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·HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Britain's 1938 Air Recor
REMARKABLE
ACHIEVEMENTS ARE RECALLED
LONDON, Dec. 28.
DURING the year now closing two world record dis- tance fights established Britain's leading place in aeronautical achievement. The float-plane "Mercury", the upper component of the first short-mayo composite air. craft flow non-stop from Dundee to the mouth of the Orange River, a distance of 6,045 miles, beating the pre- vious seaplane distance record by more than 800 miles.
In November the long-range deve-fights during the year, notably the the Atlantic lopment flight of the R.A.P. neroni- return flight across plished a fight without parallel in Deran, and tourneys with mails be- the history of aviation. Three of the tween England and Egypt, which long-range Might monoplanes-stand- further indicated the feasibility
modi the composite alreratt idea. At the ard service aircraft with maximum start of its flight to South Africa the fentions for journeys of range set out from Ismailla to ty seaplane was carrying 45 lbs. un
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LAST WEEK we printed a picture problem asking how three houses can be fitted with gas, water, and electricity from the three points without any of the mains crossing.
We warned at the time that it would be n maddening problem. No
1938.
SEAMAN
FESTIVE SPIRIT
Evening Escapado On Star Forry
"I realise that I have done wrong and I am very sorry. I want to apologise to those people I have caused troubled to, and also to any- body else."
So stated George Fennery, 34, seaman of the President Taft, at the
Kowloon Magistracy, this morning
after he had pleaded guilty, before Mr. E. Himsworth, to a charge of having been drunk and disorderly.
Fennessy missed his ship on Christmas Day.
to Australia. Two of them dew non- every square foot of wing area, and one succeeded in solving it, although Jamaica Committee from the third class to the first class
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'Det.-Sergeant Scott said that yes- terday evening, Fennessy boarded the Star Ferry "Night Star" at the) Hongkang wharf and made his way
where he was believed to have used nbusive language towards the pas sengers.
its varied "solutions" were submitted. stop to Port Darwin, having covered
every horse-power
In every instance it has been and 4-Napier rapid 11-phaped engines-
for 7,158 miles by a great circle
granted that a combination of winglooding and 7,350 miles along the roste actually a
powerloading which had never pre-other of the householders has no
Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. 28.
When the ferry arrived at Kow- Blown. They had broken the distance owly been carried into the nit. It objection toor has given permission
The two commissions appointed to point-to-point record by 854 miles.viously
was lifting more than 1141mes Its for the mains being carried through
of the wharf and accosted some of THEY NEVER SAW INDIA!
unloaded weight. The record-or under his house to supply the investigate respectively the island-loon, Fennessy stood at the entrance
house next door.
wide disturbances in May and June, The third, when it descended, on bren landplanes were Vickers-
Obviously, though this is a prac- and the riots on the Frome sugar the passengers who had disembark-
ed, the island of Timor as a precaution- Wellesley monoplanes of geodetletical, and maybe un ordinary mothed | estate in May, have reported to the, and he was seen to catch hold of a European. He was arrested ary measure against possible fuel construction, powered each with
with such a situation as Governor.
and was taken to the Water Poller exhaustion before reaching Australia
Bristol Pegasus aircooled engines.
Ouestion implies, if this condition
The report of the first commission Station where he was found to be had also broken the previous record. The geodetic construction invented is permissible then the puzzle re-shows that in the island disturbances, wet through. by 353 miles.
by Mr. B. N. Walls and developed mains a puzzle no longer.
The President Taft is arriving to- Britain holds therefore both land-
There consequently remains the eight people were killed and 32
morrow and arrangements have been Plane and senpline records. Neither by him in conjuction with Vickers
the wounded, while 745 were arrested. years past, ranks intriguing problem of laying company for
to rejoin the flight was made in ideal conditions as a major discovery. This ingenious three supplies to each house without None of the Crown forces was killed, made for Fennessy
vessel. The mercury and long-range mono-method of basketwork building is encroaching on the property on either but 109 were injured.
After apologising for any unplea~ | planca had to light head winds must claimed to produce structure that side.
caused, Fennessy of the way. The landplanes New
news enormously strong and is yet!
santness he had thousands of miles through heavy exceptionally light In weight-
asked for leniency. He was bound over in $10 to be of good behaviour tropical storma and clouds which British Wireless.
for a year and was warned against) restricted them for hours at મા
repeating the offence.
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at a height of 10,000 feet by stellar observations. Nevertheless both re- cords were achieved at a far higher average speed
attained in any earlier comparable light. The Mercury averaged 142 mp.h, and the landplanes no less than 153 mph figures which demonstrate aerodyna mical efficiency of the aircroft their high performance in speed as
wall as in range.
and
UNORTHODOX INVENTIONS These datorie voyages spectacular ly justifled two unorthodox British Inventions, The Mercury made other
Eire Premier To Visit America
Dublin, Dec. 28. Mr. Eamon De Valera, the Irish Premier, will arrive in Washington on May 6 next year, and stay there one day as guest of President Roosevelt at the White House, it was offelally announced to-day.
Hongkong is not the only place to be intrigued by the problem. Be lieve it or not, when London paper asked its readers for solutions, one gallantly attempted to do this by carrying his GAS MAIN_COM- PLETELY ROUND THE EARTH, AND EVEN THEN HE HAD TO PASS IT THROUGH THE CENTRE HOUSE.
Another overcame the dimeulty by passing his electric main, not through a house, but through the gas plant. (One spark, and up we all got)
Still another wrote that through- out the war he carried this puzzle in mind and whiled away many a hour in trying to find a solution, but without success. Always one Mr. D. Valera will then spendine had to cross another or pass several days in New York, and will through, a house. probably open the Irish Pavilion at THE PUZZLE STILL, REMAINS the World Exhibition-Trans-Occan. UNSOLVED.
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The commission criticises the behaviour of some of the special constables, and suggests that the police force should be increased.
The commission on the Frome riots. in which four persons were killed result of the and 13 injured as a police aring at the demonstrators who were throwing stones, suggests that the police should use tear gas, rather than rifles, and 'considers a Labour Department a pressing necessity. Reuter.
GAMES AFTERNOON
POSTPONED
The St. Andrew's Women's Fellowship Games Afternoon will not take place this afternoon. It will be held as usual next Thursday after-
noon.
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Tientsin Assassin Kills Taipan
Tientsin, Dec, 28.
A Chinese gunman in French Con- cession to-day fired three slots point- blank at Wang Chu-lin, Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, of a cafe, and as he stood outside killed him.
The assassin escaped.
The dead man was a prominent Tientsin industrialist.----United Press.
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