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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Wednesday, DECEMBER, 7, 1088.

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and 1. determined to fly from the Azores to Newfoundland on our way from Pisa to New York, It was August, 1928.

We had got half-way when, suddenly, I saw in the wind- screen a strange crimson glow, It took me a few seconds to realise what had happened: the

Hongkong Eclegraph. petrol feed had cracked, then

WERNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1934.

The New Agitator

news

THE B.B.C., we are told in a news despatch yesterday, will continue

broadcasts in foreign languages. Why?

Because all over the world now the radio stations are giving out propaganda,

broken, the machine had petered out owing to the weakness of the mixture, the engine had back- fired, and we were on fire.

Those were the Bames I saw reflected.

I decided to come down.

As I

The German Condor plane, which was forced down near Manila yesterday.

By Captain Frank Courtney

who in 1928 attempted one of the plencer Transatlantic flights in a Dornier-Wal flying-boat, which caught fire in the air

the half-way betweon

Azores Newfoundland,

We used the direction finder

and

The tanker Achatina sent u message: "We are near you. Can you put up a smoke screen?"

Petrol sends up good black smoke but how to fire it? We got the top off a 5-gallon can. We filled it three-quarters full from the tanks. We tried to

kick it overboard at the exact moment we fired it. But as I flung the match in, a wave hit us and upset the whole thing.

Our first signal in the morn with safety appliances. We ing was picked up and answered took the minimum: batteries, The engines were set above by the Celtic.

fire-extinguishers, everything,

For a few seconds we floated in a blazing pool of petrol. the machine. The trail of the

To add to our gaieties, we Then another wave took us out flames was rushing backwards, to get our position and gave it were son-yick. I was sca-sick of range. The smoke-cloud was It had burned the tail-fin which out to the liner, which relayed for the first time in my life: fine-but the Achatina did not it to other boats. We heard the smell of burning aluminium see it and we decided thore projected above the fuselage. them "speaking." We felt was too much. I was so sick I would be no more petrol flares. grand. We thought it was just didn't care if we were picked up

We had food aboard, but no- a matter of waiting to be picked or not.

one thought of eating. up.

Sen- The wireless man called out sickness and anxiety together But we were go low in the he could see smoke on the hori- murder one's appetite. We had water, it was almost impossible zon. I got to my feet, saw he nothing to smoke. To drink we to see us. Waves seemed to be had been deceived. It was just had two gallons of fresh water. swooped, I had only one thought: breaking at us from all heights & sun-ray through a distant When that was gone we should "Any ships about will see us all and all directions..

cloud. I cursed him. Later I have been reduced to the water right." There was no time to

raised the cry of "Smoke." in the radiators-chock-full of Gradually the difficulties of Gilmour saw I had made the iron flings. I yelled to Voice declares send out a message.

the rescuers began to dawn on same mistake, and cursed me the mechanic: "Cut off the

We were a tiny speck, act back. petrol." He clambered out and almost on the water-line. A turned off the tap.

shower of rain would obscure When I was a few feet above clear a ship would have to us at a mile. Even If it stayed the sea-a pretty rough sea- come within five or six miles to orders I saw the fanm of the

waves sight us.

And the great ex- announce he could see smoke: They were 50 miles away. was pink from the flames. I

panse of the sea, stretching only ships should be taken as The Columbus was going south. had no idea how I should land, desolate and empty before us, evidence of salvation. I simply held the plane off the brought home to us the grim

The Minnewaska was heading wave tops until it lost speed and realisation of the immensity of

At one in the afternoon, a we hoped to God, he would con- straight for us. We hoped, how then let her fall into the

sea. the task. We heard the ships Hayes, en route to the United might change his course.

message from the President tinue. How As luck would have it the land exchutige messages.

we dreaded.. he Ing was perfect.

heard Lisbon giving

The sun began to sink lower For a bit I was terrified of the messages to the Press,

Ships' taken in Hongkong, told us they and lower over the horizon. We risk of going up in a blaze. The calls came to us: "We are on had arrived at our position, and heard the Minnewaska's signals

Someone asked for. fire was just above a 10-gallon our way." tank of petrol. In the fuselage a report of the accident.

