1939-03-03 — Page 26

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 3, 1939.

FLYING PALACE PACIFIC FLIGHT 40-Ton Clipper Lands At Kai Tak Shortly After Noon To-Day

DELAYED BY WEATHER an hour between Manila and Hongkong, the Boeing Clipper, world's largest plane, flew over the Colony at 1 p.m. to-day and alighted at Kai Tak ten minutes later.

The plane made a perfect landing from the south-west skimming the houses near the rocks area.

"We had a wonderful trip," said Captain Bill Cuthe. "We averaged about 165 miles an hour and I am very satisfied with the plane.”

There were nearly 2,000 spectators at the marine terminal to watch the plane come in. Most of them had been waiting from noon when the plane was expected to arrive.

Heavy mists

and low teen persons who may dine in the

arose

rout at one time.

maximum seating capacity of the ship

will not be used, this room will remain available at all times as a For passenger.

clouds overhung the sur- For long ocean hops when the rounding hills and harbour and a great cheer when the huge plane through the clouds Hongkong.

burst social centre for

1 CHOR be over shorter schedules and greater over-

night passenger loads it furnished as a lounge with standard passenger seals for day-time neeu- pancy, convertible into upper and used the Clipper has tower berths at night. When this arrangement i

The traditional bell was rung as the Clipper came in sight. She taxied down in half a mile

the central lounge lead to passenger

and swung round, coming along-berth accommodations for a totul of side the terminal where a small 40 persons. army of mechanics and staff officials moored the giant planc. The Superintendent of Kai Tals, Mr. A. J. C. Moss, congratulated the captain on his fight, and the 24 men aboard the plane allghted minid cheurs from the crowd.

The flight from Manila took 5 hours. H. E. the Governor went aboard the plane at 2.45 p.m. and other members of the public followed. The plane will leave at 8.30 am.

to-morrow,

Calling Kai Tuk. Hongkon Chi- ing Kal Tak, Hongkong

In this dramatic fashion and with all the elements

a Hollywood aviation picture, one man to-day is telling the world of one of the must amazing flights of all time.

J. E. Weesner, First Radio Officer

Arched doorways at either end of If you compartiments fore and aft choose first to look over the after sections of the ship, you pass succes- through Three standard sively

compartments, all identical except for alternate colour styling in adjoining cabins.

For these rooms, soft restful colour chosen. Sents schemes have been

belge wool are upholstered in a tapestry, tailored with leather trim-

passenger

ming

"AUSTRALIAN MATERIAL

has accom- Each compartment

Daven- modations for ten persons. port-type triple seats face each other on the starboard side and double ол the seats are similarly located

made up of port side. They are Australian horse hair, curled and

of the Boeing Clipper, flashed out rubberized. Between the seats there news from the 40-ton steel monster

is a bridge table fastened to special

be

na i charloted its way through the brackets and readily removable. air towards Hongkong at 170 miles

As a sumple of what may arbour.

in night accommodations expected The plane hopped off from Marla aboard the new Clipper, you find at 7.39 s.m.

one of the passenger compartments into berths, They are The world's largest commercial made up transport plane will leave Kal Tak closed off by heavy curtains in deep to-morrow on the return light to San rich Pan American Airways bluc, Francisco.

while blankets and interior berth

cross-ship. The double seats

On completing ita 11,000 mile nttings have a light blue tint. Ench test flight from the Treasure triple sent has been converted into Tuland base in San Francisco upper and lower berths running the Clipper will be handed over to a small army of mechanics, experts, -greasers Careful checking and cal- culating will be made of the plane's performance.

the port side have been converted to an upper and lower berth running window, lengthwise of the ship. Each of the berths has an outside Individual ventilator, reading light, steward's call button, clothes rack. and hangers.

.

The following is a list of the crew and technical experts, who strived obeard the machine, there being no

Leaving this room and proceeding | passengers:

Captain W. A. Cuthe, Captain F. J. further toward the stern, one enters as First Officer, Second Officer a four-passenger port side compart- E. C. Blerrer, Third Officers S. T. ment opposite, which is a door to the En- women's dressing room. Large and

Loland as

J.

