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QUEEN'S

& ALHAMBRA

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

THROUGH TYPHOON

10,

1938,

Stopping on its way at Damask, · Karachi, Calcutta, Hanoi and Tal- hoku, it is expected to reach Tokyo

day morning, says Domci,

Delphinus Lands Here either on Friday night or on Satur-

After Stormy Trip

LONDON MAILS

PLANES FOR EGYPT

Changing the plane's course be-

Britain to Supply Machines cause of a typhoon which was rag-

On Treaty Terms ing off Hoihow, Captain, J. N. Wilson Blew through bad weather to Innd

London, Nov. 9. the Imperial Airways plane Del- Fast Arny co-operation phinus at Kni Tak at 5.30 p.m. yes-general liaison Pircraft terday.

and

are being supplied to the Egypilan Government Mr. J. N. Smakman, a German in fulfilment of the contract recently mechanical engineer, who was a pas-included within the framework of in the Anglo-Egyptian senger on the plane, paid a tribute contract

to the pilot'a skill in the difficuit Treaty of 1930.

weather.

The machines concerned are West- high-wing mono- Leaving Fort Bayard at 2.47 p.m., land Lysander the Delphinus reached Kai Tak half-planes resembling those supplied to an-hour behind schedule in gather-the Royal Air Force. ing clouds.

Conditions were Buch that night flying at Kal Talk was cancelled last night.

The Delphinus

brought United Kingdoin and Australian mails.

CHRISTMAS MAILS

Daedalus WIB Be Ready To Help Trafic

In order to cope with the rush and extra burden of air mall during the Christmas period, the Imperial Alt- ways plane Daedalus will be brought back into the Bangkok-Hongkong service on December 7,

The first batch has already been delivered to Egypt. Remainder of order is scheduled for completion by

the

the Lysander's perform- feature of this year. A notable

e is its

Ance

and "pacity for dying at biga

Its comprehensive equipment fits it to undertake many missions including bombing, observa- Bou, reconnaissance and aerial photo- graph-British Wireless.

SINGAPORE NON-STOP

Return Flight of Bombers

From Australia/

Darwin, Nov. 9. Squadron Lender Kellet announced their return

HONG KONG

in

to LONDON 18 DAYS BY

Go Home for your long local leave

THOS. COOK

£31 to £60

Special Return Rates on Application

VIA SIBERIA

& SON, LTD.

Queen's Bldg-Tel. 20524-Hong Kong.

Ai present the plane is in the Kaito-day that the three B.A.F. record THIEVES' PARADISE Tak hungar undergoing overhaul for breaking bombers an

the annual air-worthiness examina-fight to England would fy non-stop Warning to Dealers Of

tion,

The Dorado, which was slightly damaged at Bangkok recently, is ning expected to be ready by Christmas A new wing tip and parts to the undercarriage of the plane are being fitted.

time,

K. L. M. SERVICE

Large Increase in Tralic

Of all Kinds Figures released in Hongkong show that for the KLM.'s Far Eastern route during the first six months of this year, there was a 30 per cent. increase in the number of passengers carried over the corresponding period last year and a 35 per cent. Increase in mail. The freight increase was 70 per cent.

on

Australia, Saturday

from Singapore to England.

The machines

will

tour leaving for Brisbane and Sydney on Monday. From there they will fly to Adelaide and Darwin Kellet sald when he landed he har 44 gallons of petrol in the tank of his machine. In the other there were 17-Reuter.

AIRMAIL MILEAGES

Britain

Second-Hand Goods RECEIVING CHARGES

ishment to sell. He asked Yik for day when he took it to Yik's estab- $22, but finally sold it for $10. Ite,

stale the second register, from the

Sun Sun restaurant in Nathan Rondl and this too he sold to Yik for $16.

Answering Mr. Barnett, Wong hald that he had told Yik, on being ask ed, that the registers were his pro- perty and that he was selling thera because they were old models. He would be surprised to hear that the registers had only been bought few days before he stole them.

Paradise for Thieves

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Yik did not give sworn evidence but said from the dock that he had bought the registers from the de- fendant. He had not asked the de- fendant for his name nor for his address.

