1937-12-10 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER

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BRITISH AIRBOATS TOO FAST! Pick-A-Back

TROUBLE ALREADY ON OCEAN MAIL ROUTE

Pilots Throttle Down To Speed Of American Machines

ALREADY, months before the scheme is due to begin,

trouble has arisen between the "partners" in the forthcoming Atlantic airmail services, writes the Daily Express air correspondent. The "partners" are Imperial Airways and Pan-American Airways, the British and U.S. national concerns, who have Government instruc- tions to co-operate in the project.

The cause of the trouble is that Britain has produced airmail machines with a performance so good that the Americans feel a little "left behind."

On the 790-mile New York-Bermuda joint service the |

British pilots have been ordered,

to throttle down from their normal 165 m.p.h. cruising speed to keep to the 143 m.p.h.

This Will

schedule of the Pan-American Speaks For Itself

airboats.

It is explained that it would cause "embarrassment" it unc half of the "pool" ran the ultra- fashionable Bermuda service an hour faster than its partner.

The U.S. company are facing bitter criticism over the way Britain's 2001 m.p.h. air-boats beat America's Clip-| per III in the summer's Atlantie survey fights.

MONTREAL PROPOSAL.

Juan Trippe, globe-trotting head) of Pan-Amrican, has been 'officially asked why he entered into agreement i for a "pool" Atlantic service before; he bat planes as competents as the British 'planes.

Clipper III, an old boat, was the

A Brisbane man has recorded

hh will on a gramophone record.

In the record (says Reuter) heels certain relatives for "sins foralssion.”

of

After his death It will be played over in the hearing hi Fantily,

Mishaps Blamed To "3 H's"

Ogden, Utah.

Judge Hyrum A. Belnap blumes

only available American machine the three '% for motor accidents. that had the performance necessary" is this court's experience," he for flying the North Atlantic.

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sait from the bench, "that 85 per cent, of all automobile accidents are eaused by one or a combination of¦ that: three 's-hooch, baste and hugging."

Plane Now Ready

This is the composite plane that will be used in transatlantic serviéo by. Imperial Airways soon. It is shown on the River Medway, at Bochester, England, after it was assembled for the first time. The flying boat serves as a holsting device to lift the lighter, but more heavily taden, long-range seaplane into the air.

1937.

Mummy taste too- it's goodTM

OVALTINE

The King Grants Wish Rusk

Of Woman Ill

BOY'S FOOTSTEPS GAVE HER NEWS

By A Correspondent

14 Years

and the village postman knew about the King's message in advance.

"It was able temptation to tell my children about it," Miss Chup- man said.

There are no. children in the household, only Quick, the dog of varied ancestry who pulls a string that rings a bell that lets Miss Finch

FOR fourteen years Miss Dorothy Chapman has been know her niece needs attention.

an invalid. Seeing more than two visitors at time, watching the world from a window beside her bed, she has left her pillows caly to go to operating tables.

But she arranged for the happiest moment of a diamond wedding celebration recently at the village of Oare, near Faversham, Kent.

The two British airboats- Cambria and Caledonia, part of

deet of twenty-eight machines now used on Empire

Seven houses down the road; opened an unexpected gilt en routes-made ten Atlantic flights cumpared with the Clipper's

from Miss Chapman's window, velope-a telegram of good British boats average time for the Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gilham sat wishes from four, and easily beat the Ameri-

the King and cans' speed on all but two trips. oeran crossings was 13 hours 43 Cambria set up a new Atlantic re-minutes, compared with the Ameri- surrounded by thirteen smiling Queen.

children and grandchildren sud cord of 10 hours 33 minutes, and the ran's 14 hours 4 minutes.

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But to most of the village children Miss Chapman's cluttered little room is a special playground.

Just above Miss Chapman's pil- lows is a bookshelf and sometimes

on wet afternoons she read to them.

12 BOYS COLLECT STAMPS FOR HER Whenever a child of the

village

goes to

wins a scholarship to the secondary school in Faversham, he Miss Chapman for tutoring.

Lately she has been helping Mrs. Gilham's old eyes shone with with her French. Together they have

eleven-year-old Daphne

Burgess icars, She sald, "In eighty-one years. I've never had anything like memorised the words for most things this before." and she wouldn't putin Miss Chapman's room. down the message, even to cut her: cake,

That was the surprise Miss Chiap- man had planned. All morning she had listened for the footsteps of the telegraph boy going past. She knows every footstep in the village.

TWO SHARED HER SECRET

Twelve of the village boys have organised themselves as a squad ‚of_stamp ̧rollectors_for the Invalid. They have helped her gather 380,120 lamps since 1932, sent most of them to the Queen's Hos- pal for Children in London.

They keep the foreign stamps. Miss Chapman knows stories of

She said:

"I was so atraid hol Oriental bazóars and splee istands to I wouldn't come, Sunday, you know tell for each foreign stamp, and the I couldn't be sure of the service.' village geography teacher is grates

ful.

Weeks ago she wrote to the While the children are in school, King's secretary suggesting the Miss Chapman makes Christmas telegram for the Gilhams. She presents for her friends, tatting learned that she must produce dollies of coloured thread that look wedding certificates, so she wrote

sham, where the Gilhains married sixty years ago.

were

to Stalisfield Church, near Faver-like snowflakes, they are so fragile.

Miss Chapman was doing a cross- word puzzle when she welcomed me. "How nice to be interrupted," she Only Miss Chapman, her aunt, said. "I was just thinking how Miss E. A. Finch, who nurses her, useless a woman I am."

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MEN ARE LIVING LONGER NOW THAN THEIR GRAND- ***FATHERS DID HALF A CENTURY AGO. BUT WOMEN STILL HAVE THE BEST CHANCE OF LIVING TO A RIPE OLD AGE.

The Registrar-General's returns, just oul, show that at the middle of 1936 there were 107,140 people in England and Wales over the age eighty-five.

And 72,400 of them were women. the heart, lungs and the digestive or- If a man lives to 35 he should, on Kans. And most of them have to the law of averages, live for another work until 65.

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