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The huge airship, Marshal Ilindenburi. made her maiden trip to the United States early last year, being known as Zeppeli L. Z. 129 not

during construction. Immediate

many feet longer than her predecessor, the Grat Zeppelin, she had nearly twice the diameter.

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The frame of the Hindenburg was

maze of triangular girders of duralumlalum, lightest and strongest metal known. It was eight hundred

to

and seven feet long. Over it was stretched the outer envelope linen

where it was subjected wear, Ane medium weight cotton similar envelope lay

Above.

side ព against the frame to protect the dozen "gas cells," arranged compartment. wise. along the length of the ship, Ten coats of aluminum-coloured airplane

ane dope were applied on the outer cover-cach coat done by hand In a single day to get an even silver By without this outer envelope; its

effect. Actually the Zeppelin could

Importance lay in passing the wind smoothly over the frame.

HUGE DIAMETER

The diameter of the airship was 135 feet; the weight, cmply, 100 tons.

Passengers, crew, water ballast, mall and freight brought the total flying weight to 200 tons, Four single pro- pelior engines on opposite sides under the centre and after part of the ship

of

the

made it possible to drive it at a miles an top speed of eighty-ve hour, a cruising speed of eighty miles. an hour, and for 9,000 miles without refuelling The on

only parts breaking the ne the

bag were the steering gear äft, gondolas of the four engines, and the control cabin forward.

All crew

and

passenger accommodation was Inside new feature.

Their quarters were as luxurious as experience and

money could make them. From easy chairs

they

could watch the clouds swirl by, or, lean- ing on the rall, look at land and sex- scupes turbed them, for they were a third of the way back from the bow, a hun- dred and thirty feet ahead of the forward engres.

Traffickers

Arrive With Gun Gangs

(By Special Representative)

In Police Court proceedings last week against certain Chinese offenders under the anti-gambling laws of this Colony, police officials traced a close connection between the recent crime wave and a prevalence of gambling, introduced, they, further asserted, by elements displaced from Kwangtung by a rigid suppression there.

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It is being argued that, through the comparative. mildness of its laws, this Colony has become a refuge and at the QUEEN'S happy hunting ground for the worst possible type of A Chinese Picture with English Titles criminal to migrate from the neighbouring Chinese ter-"SONG OF CHINA' ritory.

These foreign elements, it is alleged, have been responsible for many crimes lately, amongst these the series of daring hold- ups at goldsmiths' and money-changers' shops that preceded the Chinese New Year, and have since continued in sporadic form ever since.

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In Kwanglung under the present centralised regime directed from Nanking, gunblera and thugs are shrift. Execution given threatening offenders has impelled two other types to move down into One is the narcotics who specialises in heroin; and the other is the gamester whose fall from grace has followed that of the

Vous regime.

.

Bus Strike Settlement Now Likely

In imported type of gamester are represented not only the former Way Opened For Men monopolists-rich, influential and in

a position to command the sanction and support of the regime of his time but also his numerous following|

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far below. No noise dis-of subordinates. These latter had Provincial Unions

On the port side of the main deck was the dining-room-separated by a low railing from the promenade: space about

out Atty feet by twenty. On the opposite

Side the space was divided into lounge, with bridge tables, divans and starboard promenade, and a combined bar and smoking room.

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Here, for the first time in a diri. gible, passengers could smoke. The bar was cut off from the rest of the ship by two turnstiles, vacuum type,

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charge of

of the

former gambling heils

or worked in one capacity or other in those resorts. Their combined number can be considered that scarcely a district in legion, when it is

monopoly in one form ar ather under Kwangtung was without a gambling

military protection.

DRIVEN TO HONGKONG All these

these people in July last year found themselves suddenly deprived af employment when the Nanking Government stepped in with its edicts In all its forms. against gambling From being an organised "business" with the benefit of legality, and gambling was transformed into crime punishable with death for in- veterate offenders. It drove many into this Colony,

Back on Job

seven-and-half hour day, which are

London, May 0, "With regard to the claims to a based fundamentally on the grounds of injury to health, evidence placed before us is interim report presented by the Lon- is inconclusive," Bays an don Bus Strike Inquiry Tribunal to the Ministry of Labour.

