/3d, while the charge by the fast; est surface transit-France, Pales tine and the desert route,-i8 4/0d., and in this instance the air jour ney saves as many as gight days. And many other such instances can also be given now.

to be met. A mounting for the value. Study of the reports of the terests are inextricably bound up little volume of sketches about a camera sorbing completely the military flyers, revealed that all with the re-establishment, of stabla circus, a great unfamiliar artist and vibration caused by the engine and along the stretch of the Arabian international foundations of trade some horses, all set down by a first- To this end ho class horseman with a first-class-feel- propeller, and careful piloting by shoreline which is known as the and finance. an expert in survey flying, have Trucial Coast there are only two wrought silently but steadfastly in ing for literary style. overcome the trouble of movement. places which make safe harbours face of every obstacle, till the al-

Penetrating Power.

The photographs taken during these fights at different altitudes up to 20,000ft.

have

shown

Four Eastern Type Biplanes. Entrusted with the regular ope- ration of the new section are the

If the edifice is now ruins it is, the author's submission, due to M. Normann more than anyone else that there was any edifice to fall.

And it has fallen through causes. which lay wholly outside his cost- trol.

Mr. Graham defines the difference

"Genius, I tako it, is the power

of doing anything in such a way, that no one else can do it. That (and fifty other things) separates it from talent, for talent merely does in a superior way what other men can do,"

for marine aircraft. The position most universal. restoration of the between genius and talent, better was further complicated by the re-gold standard in the years follow-perhaps than it has even been de luctance of the shaikhs who holding 1025 bad appeared to crown his fined. power in those districts to agree to efforts.

peration of the air line over their the penetrating power of the new territories Then the Sheikh of process to be extraordinary. A Sharja offered to provide land for The value of air transport lies clean haze of light fog-can be pene an aerodrome and the problem was not only in its speed. A great nitrated to a great extent, but not 'n solved. vantage is the lessened risk of dam-fog which includes smoke and dirt, age iu transit, or of pilferage, such as is found over London on when a consignment is air-borne; most days. The colour values are and for this reason insurance very different from those obtained rates are cheaper by air than by on ordinary plates, and it is be- four "Eastern Type" four-engin other forms of transport. Many lieved that this will prove valuable ed Handley Page Type 42 biplanes valuable pictures, and works of in interpreting photographs of with their sisters on the Euro- art, are now consigned by airway. forests. It is probable that the difpean routes of the company the They not only travel swiftly, but ferent shades of foliage denoting laresgt landplane air liners yet at various species and types of trees commissioned in the world. Each receive individual attention

are handled will be shown more distinctly. The member of the fleet has been fitted every etage, and throughout with the utmost care. use of the infra-red process pro- with extra fuel tanks to bring its on the methods of camouflage hith.

The Gold Standard. The charge is now frequently heard against Mr. Norman that the restoration, at his instance, of the

EXTRAVAGANZA

"Black Mischiat." By Evelyn Waugh Chapman and Hall. £ sterling to its old parity in 1925 This book is an extravaganza involved the sacrifice of the broad-concerning a young negro educated er interests of the nation to out- at Oxford who finds himself om- worm traditions of financial reotiperor of an imaginary island off the, tude and to his policy of interna east coast of Africa, and the point tional stabilisation. To this Mr of the yarn is the extreme in

The absence of jolting of vilbra.mises to have an important bearing operating range up to 600 miles, Einzig replies that the gold stan-civility of the uncivilised nigger and tion, in air transport makes the air-erto adopted, as the ordinary at providing thus an ample margin dard policy, while it was unques-the open worge manners of the way an ideal means of transit for tempt to imitate Nature would un- for dependable fight over the long- tionably urged by Mr. Norman, civil servants sent out to look after

doubledly be revealed on the infra-est of the stages required, by the, delicate electrical apparatus, and red plate. Unusual discolorization new route. Generally the air liners cessive Government and Parlia

was also cordially endorsed by suc-him.

A good deal of the satire is such things as wireless valves and on the ground is also detected, so

ments, whose responsibility in loud-speakers, Urgently required that the new process may well lead will fly slightly out to sea, to

heavy-handed. The old ompress to geological and archaeological avoid as far as possible the sand therefore at least as great as his. could not make up her mind about medicines and vaccines are also discoveries. found frequently among our aerial The best results have been obtain. swept by the wind from the Ara He suggests, moreover, that a de- freight; The sending of livestocked with long focal length lenses. bian desert up to heights of as valuation of the £ might well have by flying routes such as day-old Those used have been British-mado: much as 10,000 feet and to ensure become the signal for an interna- chicks, pedigree dogs, and animals and supplied by Messrs. Taylor, comfortable bump-free" travel for for circuses and Zoos-has been and Hobson.The Times. nide on the increase lately. Spe- cial arrangemegnt are often made in such cases, and animals are fed

and cared for while in transit,

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proving as rule excellent air travellers.

