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THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL. Telographic Address: “KREMLIN, HONGKONG.

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI."

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the. Grand, Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.

TEA DANCES:

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m. Hotel launch meets all steamers.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

AMATEUR FLYING IN HONGKONG.

THE SEAPLANE CLUB PROPOSALS.

HOW IT COULD BEST BE ORGANISED.

DETAILS OF SCHEME.

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Some details of the lines which the proposed Light Seaplane Club for flongkong might be run have been forwarded to us by Mr. H. R. Vaughan-Fowler, the well- known aviation expert. These, although only provisions!" in character, are most interesting,

It is suggested that the Club would be open to either sex, and that it might be organised on the lines of a Limited Company, run

($28 for thirty Tilia Tickets can bo had at the Office of the purely for the benefit of members.

Tel. Add: "Victoria."

above Hotel).

Telephone C. 378

HOTELS OF

J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager.

い

DISTINCTION

METROPOLE-SAVOY-BOA VISTA,

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel. Address "PALACE." Tel. Kowloon No. 8

Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station: Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout, Every Room with Private Bath Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terms moderate, Special terms to families on application to:

Mr. J. II. OXBERRY, Proprietress.

KOWLOON HOTEL

KOWLOON....

SPECIAL SUMMER RATES,

Daily from $5.00 Monthly from $125.00

Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of MR. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE.

Phone Nos.

K. 608 & K. 009.

Cables KowLOTEL'

Hongkong,

1J

EUROPE

After-dinner

dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

Cables:-

"EUROPE

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.

Arthur E. Odell, Managing - Dirantor."

THE HOTEL RIVIERA

MACAO

Cable Address:—" RIVIERA, MACAO".

EMBODYING THE LUXURIES OF MODERN HOTEL CONSTRUCTION

THE FINAL EXPRESSION OF COMFORT AND SERVICE

Printed and Published for the Proprietora by ALFRED MORLEY, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, In the City of Victoria Hongkong.

THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1928.

ALTITUDE RECORD GREAT STATESMAN

BROKEN.

LIGHT PLANE CLIMBS 21,000

FEET IN 70 MINUTES.

GIPSY MOTH TRIUMPH.

London, July 25, Captain G. De Havilland, pllot- ing the new G. type De Havilland Moth, fitted with the De Haviland Gipsy engine of 100 h.p., accom. panied by his wife, broke the world's altitude for aeroplanes easily to-day.

HONOURED.

EARL BALFOUR'S 80TH BIRTHDAY.

HIS MAJESTY TELEGRAPHS GREETINGS.

light|ROLLS ROYCE PRESENT

Captain De Havilland climbed to a height of over 21,000 feet, the record-breaking climb taking only soventy minutes.-Reuter.

London, July 25. Hundreds of messages of con- gratulation from all over the in country were received by the Earl The machine is the one of Balfour, the veteran Conserva- which Captian De. Havilland gained fifth place in the King'stive statesman, on the attainment Cup Air Ract, and is similar in all of his 80th birthday to-day.

The King and Queen and the respects to, the winner's machine. Royal Family were among the frat

The engine is an entirely new venture in aviation, the King's Cup to send greetings, His Majesty Race being its first public outing. telegraphing Earl Balfour Three of them competed, gaining follows:

"It is a great pleasure for the

1st, 4th and 5th places. It is air-

neroplane owners.

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one who has been a faithful 'and.

Two types of Heences are con-cooled and has been specially Queen and me to send our heartiest templated, one of which would per- built by the De Havilland Company greetings on his eightieth birthday mit the holder to carry passengers to meet the requirements of light to an old friend like yourself, and or freight for hire. Besides actual flying instruction, couraus of lee- tures would be arranged, whilst encouragement would be given to private owners, whose machines the Club would house,

Costs of learning are difficult to estimate, but the case is cited of-a member of a Club at Home whose

21,000,

The feature of the record-break-valued advisor to three successive ing elimb is the time taken La Sovereigns. reach the altitude of

"We trust you may continue to seventy minutes being exceptional be blessed with those powers of ly good and beyond the power of mind and body which have long been the delight and admiration of many higher-powered engines.

your many friends."

