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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1936.

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DEATH.

DA CRUZ-On June 16th, 1836, at

25, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

BACK UP the

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Basra

Khartun

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Gwadar

Mpika Salisbury Bulawayo

Johannesburg

CAPETOWN

the

HE Air Navigation Bill,

which is before House of Commons, in effect, 4

air charter designed to re-

new

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Cawnpore

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Calcutta

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MAIN ROUTES OF IMPERIAL AIRWAYS ASSOCIATED COMPANIES.

By

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PACIFIC

AUSTRALIA Charleville

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have spent immense suma on ground organisation, Imperial Airways has had to make shift with the barest, provision of this indispensable equipment. This,' in itself, is a severe handicap.

It was this policy of short- sighted economy which retarded air the stablishment of our communications with the Cape arai Australià..

Clearly the critics of Imperial Airways

are barking up the wrong tree, slnce, as we have seen, for all the short-comings.

to which they refer the parsl-. mony of successive Goyern- ments and not the company is to blame..

And their clamour against the Air Navigation Bill is the mere unwarrantable and ridicul- ous because one of its main

is, Brigadier-General P.R.C. GROVES, objects is to make good the very

air transport, in common with other large transport under takings, should be owned by the

C.B.. C.M.G., D.S.O.

Airways has been in every way satisfactory."

medy the shortcomings of Formerly Director of Flying O perations at the Air Ministry our policy in regard to com- 11.16 p.m. at the French Hospital, mercial flying and to imple Miss Carmen Maria Da Cruz, agement the far-reaching plans M. Da Cruz of Saigon. Funeral for Imperial Air develop. will pass the Monument to-day at ment. embodied in the. Em- pire Transport Scheme announced December,

5.30 p.m.

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Hongkong Telegraph. 1934.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1936.

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Yet the passage of this most important constructive measure -aptly described by Lord Eli- bank as being in the same tradition 18 the enactments which made our Merchant Navy the finest in the world"--is be- opposed and obstructed at

Churchill NOTES OF THE DAY

The fact that

nil- Auatrin's

State.

BILL JUSTIFIED

FEW members of other par-

The facts are substantially true and therefore carry weight with those who do not know the explanation; this, as will be seen, not only completely vin- ties oppose the Bill on other dicates Imperial Airways, but and more plausible grounds also fully justifies the Bill,

amely: That the Bill empowers the

Secretary of State for Air, with Treasury approval, to enter into long-term subsidy agreements for air trans- port services; That in practice this amounts to

monopoly; and That they are opposed to mono-

poly on principle.

The particular monopoly in question is, of course, that granted to our great national

air transport concern-Imperial

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First let us recall how and why Imperial Airways created.

was

It was formed in 1924 by amalgamating the four inde- pendent British air transport Companies because, owing to cross-Channel route, they were cut-throat competition on the threatened with bankruptcy.

And

Great Britain's lead in establishing one powerful State-aided Corporation to de- velop British air transport in the international sphere- where it has to cope with many political dificulties as well as with keen foreign rivalry-has been followed by nearly all the principal States in the world, not to mention a member of smaller coun- tries.

What better proof could there be of the wisdom of the course adopted?

deficiencies of which they com- plain.

For the Bill proposes to raise the subsidies payable in any financial year from £1,000,000 to

to Airways £1,600,000, a step which will en able Imperial expand and constantly modernise its flect which is now in process of replacement. and to increase also the fre- quency of its services.

to

CX-

This in turn will, as perlence has shown, effect sub- stantial reductions in cost per ton-mile, and thereby accelerate

fnancial autonomy, progress towards the goal of

According to the report of n

the committee appointed by European air transport, the ma.. League of Nations to investigate jor European companies show the following proportion trade revenue to cost:

Imperial Airways ... Deutsch Luft Hansa Air France. Italy

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of

per cent.

G1

35.4 21

8.7

And while the British com-

pany's ratio of subsidy to total. receipts is 38 per cent., that of German is 71 per cent., and that of the French 76 per cent.

SAFETY AND COMFORT

THESE figures, together with

the exceptional standard of efficiency, safety, regularity, and Unfortunately, this sound comfort maintained by Imperial! policy was in our case--and in Airways, amply warrant the our case alone-hampered by Cavernment's decision to con- complete failure to appreciate the need for adequate grants.

Consequently our subsidies to our national company have been, and still are, on a far smaller than those accorded by any other state to its own en- terprise of a similar nature.

