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cof 8 this expression can be colne hav mind the floating dry doc! "used for steamers. 3 huge structutre bullt: has no stern, ly at this end and continuing up the length of the strange craft practically to the bow. The architect is Henri Defrasse, the same who in 1924 came out with similar designs, He hopes to find a sympathetic circle in Amert- ca pre] to back the construction oft 000,000 bases. nprovements' Made. \ Il flying planes can rise within the run of about a quar- ter of a mile. Heavier flying boats are to be pulled up a sloping platform to a level space "and i a track to' the end of the port side of the doek, "Motors will then give impetus to the flying craft as it advances into the wind along this track. If the run is not enough 'or the engines of the plane are not functioning properly; bi like the present catapulting of air planes from warships. M. Defrasse claims his structure can withstand the force of waves and PRINCESS MARY Arrival of her royal highness and her husband, Lord Lascelles, at Cairo Station, where they were received with fitting ceremony, Customs Act ~~ To Be Re House = Discusses Right to Search Vessels Within 12 Miles of Shore Ottawa--A bill which will make it unlawful to import liquors otherwise than through a governmental agency, board or commission ni fal right to at that 'distance water entering free-| treme northwesterly port of France. Between Newfoundland 0 |three of his floating wef docks, sep- arated cne frem another by some 500 at _the top of the bow |Honolulu, then would come a floating stop de the forward movement within the final 50 yards. The idea is somewhat horsepo LL 2,687,000 to the wind and also cally where it should Pacific. In ohe of his dock there is square meters of 'hines, and he has on the other side for a large enough to contain 165 oom A Novel Week-End. or two in mid-Atlantic may popular way. of spending a to M. Defrasse's way of pictured, besides nd restaurants, two nd, of course, bathing into the magnificent swimming pool. There would be a seaplane base at New Yark, another near Newfound- land, and a third at Brest, the ex- ! and Brest M. Defrasse has placed in his diagram miles. Between Dakkar (Senegal) and Natal (Brazil) he sees one float- ing island and one anchored at St. Paul's Rocks. Between San Francis- co and Tokio he would settle two of thq floating docks before reaching dock, then one anchored 'by a group of cays, then two floating docks, and, finally, Tokyo (itself. He always spaces his bgses about 500 miles of M. Defrasse 0 attention, even consider them im- day. He at least is way and opening our #8, even as Jules Verne did, to th eaerial progress of the fu- VISITING EGYPT which there was so much- opposition." He agreed to let the resolution pass without , however, terms, and a bill "to amend the Cus- toms Act" was given first reading. rere tpn South Kensington Shows Ship Models Latest Liner Design Shown is That of Mauretania proper place to descend | acceding to its COMMANDER BYRD'S PLANE BEING TESTED IN CANADA'S SNOW ew of the tri-motored Ford plane, in which Bert Balchen and Floyd Bennett will accompany C - er R. E. Byrd in his flight to the south pole, seen as it underwent its tests at Grand Mere, ening . Commang p-- ---- - Out For Crown of Queen of the South ENONLN Bremen Chance To Win Always Thought Best Experts Forecast Kindlier Fate Than Befell Three Pre- ceeding Sea Fli _ Others All Dig -- Treacherous Whi Four monoplanes, each powered with a single enngine, have heen point- ed westward over the Atlantic in what for three of them were vain attempts to conquer the mfles that stretch 'he- tween Ireland and Newfoundland, Excellent pilots were at the stick of each ship, all was dragged through the alr by motors of almost equal power and almost all carried practically the same fuel supply. Ten persons set out and three arrived. The other seven disappeared with their.planes. Students of aeronautics concede the air passage over the Atlantic from east to west to be one of the most dif- ficultand treacherous flights now with- in th power of airplanes. Given, as in the cases of these first four at: tempts, equal ships, power and fuel these students maintained that for one of thq three the Bremen, to have been suce craft isciance. On six whuld have been good. Nungesser and Coll First Captain Charles Nungesser and Maj: | j