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SUMMER SHOES

NEW SHIPMENT

JUST UNPACKED

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1936.

"INTERIOR OF THE NEW EMPIRE FLYING-BOAT..

HATCH TO HAL COMPARTMENT

ENDİNGERS

PLATFORM

MAIL COMPARTMENT

LOOP ATRIAL, IN STOWED POSITION

WIRELESS OPERATON

LUDOACE

AFTER CABING

WATER LINE

FANTRY

BIRTHS

SMOKING COMPARTMENT

FIRST AND BEDOND PLOT

MARINK EQUIPMENT

NEW

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RECORDINGS BY:-

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COMPLETE LIST ON REQUEST.

No Colour

CALL AND SEE THEM

at

10 courtesy of "Flight."

The above drawing allows tite internet accommodation of the new Short Empire Flying-Boat.

EMPIRE'S NEW FLYING-BOATS.

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CARPETS

AND

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THE

HONGKONG

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HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL;

PEAK HOTEL

& SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL:

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits. Peking

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LTD., PENANG.

CRAG HOTEL.

Penang Hila

(2,400 feet above scalevel)

Refreshment Rooma. (near summit station) Hill Railway.

"THE ISLAND'S MOST EFFICIENT SERVICE."

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL

On Sea Front.

Private Cars for Excursions Anywhere.

Caterers etc. to Imperial Airways.

Moals are interchangeable, no extra coal wherever you have your breakfast. luncheon, tee, or dinner,

Itcome of both hotels have private hatbroms and modern sanitation. At the Ranarmede each room has own public telephone.

The funnymede Restaurant has undeniably pride of place among hotels of the East with its enisine, and justly claims by its association to offer the traveller such an

not to be found elsewhere.

Teething troubles

Because SCOTT'S Emulsion. contains 44% of puro cod liver

oil and lime saita

for bond formation,

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IN THE MAKING

(By An Air Correspondent)

Sight To The Blind

At long last the flying-boat is coming into its Science's triumph over blind- Its importance to the British Empire, for ness by the grafting of corneas more than twenty years urged in these columns, of eyes from the dead to the is now realised to the point of attempting ade- living is revealed by Professor V. P. Filatov, director of the Odessa, who is quate measures.

eye clinic of visiting Moscow.

Neglected just after the war, it was revived by the Royal Air Force, which, despite limited means, developed flying-boats and carried out many extensive cruises in various parts of the world, establishing a technique which is still the finest.

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Lani year 250 such grafting operations wero performed, and In 100 of these cases the CYC. from dead bodies were used. Many of the patients in these cases are now able to read and work with- Under pressure of economy, It kan gone beyond the const-out handicap-United Press. development then "marked time," hugging phase, and has become Thought Trap

By big six-engined important in long-range Naval and actually a

means of a "thought trap" Usically lying scientists of Illinois University have: commercial flying-bont was stopp reconnaissance. ed in the building. Then the to and from harbours, flying-boats been able to witness in the brain of to 1180 open an animal the ebb and flow of con- United States entered the field, will often be able producing two

commercial water, and will, in any case, be selousneus, that force us mysterious types of superior performanace, able to range over vast ocean as life itself, wires a New York press When the animal was conscious, Italy, too, but on the military side, areas. Clearly, a greatly extend-coreapondent. built extensively, and carried out ed sphere of activity will be found an electrical current two to three was ob- millionths of an ampere highly spectacular undertakings. for it on the Naval side.

To-day a new and tremendously Possibly, some flying-boats may served in a galvonometer to now

10 the brain. entered. important phase is

At be added to the Fleet Air Arm, from the nerve

When the

Wos under animal Rochester twenty-nine big com- but a conception that sen training

current llowed In mercial flying-boats are well un-is a better apprenticeship to the anesthetics the

the reverse direction.

The tests of lying-boat than Air Force train- der way in construction, one

were conducted by them a composlie craft to enable ing, or than experience won on placing one electrode on the cerebral is er-cortex and. the other on the expused long-range high-speed seaplane long commercial routes, to be launched from the back of roneous. It has, indeed. been setalle nerve. a big flyingboat in flight, carrying proved beyond question that in this department of aviation the

a land with which it could not

ander its own power take off, a sailor's special training is of little notable experiment capablo

changes and variations.

of account, and Insupport of this there is the testimony of sailors also themselves.

Shorts, of Rochester, are building a large number of R.A.F. flying-boats. And at

The flying-beat does not, like Cowes, the land aeroplare, appear to have: Saunders Roc; at Brough. Black- a strict size-limitation, already burns; and ut Southampton, reached. The new Empire flying-| Vickers Supermarine are working boats will weigh 17% 1ons, but to full capacity flying-bont the designers, supported by all the other lending flying-boat de- production.

certain signers, are FROM OBSCURITY

on

of

the

In less than two years flying-possibility of building up to 100 boats, so far as the British Em-1 tons, or more, and could indeed do pire 14 concerned, will have this now..

from comparative emerged obscurity to high importance both

LONG, RANGE CRAFT

The new fleet for Imperial Air-

on

Hitler Creates New Medal For Army's Faithful

Berlin Apr. 20.

