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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

JANUARY 18,

1936.

£1,500,000-A- Year Air Bid

STATE AID

- FOR

PRIVATE LINES

THE AIR Ministry is to

ask Parliament for authority to grant up to £1,500,000 a year for the next eight years in subsidies to British air transport con-- cerns.*

This is one of three main points Bill Air Navigation in a new shortly to be presented. Others

"are:---

Compulsory third party insurance for alrmen;

Appointment of a Board to take over from the Ministry the task of granting certifientes of airworthi- hess for all but the largest com- ntercial airplanes.

At present the Ministry in em- powered to allocate up to £1,000,000 a year to British air transport.

Actually the average British sub- sidy to commercial flying during the past seven years has been just over, £380,000. In addition, £916.- 000 has been contributed by Empire Governments since 1929..

PUSHING ON

These contributions have helped to extend the Empire airway sys- tem from Paris to Egypt. East, West, and South Africa, the Near Enst, India, Burma, and Singapore. Now the line is being pushed on to. Hongkong.

The Ministry in seeking wider financial powers in order to sub- sidise' the undertakings

vast new British mir contemplated Now

doubled and quadrupled Em- pire services and ..the At- lantic.

In this year's British Air Estima

as n ates £10,000 was allocated Krant towards.

England- the Bermuda air-line, to be started in

1936.

Pan American Airway« will con- neet Bermuda with New York.

That will be the first regular Transatlantic air service between Britain and America.

and

By 1937, both Britain America hope to be sending flying- boats acrosY the North Atlantic non-stop.

PRINCE'S

DANCE FAVOURITE

12 MEN MAY SCALE

Newest photo of Countess of Carrick, native of Philadelphia, who has become one of the most popular figures in London society sinco abe became the "favourite" dancing companion of the Prince of Wales.

Off

Plymouth Goes Normandie's Calling List

MT. EVEREST

BRITISH EXPEDITION

TOP OF THE WORLD SO FAR DEFIED ALL ATTEMPTS THE party which will make the fifth attempt to conquer Mount Everest in the 1935-1936 expetition, led by Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, has been selected by the Mount Everest Committee, of which Major-general Sir Percy Cox, presi- dent of the Royal Geogarphical Society, is chairman.:

Mr. Rutledge led the 1933 expedition, and after his return went into comparative exile on the island of Gometra of the western coast of Scotland. He retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1932. He is 51.

The members of the party select ed are:

Mr. E. E. Skipton, leader of the Mount Everest reconnaissanco party in Tibet, which recently con cluded its preliminary work in pre- paration for the coming attempt to reach the summit of the moun- taln. This will be his fourth ex- pedition to the Himalayas. Last year he and a companion were the first to explore the Nauda Devi Glacier basin.

HIGHEST POINT

Mr. F. S. Smythe, who, In 1933, climberi 28,100ft. to the highest point ever reached. This will bo This fourth expedition to the moun- tain. He led the successful Mount Kamet expedition in 1931;

Mr. P. Wya Harris, climbed to the summit of Mount Kenya in 1929. He la a member of the Kenya Civil Service and an experi- caeed mountaineer, reaching 28,000.

NORMANDIE, the French ocean giant, will call no more ft. in 1933;

at Plymouth when homeward bound from New York. There are three reasons--

land had to go on to Havre and reuch. England by cross Channel 1-She cannot enter or leave

boat. Plymouth Sound at low water.

When arriving an hour or so before low tide, she has had to wait five or six hours betore sail- ing again.

to

2. It is too risky for her enter the Sound when a strong cross-wind is blowing.

For that reason, the 79,000-ton

3-Waste of time owing to her early morning arrivals,

Normandie's sailing-time from New York usually brought her off Plymouth in the small hours. Passengers could not be landed for perhaps six hours. The liner will continue to call at both outward and

liner had to miss Plymouth once Southampton last year. Passengers for Eng-homeward.

957 Millions Go To

Picture in

BRITISH

FILMS

PROGRESS

NINE hundred and fifty-seven

million people paid to enter one or other of the 4,305 cinemas in Great Britain last Eighteen and a half millions a

week was the average..

year.

