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TWO AIR RACES

THE HỒNGLONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1936.

EAST IN AIR LIMELIGHT War Manoeuvres In

TO HONGKONG

4 MAJOR FLIGHTS SCHEDULED

London, Aug. 17. Four major flights-two round-the-world and two speed attempts are sche- duled for this month.

Campbell Black and Kingsford-Smith are the pilots who will attempt the. speed records.

Clyde Pangborn and Colonel William E. Easterwood are the men who will attempt to encircle the globe.

Of the four proposed Alghts, three will touch at or pass near Hongkong.

Campbell Black, following his ́unsuccessful attempt to fly to the Cape last week, will set out this week on another attempt to lower the record. He will be ac- companied by T.A.G. MacArthur and will fly a modified type De¦ Havilland Comet, the machine in which, with C.W.A. Scott, he won the Centenary Air Race to Melbourne last year.

If Binck succeeds in his Cape flight, he will return to England and Immediately set off on an attempt to fly to Hongkong and back in five days,

with

Almost concurrently Campbell Black's attempt to set a new record for the England- Hongkong route Clyde Pangborn and two associates- Bennett Griffin as co-pilot and Reeder j Nichols as radio operator-wil) | act off from San Diego, Cali-! fornia, and attempt to fly around

RA.F. Flight To Far East-Squadron Leader W. N. Plenderleith standing, at Mount Batten, Plymouth, on the forecabin of the flying boat, equipped with four 600 h.p. engines, in which with a crow he is engaged on a survey flight to Singapore and Hongkang. The airmen are dur

here at the end of the month.

Another series of spectacular

the world without a stop in four flights will be made by King Riddle of

and a half days. It will be the

Death

ford Smith, the famous Austra- | lian air nec. This week he will most ambitious flight yet at-leave New York to cross the tempted, the distance to be negotiated by the machine before Atlantic in his monoplane "Lady

Southern Cross" in which he last Still Remains it lands exceeding 17,000 miles.

Pangborn proposes to leave year flew the Pacific. San Diego with a full load of

Soon after his arrival in Eng-

petrol, meet a refuelling machineland, Kingsford Smith will set off over New York, another over on an attempt to lower Scott and Berlin, a third over Calcutta and Black's record of two days 23 a fourth over Manila. Thus the hours, from England to Mel- machine will pass within 800 miles of Hongkong. Its wireless messages will be quite audible to local listeners.

bourne.

If he succeeds he will over. haul his machine in Melbourne: and then set out on a Good.

MAN RELIVES BUT

REMEMBERS NOTHING

a

United States

30,000 SOLDIERS ENGAGE THIS WEEK IN LARGEST, SHAM WAR

New York, Aug. 18. ·

Army and National Guard units-36,500 strong-were concentrated on Saturday for the biggest peace-time manoeuvres ever held in the United States.

Troops from New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and the New England states, con- verged on Pine Camp, in upper New York state, for two weeks of intensive "war |games.'

""

After several days of training by divisions, a "battle" will be fuught between two Army corps on Friday this week. In all, the concentration and manoeuvres will last from August 17 to 31. Far- eign military attaches and nowa paper correspondents will attend... Never before have such large- scale manoeuvres been held in this country. Hitherto the sol- diers were accustomed to com- pany or battalion drills. Ocen- sionally an entire brigade would be assembled, but since the world war no. Major-General has ever had an entire division lined up- in the field at one time in the United States.

Large-scale operations were in the past handled only theoretic ally, in shat battles fought with pencil and paper in the offices of the war department at Washing

ton.

Manoeuvres which began yester day will be in accordance with the efforts of General Douglas Mac- Arthur. Chief of Staff, to remedy. that situation by giving the highị command and the soldiers as welli actust experienes in the field in large-units.

MAJ. GEN. MACARTHUR

at Watertown, to be assigned to the opposing forces, but no com- bat planes will participate,

The big battle, probably he. tween the First Corps against the Second Corps, with the Third Corps held in reserve, will be- gin on Friday and may last for two

days and Two nights. Subsequently there will be train- ing in smaller units, with special attention to the use of devices

of mechanical chemical warfare.

new

and

In general. the problem to be

After becoming Chief of Staff! Four yeara agro, MacArthur divided Continental United States into four regions, each of which was given one Army. Each of the four armies in turn were sub-divided in- to Corps, and those into the usual worked out will be that of re- divisions, brigades, etc. The pre-pelling the invasion of some in- sent manoeuvres involve the First vading army which should sud- Army-situated in the Northeast denly appear on the north- of the United States. It is com-castern seaboard of the United manded by Major-General Dennis States. Numerous details have E. Nolan, and includes the First, been carefully worked out by Second, and Third Corps.

