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THE HONGKONGA TELEGRAPHI

FRIDAY

1985

GERMAN AIRSHIPS

SUCCESS

WONDERS OF LATEST OF ZEPPELINS

By Gerald Franklin

Training, which" was formed in 1900 by teachers who had boon, students at the Central School, then a private institution, and under its new constitution it will have a national character.

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

Miss Elsio Fogerty said that two years ago it was definitely re- presented to them that there was a danger of the association becoming

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NE of the most astonishing con, on to the Dutch East Indies.

trasta in the world of flight Developments are taking place to-day is the tragic history of air with regard to airship services in little ingrown. All over the ships in Britain and the United several areas. By decreo of the country there were able teachers tates and the marvellous success Brazilian Government a special anxious to obtain an organization the Germana have achieved with credit was arranged for in March with which they could work. The their monster Zappolina.

1994 to finance the bulkding of an association decided by resolution to airport at Bio de Janeiro in fulfi- dissolve and try to form a new 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 dirigible, but the famous neronaut, the airship service between Europe of the Engilsh-speaking world. Dr. Eckener, veteran commander of and Brazil.

They had worked for months on the Graf Zeppelin, has for years In November it was reported its organization and its articles been fighting his caso, and it seems that the Japanese State Policy were now ready for study. probable that he has won. Plana

Council for Aeronautical Research are now in hand for regular airship has decided to establish in the services to the United States, to spring of 1935 a concorn styled the the Far East, and in Russin and Pacific Airways Company. Three Japan.

NEED OF TRAINING

Training for discussion," said that Professor T. H. Pear in a paper on airshipe are to be used, and the speech training produced first-rate The critics of the airship cannot Germans have already been asked recltera, actors, announcers, and evade the facts facing them with to build one. Projected services in-oratora. To Initiate and sustain regard to the Graf Zeppelin, the clude, first, non-stop flights between discussion in a mixed assembly was most famous airship the world has Teklo and Hsingking (Manchukuo), not easy in England and the rank over known. On December 17 she followed by services from Tokio to and file would be better for a little

up a great, record, for on Singapore and the South Sen

training. returning from her Christmas Islands, and from Japan

the

In

nir and has now.crossed the Atlantic no fewer than 60 times.

to the

This is not Alberta, nor yat Tuzas; for 'a strost scans in Calcutta, whers

Army remounts are being håndlad frám Australia.

Mr. Geoffrey Withworth, founder cruis 1,000,000 kilometres

to Bouth America, she had United States, via Ilawall,

and director of the Drama League, RUSSIAN ENTERPRISE

thought the association would be n Meanwhile, Russia does not in-powerful lever to help on some of She is seven years old, and has tend to be left out of the picture, the things for which the Drama spent nearly 10,000 hours in the and much research work is going League worked. nir, made 423 flights, and carried on there. The first airship is The meeting passed a resolution 27,000 persons, 5,500,000 postal already in service, the first flight that the importance of oral English packages, and large quantities of of the V6, constructed under the in training colleges, schools, and freight without mishap.

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 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 ship accommodates 20 passengers, part of the first school examination allowed to write mirror fashion he of person, however,

was left- and will be employed on the pas- throughout the country.

would do it in a very short time. handed? Left-handera had a parti aenger and mall line between

MENTAL CONFLICTS

cular make-up. They were calm The discussion of speech therapy

land deliberate; they demanded Speaking of a child born teft-justice for themselves and others,

RIDING THE STORM

Nothing seems daunt this gallant ship, for she has flown over

Miliala

Polar waates and tropic forest, Moscow and Sverdlovsk, an import- over stormy oceans, and towering mountains. Gnica of from 70 miles ant centre of industrial enterprises was introduced by Dr. to 80 miles an hour have been in the Urala. The distance is 1,000 Culpin, lecturer on psychoneuroses handed who was made to use the and they showed a spirit of deliber- encountered, but the ship is so miles, and it is planned to cover to the London Hospital Medical right hand. Dr. Culpin said that in late obstinacy. They did not get perfectly designed that the

this in 22 hours. At the, present School, who spoke of the relation-the view of a famous anatomist wild; they just calmly wont their pas- sengers were scarcely aware of theme mooring facilities are being ship between stammering and left-stuttering resulted from this con- own road. terrible velocity

