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TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,

OCTOBER 18, 1935.

history of air communica-

NOTES OF THE DAY Tons over the oceans of the

YEAR OF REFUGEE WORK

world la being made in this de- cade.

Yet aviation has become so common-place.to-day that the.

Pan American's arrival of

That its next flight to Manila, possibly Hongkong, will be the forerunner of a regular service across the ocean that has defied and assis-man's efforts to conquer time since civilisation began, is not deemed worthy of more than occasional mention.

The Annual Report of the Nan- sen International Refuged Offee, which has been prepared for the Oriental Clipper at Guam this week, on the last leg of its Assembly of the Lengue of Nations, contains much that is de-econd experimental flight across the Pacific, is of, insufficient in- pressing and much also which is terest to the public to warrant

the encouraging. The job of

more than a paragraph in our Nansen Offee is to care for the

newspapers. Interests of wore than a million political refugees who, having no Government to fall back upon, are wholly dependent upon the Office for much of the help tance which Governments give The Report tells of the comple- great humanitarian You look for a normal front tion of one

axle on this new Vauxhall woric to which British charity has --you don't see it! And you also nude a notable contribution. take the car on the road and look | It concerns the Armenians, a for bumps and pot holes and you nation which suffered bratai mas- don't feel them! For the New sneres at the hands of the Turks Vauxhall has independent front

as a result of its champlonship of wheel springing which changes the Allied enago during the War. riding into gliding.

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FRANCE AND THE

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A hundred thousand Armenians were living in conditions of terri- ble aqualor in refugee camps near the Syrinn towns of Beirut, Aleppo and Alexandretta. Their plight pitiful, and it caused the French High Commissioner to p peal to the Nansen Ofice and the International Labour Office to help in the work of providing decent home for the refugees. The work was taken over by Dr. Nansen, and has now practically been com- pleted. Houses have been built to accommodate all save a fraction of the Armenians,

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FINALLY SOLVED

Trans-oceanic airways are not a dream. This year the mighty Pacific will be spanned from America to Asia; next year from Australia to America.

In 1936, travel across the At- lantic from London to New York will entail no more time than it takes to-day to travel from longkong to Swatow by steamer.

By the end of 1936 you may leave New York at 8 o'clock of a morning, rain or shine, and land in London at 1.5 p.m. the next day, with half a day left for business. The flying lime will be around 24 hours.

And you will do this for the first time in the history of avia tion in the utmost luxury-and comfort.

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Igor Sikorsky in the Oriental Clipper.

TO FRISCO

The designers have stopped fretting about speed. The ship of to-morrow is being built with two main considerations-pas- f passenger traffic, and the air is capable. These senger comfort and fuel capa- 540-miles-per-hour flight, city,

sane

ships with their strong, high The stratospliere flight is a duralumin hulls, will ride Sut possibility, but the sacrifices are the worst storms on the surfce THE

HE new trans-oceanic nero- too great. The cabin of the of the ocean, if foreed to ės-

a cend. plane will weigh around stratosphere ship must be

We will sacrifice a few hors 120,000 pounds, will carry be- tween 30 and 40 people, and will

of speed and instead give pu safety. have pleasant private cabins for ·

For by reducing sped, two or four passengers, with

we can increase fuel capacly, and therein lies the real safty sleeping berths.

factor of the long distance fr- plane.

Paul

GALLUS

forecasts Hongkong's

future in aviation

Is London fogged or slor- lashed? Then Hamburg, Br- deaux, Lisbon, Marseilles Genon will be clear and safe.

"The flying boats of the vey near future will have a flyig range of 5,000 miles. A worl from the radio dispatcher at le port of destination, and the pilt ilies to clear weather and sat harbour. Taxi planes awai th the passengers wherever

is lost.

Another achievement of the Office has been the final liquidation of the Russian refugee problem in Constantinople. When the Rolahe- vist revolution swept over Russia, Although M. Laval has, on

more than eight hundred thousand opponents of the Communists were

These rabins will be larger behalf of the French Govern compelled to leave the country, and

than railway train drawing congregate in the countries which ment, definitely pledged his burdered upon Russia. Something rooms. There will be a dining room seating 20. a. smoking country to participation in such like 135,000 refugees were in and

near Constantinople, and sanctions against. Italy as are

the lounge equipped with a bar, a colossal work of removing them to few shower baths, observation deemed necessary, it has been all pinces where work could be found lounge.

and room to walk too apparent during the past for them was undertaken by Dr. around. few days that France Is most

Nausen and the High Commission It will exceed in space and for Refugees. So successful was comfort the finest British train reluctant to embark on mcasures

the work that there now remain and, inside of two years, will which may jeopardise her tradi- little more than 2,000 Russians in

make-obsolete practically every tional friendship with Italy. In the city, and it has now been ar pursuance of a desire to avoid ranged that the bulk of these shall type of flying machine now in be granted Turkish Nationality. commercial use, except those unduo antagonising of Rome, and thereby exempted from new used for short, fast hops, where France's leaders have been exert-regulations introduced "for the passengers are willing to sacri- small, hermetically scaled, win. landing, is made, and little tim ing all their influence towards

protection of Turkish labourers." fice comfort for speed.