General Nolan and his staff dur- The "mobiliantion" was effected

Birkenhead, Aug. 1. A man who was brought will flight to Japan, touching back from the dead, after Pangborn will use 21 new at Singapore, Hongkong and the first attempts to revive

by special trains and motor trans-ing the past few weeks, but will Upperou Burnelli monoplane Shanghai en route.

his heart beats had failed, ports, with the bulk of the troops only be presented to the officers transport, powered by two Pratt The only major flight that will

going to Pine Camp while "re-involved just before the "zero and Whitney Hornet engines, not touch the Far East will be has resumed work as

concentrated at Mount hour." Vincent Burnelli, the designer of that proposed by Colonel Easter-stoker at the hospital where serves"

Grenia, Pennsylvania. Pine Camp, Mobility of the forces Involved the plane, said that "the ship wood, of Dallas, Texas, who pro-his operation took place.

used by the National Guard for and efficiency in keeping them will hold a 2.500 gallons gas puses to emulate Pangborn by He is Alfred H. Aspden, the past 27 years is between supplied with food and war-

will be tank, and 500 additional gallons flying around the world non-stop.

stressed Black River, and is considered one throughout. The Signal Corps can be added in the air when the The flight, however, will be made 40, an ex-Naval man, of Watertown and Carthage, on the materials

a different route, proposed Parkton-grove, Rock Ferry of the best sites for sham battles will also have its hands full mendous load is no longer refuelling stations being Moscow, Aspden, who works in the in the United States. It includes

to boiler-room attached Tehita and San Diego,

the about 11,000 acres belonging to the establishing and maintaining

communications throughout, Birkenhead Municipal Hospital, | Federal government.

Every effort has been made to was operated on for kidney trou- Infantry, field artillery, heavy bic by Dr. R. A. Grant, the hos-artillery, and machine-gun de-keep the costs of the manoeuvres pital medical superintendent. tachments will bear the brunt as low as possible, but it is estim ated that they will cost in the During the operation the pulse of the "fighting." About 50

neighbourhood of $70,000.- ceased and no heart sounds could observation planes are stationedited Press.. be heard. Artificial respiration was immediately started and a solution of adrenaline was in- jected. No result followed, and

power required to lift this tre-jon

needed."

Lost British Explorer Who Hunted Gold City

COLONEL P. H. FAWCETT FOUND?

New York, Aug. 16.

Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, the 68-year-old artificial respiration was con-

British explorer who has been "lost" for 10 years in Brazilian jungles searching for a "city of gold," will return to civilisation within six months, a mis- sionary said here.

The Rev. Patrick H. Molloy. Roman Catholic missionary, said- the lost explorer was in the Zinqui River district north of the Cordilleras, which separate the watersheds of the Amazon and the Parana rivers.

"I learned this from an in- fluential Indian ehlef known, us the white son of the sun," the priest said.

"I do not know what Fawcett has been doing since he lisap- peared. I have learned, how- ever, he wants to return, to civilization."

City of Solid Gold

For 28 years Fawcett search-. ed the sweltering, deadly jungles of Brazil for a city he believed -was built of solid gold by Indians 10,000 years ago.

In 1926 he entered the Jungle

with his son Jack and a young

COL FAWCETT

tinued.

Three minutes later a second injection of adrenaline saltition was given, and within 30 sec- onds pulsation started. After continuing artificial respiration for a further two minutes re- spiration began and gradually became loud.

Returned To Normal

The radial pulse at the wrist was strong and bounding, and the patient's colour rapidly re- turned to normal.

After being in the hospital for a little over a month Aspden left against medical advice and later resumed his arduous work in the boiler-room.

"The last thing I remember about the operation," he said "was asking the doctor not to hurt me and then asking for my wife because I felt sure 1 was going to die. Before the anaesthetic was administered my wile saw me. After that I do not remember any more until I came round,”

"It was only then that I learn-

Englishman, Raleigh Rimell. on showed him various articles the ed my heart had stopped beat- his last expedition.

Years passed. No word pene-

"white god" had given them. ing: I do not feel any after- trated to the outside world. Dyott's report ended further effects apart from slight numb- Fawcett was believed lost and search for four years. Then ness. I am able to do my work expeditions were sent to find Stephen Rattini emerged from as well as ever."

him.

Death Reports

the jungle in 1982 aaying a Dr. Grant, who is at present strange white man, dressed in on holiday, refers to the case in In 1928 Commander. George animal skins, had whispered the The British Medical Journal. M. Dyott came out of the jungle word "Englishman" before he Ho mentions that on two pre- to report that Indians told him was dragged off.

vlous │ocensions: ha had heon

a hostile tribe had killed the Imitediately more expeditions successful in restoring the entire Fawcett party in 1925. of rescue set out. Nong het heart's action, but... In neither "These Indians, the Annuquas, with success United Press case had the patient recovered.

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