1935-10-24 — Page 15

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH." THURSDAY, OCTOBER

1935:

BAER MEETS

WOLF

Closure Of Suez Canal Would Seriously

Affect Far East

Six blows that decided the fate of Maxic Baer, Broadway playboy who was knocked out In the fourth round of his recent fight sirith-Joc-Louk: Ench-of-the- blows,

delivered at dynamite force, connected on Baer's chin. He was saved from a knockout in the third round by the bell. Other photos on rage i.

France May Sell Ten Largest Ships

DEADLY BLOW

TO

MARSEILLES IF AXE FALLS

Marseilles, Oct. 1. THREE hundred officers

and 1,200 sailors are threatened with unemploy ment as the result of pro- posals by the Economy Com-

SHIPPING VIA THE CAPE

Possible Italo-British Mediterranean Struggle. Would Divert Commerce Through Panama Canal

Washington, Oct. 15.

An Italian-British struggle in the Mediterranean, jeopardising a main traffic artery of the world, would lead to an extraordinary shift in Far Eastern commerce and divert much traffic to the Panama route, shipping authori- ties here predicted.

Growing concern over the traffic situation along the Suez-Mediterranean route has caused experts to envisage an international maritime situation without precedent in the world's history.

Until the opening of the Panama Canal, the interrup- tion of shipping through the Mediterranean would have merely been followed by the diversion of Europe-Asia traffic to the old Cape of Good Hope route of sailing-ship days.

NEW HAIR STYLE

Ginger Rogers, film star, adopts new hairdressing mode, named "Golden Plaque." It recalls classte fanbions immortalised on ancient. plaques and coins. Hair is combed linek from forehead, slightly wnvoi ht back, ende coiled low at nape of the neck.

RADICAL MOVE

.

R.A.F. CHANGING OVER TO MONOPLANES

With the Panama Canal in operation, however, cutting of the normal traffic route via Suez would cause-distances on many important world routes to be re-calculated on the basis of distances via Panama versus Cape of Good Hope. A radical change in the flying equipment of the Royal If the Mediterranean route all seas outside the Mediterra- Air Force will be effected when the new aeroplanes, should be interrupted, or even nean, and that communications ordered under the expansion scheme, are delivered to the If war risks there became very there might be kept open, though, high, the heavy commodities at great hazard to commercial squadrons. Instead of the hiplane being used to the traffic from the Far East to the shipping. -

exclusion of all other forms, the monoplane will be intro- United States would come ex-

Long distance cruising sub-duced on a large scale, and will provide nearly half the clusively by Panama. At pre-

bombers, how total new equipment. sent, it moves both by Suez and marines and air Panama. Much of the Eastern ever, create hazards to shipping! Asian traffic to and from North- ern Europe also probably would be routed by Panama.

In the re-routing of traffic, the relative distance would not be the sole consideration, as the degree of risk on various ratites, the ports of call available, and the new traffic arising on account of war needs would also enter into the

situation.

Italian Sea Menace

of far greater rádius than existed Details of many of the orders are secret; but it is during the Great War. It is con- ecivable that Italian submarines stated that monoplanes are to be used in almost every class or air bombers might get into the of aircraft in the Service, from the small single-seater Atlantic, the Red Sea or menace

fighters to the heaviest bombers. west African shipping lines.

This is the first drastic break-, implications attention was

first

An important effect of Mediter- ranean shipping Interruption might be to expand overland con-away from the tradition origin-directed in the Morning Post, munications from Europe to Asia. Jally established, by the Royal have been the determining factor

in the change over, There is, for example, consider-Flying Corps, and followed by able traffic from Russia to Vladi-the Royal Air Force.

Best Type For Speed In former days when bulky vostok and other Far Eastern

Apart from a few types of for- The Americnus showed how commodities were carried in large cities by way of Suez, that might

overeign design, such as the Bleriot the monoplane was cupable of part by "ramp" steamers, dis- conveniently be re-routed

designed with Η much iance was a controlling considera- land. Sueli traffic would be an monoplane, the Morane Parasol, being

Bullet, British "cleaner" structure, aerodynamical- tion, but in recent years much of added argument for the early com-and the Morane the world's commerce is handled plate double tracking of the Service neroplanes have invariably ly, than the bipline. In addition, been biplanes or triplanes. The the introduction of the retractile by lines operating on fixed routes, Trans-Siberian railway, with numerous ports of call. The

European regions biplane form has retained. its under-carriage has found a use for re-routing

thick wing section of the therefore could not might, If the Suez were inter-popularity to the present day, and the easily bo foreseen.

rupted, And a new need for over the large Fairey long-range bom-monoplane. World shipping is governed in land communications the ber is the first monoplane to be large degree by the movements Persian gulf and India, such as standardised in the R.A.F. of the great basic raw materials, existed in the Carayon roules

Central

to

pelor to the opening of the nils Suez Canal in November 1869.---

United Press.

and if Far Eastern rubber, tin, silk, sugar, and vegetable should be moved into the Atlantic via Panama a situation would be created favourable to an expan-

sion of American commerce, ex- STRATOSPHERE

perts here believed.

