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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1930.

UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.

TEXT OF M. BRIAND'S MEMORANDUM.

OBITUARY.

INVENTOR OF ROCKET

DRIVEN MOTOR. ›.

Berlin, May 18.

London, May 17. M. Max Valler, the pioneer of The Daily Herald's Geneva cor- the rocket driven acroplane, was respondent gives an "authorita- killed while experimenting with tive" summary of M. Briand's pro-a new type of such machine, posals for the suggested European which exploded. M. Valler bled death as a result of n cut Federation, including the esta- to blishment of a European Assembly, artery, before the doctors arrived. with a President to be elected an--Reuter. nually, and á Counell and per- manent Secretariat, with head, quarters at Genova.

The Memorandum.

May 18. The text of M. Briand's me morandum, which he has sent to twenty-six European govern- ments, members of the League of Nations, on the "Organisation and Regime of a European Federal Union," has been officially published.

M. Briand asks the Powers to give an opinion before July 15 on

or.

TRADING JUNK IS PIRATED.

HELD UP BY SIX-MEN IN CHINESE WATERS.

A piracy in Chinese waters, com- mitted on Wednesday last, has been reported to the local police on the arrival in port of two members of the crew, who managed to escape from the robbers on the appearance. of soldiers.

Max Valler, the inventor of

It appears that a trading junk the "rocket" motor, was born at owned by Chau Fat-choi was on its Bozen in the Tyrol in February way from Hongkong to Sze Kiu, 1895, and comes of a French in the Pun U district, on May 14 Huguenot family: After studying 'with a cargo of rice, cement and at Innsbruck University he served dyes, the crew consisting of the throughout the war, first in the master, his wife, son, a female cook infantry, then in a war-gas unit and two seamen. On passing the and finally as meteorologist' and fishing, stakes about five miles technical officer in the air force. west of Tong Ku Island in After the armistice he worked for Chinese waters, an oyster boat two and a half years at Innsbruck suddenly appeared at the stern of and Vienna Universities, from the trading junk and called upon which he went to Munich where them to stop, threatening to shoot, he spent two years in the if the order were ignored. study of astronomy, meteorology,

When the trading junk stopped a number of points, including "the mathematics and physics, at the the oyster boat went alongside and armed with revolvers necessity for a general pact same time gaining technical ex- six men

wrote affirming the principle of a Euro-perience. In 1924 he

a boarded her. The rabbers drove all pean Moral Union, solemnly con- book on the stars.

the crew into the forward hold and secrating, in fact, the solidarity of

Valler then turned his atten- sailed the junk to Sha Tsung, in the the European States;" the

Sun On district. At seven o'clock tion to the problem of propulsion the robbers intimated that soldiers eatablishment, firstly, of a repre- by means of rockets and, having were making their appearance, and sentative responsible organ to be devised a system, began to lecture they decamped, taking away with called the European Conference,

and write on the subject. To them the minster, his wife and son. secondly an executive organ permanent committee, and thirdly, published in 1924 "The Dash into way to Sha Kok, where the in- raise money for experiments, he The seamen escaped and made their

much attention and which he reauthorities. The men later return- Space," a book which attracted cident was reported to the military wrote under the title "Rocket ed to Hongkong, by the Tai Ping Propulsion" in 1928. His Ideas, junk, however, would not have been given a practical test, had they not been taken up by Fritz von Opel, the motor manufacturer, engineer Sander, 1

a Secretariat.

M. Briand also suggests the creation of a political committee to prepare a programme for a European organisation, under which the economic will be generally subordinated to the political aspect.

M. Briand's memorandum sugand the gests that the field of European co-pyrotechnic expert. operation should embrace econo- mic problems generally, such as public works, transit, finance, labour, immigration, health, and "intellectual co-operation."

It emphasises that a European Federation would not be directed against any State outside Europe, nor against the absolute sovereignty and political inde pendence of its own members. Reuter.

EVACUATION OF RHINELAND.

FRANCE ORDERS THIRD ZONE'S FREEDOM.

