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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1930.

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PRINCIPAL AIR ROUTES OF THE WORLD EXISTING

Midway

Auckland

INTERNATIONAL

DATE LINE (Approx)

noticed that in Trans- port, which links all coun- tries together, and above all in Air Transport, which links them so quickly, the idea of Internationalism al- ready has a practical meaning.

NOT a few people have

After all, a frontier, un- less it follows a great river. or a mountainous water- shed, is not a very noticeable, feature of a landscane when you fly over it, and different to flags are not very easy

Hongkong Telegraph. pick out from the air.

So it is particularly interest- ing to note how Air Transport is being extended alt over the world; new services opened, and what were once daring re- cord flights being beaten on

Vladivos

Pekin

Rijninovgorod Nkosibirsk

Stjohns

Barlin

FNỀN YORK

"örrmuda

Cuba.

Paname

La Paz

Port

Santiago

Rio de Jarisi

Buenos Aires

(Dakar

Alexandria

Khartum

Kisun

Mombasa

Karachi

PROPOSED

Midsfaylı

Manilla

Delhi

Calcutta

Rangoon

FENANG

Batavis

Park Darwin

Sydney

Projected Flying Best

Cape Town

Port Elizabeth

Samoa

INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE (Approx

WORLD AIR

by C. W. A. Scott

time by regular commercial workings.

Within five years it will be possible for the man in a hurry to travel by air from any place in the world to another inside week, and right round the globe in fourteen days.

For those who travel for pleasure I would certainly not suggest such an effort, which mean travelling almost would the whole 24 hours round, bul in cases of urgency it obviously will be done.

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HOW is this apparent miracle about?

going to

come

aero-

and tobacco, put into force yes- NOTES OF THE DAY; by the use of acid-

THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1935.

COLONY'S SEARCH FOR REVENUE

The Increased duties on liquora

terday, provide the first concrete step by the Government to raise fresh revenue in order to cope with the financial problem with which it is faced us a result of the low exchange value of the dollar. Whether other means of meeting the situation are to be taken remains to be seen. Of the method now clíosen it can be said that it is the least ob- the

WORSE THAN DEATH

punishments There are more cruel than death in sudden form, even in these of progressive civilisation advanced morality. For the guilty without hope of reprieve, the day's of waiting for the hour of execu tion, whether it is by hanging,

electric chair or before

40 degrees.

winter

As an example of this, the Atlantic will be crossed in sum- mer via Newfoundland and the great circle course well north of London will be reached from vik Bermuda (where £47,000 is being spent on a new York air base now tion) to the Azores and so to Europe.

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under construc-

LEXANDRIA and Penang A

will be the "Clapham Junc tions" of the Near East and the Far East. From the former highways will point aerial radiate nerous Africa, rejoining at Capetown. Southwards and eastwards from Penang will be the

run to Australia and the

Far East.

ly not by the slower mediums of transport--the ship and the

India will be on the main line railway. Normal aircraft will far travel at 200 miles per hour service, with feeder lines con- verging on Calcutta and Kara- any within five years,

Bombay and Ceylon (at We have been promised this chi. days

and figure for some time, but I do last taken into aerial considera- not think it will be general be- tion) will be the terminal points western coast of fore a period of five years has of an important new air route

the along the passed. Twenty-two of cich Southern India, joining with twenty-four hours of machine's day will be used in Mndras and thence to Calcutta travel, the other two will be on the castern side.

From Penang the Australian bourne and the rest of the Australian cities, with a con- to New Zealand. tinuation Eastward. Hongkong and Shanghai will be reached via Saigon.

jectionable of any, since the en- Bring squad. are bad enough. spent in refueling or tranship route will take in Sydney, Mel-

сол-

In

hanced rates

on luxury For the innocent who are are

demned to die through circum- taxes, besides which the liquor

days stantial evidence the last and tobacco duties in Hongkong of life must be bitter indeed. will still be far below those im-

n New Jersey prison on Tuesday posed in most other places, two men waited to walk to the notably at Home, where the cost electric chair. Ong was a gang- of these commodities to the con- ster who murdered a policeman

Hauptmann, con- sumer is much higher than here. the other was

victed of laying the Lindbergh for There is, of course, as we have baby. The gangster waited previously had occasion to point the end with some show of fort!- was inescapable and no hope was ed taxes defeating their own obdangled before him. Hauptmann, jective, but this factor is hard-as the dreaded moment drew near.

ment from one type of machine to another.

Passengers and pilots will be allowed to rest, perhaps, but the machine will go on.

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The same route will not al- ways be taken to arrive at the same places. This will be de- pendent upon the seasons of the AFTER Hongkong America will take up the tale and year and alternative routes will often be used for summer and fly across to Manila in the on Philippines and thence across winter travel. Of course,

out, always a danger of increas- tule, perhaps because he knew it some journeys they will have to the Pacific, via Wake Island, to

case.

innocent

m

he

Was

He re-

ly likely to arise in the present lost control, wept and reviled the Nothing has so far been law which had doomed him, an claims. disclosed of the amount of extra | Twenty minutes from the schedul- revenue which the Governmented time of execution he hopes to raise by these addi- granted another 48 hours of life.

