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1936

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1935.

1936

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never gets anywhere in

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realisation of the appalling risks

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of motoring. He does not trans- are all stan late dry statisties into a reality dard everyday sequels

to the modern parslon of blood and agony.

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When two cars. meet something gives way.

Figures exclude the pain and for going places in a hurry and horror of savage mutilation taking a chance or two by the way. which means they leave out the If ghosts could be put to a useful point. They need to be brought purpose, every bad stretch of road was there just closer home. A passing look at n in Hongkong would greet the on-. the same he was only

that a coming motorist with groans and exercising his privilege of bnd smash or the news

If you customarily pass without fellow you had tiflin with last week screams and the educational spec- being erratic. FRIDAY, NOV, 22, 1935.

is in a hospital with a broken back tacle of ten or a dozen corpses, all

make sure that every member of will make any driver but a born sizes, sexes and ages, lying hor. clear vision a long way ahead. the party carries identification fool alow down at least tempor ribly still on the bloody grass.

Maybe reading this makes you papers-It's difficult to identify a AVIATION POLICY arily. But what is needed is a

vivid and Austained realisation sick at your stomach. But unless body with its whole face bashed

driver is puncture hearts and fungs with' Now that the series of experi- that every time you step on the you're a heavy-footed incurable, a in or torn off. The mental flights between Penang throttle, death gets in beside you, good look at the picture the artist death's favourite target. If the their raw 'ends. The consequent hopefully waiting for his chance. wouldn't divre paint, a first-hand steering wheel holis together it internal haemorrhage is no less and Hongkong have concluded, That single horrible accident you acquaintance with the results of ruptures his liver or spleen so he dangerous because it is the pleural the Colony eagerly awaits the may have witnessed is no isolated mixing, petrol with speed and bad bleeds to death internally. Or, if instead of the abdominal cavity. time when it will have a per- horror. That sort of thing hap- judgment, ought to be well worth the steering wheel breaks off, the that is filling with blood.

I can't help it if the matter is settled instantly by the Flying glass-safety glass will pens every day. If you really felt your while.

column's plunging not be universal in Hongkong un- manent direct link with the that, perhaps the stickful of type facts are revolting. If you have steering

tll 19-10-contributes' much more Imperial Airways · services to fu yesterday's paper recording that the nerve to drive fast and take through his abdomen.

By no means do all head-on than its share to the spectacular curves. The side of accidents. It doesn't London and Australia. It has nine local citizens were killed in chances, you ought to have the been proved conclusively that October crashes would rate some nerve to take the appropriate cure, collisions occur on

loaded a perfunctory You can't ride an ambulance or modern death-trap is likely to be merely cut-the fragments are thing more than planes can fly with perfect safety tut-tut as you turn back to the watch the doctor working on the n straight stretch with plenty of driven in as if a cannon between hore-and Penang. in-news about North China or victim in the hospital, but you can room on either side, such as the with broken bottles had been fired Hide of in your face, and a sliver in the read..

straight stretches this cluding a long stretch over the | Ethiopia. open ocean, in about one day.

The motor car is treacherous, Fanling. This sudden vision of eye, travelling with such force, An enterprising American judge The Dorado flights were in this now and again sentences reckless just us a cat is. It is tragically, broad. straight road tempts many means certain blindness. A leg or respect a tribute to the reliability drivers to tour the accident end diflcult to realise that it can be an ordinarily sensible driver into arm stuck through the windshield But even a come the dadliest missile. As passing the man ahead. Simul- will cut clean to the bone through of the Imperial Airways planes, of a city morgue.

driver coming the vein, artery and muscle like a for no difficulty whatever was mangled body on a slab, waxily enthusiasts tell you, it makes 65 taneously

But 65 other way swings out at high plece of beef under the butcher's experienced in keeping to the portraying the consequences of feel like nothing at all.

bad motoring judgment, isn't a An hour is 100 feet a second, a speed. At the last moment each knife, and it takes little time to fatal amount of blood ander scheduled times. There is now patch on the scene of the accident speed which puts a viciously un- tries to get Into line' again, but lose. every reason for hoping that Itself. No artist working on a justified responsibility on brakes the gaps are closed. As the cars such circumstances: Even safety within the very near future a safety poster would dare depict and human reflexes, and can in hi line are forced into the ditch glass may not be wholly safe when crash trees, the the car crashes something at high regular service will be instituted. that in full detail.

stantly turn this docile luxury to capsize or

passers meet, almost head on, in speet. You hear picturesque tales So far, Hongkong is not linked That picture would have to in. Into a mad bull elephant,

a swirling, grinding amash that of. how a flying human body will Collision, turnover or sideswipe, up with any outside service, and -elude-niotion-picture--and-- sound-

into the others.

its head the shoulders ̃^ullck==* it will be fitting that our first effects, too-the flopping, pointless each type of accident produces sends them curoming obliquely make a neat hole in the stuff with contacts should be made through efforts of the injured to stand up; either a shattering dead stop or a

A car careening and rolling the glass holds and the raw, keen the queer, grunting noises; the crashing change of direction- .down bank, battering the medium of a British com-

and edge of the hole decapitates the steady, panting groaning of and, since the occupant-meaning pany. There is, however, a con-

