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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 16, .1936.

TUTH ABOUT THE

Three Countries Searching For GREAT SPEED-UP OF

AIR SERVICES

Hongkong In Five Days; Egypt In One

Y this time next year

BY

there will be a twice- weekly service to Hongkong) which will enable passengera to fly from this Colony to London in five days.

This is part of a revolutionary new series of Imperial Airways" services covering 24.000 miles of alr routes throughout the world.

1

The scheme, which has taken

years to organise, will be pre- sented to the House of Commons for final sanction on Tuesday during the Air Estimates bate,

De-

Under this new scheme all first- class air-mail will be sent at ordinary postni rates, wherever possible, by air within the Empire.

DUM-DUM BULLETS

Elusive Colonel Mezler-

TRAVEL IN COMFORT

ON NEW EMPIRE

FLYING BOATS

Photograph Below shows how passengers will travel from Croydon

BRITAIN REFUTES ITALY'S WILD CHARGES

THREE Governments are trying to trace Colonel Gustave Mezler, the man who overnight

to London when the new Empire ny became a sensationally important figure in inter-

ing bonts are commissioned.

Existing schedules on the Em- Arctic 'Dictator' Accused Of

pire alt routes will not only be

cut to ribbons, but services will

be doubled, and trebled in many

enses.

A now fleet of machines, costing two million pounds, which will en able night and day schedules to by maintained, is now being built., With this new wonder-feet-the! biggest ever dreamt of the fol- towing services are to be main- tained:-

To the Cape. twice

weekly

"Murder, Mass Starvatiom

Moscow, June 1.

GRIM story of an island “dictatorship,” in which mur- der, attempted murder and death by starvation are

+ days alleged to have played their parts, was unfolded at the beginning of the trial in Moscow yesterday of 1. D. Simon- chuk, Director of the Soviet Polar Station on Wrangel Island.

Australia, twice weekly 7 days India, 5 services weekly 21⁄2 days Singapore, thrice weekly 4 days Hongkong.

tiny's and, most remarkable of all.

Egypt, ten times a week 1 day

This whole scheme is the Big-

national diplomacy.

Colonel Mezler is the mysterious foreigner who obtained the signature of Dr. Martin, Abyssinian Minis- ter in London, to an order for 3,000,000 soft-nosed bullets for use against Italian troops:

Soft-nosed bullets are illegal, and Mussolini, into whose hands Colonel Mezler's correspondence mysterious- ly found its way, used this information in an 80-page indictment of Britain which he presented to the League of Nations.

Discovery of Colonel Mezler's j part in this Anglo-Italian dis- pute had one immediate result-

Mussolini gave orders to the League that his indictment of Britain was to be withdrawn. Three governments are now seeking Colonel Mezler, who has: left England.

Britain wants to know how Colonel Mezler's lotters to and from Dr. Martin, the Abyssinian! Minister in London, found their way into Mussolini's possession.

needed them for leopard shont- Ing.

MINISTER TRICKED

The British reply will also at- tach a statement from Dr. Martin saying-

that Colonel Mezler obtained his signature to an order for 3,000,000 soft-nosed bullets by a trick:

that Dr. Martin did not know that soft-nosed meant "dum dum." and

that as soon as Colonel Mez- ler had obtained the order he disappeared without delivering a single bullet,

The Secret Service is now try ing to find out-whether he went straight off to Mussolini with hig "evidence."

Abyssinia wants to clear up the whok story of this damaging picca of propaganda based on Dr. Mar- the tin's misunderstanding of significance of soft-nosed bullets.

BRITAIN'S REPLY Italy feela that Colonel Mezler has caused her acute embarrass-i ment and would like to hear his version of the case.

Although the indictment has Chemicals, Ltd.

This will answer an allegation been withdrawn by Italy, Mr. Anthony Eden intends to raise by Italy that dum-dum bullets the question at the next League made by Eley Brothers (now in- meeting if Italy does not refer to corporated in Imperial Chemicals

The British reply will also at- tach a statement from Sir Harry MacGowan, chairman of Imperial

Ltd.) were found in Abyssinia. that Colonel It will state

MUSSOLINI HAD HAD THESE Mezler, although he represented, "HOTOGRAPHED AND INCLUD- himself as agent for BirmingED IN HIS EVIDENCE. ham munitions, has never held this position.

