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1936

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22,

OTOR

1936

HAVING ACHIEVED

SUCH

AMAZING POPULARITY

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· 1935. ·

And Sudden

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FRIDAY, NOV. 22, 1936.

AVIATION POLICY

Publicising

the total

of

motoring inj ries

nover guts anywhere in

jarring the motorist into

A

realisation of the appalling risks ward, a

news

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. every reason for hoping that that in full detail.

"York Building

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an

crashing

IV hon

two cars meet

no less

of motoring. He does not trans- realistic portrait

hysterical Inte dry statistics Into a reality of

woman with her, scream- of blood and agony.

Figures exclude the pain and ing mouth opening a hole in the horror of navige mutilation bloody drip that fills her eyes and which means they leave out the runs off her chin. Minor details point. They need to be brought would include the raw ends of change of direc- closer home. A passing look at a bones protruding through flesh in on-and since the

that a compound fractures; and the dark occupant meaning you- bad smash or the news fellow you had tiffin with last week red, oozing surfaces where clothes continues in the old direction is in a hospital with a broken back and skin were flayed off at once. at the original speed, every sur- Those are all standard every face and angle of the car's interior will make any driver but a born fool slow down at least tempor- day sequels to the modern passion immediately becomes a ballering something gives way. arily. But what is needed is 8 for going places in a hurry and tearing projectile, nimed squarely

speed. At the last moment 'cach vivid and sustained realisation taking a chance or two by the way. at you-inescapable. There is no that every time you step on the If ghosts could be put to a useful bracing yourself against these im-

Anything can happen in that tries to get into line.again, but Now that the series of experi-throttle, death gets in beside you, purpose, every bad stretch of road Perative laws of momentum.

you hear about. in line are forced into the ditch the mental flights between Penang hopefully waiting for his chance. in Hongkong would greet the on-

crash trees, and Hongkong have concluded, That single horrible accident you coming, motorist with groans and split second of crash, even those the gaps are closed. As the curs

may have witnessed is no isolated screams and the educational spec- lucky escapes the Colony eagerly awaits the horror. That sort of thing hap tacle of ten or a dozen corpses, all People have dived through wind- to capsize or

superficial scratches. They have a swirling, grinding smash that time when it will have a per- i pens every day. If you really felt sizes, sexes and ages, lying bor, shields and come out with only passers meel, almost head on, In run cars together head on, reduc- sends them caroming obliquely- manent direct link with the that, perhaps the stickful of type ribly still on the bloody grass.

A car careening and rolling Maybe reading this makes you ing both to twisted funk, and been into the others.. in yesterday's paper recording that

But unless found anhurt and arguing bitterly

EL afterward. But down Imperial Airways services to nine local citizens were killed in sick at your stomach.

bank, battering and London and Australia. It has October crashes would rate some you're a heavy-footed incurable, a two-minutes

AL perfunctory good look at the picture the artist death was there just the same-he smashing its occupants every inch been proved conclusively that thing more than

thoroughly around à tree that planes can fly with perfect safety tut-tut as you turn back to the wouldn't dare paint, a first-hand was only exercising him privilega of the way, can wrap itself so

about North China

or acquaintance with the results of of being erratic.

If you customarily pass without front and rear bumpers interlock; between here and Penang, in-] Eihtopia.

mixing patrol with speed and bad cluding a long stretch over the An enterprising American Judge judgment, ought to be well worth clear vision a long way ahead, requiring an acetylene torch to cut Overturning ears specialize in carries identification open ocean, in about one day, now and again sentences reckless your while. I can't help it if the make sure that every member of them apart. · drivers to tour the nceldent end facts are revolting. If you have the party The Dorado flights were in this of a city morgue. But even a the nerve to drive fast and take papers-it's difficult to identify a certain, injuries, Cracked pelvis, respect a tribute to the reliability mangled body on a slab, waxily chances, you ought to have the body with its whole face bashed for instance, guaranteeing agoniz of the Imperial Airways planes, portraying the consequences of nerve to take the appropriate, cure, in or torn off, The driver is ing months in bed, motionless, bad motoring judgment, isn't a You can't ride an ambulance or death's favourite target. If the perhaps crippled for life-broken for no difficulty whatever was patch on the scene of the accident watch the doctor working on the steering wheel holds together it spine resulting from sheer side- knees and splintered experienced in keeping to the itself. No artist working on a victim in the hospital, but you can ruptures his liver or spleen so he wise twist-the minor details of

bleeds to death internally. Or, if sinushed the steering wheel breaks off, the shoulder blades caused by crashing scheduled times. There is now safety poster would dare depict read.

The motor car is treacherous, matter is settled instantly by the into the side of the car as she That picture would have to in- just as a cat is. It is tragically steering column's plunging oca over with the swirl of an in- sane roller coaster-and the lethal within the very near future a etude motion-picture and sound dificult to realise that it can be through his abdomen.

