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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1949.

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MANILA CALLING

LLOYD MOLAN CAROLE LANES CORN11 WILDE FAMES GLEASON

recently and flew for 31

minutes, climbing to about 2,000 feet above the clouds. Pilot was Group-Captain

John Cunningham; there

were four other crew {nboard.

The

Cunningham's comment: flight was entirely {successful......she was very.

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THE Comet gives me more pleasure than anything

I have seen in British avia- tion over the last 15 years. If all her tests are successful she will pletely outclass the boosted Transatlantic planes now making debut lights into | London Airport.*

SHE 'DATES' EVENY AIRLINER IN THE WORLD

OF THE COMET

PRESSURISED CABIN

LENGTH

115 FT. APPROX.

4 JET ENGINES 24,000 H.P.

SWEPT-DACK WING

36 PASSENGERS

When the Comet is in service you will be able to fly from London to: Lisbon in 2 hours... Johannesburg in 13 hours.. Calonila in 14 hours... Buenos Aires in 16 hours The de Havilland company To these I can add that the totype DH100; which has wings decided to build the

plane Comet dimensions are approxim- swept back to an angle of 43 just under three years ago. The ately 116ft wingspan, and 115ft. degrees, com-

fion and design. And it carried which develop company evolved the specifica- length. Her four engines, Only half the interior has so the equivalent for been laid out for passengers. full responsibility for perfor of 24,000 horse power com- The makers are trying out mance, cost, and delivery dates, bined, will give her 1 top colour schemes, with penalties for default. speed of just under 000 miles

an hour,

On what are these claims based?

She is the world's first all Jet airliner.

She will cruise at. 500 miles on hour (not top speed, mind you) at 40,000 feet, above the weather.

She wIH fly non-stop from

London to New York in six

hours

and she will be able lo approach and land na slowly and gently as today's airliners.

None of the American con- atructors has yet started build- ing a jet airliner. *

Two. Comet prototypes will be delivered to the Ministry of Supply: 14 to the BOAC

THE mesure of faith de Havil

Iarids have In their own design of plane and engine is shown by their lying down six Comet furcinges before the proto- type has been tested.

The Comet Is x1111 от the secret Bst. So far these statistics have been announced: She will cruise at 500 miles on her best flying height hour;

will be 40,000 feet; her four Ghost Jei engines will develop 5,000, of thrust each.

She will be built with three in- terior layouts. For the Atlantic she will carry 24 passengers in reclining chaim.

For Empire routes she will carry 30 passengers, and there will be a smoking saloon for ward. On short distance, work the Comet will have seats for 48 passengers. She will always trry a crew of four.

THE plane has orthodox lines, THE

with the wings swept back by about 25 degrees.

The experts had expected the toilless and airliner similor, to the single-seat pro-

to

be

AND when will the plane be

delivered?

Well the is not due ofeinlly for delivery to BOAC unill 1952. But de Haviland experts at Hatfield Iaughed when I sug- gested that the tests would take it" they two and a half years. "Halve said, "and you'll be more nearly right."

-London Express Servler)

And

They Call It The Welfare State!

By W. J. Brown, MP

+

coroner's

AM middle-aged now, folk might be allowed to keep

tho blind. Le and I find it increas- their dogn, ar I hope so-for the Comet isingly difficult to sustain given back their sight,

She succeeded in killing her- the hope of British aviation, if ancient animosities. Indeed, self. But the dog recovered. the deeg what she is expected to

have a clear find myself occasionally There is a very lonely dog in do. Britain will

falling a victim to what Ancoats now. Mrs Horspool, end in future air transport.

we may hope, is not lonely any Shaw's Captain Shotover Basil Cardew

describes an a deep, invad-more.

Butand this is thens- ing peace. Not, however, tonishing thing-ho for long.

jury returned verdict that Events can confidently be Mrs Horapool's balance of mind relied upon to produco was disturbed when she gassed

herself. sume example of official I should myself havo, said stupidity or callousness that that if the balance of anybody's dissipates my peace in a min was disturbed, it was the of the flash,

mind or mindlessness, sends my blood-

Corporation which applied to pressure soaring, and my this poor blind woman a rule heart beating indignantly which could never have been Such is the start, after such

to a type, devised to cover such a case. outpouring

dollars and drives me

The Mrs Horspool is dead. Ameries's as well as what was writer as the alternative to

Corporation, without a body to left of ours-as to make pos-exploding from spontaneous be kicked or

a soul lerity go pale.

