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The formation of the National By CAPT. NORMAN MACMILLAN, M.C., A.F.C. League of Airmen of Great Britain is an enterprise which merits the! BOUT 35,000 years ago Eng-tant from London, the Gorman support and respect of every think land was geographically foln-frontier one hour, Berlin 2 hours this without fear of contradiction. river that sowed into a long arm avery other city in Europe are to

Say follorn-My hat blow off the There is nothing of the militant of the sea that ran up to the north. you to-day what the villages of the

ferry boat. What do you think of about this League, although it will There was no outlet for it past the parlah wore to your grandfather. certainly

serve a purpose in ro- south of England. Then came the The tradition that there is a wide that? Yes sirs, right here in the lation to the defence of the realm. glacial period when the lea-cap stretch of water guarding Britain Bay. What are you going to do 1932 AUSTIN ROADSTER with For many years Great Britain was settled over great masses of loud is a dream of the past. The speed about it? My size is Number 9 least vulnerable of all the in the Northern Hemisphere. The of the modern aeroplane has reduc- so you better send another one Dicky Seat, 13.9 h.p.-6 Cylin- European powers, because she had excoriation of the ice-cap forced ned the size of the Channel to a right away or I'll come and get der Engine. In excellent a natural bulwark in the English way through the soft chalk-and boundary stream. Britain is not.” Condition

$1,150.00. Channel. Providing she maintain Britain became an island separated longer an island.

How about some action? Before the glacial period great ed her supremacy on the sea, ahe from France by the Straits of

Yours, CADET could afford to ignore the strength, Dover. VAUXHALL

reptiles roamed the lands. Un

Miko D COUPE with Dicky Seat, of the great land forces of France, That geological disruption has couth creatures wallowed In the

(signed). 27 h.p.-6 Cylinder Engine. Germany, Russia, and the rest, meant everything to Britain! | swamps and marshes and pushed Almost New .... $,1650,00. But to-day the development of air- Freedom from the tramp of foreign their tank-like bulks through for PS. I am not kidden either."

craft has changed the complexion armies ever since organisation beeste in the quest of food. The Ice 1931_HUPMOBILE SEDAN, full of things. Should some power take gan to control the destiny of our Age kliled these creatures and made 5 Seater Body In Perfect Con-it into its head to invade. Great country and the British race. For, way for man to establish his first dition throughout. $850.00. Britain from the air, it would be, hundreds of years, wherever sons precarious existence in a land not

Dicky Seat. Avery Attractive in no play in words.

its most vulnerable point. This foe, it has been on foreign soil-vicious beasts.

It is a cold, with one exception. That excep- Car in Sound Condition ..... reasoned fact. There is no portion tion was the air fighting over Eng- Through the years that followed, $600.00, of the Empire oversens, with the land against the Zeppelins and century after century, the Britafa possible exception of such places as Gothas that bombarded us during that we know developed with the Hongkong which would be less the war of 1914-1918.

changing climate, the rise of man, Inspection and trial invited,

able to take care of themselves in When scientists meet and talk the dawn of real intelligence, and the event of an air attack. The about the fourth dimension they at length the ordered life of or HONGKONG HOTEL

very area of such countries as visualise the immensity of space.ganised endeavour. Canada and Australla makes them! They picture a universe wending a Into the Irregular sequence of comparatively safe, the immense circumamblent way about the star- events by which the rise to Western distance between them

and any dust that fills the ghostly twilight civilisation has been attained has potential enemy makes the danger beyond our stratosphere: an Infin- come swiftly in the Inst few years Stubbs Road. of aerial invasion almost negligible, itely expanding cosmos in which this growth of speed. Those who

But Britain is in a very different, men are microscopic organisma have looked upon it with the mic poaltion.

whose destiny seems meaningless, roscope focussed on the fourth That is the fourth dimension look-dimension, Time, see that it lays ed at through a telescope.

Great Britain open to B threat from which we formerly felt secure. I like to examine it with a micro-

The old freedom which we have It is Interesting to know what scope as well.

enjoyed for centuries through that airmen think. The League is

Then I see a new meaning in the comforting stretch of water

has designed, primarily, to end Brit-fourth dimension--a terrestrial gene for over and never can return.

I have fifteen year acperience 58 ain's air weakness, to draw to-shrinkage in the separation of one The crude prehistoric monsters are gether the Empire's War pilots and dynamic object from another, for no more. In their place has come owing to the fact dat some of my a Portegy sneage maker, also civilian fliers in an organisation on the surface of this earth the the greatest scientific threat to which will lend its influence to the meaning

friends they tole me dat you fella's quickening of Interest in aviation, through the Ingenuity of man-

of time has altered civilisation that the world has ever known-the posalbility of unlenah-

boon sell Portegy sasage. I feel particularly among the youth of the created machinery.

ed fury in the air.

Auro dat mine Basage is British commonwealth of nations.

better than any sasage that you The nations have come nearer to Famous airmen, such 118 The fact that German ship Charles Kingsford-Smith, Colonel the 10-knot ship that used to cross Sir each other. By comparison with

The very beauty of un neroplane sell and I think that if we could ja ominous. Its swift passageiransfer business this would be a ping interests are putting a W. A. Bishop, V.C., Captain Roy from Britain to the Continent, the through the skies on outsprend big idea. How do you think? number of big, modern liners on Sir Charles says he has "long

Brown, all applant the endeavour. 240-miles-an-hour aeroplane has wings is presaged with the calm the Far East service has given urged" such a plan for Australia. reduced the time of travel to one insolence of disaster. Is it just

"Only when Australia realises the

hour instead of twenty-four. To chance that birds of prey have been Irise to n rumour, which is now importance of air defence will her day, in terms of time, wo 'mustes while that of Britain is a

picture Britain moved so close to young pilots be encouraged to Europe that it is no longer an islion? The lion king of beasts-- undergo specialised training."

but useless in the air. That, incidentally, is something for

land.