Admitting that he had burgled two houses and stolen two cash registers, a man named Wong Chung, 22, un-į employed, testified before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magis- tracy yesterday in two receiving charges against a mon named Yik Behind America

KI, 45, shop-keeper of Canton Road, On World List

Wong was convicted, but not sen- tenced, on two counts of burglary in According to official records, the another Court of the same Mogis- leading countries of the world in the tracy yesterday morning. Det.- year 1938 with regularly operated air Sergeant C. Mottram called upon mall mileages are as follows:

him to testify in the case against United States; 31,084 domestic, Yik in the afternoon. 51,288 international, total of 82,- In evidence Wong said that he had 372 miles; Great

Britain

is 68,240; pleaded guilty to two charges of France, 33,795 Germany 23,494 burglary in which he was accused Netherlands,

The Pan American Airways by ith of the registers, about 4 pm. The introduction of three services

10,387 and Italy 14,670. of having stolen two National cash

system registers. After he had stolen one other than old pieces or broken a week with Douglas D.C. 3 aircraft

goods, were taken to them to buy In place of two Douglas D.C. 2's has

regular lines crossing and circling the morning, from a shop in Nathan for a minute fraction of their proper added to the total passenger accom-

Caribbean, around South America Road he hired a ricksha and took value (the cash registers were to- modation available on the run from and the Pacifle ocean between the the register to the vicinity of the gether worth over $700), it was not Holland to Salgon. This service is

Theatre. There, he bid only their moral but also their legal obligation to report the matter to Theatre until about 6 am, the next the police.

ia the world's mast

one

shortly to be extended to Hongkong. United States and Hongkong, a total Alhambra

of more than 50,000 miles of re- the register in the lane behind the

By

agreement with Imperial Airways gularly operated routes.

and Air France reductions were re-

cently introduced in the passenger

rates.

EURASIA SCHEDULES

Resumption of Inland Services Announced

Kunming, Nov, D.

A new air service between Kun- ining, Chungking and Chengtu on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, has been started by the Eurasia Aviation Corporation since November

0.

Planes bound for Chengtu leave here at 12.20 p.m. (Shanghai time) reaching Chungking at 3.25 p.m. Continuing at 3.00 p.m.,

the planes are expected to arrive in Chengtu ut 5.20 p.m.

Kunming-bound planes leave Chengtu at 0 nm. and arrive at Chungking at 9.25 a.m. Resuming the Eight at Chungking at 10 a.m. they are expected to reach Kunming oi 1.10 p.m.

The fare from Kunming to Chung- king Is $245 National currency and from Chungking to Chengtu $05.

Some changes in schedule in the Corporation's Kunming-Sinn-Lon- chow, and Kunming-Hanol services have also been made since Novem- ber

ย. The new schedule is as fol- lows:

Kunming to Lanchow, vix Cheng- tu, Sinn, Monday, Thursday: Lan- chow to Kunming, via Stan, Cheng- tu, Tursday, Friday; Kunming Hanoi, Wednesday, Friday: Hanel to Kunming, Wednesday, Sunday.

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A round trip beween Lanchow and Ninghsia is scheduled on Tuesday. Central News.

ITALIANS GIVE UP Plane Damaged In Landing At Beirut

Home, Ναν. 9. The Italian dyers attempting a non-stop flight from here to Tokyo gave up their attempt to-day after Canding at Beirut. Slight damage to the wing was caused when the plane landed as the radio operator slightly injured by as electric shock.

to

The flyers claim to have broken the speed record from Rome Beirut, covering the distance in five hours at a speed of 294 m.ph.

The plane left the Guldenia air- port at Rome carrying a messago to the praldent of the Japanese Pres Association from the Minister of Propaganda, Sig. Dino Alfleri.--Rex-

ICT.

All-Metal Machine

The plane, a mono-machine of Flat B.R. No. 29 type, entirely built of metal, is equipped with 21,000 horse- power engines. It is a passenger plane and is designed along the same lines as the up-to-date heavy bomber of the Italian Air Force.

It carries a crew of five including Major Marnel Lualdi, chief pilot, two

assistant pilots, wireles operator and a mechanic.

Proposing to establish a new world record for the return flight between Homo and Tokyo, it expects to cover the distance for the, double, trip of 20,000 kilometres in 100 hours.

Buy A

Before fining the defendant $200 or 20 weeks' hard labour ON the charges, Mr. Barnett told him that Hongkong was already "a paradise for thieves." He had on many oc- casions tried to impress upon dealers in second-hand goods that if articles,

Flanders Poppy

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