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IN EARLY DAYS OF AVIATION. .

THE FIRST WOMAN TO FLY IN AEROPLANE.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, APRIL 13th, 1929.

Mrs. Edith Ogilvy-Druze, the Mrs. Hail O. Besg, here is shown with the late Willar Wright just before they took off from Le Mans, France, for a two and a half minutes flight at the breath-taking altitude at 30 feet! Note the eard which held the passenger's long shirts as she sat on the open seat. Lower right is the old "pusher" Biplane in light: fefi. Mrs. Ditre as she appears fo-day,

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something of the pride October 7, 1908, we drove nut to ground to watch my flight were and distinction which Orville the Camp Acers from the Hotelfchielly friends of ing chauffeur, Wright must have fel! radu Dauphin. Le Mans, where all who boasted in a nearby cafe that cently, looking back 25. years folwe dying enthusiasts wire staying was about to fly. They rushed full av plane dipht, an American esteja Mr. Wright, who slept app and congratulated us on

beautiful landing, woman, Mrs. Edith Opilvy-Druce, the hangar with his plane. lonk Back 90 years to the day

"I wore the same dress in which "The thing that strikes me most when she became the woman had one to luncheon. To fay now, looking, back over thuse over to dy in an aeroplane, my rise. Me, Wright asked ine if i pioneer days, is the extreme sim

"Aviation

interested would like to take a slight. 1 wasiplicity with which we took It »ll. Wortret, recalled Mr. Prave, thrilled at the prospect much to Newspapers might have published who, as Mrs. Hurt 11. Bery, flew at theddled oven to feel nervous, Le Mans, France, with Wilbur

Wigh on October 7, 1908.

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" quickly tied a veil over my hangnets we would have had to

of it and I am glad to see that large hal and a string arand my cat, But at the time, the event my younger gisters are keping ry teng, wide skirt low the stirred only our little circle,

"One of the spectators of that abreet with flying progress, wad Amres to presical it flapping in the

lange. Fant beside Mr. Wright, flight was a Paris dressmaker who, "The my hine was fastened to with a few strokes of a pencil, cope attached to weights in order ketched my dress, which, though pive impotus sto the" plane, it books very queer in the photo- In her fuckingable agurtmonia in which should have shot off along grade to-day, Wad the latest the Champs Elyses; M. Dragr a rail at de kiloanetera an hour, fashion and considered terribly still love to talk Aging and recall in the t attempt Mr. Wright shart. The string around the "the grond day when she made medow neglected to release the balloon had not "hen untied and aviation history. She ato elaine rope. p we did not have the the new curves were sketched it. that that day she insured

Thus was born the hobbie-skirt."

new (ashion in women's d pe "We tried, again, huwives, and Mrs. Bruce who was born i the hublade-shirt,

h time all went well. We rose California has many memirina af "Yi, 1 was the rit weaver 50 feet and dew for two and a half the late Wilbur Wright. She lves to y,"

said whimsically: she said, "although minutes! others have claimed the distin "How times have changed! Ea. "He was a teetotaller, and when tion. It came about this way. Ithu sit m over an aviation exploit in France would not even drink was at that time married to My. has developed as strikingly as the wine.. Yol the pour mun died from

The Berg, who was, a business team plates themselves,

few typhoid fever through drinking riate of the Wright brothers. the people who hail rathered on the water."

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Ringing the Changes,

LORD BALFOUR.

A Staggering Record of Activity.

SOON, TO RETIRE.

British political and public life will be all the poorer by the retirement, when Parliament dis- solves, of the Earl of Balfour, whq is now in his 81st year.. When he celebrated his 80th birthday, he world-wide the subject of tributes, amongst which we may cite the following written by Mr. Algernon Ceell in the Quarteriz Review:

was

"This year the ranks of the netogenarians have gained a new recruit from among the prime ministers of King Edward. There Is indred some room for philoso- phie doubt as to whether Lord Balfour in any scientific sense of the word is really eighty. Neither upon his own plane of reference nor upon that of an ubserver would be appear lo satisfy the conditions of proof required. Be cannot possibly be suspected of feeling eighty, nor can he plausibly be described as looking it. Yet, according to the anachronistic principles of clock- time which still shackle the mind of the historian. he ha" NOW entered his eight-first year.

An Ofl-Used Yerb. "Consider to borrow a verb that he uses so uften as to make it the most characteristic in his vocabulary that there is 10 speaker alive in Britain whom a learned audience would more gladly hear; no figure whom a hostess would more engerly desire 10 see among her guests; no talker who can give so much point and zest to a conversation," adds Mr. Algernon Ceril.

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The magnificent marble bridge lending u the Summer Palace, Peking one of the

finest sights. in the old capital.

political

Lord Balfour's cafly career, the writer of the Quarterly) Review article states:-

Tell Us YOUR EYE Troubles!

