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THE LATIN TEMPERAMENT AT ITS BEST.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1926.

CHINA COAST OFFICERS.

RECENT CHANGES."

Captain T. Johnstone, from leave, has gone master Yunnan.

Captain W. Lumsden, of the Cheng- tu, has signed off.

LONDON TO PARIS.

THAMES-SEINE SERVICE OF FLYING BOATS.

From the River Thames in Lon- don to the Seine in Paris is from Captein G. P. McAdam, from ro-2 hours to 3 hours, without serve, has gone master, Chengtu. changing from one's armchair in Captain W. Shane, of the Wenchow, the saloon of a swift, luxurious, umphibious-type winged machine Captain T. W. Pickard, from leave,this now wonder of aerial trans- has gone master, Wonchow.

port is now to become an accom- plished fact.

When Italians speak" of the "fredda' Americans" they refer to that temperamental quality that Americans term "English reserve," and. when either Americans or Englishmen speak of the Latin has signed off. temperament they refer usunily to the 'unrestrained, spontaneous

Captain A, Summerfield, of the emotions of some member of the Ichang, is on home leave. great Romanic race, anya a writer Captain P. J. Green, from Leava,

After a series of successful in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, has gone master, Ichang.

Captain, P. R, Purslow, from leave experiments. It has just been Thus Italian, Spaniards and has gone master, Chennn.

decided by the French Air Union Frenchmen come within the Latin- Captain Mitchell, of the Chenan,

Company to establish a daily temporatment designation, be-son reserve."

Mr. L. M. Burfitt has been appolit Thumes-Seine service for passen- cause Latin legions flourished in second offeer, Chonan,

gers during the coming season. those Countries at a remote, lime Captain S. de Wolf, of the Hul

Powerfully-engined air-bouts of chow, has gone master Kueichow. when the character of the people A. UL. Mills; second, officer, Hul-an improved type are to be employ was easily influenced by the chew, has gone second officer, Soed. They will have graceful, superior Roman. the Latin temperament of the R. Atkinson, third officer, Ka-stream-lined hulls, and will be

is on leave.

fitted also with pneumatic-tfred Ramaniane is the result of a

Captain R. T. Stephens, of the wheels, which, lowered by a particularly industrious Roman Kingyuan, has gone master, Kwang- special mechanism controlled by legion that penetrated boyond the

tung

the pilot, will make it possible to Danube and stayed there.

chief engineer, Accordingly the Latin tempera-Foochew, has gone chief engineer, ascend from, and alight on, the surface of an aerodrome a well ment should be at its best' right Mr. J. H. Cameron, from home an at their river ports. here in Rome, and if there really leave, has gone chief engineer," Foo-

chow."

For instance,

Mr. J. Garance,

Chekiang.

Cutting out Motors, ment, it is here. The Latin tem-gone chief officer, Tuckwo.

The river air-station at Ham- Ofice Equipment Dept.

perament of France, when com- Mr. W. J. Young, acting chief ofmersmith, employed already in pared to Italy or Spain, is Gällle, ficer, Tuckwo, has gone second officer preliminary trials, will be used as Office Equipment Dept. although when the temperament same ship.

Mr. H. R. Dobson, from leave, has the London terminal of the ser-

vice in its early stages. Queen's Building, Ground Floor.of Frenchmen is compared to the gone sup'y chief officer, Kiawo,

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Anglo-Saxon, it is Latin enough.

In its. brond designation, the Latin temperament is simply southern, warm, excitable, respon- sive, hence deceitful, artistic, amorous and treacherous.

The

$ft. V. Bishop, from houfe leave, has gone supy chief officer, Changwo has gene raster Fooshing

Captain W. Field-Hook, from leave; Captain R. W. Bateman, from hotac leave, has gone master, Suiwo,

Capt. J. M. Jackson, of the Suiwo, is on home leave.

gineer, same ship.

Sulwo, is on reserve,

Mr. C. E. Compton, third engineer,

A direct, river-to-river-service obviates the need to travel in | motor-cars to out-lying aero- dromes. At present travellers from London to Paris-are convey- ed by car to Greydan and then,

into Paris, and this makes the total transit time work out al about four hours.

Latin temperament belongs to the Mr. R. H. Watt, sup'y third en-at the other end, from Le Bourget sun lands of the Western Mediter-gineer, Suiwo, has gone third on ranean and to the people who are the children of the Roman Empire, for the Latium, where the real Latins are supposed to have lived and flourished, is a small part of the Italic peninsula.

Mr. G. Porterfield, from home leave, has gone sup'y second engineer, Tuckwo

Mr. F. F. Clark, second engineer, Tuckwo, is on reserve.

Mr. T. M. Roberts, third engineer, Pingwo, has resigned.

Mr. E. McNab, from reserve, has

Thus 11 Thames-Seine trip, accomplished in, say, 24 hours, even allowing for the time taken to reach the experimental air- part, near Hammersmith Bridge, will effect appreciable time- savings.

It is hoped, also, to introduce further accelerations in London- Paris air-boat services.

