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COLONY'S NEW AIR LINK

CAPT. ARMSTRONG'S TALK

GOOD PROSPECTS

Captain W. Armstrong, of Imperial Airways, who is in charge of the Air linor Dorado, and carrying out a series of test flights between Hongkong and Penang, gave last night n most interesting radio talk on com- mercial flying.

Captain Armstrong saldı.

I have been asked to give a talk on. flying, and I think perhaps It would be most interesting to you i I began with a fow words about ita development, as I have seen it in the British Empire.

As I commenced flying with the first plancer air transport company Just after the Wor, I have had ari unique opportunity of seeing elvi!

grow from its very scrappy

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,

STUDENTS'. SOCIETY

INTERESTING LECTURE ON

ACCOUNTANCY

School of Accountancy and Com- merce and the H.K. Accountants Members and friends of the Students' Society were given a treat on Thurg- day evening when Mr. H. J. Robert-

Director of Ho

non, the Manobertson, Australia's mingway and well-known Accountancy Tutors and Specialists, delivered a lectura on "Ailvantages of Accountancy Quall- Examinations Pre- fications and paratious" under the joint auspices the Hongkong

of the School and

Accountants and Secretaries Stu

dents' Society.

Mr. M. S. Phoon, was in the Chair. Mr. Robertson said in the course of his speech;

"Success can surely be attained by anyone who apples constant concen- tration to his study. The men who Fare at the top of the business ladder

themselves in to-day are men who have qualified somis specialised courses. Fortunately

there пре nad Rocieties atinched to every profession who hold

examinations

pro- subjects.

diplomas

avists to our

organised trunk N

for a

The

in

linos of to-day, which stretch from of these bodies are recognised as the England to our distant Colonies and hall-mark of the qualified man, con- Dominions.

a recognised status upon the In the early days of Civil Aviation holder and lift him to the rank of a everybody thought of flying with what professional man, wliere his I should term the "War mind: the capabilities nre accepted without man in the street, had seen aircraft further question.". fly only during the War, and had heard of the terrible casualties minir fighting. naturally came to 25- Hoclate

with Ving

danger and whilst been a great im-tting back and reading the provement in this respect I regret and selecting the ones that appealed tents of the paper through quietly; that the iden is still more prevalent

to him individually, than it ought to be,

In August 1910, the first British commercial acroplane How from Hounslow, to Paris. The aeroplanes used then were modifed war planes and not too modified at that. Thes were uncomfortable, smelly cun- raptions, such as would please the sporting youth of

to-day, and

one

The chief points he would give to a student in an examination would be to give the first ten minutes to

Coll-

Preparation was best done by a tutorial and correspontience course combined. Some students are not so quick as others

the and pondence course comes in useful s the backward students can always

refer to it.

corres-

course which his firm was advocating

the

Mr. Robertson also emphasised that the keynote of every successful commercial accountant is honesty

integrity. Constant ni

honesty should therefore be the watchword of

The tutorial and correspondence please many of the more adventurous

was the result of the vast experience who did then. The few passengers

they have accumulated during in go to Paris this way were wedged two together, where

abserver great number of years. had been used to sit or

stand. It these twondventurous spirits had only to interlace thuir knees together. they were lucky, because 'ns often as not suitcase or two was forced beside them somehow or other. Of ten the engine refused to start and the passengers would disentangle themselves from their bags and transfer lo another plane, and the whole business was begun ngain. There was no organisation, no were ther reports and no wireless. The pilot in his single-engined plane took off in complete ignorance of conditions

every accountant.

research for which aviaties Ims been responsible,

Crowds wending their way to the Sun Yat-sen memorial during the Double Tenth celebrations in Canton.

ly living abroad are making and more use of it too.

more at present, and logically, so will the

total time to Hongkong. Very soon, all first class mail| It will, I think, help you to appre: matter is going to be carried by air ciate this belter if I tell you that un Empire air routes, without ang the flying hours on this flight of ours

with this from London to Ilongkong was 74% surcharge, and to cope

Lii) greater demand for more just about 9 days, and the distance building new, larger and faster air out at an air speed of about 128 miles capacity, Imperial Airways are covered was D188 miles, which works

an hour.

