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AIR COMMODORE SMITH

On Hong Kong As An

Airport

The arrival of Air Commodore I. W. Smith, Director of the R.A.F. in the Far East and Air Commodore J. B. Bowen, Direc tor of Signals in the Ministry, in Hong Kong yesterday from Singapore, marks another important step in the progress aud development of Hong Kong as an air port.

Air Commodore Smith, although unable to give details of an expansion or relate the plans which will affect the Colony as an air port nevertheless made it plain that the importance of the Colony as "an air base was fully recognised.

In order to give value to this importance the work of build- ing up the facilities for aviation was going on upace and the work un the new hangars and the linprovement of Kal Tak Acredrome are being carried on as quickly as possible. The sites were chosen by Commodore Welsh when he visited the Colony recently and this work is now being proceeded with.

"Further squadrons aplanes will certainly be sent to, Hong Kong though of what type or exactly when I cannot say," he continued. "It will almost cer- tainly not be tits year.".

of R.A.F. going to be one of the most im- portant air ports in the Far East, and though Kal Tak aerodrome is the best we have here so far, it is by no means ideal. But so far as British commercial aviation is concerned. I. visualise large nying 'boats for the future expansion. All-Red routes are being develop- ed as far as is possible, but only flying boats can do this, The commercial aircraft of the future will essentially be big ocean- going aircraft; ther: Is a mic to luding grounds, but not to the sea, and not to the size of the sea- planes which may be built.

"Ficng Kong is the centre of very

trade important British

routes which must be protected. At pre- sent, the Navy is doing that work, but with the growth of aviation the R.A.F. will have to assume more of the responsibility. That

when the will proceed

grounds here are completed...

CLOSE CO-OPERATION

'At present, civil and Service planes use the same ground, and I don't see why that should not continue in a modified form: Clv£ "and Service aviation are in closest

Civil aviation co-operation,

is

the equivalent of our mercantile marine and supplies us with our reserves. All over the world, our strategic and our commercial } routes are the same, and both branches of aviation must work in the closest harmony and co-opera- tion. We will extend every pos- sible help to the civil branch, and the new civil hangar is being built now at Kai Tak.

"I am convinced," said that Commodore, "that Hong Kong is

OLYMPIC BOUGHT FOR JARROW

Sir J. Jarvis's Plans For Shipbreaking

(Special Alt Mall Service)

DEVELOPING RAPIDLY

"Commercial aviator in the Fai East is developing rapidly and we must provide facilities or lag be- hind: Nearer home throughout the Malay Peninsula-those faci- lities are provided.

Air Commodore Bowen who is here on a tour of inspection did not make any comment. He will return with Air Commodore Smith by the Hakone Mard on Saturday and leave Singapore by plane for England on October 20. Air Com- modore Bowen flew to Singapore from England by an Imperial Air- ways pläne.

ROYAL NAVY

A.D.C.s To The King

(Special Air Mall Service)

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, · WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1935.

THE SANITARY

BOARD

Congratulates Hon Mr. Lo

Before the commencement of the fortnightly Meeting of the Sanitary board, held at the Board Rooms yesterday, the President. Mr. W. J. `Carrie congratulated the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo cn his be-

to ing elected the "Legislativé Council, This congratulation was greeted by the other members with applause.

."

An application for an eating house licence at No. 21. Lee Yuen Street East. ground floor was unanimous ly refused while an application for the registration of No. 33, Sing Wo Road, ground door, as a dairy was granted on condition that to more than two persons be allowed to sleep on the premises.

The other business on the agen da was of a purely routine nature. Others present besides the pre-

W. J. sident. Mr.

Carrie, were

Henderson the Hon. Mr. R. M.

H. (Vice-President), Hon. Mr. E. Wams (8.C.A.). Dr. O. W. Popc (M.OH.). Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo. Mr. L.C.F. Bellamy, Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto, Dr. Lo Shu Fan, Mr. C. J. Roe (Secretary and Mr. Im Ping Tseung (Asst. Secretary).