In terms of the apeed of the 10- The age of this earth of ours Hongkong to remember. A very knots ship converted into distance are many--the Ice Age, the Stone essential part of the H.K.V.C, is its "air arm and anti-aircraft de the aeroplane has brought Dover to the Iron Age, the Age of

After reading your magazine a mile from the coast Steam, and now the Age of Speed. fence units. There should be in of France; Cherbourg 3 miles So swiftly the last has come upon year, I want to inform you gentle- tereating work for keen volunteers from Portsmouth London 3 miles the world that few have realised men, that I'm about ready for a here. Colonel Bishop, one Canada arealeat War aces, omelatly lies 10 miles from London, 12 miles an age that brings with it the think of, and all I can see, are of from Paris. The German frontier, that it is the dawn of a new age psychopathic specialist. All I can credited with 72 enemy planes, from Hull. 15 miles from Man-whole carefully built way of living, kneed.

possibility of disruption of our people who are pigeon-laed, knock was out of his "twenties," will pro- Berlin to London is equivalent to correlate our way of thinking to headed, pin-headed, mouse-faced, veteran of 170 air battles before he chester, 10% miles from Liverpool. Gone is our old security. We must beak-nosed,

pot-bellied, big-chinned, bably attempt to organise a branch 23 miles. But 18 miles separate the facts that face us, or we may horse-faced, hawk-faced, hatchet

two-headed, frog- of the League of Airmen in the Aberdeen from Norway. Dominion, So much would de-

perish as other Empires of the past fncod, and Huoy-long-faced. I feel tend upon the air strength of Great Britain in the event of another war changed speed of travel, show, the,

These figures, relative to the have perished through cherishing self-conscious when I look at my

illusions.

own wife and child. I worry as There is no means to throw a to what animal-istic and puppet

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, MAR, 12, 1935.

GERMAN SHIPPING

CHANGES

revealed to be incorrect; that the dissolution of the Hapag-Lloyd Union is imminent. What is actually taking place is that a big scheme of reorganisation of the Union is being put into effect. The fusion of these two shipping companies was effected in 1930 under a plan whereby competition was avoided, all property and assets pooled and the net profits divided between the two concerns. It has now

WHAT AIRMEN THINK

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& CO., LTD. been found desirable to modify that it is well to be fully prepared," fourth dimensional reduction of the rampart in the sky against the istic characteristics i have.

the agreement in order that the there would be no need to call upon Britain and the Continent of

warns, He adds that he hopes space that lles between Great threat of aerial invasion. We aro concerns named may be able the pilots of this great defence force, Europe. The English Channel has no more immune than any nation better to compete with foreign but the mere fact that they were shrunk to the width of a river, threat that might arise. Through on the Continent from any sudden interests. Following the intro-ready would net as a deterrent to a the North Sea to the size of the vehicle that traverses both land duction of new blood on the Another

looking for conquests. moderate lake, by comparison with and sen an enemy can strike at us SISEIDON directing board of the Union, Brown, the man who is credited ago.

Canadian. Capt. Ray the time taken to cross it 60 years as surely and as swiftly as though This year we've bought a lot of various changes have been made German, Baron von Richtofen, is and give you pause. Stop for one

with having shot down the famous Let this one thought strike home Europe.

we were terrestrially joined to new flower seeds. Scores of little in the South American, African, heart and soul behind the movement moment in the rush of life by which the dire necessity be forced upon powders.

packets; so small, some of them, Let Britain face the truth before they look more like a chemist's Levant and European services, fathered by the Lengue. These you are surrounded-housewife in us, as it may be forced by over- and these have been followed by men, and many others, believe that the home, husband, son, and daugh whelming aerial strength.

Britain must become

We spent some time, yesterday, reorganisation of the two com- airinen to preserve the position the factory--and think for one brief shall not then have time to pause Lamp of Aladdin,or to All Baba's:

ter in frain and tube, in office and then the day will be too late. We turning them over. It's the near- panies, themselves. In this con-occupies to-day, and that she has

est one can get, these days, to the moment. nection, consideration has been occupied since Trafalgar. Britain

for breath and build the neroplanes The lands that were so far away we need to save us from defeat. given to the traditional services on her power on the sen. She are now as close to you as the next The latest weapon of man's skill

Imust maintain it in the air! of the two lines. The N.D.L.

village was to your grandfather in the bombing neroplane--has des- has been given the passenger

his youth. Parls is 54 minutes dis- 'troyed our insular security.

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For in those little packote there's enchantment. Form, scent, colour-beauty, for what the term is worth. "Magic casements, open-` ing on the form"-that's no more exciting than a rock-garden. And all we have to do is to wait.

I can even forgive the gardeners the barbaric names they dig up. Matthiola Ibarls Aubretia -- Helianthemum; there's a sort of music even there! A prelude to July sunshine, and to patches of blue and Invender on yellow stone. Matthiola Iboris -Au- brotla-Helianthemum. Waves of colour shimmering in the summer heat.

It's na' though one could even now heart trumpets, the other side the wood.

Tragedy in the Hunting Field What has become of Nicodema

Knox?

She last was seen outside the

spinney.... Zounds l

The woman looked exactly like

4 fox.

No doubt our huntsman threw

her to the hounds.

Genius Burning

"Sometimes I do not know who committed the crime in my stories until I am near the end,” said Mr. J. S. Fletcher, the seventy-one- year-old author of 240 mystery storios and 700 short stories,

It's the same with us In our humble way,

Sometimes we don't know how to begin

paragraph er how to end

It. And sometimes when we have ended it we don't know what it's all. about.