New service medals for Ger- many's armed forces have been erested by Fuehrer Adolf Hitler to mark the first anniversary of reintroduction of conscription.

The medal, of bronze, with a cornflower blue ribbon, will be awarded in four classen. Those serving 4, 12, 18 and 25 years aró eligible for the award.

Army, navy and air force men all may receive the medal in re- cognition for "Faithful service in the new armed forces,"

for outlay will be well repaid.

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by the fact that during the coming financial year repairs to capital ships of the Navy will cast! £2,089,963. Some Interesting re- flections are suggested..

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in numbers and in duties. In ways is chiefly for the accelerat- their construction and operationed and multiplied Empire mail and the British have displayed gentus, passenger services, to begin next despite artificially restricted or year. Two of them, however, are One is forcibly reminded of this portunity. A parallel is the Ger- special long-range craft, and will the man flair for airships. Curiously be used experimentally enough, Germany, although mak-Atlantic, first of all by way of the ing many bold attempts In flying-Azores and Bermuda. boat development, has fallen back The seaplane launched from the

The new Empire flying-boats fa this field of aeronauties. Mayo Composite is designed to fly.

Size, performance, and éfciency across the North Atlantic against will be at least equal of any in of the lying-bont have rapidly im-n strong heart wind, and it may the world. They will have

They embody proved, and the conception of its become a mail carrier. The take cruising speed of more than 150 operation has changed.

off will be with the four engines miles por hour. No longer is the flying-bont of the lower component, and the several important now technical

com-improvements one of them a wing? considered as the class whose four engines of the upper unique claim is ability to alightponent all working. The contri-tralling edge flap which varies the on and take off from open set. vance solves a special take-off camber without interfering with It is, indeed, Rubject to the dis- problem. But, it is not necessary the smooth flow of air. Recent ability that it cannot freely to regard the carrier flying-boat American flying-bonts will have operate on very rough water. as a more launcher: it may be used nothing over ours, not even in the With increasing size, it is true, as a long-range troop carrler, or matter of speed, in any comparison it becomes less handicapped in as reconnaissance machine, on equal terms. this respect; and it is, of course, whilst the seaplane released from It has not been such smooth salling with the new American in much better case than that of the top of it returns to its base.

This bold experiment, horeover, boata as first reports suggested. the San Francisco-Manila offers the advantage of launching On

the rung But the flying-boat scores by a whole formation of long-range experimental its independence of costly aero-heavily-loaded craft, the earrier months' score amounted to

performed that successful out-and-home journeys dromes, and, on the commercial boats having alde, by being under no need of special duty being free for other and three abortive starts. There high-altitude mountain-crossing work. performance.

a land aeroplane forced to descend

at sen.

EMPIRE ROUTES Above all, from the British point of view, it will make the great calling at foreign stations, or of crossing national frontiera.

SALESMAN SAM

a

three

two

was a complete change of engines in one case, MONEY WELL SPENT

But good success-to the deter- As to flying-boats generally, the economics are so great that special mined American flying-boat effort! attention must be called to them. It will succeed; and, happily, there They are a class on which the is no occasion for comparisons Empire's money ought to be put,' disparaging to the British.

(SAM, AFTER YOU'VE SHOVELED JAW,NIX!”ATŚ OFF TH SIDEWALK, GO DOWN TO? TOO MUCH TH' DEPOT AN' GIT THAT SHIP- MENT I TOLOJA ABOUT!

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Hongkong.

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with some false hair in it.

11 More than a curacy, to achieve

nothing wrong.

12 Slay of execution.

14 Taken by a nun.

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quired for this.

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Lancashire's machines.

20 Eloquence at Brompton.

22 Take the Island in in your walk. 24 These spaces run from right to

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Within its sheath, this is doubt- less within your grasp.

32 One girl and no more is taken by the cowboy, modest fellow.

OH, YOU'VE BOUNCED, YEAHS KICKED AN' THROWN

ME OUT OF HERE! BUT THIS TIME,!

I'M LEAVIN' GRACEFULLY.

SLIGHTLY

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1 They have helped to make more revolutions in Europe than all- the Communists who ever lived. that neither walks 2 An animal

nor runs.

3 Many a rogue has been, but the

circle remains recalcitrant.

4 Mere you have to find the flat

plate above.

5 Rod and line used by gardeners.

4 Courage or how to get the white

feather.

9 A model that makes a good im-

pression.

13 The average part of several

must be taken.

10 Takes part of the Little Go this

way,

inter.

19 Where

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the Dodo Ilved at one time. 21 Many an old gambler knew the

charm of the last main.

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secure the powder.

27 Qutte à cunning structure. 28 This Scottish bear keeps in the

hotel.

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The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road Central.

JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain.

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