"An interesting feature of our Empire traffic is the way in which tropical fruits are coming through

the passengers,

NEW JUNKER JU. 60' COMPLETED

"

Dessau, Nov. 2-The Junkeri

AIR SERVICES OF U.S.A.

DISTANCES OF TWO YEARS AGO NOW DOUBLED

New York. Twice as many miles

tional race in devaluation, which would have delayed stability, and would probably have left Britain in a position no more favourable than that in which she actually. found herself,

a steam-roller:-

The Metropolitan Archbishop (who was working with the Ameri can attaché on a half commission basis), supported a very magni- fioent engine 'camed Pennsylvania Monarch; the Prince Consort, whose persound allowance was compromised by any public extra- vagance, headed a party in favour of the more modest Kentucky Midget."

And there is a familiar ring

about

For the last four days Basil had been on a racket. He had woken up an hour ago on the sofy of a totally strange flat.. There was a gramophone playing. A lady in a dressing jacket sat in an armchair by the gas fire, eating sardines from the tin with

Mr. Einzig is further of opinion that Mr. Norman's policy was in to the London markets by air. Works announces the completion of

no way, contributory, as has been Hitherto, in the case of fruits the first of a new "Ju. 60" type which ripen quickly, the time oc of speed-plate built for the "Luf

asserted in some quarters, to the cupied by surface transport has thansa," Germany's foremost. sir

The new all-metal as in 1930 are being flown by re- catastrophic fall in world prices, precluded them from reaching the corporation A few weeks ago a South Ameri-markets here in prime conditions; machine is stream-lined throughout, can State, anxious to augment its but now, taking for example the is provided with a special under-gular United States air services. that he is for from being the in military air service, invited-ton- case of mangoes, this much-prized chrringe which during the flight can This is shown by a report issued by vetorate deflationist he is often the Aeronautical Chamber of Com-imagined to be, and that he has fruit can be transported from be withilrawn into the body so as

paid much more attention to in- ders for 12 military aeroplanen. Egypt to London in net more than to decrease the air resistance, and merco of America.

A total of 10,535,570 miles were The contract was secured by the about 60 hours if it is consigned by is, for the same purpose, entirely

painted with polishing-varnish. The fown by regular air services dur-dustrial interests in his, discount Fairey Aviation Company, Limit- air-mail."

The progress of parcel and goods plane is furthermore equipped with ing the first five months of 1939, policy than he is generally credited ed, of Hayes, Middlesex.

transport by air during the past an air-cooled 450 hp. motor and compared with 9,000,474 in 1030 and with,

Dealing with the crisis of last: The machines-ordered to be built eight years in indicated by figures will attain & cruising speed of 14,331,544 miles during the same

neriod of 1031 and ready for dispatch from Eng now available as to the loads car nearly 250-miles-per-hour-

Its length is 13 metres and its Passengers totalling 176,201, or year, Mr. Einzig emphasies the land by October. 1. They were ried from year to year by Imperial shipped to America. The name of Airways. These show that whereas width across the wings 15 metres. more than 1,500 daily, were carried part played by Mr. Norman in the purchasing State is kept secret in 1924-25 approximately 10,000 lbs. It can carry 2 pilots and 4 passen during the five-month period in initiating the Hoover moratorium.

1932, an increase of 32 per cent under the terms of the contract. I of parcel-mail were air-borne in gern.

The type of machine selected was and out of London in the Com The trial flights of this new compared with the same period He traces feud between Mr. Nor-

men and France which began with Mr. Waugh's plan was to thinkd the Fairey Corden general purpose pany's machines, this figure had,plano, which has the licence pum last year. aireraft (550 hp. Armstrong Sidde by 1920 £7, increased to 70,000 15, ber D2100, are engerly expected in Air Express packages which to ley Pantier engine). The maxi and in 1031-32 to more than 100,000 German avton curden had the talled only a little over 100,000 the Bank of England's last minute of an island of cannibals to whose Crump's clientèle out of an earlier mum speed of this machine is about lbs. Altogether, since Imperial Press is filled with descriptions of pounds at the end of the first five support to the Austrian Croditans vile bodice he could add Lottie 150 miles an hour. Floats can bs Airways began operations in 1994, the machine and of surmises as to months of 1830, totalled 640,804 at talt and culminated la his domovel. The book will be deemed

parture on "holiday" in the mid wildly funny by the intelligenteia substituted for the land under its aircraft love carried just on its practical adaptability.Trans the end of the same period tLis

удат garrings within an hour.

6,000 tons of narcels and goods, ocean Kuomin,

a shoe horn. An unknown man in shirtalceves was shaving, the

glass propped on the chimney- piece;"