Ife had obtained some samples The case is being heard before the Supreme Court,

of soft-nosed bullets packed in and Prosecutor A. J. Vyshinski alleges that when Dr.the printed containers of Birming- goat move in the development of Wulfson, a physician at an outpost, protested against the ham firms, and these also found their way into Mussolini's posses- mall-transport since the introdue-dictatorial methods of Simenchuk, a fake emergency callston and were duly photographed It comes into force it means that was sent to him, and then he was murdered on the way by ns evidence for Geneva. Imperial air linera will fly out of Britain 60 tons of first-class mails one of Simenchuk's assistants. weekly.

tion of penny postage, and when

HUGE NEW AIR FLEET

Then Simenchuk, it is de-¦ clared, attempted to starve the NEGRO AND

SISTER SHOT

doctor's wife to death and, in The new air fleet nocessitated the meantime, enused a famine! for this huge tank will consist of among the local Eskimo popula- 28 luxurious four-engined flying-tion by denying them either the boats, each weighing 18 tons.right to hunt for food or to be They will be equipped to carry 24 fed from the station's warc- passengers by dny, and sleep 16 by

houses. night, while travelling at a top speed of 200 miles-an-hour.

suro

and

less beacons are being erected

along 20,000 miles of existing

INVESTIGATOR SENT

saved

only when

Otto

Is!

DEAD IN A

But the type of package shown in the photograph was one that has not been used for 22 years and the bullets were apparently a very small consign- ment went out to Africa for Bon shooting at least 22 years 8gb. The British statement will no Another point will be that [point out that no ammunition can Colonel Mezier obtained soft-be exported to this country with- nosed bullets from Birmingham out a specific permit from the firms by telling the makers he Cabinet and that no permit for any bullets of the kind alleged has been issued.

New X-Ray Aids Fight

BLAZING CABIN Against T.B.

A new method of taking X-ray pictures of the lungs to show greater detail than ever before is described in the annual report of the medical director of Preston Hall, the British Legion village near Maidstone.

Air Hostess Describes Job In Clouds

routes. In additión, aerodromes Soviet in the trial of the Metro ward to pull his body out of the desired to phoRay picture with many intriguing personalities.

In the

HE HAD THREATENED In addition, 12 still large aire Severni Eskimos led and; says: liners for use over land routes are the proscention, the doctor's wife. A WHITE WOMAN now being bullt. These will weigh was

London, May 28. more than 20 tons each and will Schmidt, chief of the Northern Gordonsville (Virginia), June 1.

This week the girl with one of have accommodation for 27 pas- Sen Route Administration, heard For six hours last night 200 sengers in daylight and sleeping of what was happening und sent State troopers, armed citizens,

the most envied jobs in the bunks for 20 at night-time. They an investigator to the Wrangel and a sheriff's posse besieged in

world completes a quarter of a million miles of air travel. will also be able to carry about | station.

la cabin here an aged negro and

A modern apparatus called the three tons of mail.

She is Heidi Oberholzer, 21- A tribunal of four are judging his sister.

tomography is employed, and this in-

petite air hostess. A write woman had complained strument is believed to be the anly year-old, To ensure that the services the case the Vice-President of! can be continued over the vast the Supreme Court, the noted that the negro, William Walea, who one of its kind in this country, The Every day for the past two years Aretic aviator Babushkin, a trade was apparently demented, had X-Ray tube is arranged to move she has made the 522-mile jour- routes by night and day, work safon leader and a steel-worker-threatened her with a revolver.

rapidly through the are of a circle proceeding to equip them with Reuter

The sheriff went to arrest the during the exposure, and the platency between London and Zurich

on the opposite side of the patient in a Swiss air liner. the most modern, devices to en-

negro. Wales shot him dand.

also moves at a corresponding rate. Island Note. Wrangel regular opornilon

Every day she greets a fresh set. Then the siege of the shack be The position of the tube and plate situated in the Arctle, off the gan. Searchlights were trained on anfoty. Every 200 miles wire north-eastern coast of Siberia and the pince. Machine-guns hailed sed so that the centre of the jof passengers and makes them feel

north-west of the Bering Straft.bullets into it.

