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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1935.

SUCCESS OF WIRELESS

RELAYS

At The Air Force Display

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AIR RAIDS

What Measures

To Take

(Special Air" Mall Service)

London, July 8,

The Government is about to un- fold to the country its precau- tionary plans against air raids. It the pubile. The onlooker would will be done first of all through a have been glad to learn something circular letter to be issued to all of the way in which the much local authorities, in the kingdom, bigger fly past will be arranged on which will denne first the action Saturday next honour of the which the Government will take King's Jubileë.

in a state of emergncy and then Apart from such novelties, the the action which will be expected. established features of the pro- from the local authorities, employ- gramme fully reasserted their claim to popularity. The Virginia night bombers must have" dropped

(Special Air Mail Service). London, Jway b. The R.A.F. Disputy pri savurday again proved tu the greatest open-air attraction Or the year. The attendance withun 'ine Hendon station was estimated at about 150,000, and there were evidently more people than ever before on the belas and musidės WAICA anord a view of ne proçeedings outside the aerodrome. The Duke. of Kent was in the Royal enclosure, "and there were many important visitors from abroad.

The Display way...in ✡ sense prought closer to the crowds who watched 19. Even the one sma misfortune of une duy was" per- petrated as hear to tha enclosures as it could safely have happened, and the whole of the processes of crash and salvage formed an ex- tra for which the programme häd not provided. This incident was, too, the most amusing of the day. The comment that ran round the enclosures, that the pilot had done a little too well exactly what ne was pretending to do, showed that the shock of a crash had been

absorbed in the amusement at re- alism carried a little too far. The reaction was almost exactly par- allel to that of a crowd which sees a well-dressed man sit on his own silk hat. In this саве a clever pilot a little too heavily on his own undercarriage, and the result was equally grotesque

MEETING EMERGENCIES

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practice bombs for the benent of those of any age who love the sight and sound of an explosion at many displays.

ers of labour, add the household-

er,

This circular letter will be sent out within a few days; and beföre the end of the month conferences will be held in the large cities of population between, the local au- thorities and the Home Office Anti- The great mass of the people. A'r Rald Department, at which Ands greater pleasure in those plans will be more fully explained features which are akin to the and discussed...

ROLLING IN FORMATION

circus than in the stateller Items

The Government, probably re- which suggest the pageant. Yet the finest thing of Saturday's per-membering the storm raised by some little time ago that formance partook

the nature of hints both. The flight aerobatics of gas-mask drill was contemplated, three Furles of No. 25 Squadron, will make it clear in the circular led by Flight Lieutenant C. R. letter that these plans are not ob- Hancock, bad all the smooth or- gatory-yet-and that their main derliness of parade" movements purpose is to school the pubiic of the most daring aerobatics. Ten of emergency arise. The danger combined with the apparent risk mind against panic should a state

years ago it would have been

of panic.It is pointed out, may be. thought impossible for the ma- chines of a Flight to do rolls and greater than the danger from an cart-wheels while they remained actual raid. in close formation with wing-tips almost touching. The Flight But, of course, other measures finished its dozen evolutions with than those against panic will be an upward roll, the most graceful

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NO SHAM RAIDS

and undoubtedly the most difficult set out in the plans, and some of manoeuvre in which to preserve them will declare the duty of the formation, and the formation re-authorities and individuals in pre- mained · perfect. Not even the sence of an attack from the air by aerobatics two years ago. of a gas of Incendiary bombs. One squadron with wing-tips tied thing the country is to be spared. together could equal the work of There are to be no sham raids. this Flight, but perhaps only the experts from many lands appreciat-after the French ed it at its proper value.

He had set off in the character of a pupil trying to follow the lead of his instructor and he did all the things he should not have done. He took off across wind, pulled the machine of the ground before it had gained flying speed andi bounced it, climbed it too steeply, In the midst of this display of ar stalled and bounced it again, this strength a brief suggestion of the time from too great a height. The work of the ground forces which undercarriage legs collapsed out- are allied with the RAF. in home wards and the machine slid along defence was happily introduced. the on its fuselage, sweeping back the Three anti-aircraft guns of wings and crumpling them

