THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPU, FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 18,
1935.
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history of air communica-
NOTES OF THE DAYT Hons over the oceans of the
YEAR OF REFUGEE WORK
tance
of
A
world is being made in thin de- cnde.
Trans-oceanic airways are not a dream. This year the mighty Pacific will be spanned from America to Asin; next year from Australia to America."
Yet, aviation has become so The Annual Report of the Nan-common-place to-day that the Ben International Refugee Office, arrival of Pan American's which has been prepared for the Oriental Clipper at Guam this week, on the last leg of Its Assembly of the League Nations, contains much that is de-second experimental flight across the Pacific, is of insufficient in- pressing and much also which is
terest to the public to warrant the The Job of
more than a paragraph in our encouraging. Nansen Office is to care for the newspapers.
That its next flight to Manila, interests of more than a million political refugeca who, having no possibly Hongkong, will be the Government to tall back upon, are forerunner of a regular service wholly dependent upon the Office across the ocean that has defied for much of the help and assia- man's efforts to conquer time which Governments give, since civilisation began, is not deemed worthy of more than The Report tells of the comple-occasional mention. humanitarian You look for a normal front tion of one great humans an -you don't see it! And you xlso made a notable contribution. take the car on the road and look. It concerns the Armenians, for bumps and pot holes and you nation which suffered brutal mas- don't feel them! For the New sacres at the hands of the', Turks; Vauxhall has independent front as a result of its championship of wheel springing which changes the Allied cause during the War. riding into gliding.
A hundred thousand Armeniaus were living in conditions of terri- ble squalor in refugee camps near the Syrian towns of Beirut, Aleppo Their plight and Alexandrelta.
the it caused was pitiful and French High Commissioner to ap peal to the Nausen Office and the International Labour Office to help in the work of providing decent home for the refugees. The work Nansen, was taken over by Dr. and has now practically been com- pleted. Houses have been built to accommodate all save a fraction of
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, OCT. 18, 1935.
FRANCE AND THE
LEAGUE
the Armenians.
FINALLY SOLVED
of
the
Another achievement Office has been the final liquidation of the Russian refugee problem in Constantinople. When the Boishe viat revolution swept over Russin more than eight hundred thousand opponents of the Communists were compelled to leave the country, and congregate in the countries which bordered upon Russia. Something like 135,000 refugees were in and
near
Constantinople,
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 Hongkong to Swatow by steamer.
By the end of 1930 you may leave New York at 8 o'clock of a morning, rain or shine, and land in London at 1.5 pm. the next day, with half a day left for business. The flying time 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.
The designers have stopped
The ship. fretting about speed.
T I
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OK
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Igor Sikorsky in the Oriental Clipper.
TO FRISCO
of to-morrow is being built with two main considerations-pas- for passenger traffic, and the air Honger comfort and fuel capa- ro0-miles-per-hour flight, city,
#
same
is capable. These ships with their strong, high' The stratosphere flight is a duralumin hulls, will ride out possibility, but the sacrifices are the worst storms on the surface THE new trans-oceanic aero- too great. The cabin of the of the ocean, if forced to des-
à cenil. plane will weigh around stratosphere ship must be 120,000 pounds, will carry be- tween 30 and 40 people, and will have pleasant private cabins for two or four passengers, with sleeping berths.
These cabins will be larger drawing than railway-train
rooms.
There will be a dining room seating 20, a smoking
lounge equipped with a bar, a
few shower baths, observation and room to walk lounge, around.
Paul
GALLUS
forecasts Hongkong's
future in aviation
We will sacrifice a few hours of speed and instead give you safety. For by reducing speed, we can increase fuel capacity, and therein lies the real safety factor of the long distance air- plane.
Is London fogged or storm-. Inshed? Then Hamburg, Bor- deaux, Lisbon, Marseilles or Genoa will be clear and safe.
"The flying boats of the very near future will have a flying range of 5,000 miles. A word from the radio dispatcher at the port of destination, and the pilot ilies to clear weather and safe harbour. Taxi planes await the
passengers wherever the landing is made, and little time is lost."
