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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1037.

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NE hundred

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have been killed. in

flying accidents, to Royal

turbulent spot: A. 50 m.p.h.

WILLIAM COURTENAY wind was blowing.

They had safety belly but not shoulder straps. In the opinion been securely strapped in they

The deaths due to some techi- other surfaces are still in the ex- of experienced pilots, had they The airplane was a D H 86 would have weathered the ex- biplane fitted with four Gipsy tremely bumpy conditions, 200 .p. air-cooled motora,

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Lately another lying boat. Courtier, crashed on a calm sea Among all the other civil at Phaleron Bay, in Greece. aircraft crashes, whose record

Air Force airplanes and to cal cause, such as engine failure, perimental stage. civilian airplanes in Britain are few. Some pilots have been caught in bad weather, or flown this year.

into ice-forming cloud. The number of R.A.F. men killel-118 in 52 crashes-is the Steps are being taken to avoid highest total for any year since these disasters. De-icing equip the war ended,

ment is coming steadily into use.

It is well known that to judge I have examined, I find that In civil aviation there has Biplanes more subject to ice height over water for alighting about 90 per cent. of them are. been, to date, 45 deaths in 29 ac- are being superseded by mono- is a more delicate matter than as with R.A.F. accidents, due to cidents. Last year there were, planes. R.A.F. pilots have in all, 61 deaths in 32 accidents, hitherto had less training than and the figure was substantially air liner pilots in receiving bear lower in all previous years. ings by wireless in cloud or fog. Is flying becoming more dan- and so reaching an air-field Kurous?

where it is safe to land. This The evidence is against any omission is being made good. such conclusion.

Moreover, all RAF. flyers

Take military flying first.

The number of deaths in must now, wear a parachute. No Tel. 27778-9 B.A.F. accidents had climbed less than 169 lives have been

ANNOUNCEMENT

from 32 in 1934 to 98 in 1936 and saved in this way to date. 118 so far in 1937.

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But in the same time the num- ber of R.A.F. aircraft has jump-

reserves units.

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What of civil aviation? ·

occurred

to judge it over land. Pilots are an error of judgment by a pilot inclined to think they are nearer of limited experience. the water than they are.

One notable ease More experience at handling recently near Donington, when flying bonts will safeguard us three people were killed in against this kind of accident. A B.A. Eagle cabin mono-

planc fitted with

a Gipsy air-cooled motor. The pilot, who accidents have there was searching for somewhere to

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been in civil flying in Britain? land, had only 80 hours solo There was the "Daily Express" experience. airplane, a D.H, biplane with twa Amy Johnson flew to Aus- engines, which crashed in Wig tralia alone on 80 hours' ex- townshire in February, with the perience. It is enough for The term "civil aviation" is too loss of four men. She had lost cross-country flights, even when ed from five or six hundred to wide. We must distinguish be- her way in bad weather over the weather conditions are not of The marriage of Mr. John Campion 1,550 first-line airplanes, not to tween the amateur pilot

who hills.

the best. But it is not enough Bunlar and Miss Mary Patricia speak of hundreds of training crashes while flying solo, and

Measures have been taken to justify a Liamond will take place at St. airplanes in use in schools and the professional pilot to whose against the recurrence of such in unfamiliar country in a field pilot trying to land Teresa's Church, Kowloon Tong, on Monday, 22nd. November, at

care the passengers of an nir disasters.

which is not a proper landing- 4.30 .. No Invitations are What is more, much fuller use liner are committed.

Twenty wireless stations have ground. is being made of these aircraft.

been built and are in operation Three years ago, financial strin- There has not been this year a all over the British Isles. gency limited the amount of single death among passengers Air Ministry school has been or- Flying is actually becoming training given to military pliots. or crew of any air liner flying on ganised to train Air Traffic Con- aufer each year. Petrol costs money.

air routes in Great Britain. trol Officers,

This year we shall have de Three Imperial Airways liners don for giving wireless bearings greater use.

The system employed at Croy- icing equipment coming into have crashed abroad,

British Airways to air liner pilots, and for guid- already have it on all their air Capricornus, one of the new Empire flying bouts, ran into a and cloud, is to be extended to

ing airplanes home through fog liners, blizzard over France while on

The three-wheel landing gear her maiden voyage to Egypt in provincial centres will be opened nilot to put his airplane down the whole country. The first is coming. This will enable a March. Five of the six on board at Manchester, Portsmouth, and much more easily and in the perished.

Glasgow shortly. air races.

event of a forced landing to pull Then there are accidents in up quickly.

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THURSDAY, NovemEm 11. 1937.

CHAMPION OF

PEACE

To-day the R.A.F. is engaged in a tremendous effort to train pilots, whatever the cost of fuel. Young R.A.F. pilots are being given all the flying they can un- dertake, by day and night, and

in all wenthers.

