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Exchange

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SATURDAY.

FEB.. 22.

Nichiam

uyara

Bales

ax dir. £103

214

B29

£13

$1,580)

Banky

H.K, Banks

Do. (London)... Chartered Banks'... Mercantile Bes. “A”

Do.

"

Bank of East Asia...

N. U. & S. Backy

Am. 0. Fin. Corp: Ch. Fin Corp. Urd. S.

3260

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$1,800

£109

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Do.

Pref. 3.

Insuraners

Canton Insurance...

3370

$270

Underwriters ..... 81

Union Jusarancos en

$6524

BAJ

J450

China Firea manten

H.K. Fires..................

$275

(International Assce. 3.

$3

Shipping

238

$35

Steamboats

$30

Indos (pre)..................

$30

$20

Do (doi)

$10

B0/-

20/-

3147

$1.85

20 cts,

$1.84

$!

Waterbosta

Mining

Amtamoks

Bulateos

Baguio Gold

Benguet Consolidated

Do. Exploration 19 cts.

Goldfeld

$1,

$20

2 cts.

318.40

13 ctu

#Do.

Big Wedge

Gold Rivor...

21 cts.

20/23 cta.

18 ots.

6 eithe

160

Gold Creek..........

United Paracales... 38jets.

Salacot Mining...... 12 ots.

Ipo Mining|

130 cte

115 cm.

Bu cts

13/0

Kailaus

********

13/3

Laugkata (uglo) 5.

$13.65

$22

#4

Exploration.

Shanghai Loan.

$11.60 Houbse

Venezuela Gold Flds. $3

Docka, Whar700, Godowns, 164.

H.K. & K. Wharves.

$100

$97

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(old)

11.60

|50 cts.

Du. (uow) Providents toki, ....

Bha

(now) ...

H., & W. Docka

3. Cinna Motors' A

Shingual Docks S.

30

$35)

$100

Bulidings

H,K. Howla

H. Lanua.......... Do. 4% Deseatures

:

81

$104 $3

13

811440 c d

$98

cd 107

31.70

135 ots.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1936.

'Roadable Autogiro' Travels Either In Air Or On Land

Where is the automobile that, a person who bad never driven be

could {ury

step into and drive away with case? There is none, o course, for in order to drive à car, there must be a considerable amount of practice before one is accustomed to the controls. Yet un airplane, is shortly to come in to the aviation picture which may be easier to operate than a car, will have some automobile features and yet have none of the inherent danger in the air of go- ing into a spin or motor failure. Tals is the new "readable auto- giro" which is apparently ready for commercial production by Harold F. Pitcairn. Philadelphia aircraft builder,

is no lifting effect whatsover: At this high speed the blades are suddenly changed to normal in- cidence, which causes the craft to

permit landings at small

"Veteran Celebrates Birthday

Foreigner Who Has Lived Here 50 Years

Shanghal, Feb. 15.

of the for·

One of the oldest

lam Alaison. to-day celebrates is ninetieth arthday-and were t

leave the ground in helicoptereigners in the Far East, M. W.- fashion. Theil, giving the motor the "gun" or throttle, the pilot

not for the fact that he had a creates forward fight at a "good

bad fall three days ago, he would Trus height from the ground.

feature will allow takeoffs trumbe up and about. abe to enjoy his birthday celebrations Eke anyone "postage stamp" airports, while a

else. For the Far East seems to the same time its vertical descent

have sulted this grand old veteran, will

and today he bears every sign of good health and vigour, although, of course, he cannot get about like he used to. A "North-China Dally News" representative who fter. viewed him yesterday, found him new autogiro does not quick und intelligent in conversa- reach unwieldy proportions to tion, and very interesting in his make it into a family vehicle An accounts of the o'd China, days, increase in the rotor diameter. Mr. Allanson comes from which increases the lift, is all that family which has been associated

Helds. Thus the pilot may land nearer his own liome without be- ing obliged to mingle with scheduled air traffic at big air- flelds.