craft,

Flight to Hongkong

Yet despite all this speed, no rusi,. Now I expect you would like me to ing about is apparent to the air say something about the occasion of traveller. In fact he just sits in the visit here, which I think has been plane at a high altitude in his com unique, in that this is the first visit of a fortable arm chair, and sees a plovly Commercial air-liner to Hongkong, and mo

moving map below him, with hardly incidentally, the first time that the any speed apparent at nil, and un- China Sen has been flown from Pen-less it is rough, the motion of flying might like to hear something about far smoother than a train or steamer:

to the Colony. And I think you is smoother than anything I know our flight

out from Home and its posabbilities.

For those who may not have use We left Croydon, on the 10th of tiny that flying over a long route

arrived here in the ke this is the best

say fully th of October, but by rather indirect the tremendous speed of flying. Our Way to appreciate Karachi and Saigon, and the route took us through France, Italy, going down to Penung to make along the north const of Afrien proper start for Hongkong from there. Arabla, India, Burma, Malaya, Indos

through Egypt, Palestine, The first two flights in both diree-China and along the south coast of Lions are

are in the nature of survey China. and therefore we have proceeded by easy stages from Penang to long- Over Swamp and Jungle kong, via Saigon, Tournas and Fort Bayard-in this way taking three

September,

and as often as not he was forecð į any but smuli people, the air-traveller stopping off some days

to land, beenuse conditions got ton bad,

Forced Landing

گر

Probably the greatest improvement, however, from the air-traveller's point of view, has been in the aft craft themselves. Instead of being wedged into seats too cramped for now enters a spacious well ventilated cabin equipped with comfortable w holstered cats. He is not forced to These forced landings led to many

keep his seat, but can get up um amusing situations although at the

walk about at

at will. The walla of the time they were not so funny. Far imperiai Airways' aircraft are double, instance, when the unfortunate pasthe space between being filled with a sengers were dumped into the middle sound absorbing material, E that of some lonely spot In France

France of a dull November afternoon, and had to trundle

through plough to nearest

to the ic-dece, thick drizzle

making things more unpleasant, you can imagine that it is only in re trospect that one can see the funny

of an experience like that bearing in mind that in those days 20 guineas for the doubtful privilege of flying to Paris

if he had a forced landing such as have described.

at

most of the noise is eliminated and passengers can talk in comfort,

Quer Freight

As pilots we meet many Interesting people—for instance, I have had as passengers 'Cabinet Ministers and famous musicians like Fritz Kreiser and Richard Tauber.

replied quietly

Wales. The "Don't tell anybody, am

an elephant on board.

days.

not

And

at Penang Connecting in this way,

fut Colony,

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From .ZBW on a wavelength of 365 metres (845 kilocycles) :

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme,

7.7.30pm. Orchestral Music. Doublnushka (arr. Rimsky-Korsa- kov); Polovtsi March ("Prince Igor") (Dorodin); Tone-Poem-"Finlandin." Op. 20, No. 7 (Sibelius); Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 (Elgar): Overture "Light Cavalry" (Suppe).

7.30-7.13 p.m. Four Songs by Richard Tauber (Tenor).

1. Love lost forever more ("Blos

2. Once there lived a Font Time) Indy fair (Blossom Time") (Clut- Mam): Margarita (Helmund) Abt).

my thoughts are 4. Good

*Thine

Night, Oh My Lovel

7.43-8 p.m. Debroy Somers Band. Selection--Glamorous Night; Selec. tion-The Big Broadcast with Carlyle Cousins and Dan Donovan.

* 8 p.m. Time and Weather Report. 8.03-8.15 p.m. Carroll Gibbons and his Boy Friends.

.1. Black Coffee; 2. When the first Plecaninny was born; 3. Ac- cording to the Moonlight; 4. It's n old Southern Custom.