Nevertheless, the report continues, for further investigation and if the a prima facie case has been made out men's complaints are substantiated immediate should be taken.

and appropriate steps

In the centre and in the deck be low were the twenty-five window. less two-berth cabins. Lightness and compactness ruled here everywhere in the ship Celluloid the equipment which was afterwards involved. basins with hot and cold water could exhibited i:. Court in evidence against

as police raid and there saw much oljor Board should the

the

latter

The I had visited a local amusement tribunal thinks that public

goodwill would be accorded resort just before a recent lightning

to budget for any extra cost The Tribunal feels that negotiations: be tipped out of the wall and folded the offenders. Some of the games for the settlement of malters out of the way when not in use. witnessed had familiar "ring" even difference-other-than-the-reduction There was a deep curtained ward- If they did not strictly conterm of the working day, should robe for clothes and luggage, and o those associated

ated with Shumchun. writing shelf that let down from the was not greatly surprised when inmediately proceed, Hoth parties had agreed that this Was

air.

in

im-

wall.

formed, ister, that some of the people The whole of the passengers' quar-seen conducting these games were ters were air-conditioned. All walls "fokis"

The body which is conducting the employed

at the former Inquiry consits of a barrister, who were of cotton or silk meticulously Chinese resort on the border. sewn into place by hand. On them.

The rald mentioned is typical of is chairman, a ship-owner and a re-

ast tired trade union leader. In the public rooms, were oll paint- many such conducted in the past ings depleting men's conquest of the against "amusement" resorts, and After a preliminary consideration of the interim repert with members taken as ultimate and in- The ship bristed with new fea- evitable to any such public exhibi- of the Bus Control Committee, Mr.

may be tures.

Among them were landing tions when they venture too close ounced there would be no develop-

Bevin.

lender, wheels instead of cushioned gondo-to the wind." jas. But

the great secret was the

There is evidence, however, of The views in Parliamentary circles

ments to-night. power plant.

much more hectic activity conducted For the first time the engines of behind closed doors, in flats scattered strongly favour an early settlement an airship burned oil. They were all over the Colony, wherein imported of the busmen's dispute It is felt Diesels, 1,100 horse-power cach, games unabashedly roturned to their that the interim report affords the their sixteen cylinders lighter than pristine form, and all disguise and busmen the opportunity of returning anything hitherto conceived for make-belief were discarded for the to work without compromising their their delivered power.

serious business of gambling for large position. Reuter

PROVINCIAL BUSMEN RETURN

London, May

Dr. Hugo Eckener, who bulit a hundred Zeppelins, was the inspira- lion behind the giant airship.

Gold Price Reduction Unlikely

British Fund Checks Metal's Flow To United States

amounts.

SYSTEM OF TOUTS

As the pollee have themselves One of the largest groups of bus stated, these secret resorts are con- owners in the Provinces hus agreed stantly moving from one place to ra to negotiate Immediately with

the other in anticipation of a

of Transport Workers Union concerning leakage of information leading to surprise the demands of provincial busmen, Poilce visit; but they are able to who returned to work to-day on the keep in touch with potential clients condition that the terms of the trade through touts and other salaried union agreement should be strictly agents. In this there is again observed.

colacidence of methods compared The employers have also agreed to with those employed to attract reinstate all workers who have been customers to the former Casino at on strike except those guilty of wilful Shumchun, chun,

damage to property-Reuter Bulletin Service.

Whatever are the means employed to promote business, the fact remains that many new secret gambling dens have come into existence, and in a form which appears to derive en- couragement from the fact that, com- London, May 0

pared with the summary justice of The recent reaction of commodity Kwangtung, the laws of this Colony prices must surely have satisfield are mild, and the punishment sup-

President F. D. Roosevelt's wishes | and accordingly have eliminated any necessity for action to reduce the dollar price of gold, says J. Henry Schroder and Company's quarterly { review.

This publication points out, furthermore, that any isolated cur- rency deflation by the United States would be disastrous to her

export trade.

Ciling the existing uneasiness in the minds of the business community regarding the practical results of the American gold policy, the review adds: "There are signs of ameliorat- ing circumstances. Firstly, Americu is buying foregn goods much more freely; secondly, the British Ex- change Equalisation Fund has step ped in to arrest gold in lis journey across the Atlantic, the latter being a most important factor, reassuring

immediate outlook for the metal,” Reuter..

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by BENJAMIN WYLIE, the public mind with regard to the -1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

portable.

These people constitute as deadly a menace as the heroin trafficker and gunman who share with them this profitable sphere of operations,

EMPIRE PHONE

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London, May 6. Telephone rates to various parts

MAINTAIN PEACE IN INDUSTRY FRENCH WORKERS AND EMPLOYERS AGREE

Paris, May

On the eve of a debate in the Chamber of Deputies in which M. Leon Blum's policy as Prime Minis- ter will be challenged, workers and employers announced a sixth months' Industrial truce, by which collective agreements, due to expire shortly, will be renewed,

The agreement follows an appeal from M. Blum in the interests of public, peace.--Reuter.

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