SEVERE HANDICAP

LTD. NOR 55 Bat all, for until re-

tinue to utilise Imperial Air ways for the development-of.. Empire air routes, including the future North Atlantic service." "And nothing could be more certain than that the proposed alternative the encouragement of competitive organisations- would, as the Under-Secretary of State for Air has pointed out, be uneconomical and lead to the dissipation both of public and private money,

Jack Hylton's Orchestra. Yours truly is truly yours-Fax Trot

Jack Hylton's Orchestra. BD-5050 Everybody's doing it-Fox Trot... Darktown Strutters. Darktown Strutters. I never knew-Fox Trot .. BD-5059 These foolish things-Fox Trot

Roy Fox & His Orchestra. The touch of your lips-Fox Tro!

Roy Fox & His Orchestra. Indian Love Call-Fox Trot..Roy Fox & His Orchestra. BD-5058

Rose Marie-Fox Trot......Roy Fox & His Orchestra. BD-5053 Let's face the music and dance-Fox Trot

Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

RESTLESS DAYS But where are you-Fox Trot Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

A great many people are finding BD-5060 Wah-hoc-Fox Trot Ray Fox & His Orchestra.

I'sca-muggin'-Fox Trot...Roy Fox & His Orchestra.g it very uncomfortable in every stage.

the présent chaotic age when The Labour Party objects to they give their likes and dis- it mainly because it holds that BD-5051 And so to bed-Fox Trot

Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. likes full play and allow their political antipathies to dictate You have that extra something-Fox Trot

Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. ¡their actions. Some few weeks

Winston sgo, Mr.

Airways: but the name of touched upon this matter in his

British Airways is also anathe- music-Fox Trot

The Ballyhooligans.usual brilliant way by picturing The Ballyhooligans. what must be the worries of nounoud desire for a return of the ma, for this, the largest of our such a tender-hearted and con- Hapsburg monarchy has arcused domestic air transport combines, .The Ballyhooligans. scientious public man as Lord the anger and apprehension of the has recently been given a con- The Ballyhooligans. Hugh Cecil.

In the latter's Little Entente may appear at first truct for the carriage of air view, friendship with Italy is sight a trifle extraordinary. Why mails to Scandinavia and out of the question for many on earth Austria, and Hungury, too, small subsidy.

But "Imperials are the main years to come; he has no very for that matter, should not be free

form of Govern-target, and no effort is spared to friendly feeling towards to chtore their

ment without arousing their neigh disparage that company, the France; as a devout Churchman, our states to frenzy, or at least principal charges being that its he cannot have any sympathy forbodling, seems a mystery. The fleet is slow by comparison with with Soviet Russia; being anfact in that if Yugo-Slavin, Czech- those of its foreign competitors, ardent supporter of the League Slovakia and Rumania were Pure of Nations, he must condemn that the restoration would not affect that it has been slow in esta Japanese aggression against their freedom they would probably blishing the Imperial air routes, China; and as a stout British remain quiet and merely watchful, and that it has not attempted to individualist he dislikes the Nazi But the restoration, to them. means exploit various promising fields, that the first stop towards reestablish- notably South America, where regime. There is none doeth good;

onement of the Austrian Empire, and French, German, and American scale nol no,

it was only through the collapse of companies have long since been quotes Mr. Churchill. The that edifice in 1918 that they won established. disconcerting fact is that their independence. Or perhaps it what is said of Lord Hugh Cecilia not correct to say that these three of a great number of British Austrian restoration. Their great people. Mr. Churchill's cause for cbsession is that Germany's "Middle uneasiness is that most of these Europe" policy, aiming at German hegemony, may once again create a nations with which many Britons are out of harmony are situation in the Balkans which will mean war, and possibly subjection, bellicose people, well artred, and. They are by no means assured that save one, all under the rule of Italy and Germany, making the dictators. Thus, Mr. Churchill safeguarding of Austria their ex- concludes, if these well-prepared cusc, have not a hope of some day nations should reciprocate the pushing about to suit themselves feelings of disapproval and come the boundaries of the Balkan and to some understanding among Middle European states,

One can sympathise with Aus themselves, n first-class, inter-

trian and Hungarian, and the gal-thnt the national crisis might casily

lant Magyar, for wanting some arise. On the whole, he thinks thing of their old greatness.. Aus the British people might do well tria-Ilungary, twenty years ago an

Many and versatile were those to revise their antipathies and Empire of 51,340,000 souls and eliminate the weaker ones. 200,000 square miles, was then the "stars" who knew no other stage Much of the present restlessness second largest in Europe. At the than the highway. Almost with It had dwindled to seasonal regularity did each ap- can, of course, be traced to dif-end of 1918 fering political concepts, which, 3,640,000 in population and 7.653 pear in the course of a "circuit" And the far more comprehensive than in some countries, find their ex-square miles in area.