Or, to continue with the de- of the way, can wrap itself human being with pain creeping you-continues in the old direction smashing its occupants every inch body as neatly as a guillotine. siderable bulk of popular feel- up on him as the shock wears off. at the original speed, every sur- thoroughly around IL tree that capitation motif, going off the road ing that Hongkong should open it should portray the slack expres face and angle of the car's interior front and rear bumpers interlock, into a tree can put you beyond its airport to planes of all sion on the face of a man, dragged immediately becomes a battering, requiring an acetylene torch to cut worrying about other injuries im. mediately when a branch comes nationalities, with a view to with shock, staring at the Z-twist tearing projectile, nimed squarely them apart. ensuring that this Colony shall in his broken leg, the insane at you-inescapable. There is no Overturning care specialize in through the windshield and tears become one of the world's big crumpled effect of a child's body bracing yourself against these im- certain injuries. Cracked pelvis, off your head with its splintery aviation centres.

after its bones are crushed in- perative laws of momentum. Hitherto,

for instance, guaranteeing agoniz end-not as neat a job but thor- ward, realistic portrait of an Anything can happen in that ing months in bed, motionless, oughly efficient. That is the kind there has been a disinclination hysterical woman with her scream- split second of crash, even those perhaps crippled for life-broken of impact produced by modern in official quarters, both hereing mouth opening a hole in the lucky escapes you hear about, spine resulting from sheer side. speeds, and at Home, to grant foreign bloody drip that fills her eyes and People have dived through wind- wise twist-the minor details of None of all that is scare-fiction; landing rights without some runs off her chin. Minor details shields and come out with only smashed knees and splintered it is just the horrible raw material reciprocal privilege in return. would include the raw ends of superficial scratches. They have shoulder blades caused by crashing of statistics as seen in the ordin Admittedly, it is customary, in bones protruding through flesh in run cars together head on, reduc- Into the side of the car as she ary course of duty by policemen the granting of aerial rights, to compound fractures, and the dark ing both to twisted junk, and been goes over with the swirl of an in- and doctors, picked at random. insist on some quid pro quo, but, red, oozing surfaces where clothes found unhurt and arguing bitterly sane roller coaster and the lethal The surprising thing in that there minutes afterward. as we have before had occasion

But consequences of broken.ribs, which (Continued on Page 4.) to point out, Hongkong is not a territory so much 48 1 mere spot on the map; and undue in- sistence on reciprocity may well result in this Colony being side- tracked in the matter of aviation services, That danger is illus- trated by the arrangements made for Pan-American planes to make Macao their Eastern terminus on the trans-Pacific service, and in the plans recently announced whereby a French service will be maintained be- tween Indo-China und Canton. A former Hongkong journalist, we observe, has been arguing for the preservation of reciprocal between Hongkong and pointa in rights in any arrangement which China. This would, at any rate, the local Government may make ensure this Colony a place in with foreign aviation services. Far Eastern aviation services. result of a chill taken during the afboat until he was picked up by his courageous action in taking Admiral Earl Jellicoe has died us named West he managed to keep won a Board of Trade medal for That it would be desirable to Failing that, it would appear to ceremonies of Armistice Day when rescue bonts. Admiral Sir Phipps charge of a gig which put out, in work on such a basis, if possible, be in the interests of Hongkong he took part in the service in Hornby wrote of him subsequently: heavy peas, to the rescue of the is beyond question, but we have to welcome all lines to our air-memory of fallen comrades." He "The next in. command (he crew of a steamor stranded on ́a to face the facts as they are port. There is reason to believe was onu of those unassuming had been referring to the Victoria's sandbank in the Mediterranean. The dominating circumstance is that American and Chinese con-officers who have built for the captain) was still more seriously He lost his medal when the Vie that China is not disposed to cerns are willing to come here, British Navy the proud traditions tested. He, poor fellow, was betoria went down. He asked for grant flying rights over her ter- if granted permission. And it which it and the Empire cherish. low, and in bed with fever. He another, but he did not renew his ritory to any foreign concern, is to be presumed that other me glimpses of the life of this was called on to get up before the application when told that he would and in view of this fact the ques-foreign interests would also wel-ail remember his command at the stead of going up to save himself, short, solid man, with humorous gallant gentleman tell us why. We ship sunk. He got up; but in-have to pay for a duplicate. A tion does arise whether it would come the opportunity. For tragic Battle of. Jutland, greatest ho went below to hurry up anyone grey eyes, and self-possessed, not be wise, for the time being Hongkong, the point to be decid naval action in the War, and one who might be there.. When the smile, Admiral Eari Jellicoe became at any rate, to waive any ques-ed is whether the Colony's best of the most costly in Britain's ship-foundered he came to the sura popular hero as soon as the news tion of securing a quid pro quo interests will be served by rigor history. But before that his name face necessarily In a state of ex of his appointment after the out- LANE, CRAWFORD, Ltd. from China in return for the ous adherence to reciprocity, or meant little to the public. It should haustion."

break of waras, aupreme com- right to land hore. There is, of whether it would not be wise to have done, however. In 1882

mander of the Grand Fleet was:- course, the alternative method. make the best of the situation he was in the Egyptian War and In the Chinese rising of 1500, supplemented by the publication of GROUND FLOOR. of establishing a. Joint by encouraging the aviation rammed by the Camperdown in the wounded.

in 1893 when the Victoria was Earl Jellicon was seriously his photograph. Earl Jellicoe suc Sino-British company, with pre intereste of any country so dis- Mediterranean, he went down with won him a splendid reputation In Sea Lord in November 1910, and His gallantry in 'action Iceeded Sir Henry Jackson as First dominant control in Chinese posed to make this Colony a port his ship-us-second in command. the service at that time. But be in a message to the Naval Insti hands, whereby planes could fly of call,

With the help of a midshipman fore, when he was a lleutenant, ho) (Continued on Page 4)

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