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LONDON, May 23. the river and shipping area, and we Two hundred chief officers of fireman the Customs fire-boat us well. brigades in England, Scotland, and I consider it a great honour to buvve Ireland, with visitors from Paris, been in command of such a loyal India, and the Far East, met in and indefatigable body of zien as conference in the Town Hall, Man! the brigade proved themselves to be.

All broken, chaled sad damaged Goods chester, yesterday, the conference be. The greatest credit, I think, shouldare to be left in the Godowna, where ing the thirty-first of the Profession- go to the men who manned the they will be sramined on any Tuesdays al Fire Brigades Association. station at Hongkew, which was and Fridays between the hoof Among the delegates is Mr. J. G. within two hundred yards of No: 10,45 M. and Noor within the Fros Dyson, chief of the fire department | Man's-Land. A hundred shells felf Storage period.

No Claims will be admitted after the in Shanghai.. Mr. Dyson was in within fifty yards of that station.

and all Goods remaining undelivers The Air Ministry announces the charge of the brigade's operations From January 28 to March 2 the Goods savo left the Steamer's Godowy Fridays, between the hours of 10,45 80.

There after the 18th June, will be subject TAK LUNG|| @Ṁpointment of Group Captain while the Japanese were bombarding trouble was at its height.

were fifteen foreigners and thirty to Rent. O.B.E., Shanghai, and is in England on Sydney William Smith, ROW Station Commander. Royal leave after what he himself describ. Chinese at that station, and they Air Force, Manston, to be Officer ed in an interview with a Machen stuck to their post, and the four thoir tower, though Commanding Royal Air Force, ter Guardian reporter as "one of watchmen to Far East, from about October, the busiest and most strenuous times the whole area was deserted and any fire brigade in the world has they themselves in constant danger. 1933, vice Group Captain A. H.

Their pluck was worthy of the high- Jackson.

ever had."

est traditions of fire-fighting. Dur-. Group Captain Smith was conded to the Royal Flying Corp went out to China after serving in

Mr. Dyson is a Windsor man, and ing the bombardment, they turned th Jass, 1933.

nut to eighty fires. Every day they from the Royal Artillery i

hrave Jesuit September, 1914, and after a period the war as a fire inspector in the were visited by a of service in France was employ Royal Air Force. He says that he priest, Brother Faust, who refused ed first as flying instructor and has never, even during the experi- to leave the district, and the chair- then in command of various trainences of fast year, regretted going man of the Council in Shanghai, General McNaughton, ing and other units at home. In out to China, and he is looking for Brigadier

We August, 1919, he obtained a per- ward to taking new appliances and also paid them several visits." nnnent commission in the R.A.F. the latest apparatus back to Shang-turned out in all to 900 fires last and later served in the Middle East hai when he returns. His jurisdic year." and Iraq Commande, participating | tion extends throughout the Inter- in the first transfer of a complete national Settlement and over cer- squadron by air from Egypt to tain territory beyond known

The Iraq. On return to this country" specially rated, areas. in 1923, he took a two years" population of the whole territory. course at the Staff College, Can which is covered by his brigade is berley, and successively served as more than 1,100,000. He has 630 chief air staff officer at Cranwell and on air staff duties at the Air Ministry until appointed in 1929 to command the R.A.F. Flying Boat Station at Cattewater (now Mount Batten). In 1931 he was appointed station commander, at Manston.

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Chief Officer Westbrook, of the Calcutta Fire Department, inter-OPTIMA," viewed by a Manchester Guardian reponter, also spoke of the great difficulties which had attended fire fighting in Calcutta during recent years. The communal troubles in the last three years had given them a great deal of work to do, he said. They had to face the prob lem of incendiarism, and some- fimes had to turn out to 19 In some ways the system of fight many as 91 fires a day. That figure Two hundred aircraft will take ing fres in Shanghai is still was not really as great as it seem part in the fourteenth Royal Airpedieval,, for watch-towers are ined, because it was a common thing ForceDisplay at Hendon on Satur- us, six in all, placed in various for them to be called to as many as day, June 24, and among them will parts of the city. Here specially fires a day. That was, indeed, le several which have gained fame trained observers keep watch the normal figure. Many of the fires by their performances.

hours a day, and a third of the fires broke out in jute mills. The incen- The two British aeroplanes which to which the brigade goes out are diarism was largely due to religious hold the world's long-distance re-reported from the watch-towers. hostility. Hindus would set fire to cord and the altitude record the The remainder are reported by Mohammedan houses and temples, R.A. Fairey-Napier Ing-range telephone. When the new central and rice rece. Throughout all the monoplane which flew nonstop fire station, which was already trouble, his staff, which was part from Cranwell to Walvis. Day, planned, is completed it will be English and part Indian, had re- South Africa, and the Vickers possible to institute the system of mained perfectly loyal.