It could ever have been offered to pression in extreme forms of proud Hapsburgs were exiled.

seems a pity. ... but not to the nationalism. Much will depend, Slavs, Slovaks, Ruthens them by the greatest music hall so far as the future peace of and the rest, who now are free. syndicate extant.. the world is concerned, on the They remember Austria's rise to On nocount of sheer novelty, groupings of nations. At the greatness, and centuries of war moment, there appears a de-which extended her borders, the oc-

bottles were finite trend towards the old cupation of Besnia and Herzegovina system of alliances- system in 1879 (supported by Germany)

Whither have to swarthy sons of from a framework, two full octaves, including semi-tones, enabling the which has obvious "dangers, ul- and the annexation of those states

adrolt one to hammer out "Stars and Italy gone, without whom our early though if operated solely for in 1908, in defiance and disdain of

Blowing iro a set of reeds adjust Stripes," &c., by means of two des musical education would have been

spoons. Hero simultaneously sert

considerable incomplete? True, the barrel-organ defensive purposes it might the expostulation of Europe. They remember the bloody Balkan war.

ed to his lips, be

exist being "handled" no longer by eventually bring some stability the Inducement of Bulgaria, at manipulated a hurdy-gurdy with one dexterity was necessary in wrist and has become a rarity, these that yet

tho

Antonios-bir hand, beat on a big drum with the footwork, yet it appeared to be a to the European situation. Mr. Austria's whisper, to make war on

ever-Amiling Neville Chamberlain's reference Serbia, and they recall Serbia's other, while cymbal effects were in- simple enough operation when exhi

bited by an exponent made agile by fanciera all, if one can judge by the troduced by a vigorous movement of a few days ago to the future of gallant fight and eventual victory,

long and constant practice. The feathered pets invariably to be sw In a cage fonging in front of the the League system conveys an and Austria's insistence upon the the foot. Strapped and loaded as he

days that are al- possers equal nimbleness to do justice organ. implication that Britain may in creation of Albania, a new state, was, few would envy him on those handball ringer, too, must needs

to the silvery-toned bells set at in- As if the foregoing artists did not future base her foreign policy under an Austrian Prince, They broiling sunimer

most as non-existent now as the per-

tervaln his collapsible table. provido variety anough, former.

Naturally, "The Bluebelle of Scot given the thrill of viewing a word either on alliances or on isola-remember Germany's programme

land" figured in repertoire, the final Another attractive diversion was

swallower at cloko quarters, mystified tion, but he added that, in any for hegemony in the Balkans, and the irreconcilable Sorba who, in event, she must be adequately June 28, 1914, committed the crime provided by the chains bext to chord being produced by the ringing by the alfresco ventriloquist, andin- trigued to be told all about ang armed. After to-morrow's Parlat Sarajevo, And rememberingshaggy fellow, who did his best to

eaza aundry portions of our "joelly of four bells, two in each hand.

one of the whose hair was as long as the words liamentary debate, we shall have they have som excuse for fear, and paces which we threw in lieu of The Foot of Leith Walk In Inti-humanity by a striking, personally

Not by any mato association with a clearer idea of the lines on the summoning of their generals to monetary largesse.

stretch of imagination could the greatest Itinerant performers, Mala ho used, which Britain proposes to move.", council.

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Hence, according to one of the erities, "Before a subsidy is for a further 15 years, the House ought to be assured that the service given by Imperial

cently these subsidies have been on a diminishing scale, and whereas other leading countries

Street Entertainers of Old

WITH the passing of Punch and Judy we are made to realise street entertainer of twenty-five years ago is now al- most non-existent.

one of the most popular figures wa the one-man band. If It could not be said that he produced a perfect melody, his energies at least earned our admiration and our coppers..

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ponderous shuffle be likened to any known, terpsichorean movement, but our enthusiasm overlooked any such trifle as that.

bar. Skill and good judgment were amply demonstrated in his favourite feat-throwing a metal ball to some height, to be caught in a leather cup Other his forehead. strapped to Juggling items featured in Malabar's programme, which was of a standard no less enjoyable than that of tho more orthodox professional.

GERMAN BANDS

TUMBLER MUSIC Came then two individuals with their musical glasses, a "turn" which never failed to gather appreciative audiences. From a couple of dozen

Tho German band announced in tumblers containing. varying quanti ties of water the sweetest refrain was conjured by skilful use of Anger tips, unmistakable fashion Its coming from maistened in jime water, upon the afar. The phlegmatic Teutons who glasses. Following the comprised the combination were over rims of the ecremony of passing round the hat the n't pains to be up to date, their virtue programme culminated with the duct. in that respect being on a par with "Alice, where art thou?" in which tho their most systematic door-to-door laws, once unknown,' now debar de travel- harmony could hardly have been collection. The registration

ling musician from foreign shores A principle somewhat similar was

from embarking on thore tours" employed in another musical device,

that may not have been luerative in In this instance a number spended

a moro dolnite purpose. tilly-lled

themselves, but which possibly served

wo were