The

With the knowledge of this cutogiro in the offing it is fairly reasonable to suppose that an era of personal air transportation for the amateur is about to begin, an era that may partly dispense with | autogiro engineer, for a transport | grundmother were actually `mar- capable of carrying 10 passengers, ried out here. this, of course, being The rotors in this craft would well before 1800. He was born at sweep an area of about 60 feet in Macao, nesr Hongkong. 'n 1846. diameter.

and has spent his whole fe out East, never having had a glimpse of England, the land from which

out for forefathers set

is necessary. Designs have been with the Far East for well s cen- submitted by W. Laurence LePage,tury. and his grandfather_and

the automobile. This fact WILS

heightened by the announcement over the week end that the Bureau of Air Commerce has licensed an experimental type two-seater "fllver"

de- plane veloped by Henry Ford powered with a V-8 engine.

MANY ADVANTAGES

COST SCALED DOWN Cust, an Important element to

his

the

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Theirs Is The Pageantry Of Mourning

London, Jan. 27. When King Edward VIII was last Wednesday the proclaimed crowds in Friary Court at St.

roule to the Royal Exchange saw the brilliant tabards of the Officers of Arms, a flame of colour in the

They have had to consult with the Master of the Household and the Master of the Horse, with the Foreign Office and the foreign em-

Dominions, the Colonies, Home Affairs and Scotland. the Office of Works, the Admiralty, the War

And the ordinary citizen who contem East long years before. His father James's Palace, and all along the bassies, with the Offices for the

The roadable autogiro seems to offer the flexibility features of an automobile plus the point-to-point time-saving element of flight. Thus it may be said to be an al- most ideal method of travel. The individual idealistic elements would appear to be the following"

Indeper.dence of the weather

Independence of engine failure. Ability to move from or to Celd

under own power.

h

He

SHANGHAI IN 1861

Arst remembers

morning sunshine, writes a corres- pondent,

plates flying. has been satisfac-

was a Cantor merchant, and his torily scaled down in the giro. A mother also came from the East, two-place experimental model. being a member of an old family powered with a five-cylinder ra- from India. dial motor,"gives about 20 miles to the gallon of fuel. By a simple method of pulling out two pins į

passing in the rotor blades. they may be through Shanghai in March, 1861 folded in the

like the on his way to Japan, where he set residence. later. in 1874. feathers in a war bonnet and the up.

to his giro parked in a regular garage. moving back

birthplace. The top speed of present experi-Macao, at which he was given a mental giros is about 160 miles anjob in a merchant firm. Later, in hour but with streamlining, re- 1876, he came to Shanghat to live. tractable landing gear and other and has been here ever since. Al- feathered cocked hats and bring of Arms to deal with this tremena-

rear

Control under any speed, Ability to take off from any size refinements this speed may be

stepped up 200 miles an hour,

$79 $4

field,

$79

New Engineeringsti.

$190

fiongkowa

ande, Hotels, and

$8 $35

par

$18

Shanghai Lands,...

$10

Metropolitan

Ladds...

35.85

35.80

$4

China Du

$170

Do. Debentures I,

$0.70

New Asia Hotel

riumphreys **

$9.70

As Realtic "A" S

Do.

*".

454

Chinese Estates..............

Cotton Mille

FS

Ewod

32

170

S'ha Cottons(old)S.

841

10.

news.

$12

Zong Sings

$25

Wang Un Textiles(5.).

#70 $43 SEL $21

Publio Util¢âng

12h

Tramways......

$16.60

$7

83

Puak Avants (Qld)...] 37.

4.',

(NW). 13

$87

$10

11111

Yaumati F'orfies ... $201

$11.30 Chins Lights (old) :

Dod (new)...) 18 H.K. Beatric

374{ || 7407}

$20

Statu du.

*

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Sandaknu Ligiate ........

- 1201

310.20

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(New)...

Tistupnunes (old) ve

* Chin Budos ..............5.

28/- Do. (prof.)

industrial

38.40 Malabon Bugars

34.70 $*

Calducck,

pondu di

Kusgregore (prez.)B..

Canton luen

Leme

Discellaneo Dairy Farma

Amusements.......

Ch. Etainments...... Constructions, (old}]

$104

$15

1

18.83

$4.85

0.80

17/-

$13

58.80

$5.30

$212

130 cts.

120.

(new) 30 cts.]

$81 65

Lane Crawford.......

