1936-10-26 — Page 15

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1936.

World's Largest Air Race-13,639 Miles, Has Started From Le Bourget Airport. TREACHEROUS ROUTE TO FAR EAST

FROM PARIS

PARIS TO

FR. INDO CHINA AND BACK.

Paria, Oct. 24.

The longest and most arduous race in the history of avia tion, 13,629 treacherous miles from Paris to Saigon in French Indo-China, started from Le Bougret airport at dawn to-day with three fliers of a dozen nations competing for nearly £15,- 000 in prizca.

The race is being held under the Joint sponsorship of the Aero Club of France and the Aero Club of Indo- China. The aerial "sporting code" of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale will be used, necording to the French Air Ministry,

'were

that he did not weigh more than 170 pounds, the maxlinum.

The entire 13,620 miles must be 90 hours including an covered in allowance of 48 hours for rest at arrival at Salgon a Saigon. On plane will be allowed one hour for refueling and checkup of mechanical parts. It then will be impounded in an enclosure flanked by guards for whatever portion of the 48-hour rest period the pilot chooses to remain at Saigon. Another hour for further checkup will be allowed before start of the return trip.

The Air. Ministry announced that at the conclusion of the gruelling contest

it will buy the winning plane. preserving it no a menim of en- couraging high speet designs.

Entries

from received British, French, Gerinan and Italian nylators and negotiations were under-

Any plane which fails to report way

to induce two of Amerien's out- standing racing pilots-Col. Rosca at the fixed contral points along the Turner nnd Capt. James G. Halzlip route or which does not return to to enter. The entry fee was £50, of Parls within 12 days of the takeoff which half will be handed over to will be disqualified. A member of the winner of the race. Nearly all the crew of any competing plane can of the entranin withdrew before the be replaced only once during the en- start of the race,

tire race.

COLOURS ASSIGNED PLANES Distinctive colours have been at- signed to the planes entered from various nations. The French entries, for instance, will have their surfaces painted bright blue, The British planes would have been green, the German ones white and the Stallon planes red.

RETURN VIA CAIRO The route of the contest will be by way of Paris, Baghdad, Allaho bad, Salgon and return by way of Allahabad, Bagland, Cairo and Paris. The first leg of the long flight will be the most gruelling, 2,392 miles from Paris to Baghdad. The next ringe, Baghand to Allahinbad, is only

In addition to the spred race a 92 inlles shorter and the stretch from Allahabad to Saigon measures 1,930 handleap.contest will be staged over

the miles.

On the return trip the fern will me course, open only to multi-

make a hop of 798 miles from Bagh- dad to Cairo and one of 1995 from Cairo to Paris.

necessary.

The contestants will be required in hall at the charted control points but may stop off at between-points if however, they do not make the first leg-Paris to Baghdad

In non-stop flying they must make! one of the other full legs on the 1 way to Saigon non-stop.

FUEL TANKS TO BE SEALED Gasoling tanks will be sealed at Paris, Baghdad and Allahabad by representatives of the Aero Club of France and there will be elals along the roulent intermediate points to care for planes which may land between the control points for refuelling. Each plane will carry

and

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of

motor transport planes capable dying with full load and one dend en- gine at an altitude of not less than 0,500 feet. Their range must be at least 521 miles with a wind of 30 niles an hour force. They live a payload of at least 771 points, A two-man crew will be allowed. United Press,

Medicine That May Curb Suicides

must

A recent photo of members of the Air Arm of the Hongkong

Volunteers, with one

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HORROR OF FRENCH PRISON

Chicago, Oct. 20.

Maj. Irene Peyron of the Salva... | tion Army, only woman ever to visit Devil's Island, expressed hope that the French government will hasten its plans for abolish- ing the notorious penal colony.

"The hopelessness and de- pravity of the prisoners, com- bined with the devastating climate," Maj. Peyron said, her grey eyes shining with tears, led us to recommend gradual abolishment en the colony. While many external improve- tendencies was described to the ments have been made in recent

Hanover, N.HI., Oct. 26.

- A discovery of a medicine

scaled barographs, one official which seems to curb suicidal

one as a check.

an extensive study of the

The contestants were required to American sychological Asso-years, it is still a horrible. roport at Le Bourget three days be clation, in convention here, by | place." fore

the schedule start and their

certificates planes must carry

of Dr. Abraham Myerson of Major Meyron, whose father made navigability. The pilots were rc- Boston,

colony, quired to have transport licences or Dr. Mycrson, a state psychiatrist in spent three months there by special European "tourisme" of cross-counMassachusetts, sald benzedrine, a dispensation of the French govern- try *permits. Furthermore, each drug of the adrenal group, has "ament. The government, she said, plane must carry a two-way radio

remarkable Influence" very

said it also:

upan has

Intention

of

set either of the code type or voice persons contemplating suicide. Habolishing the colony. She reported

type.

Not more than two dlers' will be allowed in a plane, but each plane must be capable of carrying six passengers.

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its announced

her observations before the Ameri- can Prison Association's 66th Annual

congresa,

"Many times prisoners told me conversation they engaged me in Just to hear a woman's volce," Maj.

Peyron said, "Wives of Adminis trators never enter the prison camps | and no women prisoners have been

sent there in 20 years.”

Just before she salted for America, Maj. Peyron said, a mah came to her Paris office asking if she remember- cd him.

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CAMP FOR INCURABLES

"Of course I did," she related. went to see him in his little hut in the prison camp for incurables.. He had sent for me. As a young army officer he had been sent out for in- subordinallen. The Intolerable heat and glare had blinded him im- mediately upon arrival.. He couldn't work at prison tasks to earn manley for the small things prisoners are allowed to buy, so he sold himself to an older man

"Since he was still young, only 28, and pleaded so hard for another chance, I persuaded the governor to send him back to France. His father, a professor, had disowned him.

We sent him to a school for the blind, He became a professor him- self. He had come to tell me that his family had forgiven him and hu' was about to become assistant father."

his

Maf: Peyron wandered through the Jungle which surrounds the mainland colony for two days in search of a young white girl who had been seen by a liberated man (given his freedom but not permitted to leave French Guiana) living in a hut with severnt natives and while

man.

"We found her in a wretched, In- fested hovel," Major Peyron said, "her father had been an architect and was sent out as a political pri soner. Her mother was among the last, women prisoners and had been returned to France. Her father died when she was about 12 and since: then she had lived in the jungle hut,"

One of the major's happiest ex- perlences was looking after the wife of a political prisoner for five years and then taking her and their two

small children to him when he was liberated.

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