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GERMAN AIRSHIPS'

SUCCESS

WONDERS OF LATEST OF ZEPPELINS

By Gerald Franklin

of the

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

formed in Training, which. WAS 1900 by teachers who had been students at the Central School, then a private institution, and under Ha now constitution it will have n national character.

Dr. C. W... Kimmins, who pre- sided, spoke of the importance of the recognition of a diploma of dramatic art by London University. It was great score, he said, to have -the University definitely Associated with the drama.

Mian Elsio Fogerty said that two years ago it was definitely re- presented to them that, there was n ONE of the most astonishing con- on to the Dutch East Indies,

trasts in the world of flight Developments are taking place danger of the association becoming to-day la the tragic history of air-with regard to airship services in a little ingrown. All over the country there were able teachers ships in Britain and the United several areas. By deeren States and the marvellous success Brazilian Government a special anxious to obtain an organization the Germans have achieved with credit was arranged for in March with which they could work. The 1984 to finance the building of an association decided by resolution to their monster Zoppolins.

airport at Rio de Janeiro in fuifl dissolve and try to form a now Some experts declare there is no ment of a contract signed with the asociation which would be national future for the lighter-than-air German Zeppelin authorities for and would bring in the greater part

English-speaking

world. dirigible, but the famous seronaut, the airship service between Europe of the Dr. Eckener, veteran commander, of and Brazil,

They had worked for 18 months on the Graf Zeppelin, has for years

In November it was reported its organization and its articles been fighting his case, and it seems that the Japanese State Polley wore now ready for study. probable that he has won. Plans Council for Aeronautical Research

NEED OF TRAINING are now in hand for regular airship has decided to establish in services to the United States, to spring of 1936 a concern styled the Professor T. H. Pear in a paper on the Far East, and in Russia and Pacific Airways Company. Three Training for discussion," said that Japan.

airshipa are to be used, and the The critice of the airship cannot Germans have already been asked Peech training produced first-rate orators. To initiate and sustain ovade the facts facing them with to build ono. Projected services in-reciters, actors, announcers, and regard to the Graf Zeppelin, the clude, first, non-stop flights between discussion in a mixed assembly was most famous airship the world has Tokio and Hsingking (Manchukuo), not easy in England and the rank ever known. On December 17 she followed by services from Tokio to and file would be better for a little

on Singapore and the South a up

sot

+

returning at record, for

ber Christmas Islands, and from Japan

cruise to South America she had United States, via Howali. completed 1,000,000 kilometres in

the air and has now crossed the

RUSSIAN ENTERPRISE

the

Sea

to the

[training.

Mr. Geoffrey Withworth, founder and director of the Drama League, thought the association would be n powerful lever to help on some of the things for which the Drama League worked.

The discussion of speech therapy

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1,

1935.

This is not Alberta, nor yet Texas, for a strost scene in Calcutta, where Army comounts are being handled from Australia.

Atlantic no fower than 60 times. Meanwhile, Russia does not in- She is seven years old, and has tend to be left out of the picture, spent nearly 10,000 hours in the and much research work is going alt, made 423 flights, and carried on there. The first airship is

The meeting passed a resolution 27,000 persona, 6,600,000 postal already in service, the first flight that the importance of oral English packages, and large quantities of of the VG, constructed under the in training colleges, schools, and freight without ratshap.

direction of the eminent Italian institutions for adult education mirror fashion. If a man lost his have serious consequences on the airship commander, General Nobile, should be more widely recognised, right arm he tried to learn to write temper and character and affect his RIDING THE STORM

taking place in November. The and that an oral test should form with his left hand, and if he was attitude to his fellows. What kind however, wns loft- ship accommodates 20 passengers, part of the first school examination allowed to write mirror fashion he of person, Nothing noems to daunt this

Handed? Left-handers had a parti. gallant ship, for she has flown over and will be employed on the pas throughout the country.

would do it in a very short time."

crim and mail line between

MENTAL CONFLICTS

cular make-up. They were

demanded Polar wasics and tropic forest, Banger

and deliberate; they over stormy oceans, and towering Moscow and Sverdlovak, an import-

Speaking of a child born left justice for themselves and others, mountaina. Gales of from 70 miles ant centre of industrial enterprises was Introduced by Dr.