By no means do all head-on consequences of broken ribe, which regular service will be instituted. effects, too-the flopping, pointless come the deadliest missilo. As So far, Hongkong is not linked efforts-of-the-injured to stand up enthusiasts tell you. It makes 65 collisions occur on curves The puncture hearts and lungs with up with any outside service, and the queer, grunting noises; the feel like nothing at all. Bit 65 modern death-trap is likely to be their raw-ends-The consequent

stendy, panting groaning of a an hour is 100 feet a second, a a straight stretch with plenty of internal, haemorrhage is it. will be fitting that our first human being with pain creeping speed which puts a viciously un- room on either side, such as the dangerous because it is the picurul of instead of the abdominal cavity filling with blood. CSSJ5 contacts should be made through up on him as the shock wears off. justified responsibility on brakes straight stretches this side

It should portray the slack expres- an humati reflexes, and can in- Fanling. This sudden vision of that

Flying glass-safety glass will the medium of a British com-ion on the face of a man, drugged stantly turn this docile luxury broad, straight road tempts many

an ordinarily sensible driver into not be universal in Hongkong un-, pany. There is, however, a con- with shock, staring at the Z-twist into a mad bull elephant,

leg. the Insane Collision, turnover or sideswipe, passing the man ahead. Simul- til 1940-contributes much more siderable bulk of popular feel-in his broken

crumpled effect of a child's body each type of accident produces taneously a driver coming the than its share to the spectacular

oul #t high (Continued on Page 5.) ing that Hongkong should open after its bones are crushed in either a shattering dead stop or a other way swings its airport to planes of all nationalities, with A view to ensuring that, this Colony shall become one of the world's big aviation centres. , Hitherto, there has been a disinclination. in official quarters, both here and at Home, to grant foreign landing rights without Rome reciprocal privilege in return. Admittedly, it is customary, in the granting of aerial rights, to insist on some quid pro quo, but, as we have before had occasion to point out, Hongkong is not n

not be wise, for the time buing territory so much

11 mere

at any rate, to waive any ques- spot on the map, and undue in- tion of securing a quid pro q

stead of going up to save himicoli sistence on reciprocity may well from China In return for the

tale al Invergordon he naxared the Admiral Bari Jellicoe has died us he went below to hurry up anyone

When then that the day on which he left result in this Colony being side- į right to land here. There is, of ja result of a rhill taken during the who might be there. tracked in the matter of aviation course, the alternative method. ceremonies of Armistice Day, when ship foundered he came to the aur, the Fleet was the saddest in his

took part of establishing

joint he n

in the service in face necessarily in a state of ex life. Earl Jelliese loved the fleet, and the Flect loved Jellicoe. What services. That danger is illus-

memory of fallen comrades. He haustion."

more could n Naval man wish? trated by the arrangements Sino-British company, with pre- was one of those unassuming

dominant control in Chinese officers who have built for the In the Chinese rising of 1900, made for Pan-American planes hands, whereby planes could fly British Navy the proud traditions Earl Jellicoe WAB seriously This is a sad state of affairs in His gallantry in action the United States, with the prospect to make Macao their Eastern between Hongkong and points in which it and the Empire cherish. wounded. berminus on the trans-Pacific China. This would, at any rate, Some glimpses of the life of this won him a splendid reputation in of a tie-up of 70 per cent, of her shipping tooming larger service, and in the plans recently ensure this Colony a place in gallant gentleman tell us why. We the service at that time. But be coast

waterfront troubles have. announced whereby a French Far Eastern aviation services. all remember his command at the fore, when he was a llautenant, he every day. Month after month

courageous action in taking been with the Americans, and there. service will be maintained be-Falling that, it would appear to tragle Battle of Jutland, greatest run a Board of Trade, medal for thes

naval aetion in the War, and one his be in the interests of Hongkong of the most costly in Britain's charge of a gig which put out, In seems no end of them. Although tween Indo-China and Canton.to welcome all lines to our air-history. But before that his name heavy seas, to the rescue of the the situation is one which seeme A former Hongkong journalist, port. There is reason to believe meant little to the public. It should crew of a steamer stranded on a to invite an inexpensive solution:

however. In 1882 sandbank done, we observe, has been arguing for that American and Ohinese con- have

the Mediterranean. and a sensible compromise on the the preservation of reciprocal cerns are willing to come here, he was in the Egyptian War und He lost his medal when the Vic-part of the labour element, no such 1893 when the Victoria wastoria went down. He naked for settlement is near. When we con→ rights in any arrangement which if granted permission. And it in the local Government may make is to be presumed that other amed by the Camperdown in the another, but he did not renew his sider the case of the strikers aboard Mediterranean, he went down with application when told that he would the freighter Oregon, we can un- foreign. Interests would also wel- his chip as second in command. have to pay for a duplicate. A derstand the difficulty which the with foreign aviation services. come the opportunity. For With the help of a midshipman short, solid man, with humorous American arbitralers encounter. That it would be desirable to Hongkong, the point to be decid-named West ho managed to keep grey eyes, and a self-possessedt The mentality of the men, if the work on such a basis, if possible,ed is whether the Colony's best afloat, until he was picked up by smile, Admiral Earl Jellicoe became Oregon's crew is typical, is most is beyond question, but we have interests will be served by rigor rescue bonts. Admiral Sir Phipps a popular horo as soon as the news lamentably weak, it would appear. to face the facts as they are.ous adherence to reciprocity, or Hornby wrote of him subsequently: of his appointment after the out For, even when the terms they (he break of wor as supreme com- have asked are granted, in every that China is not disposed to make the best of the situation had been referring to the Victoria's mander of the Grand Fleet was detail, they refuse to accept them GROUND FLOOR, grant flying rights over her ter- by encouraging the aviation captain) was still more seriously supplemented by the publication of on the grounds that they are "mer- tested. He, poor fellow, was be his photograph.. Eur! Jellicoe sue-cenary"! How can you settle that: ritory. to any foreign concern, Interests of any country. so dis-low, and in bed with fover, Hoceeded Sir Henry Jackson og Firat sort of strike? Break it. Strong- and in view of this fact the ques-posed to make this Colony a port was called on to get up before the Sea Lerd in November, 1916, and arm stuff. That is the only remedy tion docs arise whether it would of call.

ship-sank. He got up; but in-in a message to the Naval Instl for such elephantine stupidity.

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