as 26th Air Defence (Territorial) though they had been cardboard. Brigade attacked à bomber forma- Two Dre engines and an ambulance. I tion, and the persistence of one whose crews had been sitting at gun in firing round after round ease in the sunshine, suddenly when the bombers had passed well came to life and were alongside the out of range gave an impression of wreck as soon as it ceased to slide. keenness which was not wholly lost Presently the crumpled aeruplane in the amusement it caused. This was dragged away by a salvage will be the last Display of the very tender and workmen spread earth small Air Force responsible for over the patches of foam on the home defence during the past 16- turf. The extras were all vastly years. It may be voted quite one entertaining to the huge gallery of the best, and it is not likely to and so was the promptness with be bettered when the authorities which a reserve machine had taken have a bigger number of squadrons the place of the unfortunate per-, from which to select. former and had arrised out fault- The Headquarters race was won lessty all the ungainly manoeuvres by Flight Lieutenant G. N. J. Stanley-Turner in 2 Westland he had prepared. All this had happened early in the programme Wapiti (112.2 miles an hour) for and its effect was to assure the No. 1 Air Defence Group. Two onlooker that nothing could break Harts representing the Air Ministry and Central Area were second arid the even flow of the display or ser-

third respectively at speeds just iously disturbed its rigid time-table.

With the greater intimacy be over 148 miles an hour. tween public and performers came better appreciation of the flexibility of an air force. The public not only saw things done supremely well, but listened to the methods of control. Wireless messages passing between the ground and aircraft in fight. be tween two formations in the air and between a squadron leader and the officers of his squadron, were relayed to the loud-speakers with illuminating effect. The very fast exhibition of squadron drill by the Gauntlets of No. 19 Squadron was made particularly fascinating by the transmission of the orders from Squadron Leader J. R. Cassidy to his pilots and the charges of form- ation, direction, or height which followed them. The joint attack on the bombers of the Bristol of them, and the impressive eficiency of the whole programme Squadron (Flight Lieutenant ES. Finch) carried out by the Furies of has fully maintained the credit of No. 1 Squadron (Squadron Leader the Service." C. W. Hill) and the Demons of No. 23 Squadron (Flight Lieutenant A H. Montgomery) were likewise the more interesting through the coordination of plans heard by wireless

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VOCAL AEROBATICS

Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secret- ary of State for Air, sent the fol- lowing message to Bir. Robert Brooke-Popham, Air Officer Com- manding-in-Chief, Air Defence of Great Britain, and chairman of the Display Committee:-"H.R.F. the Duke of Kent desires me to con-

vey to you for transmission to al concerned, the great pleasure and satisfaction afforded to him, by to-day's display, the skill and pre- cision of which has been worthy of the best traditions of the R.AF.”

The Minister added the follow- ing persorial message: "I heartily congratulate you on the success of the display. All units concernéd in it have done what was expected

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"NOT TO BE CARRIED WITH"

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, July 6.

The vocal aerobatics, which had promised so well in rehearsal, also worked remarkably well. It was strangely fortunate that one of the A Correspondent has senta few clouds in the sky on so fine a curious specimen of English as day should have elected to serve she is wrote in the Far East. this plot of No, 1 Squadron in the

It is a circular containing in- matter of stage management. His structions to foreigners who de voice, announcing the start of a sire to bow to H.M. the Emperor of dive from 5,000ft.. came apparently Manchukuo" during his visit to out of an empty sky until he Osaka,

brushed through the little cloud The instructions state. that curtain to build up a speed which “ packages. - sticks and cameras he stopped announcing when It are not to be carried with;" that had reached 360 miles on bour, looking down the Emperor's pro- Far from diminishing the effect of casion from high places is prov these polished aerobatics the new hibited; that upper windows on arrangement⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ enhanced them the route should blindly be through a feeling of wonder that closed" and that dogs and other a plat could talk while he was domestic animals must not be doing these breathless things. The allowed" to share the spectacle effect of the final dy past by eight Don't speak or whisper wh squadrons. Impressive as it was the Emperor might have been intensifed it the ing

business of assembling and order-

Jor them at their distant starting-spect point had been similarly heard by point to the

and German manner, to try the plans. The Bull Ring will not be torn up in Birmingham to give the people a realistic Idea of a bomb crater, nor will Bengal fire be used at the Free Trade Hall to impress the Inhabitants of Manchester with the horrors of the incendiary bomb.

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