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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY

Ministry Reprimands Dead Pilot

MOTHER WILL NOT

BELIEVE HE DISOBEYED

Mrs. Mary Morris, tragic widowed mother of 19-years: old Sergeant Stanley Morris, whose ; seroplane caused the Edmonton, N. air disaster

September 4, mid recently that to her dying day she would never bellove that her son wil- fully disobeyed arders,

"He was my boy, and I knew him too well, she declared.

- Mrs. Morrie was shown the official Air Ministry report of the accident, issued recently blaming her son'a disobedience for the crash which cost 12 people their lives.

She had not been told offelally by the Air Ministry.

CONSOLATION

Mrs. Morris had only just returned to her little villa in Crewy's-road,

Child's Hill, N.W.

Her bmband died in the same house only a few weeks before; and since the funeral of her son she had been staying with rela tives at Southsea.

Her one consolation, after reading of the crash, was that her son had died trying to warn others on the ground that he was going to crash.

Her tear-filled eyes fixed on bis picture, she said, “How can defend my son. I know very Hillo of what happened. He cannot defend himself and I have no one to do 11 for him. "He had been in the long, enou not

Mercury's Flight Is Step

Towards Long

"Enemy

Range Aviation Aircraft

(By Captain D. C. T. Bennett) success of the slrcraft has conse- enabled Britain-and by The flight of Imperial Airways Quently Mercury, the upper component of Britain, I imply the British Empire the Composite aircraft, non-stop-to once again give an aerial fead from Dundon, Scotland, to Orange to the world. River in South Afrks, has, I think It can be fairly suggested, made a valuable contribution to future long- Tenge avintion.

It has demonstrated the enterprise of British designers.

It has established beyond doubt that Imperial Airways, In conjunc-

The

Mercury, unaided, would possess a range not much in excess of fifteen hundred miles. This flight has proved that, operating in con- junction with the Mala, the flying range con

be quadrupled. This claim was made, by the way, when the Composite aircraft existed only

NO

Cxecho-Slovakian soldiers moving forward behind a smoke screen tald by planes, during recent

"armny manoeuvres near Prague,

Coming" FIRM THAT WON'T

Scare

MAN SAID TO HAVE GIVEN WARNING IN CODE

Because a telephonist in Leeds-80

FIRM THAT

RUPERT

EMPLOY WOMEN BELLVILLE

There are no flowers on the desks of directors of, the businesses controlled by Mr. A. R. T. Perry, decorators' merchant, in Brighton and the south coast.

tion with the Air Ministry, are spar- on paper. Now It has been proved it was alleged-sent out false ware Perry employs more than a hun- ja chance."

ing no effort which may lead to the up to the hilt in actual fact. future improvement of communica- There Ja an alternative claim which tions within the British Empire. holds great possibilities for future And the completion of a fight of air transport. It is that not only can such magnitude and the creation of an aircraft operated by the Com- Air Forces new long-range record for sea-posito principle fly four times us far, to know that he should pinner by the Mayo Composite air- but that, if necessary, it can carry

orders, He

craft proves that the principle of twice the normal load for double the qualified pilot and also a clerk in the launching in mid-air holds tremend-distance, which could be athloved by Air Ministry. They know enough of

potentialities for the future. any ordinary aircraft. hits work to realise that he would not

This was indicated by the recent go against instructions.

as a vision of the future, pointing to fight of the Mercury from South-

Ing that enemy aircraft were ap-

SEC

Why? Because though Mr. Jacts on the doctrine of "Give boya Hia businesses are 60 organised roaching, all the machinery for deal-dred men and boys in his show that he claims no boy can find him- log with air raids in the West Riding rooms, girl employees have been self in a blind-alley job. All have of Yorkshire was set in motion.

This was stated at Leeds recently banned from the business house a chance of rising to the top.

Mrs. Perry said: "My husband when Henry Wood, aged 28, part of Perry for nearly seventy time telephonist at Leeds G.PO, was years from the first day that and in his type of business that he is iucky enough to carry on with- sent for trini, ball being allowed, on his father opened shop in Duke-out women. But he likes to was

a charge of causing a public mis-

them in the home.""" street, Brighton, During the hearing a message in secret code was handed to the magistrate, who was told that it was of the utmost Importance that lis nature should not be divulged. Mr. D. W. Braley, prosecuting,

with said that Wood was supplied secret instructions formulated by the Home Office.

"After everyone has been so kind,

I thought that at least I would be left my pleasant memories of him,

but this is terrible."

THRICE DISOBEYED The Air Ministry report saya that the pilot disobeyed three orders.