Jor Francois Coli set out from La Bourget Field, near Paris, last May 8 in the White Bird, a monoplane pow- ered hy a 4b0-horsepower Levasseur motor. Each bad an {rreproachable record in the air, Their destination was New York, over a course of about 4,033 miles. They figured a speed of 160 kilometers an hour for between "would have had to land since they dropped their landing gear just as they headed out to set from Fast. net Rock, in southwest Ireland. Exact figures on their gasoline st ply have never been printed, but they started with enough for 4,600 miles and some to spare. The airline dis- tance between Paris and New is 8,976 miles, They never arrived and were never seen after they start od to sea. That tragedy failed to dampen en- thuslasm abroad for such a flight, and after Lindbergh conquered the sea from west to east pilots all over Eur- ope were fired wjth renewed zeal Next Attempt In August Last August 31, Captain Leslle Hamilton, Colonel F. F. Minchin and thelr financial backer, the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, took off from Upavon, England, for Ottawa, capital of Canada, in the St. Raphael, a Fok- thirty-five to forty hours would bring to New York Harbor, in which \ A En -- = = rr 2 2 ie -a. great tribute to air paper one out of | | | squd York ker monoplane. Their span was to be 2,920 miles and for this they carried 800 gallons of gas, more than enough to take them through. They headed out to sea from Gal way, as did the Bremen, ahd never were seen again. They flew into fog, high wind and an admitted low baro- metric pressure. Their motor was a 610-horsepower Jupiter. Their max! mum speed was 130 miles an hour and their cruising speed 100 miles an hour. . Like Nungessar and Coli, they had everything in thelr favor and to spare except the treacherous, constant winds that how] toward Europs from this side of the water. They never cease, they hardly ever become less power ful, these winds, and they are the chief barrier Ae successful westward flight over the Atlantic, They wrack the ship, strain the motor, reduce the flying speed and cause the gasoline to ebb as if it were pouring through a hole. A ship speeded to 100 miles an hour, but bucking a eixty-mile wind, is making only forty mijs actually. That fe the fault and the danger. Hinchliffe Flight. Falls The winter passed and the first faint sefl Captain Walter d the Hon. Elsie Mao pr) of Viscount Inchcape of E , to take off from Cranwell Alri Lincolshire, England, last arch 18, in a stock Stinson-Detroiter lane. r destination, like that of the flyers, was Mitchel Field. pok off in snow, headed Into a ck with showers, heavy wind Sho et, and had gas is the ex- Ween Cranwell and kay, 3 for, New dno. allowance for loss of speed and gasollne In fighting head winds that in this instance must have been mora that usually strong. Their motor was a Wright Whirlwind, but they lacked sufficient gas and went into terrific weathr, They never were seen again. Bremen Watched Weather The Bremen, a Junkers all-metal monoplane powered with a Junkers IL-5 850-horsepower motor, started off host auspiciously, It went to Ire- land, and there Baron Bhrenfried von { Huenefeld, backer, and Captain Her- mann Koehd, pilot, remained until weather reports from mid-Atlantic gave them at least a fighting chance. They pleked up Colonel James J. Fitzmaurice, commandant of the Irish Free State Air Foree, as co-pilot. They carried 600 gallons of gas, enough to sustain them gore than forty hours, and looked for a flight of about 3,000 miles between Dublin and New York. The Bremen is capable 'of 130 miles an hour, cruises nicely at 100, and does best at ninety. They had the power, the weather conditions, the fuel and the men. They made it, the fourth to start and the first to b seen alive on this side, but even with evrything so fa- vorabl, they were blown far off their Floods in Ireland eR ae Ce ed 2] re: >] $y jme" A ---- course and were forced to land with- out fuel, on an isolated, ice-looked is- land. Flyers declared the Bremen to have had the best chance from point of view of equipment and fuel load. The weather, insufficient fuel and still un- known other faults took the rest into oblivion. sell," says an ad. Fine! end is the dangerous end. The front It may be possible for a man to have more money than brains, but London--Publioc interest in the Royal Oak conrts'martial coutinues