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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1936.

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ATLANTIC AIR ROUTE RIVALRY

Germans

LIBERTY!

Ahead Of All Its

FLIGHTS WITH

Competitors

MID-SEA BASE

SOON TO BEGIN

Washington, Mar. 12

THE international race between Great Britain, Germany, 'France, and America for first honours in the establish- ment of a Transatlantic air service has begun. Germany at present looks like taking the lead.

Two months ago British, Canadian, and Irish aviation officials obtained permission for the use of terminal facilities near New York for the western end of the air line they intend to inaugurate next summer.

Woman Bites

Doctor's Finger

One of the many political prisoneraAs "Sample"

Hiberated in Spain

lence of the pupulation. Free at lastt

Suicide To Avoid Giving Evidence

SOVIET MASS TRIAL Moscow, Mar. 15, There was a dramatic start to the spectacular trial of 39 ex- nobles, Tsarist officers and mer. chants accused of engaging in capitalist industry.

The one woman defendant, Vern Petrova, calmly announced that her, brother, called as a witness against her, was unable to appear because he committed suicide last night rather than give evidence. The woman, who is 35, is accused of organising a pseudo-co-opera: tive manufacturing cartel and making a huge profit. She is stated to have corrupted tax collectors by drunken revels.

The others are accused of

A DOCTOR, who allowed a woman to bite his finger in forder to compare the

results with marks on the finger of a

Last night the German delega tion obtained identical rights in exchange for similar privileges in Berlin for American transport fcompanies.

Now the French

Government Phas mude formal application, through the French Ambassador, for terminal facilities on Ameri- en's east coast.

Government aviation experts in Washington were to-day convinced that the Germans are best fitted

to lead the race.

Catapults

This conviction is based on con- tidential reports which show that Germany alone is equipped with giant flying boats ready for im-

Iman accused of holding up anmediate service. Jelderly woman with a pistol, gave evidence at Bristol Assizes recently.

The experts declare that no other nation-not even' America -has flying bouts ready to make "such "long"distance" flights,

The leaders of the German de- William John Hancock, a 38-year-legation make no secret of their de old labourer, living at Kendall-flights across the Atlantic almost termination to begin experimental

road, Bridgwater, was charg- immediately. |ed with being armed with an offen-

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Electronic Eye That Pierces Dark

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St. Louis, Feb. 18. '. An electronic eye capable of estimable possibilities as an aid piercing the dark and offering in- to air and sea navigation, war- fare and science was introduced

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Under tentative plans placed be fore State Department, the sive weapon, a pistol, and assalt-Westfalen, Germany's losting air Ing Miss Lottie. Pollard, aged 60, plane base, will be moved from the with intent to rob. He pleaded South Atlantic to a position near before the American Association not guilty.

the Azores.

Trans-oceanic 'planes will be pro-;

Misa Pollard, of Mount Brad-jected from this vessel by catapults, laboratorics by Doctors, V. K. ford Cottage, Wembdow, Bridg- water, stated that she saw a head

come round the front door. fol lowed by a hand grasping a pistol.

Egypt

The intruder entered the hall And The

operating privately owned facand said, "You know what I am go torics and defrauding the State ofing to do with this," pointing the £60,000 in income-tax. Three at pistol at her. He seized her least face death sentences and all arm, and twisted it so that WRO long terms of imprisonment. Three pleaded not gulity, one guilty and the rest guilty on some counte.

They are being tried before two worker judges and one profes- sional jurist.

fractured in two places, took her into the dining-room, and forced her, into a chair, demanding to know where her money was,

BIT HIS FINGER

Suez Canal Company

CLAIM TO SHARE

CONTROL

Zgorykin and George A. Morton, the "eye" was said to have its greatest practicable possibilities ns Ru interchangeable telescope or miscroscope.

In telescopic form, it is tubular, its abjective end looking much like a camera lens and Ita forward part like an old-fashioned stercopticon. The image strikes a photo-electric surface and passes into an electrical field which transposes infra-red (black) light, producing the image on a phosphorescent screen.

Since Infra-red rays are corol- ¡lary to' radiant heat, the electronic Cairo, Mar. 15.

jeyo on a ship at sen could. pierce Conversations are taking place the image of a smoke stack of au

complete darkness, and reproduce By this time, she said, the pistol between the Egyptian Govern- other vessel, Dr. Morton Delieves. was no longer in his hand and she ment and the Suez Canal Cam-

WEEK END managed to bite the second finger pany concerning Egypt's interest

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of one of his hands very hard.

The intruder left the house. Three days later, she attended Jan identification parade, and pick

ed out a man other than Hancock.

in the worlting of the canal con cession.

The Egyptian Government holda that Dgyptians should be nominat ed to the board, on which there no Egyptian director.

In war time, à landing field could be lluminated" with Infra-red light, making it in- visible to the enemy but in clear relief to pinnes equipped with the electronic telescope. Such lumination" would mean Jonly the insertion of black filters in

ordinary flood lights.

Dr. Alexander Reid, of Malvern The president of the company is House, Bridgwater, gave evidence always French. In addition thera In microscopic work, Dr. Morton that he found a scar on Hancock'sre 20 French, one Dutch and 10 said, the "eye" may permit the finger on the day of the identi-British

British directors, Three of the bacteriologist to see minute organ directora represent the lama which now have to be painted fication parade, consistent with Government and the others vari- with a luminous substance which

Rometimes kille them.

his having been bitten.

ous shipping companies.

It is also claimed that, under "The component parts of the. In order to check the matter he certain clauses in the concession, eye," he explained, are a photo- allowed Miss Pollard to bite his Egyption shipping is entitled to electric cathode and a glass disk own finger.

preferential, tariff, and that the coated on the side opposite the company aliould make an annual optical lens with a semi-transpar- "When she bit my second finger payment on account of the reducent layer of luminescent material. I had to tell her to stop." he said.tion of debenture charges due to When the infra-red light paasca ["Her tooth would have punctured Payment in paper instead of in through the glass disk, electrons

gold.

are, released from the layer of my Anger."

The company, the Government photo-electric material. The clec Cross-examined, the doctor said urges, should employ a percentage trona then enter the field of an that the mark on Hancock's finger of Egyptians on the staff, which is jelectron lens which focuses them

Lot might possibly have been made by Fronch. The Government

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