Our advice does not neces- sarily moun "spectacles." It my mean a visit to your doctor or dontist. "Good glasses if you need them- good advies, if you don't."

"So It Is With Those Persons,""

So it is with those persons, who claim to show by their "To those who find polities alexample that naturalium is prac-1 desert of dry bones, even an onsistically consistent with the min- of metaphysics should prove re-tenance, af ethical ideals with freshing. Suil a halting-place which naturalism has no natural appears on the track of Lord istinity. Their spiritual life is Balfour's career in the year 1896; parasitic: it is sheltered by con- as it did onze before in 1879; and victions which belong, not tall at this point we may appropriately them, but to the society of which] pause to enjoy its amenities: they form a part; it is nourished Foundations of Belief, bad bred thy processes in which they take The explanatory sub-title of Ano share. Defence of Philosophie Doubli "And when those convictions, and in the new treatise, which decay and those processes come to amplifies and simplifies the argu- an end, the alien life which thdy! ment. the name stands first upon have maintained can avaree be

expected to outlast thrum.'" "Consider that we boast in these the titlepage.

The aim of the book was, as the Mr. Algernon Cecil goes on in Islands--or indeed this Empire-- To mind more subtle, no manner author emphasises, fa recommend jan inclsive survey that carries with greater charm, no learning particular way of looting aljconviction to say-

lightly carried than his. | world-problems. Though its in- "It has been said of Newmaat Consider, too, that if we imagine | terest is theological, its starling-Dust, und he died at sixty, the some competition in whit were

point is terrestrial. The more world would have reckoned him a once called 'parts' between premont is not from high, dogmasman once indeed of much mark sentative champions of the nations about God nor yet fram alleged

and power, but in the long issue. of the world, there is no one of

of events more or less of a fallured whom we can to certainly afirm laws of nature to authoritative that his choice as an example of conclusions eating pon these

"The peculiar matare of his all they prize most in their in- sunctions, but from man's present! heritance would be approved by standpoint in thies, in aesthetics, renius, the unique character of and in thought towards its latent la earver breame appareat to ins the foremost of his countrymen."

mplealons-or, if we like it countrymen unly after he had better, from our feelings about the pnered the sixties. Ea R

Lord Balfour. The good, the beautiful, and the trucjulso with towards, as eventually appears, brilliant premise of the morning of his days had been clouded by their rational seat in Theism,

the storms of the afternoon, and No More Cauelle Page.

the expectation of the evening The argument is primarily seemed to be one rather of culm directed against the dominant than glory. philosophy of the day-not against te tell us hingelf that he selence, properly so called, but never routemplated the passibility against the construction put up of returning to the front line of it.“ Naturalism-there, for this politicians. And History had, as Laubflé disputant, was the enemy we may guess, taken up hor pea and he purSUES. it into its duk in write him down a man of mueh Intellectually and rezesses not less vigorously than talent both

In all the litera-administratively,

an Irish Alcides Carna. tuse of that time there is perhaps Secretary most successful, as no more caustic page than the debater most brilliant, yet as description of those shallow souls Prime Minister and Leader of his who profess Naturalism and prey Party somehow a little disappoint- IDEAL FOR PRESENTS. all the while upon Supernatural-ing. For a moment he stood in some peril of the deadly capax the

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Meritle, Just કાર્ડ this anxious) gament-co-exists in the case of

juncture for his reputation the Mesers., A, B, C, etc., with the Great War for 1911 broke out, most admirable exhibition of un-and Fortune turned again her in- selfish virtue. If this be so in the calculable wheel. case

of a hundred individuals,

"In 1915 we find him back in why not in the case of en: thousand? If in the case of tenec, and responsible for the thousand, why not in the case of conduct of the oldest and gientent

the facts on which this reasoning humanity at large? Now as to of our fighting departments; in 1916 is hardly too much to say that he unmakes one Government proceeds I raise no objection.

and makes another; in 1917 we Omer, ***I desire neither to ignore thujand him at the Foreign existence nor to minimise the issuing a remarkable, if conten- merits of these shining examples tour declaration in favour of virtue, unsupported by religion. Zionism,

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Writing of Lord Balfour'a early

Mr. Algernon on days,

Cecil FORGERIES ON GRAND but a r markable stags of false tertives, on the frontier, and

October 12th Camera and Balsano | observes:- - SCALE.

bas afforde

were arrest.a1 at Cerbere when they

"In due course he proved able in They had considerable capital. returning to France from asimilate without rebellion the

Spain. FRENCH POLICE ROUND UP In 1926, one member of the gang Each had three false passportstern ereed of his country, the varied gifts of circumstance the deposited £4,000 in a bank in

Camera had 1,300,000 francs Buenos Aires and obtained 44£16,4000).