But now, tls combustion. For instance: damned, lives on. veins refilled, the patient walks.

was an inquest the Since the war Germany his other day at Manchester. Quakor's Dilemma been ruled by Allied military was held to inquire into viceroys. All that is to be clrcumstantes in which Mrs

THE PATIENT SITS

10

UP

AND GRINS

BERLIN.

UR patient drugs him- self from his bed-- this creature whose very being has been shat- tered-crosses the ward und breaks into an argument

with the surgeons,

On the eve of Germany's first clections since Hitler, comes this report from

CHARLES

currency reform.. Today it is a different country.

Hannot

The patient is Germany.

In Frankfurt the barbed The time is today. The wire which segregated victors

Allied aurgeons,

experts from defeated is down. Desk

officers who who have pumped one blood bound American

get into their pre-war transfusion after another

civvies are inking slimming into the lifeless body, are

cures: the remedy may last astonished, delighted, flat- they keep out of the rich new little German restaurants which are tered, and just a

springing up behind beds of frightened.

_petunias_uniong_the ruins

more.

BLACK CURTAIN

Sca

FOLEY

This year alone German ex- ports will reach £250 million, By 1952 it should be £000 or £700 million. Much of these exports are in competition with our products.

German big business men- hundreds of them have just flown back from New York, their own where they trade fair.

heid

An

of

There

the

1

to be

changed. Takc the Rhine Margaret Horspool, of Anconte, Now look at the case of Mr steamer up to Boun and you had died. The jury returned a old Quaker, of Edgbaston

WHAT KIND?

L

the suicide while

Henry Whittaker, 67-year-

will see.

Di verdict

In the grounds of Mr Whit- High up on a flagstaff hangs balance of her mind was dis- taker's house there is a cottage..

wreath festooned with turbed.

A young couple-expecting a ribbons. It guards the builders She had gassed herself, and baby-came to him... who are working day and night | had tried to gas her dog with for accommodation, and on long concrete slabs to root her. Her action seems to have to be allowed to live in the the temple of the new Reich been deliberate, for she left be- t

De coltage.

Mr

Whittaker, out of hind her the sum of £1 to the goodnem of his Quaker give the dog "a decent burial." heart. allowed them to do so.

Д And This poor woman lived in

magic- the Birmingham Corporation flat. She was nearly trates have fined him £5 for

out- name iting them live "in an blind. The dog whose was Whisky, served her for eyes, house considered unsuitable". and guided her about the streets. Would

turn. you have me

the these poor beggars into Dogs Forbidden

naked Mr Whittaker Birect! has indignantly. "Have I to turn my...____ the Corporation

back on them when they are in which Koverni the distress

democratic THE first federal

Parliament that Western Ger. many has seen since the Reichs-

TOW

les

ot

What did they show? Not top fire of 1933 will assemble only clentific and optical here after the elections. Toxa- instruments, that fender new tion, unemployment, refugees, That the patient as yet

are the first plant of British enterprise. They rehousing-these shows little gratitude is to NEW FLEET

offered cars, tractors, clothing, problems it should face

The clerk and the magistrates: be expected: he has a his-

What sort textiles,

and

of Government tenancles of Corporation Bats pottery, leather

One

Mr. Whittaker will it be?

is One of them is that tenants suggested that thing tory of homicidal mania. N Hamburg, the

sports North

goods, in which

certain: it will be a Govern-must not keep dogs.

should keep to the point, which In ment of Germans.

a general way, thero la was that

My And we must hope that his metropolis, the Germans are Britain has always excelled.

Whittaker had the Kur Hotel, something to be said for such a defled a closing ortier. Nearby In truculence is a symptom of planning a new merchant ficel.

Our experts thrug unhappily

Neville Cham rule. Flats are tough on doge, Mr Whittaker retorted that it returning health-nothing But prosperity is not even

when this competition is men- where Fremler round the corner: it is here.

A walk around the Ganser- tloned. They are honour-bound berlain stayed during his Bad And barking dogs are tough on was time the authorities thought other flats of an opening order instead of Ignore our own Godesberg talks with Hitler, the tho.occupants merkt shows chops Alled with not only to

High Commis- There's a case for discouraging a closing order. everything from gallon tins of commercial interests but to do civilian Allied

Bonn But to all general rules, there U.S. pineapple to exquisite new everything in their power to stoners will meet. They have them.

German Industry veto powers under the stiver lea-Ects and Canadian advance instead.