At present the China const. is. approximately equidistant

by

Suez or Panama to New York. It the Suez route were closed, however,

FLIERS WERE LOST

Moscow, Oct. 1. Two Soviet stratosphere the Panama route would afford a pilots, B. A. Romanov and A. considerable saving in distance,

Babuikin, missing (believed Relative distances from New York to important Far Easter, dead), since September 3, turned commercial centres are as follows: up here to-day with a claim to New York to Singapore-by Good have beaten the world's distance Hope, 12,109 miles; by Suez, 10,177; record. by Panama, 12,522,

for

Determining Factor

Various reasons have been given the predominance of the biplane,

The British air authorities have held that the powers of rapid nmni[src of the biplane arc superior to those of the equivalent monoplane, partly on account, of the smaller wing span. In addi- tion, the biplane has been advocat- ed on the grounds that it is less vulnerable in combat.

For speed record breaking, both in the Tandplane class and in the seaplane class, the monoplane has been invariably successful. The Italian seaplane which holds the world's air speed record of about 450 miles an hour is a monoplane; and BO is the French machine which holds the world's land acro- plane speed record.

The evidence is overwhelm- ingly in favour of the mono- plane, usually with liquid cooled engine, as being the type best suited to obtaining the highest possible speeds.

It has also been stated, though Powers of manoeuvre, in ac- this point has been strongly concordance with the theory of the tested, that the outlook for the British authorities, have proved in pilot from a biplane is better than practice to be slightly less marked They declare that they made a from the equivalent monoplane, in the monoplane than in the bi- New York to Shanghal-by Geod flight of 1.380 miles, at an average owing to the comparatively shal-plane. The small biplanes of the Hope, 14,427; by Suez, 12,384; by altitude of four miles, before their low wing section of the biplane war period, such as the Sopwith l'anama, 10,645,

New

halloon came down in the desert and to the possibility of placing Fan, the Sopwith Camet, the D.H2 York to Yokohama by Good op 9,677.

36,009; by Suez, 13,079 steppe of Southern Kazakstan.

the The pilots then walked for pilot's eyes.

the top plane on a level with the pusher single-seater), and

Nieuport Scout, were all notable by Paunma,-

New York to Sydney-by Good two days before meeting ‘a

for extreme rapidity of manoeuvre. Hope, 15,099; by Suez, 13,171, by herdsman, who lent them_a| It is probably true to state that Powers of manoeuvre in modern Panama, 9,691.

horse for a 220-mile ride to the the remarkable advances in per- single-seater · fighters,

however, nearest telegraph.

formance made by American trans- are somewhat subordinated to The balloon was the first of its port aeroplanes of monoplano sheer performance expressed

form, advances to whose military upeed and climb.

Traffic between British India

mission appointed by the and Grent Britain presumably

French Ministry of Mercan would take the Good Hope route, Bort to cross the Urals. tile Marine to lay up a per- but the heavy shipments of Indian centage of subsidised mail- jute to the United States, in event of Suez route interruption might come via Panama.

boats.

At a meeting of the officers it

was stated that three of the lines

of the Messageries Maritimes Com-

Rubber From Asia The heavy

rubber shipmenta

pany, serving Far East, Austra from south eastern Asia to the lia, and Mediterranean routes. United States now come in large might be compelled to reduce their part vin Suez, but would be re- flects by 10 ships.

routed by Panama. Considerable Philippines sugar now shipped via

Blow To Trade

The Messageries Maritimes Suez also would find a Pacific! fleat, which at one time hind 60 route. ships in service, would then posacss only 25 units.

The United States share of total Shipping authorities here cargo moving annually through state that the proposal, if put the Suez canal ranges from five into effect, will not only be a to nine per cent. but is of large deadly blow to Marseilles, the tonnage, In *1029, shipments United first port in France, but also to through Suez from the French shipping and trade in States were 616,000 tons; to the general.

United States, 2,247,000; in 1934, The ton vessels which may be cargoes from the United States withdrawn, they argue, represent were 237,000 tons; to the United a tonnage of 100,000.

States, 1,358,000,

Each year £100,000 will have to be paid in unemployment al- lowances, and some £700,000 worth of trade will be lost.

Further, general business in " Marseilles will deeline by more thinn £500,000.

Important cargoes shipped through Suez to the United States were rubber, minerals and metals, gunnics, sugar, jute, vegetable oils and tea. In the other direction moved American kerosene, metals, Assuming the ships are sold to machinery, lubricating oils, foreign companlos, a working capl- paper pulp, and raw cotton. -tal of £2,600,000. will ha lost to Speculation French mercantile shipping. The maritime aspects of an Italo-Bri gross loss, therefore, will, it is tish struggle generally presumes estimated, bo £3,000,000.

that Great Britain would control.

as to

possible.

DECORATION FOR A WARSHIP

H.M.S. Suffolk has won a decoration from the Board of Trade-in the form of a piece of plate. The presentation was made yesterday in recognition of the splendid rescue carried out by seamen' of the cruiser when the City of Cambridge was pounding to pleces on Pratas Reef in October last year. The Suffolk's rescue work took several days and was handicapped by heavy weather. Finally. ship's bouts got in the lee of the reef and seamen waded through the shallows to a point close to the stranded vessel's side, and dragged their boats after them. Not a life was lost, Router.

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