amiable dilettantism of Eton, the Jetter of credit or French and]

In Paris bath refused to make deep questimings, of, Cambridge, jany statement; but the police Religions thought, as we might France's "Scotland Yard" chime Halian banks. the honour of rounding-up a gang The document was altered infrared and of their friends to a paraphrase these successive in- of wanted "money-changers" who such a way that sums amounting small hotel in the Passy quarter. nenses, lightly carried, logically

and undertaking have reduced to an art the trick to £16,000 were paid out in Madrid, In this way the police came to explored! From each source he

San-Sebastian and Geneva,

suspect the second Italian and two drew something: and his mind But, though the facts be true, the aumentous diplomatic mission to Other exploits of the same other South Americans.

to bear the marks of them reasoning based on them will not the United States; in 1918 hel. kind followed.

all. For the rest of hin eye hear close examination. Biolo-attends as Foreign Secretary the It was revealed that the smal In 1927 the gang was at work but formidable England. France, Italy am

gang Contem fastened quickly upon the centre gists tell us of parasites which greatest of Peace Conferences and} the most extensive of Paris, A 171 deposited: Spain are among the Countriecin

plated another letter of credit of the intellectual farget, and he live, and can only live, within signs where the "wanted" men have got franes ($500) in the Paris exploit at Sice. When the last abot from the first for at bull's bodies of animals more highly treaties; in 1921 he negotinter at operated and evaded the police fire on the Guaranty Trust Com-mentioned throu were recently eye.

organised than they. For them Washington a dianrmament treaty pany, an American bank, and took catching their train for Nice, the for two years.

find of world-wide, and perhapa age 14 went

to Cambridge, he their luckless host has to Letter of eredit for the police caught them. In the course of two years jut a

observes in one of those rare but food, to digest it, and to convert long, consequences; In 1922 he operations the gani hive cleaned amount,

· One Man “Cunferws." illuminating fragments of auto-

into nourishment which they saves Austria from bankruptcy by up the colossal sum of £90,000 by! On this document the 100,000

One had five false passports;graphy that lie scattered among

ean commume without exertion and his eloquence at Geneva; and, his writings, with a very small assimilate without difficulty, finally. In the same post-war: means of forged letters of credit was altered to 1,000,000 presented at various banks jfranes, which was collected partly one carried 250,000 francs and a

period, he brings into being the Europe.

at Rouen and partly in England. number of Spanish back notes, equipment of either philosophy or

Their structure is of the invaluable and much-needed Cem-i French puller decided that two and the third had a small port-science, but a very keen desire One of five suspects arrested has confessed--that some of the men concerned in the last-named manteau la which were chemicals to disenver what 1 ought to think simplest kind. Their host sees mittee of Civil Research whose

for them, so they need no eyes; and is to probe and co-ordinate: others are guilty.

jou were one Louis Camera, horn and materials suitable for "wash of the world and why. For the history of speculation I cared not Members of a well-organised in Palermo, and Antonio Balsaun, ing" documents.

Romero' (according をする the gang of swindlers, who have been of Buenos Aires,

police) made a full edofession," operating in England, France,|,

and admitted that Camera and Italy, Switzerland, Spain and the

Camera, the police said, was the Balsano, the two mien arrested at Argentine, securing about £80,000, same as a "M. Pisret" mentioned Cerbere, were members of the from various baals by means of on one of the letters of credit. gang. forged letters of credit. have hes Bat ne trace of the two men was He said that after their exploit then to be found in France.. at the expense of the Guaranty Now the French police have But last September Paris police Trust Company three of the gang arrested two Italians and three were informed that a letter offreturned to Argentina. South Americans, who are believed credit, originally for 98,000 They came back last September, to be the leaders of the gang. pesetas, issued by a Buenos Aires when all the members of the gang It appears that members of this bunk, had been honoured by amet at Marseilles, and crossed band of money-changers have bank at Bilbio for 387,000 pasetas.afterwards into Spain to go to passed under various aliases, and! A watch was organised by de-Bilbao.

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"wanted" for two yeaTN.

Letters of Credit.

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Unrecord of activity in a man of no more interest than abandon-but feeble muscles and an with the groundwork of living are we to conclude from this that it in a man verging upon seventy est fashions. My business was developed nervous system. But thirty-five; what are we to say of beliefs; in particular with the for the animal kingdom eyes and when it commences and well past

cars, powerful limbs, and complex seventy when it closes? groundwork of that knowledge whose recent develop nerven, are superfluities? They "We can at least feel morally are superfluities for the parasite certain," says Mr. Algernon Cecil ments had so profoundly moved

only because they have first been in conclusion, "that of all the mankind. And surely there was nothing perverse in asking modera necessities for the host, and when living men of our time and country philosophers to provide us with a the host perishes, the parasite, in there will be no other that PoR- theory of modern scignee.”

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