1936-10-26 — Page 3

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.

Paris, Oct. 24.

The longest and most arduous race in the history of avin-! tion, 13,029 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 prizes.

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The entire 13,020 miles, must be 90 hours Including an covered in allowance of 48 hours for rest at nt Salgon a Saigon. On arrival plane will be allowed one hour for refueling and checkup of mechanical I then will be impounded in parts, an enclosure flanked by guards for whatever portion of the 48-hour rest period the pilot chooses to remain at further Saigon. Another hour for checkup will be allowed before start of the return trip.

The race is being held under the that he did not weigh more thou. joint sponsoratup of the Acro Club of 170 pounds, the maximum. France and the Aero Club of Indo- Ching. The serial "sporting code"

Federation of the

Acronautique internationale will be used, according to the French Air Mialetry.

The Air Ministry announced that at the conclusion of the gruelling ntest it will buy the winning plane, means of sen- preserving it as couraging high speed design.

Entries

received from were British, French, German

min and Italian aviators and negotiations were under-

Any plane which fails to report way to induce two of America's out- standing racing pilots-Col. Roscoe at the fixed control points along the Turner and Capt. James G. Hatzlipe of which does not return to Parts within 12 days of the takeoff to enter. The entry fee was £50,

A member of which half will be handed over to will be disqualified.

Nearly all the crew of any competing plane e the winner of the race. of the entrants withdrew before the be replared only once during the en- | stort of the race.

tre rice.

COLOURS ASSIGNED PLANES Distinctive colours have been 9s- shened to the planes entered from The Fresch entries, various nations,

RETURN VIA CAIRO The route of the contest will be! by way of Parls, Baghdad, Allah bod. Salgun and return by way of Allahabad, Baghdad, Cairo and Paris, for instance, wil have their surfaces

bright Blue The Bratia The first leg of the long fight will painted be, the most gruelling, 2392 miles planes would have been green, the from Paris to Baghdind. The next Gen ones white and the Hallon stage, Baghdad to Allahabad, is oly, plages red

In addition to the greed més a $2 miles shorter and the streich from! Allahabad to Saigon measures 1,930, handicap contest will be staged over the same course, open only to multi- miles.

On the return trip the fliers will: motor wansport planes Yuuble of muke o hop of 700 miles from Bagh Blying with full load and aur dont en did to Cairo and one of 1,905 from; the at an altitude at no less than 1,500 feet Their range must be af Cairo to Paris.

awed of 38 The contestants will be required to least 6 modes with

forer. Thes mast. hult at the charted control points but mes my hear

may stop off at between-points if hire a payload of at least 771 points. necessary. If, however, they do ant A two-inan crew will be allowed. make the first leg--Paris to Baglulad United Press,

-in non-stop flying they must make !

one of the other full legs on the

way to Salgon non-stop.

FUEL TANKS TO BE SEALED Gasoline tanks will be sealed ut Paris, Baghdad and Allahabad by representativen of the Aero Club of France and there will be oficials

along the Toule at intermedinte points to care for planes which may land between the control points for refuelling. Each plane

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Hanover, N.H., Oct. 26.

A recent photo of members of the Air Ann of the Hongkong! Volunteers, with onr of their machines,

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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

I hope that the French government will hasten its plans for abolish- ing the notorious penal colony.

"The hopelessness and des pravity of the prisoners, cont- bined with the devastating climate." Maj, Peyron said, her rey eyes shining with tears,

"led us to recommend gradual

A discovery of a medicine abolishment on. the colony.

scaled barograplis, one ofBeld which seems to curly suicidal While many external improve

and one as a check.

The contestants

tendencies was described to the ments have been made in recent

were required - 19 American esychological Asso-years, it is still-horrible

report at Le Bourget three days be-

fore the schedule start and their ciation, in convention here. by place."

planes must navigability.

carry The pilots

certificates

were

of Dr. Abraham re-Boston.

Myerson of

quired to have transport licences or Dr. Myerson, a slate psychiatrist in European "tourisme" of cross-coun-Massachusetts, said benzedrine, a try

Furthermore, permits.

each

drug of the adrenal group, has “a { andio plane must carry a two-way set either of the code type or valce remarkable infuetice upon

contemplating suicide. 11

type.

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

FLIERS MUST WEIGH IN

So strict are the rules that every pilot WITH weighed-in

the morning of the takeoff to make sure

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Serves as a sort of pick-me-up for hangover.",

Completely relieves marealepsy or drowsiness and sleepiness under emotional stress.

Major Meyron, whose father made an extensive study of the

colony,

spent three months there by special

dispensation of the French govern- ment. The government,

she said,

announced Its intention of

abolishing the colony. She reported her observations before the Ameri con Prison Association's 66th Annual

congress.

"Many

times prisoners

told 'me

they caraged me in a conversation Just to hear a woman's voice," Maj. spasmtrators never enter the prison campa

Peyron said. "Wives of Adminis and no women prisoners have been sent there in 20 years."

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

CAMP FOR INCURABLES

"Of course I did," she related. "I 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- subordination. The intolerable heat and glare had blinded him jm- mediately upon arrival. He couldn't work at prison tasks to earn money 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 be was about to become assistant to his father."

Maj. 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 Gulana) living in a hut with several natives and white 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 woman 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 happlest ex- periences was looking after the wife of a political prisoner for five years and then taking her and their two

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