1939-05-03 — Page 3

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-ngo was celebrated at Seletar that night with a dance for warrant officers and senlor non-commissioned officers,

A coming-of-age ball will be held at Seletar in May. The Royal Air Force may be sald frealised that aeroplanes were some- to date back to the Balloon Companything more than a minor branch; of the Royal Engineers, which was they were a ·separate aITIS and as formed at Chatham in 1870.

Ruch required special organisation in

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At first the Balloon Company order that the fatil possibilities dealt only with spherical balloons, the arm might be utilised. but later on dirigibles were added Similarly, by 1918, it was realised

were that aircraft and then manlifting klies.

something more than a separate arm, something more than an auxiliary to the other services; they were a new power in

Government the hands of the enforcing the national will upon the

It was the crossing of the English Channel by Bleriot in 1909 which mado Britain realise the possibilities of the aeroplane in war.

HIGHLIGHTS IN DEVELOPMENT Subsequent highlights in the deve- lopment of the air weapon were:--

The tying of a private aeroplane on the Army monoeuvres in 1910.

The starting of the Navy's first course of in

of instruction in flying in 1911. Formation by the Army of the Air Battalion in 1911.

enemy.

for

Thus it is with pride that Britons throughout the Empire welcome Britain's determination to be invin- cible in the air and look forward to the future with confidence.

Formation of the Royal Flying Yeomen Of Guard.

1912.

Corps in 191

aircraft

Officer Fined

The breaking away from the R.F.C. in 1914 of the Naval Wing. The flight of 44 Britial

The Salisbury Bench recently Im- from England to Amiens, France on

posed a fine of 16s on Brig.-Gen. August 3, 1014, the day before the R, C. A. McCalmont, of Adiestrop British Empire declared

war House, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos, for

four- Germany, lo begin the great

exceeding the speed limit of Ames- year epic of the war in the air.

In those four years, accuplanes bury, Wilts. His licence

dorsed. proved their

value in tremendous

was

en-

Nests 'Adopted' In

War On Egg Thieves

reconnaissance, in co-operation with Mr. A. B. Lemon, defending, said

McColmont would TWO rare species of British birds are now extinct as the Navy, in co-operation with the that Brig. Gen. 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 alr action, and in home President. defence.

[Brig.-Gen. McCalmont Wardens.

is Adjutant of the King's Bodyguard

of Yeomen of the Guard.]

A loophole in the Bird Protection Act denies police

LESSONS OF THE WAR

At the same court, Mr. G. E. Hthe right to search collectors of protected birds' eggs un- The Royal Air Force come Into boing as a separate service on April, M.P., of Prior's Court, Now less the egg thief has been seen by the constable taking

bury, Berks, was fined 103 for failing

1, 1018.

By 1912, when the Royal Flying to stop at a hall sign at Durrington, the eggs from the nest.

Corps was

formed, it had been

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While seeking to amend the law, the Association has now The excuse given to a policeman was that Mr. Palmer did not notice launched a scheme of "nest-adoption" which is already frustrating

the activities of the illegal collector.

the sign.

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Eight Die In Crash

Smouldering remains of the that twin - motored air-liner crashed and burned shortly after taking off from the municipal airport at Oklahoma City, Okla. Seven passengers and the hos tess, Louise Zäre of Dallas, Tex... were killed and four others were seriously injured. Motor failed and plane struck a dirt highway.

NAVY STOPS FLOGGING

officially

FLOGGING is to be abolished in the Navy, at the request of the Admiralty,

No sentence of flogging has been pronounced by a naval court since before the Great War,

Sir Terence O'Connor, Solicitor- General, announced the decision re- cently when a Standing Committee of the House of Commons sat again to

Justice Blil. consider the Government's Criminal

He was moving an amendment to "Some collectors I know and I delete the section by which the pro- have a black list of nearly 300 posal to abolish penal servitude, hard names-will stop at nothing in pur- labour, and prison divisons is applied ault of their legal trade," Mr. N. to the fighting Services. Tracy, of South Wootton, King's Lynn, secretary of the Association, said recently,

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

"For a clutch of three kites' cats a collector would probably get about £10, and of course the rarer the more valuable species becomes the are the eggs, sold in the nuction rooms.

"Since the Bill has been introduced.' he said, "the Admiralty has requested that clause 2 may be applicable to the Navy: that is to say, that flogging should be abolished.

The Government thought the best procedure would be to strike out the sections which he was now moving to delete, and to insert a new clause and the applying both this section section abolishing corporal punish- ment, to the Naval Discipline Act.

In the Army and the Air Force Blogging did not apply, he added.

The amendment was agreed to.

Death from Heat Stroke Under Electricity

DOCTOR described at a St. Pan-¡ture under his arms was 107 degrees. "We were relying entirely on the cras inquest recently how a man

new not rise at any time more than 104 stroke" while undergoing a died from the equivalent of "heat temperature in his mouth which did form of electrical treatment known degrees," said Dr. Wallace. "He as short-wave diathermy in Univer-must have breathed with his mouth and we were not getting the proper sity College Hospital.

temperature."

The patient, John Newberry, aged 38, of Prince Albert-rond, Maryic- bone, was admitted to the hospital suffering from synovitis of both feet.

A verdlet of Death by misadventure was recorded by the coroner, Mr. Bentley Purchase.

The Coroner, Panting, perhaps?— Yes, perhops due to the heal.

Newberry collapsed and died, added the doctor.

Statistles showed that only about

Professor Gordon Roy Cameron, professor of pathology at the hospital, Dr. David Mitchell Wallace, house said that the cause of death was surgeon, said that the treatment con-excessive heat. sisted of passing electrical current) round the body and to raising the temperature Inside the body.

TEMPERATURE VARIED Philadelphia The treatment was started at 8.30 Letters written by Andrew Jacksona.m. Newberry's temperature cese und and James Buchanan were included he became restless at 11.30. At 12.30 was that in breathing in and out of in the estate of the late Maskell when the temperature in his mouth his mouth Newberry had cooled the wns 104 degrees, į part where the temperature was be- Ewing, Jr., distributed In Orphans' was token, it

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