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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1930.

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burning in tho stokeholds of giant liners an- international other across the North Atlantic is being fought.

This is the race for the Atlantic air service between Europe and America,

The aeroplane and the fly- ing boat laugh at the ship's four days and a half to New York, but so far only in theury. What is a mere 30 knots compared with 150-200 m.p.h.? London to New So far, there has been no in-York in 24 hours

or less. Miliza Korjus dieation of public feeling locally That is the prospect of this Miliza Korjuss to the form which the pro- new world air route.

posed Hongkong memorial to the

There is the keenest rivalry late, King George should take.for the honour of establishing The matter is, however, receive the first passenger service across Britain. ing the attention of various the North Atlantic,

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Atlantic first flown June, 1919, by Alcock and Brown, but regular Transatlantic passenger service' only now becoming practical possibility.

Unique experiment, watched with interest by foreign air experts, will be the Mayo com- posite machine shown in this special photo- diagram.

Tico-hundred-mile-an-hour, four-engined, seaplane mail carrier, so heavily loaded with fuel for 2,000 miles journey that it cannot get into the air unaided, will be launched in flight from the back of porter flying-boat,

Air Ministry sponsor cxperiment for mili- tary possibilities.

USING small diving boats, which are refuclied in mid-cevan from catapult supply ships, the Germans have studied the problems of aircraft opera- stant radio communication.

Hodies, and in due course definit,America, France and Germany tion, weather conditions and con-

The starters. They are all

are

Convinced that # regular passenger service,is possible with heavier-than-air craft, Germany is building the world's biggest flying boat for the North Atlan-

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Africa, India. Malaya, Hong- kong and Australia aro change over from landplanes to flying boats. In the year 1936 we are to begin experimental flying for the Atlantic.

Two of the fleet of hosts Short Bros, are building for Im- penial Airways are for Atlantic experiments, They have four engines and weigh 39,00014.- 12,000. smaller than the Ameri- Martin Clipper which flew the Pacific.

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The first boat will shortly make its first flights. These lights will be increased in dura- tion until there comes a final 20' hours' non-stop round-and-round Britain fight to try the condi- tions of an actual Atlantic cross- ink.

Shorts are also building the Mayo composite aircraft consist ing of a small four-engined, mail-

taken into the air and launched arrying monoplane which is

for a non-stop ocean crossing at method is designed to overcome" the right height and speed. This the difficulty of getting a heavily loaded air-craft off the water.

Where do Britain stand the race? ging behind. The German and We appear to be day, French Atlantic and the Ameri can route over the Pacific have not just happened. They have been developed during the past five years, step by step as each

The Air Ministry is now to technical problem come.

make its OWI experiments. While our competitors hav. They have ordered from De been hard at work, Britain has Havillands two land monoplanes, paid little or no attention to the large versions of Charles Scott's commercial flying-bont. We seen!

air race Comet, each to have four to be starting where others be engines, and a large flying bont gan five years ago.

Was over-

from Short Bros.

proposals will no doubt be forth. dark horses. coming. At Home, the memorial

Germany is a strong favourite, Tund will, apart from the statue with sound reason. She has al- of the late King which is to be ready opened up the route for erected. at Westminster, he do both passengers and mails with voted to the provision of playing scooping first honours. For over

the new airship Hindenburg. the route.

France is not idle. She is London Palladium Orchestra fields, and there will no doubt be two years the national air trans-lying the South Atlantic mail a strong body of opinion locally part company. Deutsche Luft route between Paris and Santia. in favour of Hongkong following Hansa, has gathered a wealth of go de Chile, another training The commercial Rying boat

All these efforts are prelim- this admirable lead. The dif-experience of trans-ocean flying ground for the long-distance has been the Cinderella of British nary canters to gain experience. Not until this has been done will ficulty, ns we have previously by operating the mail route over passenger services to come. The aviation. The Air Ministry was

the South Atlantic.

2,000 miles of ocean between happy to encourage the flying even mails be sent across the Western Africa

ocean. South boat decorated with bombs an

On this showing the day America is flown non-stop with guns for the Royal Air Force.

when the first British flying boat rides into the air from a south With the background of prac. of the civilian firing bont except coast harbour airport bound for iral_experience, France,_like_her__a__few ships for Imperial Air New York with passengers and German rival, plans bigger and ways crossing of the Mediter nails is still far distant. faster machines.

ranean ditch compared with the Atlantic: But that did not obscure the eventual need for large multi-engined machines capable of flying non-stop over long sea 'distances.

