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SCIENCE AND CIVIL

AVIATION

Aerial Experiments And

Tests

IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF

THE MODERN AIR-LINER

in the design, construction, and operation of commercial aircraft an ever-growing part is played by scientific experiment and research. Recently--to mention just one example-it was found necessary to make some special tests, under the condi- wireless signalling tions of actual commercial operation, with between an air-liner in flight and ground-stations. Arrangements were made for these experiments to be carried out from an air- liner of Imperial Airways flying on one of the ordinary sche- duled servlees between London and Cologne, the experts taking part in the tests including officials of Laboratory and of the Marcont Company.

the National Physical

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1936.

MR. CHARLES HARPUR SAILS FOR HOME

Popular S. M. C. Given Enthusiastic Send-Off

COMMISSIONER OF WORKS NOW RETIRED

HARLAND AND WOLFF FINANCES

BEST SINCE MANY YEARS

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, June 14.

EVEREST

CLIMBERS

TABOOED

NATIVES SAY GODS

ARE ANGRY

(Special Air Mall Service)

London, Juné 14. The gods are preventing Mr. Hugh Rutledge's expedition from climbing Everest, the great moun- tain in the Himalayas. So say the

of hill people

Darjeeling. "Lo Gyalo" they are saying. It means that the gods Are victorious. The people express their belief that Everest will not be climbed by the expedition.

to be made.

They point out that. on this third attempt. India experienced the earliest monsoon for thirty years frustrating the most careful plans.

The report for 1935 of Harland and Wolff, Limited, the well-known Belfast shipbuilders, is the best that has been issued for some years". But much will have to hap- pen before the shareholders will be Hin sight of a dividend. In 1934 Snangnai, June 15.

there was a trading loss before After 34 years in the Service of providing for depreciation of the Shanghai Municipal Council, | £112,940. and in order to show a Mr. Charles Harpur, lately Com- credit balance of £50.054 for that

Tibetans, Nepaulis and other hill missioner of Public Works, aalled year it was necessary to take £70.-tribes are convinced that the gods yesterday In the ss. Empress of 000 from reserve. In 1935, how will never permit the fulf ascent Russia for Canada, from whence ever, there was a trading profit for he will go to England, where he the year before providing for de- will reside in Suffolk with his wife preciation of £42,934. The sum of and daughters. A large number of £23,794 (against £41,295) was re- Ariends were at the Customs Jetty ceived as interest on indebtedness to see nim off and a band was of associated shipping companies; present to play pieces in honour in respect of previous years. In- of the occasion. Two big banners cluding the balance brought in the loss account shows & were strung across the entrances proft and to the jetty, bidding him farewell. total credit of £117.874, which is Despite the very hot day the carried forward. The vessels laun- of well-wishers did notched from the shipyards during throng mind standing on the jetty for 1935 had a tonnage of 113,822, the more than half an hour before the largest output. the directors point, tender left for the ship, which was out, for that year of any shipbuild- berthed on the other side of the ing company in the world. While in the sense river. Mr. Harpur was constantly this is satisfactory

the company stopping in the midst of talks to that it shows that say good-bye to some other permit is only fair to remember that of which has jumped from. £66,- retains its pre-eminent position, who had come to see him off. As the tender left the jetty to go

shipbuilding was far from formal In the current year a number of

They believe that supernatural forces guard the mountain. They remembered, says Reuter, that many, Himalayan cumbers have, said that their wills seemed to go dormant when they had ascended

the mountain to a great height, and that an inner voice seemed to tell them to "Go back, go back."

Co. have substantially Increased the amount at debit of Surplus As- sets Realization Account, the total

The Radio Department of the Paris you glimpse, a network of fields and woods on either side of National Physical Laboratory now

lined by poplar trees. has a special aeroplane at its dis- roads

Soon the Päris air-port can be posal, in which experts are carry-

seen beneath ing out for the Air Ministry ex-

Then comes a train link to Brindisi, with Frarce and Leriments in the guidance of a r liners by various methods of wire-Italy unfold.ng themselves beyond less equipment. Experiments are the windows of your wagon-lt constantly in progress, also, be- At Brindisi a flying-boat"lles ready tween observers up in the air and for the air crossing to Alexandria. research-workers down on the This is one of your most delight- Eround. Aircraft with a lenced en-u stages! Corru with its super gines, and with propellers revdly-coast-line.

