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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1930.

BRITAIN'S SCATTERED EMPIRE.

Lines of Fast Aeroplanes and Airships Promise to Influence Imperial Relations.

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EXTENSIONS OF AERIAL SERVICES. [By T. J. C. Martin.]

Bigger Alrerafi,

may eventually be able to carry |nity tons of freight and 250 pas- sengers at a craising speed of 100 miles an hour, and always be able, to alight on British, territory.

ONE OF THE NEW MARQUETTE MODELS.

sitating a number of based on threat to imperial air routes, that 'lighter-than-air leviathans foreign soil. Even in the carry-which would, moreover, be impos ing of mails it is evident that the sible to defend. With the airship deroplane is limited. On the it is different, for it can span the London-Karachi airway planes distances Intervening between all have carried an average poundage parts of the empire in a single of mail well under 500 a trip. continuous flight,

If that estimate be admitted it Once the cost of the air mail is

eans that thirty planes would be reduced; the amount of mail will Bigger and more efficient aero-Jecessary to do the work of one increase, as it has in England planes will come, as has been sug-dirigible airship over the und, as it increases, the number kested, but it is a safe assumption imperial air way to Australia, of aeroplanes to carry it will also that bigger and more efficient air-unless changes of planes are have to be increased. Granted ships will also come and that found subsequently to be anteces- that aeroplanes individually will these will be the real argosies of sary, be able to carry far more mail at the air.. And safety "of opération When Australia is brought greatly increased speeds, it will, is another factor that now within five days of England, nevertheless, become increasingly fappears to endow the airship with instead of six weeks; when Cape Hundreds of thousanis

Thus the empire itself has clear that the aeroplane, viewed superiority.

Town can be reached from Lon- people chcer Miss Amy Johnson begun to evince an introspective as an intra-imperial medium of If it is stated purely for the don in less than three days, on her home-coming at Croydon attitude. Had it not been for the transportation, must give way, on sake of illustration that an aero- instead of two weeks; when Bom- after her spectacular solo fight to world-wide derangement of economic grounds, the airship. plane wit some time in the near bay is no more than two days Australia. All Montreal turnsuance and commerce following: It is becoming efour, too, that future be able to carry five tons away from England, instead of out to roar a welcome to the R-100he war, imperial problems might the airship has other advantages of mail and fifty passengers at 150 two weeks, and when Canada can on her safe arival from Carding- have been allowed characteris-over the acroplane along imperial miles an hour, it will be extremely be reached perhaps in thirty-six ton, England. And, as after all tically, to "muddle through" to a airways. The British Empire has unlikely that A flight from hours, instead of six days-then history-aking flights, their pur-sulation. But the loss of markets its roots

in every continent. England to Australia will ever be the importances of Britain's pose becomes a significant ques-and the attendant depression In Thousands of miles of sea or completed in an' average for imperial airways will be brought tion. It is easy to read in these industry and commerce have alien land separate the dominions elapsed time of more than 100 home to every one in the empire--- two achievements an underlying clearly impelled another course of from each other or from the miles an hour, The reasons are to a quarter of the world's popu- importance in the development of action-the application of specific British Isles. The distances are that refuelling and the change of lation in a quarter of the world's the aerial communication lines of thought to the solution of imperial so great that an aeroplane holds planes, owing to parts of the route aren. the British Empire.

preference, which has received little hope of ever being able to lying over water, together with Such a speeding of travel can allp frem recent American span them in a straightaway the formalities to be complied hardly fail to have the effect of The importance or imperial tariff legislation, now resounds in flight. The operation of aero-with at various foreign airports, binding the empire closer in some, I airways is appreciated in all parts every part of the autonomous planes aver these long distances will consume much of the time thing stronger than sentimental of the empire and is indicated notjempire.

has to depend fundamentally, that the prospect of faster acro-ties, for by aeroplane and airship alone by the enthusiasm that such

its most inaccessible parts will MOTORCYCLES INCREASE.

ONLY ONE TAG. lights arouse, but by a slatenient| Of concurrent importance in therefore, on a series of airports planes offers.

On the other hand, the R-100 become accessible and distances made recently by the Postmasterstrengthening the fabric of the situated on alien soil. In time of

Motorcycle registration through- Motorists in Florida, Alabaras, General in London, which shows empire are the enormous poten-ace the objections to the aero-was constructed to carry ten tons will lose their present meaning.

out the world showed an increase Kansas, itplane would not be so strong, but of freight and 100 persons, exclud: That is the significance of the.

Louisiana, Mississippi that British people are sure the empire is to become, to any in time of war, even if the empire in erow and supplies. It might serial pioneering that is now

of about 16 per cent, during 1929, and Oklahoma are required to the total being 2,625,200 as com- carry only one automobile license xrexa and promise intra appreciable extent, an economic ere not directly involved, there not be far from accurate, though being done in the name of the

pared with 2,264,298 in 1928. tag on their cars, imperial air routes. Comparing unit trading within itself, it is would always be the danger of a prophecy is dangerous, to suggest British Empire. this year's air-borne mail between apparent that there will be a London and India with the amount mighty role for aircraft to play. earried last year for a correspond-For the aeroplane and the airship ing period, he notes that whereas nifer the promise of shrinking the 300005 Last year the volume was equal empire to a fraction of its present to less than one-third of the total size, so far as time-distance is volume carried by planes operat-concerned, without the loss of a ing out of England, this year it single acre of territory.

emotionally interested in the pro-

of

tialities which aircraft offer.

was equal to almost one-half 02 There is at the present time aj the total,

Airship Bases of the Empire.

