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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER

1935.

He Became An Air Prophet As He Set Out

LAST PHOTOS

Characteristic studies of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith immediately before he left Croydon.

WAR LETTERS OF GENERAL SIR J. MONASH

ANZAC EVACUATION DESCRIBED

THE rise of Gen. Sir John Monash to the command of of the Australian Corps was one of the romances of the war,

He started as a citizen soldier in command of the 14th Austra-} Han Brigade served in Gallipoli with the New Zealanders, and

On His Last Flight

SMITHY'S

TRAGIC

WORDS

"I May Not See The Forecast The Future Greatest Of The And Then Flew Developments" To His Death

Below is published the last interview granted by Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, just before he set out on the flight that led to disaster.

For the first and last time in his career Kingsford- Smith became a prophet. He told what would happen to aviation in ten and fifteen years.

"No amount of storm, fog or hurricane will affect air services ten years hence," he said.

"In these great days to come-I am thirty-eight- now and I may not see the greatest of these developments. there will be a new air age. My kiddie in Australia is three... I believe that by the time he is old enough to pilot a machine, I shall be flitting over to England from Australia for the week-end."

The saddest part of Kingsford-Smith's prophecies is that his last one will not come true. There is little hope that the gallant pioneer, now missing eleven days will be found alive.

Among the prophecies he made were those; -·

Within ten years air liners carrying 100 passengers will be flashing through the strato- sphere, between 40,000 and 60,000 feet up, at 500 to 750 miles an hour.

Passengers will enjoy the luxury of a sea liner except that space will be restricted

Sky giants of the future will have a range of 6,000 miles, able. to reach practically any part of the earth non-stop. "Smith" spoke in his usual ensual way, rather, as though he were discussing the best tramear route back to town.

What "Smithy" said in his last interview carried the weight of years of thought and close study.

"You know," he said, "the future of the air is a subject that is sel- dom out of my mind. It fascin- ates me. It occupies every moment that I can spare for its study.

"Glorious Infancy"

"Just think what has happened in the short space of time-thirty- two

years since the Wright brothers first flew in an airplane.

"Why, fight is still in its glori- ous infancy.

"Progress has been so rapid that hesitate to suggest what will he happening in 100 years' time.

I would make only one prophecy

then, fot the 3rd Australian as far ahead as that. By then we Division, which he trained him-shall have solved the problem of self on Sailsbury Plain. In 1918 perfect racket or renetion propul-

sion in space and- he succeeded Gen. Birdwood in command of the Corps.

He wrote an excellent account of the operations conducted by him entitled "The Australian Victories in France in 1918."

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"There" will be attempts migrate from planet to planet.

"Then the ordinary scientific application of propulsion through the air will have faded.

"But it is easier to forecast ten, twenty, or thirty years hence.

"Undoubtedly, we shall have sphere, hermetically sealed and

BACK TO ROYAL

'COURT

Beautiful Princess Katherine of Grecce, sister of King George 11, who has been restored to the throne he abdicated in 1923, will soon resume her place in the royal court of her native land. The princcaa was bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousin, Princess Morina, now Duchers of Kent,

"My Last Record Attempt, FRONTIER

Win Or Lose"

Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, conqueror

of the Atlantic, conqueror of the Pacific, holder, of many air records, has been missing now for eleven days.

He was out to beat the England-to-Australia record of seventy-two hours set up by Scott and Black in the Mildenhall- to-Melbourne air race last October. Flying with him was T. J. Pethybridge as co-navigator.

"Win or lose, this is my last record attempt-really my last," Sir Charles said as he left England. ·

GOODBYE

TO ADDIS ABABA

This is military history of perchines that will fly in the strato/ Addis Ababa, bidding farewell to her

"manent value."

The contents of "The War giving passengers all the comforts Letters of General Monash," pub-they are now accustomed to on lished this month, are in a lighter sea voyage.

vein. The letters were nearly all "Thelf range will be enormous written to his wife and daughter, suflicient to reach almost any place) though a few to intimate friends in the world without a stop. are included.. There is a certain naivete and exuberance about them from which few of us were en- tirely free in our private letters from the front.

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"How will this be done? know it is easy to make such statements, but here are my

reasons.

"The light alloys that are now being produced will be used in the metal work, to with- stand strain at such speeds and height.

"Theory Completed" "There are tremendous mechani-

Miss Esmo Barten, daughter of Sir Sidney Barton, British Minister in father-and-in-the-train-as-che-Jafi Abyssinia's capital. She passed through Hongkong recently to join her brother in China.

In the rarefied atmosphere: ZOO IN LONDON

WILL GET RARE

because of the thin density of the air, aircraft can travel at 500 miles an hour with the power that gives less than half that speed nearer the carth,

"That is why I say that within ten years speeda will be in the neighbourhood of 500, to 750 miles A bone,

ANIMAL - BIRD

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ESCORT FOR HER®

WHILE YOUNG OFFICER

·IS SENT ON LEAVE

Brest, Nov. 1. SHAKEN and embittered by

her broken romance, Lydia Oswald,, the beautiful Swiss spy, has suffered a crowning disappointment. She will not be allowed to see her anilor lover when she leaves prison. Immediately after her court- martial sentence of nine months' Imprisonment she started to make plans to mdst Lieutenant de For- coville, the young naval officer for whose love, she told the court, she gave up spying.