Hundreds of telegrams and written messages also renched the

including a large number from the United States and Canada, notably from the Government officials.

expenses in a year were about $480 PROMENADE CONCERT. Earl from all parts of the world, (Hongkong currency). These would however, most likely be higher here.

On the pleasure side, dying plenies to Canton and Mueno could be easily arranged,

Mr. Vaughan-Fowler's suggea. tions are given below:

Objects of the Club.

ANOTHER ARRANGED FOR

NEXT MONTH.

In view of the great success of the first Promenade Concert held on Friday last at the

The Earl of Balfour attended a meeting of the Cabinet during the morning and received the heartiest felicitations from the Ministera.

Rolls-Royce us Gift.

| Volunteer' Hendquarters, It has The Club would be formed with been de ed to hold another In the afternoon, the Earl of Balfour was presented with a the object of bringing together as concert o. Friday, August 17th. merabers of the Club persons In- The Band of the King's Own Rolls-Royce anloon car by Mr. terested in flying, and for provid-Scottish Borderers will again Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minis ing and maintaining seaplanes for perform, by kind permission of ter, who made the presentation on the use and instruction of the .-Col. L. J. Comyn, C.M.G.,behalf of 160 peers and 150 mem- members.

D.3.0, and officers and there willbers of the House of Commons, of again be vocal items during the all parties, who subscribed for the programme

splendid gift.

Also it would he the object of the Club to organise the necessary ground instruction for those mem- hers who desired to take up flying and obtain their "A" or "B" licences.

Price of admission will be $1 with sailors und Boldiers uniform at half price.

The ceremony took place in the in presence of a distinguished com- pany of Parliamentarians within the precincts of the House of Con- monia, namely, in the Spenkor's Courtyard.

The "A" licence is granted 10 anybody who has qualified as s Weekly season tickets are to be, pilot, and passed certain simple issued between London and the tests, and permits him to fly ro- | majority of stations on the gistered aircraft, but does not per- Southern Railway within a radius mit him to carry passengers or of about 15 miles of Charing Cross, freight for hire or reward,

The "B" licence requires more experience, and the tests are harder, but when obtained permits the pilot to carry passengers or |freight for hire or reward, at any time, and in any type of aircraft, provided he has had the articular

yje entered on his licence.

The Club would also encourage the "private owner," and members who wished to have their own machines could do so, and have them housed and maintained by the Club, at reasonable rates.

Organisation Details,""

for the benifit of the members,

cost per machine for transport

(c). Then there is the

from England.

tribute to the great part which Mr. Baldwin paid an eloquent

Earl Balfour had played in the pubite itfe of Great Britain for practically sixty years.

Mr. Lloyd George, the Liberal Reader, spoke of the affectionate Earl Balfour, and Mr. J. R. Clynes, extra admiration he had always had for

in the absence of Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald, expressed the high esteem in which the Labour Party had always held him.

But in, apita of these extra operational costs it is considered that the cost per flying hour for Instruction will be reasonable and about 8 to 10 hours instructional dying is required on the average before going solo, and of course Bolo flying on Club machines works out cheaper than instruction.

The Club would accept respon sibility for damage to their air craft, and third-party risks, pro- vided that the damage, or third- party claims wore in no way caused by an incident that was a breach of the Club rules.

It has been found that it is most satisfactory to organise flying clubs on the lines of a Limited Company, but it would not be the object of the Company to make

Injury to members would not be large profits, it would be run. puroly covered by the Club, but in these The members would be divided days when everybody is flying, and into two classes-Flying' mem-

so few accidents occur, insurance bers, and associate members. policies covering flying risks are

The flying members would be quite reasonable, those who wished to take instruc- tion in flying, and those who being qualified as pilots, wish to hire the seaplanes provided by the Club,

The estimated entrance fee would be approximately $50 whilst the yearly subserintion would be somewhere about EGO,

The Flying Side.