It cost them £10,950,000, of which nearly seven millions went to the Government as Entertain ment Tax January was the best month, October the second best,

These facta and many more equally interesting were given by Mr. S. Rowson in a survey of the industry before the Royal Statis- tical Society in London recently.

Lancashire Loads

There are more clnomus in Lan- cashire than in, any other county-- 609. Yorkshire and district has 534 and London postal arch 401. South Wales outnumbers North Wales by 259 to 62.

The average number of seats in cach cinema le 900, but in the 302 bullt since 1982 the average is 1,160 seats. In London there is one seat for every 14 of the total popula- tion, in Lancashire 1 to 9, in the! Eastern countica 1 to 19 and fn South Wales 1 to 10.

Mr. Rowson thinks the danger of overbuilding is serious "unless the balance can be secured by a national drive to bring new elnemogoers.”*

British Ahead Of Quota Nearly 1,500 new films were re- gistered in the year. Of the 667 long ones 100 were British British films were always largely in excess of the minimum required for the quotą.

"It is definitely established,” said' Mr. Rowson, "that the entire excess of British dlm supply is accounted for by the British.companies. All the foreign companies except one have acquired just enough to meet their statutory liability:

"The best British films and tho worst foreign films have been dia- tributed by the British companies; the best foreign films and the worst British films have been distributed by the foreign companies.”. * The average, number of 'times. Evory British flim was screened in the last year was 7,420, the corres ponding number for foreign films' being 6,900,"

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Year

Wolf's Rock Lighthouse is situated in one of the most langerous and least navigable spots on the English

coast.

Perfect Colour

Dr. C. I. Warren, a member of the reconnaissance party; formerly at St. Bartholomew's 'Hospital;

Mr. E. G. H. Kempson, master at Marlborough College, a member of the reconnaissance party; an ex- perienced, alpine climber;"

Major C. J. Morris, Inte 2/3rd Gurkha Rifles, chief transport officer, knows the Nepalese people and speaks their language and is an authority on the strange land of Bhutan, which has an area of 18,000 square milca, among

thu Himalayas to the north of Åsaam; Dr. Noel Humphreys -explored the Ruhenzor; range of mountains 1932 Oxford University expedition to

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wedding day has registered a £1,500,000 private. ecmpany which he and his wife are the only subscribers.

The couple are Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Evans Bevan, of Danygraig. Newton, Porthcawl.

The E. B. Holdings Company, alate Jordan and Sons, has been registered to acquire, hold and deat with shares debentures and securi 'ties..

At Thirty-Three Mr. Evans Beyan, former Cam- bridge

and Rugby footballer cricketer, Is now, at thirty-three, one of the largest anthracite owners in South Wales.

Six years ago he marrieil Miss Eira Winifred Grant, grand- daughter of a Breconshire doctor, at St. Mark's, North Audley-street, W. His father was taken just before the ceremony and died a few hours later.

The young bridegroom inherited the bulk of his father's £2,127,860 cstate.

HE FOUND THE NEW MONASTRAL BLUE

:

Mr. C. J.T. Cronshaw, managing director of the British Dye- stuffs Corporation, Ltd, is one of the most distinguished and successful dyestuff chemists in the world.

At 45 he finds himself the centre of the scientific and industrial storm over the 1.C.I. newcolour-Monastral blue-described as the "most important colour discovery for 100 years."

The perfect colour must full,not exist in the world before.

This six-sided figure 1s the seven points. Chief among them are resistance to acid, hent, alkall, architectural brick from which we and solvents, and Riance of construct que buildings, by fusing carbon atoms, mainly by heat, welds, or alkalis."

shade..

Monastral. blue is nearly per- fect. Itu..chief use will be for multiple colour printing." Mr. Crenshaw is a Lancashire man, small of stature, trim, alert, reticent. He and his colleagues very pleasant, but most annoyingly have produced the new colour.

"It is not easy," he said, "to add A new square to a child's paint -box,

Tyrian purple, used by the Romans for the Imperial cloak, and proscribed for all But royal use, wae made by boiling thousands of shell ash.

SYNTHETIC COLOURS "We make colour, synthetically,

Ho swiftly sketched these figures, to show how the organic chemist builds up his experimental schemes for the laboratory.