PEIPING-HANKOW

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Seven Year Plan

Hankow: A seven-year-plan calling for the increase of railroad property, development of traffic and payment of debts has been formulated by the Peiping-Hankow Railway Administration with the ultimate object of making the longest government line in China the "model railroad" of the coun

ITV.

The project, it is understood, has already been approved by the Executive Yuan and will be en- forced immediately. The cost is estimated at $2,200,000.

According to the scheme, 500,000 sleepers and 5,500 tons of rails will be replaced within seven years. Aside from bridges at Hsinlo and Fengchuen, which will be rebuilt London, Sept. 18. presently, all other bridges on the line will be repaired by five stages: following officers have Olen made Naval Aides-de-Camp from Hankow to Hsinyang in the succession Arst stage, from Hsinyang to Yen- to the King, in those recently promoted to flag cheng in the second stage, from

Yencheng to the south bank of rank:-----

The Yellow River in the third stage, from the north bank of the

The

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London. October 16. Sir John Jarvis, former High Sheriff of Surrey and founder of the Surrey Fund to assist Jarrow, has purchased the Cunard White Captain Commodore 2nd Class) Star liner Olympic to be broken A. E. Evans, O.B.E., from August up at Jarrow. The cost is stated 31, vice Captain J. S. M. Ritchie; to exceed £100,000 writes a and Captain J. H. D. Cunning- correspondent.

ham, M.V.O., from September 1,

Captain

Turner,

Sir John Jarvis intends to sell Vice his. purchase at the same price to D.S.O.. a new company to be formed to establish a shipbreaking industry. at Jarrow. Work, it is estimated. will be provided for, about 18 months and approximately

£100,000 in wages will be "paid "The River Tyne will have to be dredged by the River. Tyne Com- missioners. but Sir John Jarvis's fund will provide a portion of the cost.

The

R.

Ром

APPOINTMENTS following appointments were made by the Admiralty yes-. terday:--

Engr. Capt.-J. S. Orr. to Vic- tory (Sept. 18).

L-Cdra.-G. S. Norrington, to Greenwich; R. E. Woodrife, to Broke; C. G. Couper, to Pembroke for R.N.B.; F. R. W. Parrish, to Amazon, in command; and G. M. Pares, to Woolston (Sept. 16).

Lt.Cdr. S.-Ldr,, R.A.P.).—C, J. N. Atkinson, to Courageous, add... for ff.d. at RAF. station, Gosport He had got (Sept. 16).

persons En

Sir John Jarvis stated last night that he personally had bought the Olympic and that he secured the vessel in the face of competition by foreign buyers. together a group of the North of England" who under- stood shipbreaking and who had the necessary finance, and they had agreed to take the vessel off his hands at the price he paid for her. He had no

financial

interest in the company which would break her up.

The cost dredging the Tyne to enable the Olympic to be taken alongside Palmer's works would be £2,800. The Surrey scheme was paying half the cost and the

Promotions

Lis-T. H. Hill-Walker, AH T. Fleming, and F. W. Collins, to rank of Lt.-Cdr. (seny, Sept. 16).

Retirements

Cars.J. D. Chapple, D.S.C.. placed on the Retd. List, at own request (Sept. 2); and B. L. Johnston, placed on the Retd. own request, with rank

List. at

Cdr. (Sept. 10 and 14

of Capt. (Sept. 2),

L.-Cars-G. C. A. Whitelocke and J. W. Pontifex, placed on the other half would be "met by the Retd. List, at own request, with Tyne Improvement Commission, rank of

respectively). who would begin the work im- mediately. It was hoped that the

Royal Australian Navy Olymple would be taken to

Surgn. Lt.Cdr.-J. M. Flattery. the Tyne from Southampton early promoted

to Surgn. Cdr. (not next month.

placed on the reta. list as pre- viously stated) (seny, Aug. 20),

OLYMPIC RESOLD

Sir John Jarvis, who bought the Cunard White Star liner Olymple

for approximately £100,000

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Payr. Lt-R 8. Flynn, to Ex- cellent for training (Sept. 16), sald Mr. W. ..J. Heely, M.R.C.8.,

that he had resold it to Thomas L.R.C.P., entered as Proby, Burg W. Ward, Limited, the Bhemeld Lt. (seny. Bept. 4), and attached machinery and steelworks firm.

to Hat 2 of the Severn Division.