Athens! The enchant ing at slow tip-speeds, are flown ing blue of the Mediterranean! belghts and speeds Then comes Alexandria, and on to at various

This Cairo-where you enter one of the above observing stations.

136 to £1.097,139. The reduction enables the noise they make, asg land-planes, ascending to gain

In the amount owing to the com- heard on 'the ground, to be record- a bird's eye view of the Pyramids down the river, a large quantity important contracts have been re- ed by special sound-meters. And and of the desert as you wing your of recrackers were set off, mak-ceived, but in all cases the prices pantes from £835,128 to £663,- pany, by associated 'shipping com- hen engines are silenced, and way upward.

"So on to Gaza, and on over the noise of propeliers lessened, It

are still on a low level Reference 874), and in the liabilities of the Mr. Harpur was appointed in made to the agreement recently land-that wor.derful July, 1902, to the then Municipal concluded with Short Brothers for

company in respect of natured becomes possible to obtain valuable

bill of exchange and guarantees cata as to the Sounds made by the Biblical country of Bethlehem Engineering Office. In 1906, he the formation of an aircraft con- rush over hulls wings, and other Jerusalem. Jericho, the Dead Sea became Chief Engineering. Assis-struction company.

(from £5,977;029 to £5,585,608) surfaces. At the same time re-end the Jordan Valley. Presently. tant; in 1999 Deputy; and in 1922

is due to the progress made in the the distance, appears the Commissioner. Under his dir-

BALANCE-SHEET FIGURES cording devices inside the aircraft away in

reorganization of the old, Royal are locating and "measuring" -Rutbah Wells, which looks just ection, many building

The total of the balance-sheet | Mall group. The directors again projects noises with a view to im-like one of those desert forts one

is increased from £18.880,541 to terior

point out that the book values of have been carried out. including sound-deadening reads about in "Beau Geste." After four bridges

17,065,014. but the increase is investments in subsidiary com- provements in

over the Soochow this you fly on over desert coun- Creek, the remodelling of the Chin

nominal shan real. While parles, which stand at £3,990,018 € materials in hull structures. doors.

try. Then comes Baghdad-"Jewel | ese Gaol, several new markets, bar-

the fixed assets show a fall of (against £4,284,493 a year ago), and other nttings.

of the East." On beyond. Baghdad racks for the police, improved capital losses resulting from the

early €1.000.000 to £12,835,615, are still considerably in excess of you are over desert again. There

their present value. Cash at ban- sewerage, school buildings, a whart disposal of the shipyard at Greekers and in hand has risen during is a magnificent view of the ruins

at Yangtszepoo. fand much roadock and from the liquidation of the year from £602,318 to

€890,002.

hallowed

ing a great ŋ, din.

Alr-uners are not only growing larger, but they are also tying faster. This is making it all the

ef that wonderful Arch of Ctesi-construction.-(N.C.D.N.)... nore necessary to study the drag. Cr resistance, which is set up when chon; after which you approach such structures are moving swift the legendary site of the Garden ly. Tests at the National Physical of Eden. Then comes Basra, and Laboratory emphasises the impor-yu and yourself flying on down smoothly the Arabian side of the Persian tance of employing Anished surfaces and of stream-Guit lining with the utmost care every "part that is exposed to the rus

12 PISTOLS

Koweit with STOLEN FROM

"Here, now. is camels filing slowly into the gates and Arabs in their of air. The attention now paid to the town such questions is illustrated by the flowing robes; then Bahrein with external smoothness Imparted to its picturesque pearl-vendors. The the metal hulls of the new Imiangular sails of fishing-bcats can be seen, as you fly on down perial Airways, flying-boats. and

coast. Then you reach the by the fact that such projections the

and fort of Sharjah, as direction-finding loop aerials rest-house will, when not in use, be with- with its square towers and Árab drawn through a trap-door into sentries. On again, you are soon looking down on the Gulf of the hull of these machines.

COURT FOUND

TWO SUSPECTS DETAINED BY PUBLIC SAFETY BUREAU

www.