8.15-8.45 p.m. A Relay from Daventry.

tin.

8.15-9 p.m." Daventry News Bulle-

9-9.13 p.m. Derickson, and Brown.

J. Over Somebody Else's Shoulder: Одо 2. The Little Dutch Mi; 3. morning in May; 4. in pictures.

You oughta be

9.13-9.30 p.m. Old Tunes. What's yours?-A Convivial Medley

know the time ask u (arr. Debroy Somers); Honeysuckle and the Beg

If you want to (Fitz);

policeman (Horera): Sweet Genevieve (Tucker); At Trinity Church (Gilbert). kong Hotel Dance Orchestra.

9.30-10 p.m. A Relay of the long-

10 p.m. Big Ben: Press Bulletins 10.03-10.25 p.m. A Relay from Daventry.

10.25 p.m.-12 midnight. Hong- kong Hotel Dance Orchestru.

12 midnight. Close Down, NOTE: There will be a relay from the Po Hing Theatre (Chinese) on

from 8-11 p.m.

Z.L.K. on a frequency of 640 kilocycles

TO-MORROW'S PROGRAMME Relay of Special Military Parade Service

A STUDIO RECITAL

9.10-30 B., A Relay of the Royal Enginverst Annual Sundry Parade Service from St. John's Cathedral. The Band of the 2nd. Battn: Royal Welsh Fusiliers will be in attendance.

10-11a.m.

A Relny of the Service from St. Joseph's Church.

11-1215 pm. A Relay of the Ser- vice from St. Paul's Church (Chinese)

12.15-2.30 p.m. European Recorded Programinie

1 p.m. Time and Weather Report. 1.30 pm. Press Bulletins.

Light Orchestral Music

dem

Imagine leaving the highly civilised and Intensively cultivated countries In Europe, and in a few hours you We are now on our second survey arrive in. Africa and an entirely new fight, this time having omitted to world of sandy desert. This tesort call at Fort Bayard, dying from stretches unbrckenly as far as Central Throne to Hongkong (direct.

Ind

and then in Burma we have These flights of ours are purely sudden transition to sorten swamp experimental, bur

Our 'plane, the and jungle, everything dripping wet "Dorado" being We meet, 100, some amusing people and one of our

reserve petrol tapped with estra and enturated. Malaya in wild moun

and carrying Lainous

nous country and Indo-China more nare pilots was once told by n

extra Indy. pas-

crew and equipment. There is,

more facinuting with pilots senger, during

during his visit to the cabing. no room for paying load which but probably

1:4 beautiful scenery, dense forest and at the moment, we are marvellous waterfalls, and we know of Fol. London, or part of the way that he looked like the Prince ofying any commercial load, neither course that it is famous for its wilt La Siesta (Barcarolle (Norton, arr. I am the Prince passengers, mall, nor freight, al-animal life. The proposed new route Lotter); The Grasshopper'a Danco This casual sort of flying went oà

of Wales." Then we have passengers ther, if conditions justify it, we may Malayan Peninsula, thence across tlie kowsky in Vienna (arr. Waiter): The

though to carry the experiment furstarts at Penang and crosses the (Bucalossi); like this for about 18 months, and

Brahmsiana; Tachal- of all ages, from babies in baskets then the three flying Companies de-

their a few weeks obl to old Indies in

adhere

to this too rigidly in the Gulf of Slam to Salgon over ludo-Mouse Overture (arr, Wood): The cided they were losing foo

mue nineties.

later flights. strange

China to Tourane. We have, too,

Arcadians Overture money, and closed down. They had freights soniatimes, such as phen-under service conditions, making the Inland on a direct sea crossing of 338 Japanese Lantern Dance Yoshl

(arr. our next light we shall nyi We puss just South atrendy appealed! for Government nid,sants' eggs for Kenya Colony; de-

of Hainan Chinese Street Serenade (Step): which was eventually given, and thiliente sea-horsen in carefully ar run in 14 days from Penang, and miles to Hongkong, and there is no tome) The Swallow Waltz; The enabled them to

to restart and provided ranger

ranged, ne

nerated tanks for the London will connect with our outward and need for me to describe the beauti- Broken String Waltz; The Midnight

Waltz (Amodio); to commercini vinilon, until, Ajuriam; mosquitoes, for scientific nou London which cotveniently arose research; pedigree dogs; we're cur-

I think I have said enough now.

