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HOME FOR ROMAN CATHOLIC TEACHERS.

SATURDAY, JULY

23.

A GIANT GERMAN AEROPLANE.

ALL-METAL JUNKERS TYPE DESCRIBED.

One of England's stately homes, In avstematic development, of Strawberry, Twickenham, the neroplane types first construct- famous as the former residence fed by Prof. Junkers in 1919 Prof, Horace Walpole, was opened Inst Junkers' Eperimental Institute in month by Cardinal Bourne na atautumn 1926 constructed the type Roman Catholic training college G81 which at the present moment, for teachers.

represents the biggest German overland aeroplane.

It will be called St Mary's Col- lege, and will be staffed by 201

The plane is an all-metal con- pricats of the Congregation of St.struction of corrugated Duralumin Vincent de Paul There is accom-sheets. The weight of the two medation for 200 mien students,

The original college was found ed by Cardinal Wiseman, first Archbishop of Westminster, at Brook Green 75 years ago.

Junkers side motors and the fuel plant have been distributed as far

possible on the wing.

Other particulars of the Junkors aeroplane type 31 are the follow

ing:

"During recent years the de- mand for admission to the college Total hat far exceeded the accommoda- tion," one of the priests said to af pressman. "We purchased Straw- berry Hill two years ago, and sold jour old college to Mosari, J. Lyons and Co., who wanted more room for Cadby Hall.”

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Walpole'e mansion has been left| intact, but a new wing containing lecture roonis: dormitories, and a chapel has been added at a cost of £60,000...

Dan 30.50 m; Length 16.20 m. Height 4.75 m; Medium width of cabli 2 m. · Capacity f the three motors 1200 H.P; Tot Flylig Weight 7.7 t; Flying Range with normal tank plant without intermediate landing 1000 km, with n speed of 185 km per hour.

The aeroplane is fitted with an auxiliary plant placed in a special room. It may be used for pure freight traffic as well as for pas- senger and freight traffic com- latter case' - "Every effort has been made to bined. For the preserve the mansion as a nation-rangements have been made that al monument," the priest, added. the passengers are not incommc- "In the new wing the old Gothic dated by the freight. The large architecture has been, followed, dimensions in which the aeroplane We have already received visitors is held allowed the possibility of From all over the world."

constructing in addition to a very roomy cabin three freight balco and cases is thus quite impossible.

Strawberry Hill was bought by Walpole in 1747. The interior! decorations and enlargements car- The acroplane has room for 15 ried out by him were churchlike in passengers. The space at the dia- appearance. Some of the mantel-posal of every passenger being pieces are. replicas of tombs: an-several times bigger than at the other is of inlaid marble, which conditions to which we were used was worth £300 even in the 18th to up to now. The armchairs fac

ing each other in all 3 cabins may be exchanged against two beds ly-! ing one on top of the other. Thus the entive aeroplane may used as sleeping car or ambalatica plane.

century.

One ceiling is an extraordinarily fine copy of that in Henry VII's Chapel in Westminster Abbey.

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The mansion afterwards passed into the possession of the Walde- The first Junkers three-screw grave family. The last owner was aeroplane type G 24 was commis- Lord Michelham, and the Romansioned for traffic service about 2 Catholics bought the mansion from years ago. This type which in the Lady Lady Michelham. There meantime has become well-known are 80 acres of beautiful gardens. in the European Air Services; in South America and in Asin-and most particularly by the Flying Expedition" of the two Junkers aeroplanes G 24 Peking-Berlin- Peking-is now being succeeded hy the large type G 31. The pr gress in the contruction is solely due to the oraction). experiences, made during the last 2 years in! the ecoperative work between the! Junkers Air Service, the Aeroplanej Experimental Institute. Construction Works and Junkers'

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Strong criticism of the manner in which the discussions have been proceeding at the League of Na- tions Conference on Disarmament was uttered by Mr. Lloyd George itself. That is not the spirit of at Westminster.

disarmament.

The way which they are going For weeks and months, he said.about it is not an effort to averl they have been meeting in Gevenal war, but to see that when war Trying to settle disarmament. 41- comes they will get the advantage.: Now me to say, as one who knows He was not referring to the something about these confer-Naval Conference between Ameri- ences. that up to the present it has en Britain, and Japan, at which been a case of footlinahout. he hoped something would be ac- One nation has been maneuvring complished, but to the conference to get the advantage to disarm the which had been going on for other one, and to retai supremacy months.

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Two rewards, totalling £1,000, sions, Westminster. Cutting a able articles, including Mrs. Day's are offered in connexion with the glass panel, the thieves entored by Jewellery. A number of valuable robbery at the flat of Colonel the front door and ransacked every The value of the stolen property pictures were slashed with a knife.

Harry Day, M.P., in Carlisle-man- room, taking only the most valu- lis estimated at over £7,000,