Here the pilot should have We are building up a highly turned back rather than risk fly such as we never organised and efficient air force, ing through such weather.

had before. We have to pay the price of "air admiralty," both in fuel and in

AR

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To-day millions' of people are remembering with a stab of pain and bitterness, perhaps, the Armistice which ended a

car lives. nage in Europe. It seems fit- ting that a thought be spared in Europe, but actually had for one of those who fought so galled nations to the point of courageously for peace; who sojarmed retaliation.

It is more than likely that as they left the ground. This are in aircraft these days. Only hated war that he was willing to much of truth in his belief. We have yet to fit our air lines liner.

There is pilot ran into ice-forming cloud, could never happen to an air about two crushes this year sacrifice to end it, his career, his and rivalry which

Unable to remove the jealousy with suitable de-icing equipment,

appear to have been caused by In the King's Cup Air Race, failing motors, and the evidence position, his friends, and prob-causes of alliances, he strove to

were the and to protect vital instruments two R.A.F. officers flying a was not conclusive even in theur. Miles Falcon three-seater cabin Most important of all, our ably his life-Ramsay Mac-break away from the whole idea from snow or from freezing. Donald. Ile must have suffered of pacts, for he had great faith have just been issued, and will motor.

Regulations on the latter point monoplane, fitted with Gipsy pllots are steadily gaining in a form of crucifixion for his in the League of Nations and protect air travellers this win- Hill, Scarborough. They had to judgment which eliminates the were killed at Castle experience and in the quality of ideals. His life, like the late Was one of its champions. He Lord Snowden's, must have been had hopes, too, in the Disarma-ter-De-icers for wings and By low and turn in a notoriously-human-factor in air accidents.

ment Conference and recognised filled with pain so that even the virtue in a system of trade those who most detested his without tariff barriers. He was attitude fell pity for the lonely, not afraid to tread new paths in abandoned figure-still the his quest for peace, which was idealist-in 1931 after his fall the motivating force behind the from power. But in spite of majority of his actions, and in disappointments and dis-1929 crossed the Atlantic to dis-

From America is coming. a Two people were killed while new "ground trainer," by which taking part in an air race at pilots can, without leaving the Another Imperial Airways Hanworth on Empire Day. They round, learn to "fly blind." airplane fell and was burned out, were flying a Percival Vega Gull The Air Ministry have ordered also in March, near Cologne. monoplane fitted with a Gipsy about 60 for the RA.F. British members of the crew. Three persons were killed, all engine. They stalled in turning Airways have also ordered one. sharply on the course as soon Cases of structural failure are

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FOOLING

heartening record of failure in cuss with the American Presi-TERE are conflicting opinions, the House of Commons as Prime dent, Mr. Herbert Hoover, mea-Į even amongst thoughtful people,

THE

Minister, Mr. MacDonald wassures for the reduction of navallas to the influence of the popular¦ The Daily Diet still the servant of his country. armaments. He had already Press. Richard L Gallienne,

quality WILH recognised, slashed British naval construc-poet,

about newspapers influencing public

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once asserted that

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consisted in the fact that for some days no word was heard of her, and she was out of touch with the world. That was a condition common to every vessel that sailed or steamed. the seven seas before the invention of wireless, and was solely due to the fact that Endeavour I carried no wireless equipment.

His moreover, by

mention. The outcome of his visit ppirion was like trying to cous the very whom he had fought so bitterly to Washington was the Five earthquake with a penny bun. in politics, and he remained in Power Naval Conference, which

that lively simite amy be the so-called Nationalist Govern-led to an understanding between accepted as a poet's liecused exogger- | By "AN OLD STAGER”

The Fleet Street landlubbers ple- tured this tiny racing yacht strug- ment, though without the power United States, Japan and Brition, The Press undoubtedly can

and does Influence popular senti- :

gling in the immensity of the Atlan- he once commanded, until the tain. That was an accomplishment, though fortunately that in-

worked up their end. He could never have been ment.

fluence

varies in degree with the urgent necessity to be for ever in-ue Ocean, and

sensationalism from that basis. creasing, the dose, intellectual

and not a popular man with the masses,

standard

the There is one episode which widespread circulation of the news-

Actually every year racing yachts If there is nothing really exciting us smut us and smaller than E- for he left too great a chasm stands out in his life, and serves papers concerned.

certain or sensational to record, then the deavour , manned by nothing like arty conclusive from fairly

observation between himself and his former to answer many of his critics.and experienen, that what Cockney #lunt Press must needs set about in- expert and scusoned a crew, cross Labour allies when he joined the He did not believe in war. ¡ile.

