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THE · HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

FAR EAST IN AIR LIMELIGHT

TWO AIR RACES

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 flights, three will touch at or pass near Hongkong.

Campbell Black, following his unsuccessful attempt to By to the Cape last week, will set out this week on another attempt to lower the record. He will be nc- 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 Black 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 Pungborn and two associates — Bennett Griffin ns co-pilot and Reeder Nichols as radio operator-will, set off from San Diego, Cali-~

R.A.F. Flight To Far East.—Squadron Leader W. N. Plenderleith standing, at Mount Battan, Plymouth, on the forecabin of the flying boat, equipped with four 600 h.p. engines, in which with a araw he is engaged on a survey flight to Singapore and Hongkong. The siemen are due

here at the end of the month.

fornia, und attempt to fly around į Another series of spectacular | the world without a stop in four flights will be made by Kings Riddle of

and a half days. It will be the ford Smith; the famous Austra

most ambitious flight yet at-Heave New York to cross the tempted, the distance to be Atlantic in his monoplane "Lady negotiated by the machine before it lands exceeding 17,000 miles. Southern Cross" in which he last

Han air act. This week he will Death

Pangborn proposes to leave year flew the Pacific.

Soon after his arrival in Eng- San Diego with a full load of 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-i haul his machine in Melbourne; and then set out on a Good-

Still Remains

MAN RELIVES BUT

A

REMEMBERS NOTHING Birkenhead, Aug. 1. man who was brought will flight to Japon, touching back from the dead, after Pangborn will use 71 new

at Singapore, Hongkong and the first attempts to revive Upperou Burnelli monoplane Shanghai en route. transport, powered by two Pratt The only major flight that will his heart beats had failed, and Whitney Hornel engines, not touch the Far East will be has resumed work as a Vincent Burnelli, the designer of that proposed by Colonel Easter-Stoker at the hospital where the plane, said that "the ship wood, of Dallas, Texas, who pro- his operation took place. will hold a 2,500 gallons gas poses to emulate Pangborn by He is Alfred H. Aspden, tank, and 500 additional gallons flying around the world non-stop. can be added in the air when the The flight, however, will be made 40, an ex-Navat man, of power required to lift this tre- on a different route, proposed Parkton-grove, Rock Ferry mendous lond is no longer refuelling stations being Moscow,

Aspden, who works in the needed."

Tehita and San Diego.

boiler-room attached to the Birkenhead Municipal Hospital, was operated on for kidney trou- ble by Dr. R. A. Grant, the hos- pital medical superintendent.

During the operation the pulse ceased and no heart sounds could be heard. Artificial respiration was immediately started and a solution of adrenaline was in- jected. No result followed, and artificial respiration was con-

Lost British Explorer Who Hunted Gold City

COLONEL P. H. FAWCETT FOUND?

New York, Aug. 16. Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, the 68-year-old 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 Parann rivera.

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

"I do not know what Fawcett has been doing since he disap- 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 1925 he entered the jungle

with his son Jack and a young

COL. FAWCETT

tinued.

Three minutes later n second infection of strenaline solution was given. and within 30 sec- ends pulsation started. After continuing artificial respiration for a further two minutes re- spiration began and gradually became loud.

Returned To Normál

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 I was going to die. Before the anaesthetic was administered my i wife saw me. After that 1 do not remember any more until I. came round,"

"It was only then that I learn-

Englishman, Raleigh Rimell, onshowed him various articles the ed my heart had stopped beat- his Inst 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 Rattin emerged from as well as ever." him.

the jungle in 1932 saying a

Death Reports

Dr. Grant, who is at present strange white man, 'dressed in on holiday, refers to the case In animal skins, had whispered the The British Medical Journal. word "Englishman" before he He mentions that on two pre- was dragged off.

vious occasions. he had been entire Fawcett party in 1925. of rescue set out. None met heart's action, but in neithor' in restoring the These Indians, the Anauquas, with success-United Press caso had the patient recovered..

In 1928 Commander George M. Dyott came out of the jungle to report that Indians told him a hostile tribe had killed the Immediately more expeditions successful

AUGUST 20, 1935.

War Manoeuvres In United States

36,000 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, -n "battle" will be fought between two Army corpa on Friday this week. In all, the concentration and manoeuvres will last from August 17 to 31. For- eign milltary attaches and nows. 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. Deca- 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 sham battles fought with

MAJ. GEN. MACARTHUR

penell and paper in the offices of at Watertown, to be assigned to the war department at Washing

ton,

Manoeuvres which began yester- day will be in accordance with the efforts of General Douglas Mac-1 Arthur, Chief of Staff, to remedy i that situation by giving the, high command and the soldiers as well [actual experiene: in the field in

large units.

After becoming Chief of Staff four years ago, 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-

the opposing forces, but no corn- bat planes will participate.

The big battle, probably be 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 specint altention to the use of new devices of mechanical

itric chemical warfare.

In general the problem to be to Corps, and these into the usual worked out will be that of re divisions, brigades, ete. The pre-pelling the invasion of some in- sent manoeuvres involve the First (vading army which should sud- Army-altuated in the Northeast denly appear on the north- of the United States. It Is com-eastern seaboard of the United E. Nolan, and includes the First, been carefully worked out by manded by Major-General Dennis States. Numerous details have Second, and Third Corps.

General Nolan and his staff dur-

The "mobilisation" was effected

special trains and motor trans- ing the past few weeks, but will ports, with the bulk of the troops only be presented to the officers going to Pine Camp while "re-involved just before the "zero Herves" concentrated at Mount hour"

Grenia, Pennsylvania. Pine Camp, Mobility of the forces involved used by the National Guard for and efficiency in keeping them the past 27 years. is between supplied with food and war-

will Watertown and Carthage, on the materials

be stressed of the best sites for sham battles will also have its hands ful Black River, and is considered one throughout. The Signal Corps in the United States. It includes about 11.000 acres belonging to the establishing and maintaining Federal government.

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Every effort has been made to artillery, and machine-gun de-keep the costs of the manoeuvres tachments will bear the brunt low as possible, but it is extim- ated that they will cost in the of the "fighting." About 50 neighbourhood observation planes are stationed United Press.

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