Having served over six months. while awaiting her trial, sho hoped to earn "good conduct time" and rojoin him."

No Remission “Then came the" bilter blow. Lydin mentioned Her hopes to an oficial at the naval prison. "I want to go Hoon," she said, "he is waiting for me."

At Inst she learned the truth. Lieu. Lydin Oswald. tenant de Forceville had been given leave and sent away from Brest. The naval prison allowing no remission of sentence for good conduct

What is more, even when she leaves

months prison, two hence, she will not be allowed to go free. Two officers of the special police will be waiting to take her to the Swiss frontier. Lydia Oswald is this first woman

to be held in the naval prison here, and her arrival presented a problem. Finally, she was put in the care of the chief warder's

wife.

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Hor diet Is the "ordinaire" of Critic Of British Troops

London, Nov. 1. the French souman, reputed to be There are criticisms, too, of -Bri-

The London Zoo is hoping to copious and nourishing. If not

anothor acquire tish troops and methods which

and planned for delicate palates.-- "The internal combustion engina General Monash, if he had regarded

exhibit-a_duck-bill | Router." strange may have gone in twenty to thirty them in truer prospective, would

platypus from New Guinon, have excluded from publication

years.

This creaturo is one of nature's "A new method of power inny had he lived to see these letters in cal problems to be overcome, but print. But the editor has been they are mechanical only, no longer have been evolved, or we may have strangest freaks. Its appearance is wise to let them stand and show the scientific. The theory for fer reverted te stesso we may not singular, since it has a furred bLaurel complete picture of the man as he been done: all that is required is fuel. The present-day motor has rather slug-like in shape, ending

practice. In ten years we shall too many moving parts. We shall in a short blunt, tail, short have had the practice,

use a unit that has only one mov- with webbed feet, and a small head

WOS.

And Hardy

"We shall have highly super- ing part like the electric motor. exactly like the bill of a duck. Of India

There is an incisiveness about the style and the thoughts embedded in charged engines developing tre- it, which most refreshing: mendous power. I have a super Where could a better definition of charged engine on my machine, but

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"I always tell them (his brigade)

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I'am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong."

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"Here there will be the greatest when primitive mammals laid egga Tentatively titled "Laurel and IN true loyalty be found than when the engine of the future will deve amount of improvement.

like reptiles. Although a true Hardy of India, filming of the. he writes:

lop at least four times as much "No amount of storm, fog, or mammal it lays eggs, incubates noted Hal Roach comedy team's power from the same amount of hurricane will affect air services them in a pouch and then when the ambitious feature scheduled, to

ten years hence.

young are hatched It suckles them

start in the near futuro, James horse-power.

the "In these great days to come like

mammil, Only I am thirty-eight now, and echidna or spiny ant-enter, another Horne has been signed to direct may not see the greatest of native of New Guinea, shares this the picture while Col. W. E. Wynn, these developments-there will habit with the duck-hill platypus distinguished British army oflar be a new air age. My kiddie in As yet, no specimen of the duck- who was technical adviser on Australia is three. He regards bil platypus has reached Britain "Lives of a Bengal Lancer," will an airplane as wo regard a alive, for it is an extremely difficult serve in a liko capacity on this Hal train as an accomplished fact. and exacting traveller. Obtaining Roach-Matro-Goldwyn-Mayer pro-

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Unforgettable Description There is an unforgettable deè- His description to his wife of cription of the confusion and panic the gradual stages of the evacua- raging in, Doullens and Amiens at tion of Anzac, how each echelon the time of the March, 1918, gradually converged on the beach offensive, when the Germans were and stepped on board the waiting not far away. His division had, lighters, is A masterpiece of hastily been brought up from a back clarity, which even the most un-area to stem the advance. He had initiated could not fail to undor arrived alone to see the corps com- stand. Similarly, when he got his mandor, ahead of his staff and division, the description of its troops. He sat down immediately, organisation in simple English is a made his plan, and wrote his ordera, classic. Ho nover forgets a detail, As his units came up, they were but equally does not allow it to directed to the position he had obscure the main points."

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my kiddie is old enough to pilot enough since these animals are

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A machine, I shall be fitting protected, but even after pormis in this full-length comedy ns mem- over to England from Austrasion to export one has been ob lia for the week-end, retained, there are more complica

"I shall be the passenger in tions to be overcome. The animals the back then, for, as I say, I must have access to water of a Butler, carries the comedians am thirty-eight My plans certain depth and at the same time through a series of hazardous ad- now are to sit at a dosk and be in a position to turn at will to ventures that are replete with

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