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ENGINEERING

POWER FROM RHINE

BIG ALSATIAN SCHEME

Paris-The first stage of a pro- ject conceived over 30 years ago for

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1932.

AND BUILDING

RECLAMATION WORK IN

ITALY

FIVE MILLION ACRES IN SEVEN YEARS

a canal at Kemb, Alsace, in com- Rome. A comprehensive exhibit bination with a system of hydro-1 of all the land reclamation works electric power, was brought to in Italy will be opened in connec.

THE 1931 CRUISER PROGRAMME

TWO STROKE, SINGLE ACTING, 8 CYL. DIESEL

ORDERED BY AUSTRALIAN SHIPOWNERS

of John G. Kincaid & Co., Greenock, announces a contract to construct and fit a set of two-stroke single acting eight cylinder Diesel THREE SHIPS ORDERED BY engines on the Burmeister and

ADMIRALTY

Considerable satisfaction will be felt in shiplatilding circles at the

the orders for the three cruisers au- thorised in the 1031 programme.

BRITISH ORCHESTRAS AS WORLD'S BEST

ON

SIR THOS. BRECHAM

NATIONAL INFERIORITY

COMPLEX

It is painful to have to admit it, but in artistic matters Britain still, as in the past, is too much the rubbish heap of Europe," said Wain system. for a new ship to be Sir Thomas Boecham, the noted built by Barclay, Curte & Com-conductor of the newly formed pany, of Glasgow, for Burns, Philp London Philharmonic Orchestra, & Co., Australian ship-owners.! when interviewed in London. This is the first order of its kind "I have now formed an orches

PARACHUTE LEAP TOO LATE

NOSE-DIVE INTO A FIELD

Great Ponton.-Two flying officers

Cadburys

TOFFEE

AND NUTS SWEET AND PRESH

of the No, 3 Flying Training School John D. HUTCHISON & CO Attached to Spittlegats Aerodrome,

near here, were killed when the engine of the airplane in which they were travelling ceased to function.

They were

Flight-Lieut. Harold Clande Marett and

Acting Pilot Officer Adrian Kin- ross White.

realization in the presence of M. tion with the agricultural exhibi. / decision of the Admiralty to placeniaced in Great Britain. All pre-tra which contains the finest play. belonging to Captain R. W. New-

Lebrun, the President of the Retion. public, M. Herrist, the Prime Mini The ister, and other members of the .(lovernment.

The work so far achieved cons'sts first of a barrage across the Rhine

land hitherto roclaimed amounts to five million acres in the Just seven years. The Government has already spent 3,000,000,000 fire (33,000,000 at pas), and intends to

Two of these vessels, the Ajax and Amphion, with a standard dis placement of 7,000 tons, will be of

The machine crashed into a field on the Great Ponton Heath Farm,

vious orders were for the four-ors in the country, and no players ton, of Grantham. 'cycle single and dotibile Reting are finer than those of Britain," Sir Thomas went on, "but year after year foreign orchestra visit us, and in spite of the dublous playing of some of their sections,

type.

the Leander class, while the third, ger in the aft superstructure, and

Stunt Tlight.

The machine was just coming out. of one of a series of stunts, and was about 200 feet above the

which raises the level of the river spend another eight or ten mil. the Arethusa, will be a smaller ves it is probable that this 'modifiensach orchestra is acclaimed as if it ground, when the engine stopped.

by nearly 23ft. It is divided into five basins, with electrically operat sluices. The canal itself is about 31 miles long and 30ft, deep. For

liards.

now

appor.

land ig This tioned out to the actual workers with families, who receive a small farmhouse with stable and sheds,

sel of 5,430 tons standard displace Dion will also be incorporated, in ment. On the completion of this the five later ships. Details of the

1999 Arousa are not yet available. programate, and of there of

Destroyers, etc, and 1030, the Navy will possess six vessels of the Leander class, the

Flight-Lieutenant Marett imme diately jumped from the machine with his parachute, which, how- ever, failed to open at that short distance above the ground. He was

were the only orchestra,

"Only in Britain would people take these foreign visitations lying down. If I took the London Phil-killed instantly.

the last mile and a quarter of its for which they pay a small initial | Leander, Neptune, Orion, Achille. In addition to the three oruisers, harmonic to New York, and on

.length it is divided into two acc- tious, one serving a lock and the other supplying energy to a hydro- electric power station now in pro Ceas of construction,

over

The power station, which should be completed within a year, is to be the largest in Europe, produe

h.p. 200,000 ing with 700,000,000 kilowatt hours annual ty. It will supply the whole of enstorn France and Paris also. The cont of the work to date is

sun. Eventually they become own- era on easy terms.

The number of labourers employ in land improvements has in- reased from 25,000 to 85,000 in the Land reclamation is an essential space of five years, part of the Government scheme for increased wheat production, which has already yielded satisfactory re- suits, in nine regions of Italy.