A specially swift British machine has already made this Thumes-Seine trip in a minute or

For a time all that was bril- lant in the human race was accre- dited to the Latin peoples, in art, in music, drama, science, invenone third-ngineer, Pingwo.

Mr. J. G. Smith, of the Pongtung. tion. It overshadowed the Greeks, has gone second officer, Apety. who perhaps were far superior, Mr. W. Lee, second officer, Apety is on leave-Shipping and Engineer- but who were short-lived, and not

ing. so well presa-agented. The noble old Romans and their Latin-tem- perament children and all their "mamas" "with the tender affec-so under two hours, and it is achievements, classic, medieval tion of a small child. Perhaps it anticipated that when operating and renaissance, were preserved is something in the Latin tempera-perfected flying-stock is built, a experience has been gained, and for posterity through the diffusionment that has evolved such affec regular 120 minutes' service may of the Latin tongue and the in-

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bambina, for in Italy babies ure London and the surface of tho The Germans, Scandinavians universal' joy. The expectant Seine in Paris. and Anglo Saxons "intruded at n later day, with a considerable mother is the pride of the old amount of heavy thinking, along women, who await the time when develope; to bring the London a small voice will learn to say alighting-point nearer in to the with great achievements in literamamina mia," for the little West-end than Hammersmith, ture and art and science. These

are which is merely a provisional cold-temperament people, as the mother and the Madonna

equally loyed.

station. Latins call them, are indebted to Roman civilization, therefore

It will also be the aim, as traffic

But the Latin temperament Rome takes eredit for everything, manifests itself in heroic impulses

Berlin Jan. 21.--The discovery The Nordic pretensions are as well. It was the Latin tem-: superior these days to the Latin; perament of the French race that of a method for alloying alum- that is, anywhere except in Italy, put the Statue of Liberty in Newlinum with other metale,.which materials for where the nationalism of the new York harbour. The cult of the will produce Fascist regime puts the Latin Unknown Soldier is in dispute, automobile bodies that will not temperament back on its pedestal though an analysis of the senti-show scratches and will have! In the sun. To read the Impero, ment seems to place it more within both colour and finish "built in," Jirotka, £ a super-Fascist newspaper, there the

psychology, is claimed by B. Anglo-Saxon is not anything in the world worth The tomb of Napoleon is as Latin, German electrical engineer. He has demonstrated his discovery while that is not Roman. The as the tomb of Hadrian.

to a commission of metallurgists Impero, however, is like Vesuvius

The Latin temperament 'seems of the German Institute of --it goes in for small eruptions. Lo move more, toward the in-Chemical Technology. He is

The stage Englishman and the dividual who triumphed than to said to have made alloys stage Italian probably represent the abstract idea of victory." The aluminum and more than a dozen the extremes of Anglo-Saxon and triumphal arch is Latin, although other metals, producing materiais Latin temperament. The Ameri- many things that are Latin were of many different colours, the can temperament, according to the borrowed from the Greek; but colour varying with the metal Italian, iy somewhat more they became thoroughly Latin. used for the alloy. These alloys! excitable than the English, though Or perhaps the Latins and the have a surface resembling glazed both are lacking in the emotional Greeks had much in common, for porcelain. Copper, manganeso,

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To the Anglo-Saxon foreigner can make an impromptu speech us whether from across the Channel well as any man of Latin tempera- or the Atlantic, the Italian is ment. A cab driver in Romé, a {demonstrative being. When the Paris cart driver, *. Spanish Latin temperament goes in for beggar, can rise to heights of un any public démonstration of premeditated oratory to suit any triumph or bereavement or plea-ccasion. It was Latin tempera- sure, there is no mistaking the ment that evolved grand opera and nature of their sentiments. When it still takes Latin people to sing the Latin temperament mourns, t. as for instance, at the obsequies of the late Queen Mother Mar

However close scrutiny of the guerita, the symbol of grief-wasatin temperament reveals un expressed deeply and profoundlytic mixture from everything The badge of mourning took every from African Negroes to fair- form, newspapers were black with haired Britons who came to Rome solid borders, posters blackened and

assimilated. The the streets, Bags were draped with Romans themselves wore diverse black, lamps were ahrouded in like the Italians of recently, who'

Mon, like motor-cars, aro ligblo black, store windows were drawn are dark, swarthy people in the

to enging-trouble: Through down and the doors were left half South, taller and thinner

lack of sufficient exercise, injudi. open, and the funeral proccasion Tuscany and stouter and more cious eating and drinking, neg- Itself was a majestic and solemn blond in the North toward the lect of one kind or another, their cortege between rows of solemn Veneto and Austria. And there internal ninchinery gets out of people.

is the Venetian, descendant of order and then the troubles begin. The excitable Latins were stark another strain, mixed up with still. So many of them had at Crusaders and Byzantines, ali various times been the recipient manifesting a Latin temperament, if you are constipated, liverish; But billous, bad-tempered, headachy, of some favour of the Regina as a foreigner would say.

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