The Club would employ a fully- qualified pilot instructor, and a ground engineer, the Instructor being in charge of all flying and training..

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At the moment it la nat neces- The associate members would be sary to give the actual flying rules those who desired to support the in detail; these are always drawn Club and encourage local flying. up so as to conform to the Inter- Associate members, would be national Flying Regulations, and entitled to take passenger flights to safeguard the members. when machines were avaliable, at charges to be arranged by the Committee.

Earl Balfour was Leader of the House of Commons for nearly fif- teen years.-Reuter and British Wireless.

AMERICAN CREDIT.

PHILADELPHIA HEDISCOUNT RATE INCREASED.

Philadelphia, July 25. The Philadelphia Federal Re serve Bank has fallen into Hino with other Federal Banks, and to-day Increased its re-discount rate to five per cent.

rato is to apply The new as from August 26th.-Renter's American Service.

POLICE METHODS CRITICISED.

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was acting under the instructions of the acting C. D. I.

Mr. Lindsell:-On what autho- It must be remembered that rity did you enter the premises on learning to fly is not only a matter the 20th?

of jumping into an aeroplane, Sergeant Clemo:On the war- The entrance fee and yearly doing a few hours dual instruerant for the arrest of Fok Kam- subscription for associate mem- tion, and calling at thes Secretary's chuon?

bers would be about half of those Office for an "A" licence; If the Mr. Lindsell:-Warrant for the suggested for flying meinbere. member desires to become a arrest of Fok Kam-chuen? I should

Members could be of either qualified pilot he must take an like to sea that.

BOX.

Cost of Learning.

Interest in his. machine, and the principles of flying.

Lectures organised under the At the present moment It Is Club Instructional scheme cover practically Impossible to give the all that is necessary, and for those cost of learning to fly, or the hire who desire to take up flying at advanced of Club machines per hour, for greater length more Hongkong. So to enable the reader lectures are given, these lectures to come to some conclusion I givo are far from dull, and even those the following figures:

with no mechanical knowledge will A member of a well-known flying find that the working of the club in England exponded in his machine and engine is not an un- first year, 3120 on actual dual solved mystery, far beyond them; instruction: $200 on flying solo; on but a very simple multer, subscriptions, lecture fees and general expenses $100; a total of

$480 in the year, and at the end

Sporting Side.

Most of us are keen

on, sport of it, he was qualified and held his of one kind or another, and flying "A" licenco.

When considering the figures the best of all, especially with for pleasura is without a doubt the following points must be re-seaplanes. membered:

The warrant was handed up to the Magistrate, who, reading from it, eaid that it was a warrant to produce Fok Kam-chuen in Court on Thursday, July 19,

Mr. Lindsell pointed out to Mr., Bulmer Johnson that he could not a matter understand how auch could arise, as he personally ex- plained to Mr. Murphy that the warrant only entitled Mr. Murphy to bring Fak Kam-chuen to the Court on July 19.

Mr. Bulmer Johnson:-Will your Worship ask the Sergeant what he did with the photographs?

Sergeant Clemo:-I had some taken off the photographs

them to be returned. It is a very photographs.

Mr. Bulmer Johnson-I ask for If the Club, Jins success, and a serious matter. The whole thing (a)-The above figures were fow members obtain their own in so Irregular that I press for the for a member of an Acroplane machines, aerial meetings can be whole of them to be returned.

Mr. Lindsell-I am afraid I Club, seaplanes cost more to buy arranged flying picnics and vialts have no power to order that and operate.

to Canton and Macao are a simple (b)-The

Instructor, the matter, and the pleasure to be can only exprees my grave dis- approval of the whole proceduro, ongineer and petrol will cost more gained from these events, is con- It is a matter between you and the In Hongkong.

siderable.

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