(Zameenie): TangoNapolitan Nights I have tried to krop my talks free of rled a lion and a racehorse, but we

A Concert hav have not found it convenient to take

we arrive in Hongkong within all technicalities and to give you

Presto Passionato (Schumann, Op. days of departure from London.

sume idea of Imperial Airways' great Songe Die Entführung Aus

(Mozart); (Vladimir services, and of the immense All the planes used for regular ser-

Noro- Now as to the future: I have advar tages to be gained by those who witz); Le Nozze di Figaro"Voi Cho failure need be considered other

not

imentioned nirenity that in a short tiase use them, and I have tried to (Soprano)

Sapoto (Mozart); Ria Ginster an incident which will hardly we are arranging to carry all fir.t-phasise that our methods and policy tingale and the Rose, Op. 2 No. 2 Solos.The Nigh affect the fight at all. The great class mail at no surcharge, in larger are steady progress, with safety (Rimsky-Korsakov); The Garden of planes which fly between London

nlrcraft and at faster speeds. Still and reliability first. and Paris and over certain section further, to increnso the speed, of the European routes, are world

Our fight to Hongkong, which with Sleep (De Lara); Beatrice, Harri are intending to supply more hours probably become historic, will, I hope. Waves renowned na setting the highest in the day. AL standard of comfort, "They are equip-

hours a day, which of still another air link between the It may be said, in fact, that real ped with seats for 38

and allows passengers, commercial aviation In the British carry 2 stewards in Europe, but only elther Empire began with the formation of

Due outside Europe, andrew, con- Imperial Airways. Coincident with sisting of Captain and a First Officer

Although this amalgamation came improvement who is also a Pilot. They are equip-hours a day. Passengers will be able to give you as much information as In wireless nervlets and weather or

ped with a

buffet having provision

possible, should there be any point

Light Opera tu sleep on board in specially gantastion, and in a very short time

for five and six course meals. There ranged bunke, and is, anticipated shout which any listener is not clear,Princess Ida (Sullivan); Voent Vocal Gems-Veronique; Selection flying to time tables are spacious luggage compartmenta We saw adhered to with remark-

that they will be just as comfortabic I shall be glad if he or she will write Gems--Ruddigore (Gilbert and Sulli and there is also invatory accomon- as if they passed the hours of dark to me here and I shall try to reply to van); Selection-The able regularity, and a ground -

tion.

eas on laid.

each question speciilently, or if the

Arcadians ganisation in keeping with this pro-

Safety First ·

The time taken to reach Penang questions are too numerous, give Dream (0. Strauss).

(Monckton) Selection The Waltz Stress. Weather reports began to be Imperial Airways from

the first this way will be mach shorter than Inother talk on a subsequent visit. received every

from the more set out to establish very high stan

stations, dards-first, safety; then regularity: Important matca! every three hours from others, and then speed. We have often been every half hour from the more in-criticised for this policy, which ap- portant air termini. Wireless tele-

tele-parently relegated speed to the back- graphy, too, has become

or at least to a position not a plane is of

They promised that Vice have four engines, so that engine

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end of this time, the Government their turn became dissatisfied. They said that the only practical way a make aviation pay would be for all the flying companies to be given

to the newly Amalgamated concern, on condition that the ner Company would make its policy one of self support and the establishment of Empire air lines. In this manner Imperial Airways came into being?

