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THE HONGKONO TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1936.

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FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1930.

KING GEORGE John McCormack

PLAYGROUNDS? John McCormack

So far, there has been no in Miliza Korjus dication of public feeling locally As to the form which the pro- pused Hongkang memorial to the late King George should

Miliza Korjus

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 theory. What is a mere 30 knots compared with 150-200 m.p.h.? London to New York in 24 hours

or less. That is the prospect of this new world air route.

There is the keenest rivalry take. for the honour of establishing

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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.

Two-hundred-mile-an-hour, four-engined, seaplane mail carrier, so heavily loaded with fuel for 3,000 miles journey that it cannot get into the air unaided, will be launched in flight from the back of porter flying--boat.

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Africa, India, Malaya, Hong- kong and Australia are Lo 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 bouts Short Bros. are building-for Im- penial Airways are for Atlantic experiments. They have four engines and weigh 39,000lb.- 12,000lb, smaller than the Ameri- can Martin Clipper which flow the Pacific.

The first bont will shortly make its first flights: These flights will be increased in dura- tion until there comes a Onal 20 hours' non-stop round-and-round Britain flight to try the condi tions of an actual Atlantic cross- ing.

Shorts are also building the Mayo composite aircrust consist- ing of a small four-engined, mail- taken into the air and launched carrying monoplane which is

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

Moriz Rosenthal ¡Pianisti The matter is, however, receiv- the first passenger service across ships, the Germans have,studied French Atlantic and the Ameri: the right height and speed. This

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USING small flying boats, which are refuelled in mid-ocean from catapult supply ing the attention of various the North Atlantic. Britain,

the problems of aircraft opera- bodion, and in due course definite America, France and Germany tion, weather conditions and con- Are the starters. They are all Proposals will no doubt be forth-dark horses,

slant radio communication.

coming. At Home, the memorial

Convinced that a regular Germany is n'strong favourite. passenger service is possible with fund will apart from the statue with sound reason. She has al- heavier-than-air craft, Germany of the late King which is to be ready opened up the route for is building the world's biggest erected at Westminster, be de-both passengers and mails with flying boat for the North Atlan- voted to the provision of playing-the new airship Hindenburg, tic route. London Palladium Orchestra fields, and there will no doubt be two years the national air trans- flying the South Atlantic mail

France is not scooping first honours. For over

idle. She is a strong body of opinion locally port company, Deutsche Luft route between Paris and Santia in favour of Hongkong following Hansa, has gathered a wealth of go de Chile, another training this admirable lend. The dif- expérience of trans-ocean flying ground for the long-distance ficulty, as we have previously by operating the mail route over passenger services to come. The pointed out, will be to find suit-

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harts of the Colony. It would be NOTES OF THE DAYmulti-engined, flying-bonta

-White-the-public-is-thinking- about the complaints of the Kow- Residents Association and

all to the good if, for the pur- poses of the schemes which may be put forwardd, a start gould be. made with slum clearance, which loon ist badly needed, but the resump-[the demands of that organisation tion of any considerable arens for further civle improvements,

with such an end in view would naturally be a costly business, unless some of the more wealthy Iproperty owners could be induced

With the background of prae- tical experience, France, like her German_rival, plans bigger aur faster-machines.

BRITAIN and America

Where does Britain stand the race?

We appear to bellag ging behind. The German and van route over the Pacific have not just happened. They have been developed during the past five years, step by step as each technical problem was come.

Over-

While our competitors bave been hard at work, Britain has aid little or no attention to the to be starting where others be- commercial flying-boat. We seem

gan five years ago,

Plic, commercial flying boat has been the Cinderella of British aviation. The Air Ministry was happy to encourage the flying boat decorated with bombs and guns for the Royal Air Force.

There was no immediate need of the civilian flying boat except a few ships for Imperial Afr ways' crossing of the Mediter 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.

The Air Ministry is now to make its own experiments. They have ordered from De Havillands tavo land monoplanes, kirge versions of Charles Scott's engines, and a large flying bout air race Comet, each to have four

from Short Bros.

All these efforts are prelim- nary canters to gain experience. Not until this has been done will even mails be sent across the ocean. On this showing the day when the first British flying boat rides into the air from a south New York with passengers and coast harbour airport bound for

mails is still far distant,

"The Air Ministry and Imperial Airways are at pains to assure trusting public that everything Is it? The ques- la 'being done.

we are going to if our small

on is natural when Imperial voice. We have two complaints |

have agreed to make

Airways hides its activities be- from people who live within a few the establishment of the North

Nothing was done, and men hind n ridiculous veil of secrecy Canton Railway Station and one tween Imperial Airways and Pan signer of Short Bros., had to be with Civil Service reticence, hundred yards of the Kowloon Atlantic service a joint effort be- like Arthur Gouge, chief de and the Ministry is encrusted from people who habitually walk American Airways. Meantime, content with dreams and to talk to bear part of the burden to and from the Star Ferry, The America has opened up the of the possible development of as their contribution to the complaint of the first is of the world's longest ocean air route the commercial flying boat.

smells and smoke which perodic-between San ally affilet them from the direc- Manila, extending soon to Macao. pire air routes to Egypt, South

Francisco and tion of the railway yard and the drying seme might say rotting)

memorial. Unhappily, not much thought was given in days past to the provision of "lungs" in the crowded parts of the fish upon the dockside there. This complaint may be unwarranted, in island or the inaintarul, 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 putrid fish or bone fer- tiliser, or ho smoke and smuts of become immensely popular with panting locomotives, come direct- children who previously had no ing at Kowloon instead of being opportunity to indulge in or-

wafted wast or west over the water. But the other complaint, ganised games. There are two that about the little boy beggars, places which suggest themselves is different. Whether they are as being eminently suitable for clever enough to hide themselves the purpose in mind-one on the but we do know that they pester from authority we cannot Kay; 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 present hands upon them to encourage at- man, even going so far as to lay Government Civil Hospital, and tention. They got attention of an the area occupied by the military unexpected sort the other day. A at Shamshuipo camp. When to these urchins who were annoy- bearded British sailor gave chnaq 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 onee Shamshuipo. Both these sites in a while. If boy beggura 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, foudly, and with venson, a great boon would be conferred

their

condition

en hundreds of children who vision of much-needed playing have no place other than the fields...Such funds as are raised 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 late King and thus be a last-

of building, reserve such areas as ing commemoration of his banc- would be necessary for the pro- 'ficent reign. ›

Now things move.The Em-

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

"She's all upset over twir first quarrel, I told her she

should have heard-or Orst Iwenty

So another question arises. iences of France and Germany give them the leadership of the air? We must go on being a patient British public and wait.

Will the early exper-

If Germany sends her huge flying boats across thejiAtlantic triumphantly in the wake of the Hindenburg. we shall have learned 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 sen. 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 រឹទ 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 be. Man has conquered the alr and takes arid desert, snow- bound mountain and windlashed. sen in his atride.

RONALD WALKER