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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1938,
CHANGE OF FRONT
If Mr. Masayuki Tani, the Japanese Minister-at-Large, was correctly quoted yesterday, he made a statement of more than passing importance, indicating a vital change of front regarding Japan's attitude to Britain and her interests in the Far East. For once, a responsible Japanese spokesman forsook what has now become a diplomatic cliche,
- AND IT MAY BE FOR EVER!!
AUNTIE RENT COMES ALONG
-Apologies to Gurney in Melbourne Herald
Four commercial planes left Hongkong one day this week. Captain A.O. Pollard suggests that soon
Everybody Will Travel By Air
HAVE
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little
Yet to-day there are
the ether is world-wide.
more The Road Toll
THE "VERY IDEA"
WE LIKE THIS IDEA OF A NEW MUSEUM
By Eddie Kelly, Prehistoric Man
HONGKONG may soon
have a museum.
A suitable place is re- quired to house the many fossils discovered in this Colony.
Local taipans and civil ser- vants may resent the im- putation, and it is expected that the Committee of the Hongkong Club is almost aure to complain at Government competition,
Purchase of a first class epidia- scope is recommended.
An epidíascope is used for study- ing moths and other parasites.
It is feared that landlords are too big to be included in the latter category.
The museum is to be air condl- tioned to prevent dry rot. This will be reserved for a magazine which the Museum curator in to publish oach month.
One section will be devoted to fish, which will be neatly placed in roes in glass bottles.
Some fab, such as salnion and sardines, will naturally be kept in their tins, and it the Cmator has any
unexpected friends for dinner on Friday nights, he will be assured of a good supply.
There will almost certainly be a numismatic section. We looked that word up. the dictionary-It means collection of coins. Anyone who tries to collect coina in Hong- kong deserves to have what we
first thought the word meant.
Learned professors will dig holca all over Hongkong in an effort to find specimens for the archaeologi- cal, geological and ethnographical sections. There are several other similiar sections but we refuse to keep on visiting our dictionary every few seconds.
-We ure considering making several donations of prehistoric articles to the new museum.
have received about
There's the winter sult we bought way back in 1929-all it needs is a patch on the part that shines. and said quite plainly that Japan doubt that the first re- than eight million licensed wire-
On the roads the safety fac An accumulation of letters we must pay careful attention to! action of most people less sets in Great Britain and
a little mis- the necessity of doing nothing to the above title will be listening to broadcasts through tor still leaves considerable room
for improvement, although no Hotel in 1931 is also available for understanding with the Hongkong which would violate British scepticism. "The idea is
can deny that the day of the documentary section. There is a strong affinity be one interests. Such a pronounce-impossible. We shall never
Wo notice that the curator is go- ment is practically a volte face all fly. How absurd to sug- tween wireless and aviation. motoring for the multitude is
Each
is complementary to the with us. Despite the tremendous ing to get £450 a year. compared with the scarcely-gest such a thing."
toll of life on the roads and an
We might apply for that job. need for adequate communica- concealed arrogance of previous
We have good qualifications, for occasional But is it? Supposing tion
rail disaster, people between aircraft and observations by Japanese that in the early days of the ground' that radio has de- propelled road vehicles as a
use railways and mechanically we are always up to some antique
or another. spokesmen.
We are now going to excavate a Britain, and es- wireless telegraphy some- veloped so rapidly. In return matter of course, because they| bottle of H.B. pecially her nations in the Far
Hun along and play now. Hittle East will heartily welcome this body had written an article, radio is the principal factor in have
chlidren. "When we shall all listen making air travel safe and re- them. The boon of rapid and changed attitude, and, if it
convenient [in." think that
the liable.
transportation has LTD. should be accepted with slight
nullified the fear of a possible reserve by some, it will not be general feeling at the time because Britons are wishing it would have been incredu- to be anything but a sincere lity. approach towards improved Anglo Japanese relations.
overture on the part of Japan as a normal means of transport Craft. Increased engine power, a skiff on the Thames. Britain can at least feel that towarda
sympathetic until he is convinced the odds which makes it possible for
People who Japan is beginning to appreciate Anglo-Japanese relations will be are overwhelmingly in favour the realities of the situation so warmly received, especially in of his reaching his destination. tion with one or more motors visualise
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tension created by the hostilities general public adopted a similar sign and construction, enable acroplane out of its garage on afternoon flip are The Japanese Minister very in China has been heightened attitude towards steam locomo- modern air liners to compare to the lawn and take off for a
favourably with ground vehi- Saturday cles.
doomed to disappointment. broadly hints that this change and aggravated by utterances tion when it was introduced. of front is due to the change which were, to say the least, Man with the Red Flag
There are technical reasons in the British Foreign Office disconcerting-S. A. G.