Shangal, June 15. « ammunition, stolen from the Nan- Twelve pistols and 43 rounds of

Air Sclerice concerns itself not man, with flocks of birds far be caly with aircraft, engines, and low. Now the coast curves, and

tao District Court armoury recent- wireless on beyond Gwadur you sight that propellers and with equipment, but also with such famous "Cathedral Rock" stand-y, have been recovered by the questions as the improvement of ing out as such a landmark along Chinese Police, following the ar- airway lighting, and the simpli- the coast-line. And so to Karachi rest of a suspected burglar and a woman by a Chinese detective at- fication of the Instruments which famous air-port of India. On be-

yond Karachi you pass over fattached to the Settlement Police. pilots use in navigation.

ཛཱ”

FILMS OF THE NEW FLYING-BOATS"

with

are

now.

The armoury was broken into after midnight on May 9, when the locks were destroyed, and a box

topped hills and deserts. Then comes Hyderabad with its high- walled fort. Desert

again and after this Jodhpur with its containing nineteen pistols and 83 splendid hotel. Delhi comes next.

rounds of ammunition, and radio and very impressive it looks as you receiving set were stolen. During Gaze down on it from above. Then, the subsequent inquiries by the after Cawnpore, you fly high above Court authorities and officers of of Public Safety, ar the Ganges; and so to Allahabad the Bureau

officer in charge of the Confiscated and Calcutta

Property Room, a court clerk, and a watchman were required to furn- ish security.

British news-reel companies have now obtained sound films. sultable commentaries of stages In the contruction of the glant Empire flying-boats which

"From Calcutta you proceed via now being built for Imperial Air Akyab, Rangoon, Bangkok, Alor ways in the seaplane works of Star, and Penang to Singapore. All these stages are full of in- Messrs. Short Bros.. Rochester.

The suspects detained are Wang The first of these fiying-boat-28 terest. You look down on fax- Siao Ah Yuer and Wang "Sze-5. of which are under constructioncinating panoramas Jungle, Posing as an arms dealer, the From Chinese detective approached the is expected to be completed within sca-coast, and rice-fields.

Singapore you Ly above islands former for a supply, leading to his winding water-ways; and arrest. According to the Bureau then on over the coast of Suma- of Public Safety, the suspect has tra. Jungles and streams appear confessed to the crime and two ac- in all directions. After which complices are being sought by the comes Palembang with its red police.-(N.C.D.N.).

the

next few weeks. It will be given the name "Canopus."

PEN-PICTURE OF A'

and

02

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA roofs. Now you are looking down

12,000 Miles By Air

+

Be-

ion swampy jungles. After which the coast of Java appears, and the views change to beautiful islands again. you are over the Timor Sea. with cocoanut palms: Boats with on and on, your engines running Apropos the announcement above white sals appear ahead; then smoothly until away in the dis- as to the alr-fare reduction to you aight the luxuriant foltage tance a faint streak appears on Australia the brief pen-pictures and red-roofed houses of Batavin. the horizon. Australia is la sight! attached of anal journey from Your next stage ands you en

"After a halt at Darwin you fly London to Brisbane have been route for. Sourabaya. Picturesque | OL over bush country to Daly: compiled from descriptions by mountains alternate with cultivat-Waters. tiny, lonely station. passengers who have actually made ed land; after which you fly over yond Daly Waters the land grows this wonderful, memory-haunting country which is more rugged and more open and pastoral: but while flight.

wild. Across the Ball Strait your heading for Brunette Downs the "Your air-liner ascends smooth-air-liner passes. Then comes country is seen to take on a dry. ly. The Croydon air-port vanishes Rambang, and after that you are desert-like appearance. Then after below, and away behind you lies making for Koepang. First you this, for mile after mile, the coun- the smoke-pall over London. The skirt Sumbawa Island with its ty extends in flat pastoral land. Surrey hills appear ahead-then the wooded hills. Then you pass over | The last stages of your flight are fields of Kent. Soon you see the further Islands with native villages completed in swift succession- Channel in the distance, remind-clustering in kampongs, After this Normanton, Longreach, Charleville, ting you of a vast sheet of quicksil- there is the Suva Bea, and not and finally the end of your aerial ver. Out over the sea. you fly long afterwards Timor Island ap- Journey, at Brisbane. More than vassels far below looking like toy- pears in view. Now the bay of 12,000 miles in a great trans-En- boats on a pond. Now the court Koepang lies below, and you alight pire air voyage which is unique in: of France is slipping past beneath. at Koepang to be waited on, by the scenic and other wonders it and as your air-liner heads. for attentive Javanese boys. Aloft unfoldal"

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