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Wednesday,

́HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

May 3, 1939.

ROYAL AIR FORCE HAS REACHED TWENTY-ONE

Its Origins And Its Development

Singapore.

The

The Royal Air Force was 21 years of age recently. coming-of-age was celebrated at Seletar that night with a dance for warrant officers and senior non-commissioned officers,

A coming-of-age ball will be held at Seletar in May. The Royal Air Force may be said treatised that aeroplanes were some- to date back to the Balloon Companything more than a minor branch; of the toyni Engineers, which was they were a separate arm and as formed at Chatlinm in 1970.

such required speciol organisation in of

A first the Balloon Company order that the full possibilities dealt only with spherical balloons, the arm might be utiilsed. but later on dirigibles were added and then mantifting kites.

It was the crossing of the English Channel by Bleriot in 1009 walch made Britain realise the possibilities of the aeropline in war. HIGHLIGHTS IN DEVELOPMENT

Subacquent highlights in the deve- lopment of the air weapon were:

Similarly, by 1010, it was realised that alrernit were now something more than a separate arm, something more than an auxiliary to the other services; they were a new power In the hands of the Government for enforcing the national will upon the chemy.

Thus It is with pride that Britons roughout the Empire welcome

The flying of a private neroplane Britain's determination to be invin-

on the Army manoeuvres in 1910.

The starting of the Navy's first course of instruction in flying in 1911, Formation by the Army of the Air Battalion in 1011,

cible in the air and look forward to the future with confidence.

Formation of the Royal Flying Yeomen Of Guard

Corps in 1912.

The breaking away from the I.F.C. in 1914 of the Naval Wing.

war

Officer Fined

The Salisbury Bench recently im posed a Ane of 15s on Brig.-Gen. R. C. A. McCalmont, of Adiestrop exceeding the speed limit at Anies- House, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos, for bury, Wilts. His licence

The night of 44 British aircraft England to Amiens, France on from August 3, 1914, the day before the British Empire declared Germany, to begin the grent four ur year eple of the war in the air.

In those four years, aeroplanes proved their tremendous value In dorsed.

Was

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reconnaissance, in co-operatiun with Mr. A. B. Lemnun, defending, sald the Navy, in co-operation with the that Brig-Gen.

McCalmont would

Nests 'Adopted' In

War On Egg Thieves

TWO rare species of British birds are now.extinct as Army by artillery observation, by have come to the Court, but he had reconnaissance and photography, by to be in London in attendance on the the result of depredations by professional egg-collectors, attack on military objectives, in King for the visit of the French according to the Association of Bird Watchers and independent air action, and in home President. Brig.-Gen. MeCalmont Wardens.

defence.

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is Adjutant of the King's Bodyguard [of Yeomen of the' Guard.].

LESSONS OF THE WAR The Royal Air Force came into

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Eight Die In Crash

Smouldering remains of the twin - molored

that air - liner crashed and burned shortly after taking off from the municipal airport at Oklahoma City, Okla. Seven passengers and the hos- tess, Louise Zarr of Dallas, Tex., were killed and four others were serlously injured. Motor failed and plane struck n diri highway.

NAVY STOPS FLOGGING

FLOGGING is to be officially abolished in the Navy, at the request

A loophole in the Bird Protection Act denies police of the Admiralty. At the same court, Mr. G. E. Hthe right to search collectors of protected birds' eggs un- being as a separate service on April Borer, was red 169 foring less the egg thief has been seen by the constable taking

1, 1018.

bury, Berks, was oned 10g falling

By 1912, when the Royal Flying to stop at a hult sign at Durrington, the eggs from the nest. Corps was formed, it had

been

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The excuse given to a policeman

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was that Mr. Palmer did not notice

While seeking to amend the law, the Association has now launched a scheme of "nest-adoption" which is already frustrating the activities of the illegal collector.

British Film Deal Costs £1,000,000

Hollywood Sends More Stars

MILLION-POUND Anglo- Amerkan Alm deal was

recently announced

by Mr. British ilm Herbert Wilcox, producer, who has just returned

is a tim built around the life of Marie Lloyd, with Miss Anna Neagle and Mr. Cary Grant.

No sentence of flogging has been pronounced by a naval court since

efore the Great War.

the

Sir Terence O'Connor, Solicitor- General, announced the decision re- cently when a Standing Committee of the House of Commons got again to consider the Government's Criminal Justice Bill.

He was moving an amendment to "Some collectors I know-and I

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section by which the pro- have a black list of nearly 300 posal to abolish penal servitude, hard namen--will stop at nothing in pur-labour, and prison divisons in applied sult of their legal trade, Mr. N. to the fighting Services. Tracy, of South Wootton, King's "Since the Bill has been introduced. Lynn, secretary of the Association. he said, "the Admiralty has requested said recently.

that clause 2 may be applicable to the Navy: that is to say, that flogging should be abolished."

Their bird-nelting expeditions are carefully planned, and one collector has made bird maps of localities, sell- ing them to collectors at a guineu cach.

The Government thought the best procedure would be to strike out the sections which he was now moving to delele, and to insert a new clause For a clutch of three kites' eggs a applying both this section and the collector would probably get about section abolishing corporal punish- £10. and of course the rarer the ment, to the Naval Discipline Act. species becomes the more valuable

In the Army and the Air Force are the eggs sold in the auction fogging did not apply, he added. rooms.

The amendment was agreed to.

Most of the capital for these pro- ductions wll be found by the Dunk of America, and to some extent from British sources. Distribution through fout the world is already assured.

The

new Imperadio Company. whose plans have been

under consideration for two years, has come-into- -existence- as-the-result-of).__ Mr. Wilcox, in co-operation with the success of outstanding British R.K.O. Radio Pictures of America, pictures in America The Citadel." has formed a new production corn-Vessel of Wrath," and "The Lady pany. Imperadle, to make four Vanishes": among them. pictures a year in Hollywood and

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First of the Hollywood pictures, which are to cost £200,000 each

At a lunch given in London to inaugurate the scheme, Mr. Phil Reisman, foreign sales chief of Radio Pictures, said that although American capital was behind the venture, "we are not philun- We believe it is a

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Death from Heat-Stroke Under Electricity

DOCTOR described at a St. Pan-¡ture under his urms was 107 degrees. "We were relying entirely on the eras inquest recently how a mon died from the equivalent of heat temperature in his mouth which did stroke" while undergoing a new not rise at any time more than 104 sald Dr. Wallace. "He form of electrical treatment known degrees," as short-wave diathermy in Univer- must have breathed with his mouth sity College Hospital.

and we were not getting the proper temperature."

The patient, John Newberry, aged 38, of Prince Albert-road, Maryle bone, was admitted to the hospital suffering from synovitly of both feet.

A verdict of Death by misadventure was recorded by the coroner, Mfr. Bentley Purchase,

Dr. David Mitchell Wallace, house surgeon, sald that the treatment con sisted of passing electrical current round the body and so raising the temperature inside the body.

TEMPERATURE VARIED

The Coroner-Panting, perhaps?— Yes, perhaps due to the heat.

Newberry collapsed and died, added the doctor.

Professor Gordon Roy Cameron, professor of pathology at the hospital, said that the cause of death was excessive heat.

Statistics showed that only about 1 per cent. of fatalities had occurred in the treatment, which had led to considerable improvements in other cases.

The coroner said that the likelihood

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