Sir John Jarvis said he sold it

to them at exactly the price, he} ---- paid for it, on the understanding that it should be broken up atį It is understood that the public their wharves at Jarrow, The will be given a chance to inspect deal was carried through on the Olympic's furnishings and Tuesday, and he was waiting for fittings before they are sold by oficiat confirmation.

auction.

from

Yellow River to Shihchiachwang in the fourth stage, and Shchiachwang to Pelping in the Afth stage.

NEW BRIDGE:

A new iron bridge will be built across the Yellow River to replace the present one which is in 3 precarious condition. The design for the new Bridge has already been worked out by bridge experts and the construction cost is es- timated at $7,500,000.

To facilitate transportation on the inc. 20 new locomotives will be purchased from abroad Mean- while, the equipment of the rail- way workshops will be increased ials, new motors, bollers and sun- Large quantities of repair, mater-

dry machines will be bought.

The traffic system on the ine

will be improved. The long- distanco telephone line between Hankow and Chengchow will be extended to Peiping in the nearest future. More shunts will be built a' various stations to facilitate the despatch of trains and engines.

SUB-STATIONS

Where the distance between two stations is too great, sub-stations ill be built in between so as to

facilitate

traffic. Many of the stations which are in a tittering state will be re-bullt, and walls or fences will be built around the stations 20 Pretent trespassing. The signalling system will also be Improved to ensure safety and speed of traffic.

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The total debts of the line, up til 1933, amounted to $91,000,000. Since 1934, payment by natal- curdance with instructions issued ments has been effected in ac-

by the Ministry of Railways, and this will be continued until all debts are paid up..

The railway authorities are con-. aident that with the realization of the seven-year plan the Petping-. Hankow Railway will be a model railway in the country ----- Central News Agency,

Lawrence Of Arabia: An Impression

A great personal friend of Lawrence of Arabia has written the following impression of this outstanding character,

He displayed a modesty which

· approached shyness. In physique' he was small. verging almost cn insignificance. By nature, one who would wish to avoid physical violence, unathletle and having ng interest in sports or games, yet this gentle and lovable diss position was called upon to lead during the world crisis a life of intense physical exertion such as come to few. It was his great patriotism and loyalty, enlivened by an innate love of adventure, which gave him his power and especially his sustaining sense of the predominance of the spirit over the flesh. With this indom-

bic spl be was enabled to endure hardships and violence under which men of positively heroic build and stamina would have collapsed and given in..

He was imbued with an im- mense love of his fellowinen, es- pecially of his own sex, and he

and seemed lost

dumb in the pres.nce of women. Only one woman ever held his interest and this was Miss Gertrude Bell-the one woman representative on the Middle East" Conference, Miss Beli was a woman with like interests to himself, and he treated her as a fellowman. She had studied archaeology and the cus.oms of the Middle East with as much kenness as Lawrence hiraself and was held in as great respect by the Arab sheiks of the desert She was said at this time to be one of the greatest influences for good in Mesopotamia, and was jestingly called the uncrowner! Queen of Iraq. Lawrence had known her in their archaeological days of excavation work before the war and had amusing stories to tell of those times.

Blessed with the keenest sense of humour and a ready wit, Law- Een ditu hese his mainstay in many of the most trying ex- periences of the Arabian insur- rection. He seemed to under- stand when to take advantage of their sense of the ridiculous to meet the most diMcult decisions that had to be achieved through the leadership or the Sherifs of Mecca, and other pre-eminent Arab shelts.

He was fond of belittling his own exploits during the war and used always to assert that many others did far more for the Arab revolt than ne.. The public, ha sald, was caught only by the plc-

of his turesqueness

personality chiefly for the reason that his particular work necessitated wearing "fancy dress," to use hus own words.

ed were promised to them by the British Government, yet his con- science was more happy when its decisions bad been brought into efect and he realized that most of what he had fought to obtain had been accomplished.