unabated in the press, with much speculation ae to what the Adméral- ty's decision will be, following an ex-| amination of the report of the ceedings by C. M. Pitman, K.O, the judge-advocate. The papers in two cases arrived at Whitehall almost simultaneously with the arrival of Capt. Kenneth G. B. Dewar and Com-| mander H. M, Danlel at Plymouth, : Rear Admiral Collard, on another ship from Gibraltar, landed at South- ampton and went directly to the of- fices of the Admiralty. ! Mr. Pitman is expected to thorough- ly examine the sentences imposed in the light of all the evidence, then ad- vise the Lords of the Admiralty be quashed. i 'W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of th Admiralty, is expected to make an official announcement soon, Criticizing the oourtsmartial, Col onel John, a veteran of the South African and the Great War, writing in the Daily Mall, says: "In our pute a junior hae to be adjudged wrong 'In the Interests of discipline. It is certainly true that In no other country are such measures preserving discipline found necessary, and that oven the much-abused pre-war Ger man army regarded our system as rather excessive." fp Manitoba's Hydro System Winnipeg, Man---Manitoba's gow ernment-owned hydro-electric system achieved a record during its opera tions in 1927, it ia sfabed in the an- nua] report presented to the Legisla ture. The earnings of the utility for the year amounted to $199,487, which not for very long. Survivors Save But Little is the largest amount in its history. A fA I Il A \ A I whether the sentences should stand or BACK IN PARIS Paris -- The flying Fren Dieubonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix, came home Saturday evening, April 14, from thir alr odyssey over 35,000 miles of land and sea--over Africa, the two Americas, Asla, Europe and a wide expanse of the South Af lantto. * Speeding to Paris In six days from ° far away Tokio, on the other side of the earth, they brought their biplane down upon the green field of Le Bour get just before dusk--thelr motor droned by the sound of 1,000 Gallie "Bravos" and "Vivas." = * Two squadrons of French Military Planes escorted them on their last fow miles over the familiar territory that stretches southeastward from Paris. On the ground there was a band of music, and there were cheers, the waving of bats and handkerchiefs, laughter and joyful tears. It was out of a cloudy, grey and I oping ak that Costes piloted the fighting services in all cases of dio to the landing field, ending a pilgrimage around the world, all of it through the air except the croseing of the Pacific. Every mem- ber of the French Cabinet who is in Paris, except the ever-occupled Premi- er, M. Poincare, was at Le Bourget to welcome the new national heroes. So also were the aces of French aviation, whose achiovements Costes and Le- drix have exceeded the veteran Louls Bleriot, Pellciter Dolsy, the popular "Pivolo" Drouhin, Capt. Arrachart, and the youthful Sergeant Detroyat, who hopes to fiy from Paris to New York alone in a monoplane modelled after Lindbergh's "Spirit of St, Louls." Got Great Reception Although only those with passes were admitted to the alrdrome, there were enough of them to break through the police barriers, Outside the field there were tens of thousands more. The "Nungesser-Coll" came down beautifully (n the midst of the two squadrons of escort planes, Costes had this to say: "It has been a mar velous experience, but Paris surely does look good." . When the Ministers and their fel low-fiiers had shaken their hands, Costes and Lebrix were escorted to a hanger decorated with the flags of the 80 or more lands they visited in thelr flight, Toasts were drunk to their fresh glory; then through the highways, crowded with the cheering thousands, they wera led away to Paris, to reach French food again, and to a long, long sleep between cool, clean linen sheets, Lebrix expresged his joy over land- ing at the very place of their depar ture after a six-months' trip which car~ ried the French colors around the world. They brought back the same ajrplane, with its motor intact. Tell President of Trip Using automobiles as a means of travel for the first time since they left San Francisco, Dieudonne Costes stranded boat on Aberdeen coast. fishermen were drowned. FISHERMEN PERISH Three members of crew of Boston trawler Frisby salvaging fish from flight and asked many questions con. Five trawlers were wrecked and three cerning the feasibility of a mail air ee British Youths For Manitoba Farms London.