The rocket car which was fret April tried on Opel's track in 1928, and later on the "Avus" track near Berlin and the railway between Borgwedel and Celle was the work of these three men.. In the first test. it attained a speed of 100 km. in 8 seconds; in the second with Opel at the hour. wheel it did 200 km. an During trials in June, however, two cars were destroyed, but there was no one on board.

was

THE PROHIBITION'S PROBLEM.

DWIGHT MORROW OPENS

NEW CAMPAIGN,・・

New York, May 17. Mr. Dwight Morrow, opening his campaign for a sent in the Senate, startled the political world by his advocacy of the repeal of the eighteenth (Prohibition) declared that Amendment. He the Federal Government had been turned into a local policeman by States leaving to it the task of

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social great carrying reform. Hé advocated that free- dom should be restored to in- should de- dividual States, who termine their own form of liquor control with Federal protection of "dry" States against invasión from wet States.

The Herald Tribune declares that his speech effectively crys- tallises American sentiment and marks an epoch in the progress of thought on Prohibition.

The New York Times expresses the opinion that his direct and force. ful utterance may come to rank historically with what Lincoln about slavery-Reuter's American Service.

said

A rocket aeroplane was also begun, not with' the idea of a "dash into space," but for 籍 Transatlantic light. Its construc- tion NVAS .undertaken by the Raab-Katzenstein works at Cassel, but differences arose with Opel which led Valier to break off re- Paris, May 17.

lations with him, Valier then M. Tardieu ordered the evacua- joined forces with the firm of tion of the third Rhineland zone,

Eisfeld of Silbermuhle and in the following a meeting this after summer of 1928 carried out a noon of the Reparations Commis-test with a new rocket car on the sion, which recognized that all the line between Nordhausen and conditions necessary for carrying Gernrode. Although it was wreck- but the Young Plar had been ful-ed, he regarded the experiment as filled, including Germany's de-a successful one. livery of its debt certificate to the A secret test which was said Bank of International Settlements. to have been satisfactory

carried out with a rocket 'plane. The inventor declared that such a machine might rush from Berlin to New York in two hours along The Bank of International the edge of the terrestrial air Settlements has been officially envelope and that it was intend- opened without ceremony.ed to push into interstellar space Reuter,

with unmanned rocket airships. It was even implied that a journey to the moon might follow in due course. One practical dificulty

A pretty Chinese wedding was was that every second of motion solemnised at St. Andrew's Church, cost a small fortune, but in August 1928, it was decided to Kowloon, on Saturday afternoon discard the explosive powder first when Miss Helen Lim, daughter of used in favour of a non-explosive Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lim, of Kowloon, liquid which WAS

was married to Mr. George Y. C.) cheaper.

Chung, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chung Pak-kun, of Tientsin. The Rev. W. W. Rogers officiated.

-Reuter.

Reparations Bank Opens.

Basle, May 17.

CANADA AND BACK 'IN R100.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR A TRIAL FLIGHT.

London, May 17.

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CHINESE WEDDING AT KOWLOON.

PRETTY CEREMONY AT ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH,

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The bride, who was given away

ed for the experimental flight of DISASTROUS OIL FIRE. by her father, wore a dress of lace

the Air Ministry airship R100 to Canada and back. The date of the vessel's departure has not yet been fixed, but an announcement is expected within the next few days, after the airship has carried out satisfactorily a further test |flight.

VISIBLE SIXTY MILES FROM SCENE.

Bucharest, May 18.

A great petroleum fire visible 60

Flight-Commander Atherstone, miles away, has broken out in the

was

and georgette with an embroidered veil and orange blossom coronet. She carried a sheaf of arum lilles, and attended by the Misses Florence Lim. Julia Lim and Rose Lee as bridesmaids, wearing dresses of white georgette and tulle with bouquets of white gladiolus.

First Officer of the slater airship Scortani district, near Ploeshti. The bride's mother wore a Chi- R101, left yesterday for Canada. At least eight tanka..are afire.nese ceremonial costume.

The duties of best man were car- with ten engineers and riggers One engineer has been incinerated. and one wireless operator, to form and three injured. The, damage ried out by Mr. Mok Hing-fai.. a relief crew for the R100 at has already reached anormous pro-i A reception was later held at the Montreal. British Wireless.". portions. Reuter.

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