"Did you know that the peacock's tall, like the rainbow, was not

coloured 7

And Loss Account BÒÜGHT CAR £13, TO SMUGGLING

FINE £186

Robert Kennedy, of Bar- ronath, Co. Kildare, bought a motor-car in London for £13.

He was fined £186 at Dun- dalk recently for smug- gling it into the Irish Free State.

Prosecution said, that Ken- nedy drove from Belfast and rushed past the Customs post without stopping.

He was a member of one of the best-known familica in Ireland and owner of a stud farm.

The Sun And Destiny

Ellesmere Land in the Canadian Arctic last year;

IN CHARGE OF WIRELESS Lieutenant W. R. Smith- Windham, Royal Corps of Signals, accompanied the 1933 expedition as one of the wireless officers. Te will have charge of the wireleas communications in the present 'ex- pedition;

Lieutenant J. M. L. Gavin, Royal Engineers, has had experience of climbing in the Alps hut hus not been to the Himalayas before;

Mr. F. H. 1.. Wigram, a medical student at St. Thomas's Hospital, was a member of the reconnaissance party this year; and

Lieutenant P. R. Oliver, South Waziristan Scouts, who is ellmbed in the Alps and led a small expedi tion to the flimalayas in 1933, PREVIOUS EXPEDITIONS .The first Everest expedition was led by Colonel Howard Bury In 1931, and another attempt to reach the summit of the 29,141ft. penk was made under Brig.-Gen. C.. G. Bruce in the following year.

Lieut.-Colonej E. F. Norton took command of the 1924 expedition in which Mr. G. A. JI. Leigh-Mallory and Mr. A. C, Irvine lout their lives when climbing the last 1,000 feet. 1933 had to last party'sin The abandon the climb owing to bad weather,

IN MEMORY OF A. GREAT QUEEN

GRACE

In Belgium a medal has been struck in memory of Queen Astrid. Photo shows both sides of the medal.

MYSTERIOUS ELECTRICAL LINK WITH EARTH

Cambridge, Mass., Dec."was” tonized--charged with negative

A theory that atmospheric con-particles of electricity-the subject ditions as affected by the Sun may brightened, lost his headache and dictate man's destiny is being in- regained his vitality. vestigated by Dr. Harlan T. Stet- Dr. Stetson is scoking a definite Bon, of the Harvard University answer to the question whether Geographical Exploration Depart-thero la a link between kun spots ment.

and lonization of the atmosphere.

These studies are significant in The theory is that lonization of view of unrest at a time when the the earth's atmosphere stimulates sun spots are ascending to their the ductless and thyroid glands of maximum latensity. As for bork humans the glands balleved to as 1929 Abbe Moreaux, Astronomer- control temperament' and person-Meteorologist of Bourges Observa- ality:

tory, warned the world to "beware a house of 1936 and 1937." He painter "Did you ever enter which had been shut up for out that sun spots would be waxing months?" asked Dr. Stetson. The to their height in those years, and that, depressing, and the predicted that this would be re- firat impulse is a want to fresh air. flected in nervous tension. Yet a chemical analysis of the air in the house shows that it is exactly the same as sea air. But some- thing is wrong."

If it can be proved that sun spote Dr. Stetson said, selence will have Increase the ionization of the air, It is possible, according to Dr. gono a long way toward establish...

ing that solar radiation dictates Stetson, that the stagnant air in human affairs, just us it regulates the house has lost that mysterious

tural crops. "You could not get colour electrical charge which may dis-weather cycles and govorna agricul from it. There is merely an tinguish fresh air from stale,

But he pointed out that even if optical effect, caused by the flues The Harvard scientist explained such proof were found, there would of the feathers, bending the an experiment performed in a room be no cause for humanity to regard light.

where air was controlled auto- "The Great War disclosed thematically as to its content of elec-as futile its attempts to mould ita

own destiny. awful truth that the British dyo-trically-charged particles:

When the air was depleted of "The very knowledge that wo are stuffs industry had little creative spirit, little research, little experi-negatively-charged particles, the chained to the sun's whims, ho subject in the room became depress-said, "would be, the wanpon by "To-day we have about 2,000 |ell, dovoloped a headache, and felt which we could break those chains.".

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