The weather is the principal against a helicopter rising ver- chemy with which an airman tically from the ground, and and an anticipated change of
In 1803 a steam road locomo- has to contend, and wireless is any other type of aircraft re- policy on the part of Britain in
tive invented by Richard Trevi- the weapon with which he quires considerably more than the Far East. But in view of
thick, which drew a conch at fights. Two-way telephony, an area of a suburban garden Mr. Neville Chamberlain's em-
The decision of His Excel- phatic reiteration that the lency the Governor to take steps nine miles an hour through the radio beacons, and directional for its take-off. Foreign Office shuffle does not to inquire into the rent problems streets of London, was greeted beams are all playing their part
Bay in keeping aircraft on their cor- As A Matter of Course mean fundamental alteration in of this Colony, a determination with torrents of abuse to
nothing of the rotten eggs and rect course. foreign policy, it is difficult to to see that landlords and
similar missiles.
There is no parallel between what basia Japan tenants get fair treatment, in
The publicity given to every anticipates that vital change of effect, is to be commended. The So great Was the outcry acroplane accident, in which a motor car and an aeroplane. attitude, which Mr.
Tan newspapers of this Colony have against the nowfangled inven- only too often bumpy landings The necessity for using pre- describes as the "replacement of long agitated for some sort of tion that in the interests of resulting in a broken under- pared aerodromes for arrival idealism by realism." Japan action, and their columns have safety an Act of Parliament was carriage are erroneously termed and departure limits the num- would appear to be expecting frequently carried a burden of passed which forbade any "crash," tends to arouse un- ber of aircraft that can be al- such far-reaching results from appeal from those who thought horseless vehicle to travel at easiness in the public mind, lowed in the air at any time, and
Anglo-Italian talks
now they were being unfairly more than three miles an hour, which is insufficiently schooled entails much stricter regulations under way, that she believes, or treated. All this publicity has and ordained that a man with to distinguish between service to avoid risks of collision than
those devised for road traffic. possibly just hopes, that they perhaps helped to bring Govern- a red flag should walk in front flying, in which risks are essen- will be reflected in future rela- ment to the realisation that the of it.
tial to training; private flying, The closest analogy, if it is tions between Britain and Japan. rents really require investiga-
carried out by individuals who possible to compare
a two-di- Perhaps too, Japan is being tion and possibly some form of coached by her anti-Comintern control. It so happened that garded with suspicion in their are not necessarily experts; and mensioned vehicle with a three- flying, in which dimensioned one, is between an colleagues, who, quite reason-yesterday the Telegraph made early days, and did not general- every pilot has attained a high acroplane and a boat. Sailing ably, do not desire any undue a final appeal for consideration ly find favour until Queen Vic standard of reliability before he and rowing are open to anyone
toria set the fashion by is allowed to take control. antagonising of Britain when so of this subject by the authori-
who cares to go to the nearest much in Europe is at stake,ties; and in the late edition a travelling from London to Wind-
With regard to commercial water to practise: similarly, fly- The anti-Comintern Pact is rather unique coincidence oc-sor by rail in 1842.
aviation, the Aeronautical Re- ing in power aircraft and gliders something moro than an curred. An editorini suggest- To-day rail travel has reached search Committee, an important is available at a regular nero- amalgamation against bolsheving one method of attacking the such a pitch of perfection scientific body, has expressed a
drome to everyone who wishes ism. It can be a powerful lever problem appeared in the same that on electrically controlled considered opinion that "flying to become a pilot. in discussion on all matters issue that the Government's affecting Europe and the Far plan of inquiry was disclosed systems such as the Under ma ynow be regarded as a safe
ground an accident due to the East, and if Italy and Germany To anyone who does not under-human element is virtually Im- means of transport."
possible,
the
are now seriously searching for stand the mechanics of a news-
Railways were similarly re-
The "dead man's" handle in
commercial
To-day Britain
.lcada the world in civilian air route mile- But whilst there is no doubt age. As time goes on and new a general appeasement, neither paper, this may have seemed a
that flying is taking its place generations grow up to whom country will be pleased to see rather ridiculous situation. But its most powerful bargaining it was unavoidable, just the the control cabin and the gig with railways and steamships the aeroplane is no longer a no- method of rapid communication weapon weakened by the same, for the Government deci- nalling device which automatic as a means of conveyance from valty but an ordinary everyday
point to point, private owner- aggravating behaviour of one of sion came to hand only a few ally cuts off the current after ship of aircraft is another mat- the travelling public will use the air as a matter of course.⠀ In its members, Whatever con-minutes before the paper "went each train has passed onable. ter.
that sense the day when we clusions are drawn from Mr. to bed," and the loading articlo trains to be run at full speed Tani's statement, it can be on the same subject was already even when visibility is Impaired There is as much difference shall all fly is rapidly, approach-
by thick fog.****
between commercial aviation Ing: safely said that any sincere "tucked away.”
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