venting something. Its scare head-the Atlantic Ocean without adver call ""Jucul" Journalists National Cabinet which the pre-hated it, and the thought of kill-exercise far more Influence than dos reproduce daily the drama of trement or sensation. Yuchtsmen,

journals

Die Hille india-rubber plg. One who saw the absurdity of the stunt sent Lord Baldwin led. And ing. But he was not afraid of Fleet Street's stunt Journals with moment it is pulled up enormously Press's altitude, knew that a racing there were always thousands death or injury or pain. When their deceptive and high, artificial beyond its true dimensions, and the sught of her dimensions, and built who could never forgive his war broke out he Immediately million circulations,

next it is expiring miserably with alio stand the heavy strains of racing, pacifism as long as he lived, or enlisted as an ambulance worker our patriolle ideals, that the view

It must be hoped, for the sake of pattelle squeak.

was perfectly able to encounter ony storm that the Atlantic might pro- forget that he had outspokenly with a British unit and was sent I have expressed as a correct one. One is moved to these perlaps Luce. opposed the constant laying of to Belgium. He was arrested by Because our British people would rather dull reflections by the re- wreaths on the graves of "Un-order of a British official on the assuredly soon jose those qualities markable episode of Endeavour '1. Moreover, not quite 400 years ago'

reing known Soldiers." But on this ground that he was an undesir associated with our

most honourably and traditionally Timi hundred-ton

yacht,n Devon sailor called Francis Drake race if Fleet whilst crossing the Atlantic on her clrcumnavigated the globe. He was day they should forgot their pre-able person to be allowed to Street's stunt journalism actually homeward voyngo under normal the first Englishman; to do so, and judices, those who did not like acrva in any capacity at

were the moulded their character and minds, solling rig, parted her low-rope in he and his squadron

nway, Mr. MacDonald, and remember front. But Lord Kitchener was Woh wing-froid. We are cre- nitivits seized on her as n beuven Though Drake was knighted ut Dept- We have still name throughout the storm. Forthwith the Fleet Street without a word, for over three years. that all he sought was the very angry and gave Mr. Mac-dited with capacity to keep our sent dramalle sensation. Quite un- ford on the deck of his Golden ilind eradication of the hatred which Donald a pass to British Head-heads in time of trouble and excite Justinable alarm was worked up, as by Queen Elizabeth, his return., outlived a war he could not pre-quarters and during his visit ment. And we certainly demon- to her possible fate, and finally, caused a great deal less.ade than the vent. He wanted people to for-there he had an opportunity to struted,

some sterling heritage of when Endeavour 1. turned up Safe Fleet Street sensationalists tried to get the blood lust of 1914-1918 show his courage when, under only during the ordeal of the Great daily anllings under her jury rig. avour the other day. Yet Drake's

that ancient insular quality, not and sound, after making excellent create on the arrival of the Endea and the preaching of mass mur-terrific shell-fire, he preserved War, but more recently when we host of newspaper and photographie flagship, Golden Hind, was of exact- der. He wanted them to forget the utmost calm and walked un- experienced

forth to ly the same tonnage as Endeavour dramatic tugs and acroplanes set their "Unknown Soldiers," in

meet her, greatly to the astonish- and his second ship, the Elizabeth, where hesitatingly the sense of forgetting old in-burst about him and explosions Scaremongers' Dilemma

shrapnel monarchtent change.

ment and somewhat to the disgust of was of 20 tons les-30 as aguinst juries and grievances. Never blasted the ground on all sides.

her capable skipper and his sturdy 100. seamen crew. Α by word or deed did he ever show

proposal to enter- He made few friends. Lord of sound and unexclled judgment, of turned down emphatically by these

This quality of level-headedness, tain them to a special banquet was Mountains Out of Molchilla diarespect for the men who had Thomson, who was killed in the unbysteries and und started pressur served their country and died R-101 disaster, was one of his pective, is one worthi preserving most they acted like worthly upholders of ters

sune-eyed sailormen. In so doing jealously. But it certainly is not closest and most sympathetic fostered by the grotesque sensation our ancient rea and sang-fruid tradi-ariably do, was in thinking of the Mr. MacDonald wanted to comrades. That loss was just alism and unintelligent hyperbole of tlon. abandon the polley of ententes one of the many sorrows which the up-to-date stunt Fleet Street | Drake'n Shipe and alliances which had so long, followed this weary figure, one Preas. The latter is in fact in a

It is What are the actual and easily were glanis, now ships are. It is n in 'his view, proved not only of the most misunderstood of daily and obvious dileminu.

the dileming of the babitual drug ascertainable facts? The whole subtle difference, and Ficet Street's. worthless as defensive measures England's statesmen.

tuker, and implies the constant and alleged son drama of Endeavour 1, (Continued on Pane 5)

for its cause.

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Where the London scribes and

went wrong, as they in--

Atlantic solely in terms of Queen Marys and Normandier, and 60,000- ton modern liners. The difference Is that, whereas in Drake'o day men