The hope still dangled. tional duties, but it should be covered his nerve and smiled. fairly considerable. Inciden- But to-day the whole torturing repeated, be- tally, there is quite a useful pre-process must be

atill cause apparently there is ference accorded to Empire pro- some doubt about this man's ducts. a circumstance which guilt. If doubt remains how can suggests that stops might now New Jersey hang kim? Is this be taken to secure for certain prolonged torment tolerated be cause it may bring a confession Hongkong-produced goods more from a man who has already been satisfactory reciprocal arrange-promised his life if he will name at present exist, his confederates? If Hauptmann ments than

goes to the chair still protesting On the general question of extra his innocence, his executioners

weight upon

their taxation, the community will will have a now await with Interest any consciences. But his reason may forsake him before the end; and other proposals which the Gov-then he may tell the men he calls! ernment may have in contem- his persecutors anything plation, in the hope that the in- anything to end this cidence of any new imposts will suspense.

not bear unduly on residents as

horror of

car

the

a whole. One of the minor would probably be found that at sources which might be found least a thousand private productive would be the institu- owners regularly utiliso tion of parking fees for motor parking spaces of the Colony, a respectable sum vehicles. This matter was re- and quite ferred to at the annual meeting could be secured by charging & thereof. In of the Automobile Association, fixed fee for use when it was suggested that England, such a system is in motorists as a whole were tak-force everywhere. Nowhere in Ing unfair advantage of the the world, we imagine, facilities provided by the Asso-motorists provided with free ciation. One member spoke of parking in the centre of the city soven thousand motorists Being as they are here in Hongkong. involved, but this figure cannot Moreover, a fixed chargo is levied

aro

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Doubly represent the number in the Colony on those who park

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using parking-grounds: It ob- their cars outside the regular viously refers to drivers of all stands, and this is an ad- types of vehicles, including lor-ditional reason why the system ries. At the same time, It should be made generali

fy the same course at all sen- Honolulu and the Californian sons. But wherever there is const.

better route available for To cross the U.S.A. is already No speed-up winter flying this will be used. an easy matter.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

If it was Wod- "We must have dropped a-day somewhere.

needay the Rifle Club would be firing out. here.

will be required here to main- tain that 200 m.ph. schedule. This is already being operated over many parts of the Ameri- can network. From Now York over the North Atlantic we shall get back to Europe.

The South Atlantic from Dakar to Buenos Ayres is al- ready being flown. As Imperial Airways fly along the eastern A transcontin- edge of Afrien ental machine may provide the. link between Alexandria and the Argentine,

These are probably the main line systems of this new air may of the world, a network that is going to make this new world. one without the romance that distance seemed to lend it. Somehow it seems a shame that such phrases as "Far East" should lose their value, and the Near East" will be so close that it will appear to be merely across the road.

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LET those who doubt there

calculation of that 200 m.p.h. simply make a mathematical and multiply it by the twenty- two that I have suggested as the flying hours in each day.

speeds over great distances

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Multiply this figure again by seven and you will find that not only could any place within the world be reached, but a distance could be flown that would circle. the earth itself. There must be

delays, however, as passengers will demand an occasional rest, and connections may not always be maintained to the minute.

The comfort of passengers will be a primary consideration, naturally, so that larger machines timu any yet designed, giving great amenities and even sleeping accommodation, will be the craft that will By the world's airways, as, regularly as the ships of the last era have made their passages across the oceans of the world. But

what a difference in speed,

even if there is still something to be said for the extra-luxury-thal... ships provide!

Australia in seven days, will be come a commonplace event, and this means not the Port of Fremantle, Aut the Eastern State cities; two thousand miles further on Ships still take their twenty-eight- days to West Australia, and another fortnight to reach Brisbane.

Ilonkong is now twenty-two days by train and ship from Londen, but will then be reached in four. Peiping or Tientsin, although strangel enough, in spite of their greater distance from this country, closer to it by virtue of the truns-Siberian Railway, will be brought still nearer, and six days should see this journey

nade by air.

New Zealand, by the Panama shipping route (as passengers all say, "nothing but sea and few ports of call"), will have its alternative route by air. Either west about through Australia or cast about vin the United States:

There will be fun for passengers here when they cross the later. national date line (marked on the map). There will be either a day lost or a day gained, and always much confusion. Remember how the heroes of Jules Verno's "Round the World in Eighty Days" early last their wager by forgetting to subtract that day? Hound in eighty! It will be round in ten within a few years' time.

The aircraft of to-morrow will be no different from those of to-day. Glant flying boats will replace the comparatively small land platter of to-day's air routes on most of the sections, while amphibians and a minority of land machines will take the passengers on others.

First-class mall will also be car ried, and probably the surcharge for these letters will not be double that of ordinary postage to-day, Com- pare that with postal service before Rowland H.

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NCE, when I was in British Gulana, I met a nian in the back of beyond who had been to the same school as myself (he was long before my time, but it was the same school nevertheless). Wo remarked what

coincidence and had a drink on it. "The world is a small place," we said.

It was a trite remark, but truer than at most times. And if we can go on making it smaller perhaps. people will begin to realise that the world is not only a small place, it is ens place, and agree to use what we've got in it peacefully for every body's advantage, and not each cock Oght for his own little dunghill.