He was instructed to practise tak- ing of, landing, and climbing turns In the vicinity of the Halfeld

aero<lcome.

The report goes on to explain how, flattening, out of a dive, Morris hit

house

Dunholme-road,

the

Edmonton.

in

"In certain cases loss of life was

OUR

I am n pilot, and not given to day Mercury's flight dreams, but I see the

a time when air communications be-ampton to New York, a flight on tween Britain and Africa, and Britain which I had the privilege of acting and the other parts of the British as pilot Flying non-stop between Empire, have been so speeded-up Southampton and Montreal, that a five thousand mile fight will be regarded in the nature of a 'hop

us a day's excursion.

a dis-

tance of nearly 2,000 miles, the Mer- cury was able to carry at an average speed of 170 m.p.h. nearly half-a- ton of freight.

across

commercial

chief."

GIVEN A KEY TO CODE He also bad detalled Instructions on the necessary action which had to be taken if any ale ruid warning was received in the city as to the ap

proach of enemy aircraft.

Boys answer the telephone, do all the typing, make the office tea. Men show women customers round. And boys do all the office cleaning even charwomen fall under the ban.

Mr. Perry won't have it that he is prejudiced

He diced against girls. even aðalls that they can excel men in business,

HIS AMBITION For twenty-five years he has been leader of the Brighton and Hove Battalion of the Boys' Brigade, and it is his ambition to give every boy he can a chance in life.

·

NO FLOWERS And Mr. Perry's employees? The sales manager at the Duke- street branch eaid with enthusiasm, "We prefer it this way. We don't in the least miss the feminine touch. We are happier without it.

"A female can be a disturbing Influence In business. Without her, there is less inclination to waste time, Every

one has, his own job to do and there is no ques- tion of 'Don't do that, dear, let me do it for you."

"Certainly no flowers on the boss's desk. They'd soon get thrown back the battalion helt any one tried it."

As captain, commanding officer or

These things will inevitably come LAUNCHING IN MID-AIR and I ke to think that the Mer

This was the first seaplane flight eury's fight may be a step towards:

the North Atlantle which making this dream a reality.

Twenty years

nature. The flight startled to card ago the world was could be fairly regarded as being of

the North Atlantic

It had been arranged that, as Leeds | vice-president of made on a total rated power had been down. In the early twen-output of only 1360 h.p. and the fuel was the centre of a big region, all ties, intense interest was aroused by ill for the 2,900 miles could not messages, when received, should be the ereation of small air routes.

have been much in excess of £100. redistributed throughout the West

This was a feat which has not been Riding. though the North Atlantic has been accomplished by any other aircraft, spanned by flying-boats of nearly twice the weight with power units rated, collectively, at three times the h.p. developed by the Mercury.

due to efforts ut rescue, and the Airport was well advanced, and at pre- By the thirties, Empire air trans- Ministry wish to pay tribute to the sent Imperial Airways services link great gallantry of the would-be

one part of the Empire to another rescuers," it states.

in a matter of a few days.

Who's The 15-Stone Model?

By Sean Fielding

Ho, mystery! Mr. John Cosmo Clark, Chelico-born artist son of an urist who is visiting art master at Camberwell School of Arta and Crafts, said recently. "One the most popular models in London weighs 10 stones.

of

That statement sel a good many people thinking and wondering. An artists model weighing as much as a heavy-weight boxer? Well, well, And one of the most popular models in London?

This reporter tried to find the Indy. Mr. Clark was rather more thon clined to reticence," regret," he "I do not feel able to tell you said, where the

lady

can be found; neither can I tell you her nume." Unfor- tunate, but intriguing.

Working on the not unnatural hasumption that if the lady is "one of the most popular artists' models in London" other models would help, we telephoned blonde, petite, long- haired Carmen Walson,

A POINTER

code and provided with a key to that Wood was instructed In a secret

code.

THE FIRST WARNING

On Friday, September 23, he was on duty at the main-witchboard of Leeds G.P.0, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. He went off duty nt 11, and his place was taken by another emplo

The Mercury's flight may be inter- preted us a painter to a time when It is interesting to note that the journeys of days have been reduced system of launching on aircraft in to hours, and I need hardly my how mid-nir, aa proved by the Composite gratified I am that I should" have principle, can be applied not only to yee. been given the opportunity by Im-seaplanes but to long-peercury's operator who had displaced him. The I At 11.18 a szil was received by the perlat Airways to have played a record-breaking night has shown, it message was in the secret code,

huve Indicated, and as part in this great venture.