They had Bristol Wespa which attained height of nearly 44,000ft. will both alarms in force in most cities of the motor engines in Calcutta and 11 be seen in the special aircraft world. Mr. Dyson was emphatic, stations, park, and also in the fly-past of Bowever, in his praise of the obser new and experimental types. The vers on the towers, each of whom two Westland aeroplanes used by has an area of slightly more than the Houston Everest Expedition a square mile to cover. It may be going back to the days of the for their Everest flights will be on view and will give a flying de Roman Empire," he said, "but it monstration. None of these ma- is a surprisingly efficient method chines has been exhibited in public for all that." Mirrors were placed round the observer so that he could One of the most interesting of see all corners of his area at once. racent developments in civil flying He was supplied also with power- is the new simplified autogiro, fui field-glasses, but many of the which dispenses with the normal observers preferred to use the naked rudder and wing ailerons and is eye. Many nationalities were repre- controlled by tilting the rotating sented in these observers, For vunes. One of these machines will tuguese, Spaniards, Indians, Kore. be flown at the display,, and an ans, and Fillipinos. Very often old-type autogiro for comparison. they reported fires as far as three quarters of a mile away, in a con gested aren, and got the location right to the actual street. Some of the towers were 50ft. high and were situated on the tops of hotels and other tall buildings. During the trouble last year when tele- phonos were all out of order, the observers were the eyes of the de- partment and were of invaluable eer- vice.

before.

New Mail Carrier.

The new fast mail-carrier, which has been built to the order of the Air Ministry by Messrs. Boulton and Paul, will make its first pub- lic appearance on this occasion. It in a twin-engined biplane of a total of 1,110 h.p.,, with a top speed of nearly 200 miles an hour.

The fastest aeroplane at the dis- play will be the experimental

Bombardment and Fires, - Hawker Fury, a single-seat inter ceptor fighter developed from the Speaking of the heavy work which standard Fury, with which several the brigade had to do during the Home Defence squadrons of the bombardment, Mr.Dyson said that RA.F. are equipped. In this now between 15,000 and 20,000 houses version, which is now undergoing were burnt. Often they were called final tests at Martlesham, the maxi-out to a fire which was a quarter mum speed has been increased from of a mile in length when they got 207 to about 250 miles an hour, to it, and it fell to his lot to decide and it is believed by the Air Minis in which direction it was best to try to be the fastest military ma concentrate the brigade's efforts chine in the world. Several of the Some streets could be saved. Others latest single seat fighters and tor had to be left to burn. Most of the pado-bomber aircraft will be pre- houses were: two-storey buildings, sent. A Hawker Horsley soroplane others four stores in height. As a will demonstrate the new Ros rule it was a question of preventing Royce Condor compression ignition the fire from spreading rather than engine the only heavy-oil engine so

of putting out what was already far fitted in & British machina..

alight. There has been nothing like it in fire-fighting anywhere," said Mr. Dyson. We wore work- WEST SIBERIA AIRLINES ing at high pressure all the time of the bombardment. When we took Moscow, May 29-Five new local over the business of fire-prevention: u Chapei during its occupation by airlines are to be "established in the Japanese, we found, sheila, had Western Siberia, covering the most burst the watermains and there was important districts. Included in the water to be had, except from the lines will be theen circuite-North river. So we put a fire float on the Omak; and Novovibirski

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The Paris System.

Captain Maurruelle, of the Paria sapeurs-pompiers," explained in an interview that the fire brigade, in Paris was part of the infantry. and was, therefore, distinct from the purely civll brigades in this Washington, May 28. The combine to make him such a dis- country. The Bremen had light Japanese Emperor has cabled to tinctive and popular comedian, in military duties to do as well as their President Roosevelt his appreciation his new film, " It's A King." The fire-fighting work. The system was of the reception given to Viscount picture has an idead setting, fulf of so highly organised that no engine Ishti The message said, I am colour and spectacle. had to travel more than three kilo convinced that the recent conversa- gives abundant scope for the come- metres to a fire. The apparatus tions at Washington will conduce dian's talent, and right royally and appliances were much the same to the promotion of the welfare does he rise to the occasion. It is

a splendid comedy/m as those used in England.

of mankind."

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