It will exceed in space and comfort the finest British train and, inside of two years, will muke obsolete practically every commercial use, except those type of lying machine now in used for short, fust hops, where
dowless metal box. Loss of passengers are willing to sacri- small, hermetically sealed, win- Within 10 or 15 years, flying pressure at 60,000 or 60,000 feet flee comfort for speed.
soon ply regularly between boats will be built weighing 500,- of altitude would be instantly THE flying boats which will could make n trans-Atlantic
Although M. Laval has, on behalf of the French Govern- ment, definitely pledged his country to participation in such
and the sanctions against Italy as are
colossal work of removing them to deemed necessary, it has been all places where work could be found too apparent during the past for them was undertaken by Dr. Nansen and the High. Commission few days that France is most
for Refugees. So successful. was reluctant to embark on measures the work that there now remain which may jeopardise her tradi-little more than 2,000 Russians in 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 be granted Turkish Nationality, from new undue antagonising of Rome, and thereby exempted France's leaders have been exert-regalations introduced "for the ing all their influence towards protection of Turkish labourers." But for this exemption, which the a settlement of the dispute be- Omec negotiated, they would have fore any really stern action be been deprived of the right to earn comes necessary. The attitude a living and thereby reduced to 40 and a passenger list of 150.
There are, however, destitution. is understandable, but it is depressing aspects of the Report. equally clear that Britain is in As a result of the economic crisis, no mood to be deflected from her unemployment among the refugees has increased, and many thousands determination to make full use of them are in a desperate plight. of the machinery provided in It is reported, however, that good the Covenant with a view to opportunities for emigration exist, bringing Italy to her senses. This has been made plain to the French Government, which must of realise the alternatives between where
the Office is attempting to
and secure. sufficient funds to enable
Ú
to Sikorsky,
strata.
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000 pounds to carry a crew of fatal to everyone on board.
For what? To bring Europe San Francisco and Hongkong "There is practically no limit within a span of ten hours?. crossing with ridiculous enso... to the size to which they may The 24-hour ship will fly at a be built, and the larger they are, reasonable height, between 12 The trans-Pacific flight is pos- the safer they are, in the air or and 20 thousand, feet, above all sible now because the refuelling atmospheric disturbances, above slops and overnight rests may the dangerous Ice formation be made on American territory: Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake on the surface of the water.
The next step will be non-stop The passengers, free from air Island, Guam and Manila. ACCORDIigned all the Pan sickness will play, exercise, to Europe on four giant motors, it to transport very large numbers American Clippers now in ser- dance in the recreation hall, in a flying boat as big as a house, cruising speed of 200 walk up and down the glass ob- as comfortable, and certainly refugees to South America, vice, a
servation galleries in the leading more beautiful. settlers are wanted, and miles per hour is sufficient.
Anything much faster is im- edge of the seven-foot-high practical from the point of view wing, sleep comfortably, eat the of cost, safety, and cure of pas- finest cooking-travel," in shart, keep her flying. For all four of in all the luxury the finest trans- the engines of the flying boat of Bengers.
the future to quit will be as He says definitely: "Two no- Atlantic liner can provide. 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.
support of the British stand-where land, cuttle, and seed-corn point and any attitude eavour. would be provided. ing of undue consideration for
Italy. It has been hinted, in subject, said they did not hesi- fact, that if France dallics much tate to give the interpretation longer, Britain may withdraw which they placed on Article from active leadership of the XVI, namely, that each State League. In such an event, It member is bound to co-operate would be hopeless to expect the loyally and effectively in support League to achieve anything in of the Covenant and in resis the present crisis, since it has tance to any act of aggression, been made clear that Britain is "to an extent which is compati- not disposed alone to bear the ble with its military situation, burden of enforcing sanctions. and takes its geographical posi- What that might mean to tion into account." Yet any at- France was foreshadowed a few tempt to reduce to a minimum days ago by Sir Austen Cham- the loss incurred by loyal mem- berlain when he declared that if bers, and to distribute equitably other nations signatory to the the risks and burdens of sanc- Covenant fail in their obligations tions, cannot, according to a de-. at this decisive hour, Britain cision of the League Assembly, would consider, herself released be permitted "except insofar as from her obligations in Europe it is desirable for the success -a 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 Yet, to the Covenant as to expect all friendship with Italy. States, neighbours or otherwise despite her efforts in this direc- reason to of an aggressor, to take exactly tion, there is no 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 Austrin, Hungary and Switzer-natural in the circumstances, land is understandable. It may but it cannot over-ride her bo recalled, on this point, that solemn promise to join with
fum, others in such action as is deat
Po-ed necessary. against a nation. thej, Gorman, which had en declared to be
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The Very Idea!
FRUIT FOR. TROOPS
Eddie Kelly Was Once A Very Greenrocer
Eddio's Half-Column
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.
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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 groner than, we.
An'a
We are a born greengrocer. matter of fact, we liavo it on the highest authority that we were found under a watermelon by our mother; who was looking for snails."
When we were cast away on our last desert island, the first thing wo did was to open a greengrocery. The only fruit wo could find was opceanuts, zo we stocked up with. them.
Cut in half and hollowed out, a cocoanut makes a remarkably sor viceable beret for school-children,
Then, again, they can be turned in- to an excellent door stop, for kooping
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