The feature of the flight which is able to enhance considerably the Passing up a copy to the mogle- commands attention is that Imperial performance of an ordinary aircraft. trate, Mr. Braley said that the mean- Airways, and the Air Ministry, did Aircraft operated by this system ing of the message received was that not build the Composite aircraft, should always enjoy superiority over it was the first general warning of with its upper component Mercury, a surface launched machine, as all the actual approach of enemy arl- for the express purpose of breaking aeronauticat developments can be craft. world records,

* embodied in future upper compon......The message was immediately sent

ento.

Nor was this, as I know, the rea-

bullt solely

to an operator in another department, and was rediffused over a great part

of the West Riding of Yorkshire..

It was sent to Leeds police head- quarters and the Chlef Constable, the Amistant Chief Constable, and the head of the local C.LD. were brought down to headquarters. The fire brigade was summoned

son for which Major R. H. Mayo,nounced by the way for a new Mayo

-Plans have already been an evolved this type of aircraft.

It was constructed by the famous Composite aircraft, the upper com- Brm of Short Brothers at Rochester, ponent of which will be able to fly England, to the order of Imperial non-stop from London to New York Airways and the Air Ministry, simply at 300 m.p.h, carrying a

large

lond to investigate the possibilities of the of malls. This performance is, of mid-air launching of an acroplane, course, considerably better than that and told to stand by for further in- and by this means to overcome the of our present Mercury, but the dif-structions, and similar efforts were many problems attached to the un-ference la explained by the fact that taken at 99 diferent posts. assisted take-off of heavily laden the new aircraft would be built Wood was committed for trial. long-range machines.

specially for the task of carrying The Composite aircraft was conse- mulls and not for general experl- of incoming and outgoing wireless quently

for general mental flights.

messages dealing with weather, pro- experimental purposes,

It is because of all the possible gress, and bearings. for instance, is in itself a

It is not claimed that the Mercury, significance to air transport of Mer-

Short Brothers have earned new record-cury's recent fight that I feel proud laurels for the part they played in preking machine. The position is to have participated in it." rather that the Mayo Composite

preparing Mercury and Mr. Lips- It was an interesting venture, and comb, of their design staff and Mr. principle been proved so revolu- certainly the experience of a life- Richards, his assistant, are to be con- would otherwise have been a normal of a commercial pilot it was tionary that It has transformed what time. But from the point of view

View gratulated on their very accurate scantane into one which has flown just another job. In the

only analysis of possible performance. farther non-stop, without alighting, fight is just like

alr onc I was glad to have had such a another than any other marine aircraft.

and, staunch companion as Firat Officer vagaries of weather excluded, the I have mentioned this fact for the main difference I found between this which we were a team, and we man- Harvey. It was the first light on express purpose of indicating the and the thousands of fights I have aged well. My thanks go to Captain fuil value of the credit due to British made in command of Imperial Air- A. S. Wilcockson, who commanded **** "O-D-U~0~0~0~h. No, I don't think this night, and to Imperial Airways time we were in the air.

she technicians for the achievement of ways flying-bonts was the length of the Maia', the I have ever heard of any ariel's and the Air Ministry for having the

lower component. madel weighing as much

We have made the mid-air separa- the construction of such an aircraft. hard work for the pilot er pilots. I hope that Wilcockson, Harvey courage and Initiative in sponsoring breaking venture, is just a matter of the process is almost automatic.

Any flight to-day, even a record- tion on so many occasions now that once termed the most revolutionary be done, notes to be kept of progress, many another such ploncer flight, if was There is navigation and pilating to and I will be able to share. duties on experiment in aviation'. Foreign de algners were interested undoubtedly, performance and on engine efficiency, out of Imperial Airways band of 200 a check to be made frequently on we are again privileged to be selected but many were unconvinced. The while, all the time, there is a flood flying personnel

SPECIAL WORK?

Fifteen alone!"

said

us that

The usual weight is between 7st, and Dst. I imagine that the model to whom Mr.. Clark refers does speelal work."

And then, Miss Ray Fuller. the 1936 Academy her

portrait appeared 20 times (she sat for ten figures in Mr. de Glehn's painting. "The Poet's Inspiration.">

In

She said, "I fancy that the model to whom Mr. Clark was referring alts mainly in the art schools. I rocall seeing some sketches of, her about two years ago.”

Undaunted, we rang the Chelsea Arts Club, The Fifteen Stone Model was unknown to those who were in the club.