Within 10 or 15 years, flying pressure at 50,000 or 60,000 feet But for this exemption, which the a settlement of the dispute be- Office negotiated, they would have boats will be built weighing 600,- of altitude would be instantly THE flying boats which will soon ply regularly between fore any really stern netion be-been deprived of the right to earn 000 pounds to carry a crew of fatal to everyone on board. comes necessary. The attitude-living-and-thereby reduced to 40-and-a-passenger list of 150. For what? To bring Europe San Francisco and Hongkong ̄could ̄ ̄ ̄make ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄trans-Atlantic destitution. There are, however, There is practically no limit within a span of ten hours? is understandable, but it is depressing aspects of the Report. to the size to which they may The 24-hour ship will fly at a crossing with ridiculous enso. equally clear that Britain is in As a result of the economic crisis, be built, and the larger they are, reasonable height, between 12 The trans-Pacific flight is DOB- no mood to be deflected from her unemployment among the refugees the safer they are, in the air or and 20 thousand feet, above all sible now because the refuelling

has increased, and many thousands of them are in a desperate plight It is reported, however, that good opportunities for emigration exist, and the Office is attempting to

determination to make full use of the machinery provided in the Covenant with a view to bringing Italy to her senzes. This has been made plain to the French Government, which must

secure suflicient funds to enable it to transport' very large numbers of refugees to South America,

subject, said they did not hesi- tate to give the interpretation which they placed on Article XVI, namely, that each State member is bound to co-operate loyally and effectively in support of the Covenant and in resis- tance to any act of aggression, "to.an extent which is compati- ble with its military situation, and takes its geographical posi- tion into account." Yet any at- tempt to reduce to a minimum the loss incurred by loyal mem- bers, and to distribute equitably the risks and burdens of sanc- tions, cannot, according to a de- cision of the League Assembly;

realise the alternatives between where settlers are wanted, and support of the British stand- where land, cattle and seed-corn point and any attitude savour-

would be provided. ing of undue consideration for Italy. It has been hinted, in fact, that if France dallies much longer, Britain may withdraw from active leadership of the League. In such an event, it would be hopeless to expect the League to achieve anything in the present crisis, since it has been made clear that Britain is not disposed alone to bear the burden of enforcing sanctions. What that might mean to France was foreshadowed a few days ago by Sir Austen Cham- berlain when he declared that if other nations signatory to the Covenant fail in their obligations at this decisive hour, Britain would consider herself released be permitted "except insofar as from hor obligations in Europe it is desirable for the ruccess contingency which France of the common plan of action." could not contemplate with So far, in the present dispute, equanimity. It is, of course, France has not claimed any realised that it might not always special concessions; her chief be wise, when crises arise, to anxiety appears to be to retain, give so literal an interpretation as far as humanly possible, her to the Covenant as to expect all friendship with Italy. Yet, States, neighbours or otherwise despite her efforts in this direc- of an aggressor, to take exactly tion, there is no reason to the same measures against a believe that she will go back on Covenant-breaker. In this con- | her pledge to support the Coven- nection, the attitude taken up by ant. Her trepidation is perhaps Austria, Hungary and Switzer-natural in the circumstances,' |land is understandable. It may but it cannot over-ride" her be recalled, on this point, that solemn promise to join with Britain, France, Belgium, others in such action as is deem- Ozecho-Blovakíu; Italy and Po-ed necessary against a nation replying to the German which has been declared to be dologation at Locarno, on this an aggressor.

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'dowless metal box. Loss of

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atmospheric disturbances, above stops and overnight rests may the dangerous ice formation be made on American territory: Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam and Manila. ACCORDING to Igor Sikorsky, The passengers, free from air

who designed all the Pan sickness will play, exercise, to Europe on four giant motors, The next step will be non-stop American Clippers now in ser- dance in the recreation hall, vice, a cruising speed of 200 walk up and down the glass ob in a flying boat as big as a house, miles per hour is sufficient. servation galleries in the leading comfortable, and certainly

Anything much faster is im- edge of the seven-foot-high more beautiful, practical from the point of view wing, sleep comfortably, eat the Two motors will suffice to of cost, safety, and care of pas finest cooking-travel, in short, keep her flying. For all four of

in all the luxury the finest trans- the engines of the flying boat of ' sengers.

He says definitely: "Two no- Atlantic liner can provide.

the future to quit will be ns tions about aviation of the "Ships can be constructed to strange as if all the turbines of future you may be prepared to withstand the worst tempests of an ocean liner should cease to discard the stratosphere flight which the limitless ocean of the function.

"Plondo look dearl Blue Girl ́ts winning the "horgó” daddy ·

bought for you."

The Very Idea!

FRUIT FOR TROOPS

Eddie Kelly Was Once A Very Greengrocer

Eddio's Half-Columni SCURVY, we read, is threaten- ing the Italian and Ethiopian troops in the field because of the lack of fruit and vegetables. ALREADY we see ourself making a fortune by offering our pro- fessional services to both sides as a greengrocer.

When it comes to being a green- grocer there's not a grocer in the world greener than wo..

We are a born greengrocer. As a matter of fact, we have it an tho highest authority that we were found under a watermelon by our mother, who was looking for snails.

When wo wore cast away on our Tast desert island, the first thing wo did was to open a greengrocery. The only

fruit

WC could find cocoanula, Bo we stocked up with

them."

Was

Cut in half and hollowed out, a cocoanut makes a remarkably ser viconbló beret for school-children.

Then, again, they can be turned in-. to an excellent door stop, for kooping, (Continued on Page 4.)`