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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE. ONT., THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1928 3 Improved "Floating Island" Seen In Paris Chamber of Commerce Inventor Would Station Crafts Across Oceans as Airplane Bases, 500 Miles Apart--165-Room Hotel, Tennis Courts, Bathing Houses Paris.--The question of "floating islands" across the oceans as landing bases for planes has been revived here, owing to an exhibition in the Chamber of Commerce of a model and plan of such an island It is really not an island at all, though given that happy name. It is actually a "wet dock," if this expression can be coined, having in mind the floating dry dock used for steamers. The French scheme takes the form of a huge concrete, scalloped-out structutre built like a barge, except It has no stern, sea water entering free-' 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 America prepared to back the construction of these $12,000,000 bases. Improvements Made. The" main difference between the 1924 and the 1928 drawings of M. Defrasse lies in the fact that the latter takes into account the rising into the air of the mammoth flying boats envisaged in the future. The basin of the former design has been enlarged so that small flying planes can rise easily within the run of about a quarter of a mile. Heavier flying boats are to be pulled up a sloping platform to a level space at the top of the bow Honolulu, then would -- t down a track to the end of , dock, then one anchored by wind four times as powerful thing yet known on the Atlantic. Two motors developing 25,000 horsepower will keep the head of this 2,587,000-ton sea base Into the wind and also keep it geographically where it should be in Atlantic or Pacific. , In one the long wings of his dock there space for 11,000 square meters hangars for the machines, and he has made room on the other side for a hotel large enough to contain 165 rooms. A Novel Week-End. A day or two in mid-Atlantic may become a popular way of spending a week-end, to M. Defrasse's way of thinking. He has pictured, besides the hotel rooms and restaurants, two tennis courts, and, of course, bathing houses and a proper place to descend into the magnificent swimming pool. There would be a seaplane base at New York, another near Newfoundland, and a third at Brest, the extreme northwesterly port of France. Between Newfoundland and Brest M. Defrasse has placed in his diagram three of his floating wet docks, separated one from another by some 500 miles. Between Dakkar (Senegal) and Natal (Brazil) he sees one floating Island and one anchored at St. Paul's Rocks. Between San Francisco and Tokio he would settle two of Vh(^ floating docks before reaching floating group Out For Crown of Queen of the SoutK \----------------; ____.r.Sty.%-/.v<r.%yA' NDER BYRD'S PLANE BEING TESTED IN CANADA'S SNOW view of the tri-motored Ford plane, in which Bert Balchen and Floyd Bennett will accomp Byrd in his flight to the south pole, seen as it underwent its tests at Grand Mere, Quebec. the port side of the dock. Motors will ] of cays, then two floating docks, and, then give impetus to the flying craft finally, Tokyo itself. He always as It advances Into the wind along spaces his bases about 500 miles this track. If the run is not enough apart. or the engines of the plane are not j Projects such as this of M. Defrasse functioning properly, brakes will stop deserve sympathetic attentii forward movement within the final 50 yards. The idea is somewhat like the present catapulting of airplanes from warships. Defrasse claims his structui though some may consider them impracticable to-day. He at least is pointing the way and opening our thoughts, even as Jules Verne did, to accept th eaerial progress of the fu- can withstand the force of waves and ture.--Christian Science Manitor. PRINCESS MARY VISITING EGYPT Arrival of her royal highness and her husband, Lord Lascelles, it ion. where they were received with fitting ceremony. Bremen Chance To Win Always Thought Best ker monoplane. Their span was to be course a 2,920 miles and for this they carried I out fuel, 800 gallons of gas, more than enough ' land. to take them through.. j Flyers declared the Bremen to hav<. They headed out to sea from Galahad the best chance from point of eve as did the Bremen, and never | view of equipment and fuel load. The mai , . seen again. They flew into fog, j weather, insufficient fuel and Experts Forecast Kindlier Fate high wind and an admitted low baro-j known other faults took the rest into British Discuss Royal Oak Case Interest in Courts-Martial Undiminished--Sentences Are to Be Examined London--Public