Who then, is she? Many would

For the Composite aircraft

ThisMan Used Uncashed

“MATA HARI” WOOS PENANG OFFICIAL

Cheques As Bookmarks Chinese Press Alleges

Stories that Mr. Beauclerk Upington, H.C., used uncashed She Is Formosan cheques as book-marks were told for so long in Cape Town that Jike to know, including several few people believed it. Now that he has died, book after book

We spoke and containing uncashed cheques has come to light at his home.

artists

whom to

who expressed some surprise

Mr. Clark's figures,

HOW IT AROSE

11

Mr. Clark, It may be sald, was giving evidence in a case at London Bessions

George Henry Cox, photographic

of. New Band-street, W.

appealed against a fine of £20, with

His files are also full of cheques, some of them in unopened envelopes, some still attached to the cover- ing letters from legal firma who briefed him,

A few were signed by attorneys ys costs, imposed by Mr. J. B. long since dead: others are private

lived, without any knowledge of the worth of his bank balance, to have had little regard for his privato An- ancer,

Stories of a Penang "Mata Hari were published recently in a Singa- pore Chinese vernacular newspapers It is alleged that she is one of a number of Formosan girls engaged in Mr. Upington had a big practice espionage work in Malaya many years ago, and could have died of 'Japanese,

po, behalf

| a rich, man had ho wished,

But, apart from his habit of not The story goes that this Tormosen Sandbach, K.C, on a charge of sell-cheques from friends in settlement of cashing cheques, he gave generously "Main Harl" made love to a Chines ing three improper photographs, private debts or for specific objects to charity,

Government official In Penang with Apart from a sanii mund In hir per- Evidence was given that the photo-

HUNDREDS OF POUNDS 1sonal accounts, he left only a library the object of learning as much as graphs were of the normal type used

*by," artists on studies and by models

in applying for work.

Bald Mr. Clark: "We are not con-† cerned with searching for the ideal

39ibe appeal was granted.

.

Of a total running into hundreds of law books, and a few personal possible about Penang as a defence

of bounds, some of the amounts treaties such a sporting prints centre.

were as much as 2100, and dated He leaves two alatory in Englafil- back to 1914.

uno unmarried and the other the' The Chinese newspaper states ibat

A prolonged search of the lawyer's wife of Mr. R. B. Edwards, formerly it is believed the matter, is being in private papers reveals no sign of general manager of Barclays Bank vestigated officially will. He is said to have died, as ha for South Atrics,

It's fatal

for a wife to look tired

That's Mrs.

Bartlett.sher beautifully

dressed!

Did you see her face! - tired and drawn. Her husband's not

paying any attention to her}

THAT NIGHT MRS. BARTLETY | FELT BROKEN-HEARTER,

· ALWAYS TIREDILA ZON EVEN WAKING TIRED..

RUINED HER LOOKS. -SHE DECIDED TO SEE

A DOCTOR.

| FOMONTHS LATER

Well, with that attractive

Mice Drake about-you can't blame How

This waking

tired tells on your· whole appearance, Mrs. Bartlett

You sot all night

(airman-matador)

MARRIES

Mr. Rupert Bellville, wealthy amateur bullfighter and airman whose adventures in Spała led to his capture and imprisonment by Government troops a year ago, --was married in Paris recently to Miss Jeannelle Fuqua, daughter of Colonel Fuqua, American Milliary Attache in Spain.

Mr. Bellville met his wife while The was on a flying trip. In Spain, She shares his love of (illighting- he has frequently appeared in the ring as a matador and they attend- ed a bullfight at Nimes before leaving for London.

Mr. Bellville inherited from his father a fortune of £105,000 and Papillon Hall, in Leicestershire, which he and his bride will visi be- fore going to Tahil, South Sea Island. for the winter.

A British destroyer was rescue Mr. Bellville from Spanish Government forces after ho had spent fifteen days in prison at Gijon.

Come on Jane! the races will be over Hist Drake it waiting in the car

THINKS:

scni

LE unly I couận -hide these lines- I look wutul- and this dreadful

bredes

You look pentive radiant.

Mier Draka!

LEICEST

HAIR

and so every night :

WHERE TIREDNESS FIRST THOWT

DULL A EYES".

QAM

LOOK

long you bum up energy in heart bests and other autowatie actions. If this energy is

$AGLING

PASTY SUN

LITTLE. LINKS

not replaced during sleep- of course you wake tirad. It's Wight Starwacioni That's nothing to "good in Horlicks.

But John

-It's much too

Horlicks makes such a difference to the way you feel – and LOOK

IF you wake tired, watch out 1 in flower war on de

Night Starvation. It tells on your looka and par sonality. Stare taking Horlicks -- a cupful ~at night. You waka refreshed --- eyes brightë

fresh. You have vivacity and cistern all dar din

HORLICKS

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on

to