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MONSTER VESSELS WILL BE

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In the article below. Com- mander C. D. Burney, C.M.G., M.P.. the famous airship designer, under whose direc- tlon the greatest airship in the world, the R100, is being bullt by the Airship Guarantee Core- pany, discusses the future of the airship, based upon the flight of the Graf Zeppelin, and tells of the airship his Company is building.

(828 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office of the invariably becomes an object of

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DISTINCTION

MONDAY, NOVEMBER

CHINESE RADIO PROJECT.

BIG CONTRACT WITH U.S. CORPORATION.

"TO BREAK BRITISH CABLE MONOPOLY."

AGREEMENT SIGNED.

1928.

H.M.S. WOODLARK IN NEW ROLE.

TO PLY ON WEST RIVER AS PASSENGER BOAT.

31 YEARS IN NAVY.

Shanghai, Nov. 5. Another old British.gunboat, veteran of her class, has gone in- to retirement where only memories of her past activities will cling around her,

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After lighting pirates, scatter The flight of the Graf Zeppelin

ing bandits and protecting British has raised world-wide interest, bo-

Shanghai, Nov. 6.

shipping along China's extensive cause if airships of this character The long deadlock which block-waterways for 31 years, HS. can operate safely and with cered the development of radio com- Woodlark, formerly a gunboat on tainty over long distances, tha munication between. China, the the Yangtaze, has been sold to Chi- Immediate prospect of a regular United States and other countries nose interests in South China and result will apend the rest of her contract | existence as a passenger boat on commercial service is before us.

When any new invention or was broken to-day as a

of the signing of the development in mechanical science between the Nationalist. Govern-the West River between Hongkong emerges from the gradual experi

The Woodlark, under her new mental stage and enters on the ment and the Radlo Corporation and Canton,

of America, whereby China will ern of commercial application, it

20-40 kilowatt name, the Cassum, will leave purchase two short wave overseas transmission Shanghai this morning for long- intense controversy..

Commander W. C. The airship is no exception to wireless apparatus capablo of kong flying the "duster for the

establishing direct, communica- first time. this rule. Ever since the R38 tion between Shanghai and San. Knight, R.N.R., will be in com- mand, and he will band the vessel disaster there has been no lack of people who have expressed the

The contract was signed by over to her purchasers, the Mow view that alvships will never bear, Chang Ching-klang, repre- Hing Steamship Company, which of any value, At the same time senting the Nationalist Govern- operates a fleet of small vessels The fundamental facts of selence ment Bureau of Reconstruction, for passenger carrying between cannot be altered, and in spite of and A. B. Tyrrell and G. F. Hongkong and Shanghai.

The old Woodlark, terror of the adverse criticism airships are now Shecklen, representing the Radio unler construction in Great Corporation of America and the Yangtze bandits and pirates, has Radio Corporation of the Phillip-undergone a great transformation. pines, the latter a

She has been stripped of her subsidiary

urmament, which was not very ex- corporation.

tensive, and has been built up like one of the chicken boats which struggle in and out Shanghai from

Britain and the United States.

The main reasons which ensure airship development are that an airship requires only half the horse power that the aeroplane needs for each ton of actual load.

Francisco.

METROPOLE-SAVOY-BOA VISTA conveyed, and furthermore, while contract is approximately a quar- the island in the Yangtaze estuary.

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OF HONGKONG AND CHINA. Just the thing to send home. MEE CHEUNG

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carrying this 100 per cent. Increase In useful load, its range in aliout five times the range of a commer- cial aeroplane.

Can Travel in Comfort, One has only to compare the Graf Zeppelin flight and the recent trans-Atlantic aeroplane flights to realise the immense difference be- tween them. The Zeppelin is enrrying over 60 persons, and these 60 persons are travelling in com plete comfort..

Big Sum Involved. The amount involved in the million dollars gold, one- ter of third of which was deposited in a local bank to-day and the balance payable upon the com- pletion of the station which will require practically a year.

As much passenger accommoda- tion as possible has been provided on this small ship which registers only 300 tons, and she will spend her days on the West River,

Despite her age, the vessel The Nationalist Government is makes a fair burn of apeod, being also signing shortly traffic able to do 13 knots. In her now agreement with the Radio Cor-shape. The Woodlark was bufft poration of America, whereby in 1897 and was been in constant direct conenunication by wireless service ever since. for news and commercial mean area may be established In- mediately after the station is in operation.

U.S. Experts.

They have cabins, dining saloon, electric light. electric cooking, electric heating; their conversa- tion is not rendered almost impoa- The terms of the contract have sible, as it is in most aeroplanes, not been disclosed, but it is un-

On the other hand, the aero-derstood that the Chinese Govern planes that have crossed the Atlan-ment is arranging to employ tic have either been piloted by a American technical assistance in single person, or, at the most, four order to train. Chinese in the persons have been carried in operation and development of extreme diacomfort. -

Another factor which enters into all trans-Atlantic flights is the

difference irrent

between the

westerly passages.

PEKING IN SERE AND YELLOW.

IMPERIAL PALACES FALLING INTO DECAY.