141 81)

80.10

Mackintosha ------

Nanyang Tobacco... 13.40

$2.40

Sincerea

$2,20

WAYHOUS

70 ote, Wm. Powells

$42 155-ots.

32

M. Ureyhounds

***

31.36

5. C. Enterprises ....

par

HK. Govt. 4% boans 437.

31% Do.

Wallace Harper

帽

+

$55

HK. Wing O

$56

$4

S'hai Uo, Vibro Pileng

$67

$2.20

AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS

IN BRITAIN

prem.

94% Ch.G.5%192548da. 012

DEATH OF COLONEL/

ROOSEVELT

Washington, Feb. 22. The death has occured of "Col- onel Henry Housevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and a dist-' ant relative of the President.- Kruter.

ARMY LEAVE DENIED IN ROME

("Hong Kong Dally Press" Special)

"Rome, Feb. 22.

It is officially denied that half a milion men have been given

The autogiron as originally con-

Spanish Inventor, had these features,

many

With a speed of 200 miles an

though he has travelled all over

the Orient, to Japan, Manlia, and other parts. he declares that he likes Shanghal best of all,

It was one of the few occasions these on which, Londoners see

Only on magnificent costumes. "the proclamation of a new Sover- eign, or at the formal declaration of the beginning or the end of a war, do the Kings-of-Arms, the Heralds and the Pursuivants put

en their tabards and their ostrich-

Into the streets of London A 1 flourish of pageantry from the England of nearly five centuries ago."

Mice, the Air Office, Scotland Yard, the Lord Mayor and a score of other authorities who are con- cerned with the ceremonies and the crowds and the mourners

Their duty has been to ensure that all these sad ceremonies of.. State shall take place with the perfect smoothness that the public automatically expect.

Yet there are not many Officers

ous task. Under the Earl Marshal are the three Kings-of-Arms, Gar- ter, Norroy and Clarenceux. Then come the six heralds-Lancaster, ceived by Juan de la Clerva, its hour available, the effect on the

"I had a good, easy life here," he of suburban boundaries of our lives deciated. "as I had a lot of eld

Somerset, York. Chester, Richmond is bound to be tremendous, Dally friends who

Once when a tabard stepped into and Windsor-who take precedence lived in Shanghai. commuting from a "place in the and things were cheap.

the street the citizens knew that by seniority of appointment; then It was. EARLY AUTOGIROS

country" located as far as 80 to of course, a

smaller important business was afoot, the the four Pursuivants with the ro very much Back in 1928, when Mr. Pitcairn

100 miles from the city will be place in

arrest, perhaps, of a noble traitormantic titles of Rouge Dragon. those days,

and there bought his first autogiro from

Officers-of-Arms were men common. With automobile tourism were

ofRouge Croix, Portcullis and Blue- none of the opportunities Juan de la Cierva, it had a lower in its present enlarged state. the of amusement

great consequence then. which are to be wing which aided in lifting the

giro will extend the travel im-tourid nowadays. We occupied craft as much 3.5 the windmill aginations of people even farther.

our leisure moments mostly by attending informal parties at the houses of our friends, or by taking walks In the Country around Shanghai, which was a very popu- lar form of recreation in my day.

"I have

been always

most perform. The crowds Friary muneration attached to their office gazed at their brilliance is as traditional as the office itself, healthy here.. and, although my Court

had come

·OC-

DINNER ON THE FLY

An eight-course dinner from soup to nuts, in which the diners flew from course to course, enil vened amateur aviation circles on the holiday recently in the vicini ty of Philadelphia,

the wages and

But now a buster world has re- legated them mainly to the task nt searching out pedigress and de- signing arms in the College of Heralds in Queen Victoria, street, and only on occasions such as this do they have State business to

in

mantle.

Except on ceremonial occasions like the present they sit in their offices in the College of Heralds and search out pedigrees or design

coats of arms for fees. For the re-

At a coronation

At the State Opening of Parlia- ment and at the trial of peers they a very expensive" place to live in. James's balcony stood the busiest have duties inside the Palace of

of them all, the Earl Marshal of Westminster. are very much higher than they used to be. For England, an office held by the they appear in Westminster Abbey

splendour, instance, when I first got married young Duke of Norfolk by a tradi- in added

and the we rented good little four-roomed tlon 300 years old.