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Many people love to assert that Lawrence was more Arab than British in his sympathies and that he would go back eventually and settle in the East as an Arab chief, himself. Nothing was far- ther from the truth. He loved England above all countries and served her loyally to the end of

his days here.

His one great longing seemed to be for peace and quiet in an English

could countryside. He easily have been almost anything he had wished. as his intellectual abilities were recognized by al Including such well-known thinkers as George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill, but of worldly ambition he seemed en- Mirely devold. He could have made as much, money as would have satisfied most men by his writings; instead he would ac- cept no benefit from his book "Revolt in the Desert," but turned all profit made by its sale anony- mously to the establishment of a fund for the care of orphans of Royal Air Force officers.

The dying service always held. a warm place" in his heart from the days when they had assisted him during the Arab campaign. He loved also the tree sense which he found among the mem- bers of this junior service less bound by tradition than its older brothers, the navy and the army. Fear was nor a quality easily to be found in his make-up, and when face to face with death, ke many another man, he ap- peared unmoved by its claims.

Many who read his great book ""The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" may find it seemingly solid and lacking in variety of subject mat- ter, but for those who knew him and who have eyes to see," it is full of the most wonderful . iu- sight into human nature and a knowledge of the deeper thought processes which compose the true man. It abounds in its apprecia- tion of goodness wherever found: Whether in an Arab prince or à mere body slave, he saw always the best in man-kind and seemed As a consequence to bring out that best in those who privileged to know him.

were

PATRIOTIC PRONUNCIA-

TION

(Special Air Mail Service:

London, Sept. 18. Mr. Smith. as a Roman Catho- lic, met some opposition on religious grounds in 1932. "It is not for me," says Mr. Hearst, "to know or care whether Mr. Smith is a Catholic, a Protestant, or a

Marked unselfishness charac- ' terized his whole life, it seemed to me, and his love of the rank and file was even greater than his admiration for the recognized leaders. He would never have ex-

pected anyone to do something | Jew." that he was not prepared to do himseli.

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He won the love and respect of the Arabs of all ranks not by his words or his advice but by living among them as one of them- selves, 30 showing them by his ordinary everyday life what was the highest a man could live-a shining example of the truth of letting "men see, your good worka" and its effect on one's immediate not wasting companions, and on's time in talk or persuasive- ness. This life brought as natural consequence the unswer- ving loyalty and love of the Arabs not only for Colonel Lawrence but for the whole British people whose representative they held him to be. As a result, Lord Allenby was able to find reliable this independent support from Arab branch of the Palestine campaign for his right wing when

the advancing to

capture of Jerusalem and beyond..

Although Lawrence's command of the Arab languages was almost unique. It was not the classic Arabicas, taught at the univer- sity, but a wide range of Arabic, in many dialects and variations as found among the diverse tribes with whom he worked. It was the greatest surprise to me one day when asking him to trangiate an Arable notice in a street in

Calro to find that he could not read the language at all.

He felt satisfied that his work to Arabla was finished after this Middle East Conference, and aid- though he did not obtain for his Arab friends all the concessions and advantages that he consider-

"A" Smith was denounced, too. as a vigarian because he spoke, of "raddio" in an address Mr. Hearst declares:"

Nor do care whether he pronounces the word "radio" in a manner to suit the professors of the brain trust. He pro nounces the word "America" properly and patriotically.

So far, however, Mr. Smith is apparently doubtful of Mr. Hearat's ability to create a Jeffer- His response is sonian party. enigmatic silence.

“ON THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS"

(Speela) Air Mail Service)

London, Sept. 16.· Among other scientists in recent years

who have, like Disraeli tanged themselves "on the side of the angels, I recall Dr. Arthur Rendle Short and Prof. D. M. 8. Wilson,

British who told, the

sociation in 1929 that the. Dar- winian theory rested on a "most Insecure basis", writes a pandent.

Corres-

Two years later Prot. D'Arcy Thompson repeated the challenge before the British Association.

He threw down the gauntlet to the assembled experts of the Zoology Section in precise terms saying: "I beileve that any at- tempt to find an invertebrate which has passed into a verte- brate type is doomed to failure.

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