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regular commercial aeroplane ser- vice in operation between London and Karachi, India. This service Thus the aeroplane has become is weekly in both directions and a factor of growing significance infearries passengers and mail. But imperial relations. But, because the route has the disadvantage of its range and capacity are limited, passing over France. Italy. the aeroplane is not enough. The Greece, Egypt, the Arabian! 'experiments with the R-100, and Peninsula and Persin, necessitat those yet to take place with thefing a number of international R-101, will determine the extent agreements, a great deal o' delay; to which airships, with their tre-and a tremendously expensive mendously long ranges and their] ground organization, not yet fully high lifting capacities, are suit-equipped. An airship route, able IS transportation media however, need not pars over any between the capitals oľ the territory not under British con empire.

trol or belonging to the empire and need have no bases not on, British, terrain.

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The airship, like the aeroplane, is dependent for its operation on) an elaborate system of ground Vario extensions of aeroplane organization. In the case of the service, however, are projected airship it need not be quite so between the mother country and elaborate, and the bases for an the dominions, the most note- afrship can be much further worthy being the Cape-to-Cairo apart, A start already has been airway and the New Zealand- minde in the provision of airship Australia-India, spur, the pray- bases, and there have come into ticability of which has again been existence outposts of the empire strikingly demonstrated by Miss which are not mere figments of Amy Johnson's flight. It is clear, speech, but actual posts towering therefore, that a role is visioned a hundred and more feet above for the aeroplane in intra-imperial the ground,

communications.

in

These are the mouring niasts." Thus It may be said that the One is at Cardington in England.Jaeroplane is becoming an instru One is at St. Hubert airport out-ment of imperial policy. To what side of Montreal. Another is at end? The question is difficult to Ismailia in Egypt. A fourth is answer, for there are many vari-

Karachi AL

Stillables to be taken into considera- India. another is rising at Grouteville. tion. To say that the direct air near Durban. in South Africa: route to India clips 1,500 miles New Zealand and Australia are to off the distance by boat and more) build masts when and if they are than two weeks off the time of satisfied that the experiments with travel is an eloquent but not con the R-100 and the R-101 hold vincing argument for aeroplane) 'definite promise

intraimperial air service.

regular outes.

Limited Role of Aeroplanes. At some of these outposts huge,

If we inquire into the real have already airship hangars

system of intra-1 risen. Others are to follow ireaning of a necessity demands them. And so imperial airways-aside from its despite the many divergencies and significance in strengthening the anomalies which make up the spiritual bonds of imperial unity British Empire, it is the aeroplane-we must look for an economic and the airship which are holding "eason for the employment of What is to be the out the promise of a vigorous eroplanes.

rote of the aeroplane? unity.

At the threshold of ab era

At present the British Empire is│ such a heterogeneous entity that which transmits the oral and Lewis written word and sends photo- like the professor in Carroll's "Sylvie and Bruno," it graphic images with the speed of finds itself compelled to talk com-light, it is obvious that the acro placently while everything around plane's service is circumscribed to it is blowing un. Gandhi exhorts the carrying of letters, parcels, his followers in India to resist light freight, passengers, etc. It British rule. The Boers in South is also apparent that no one will send a letter by steamer if the threaten Africa ..

secession. Canada shows an independentzeroplane can carry it for the spirit at the League of Nations,me price in a fraction of the time, and it is not doubted that free asserting her right as # nation in the British Common-jene day imperial air mails will wealth. The Irish Free State pete on equal terms with the defies the Privy Council. And teamship.

by continuing to exist.

But there are some every one is made very much alive agent renons miligating against to the fact that the unity of the the use el aeroplanes over the long empire depends solely on the con-distances between the component gent of the dominions to inclusion parts of the British Empire.

In commerce it is frequently in it. Against the tirades of the

executives

and pessimists the empire retorts only necessary for

salesmen to travel from England lo. the remotest parts of the The Unity of the Empire. empire, losing many valuable busi- Yet the empire is seemingly and the aeroplane can save both Time means money, ness days. forever flying apart. Political philosophers from time to time by transporting a busy executive reiterate that this world-spread to Cape Town and return in far empire is founded on the security less time than it would take him

to make the outward-bound i of nothing more tangible thun a common allegiance to King George Voyage. And one salesman flying V. The golden link in the chain acroplane tan do the work of of empire, it is sentimentally six who have to travel by boat and called. But it has always been train over long distances. felt, though not so readily admit- the transportation of humans, not to meutión valuable documents, ted, that

-But

a unity dependent etc., entails a careful study of the primarily on sentiment might one problems raised by safety, and day be dissipated by more weighty considerations of politics and once again the aeroplane is left at

n disadvantage.

economics. Nor has the change In the carrying of freight, os in the King's title, making him awith a large volume of mail, the King five times over and once aeroplane is handicapped by its Emperor, done much, If anything to allay such fears for the future inability to carry a pay load of the empire.

economically, except over com paratively short hops, thus ncces-

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