E.

tive

a wash basin

the

Peters and R. C. Howard, First En- tastefully styled, the women's room gineer J. E. Prunty, Second Engineer has a grey linoleum Boor. To the left

Wreaner, First Radio Omeer J.

is just inside the door Scrond Radio Officer S. Cummings, First Steward R. Don- with hot and cold running water, a large mirror, and a dental lavatory. ham, Second Steward I. Tier, Third Along the outer wall is a long double

H. Chanco.

dressing table, with two plate glass D. H. Experts: Mr.

mirrors und modern lighting fixtures. Poncell, Boeing Service Representa-

HONEYMOON SUITE W. E. Beall, Boeing Project

Beyond the women's dressing room, W. Weigand, Wright Engineer, F.

the the att-most section of Aeronautical Company Engineer, J. in

enters Caffrey, Wright Service Engineer, A. passenger deck, one

luxe Gray, Pan American Airways Com- Clipper's much-talked-of de munications Omeer, T Ramsey, compartment, or "bridal sulte." Its P.A.A. Assistant Operations Manager, colour plan is like that of the dining Pacific Division, Andre E. Priester, saloon, with a lively blue tone in up- W. holstered furniture. Over by the P.A.A. System Chief Engineer,

a "love-scut" Miller and J. Boudwin, Civil Aero-starboard windows is nautics Authority, and Messrs. F. beside which is an end table. Along davenport- the adjacent wall is a Stephani and J. G. Lossow.

converts into None other than the 250 invited style triple seat that

In an guests were allowed to look over the berths, and another end lable. plane this trip, though opportunity opposite corner there is a combina- will always

be available for members tion dressing table and writing desk, of the public see over the inachines while the fourth corner has a folding wash-stand cabinet, Ant occasional at the end of other flights.

chair and a coffee table complete the GOVERNOR TO SEE PLANE

of this self-sufficient The Governor, Sir Geoffry North- furulabing and other government afleials cabin.

cote,

Retracing steps to the central

Some Details

The Boeing is the largest plane yet built. Here are some of the specifications, given in language a layman can under- aland:

Cost: U.S.$1,000,000. Weight when loaded: 41A

tons.

Volume of Interior: Equal

to that of a five-roomed

house and basement, Surface area: 4,000 square

fort.

Wine

span: 152 feel from tip to tip.

Length of Hull 100 feet, Size: Twice the size of the

Hongkong Clipper. Passengers: 74 by day-34

by night,

Petrol:

Furnishings: Skyline green, Miami sond, beige and blue colouring scheme.

Enough to take u motor car around the world 24 times. Cruising Range: 6,500 miles

at 20,000 feet, Speed: Up to 200 mp.h.

Cruising

speed is 18G

m.p.h.

The air-conditioning system employed in the Clipper would heat ve 7-room houses. It maintains a constant tempera- ture of 70 degrees.

Schuschnigg To Be Set Free

Berlin, Mar. 2.

I is reliably reparted that the

wen shown over the plane at 2.45 tounge and beyond, to scout the forvien authorities have decided not p.m., and invited members of the public were shown through afterward end of the passenger deck, one enters the standard ten-passenger section con- compartments, then a laining a galley, to the port and a

wards.

CARPETED FLOORS

to prosecute Dr. Schuschnige, former: Austrian Premier.

He will be allowed to leave the

The new Clipper, with its two men's dressing room to the starboard, mctropolis in the middle of April to decks and eightien separate rooms. beyond which is still another stun-reside in a small town in Upper its soft carpeted floors, its davenport-dard compartment. There is a drink-Austria.-United Press. tyợc lounging chairs and its moderning fountain at this end of the styling is like a "hotel of the air" passenger deck, and another at the

writes a Telegraph representative stern.

who inspected the plane shortly after

its arrival.

EXTENSIVE GALLEY

Muharram Riots

Amelisar, Mar. 2.

