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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY NOVEMBER

1934

Queen Maria of Yugo Slavin, mother of the young ruler, King

Peter JL..

BIG ORDER FOR BRITISH PLANES

Half Record Order

For Export

A contract for 65 Mouaspar the aeroplanes-believed to be largest number of civil, aircraft ever included in one order in Great Britain was concluded recently.

The total value of the order. which has been placed by the Air- craft Exchange and Mart, Ltd., with General Aircraft, Ltd., in in the neighbourhood of £74,000.

It is a stønificant tribute to British machines that about half of the total number has been or dered for export.

Three different types are includ- ed, one being the S.T.10, which

Two of the prominent figures in Bulkan politics to day, Peter 11, King of Yugo-Slavin, and the Dowager Queen Marie of Romanis, hir graad.

mother.

won this year's King's Cup nir raco, Another In the S.T.11, aimi- lar to the special machine fitted with retractable andėrcarriage now on its way to Australla for use on official communication duty by the Australian Air Ministry,

Under the Monospar principle of wing construction a saving of 30 per cent in weight, without sacrificing strength, in claimed.

The machines are all fitted with twin engines but can climb fully loaded on one.

Open wide! A dontláts' night-mKER, in the Philadelphia Zoo. Membe Mre-Sea Horan.

ENGLAND ROADS UNFIT

FOR FAST TRAFFIC

GOVERNMENT URGED TO CORRECT SITUATION

NOW

By Noel Carrington

TOW that the holtany season fa, ty carried out against the protest

over wo have presumably of the A.A.

pared the peak of Ministerial hystories about the "toll of the

LESSON. FROM FRENCH.

road." All the while car manu The signs on the main French incturers have boon perfecting roads in a uniform while and blue. their plans for next year's models are very much clearer than our And what are they going to sell own. The essence of the matter; us? Faster cars, and faster still is uniformity, clearness and isota- There seems something wrong tien in all, signs and signals of here, Parliament debates how whatever kind. This can only be can limit and lessen spcod; while imposed by n itational authority our engineers contrive how they acting with vigour and overriding may increano it.

all the petty authorities and vested What, then, is a Government to Interests which make for non

About it? One thing at least, conformity and confusion. is in its power, is its job and no It must no longer be left to local one else's, and that is to design the whims whether corners are bank- ronds for Buch vehicles ne ited or sloped the wrong way, who- censes to travel on them. And, ther surfaces are non-akid or that is just what the authorities slippery, whether kerbs are

ave not done. Hence the "toll of yelled or square. Motor transport the road."

Bs national--almost international; Our ronds were designed when our roads are local. Motor trans trafic, except for pedestrians, was port is twentieth century; our horse borne or horse dawn.

Al-ronds are eighteenth century. nough many goat new randa have They must be re-designed. Here, been bullt this century, practiently is the real work for a Minister of all follow the old principle. But Transport and for hands now un-) trate to-day fa different because employed. of the great variation in speed- pedestrian, cyclist, cart and horse. lorry and fast car-and because it operates equally by night. Sv you have on one track at these different kinds of traffic trying to pass each other in both directions.

ABSURD SITUATION,

Imagine railway systems where' it was left to the driver to choose!

SAVED FROM DEPRESSION.

HUGE LOANS TO U.S. PUBLIC

which line he would use and when FORECLOSURES

to operate the points. We should Ray it was absurd: but that in just what we have allowed to happen on the roads.

PRECLUDED

be-

NEA:

The former President Herbert Hoover who yesterday saw the Democratic machine swoop to victory, will fight for a return to power at the next election, it is expected,

closed harks.

Mr. Richberg predicted that com- paratively little would be loaned) directly to business under the loans: to Industry Act through which 69 borrowers #0 far have obtained $5,800,000.

Rallroads have repaid $58,300,- 1000 of the $421,700,000 advanced by the R.F.C. Mr. Richberg said

many rail receiverships were avert

ed.

The corporation advanced $1,- 645,000,000 in aid agriculture and)

ARTISTS ROUT BAILIFF

FIND STRENGTH IN

UNITY

Paris, Nov. 1. Artists and artists' models barri has authorised loans aggregating caded themselves in a studio-build- Montmartre $321,000,000 for self-liquidating ing on the top of Washington, Nov. 2.

recently and prevented a bailif has projects.

The federal government The first principle then la roud

Mr. Richberg aald the Home from neizing the canvases of an un- design is the segregation of traffe loaned more then $7,000,000,000 to

Lonn Corporation had employed artist who had not paid streams of different speed cate-sove businesses and homes from Owners gories and of opposite directions, depression ruin, Mr. Donahl R. ved 432,000 family homes from his rent. The double track road has proved Rehberg reported to President much safer than the broad car- Ronsevelt in inge-way of the Great West Road Deal efforts type. The white painted lanes are pressure, not sufficiently persuasive

ONEC

a summary of New

to relieve financial

Mr. Richberg is Secretary of the

their novelty has worn off.