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

spring. the right side of the body was con-of the proper muscular action. speech therapy under the and even lightning encountered regular schedule in the

L.C.C. without incident. The commander The line is expected to serve the trolled by the left alde of the brain. This sounded very simple, but there education authority. Bald that of the airship is often warned of additional

of purpose training In right-handedness the left hemie were objections to the theory, The speech therapy was now coming in- storms ahead, and he is able to fly pilots for other airships now under phere was trained, but at the same

samu anatomist sald that to a sensi- to its own and had come to stay. parallel to them, until he sees an construction.

time the right hemisphere was, one tive child the mental conflicts that His own experience was that stam- opening, and frequently the ship is

The Soviet Government is spar- might say, also acquiring knowledge | might arise from such causes might mering was definitely curable. able to get through.

ing no pains in its endeavours to achlove Huccess, and it la cald the Now in the next hangar to that most extraordinary facilities and the Graf Zeppelin an evenne unlimited money have been greater monster is taking shape,ed at the disposal of General which will dwarf that veteran. Nobile,

now working in

This new Zeppelin, the LZ129, is under contract, expected to bo completed by next

apring the journey to the United!

and she has been bullt, to

States in 48 hours, and to do the return journey in about 55 hours. It is expected that she will be able i

to capture some of the luxury traffic}

now taken by the big lindra, the

Kunsia

TRAINING OF SPEECH

fare being estimated at £100. It is STAMMERING OF THE

not anticipated-there-will-bo-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 a speed of 83 miles an hour, as com-

LEFT-HANDED

DEFINITE CURE

AL the annual Conference of

pared with the older ship's 72, and Educational Associations, at Univer- aho is designed to carry 50 pas-nity College, among the subjects) sengers and a trew of 64. In discussed were speech training. order to avoid the danger of fire, speech therapy, the place of drama petrol will not be used, crude off in education, and methods of inter- having been selected as the fuel, national teaching. and sufficient will be carried to give the ship a range of 8,000 miles.

The Association of Teachers of Speech and Drama held its first

The new vessel is over 800 feet business meeting there. The us80+ long, and it has a diameter of about ciation has

grown out of the

136 feet. The upper of the two Assbelation of Teachers of Speech

decks will be for passengers only,

who will be given bedrooms with

of

two beds, washing accommodation, electric light, and a system ventilation, which they can them- selves control, Better quarters have also been provided for the crow, and it in expected that the ship

will be filled with hellum in- stead of the highly inflammable hydrogen used in previous airships.. It is said this vessel will operate on the Transatlantic, service with its full complement of 50 paa- Bongers, half a ton of mails, and 15 to 20 tons aingie trip, making 40 trips a year.

the

new

Dr. Eckerier has been in United States during the past few months, making arrangements for the proposed service from Europe to America. During the coming summer hela to undertake with the Graf Zeppelin and the LZ129; a number of trial flights over a porlod of three or four months. He has been given por mission to use the United States naval landing base at Lakehurst, and the United States Postmaster- General In 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 be outlined the ambitious plans ho has for world nirship services, of which the Europe-United States route would form a link. One will be a 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 ther base in the United States, to Wahction near the Pyrenees and

* The charred steel 'akeleton of the once luxurious Uner Morro Castle, beached at · Asbury Park, - N.J..., sines the tragin fire that took the lives of 124 persone, gradually le being worked sonward by the salvage crow that is undertaking to tow it to New York for the War Department. Already the stern of the hull has been turned asaward, released from the sands. High windì, however, have hampered the

salvagers' efforts.

-The-1934.Nobel prizes for literature and drama rewarded two geniuses who have grown gray In the pursuit of thale arts: Dr.. Ssima Lagerlof (left), Swedish author, 'and: Luigi Pirandello,

· Italian playwright. They are pictured after ceremonies in the Opera Housa at Stockholm during which King Gustav personally-

·bestowed the prizes.---

This scond at a Húngarian refugee station might hava PG painted by Rembrandt. It portrays the plight of unfortunate. peasants who were driven from Yugo-Slavia in reprisal, for the assassination of King Alexander, ¿ Baby's bottles left behind in the mad flight to escape Slavic fury, the Youngster has to take his milk from a boorsteln,

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