Interest in the Royal Oak courts-martial continues unabated in this press-, with much speculation as> to what the Admiralty's decision will be, following an examination of the- report of the proceedings by C. M. Pitman, K.C., the Judge-advocate. The papers in two cases arrived at Whitehall almost simultaneously with the arrival of Capt. Kenneth G. B. Dewar and Commander H. M. Daniel at Plymouth. Rear Admiral Oollard, on another ebi-p from Gibraltar, landed at Southampton and went directly to the offices" of the Admiralty. Mr. Pitman is expected to thoroughly" examine the sentences imposed in the light of all the evidence, then advise the Lords of the Admiralty whether the sentences should stand or be quashed. W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, is expected to make an official announcement soon. Criticizing the courts-martial. Colonel John, a veteran of the South African and the Great War, writing in the Daily Mail, says: "In our fighting services in all cases of dispute a junior has 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 much-abused pre-war Ger-regarded our system as rather e metric pressure. Their motor was a 510-horsepower Jupiter. Their maximum speed was 130 miles an hour and their cruising speed 100 miles an hour. Like Nungesser and Coli, they had everything in their favor and to spare Treacherous Winds in North ' 6fep' the treacherous, constant winds a i • -r t ii J .that howl toward Europe from this Atlantic I errinc Hazard j 9ide cf tne water They Four monoplanes, each powered they hardly ever become less power-th a single enngine, have been point- j ful, these winds, and they are the Than Befell Three Pre-ceeding Sea Flights Others All Disappeared end is the dangero j Manitoba's Hydro System I Winnipeg, Man.--Manitoba's gov-e ernment-owned hydro-electric system t achieved a record during its opera- the Atlantic in what; chief barrier were vain attempts flight ovi iles that stretch be- ■ the ship, ind Newfoundland.' fl.ving speed and cause the gasoline to -ere at the stick of ! ebb as if it were pouring through dragged through the i hole. A ship speeded to 100 miles air by motors of almost equal powesjbour, but bucking a sixty-mile wir and almost all carried practically the j is making only forty mils actually, same fuel supply. Ten persons se%| That is the fault and the danger, out and three arrived. The othetj Hinchliffe Flight Fails disappeared with their planes. V The wlnter passed and the fir8t faint utics concede th( hmt of spring caused captain Walter e Atlantic fron i Hinchliffe and the Hon. Elsie Mac-east to west to be one of the most dif I kav_ da„guter of Viscount. Iuchcape ficultand treacherous flights now with- f Etlgland> to taks ofT from Cranwell in th power of airplane*. Given, as Uirdrome In Lino!.-!;....., lOngland, la»- in the cases of these first four ^lMorch 13_ in a stock stinson-Detroitsi tempts, equal ships, power and fuel, ! monopjane. Their destination, like that of tl tween Ireland Excellent pilots i each ship, all v Students of a these students maintained that for oi of the three the Bremen, to have been successful, was a great tribute to aircraft science. On paper one out of x would have been good. Nungesser and Coli First Captain Charles Nungesser and Maj-■ Francois Coli set out from Le Bourget Field, near Paris, last May 8 the White Bird, a monoplane powered by a 450-horsepower Levasseur Each had an irreproachable ] been record in the air. Their destination moto Bremen flyers, was They took off in sno' set thick with show leet Mitchel Field, headed into a ;, heavy wind had gas for only 3,000 miles, which' is the act distance between Cranwell and New York. They had no allowance for loss of speed and gasoline in fighting head winds that in this instance must have that usually strong. Their Wrigli of about !-they lacked sufficient gas and 4,033 miles. They figured a speed of! into terrific weathr. They n kilometers an hour for between I were seen again, thirty-five to forty hours would bring Bremen Wat them to New York Harbor, in which 1 The Bre,men a they would .have had to land since ; m lane p0Wierf ^eL-dTO"!li ^ l!a^I!g,i!!rJ„U.St! I"5 350-horsepowei "" ' most auspiciously. Customs Act I which there was so much opposition." 1 He agreed to let the resolution pass TH-. D * J| without , however, acceding to Its 1 O DC rVeVlSeU terms, and a bill "to amend the Cus-ns Act" was given first reading. ouse Discusses Right Search Vessels Within 1 2 Miles of Shore )ttawa--A bill which will make lawful to import liquors othe to i South Kensington ' Shows Ship Models i through a governmental agene,v, ' Latest Liner Design Shown is mmission r any provinc That of Mauretania where it is unlawful to possess liquor | London.