Lyclists, in their own interest,Executive Council. He reported must be given a separate track as

that:

they have almost everywhere in 1. Reconstruction Finance CoF- Holland. I have cycled round poration actually has disbursed

Holland and can testify that such $5,853,000,000:

racks are 33 Kreat blessing.

I

aave no doubt of their benefit to

2. The Home Owners Loan Cor-

be motorist. They would double poration has advanced $1,299,455,- The effective carriage way grently

and 000 ending a real estate panic and

..ve

the homes of

432.000

reduce casualties. The Baving intstry need not carry out tenta-families from foreclosure;

experiments in Middlesex. 3. Only five banks Insured by Holland has proved their use.the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor-

beir construction would be a re-poration have failed;

4. Federal Home Loan Bask munerative occupation for the un- mployed this winter. Each track system loans are far below capacity should be separated by grass strips because of faults now being cor and trens. It will pay us to make reeted;

The roads orderly and beautiful-

tú

Itis report was the fourth_of_ seven. Previous reports stated DANGEROUS OBSTRUCTIONS. that New Deal efforts had resulted. in the re-employment of 4,120,000 As, bad sa moving obstructions persons, that drought and form re- are standing obstructions, tem-lict had increased income; and that | Porary or otherwise. By this I 20,000,000 persone probably would

can stanuing CATA outside need government aid

live ouses or strings of lorries outside through the winter, cales. They are a constant source The R.FC-greatest lending in- Beeldent, especially at night stitution in history-has made allo- act this abuse of the highway catlons and authorisations since Its enses every day. Main ronde,creation during the Hoover Ad- en na the Bata road, have been ministration aggregating $7,944.- widened at the expense of millions, 000,000 of which $5,200,000,000 the etective width is represants business since March 1. Blocked by standing cars-and one 1933.

2. For rollof $800,000,000;

3.

000.

--

Cleaning and repair work on the 555 foot Washington

Memorial is a ticklish lab for the "human Fly" workman.

The approach of the "enemy" ar every 50 yarus is enough tor Actual R.F.C. disbursements foreclosure and that 400,000 more

families would obtain similar aid, was signalled by a neighbour of ant purpose obviously millions were reported na follows:

pounds have been wasted. 1. To government agencies $674.-The operations of the corporation artistic sympathies who stuck his That condition is chronic on many | 000,000;

were reported to have made avall head out of a nearby window and main roads to-day.

Able: $200,000,000 to closed banks; blew on an old hunting horn.

Chairs, beds and dustbina were instead of insisting that every

All other activities $379,000.- $89,000,000 to municipalities for Duce, or shop, or garage on

back taxes: $17,500,000 to con-piled before the front door of the main road has its own service road Almost half-14.8 per cent.-ot tractors for reconditioning dwell-building, which houses artists al- Which need only be of light con- the $4,379,000,000 entegory has ing; and $23,000,000 to attorneys most exclusively. Other tenants struction), the authorities have been repald. The programme to jappraisers, Insurance companies, posted placards in their windows demanding that their ronts be re- resented the landowners and strengthen banks by loans and sub-ete. uilders with these vastly im-scription to preferred stock is 80 The social

of art. One consequence," Mr. duced in the name proved road frontages and gone per cent, complete, 6,579 institu- tichberg reported, "of preventing sculptor threatened to drop a out of their way to encourage tions having been authorised to the eviction of several hundred masterpiece on the head of the

uilding by the provision of water, obtain $1,164,000,000 in this way, thousand persons during a period of balliff. sewage, light and other services. R.F.C. has authorised loans aggre- great tension and unrest can hard-

In view of the hostile altitude,

-visit-United Press,

it is quite true that local authori-gating $848,000,000 to aid in re-ly be over-estimated."-United the bailiff decided to postpone his

es can adopt powers to prevent | organisation or liquidation of Press.

uch building, but very few have

Jut done so. On most great ronde

Lie nirendy too late,

PROPER SIGNALLING.

A third Item of design is a pro- per signalling system, uniform and unequivocal. A committee of thei Ministry of Transport issued n ong report on this subject Inst year, and, gradually some improve-

ent is taking place. Yet, though notoring is a national affair, unl- ormity is not insisted on, either l colour or lettering, nor are con- licting advertisement signa rivate caution notices being re- moved,

or

To revert to the railway analogy, t is ns if it were left to the local mister to put up whatever

•

gnals he thought fit. The letter-

ng on the standard signposts in ar too small.. A motorist noeda o read. at least 50 yards away. Tho prosont size should be trebled. The use, on the new advancu irection signs, of. rauta numbers which are totally unknown to mosti Aivers, instead of place names, in

a deplorable bit of official stupid!-

NEA

Robert A. Edwards, centre'

to die in the electric chair

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even further ahead this

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