that is the point at which the at home in the 200 m.p.h. flying rays are, so to speak, focused, is hotel. And among the 8,000 Vyahinski prosecuted for the A brother of the sheriff ran for-at whatever level in the chest. it is "guests" she has entertained Heidi has already encountered Vickers engineers three years ago.line of the fire. He fell wounded.

ordinary BLAZING SHIRT

a stationary source of the rays all

She threw up her job with a famous A State trooper tried to drive anthe composite structures of the chest

contenta cast varying shadows which Swiss criminal lawyer to take up her the use of the Mayo composite armoured car into the cabin like a

reproduced in two dimensiona present post. atreraft and one of the Empire tank. He, too, was wounded. only on the final plate. Since ali

Boldly walking into the Swiss air Then a State trooper staked his X-Itay work is shadow photography offices she asked for a job. As she is. boats specially fitted with extra!

shirt in petrol, erept up to the it follows that the opacity cast by a less than five feet tall and weighs only tanks to give a non-stop range cabin, set the shirt alight and rib, for example, may obliterate the six stone, she was just what the com- over the ocean. Sir Alan Cob-flung it through a window.

lighter area, formed by a cavity in pany wanted. She got the job." bum is also carrying out special, Flames leapt up. The negress the lung. experiments in aerial refuelling, was seen against a background of and a four-engined, scaled-up fire. The troopers shot at ber andį version of the D.II. Comel which she fell, dead. - won the Australin air race While the cabin was blazing the boing built for the Air Ministry two wounded troopers dragged the nt Hatfield.

sheriff's brother to safety.

At a second-storey window Wales will also be tackled within 12

Ultimately Dritain aims at was seen, gun in hand. A trooper months-linking the Dominion of throwing an ail-Red air girdle opened fire on him with

a sub- Canada with England by way of round the world which will not machine-gun. the North Atlantic.

only_link the Motherland with all The people atood watching the her Dominions and Colonies, but flamos destroy the cabfit. When also inter-link them with one an the fire died they dragged Wales's other..

body from the ruins.-Reuter,

are being fitted with the most modern night-landing equip ment, wireless direction-finding installations and up-to-the- minate meteorological service, No fewer than 27 countries are! co-operating with Britain In these: installations and in improving existing aerodromes and clearing forests and bush for forced-land- ing grounds.

CROSSING THE ATLANTIC But this is not all. The biggest

nir transport problem in the world.

To this end four great experi- ments are being tried, including

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WATSON'S

WORM BONBONS

MEAN HEALTHY CHILDREN -

8 cts. Each

"Now I would not have any other work," she says. "Most of the time we are 10,000 feet in the sky, and it is sunshine all the time."

NO MOVING SHADOWS

By uso of the

moving tube it follows that the time of exposure for the focussed level is the total time Heki is proud of the fact that she. allowed for the whole movement, can now greet her passengers in their while every other opacity at any own language before they speak to ather level receives only a fraction her. of the

the total exposure.

From long practice and observation. An analogy may be made with the she can detect nationalities unerringly amateur's attempts

to take a picture from their appearance. of a dark building. an interior

This is how she sums them up! convenient open standing on some

of

manner,

He leaves the camera with the shutter English: Always unconcerned, neg- pedestal for, say, an hour. The ob-gely dressed, invariably carry Jeet at which the camera is directed ewspapers. recolves the whole exposure, while the all. Keenly interested in everything French: Most smartly dressed, af moving shadows of other visitors to that is going on., Fussy about lug the building are present in the area. covered by the lens for too short a suave in

gage and other details. The most time to produce any Image on the

American: Moat attentive and photographic plate.

With the tomograph focussed at obviously travelled sir, about them. polite. Particular about sents. An different levels

the chest it is Clothes betray them more plainly possible to obtain X-ray pictures in than other nationalities. which the usual shadows cast by the ribs, for example, do not show at all, about air travel and the most friendly Australians: Seem to know nil and, on the other hand detailed out- of all.

in

lines of diseased states of the lungs Germans: Quietest of all; least in- at the selected level are well shown.clined to talk. "Pre-occupied air of This type of X-ray Investigation is stolid detachment. In dress, unlma- of the greatest possible value to the ginative,

surgeon, before he undertakes some "And, when you come her

Across some

of the modern operations on the lungs. one you cannot readily place," says This type of treatment is carried out Heidi, "then you can be certain they on the Intent. Iines, at Preston Halljare Swiss".

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