A new wide motoring road be- tween Florence and the sea

wes

650,000,0001, (£5,500,000 gold), muchpened in October. The road is 4-in. of it having been carried out of account of reparations in kind from Germany.

garded as one of the most suo- cessful public works carried out by the Fascist Government during its ten years' regime, and it is to be formally inaugurated on the tenth anniversary of the famous march

on Bonne.

Armament.

They mount eight 6-in, guns, four anti-aircraft guns, and two in. multiple anti-aircraft guus; and have six 21-in. torpedo tubes in triplo mounts. The eight ein. guns are mounted in pairs in four turrets; representing a return earlier practice.

The Builders.

cf

Was

по

Tribute to Air Heroes. "To congratulate you on the

At the same moment the machine earth with Acting Pilot Officer the 1931 programme embraced the its behalf, made the claims that per-nose-divad and buried itself in the Ajax and Amphion.

The vessels of this class represent construction of one leader and haps I might be entitled fairly to White crushed among the debris. We all rushed to see if we could a reaction from those of the 10,000.įeight destroyers, four sleeps, three make, the noise caused by the Lind He, too, was killed at once.

save the officer in the airplane," a ton Treaty type which have been submarines, a shallow draft gun-berg baby tragedy wouldn't be in widely criticised. They have a boat, a mining tentier, and a vessel it for the attacks which would be farm labourer stated. "We had a for boom defence. The contract for directed against us from every pos hard task cutting away the fusel age, and when we did we found length of 554 ft., a beam of 33 ft. 2

sible quarter." the the eight destroyers, two

Explaining how the orchestra the officer dead. There in, and a inean draught of 18 ft.

submarines, two of the sloops, and

cama to be formed, Sir. Thomas fire." the auxiliary craft remains to be said that he was supplying a de-

mand, as such an organisation was! placed, the programme having been needed by Mr. Harold Holt for his greatly retarded in the interests of aclebrity tours, by Mr. Samuel Courtauld for his concerts, and by Mr. Robert Mayor for his chil- economy.

Of the earlier 7,000-ton cruisers, dren's concerts. There was no free laid down in Government terests represented by these gentle the Leander, Neptune and Orion orchestra worthy of the various in- to yards, and the contract for the men, so they came to Sir Thomas Achilles was placed with Mess, and asked him to form ono, using Cammell Laird. Of the two re-only the best material and the beat Parsons Geared Turbines.

maining cruisers, the contract for leadership in the country. The propelling machinery con- both the hull and machinery of the sists of Parsons' general turbines, Ajax has been placed with Messrs. Vickers-Armstrongs, while Messrs. ruplo serew type with a designed William Beardmure and Company shaft horse-power of 72,000 to give will build the machinery for the H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth. The a speed of 32 knois. It is tinted Amphion, the bull being built in that the 6-in guns will be con- stricted on the auto-frettage" sys-hull for the Arethusa will be built tem instead of being wire wound. in the Chatham yard, the order for The original designs of the Lenn- the machinery having been placed

Turbine Company – Engineering. der were modified to include r. ban with Messrs. Parsons Marine Steam

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The man responsible for the plan and its extention is. M. René Koe ristin,

himself no Alsatian. Its achievement comes as the reward of long years of tenacions single- mindedness in the face of the strongest opposition. I 1002. M. Koechlin approached the German rights on the Rhine encouraged the authorities with a detailed scheme! Alsatian engineer to return to the for a canal in right sections, ench attack. After long negotiations with with its own hydro-electric power the Interiational Commission for and the vessels are of the quard station. At that time the German Navigation on the Rhine, permis Government was less than sympansion was finally given and work thetic to any project likely to re- began in 1927. The work so far duce the economic supremacy of the completed is, of course, only a part German Rhineland provinces, and of M. Koechlin's scheme, and the M. Koechlin was forced to let the French authorities intend eventual natter drop. The restoration byly to continue it, but the high cost the Versailles Trenty of French ankes any immediate continuation

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"It is a popular delusion that you have only to get together a

you have an orchestra, he con body of players, no matter how heterogeneous it may be, and there tinued.

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noble way you gained your profi tion, Love, Angela," was the in- "Love from scription on a wreath to Flying Officer Page, and Pator, splendid passing, old boy" was inscribed on a wreath to Pilot Officer Gully at the funeral at Winchester of the victims of the

Full military honoure air disaster at Godalming, given. Corporal Brooks and Air- craftmon Quane and Ralphs, who jumped from the falling airplane. gave a farewell salute at the gra-

veside

,

wêre

ake "Although British players

fors would atrophy, one might say among the finest in the world an essential in the formation of sterilise, the finest combination,

concerts under second-rate conduc-l-ship." Grat-class orchestra is continuous just as would playing for five years Grat-class leadership. Half a dozen without a change in conductor-

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