The Rev. T. C. Wù, M. A., B.D. general accretary of the Chinese Mission to. Lepers, WAB Inter- the radio.

viewed recently by a representa. The present contract is under-tive of the North-China Daily News stood to be preliminary to An on his recent visit to Peking. extensive development of radio

The situation in Peking, sald communication throughout China Mr. Wu, is very peaceful but At all times of the year, and and between China and other business is in a deplorable state, more especially during the winter, nations in order to break the Mr. Wu stayed in one of the there is a constant wind blowing British cable monopoly which has largest hotels in the former from the United States towards controlled. China's foreign com- eapital and was informed by the Europe.

This wind necessarily munications in the past quarter cashier that business, especially helps any type of aircraft, coming of a century.

the hotel bus.ness, had been re- from the United States towards

duced to some 80 per cent, since Europe, but retards ita progress when travelling in an opposite

the removal of the capital from Poking to Nanking.. Numerous direction.

hotels and business houses have suspended business.

Hitherto all successful acro- plane flights, with the exception of ane, have been carried out with the assistance of a prevailing wind. A number of people have lost their lives attempting to fly from Europe towards America, and the only successful aeroplane flight was that of the German machine which landed an the coast of Labrador.

Started in 1921.

The negotiations for the con- struction of American radio stations in China began with the Peking Government in 1921 when the American Federal Wirelens Company of California

concession to

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Communications likewise are in obtained n bad atate, the railway service. construct especially being in a terrible con a station here, but the American dition. Raliway runnings have firm was blocked by opposition not yet been restored to normal Japanese and British concerns owing to a lack of rolling stock. who claimed prior monopolistic When Mr. Wu started from Tang-

ku to Tientsin, the train was de

concessions.

A long squabble ensued, rezult.layed for three or four hours. Al- ing in a strong declaration by though he travelled in a first- Aeroplane Service, Remote.

Mr. Charles Evans Hughea, then.

class carriage, he was unable to The crew of this machine were Secretary of state of the United find a sent, because the soldiers saved by the merest chance, and States, respecting the open door had taken away most of these and they look for longer to get from policy, upon which Hughes based no proper seats had been put in Greenly Island, where they landed, the Washington Conference Treaty that the soldiers did not board their places. It was noticeable. to New York than they would have respecting the open door fo taken if they had crossed by China-Chicago Tribune" Correa molest the passengers. In spite the first class compartments and pondent, steamer in the ordinary way.

of this, however, the passengers suffered a great deal of incon-- venience.

An Atlantic service by aeroplane is clearly then a possibility of the remote future, and it is this reason which has, I think, stimulated so much interest in the airship flight. An airship service between the two continents seems to be within the realms of Immediate possibility and the publie la interested to know how soon such a service is possible, what it will cost, arid how long it will take.

ARMISTICE DAY IN LONDON.

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Palaces for the Public. Practically all the former Im- perial palaces are now open to the public, Mr. Wu said, upon the (Continued from Page 1)

payment of an admission fee of between 10 to 20 cents. Though vice antted the whole Empire in these are in a fairly good state, it common thought more than that of was pathetic to see some of the any other annual ceremony. His art work improperly cared for, so One may say at once that none Royal Highness declared that he that much was going to ruin. Mr. of the airships which have so far and enjoyed his stay in East Wir was especially disappointed in been built or which are now being Africa beyond all expectations. seeing one of the finest buildings built ie suitable for a regular com- The visit had given him a deep of the Temple of Heaven, where mercial service across the Atlantic. and permanent interest in Kenya. the Emperor used to stay to fast The R100 is considerably, bigger Canada was the country which he and purify himself before going than the Graf Zeppelin, but even know best outside Britain and ho to worship and offering sacrifices, that ship will only be suitable for bolloyed that the problems of occupied by soldiers. Part of this demonstratoin runs.

Working on the result of the Canada were in some respecte akin was utilized as a stable and, on Zeppelin, flights and those of the to those of Kenya, anyway as re- the whole, the place was going to R109, it will be possible for our rds farming. Ife would take brck pieces. technicians to design vessels which Home a message addressed special are suitable for this service.

Bigger Ship Will be Built. Such vessels will probably be sorne nine to ten million cuble foot in capacity, and will have a

Tea Kun's Garden.

ly to the younger generation Dealing with Pastingfu, or. whose interest he wanted to Wu said that when he arrived in awaken in the new Colony British Wireless.

cruising speed of between 60 and Company of £1,000 for the first 70 miles an hour, as in the Graf flights. Zeppelin. With such vassols one

Europe.

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that city, he visited Tano Kun the former President's garden, It was impossible to enter. the palace, since it was being used as the military headquarters.

Soldiers still remained in the Supposing, therefore, that by the garden, which, however, was open can contemplate a 48 hour service end of 1929 sufficient experience is to the public. Mr. Wu describes between North American and obtained with the existing ships to the garden as "really grand." He enable these ten million cubic feet was told that part of it hud There seems to be no technical ships to be built; and assuming formerly been used as a zoological reason why, when such a service that the first of these ships will garden, but he failed to notice le running successfully, fares not be built under two years, one any animals. On inquiry he should exceed £80 to £100. It le may say that it will be about three learned that most of the animals understood that the Gruf Zeppelin years from to-day before a really and rare birda had been removed secured passengers at fares of commercial type of vessel suitable to tho, Central Park in Peking. £600 each, and offers have been for the Atlantic route can be in Tor this statement, however, he

could not youen made to the Airship Guarantee existence.

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