Kings-of-Arms reject their black nouse for less 24 tac's a month, The present Duke, who is only cocker-hats and put on their and $10 a month was then consi-27-years old. is the premler Duke crowns, Atting accompaniment to dered a very high wage to pay a and Sarl, and Chief Butler of their tabards upon which glow the England. As Earl Marshal he has scarlet and gold of the Royal "On the whole, I think we work- had in his care the whole of the | Standard.

harder in my day than the arrangements for the funeral of In earlier days, they had brave young Shanghai man does nowa-King George and the proclamation tasks to perform. Kings-of-Arma days, as we had no opportunities of King Edward.

went as ambassadors to foreign to go into clubs or engage in any The arrival of the coffin from rulers. Beralds rode swiftly across heavy drinking. The young fel- | Sandringham, its transfer to West- the fields that lay between two easier time now minster Hall, the lying-in-state, fighting armles to demand the the preliminaries of the funeral, surrender of a fortress, or to ar-

range a truce.

servant.

thed

retor on top. Since then direct control of the autogiro has been substituted by a method of tilting the rotor to ascend, descend bank. The rotor is now the entire

lifting force, though the rudder control surfaces in the rear have been made larger to give better

The dinner, served at eight dif-life has been a quiet one, it has with admiration, and wondered and an annual £15 that was a lateral control at low speeds, ferent airports in the city suburbs, certainly been most happy. Things who they were, and what they did. considerable Tudor "income is in-

When the first autogiro, piloted was given by Richard Birchner. were, of

different course, very

At the moment they are among "significant nowadays, the busiest men in England. In by James Ray, chief giro tesi

proprietor of the Boulevard Air- from nowadays when I first came

Shanghai has now become the centre of the ne on the St. pilot, arrived in Boston several port, who entertained Philadel here. years ago it landed on a day when phia children on Christmas Eve the airport was shut down com- by towing a banner representing pletely by the weather. Through | Santa Claus and his reindeer this nasty weather "Jimmie" Ray through the sky.

from Hartford,

The 100 diners assembled in 38 .casionally dropping through the planes at Patco Field, near Nor ciouas to get his direction, assum- ristown, and proceeded in forma- ing dititude and continuing on is tied to Wings Field, near Chest- Way. He was the only arrival at nut Hill, for fruit cups; to Pit- East Boston that day. This night | cainr Field for soup to wook place long before the road-Philadelphia Airport for spaghet- able feature had ever been coa- ti: to the Central Airport at Cam: ceived.

den for turkey" and trimmings; to the Northeast Philadelphia Field for salad; to the Flying Dutchlows have au man Field at Somerton for mince than they used to have is headed into thick weather, go pie, and finally to the host's own "In my early Shanghai days I and to-morrow's ceremonies in

Airport for along the road until he has out- Boulevard

hot used to get about in a private Windsor and London, all are ar- ridden it, take off again and con-

meal occupied horse-drawn carriage, not in one ranged by him, and by the Officers Unue on his way. Under the plan four hours between fruit cup and of the expensive motor cars that of Arms who serve under him. conceived by Lieut.-Col. Stedman beverage.

are now to be seen everywhere in to have" the Shumway Hanks

Shanghai. At the week-ends, states set aside landing field strips

The Department of Commerce party used Very often to take trip up country. We were very close to the major highways, the gives considerable thought to im-

have somewhere else to roadable feature of the autogiro proving its light beacons so that glad to would devetall perfectly. Or in they may be the more readily dis-gu, as in those days Shanghai ex

tended 130 landing at a large field distant tinguished by pilots from other

I arst George's. When the different nationalities Their own concessions, and I re member the American Concession was situated about where Hong- kew. now stands. Shanghai now is a grand place with Its buldings,

CAN TRAVEL ON ROAD With the roadable feature a pilot may later descend when he

beverages,

The

IMPROVED LIGHT BEACONS

а

further than St. arrived. had

of the

·

A Pursuivant grasped his staff and his warrant, and set off to ar- rest some titled conspirator and lodge hira in the Tower

It was, indeed, as vital officers. In these last few hurried days et his court that Richard III. in- they have had to complete all the corporated them into the College arrangements with three different of Heralds in 1484. There had ecclesiastical authorities, with the been officers of Arms before that. different railway companies, with They are first recorded as attend- the Lord Great Chamberlain and ing Henry III. seven centuries ago, with the Lord Chamberlain, two and a hundred years later there is persons with quite different func

a reference to the Principal Kings- tons to perform.

ol-Arms of the English.