The galley contains an ingeniously One boards the silvery glant by a compact arrangement of

equipment gangplank that leads to the broad designed for serving full-course One person was killed and 10 in- upper surface of one of the hydro- meals. Not only are there the jured in Hindu-Moslem rioting to stabilizers, which is actually a 1,500- necessary cupboards, drawers, con- day on the occasion of the Muharram gallon fiel reservoir but serves for tainers, ele., but on lee refrigerator Festival, passengers as a loading deck. Enter-and a steam table. Between meala

COMPLETES

RADIOGRAM

NO18602

·PANAIH KAITAK

FLIC 269 DEPARTED-NANILA 0739 TAKEOFF 0758,

GAS 3200 - CLUTHE

FACSIMILE of one of the radio messages from the Clipper, received at Kal Tak Alepori this morning.

THE NEW BOEING CLIPPER

WHEN IS A WAR NOT A

WAR?-COURT QUERY

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LONDON, Mar, 2.

“IS THERE A WAR between Japan and China?" The question was raised by a case in which the Court of Appeal gave its decision.

Last-May, Mr. Justice (now "Nodbody in

these days would

Lord Justice) Goddard, held that have the temerity to suggest that war a state of war existed in the cannot exist without a declaration of sense in which the ordinary war."-Reuter. commercial man would use the

word war, "without going into the niceties of international law."

of the

The court heard an appeal by the Kawuski Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha, of Kobe, against the judgment of Lord Justice Goddord that the Bantham Shipping Company Cardiff was entitled to cancel chartering of the steamship Nailsen Meadow to the Japanese company in September, 1937, because a clause in the charter-party permitted conest- Intion "if war breaks out Involving

Jato WAR, SAYS BRITAIN

the The

Stalford Crippy, for Sir Japanese company, said that Foreign Ofer, in a feller answering a query by the company's solicitors, declared that "His Majesty's Gavern. ment was not at present prepared to y that in its view war exists". In giving judgment for the respon- dents and dismissing the appeal, the Master of the Rolls sold that Lore Justice Goddard Was manifestly right,

without

"War might break out it," be sud. the British Government recognising

24 Die In

Big Halifax Fire

HALIFAX, Nova

Scotia, Mar. 2. Twenty-four persons are re ported to be missing as a result of a fire which completely des Įtroyed a hotel here to-day.

The number of dead is not British troops are standing by. The known, but 20 people were taken steps into the dining saloon, the The men's dressing room is finished currying of arms has been prohibited to the hospital-Renter. largest room in the plane with the with grey nolcum on

enforced. Reuter curfew

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ing. the passenger deck by a side a cocktail bar may be set up in this Sixty arrests were made, and door, the passengers step down three area.

the floor, and

exception of the control roun on the maroon Vinylile shert plurtle wolns-Spectal.

coting on the lower part of the walls,

upper deck.

The 10% by 12-foot dining room is and belge fabric above. Ita gally coloured, with a spirited blue furnishings include a dental lavatory,

pattern on furniture upholstery, rich two wash basins with hot and cold spiral staircase leading to the upper terra colta carpeting, and walls of running water, and two plate glass, deck where control room, cargo holds, silvery-beige. Double windows

And crew's

mirrors.

located. In the hallway between the galley althier side of the room have-miedern Venetian-type

blinds, as do the win-and men's room there is

an inter

are

Ambush In Palestine

Jerusalem, Mar. 2.

dows of all other passenger compart- / Phone with which the steward may controlled heating system capable of an ambush of three armoured cars)

ments in the ship.

living quartern

A British constable was wounded in The Clipper has a thermostatically call vorlous officers on the flight deck circulating n Ave

times greater un the Nablus-Jerusalem road to- above, und 6-station annunciator volume of warm air than the heating day. DINING ROOM

A modern seven-room A patrol of the Royal Dragoons There are five dining tables ut panel with signal lights for the system of

stewart, individually conected to house. There are two "furnaces," successfully engaged an armed Arab polished black walnut, and deply cach of the mony call-buttons using exhaust heat from two of the gang near Halts, inflicting casualties. upholstered armchairs for the four-throughout the ship. Nearby is alfour engines.

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