Imperial Airways

which were

reliable, and the crew of a

than

··

The Future

www

trunk

son:

'Cello

tween 8 and 12t, we fly be- result very soch in the establishment. I'm a

me. Ye winds and Roamer Robert Radford in bel, Mother Country and this small but wirren (pianoforte Solos-Traumes- Visions), Op. 12., No. in n hotel. It is expected with by no means important part of the 17 (Schumann); Mazurka in E Minor,

Op. I have tried in this Inik 4 N No. 2 (Chopin); Vladimir

passengers to

Rt one

Kleep

our rest houses

proved equipment to

to fly nearer

DAY BY DAY

I CAN

Empire.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

IMAGINE LEARNING TO The name of the Macau Hongkong LOVE UGLINESS. IT'S HONEST. Sports Club, Lid, has been struck uff NOT BE DECEIVED BY IT.-Meredith,

entirely primary importance, but our re- HOWEVER YOUNG YOU ARE YOU CAN-the register.

in constant two-way touch with cord is now the envy of the whole ground stations for purposes of wen avlatlon world. ther information and navigation.

commences.

the

open

In this respect, I should like to mention here int passengers by Im- porial Airways" lines can Insure themselves at the same rates as they would when travelling by train.

The Gazette contains amended edu- cational regulations with regard to It is notified that Wong Kam-ying floor space and unobstructed internal has been appointed Third Forester in air space in schools. the Bolanical and Forestry Depart ment on the resignation of Li Chi-fat.;

partners.

His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government has an

2.30 p.m. Close Down.

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7-10.30 p.m. European Programme, 7-7.20 p.m. Sonata in Blat Minor

(Continued on Pair .

Seclusion and

Mild Winters

:

in South Devon

It may surprise some of you is know that the speed and direction of wind at all heights up to 6,000 feet are always available to a plot he- fore he starts his flight, so that he

Further it is the only commercial is able to decide upon the height at

aviation concern of its kind which A bankruptcy notification states pointed Bir. David Kelvin-Stark to which he will fly before the flight shows the nearest approach to self that a first and final dividend of $0.20 be Deputy Estate Duty Commissioner The Churston Estate, conveniently

support, ev

Even although its

near Paignton and Torbay, offers you The more recent evolution of wire- ment has been continuous and ten of the howloon declared in the case and Assistant Colonial Treasurer.

In

Silk Store and its )

quiet and the mildness of the South less direction finding und progress in fact constantly accelerating

invention

It is notified that during the ab- Davon Winter. The houses, which instruments, f of now

You will realise, therefore, that

senee from the Colony of Monsieurare conípletely protected against mass Inscinating possibilities, from very up

humble and casual begin- His Excellency the Offeer Ad-Soulange Teissier, Consul for France i even though already marvellous pro-

pro- nings civil aviation Kervices

utmost sunshine and require the gress. has been made. For example, spread nearly all over our Empire, pointed Mr. J. S. MacLaren to be Vice-Consul for France_will bo no longer does fog prevent flying within a few years.

There is excellent in least labour, Senior Assistant Colonial Treasurer charge of the French Consulate. bathing and golf. Safeguarded from in fact, aeroplanes, even now are You may know that traffic has and Assistant Collector. of Stamp

nass development and distinctive in less affected by fog thor is any other grown so much that services to cer- Revenue,

His Excellency the Officer Adesign, the Churston estate offers you form of transport. That in a boli tain parts of the Empire have and

ministering the Government has an. A permanently satisfying home. statement, I know, but I believe it to to, bo duplicated. This has been bue It is notified that Is Excellency proved the relinquishment of his Wo will willingly send you a free be true.

nut only to the greater demand for the Officer Administering the Gov- Local Commission as tumporary Cap booklet describing this and other We have atlil some way to go to passenger posts, it to the greater ernment, under Instructions received tain in the Hongkong Volunteer De Dartington estates. Write 10: wards the complete nastery of the use of air mail. Business firma from the Secretary of State for the fence Corps by Captain Dougins fog, but that we shall master It I do empeclully, have been quick to appre. Colonies, has been pleased to make Wallar Mortlock, First Battalion,

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