Still another century later. Henry V. appointed a Kings-of- Arms as one of the officers of the

Garter

from the business center of a city ground lights. As a result the de- the pilot may fold his giro vanes 'partment is testing a new beacon 90% and

along the road, invented by Jack B. Bartow, a proceed Landing in a cross wind, an auto-į Philadelphia, flier, which, it 18 giro pilot, to prevent a tipover, claimed, will be "picked up" much would merely need to move his easier by aviators than carller undercarriage wheels In the types.

An experimental beacon and I think it has grown up in a Messrs. Dyce and Co., afterwords direction of the drift.

now operates nightly on the roor

forming his own business. He was wonderful manner." In the principle of autogiro of the Franklin Institute in Phils-

engaged in the share business FOREIGNER'S DAY NOT OVER light the whirling windmill vanes | delphia.

Mr. Allanson said that in his right up to two or three years ago. Most Noble Order of the Garter, |büt after 1417 "those two offices perform the same function as the The beacon, several of which

days attitude

Mr. Allanson revealed the fact coincided in one man, and when younger fixed-wing plane. The Ifting are also being installed at air. Chinese towards the foreigner, was

that he had been an enthusiastic the Heralds College was formed, effect, however, does not cease at ports by the department, com-

very much better than it is now, reader of the "North-China Daily ("Hong Kong Daily Fre" Special low, or no,

Principal King-of-Arms speed. In case of bine the advantage of the pro-

and in those days a Chinese News" for the past 50 years, and

was naturally appointed to preside London, Feb. 22.

motor failure, the rotor, "whoge jectile type of light penell with

always treated a foreigner with nad been a regular subscriber

over the meetings of its chapter. In connection "with precautions whirling is caused by the air and the wide visibility of flame-type the utmost respect. He did not, when it had a circulation of only

one thousand a day. He still finds tive duties became obsolete one by Gradually however, their pc- not the motor, continues to re-lights, to be taken against air raids and

however see any truth in the sug- Institute officials explain that gestion that the day of the time to peruse its columns every poisonous gas, a large old house involve, lowering the craft to the Gloucestershire has been taken by ground at a speed slower than a with the older type of beacons foreigner in China was nearly day, and declares that he finds, it one, or were taken over by other the Government where members of parachute tall The giro takes unless

a pilot passed directly over, and that be would soon be most reliable, both in its presenta-

The two other Kings-of-Arms the British Red Cross and St, John most of the landing shock on its through the pencils of light which compelled to leave the country for tion of local and foreign news. Ambulance wit receive instructions under-carriage.

they cast, when he was flying in good and all, North China, he Most of his time nowadays he who are members of the College “GRASSHOPPER" TAKEOFF bad weather, he was apt to miss said, had developed remarkably spends reading, chatting with old are Clarenceux, who proclaims the In the new direct control stros his bearings entirely, The new under foreign influence since his friends, or, perhaps, taking a quiet new King at the Royal Exchange. nap and recalling the "old days" and has England south of "the a "grasshopper' takeoff is also in- Bartow beacons, however, sweep youth. corporated. The blades, which he whole sky from horizon to Since living in Shanghai, Mr. when Shanghai was still but a Trent as his "March" or armorial leave from the Army on account are started whirling by a clutch horizon and are therefore expect- Allanson has worked for a number small town at the beginning of its bailiwick, and Norroy, who reads of the the proclamation at Temple Bur of an improvement in the Euro-geared to the motor, are speededed to reduce greatly the possibi- of different enterprises, including development Into

world.-end rules heraldically over Eng beyond normal revolution at a lity of plots losing their way

fand north and west of the Trent. pean situation

very flat incidence so that there when visibility is poor. Reuter's Bulletin Service

S

In this connection.- Reuter's Bulletin Service.

the China, Japan Trading. Com- largest cities

pany, Messrs. George Baruett, and "N.C.D.N."

tize

officials.

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