Constitution; how far will they must be exceptions. The case Ham-

of Mrs Horspool was obviously use them, and for how long? ALL can see the miracle of furs. Until we come to

Anyone with Army leave

Besides there is the Allied such a case. Germany's revival. A burg House, the

and

of understanding centre, the poor little Noan

of thought of an opening order Military Security Board, which particle black curtain hangs again gift shop," where those who

uniform) (in unio

10 imagination would know that instead of a closing order, will remain

and Mr Whittaker will not turn across the

ao In- sell for British money could not Ruhr,

could not apply to a blind wo the couple out. Nor, he anys, boriously ruined by a produce even a cheap ball

guard against the reconversion such a rule ought not of industries to war.

Ane. As a the Germans argue man whose dog is for practicnt will he pay the Cleverly

man's: thousand bomber raids, but Upped pen.

Quaker he believes that of now it is the smoke

that the very existence of this purposes, part of herself.

needless the ban

If it were to apply, it would, answer should be "Yea yea," or what- factory chimneys.

be equivalent to putting up a "Nay, nay," and that

outside

than these of the soever notice on the

in more blind cometh of evil" Corporation flats "NO persons allowed here." The Corporation been

There is good con in the furnaces, good money in the banks, good food in German stomachs, power to the el bow of the hardest-working race on earth.

At this point the Allied warders who have tended their unruly patient for four years are getting out of uniform. It is not to be supposed that they will wield the

Hamburg House, used to be called Victory House; that is a sentimental memory now.

Way up in Germans sit in

EXPORTS

ful German

So

at

F, later on the Germans snatch A our markels with low labour costs and subridles, there little to be done: the success-

uproar over dis- board makes

the ballbearings factory Brunswick the mantling of war plants is almost on "dangerous" industries.

guarantes of that..

Schweinfurt, which we bombed the big Arst- Boot cafe overlooking the main So the British 811 in their and bombed, is at work again.

plant has are. They sin hock, they cat requisitioned hotelswhich the aluminium cream cakes, they listen to a Germans are

demanding back restarted. string band, and they amilo for a big non-austerity tourist down on the air-lift boys who drive in conflict with our own

perched round the edge of

П stone fountain, two to fraulein, looking' glum.

TRADE FAIR

and work for Germany,

a.

BRITISH HOPE

tary

Adamant

a

MR Whittaker rotorted that it was time the authorities

Presently,

suggest, we shalt did not read of Mr Whittaker being in but up such a notice. It told gaol, and of the young people, being Mrs Horspool that under the expectant baby and all, rules she must get rid of her evicted.

wanted there.

Astonishing

dog. It was Mrs Horspool who The young couple will again drew the conclusion that that be desperate. Mr Whitaker wor bo comfortable. But. meant that no blind person was hardly In the Steel House at Dunsel-

Corporation, THE Brille feel that all may

the Birmingham dorf (steel production climb-

ault be well If only the Mill-

like the Corporation of Ancoats, ed back to i mlion tons this

will presumably be happy. Security Board works botter year and Germany still has a than anything of its kind in the

The Order will have been Total capacity of 18 million tons

enforced, like the Rulo

at -It less than 10 million tons world has ever worked before.

If you think that One thing no one doubts: that NOW it is not cary for poor, enfor

solitary QUT it is in Dusseldorf, artery in Britain) I copied down this

blind women to Ancoats. same authority B of the British Rhineland

this surge of progress, even

rules and orders were made for accommodation. in peacetime pinstripes as Ruhr Administration, that you the wall: Exports slogan printed in

English on when it begins to level out, will seek for now are the key

and orders-well

that they did in battledress.

shows how little feel the strong throb of Ger to Germany's future happiness put industrial Germany back. Even for people with eyes, that man, and not man for rules

So Mrs Horspool, finding this about the Welfare State. hap Germany-a many's revival., Export or die? and the attainment of a higher into a commanding position over quest is not easy.

the rest of Europe, Germany Germany will live;

world too much for her, turned Wo are standard of life." We're telling

them! ago, before seeing to that.

---{London Express Service) to another, where perhaps blind

I Just Baw

hungry humbla

just over a year

NANCY

Gatting Her Wish.

OH, BOY--I'D LOVE TO PAINT A MOUSTACHE

ON THAT POSTER

USE BL

BUT AUNT

FRITZI SAID

I CAN'T GO OUT. TODAY

By Ernie Bushmiler

just

you know

*==(London Express Service)

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