--A call for 100 youths from Britain to take up agricultural work ifn Manitoba has just been {issued in London, Eng. by the Canadian Gov- ernment. The prospects for the lads under the new scheme are stated to be particu- larly favorable. 'The boys miust be between 16 and 17 years of age inclu- sive. They will receive all assistance and on arrival at Winnipeg will bé sent at the earliest moment to select- ed farmers for training in agricultural practice. The wages will be not less than $10 a month and their clothes will be washed and mended for them as though they were at home." ll iis More Charges Against Turkish Ex-Minister Constantinople--A fresh case of al leged peculation by an ex-Cabinet Minister is to come before the Sur preme Court when the trfal of Ihsan Bey, ex-Minister' of Marine, termin- ates. This time Ali Djenani Bey, who held the Portfolio of Commerce in the previous Cabinet, will be held to account for $65,000 said to be missing from the $260,000 with which he was to purchase cereals from Russia while in office. The charge is regarded as further proof that the Government ie making no distinction in the campaign to rid the country of corruption. raf, Magistrate--"You 'here again! I told you I didn't want to see you pasin". Picpocket--1 told %the po- liceman that but he wouldn't Delieve » oA ah Solomon Islands Inquiry Plann and Joseph Lebrix journeyed to Ram- boulllet Sunday afternoon to tell President Noumergue all about thelr round-the-world trip which they come pleted. The President made bath aviators officers in the Legion of Homorrpin- ning the insignia on the lapels of thelr uniforms himself, He was especially interested in the practical side of the line between Indo-China and France, Haraseed by fatigue, both filers slept soundly until nine. "It feels good to sleep between clean sheets," was the first comment of Costes on arising. oy had not changed my shirt since leaw ing Tokio." Ra | Several thousand people thronged London -- Lieut-Col. Sir Henry| the space in front of thelr hotel at an Claude Moorhouse, former Lieuten-! early hour and remained until the air ant-Governor of southern Nigeria, has men appeared on a balcony, All police been appointed commissioner to pro-| efforts to disperse them were futile ceed to the British Solomon Ielands| despite the fact that trafic was serd in the South Pacific to report on last pusly impeded year's disturbances there, The man- errr date for these Islands, {t will be recal eop led, 1s held by New Zealand and there Irish P ple Unset Words has been considerable discussion in the Wellington Parliament about their administration. The disturbances were attributed to the native organization known as Mau, 400 members of which were ar rested by an expedition sent to re store order. These prisoners were re- leased this year, Official Quits Auckland, N.Z--It Is announced that the Administrator of Samoa, Maj- Gen. Bir George Richardson, who com- pleted his term on March 18, has been appointed New Zealand's representa- tive at Geneva, when reports on man- dated territories would be considered next June. The Prime Minister states that this apppointment is the reason why Bir George will not Te pointed as Administratéy when h! term i8 up. } es ree nee Counsel, appealingly -- "Will you kindly try to understand my question?" Man--"I do; but will you kindly un- derstand my answers?" kyorld is why the self-made loys college professors. to sons, mn 5 Wh ag Dubin--The Irish Independent say® that a great number of people were pained thet Henry Ford should have decided not to visit the Free State | because of its fiscal policy, "concern ing which he must have been grossly misinformed." The paper added, "But it is hoped when he is acquainted with the actual position he will change his plans." (Henry Ford sid in London thal he would not visit the Irish Free State, or even consider visiting Mt, "go long as they tax our fuel and ore from Whles and also the finished pro- duct from England.) Cork--The Ford works here are manufacturing for the Free State and Great Britain all parts of care and tractors made here as well as machin. ery for the new car, Practically all the foundry work for the Manchester factory is done at Cork. About 200, men are engaged In assembling the.