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While the public is thinking be put forward, a start could be about the complaints of the Kow made with slum clearance, which loon Residents' Association and jis badly needed, but the resump-the demands of that organisation [tion of any considerable areas for further civic improvements,

It would be NOTES OF THE DAYge multi-engined flying-bonts. There was no immediate need

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BRITAIN and America

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we are going to lift our small with such an end in view would voice. We have two complainta

have agreed to make naturally be a costly business, from people who live within a few the establishment of the North unless some of the more wealthy hundred yards of the Kowloon-Atlantic service a joint effort be- property owners could be induced from people who habitually walk American Airways.

Canton Railway Station and one tween! Imperial Airways and Pan Meantime, to bear part of the burden to and from the Star Ferry. The America has opened up the as their contribution to the complaint of the first is of the world's longest ocean air route

smells and smoke which perodic-between San memorial. Unhappily, not much ally afflict them from the direc- Manila, extending soon to Macao. Francisco and thought was given in days tion of the railway yard and the past to the provision of "lungs" drylug (some might say rotting) the crowded parts of the fish upon the dockside there. This complaint may be unwarranted, in island or the mainland, but such that no-one can control the winds, spots as have recently been open- and the winds are to blame if the ed up as playing grounds have smells of patrid fish or bone fer- tiliser, or the smoke and smuts of become immensely popular with panting locomotives, come direct- children who previously had no ing at Kowloo instead of being, opportunity to indulge in or wafted east west over the

waters But the other complaint, i ganised games. There are two that about the little boy beggars, places which suggest themselves. is different. Whether they are ļas being eminently suitable for clever enough to hide theniselves

from authority the purpose in mind-one on the but we do know that they pesteg island and the other on the op- the average man and woman, and posite side of the harbour. We particularly the well-dressed wo- refer to the site of the presentan, even going so far as to lay hands upon them to encourage at- Government Civil Hospital, and tention. They got attention of an the area occupied by the military unexpected sort the other day. A fat Shuishulpo camp. When bearded British sallor gave chase to these urchins who were annoy- the Queen Mary Hospital is open, ing two women. They did not the former site will become appear on the scene for quite an available, whilst in due course of patrol is hardly to be expected hour afterwards. But that sort the Army will no doubt vacate of the British Navy, except onco Shamshuipo. Both these sites in a while. If boy beggars can't are situate in populous districts, be caught and bathed (if not bir-

and ched) and if they could be set aside corrected, the public is going to for the purpose of playgrounds, ask why, loudly, and with reason. Ja great boon would be conferred

we cannot say:

their condition

on hundreds of children who vision of much-needed playing

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crowded streets in which to play. could then be devoted to the It is to be hoped, therefore, that when the sites become vacant the ance of the playgrounds, which proper equipment and mainten- Government will, instead of would naturally bear the name of COMMENCES JULY 20th auctioning the areas for purposes the lato King and thus be a last-

of building, reserve such areas using commemoration of his bene- would be necessary for the pro- Incent, reign.

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The Air Ministry and Imperial Airways are at pains to assure a trusting public that everything is being done. Is it? The ques- ion is matural when Imperial Airways hides its activities be- hind a ridiculous veil of secrecy

Nothing was done, and men like Arthur Gouge, chief de- and signer of Short Bros., had to be with content with dreams and to talk of the possible development of the commercial flying boat.

Now things move. The Em- pire air routes to Egypt, South

By George Clark

"She's all upset over their first quaterel, I told her she should have heard our first twenty years."**

the Ministry is encrusted Civil Service reticence.

O another question arises. "Will the early exper- ences of France and Germany give them the leadership of the air? We must go on being patient British public and wait.

If Germany sends her huge flying bouts across the Atlantic triumphantly in the wake of the Hindenburg. we shall have fearned that the faraway look in the eyes of the experts who sit behind Air Ministry desks is not vision but myopia,

For air transport the North Atlantic has its own particular problems arising mainly out of the rough weather which has made many a ship passenger more respectful of the Atlantic. There are three possible routes. Most probable Is that via the Azores and Bermuda, with the longest ocean "hop" of 2,100 miles. From Ireland to New- foundland is the direct route over 2,000 miles of open sea. The northern route via Iceland and Greenland has three main stages which are broken up into a series of shorter flights, the longest being under 1,000 miles,

Greatest difficulty is the weather. Prevailing winds are from east to west. For the west- ward crossing the flying-boat must have a range of at least 3,000 miles for safety. Mails may be flown with a risk. With passengers there must be no failure.

The North Atlantic is a hard nut to crack, but cracked it will bo. Man has conquered the air and takes arid desert, anow- bound mountain and windlashed son in his stride.

RONALD WALKER.