If you listen-in on the short- waves you'll hear a German or an Italian, though speaking in English. This that the broadcast is directed to South and Eastern Asin. But the message is directed, of course, to the place where most English is spoken--India.

What can you do about it? Radio penetrates the defences of the old-fashioned Press censor- ship like a boxer with £1 new punch slips through the guard of The orthodox stylist.

us.

We even

out

But

it. below were the main tanks. we could not reply: our batteries

One spark and it would be all were too low.

There are two ways to stop it. and the B.B.C. knows Jam the offending station. Or give him some of his own medi-

cine.

Santa's Beard

AFTER the hind legs of the

donkey, no man deserves our sympathy at this time of the year more than the professional Santa Claus. Among the perils of his occupation, it appears, is the catching of his beard in electrical toys. Not only is this fate painful in itself but it a calculated to destroy every morsel of that prestige among ht the young so essential to task.

Nevertheless, Santa Clauses Santa Claus) have approached their task with a high sense of professional conduct. At a New York conference they have shown a firm grasp of this beard ques- tion. Santa's beurd, it is laid down, is to be long enough to add a touch of verisimilitude to un otherwise bald and unconvincing person. But it is not to be like Aaron's, that went down to the skirts of his clothing. There should be moderation in all things, even in beards. Smiling Through

What is your fave rite film? The British Film Institute sug-

up.

Luck saved us again. The fire went out,

Although we had not enough juice to send messages, we had enough to hear. Wo intercept- ed a conversation about us be- tween the Columbus and the

Tempers were fraying. I gave Minnewaska.

that no-one should

States on а round-the-world Dollar Line Cruise that had

we were not there.

Of course getting nearer.

Suddenly the not. The drift of sea-weed told Achatina cut in: "We'll reach us we were moving at about 8 you somehow." It seemed a m.p.h.; my chart told us we were race between the rescue ships also being carried by the Gulf and the sinking sun. And the Stream at about 2% m.p.h. Our sun seemed to be winning. drift to the westward was at We had not thought of pack the rate of 6 m.p.h., and we had up the radio. At practice, we had rigged it in 15 minutes. ng more juice. We were think covered 60 miles from the time When we had to do it under real much as we could before we wondered if the liner would

ing of lightening the plane as we had given our position. conditions, it took us two hours. started, not loading ourselves figure that out too.

After a bit, we began to put

Finally, we got it rigged. We sent out an SO S. We got no reply.

We decided to wait until 8 a.m. before sending out another, when some ships would be sure to get the signal. When day broke, our only emotion was a dumb wonder: shall wo be picked up to-day? If not, what will happen?

gest in their annual report last month that tastes arc altering.

The "leg-show" is on the rus, and the everlasting sunshine of the glamour girl's amile is paling. Conversely, the screen cur- toonist's little characters--which can be endowed with six legs and a smile that meets at the back of the neck-are growing in everybody's esteem.

The pointless, "popular" pic-| ture is making way, it is sald, for good historical adaptations and for flms that have honest plot and genuine Interest. Tasto is on the up-grade.

A few years more and tho ɛcreen public will got out of the Hollywood.

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

11-15

"You're such a brute, Cadwell! You still haven't noticed my new hat!”

I

the horizon-but he didn't dare Gilmour really saw smoke on

to say so. Then, over the sky- line we saw the line of a mast, of a funnel, of a bow, heading straight towards us. We knew he could not see us. Would he, would he turn off?

Nearer and nearer. And the sun sinking lower and lower. Nearer and nearer, lower and lower. We sent out our last message, leaving our batterics. empty.

It was the setting sun that we had looked on as our enemy that. proved our salvation. A sailor at the mast-head saw a finsh- the level rays striking our wings. If the sun had been higher in the sky, ho would never have seen us.

And the Minnewaska was about to change course just when ho sighted the flash.

The liner hove to, lowered a boat, sent out, took us off. Once we reached the ship, wit our sensations disappointment at our falluro, heart-sickening anxiety, resignation, complete apathy when we were ill-faded into one not of relief but, of gigantic anti-climax.

That Was my adventure. That is what the four Germania. faced before they wore picked

up.

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