In the Urals. The distance is 1,000 Culpin, lecturer on psychoneuroses handed who was made to use the and they showed a spirit of deliber- to 80 miles an hour have been miles, and it is planned to cover to the London Hospital Medical right hand. Dr. Culpin said that inate obstinacy. They did not get encountered, but the ship is so this in 22 hours. At the present School, who spoke of the relation- the view of a famous anatomist wild; they just talmly went their perfectly designed that the pas sengers were scarcely aware of the time mooring facilities are being ship between stammering and left-stuttering resulted from this con- own road. terrible velocity

of the wind. completed at the latter town, and handedness. The brain, he said,flicting control-the ineffectual at- Storms have been passed through, the service will begin running to was in two halves like a walnut, and tempts to enunciate by a reversal

regular schedule in the spring. the right side of the body was con- of the proper muscular action. speech therapy under the LC.C. and even Rghtolag encountered The Une is expected to serve the trolled by the left side of the brain. This sounded very simple, but there education authority, said without incident. The commander additional purpose of training In right-handedness the left hemis were objections to the theory. The speech therapy was now coming in- storms ahead, and he is able to By pilots for other airships now under phere was trained, but at the same same anatomist said that to a sensi- to its own and had come to stay. time the right hemisphere was, one tive child the mental conflicts that Hia own experience was that atam- parallel to them, unili be sees an The Soviet Government la spar- might say, also acquiring knowledge might arise from such causes might mering was definitely curable. opening, and frequently the ship in ing no paine in its endeavours to able to got through.

Inchlove success, and it is said the Now in the next hangar to that most extraordinary facilities und of the Graf Zeppelin an even nearly unlimited money have been greater monster is taking shape, placed at the disposal of General which will dwarf that veteran. Nobile, now working in This new Zeppelin, the LZ120, is under contract,

of the airship is often warned of

expected to be completed by next spring, and she has been built to complete the journey to the United States in 48 hours, and to do the return journey in about G5 hours.

It is expected that she will be able

to capture some of the luxury trafic

now taken by the big liners, the

construction.

Russin

TRAINING OF SPEECH

fara being catimated at £100. It is STAMMERING OF THE

not anticipated there will be any

trouble in obtaining passengers, because for a long time now the Graf Zeppelin has been flying with its full complement.

-FIFTY PASSENGERS

The new Zeppelin will have

LEFT-HANDED

DEFINITE CURE

At the annual Conference of

- speed of 83 miles an hour, as com

pared with the older ship's 72, and Educational Associations, at Univer she is designed to carry 60 pas-sity College, among the subjects songors and a crow of 64. In discussed were speech training, order to avold the danger of fire, speech therapy, the place of drama petrol will not used, crude oil in education, and methods of inter having been selected as the fuel, national teaching. and suficient will be carried to give

The Association of Teachers of the ship a range of 8,000 miles.

Speech and Drama held its first The new vessel in over 800 feet business meeting there. The n880- long, and it has a diameter of about ciation has grown out of the 136 feet. The upper of the two Association of Teachers of Speech decks will be for passengers only,

who will be given bedrooms with

two beds, washing accommodation, electric light, and system of! ventilation which they can them selves control. Better quarters have also been provided for the crew, and it is expected that the ship will be filled with hellum in- stead of the highly inflammable hydrogen used in previous airships. It is enid this vessel will operate on the Transatlantic service with Its full complement of 50 pas sengers, hail a ton of mails, and 10 to 20 tona single trip, making 40 tripa a year.

Dr. Eckener has boon in the United States during the past few months, making arrangements for the proposed service from Europe to America, During the coming summer he is to undertake with the Graf Zeppelin and the new LZ120 a number of trial flights or four over a period of three months. He has been given por mission to use the United States naval landing basa at Lakehurst, and the United States Postmaster- General is reported to be consider- ing the possibility of sending letters in the German airships at slightly extra cost.

- NEW ROUTES

When Dr. Eckener was in London a few months ago he outlined the ambitious plans be has for world airship services, of which the Europe-United States route would form a link. One will be # version of the existing service between Friedrichshafen and Rio de Janeiro direct; one from Rio de Janeiro to Washington.and then to Europe; and one.from:Washington or some other baso in the United States, to a junction near the Pyrenees and

Dr. E. J. Boome. director of

The charred steal skeleton of the once luxurious liner Morro Castle, banched at Asbury Park, N., since the tragic firm that took the lives of 124 persons, gradually is being worked asaward by the salvage crew that is undertaking to tow it to New York for the War Department. Already the stern of the hull has been turned seaward, relansed from the annds. High winds, however, hava hampered the salyagers' efforts.

The 1934 Nobel prisss for Ilterature and drama rewarded two geniuses, who-havo growa gray in the pursuit of their artar Dr. Seinda Lagerlof (luft), Swedish author, and Luigi Pirandello, Italian_play-wright. They are pictured after ceremonies is the Opera-House at Stockholm during which Klog Gustav personally

bestowed the prizes.

that

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