--What is certainly one of without authority of the Government the most absorbing exhibitions in the of the province or other governmental W0,rId has been opened to the public agency, was introduced and given its in the new wing of tha South Ken. ington Museum.. It is a collection of tore than 1,000 ships' models, c< j ing all craft, from small fishing 3 warships and ocean liners, and Srst reading in Parliament. | s; The House of Commons also discus- j 3ed a resolution to revise the s : preventive officers will have 1 e3{^ t as they headed out to set from Fasi-st Rock, in southwest Ireland. Exact figures on their gasoline supply have never been printed, but the\y started with enough for 4,500 miles and some to spare. The airline distance between Paris and New York! is 3,976 miles. They never arrived and were never seen after they start- Weather ikers all-metal ith a Junkers or, started off went to Ireland, and there Baron Ehrenfried von Huenefeld, backer, and Captain Hermann Koebl, pilot, remained until weather reports from mid-Atlantic gave them at least a fighting chance. They picked up Colonel James J. Fitzmaurice, commandant of the Irish Free State Air Force, as co-pilot. They That tragedy failed to dampe thusiasm abroad for such a flight after Lindbergh conquered the from west to east pilots all ope were fired with renewed zeal. Next Attempt In August Last August 31, Captain Leslie Hamilton, Colonel F. F. Minchin and their financial backer, the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, took off from Upavon, England, for Ottawa, capital of Canada, in the St. Raphael, a Fok- I carried 600 gallons of gas, enough en."1 sustain them more 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 does best at ninety. Tbey had the power, the weather conditions, the fuel in t 1927, it i the i It may be possible for a have more money than brains, bt«; the not for very long. i i* t report presented to the Legisla-The earnings of the utility for 'ear amounted to $199,487. which 3 largest amount in Its history. Survivors Save But Little FISHERMEN PERISH Three members of crew of Boston trawler Ft' stranded boat on Aberdeen coast. Five trawlers w fishermen were drowned. i the They made it, the fourth to start and the first to b seen alive side, but even with ev^ythir vorabl, they were blown far off their Floods in Ireland authority to seize any vessel of British rgistry engaged in smuggling in territorial waters within 12 miles of Considerable discussion took place over the legal right to search vessels at that distance from land, W. D. Euler, Minister of National Revenue, extending over all of the period during which Britain has been a factor on the seas of the world. There is, for instance, a model of a sailing ship of the time of Charles II. and a model of one of the last of the G4-gun frigates. The latter has been of use to those who have been explaining that Great Britain and the j reconditioning the Victory, as without United States had agreed to such a it there would have been no assurance that the rigging of this famous old ship would have been correct. The steamship models cover a wide range of river, cargo and passenger lineds. It is rather illustrative of the limit in the case of the lat and that Canada was desirous of having a similar law. R. B. Bennett, leader of the Opposition, pointed out that the Territo-1 rial Waters Jurisdiction Act of Eng- lull that has taken place in the land prevented Parliament from pass- j provement of liner design that the ing legislation which will affect ships | latest liner shown is the Mauretania, other than Canadian beyond the throe- j which, as ocean liners go, is now a male limit, and that, "if we desire to ! very did vessel. Among the most in-have this law apply beyond the three-! teresting of the simall class models mile limit, we should negotiate a j are those of the yachts popular with treaty, as Great Britian negotiated a j English owners about the period treaty with the United States; to 1660-1770. TRYING TO MAKE THE BEST OF IT Kitchen in one of the flooded districts of Downpatr Ireland. Note the hip boots and water a foot deep on th Solomon Islands Inquiry Planned British Youths For Manitoba Farms London.--A call for 100 youths from Britain to take up agricultural work in Manitoba has just been issued in London -- Lieut-Col. Sir Henry London, Eng., by the Canadian Gov- Claude Moorhouse, former Lieuten-ernment. ant-Governor of southern Nigeria, has The prospects for the lads under the been appointed commissioner to pro-new scheme are stated to be particu-! ceed to the British Solomon Islands larly favorable. 'The boys must be )n the South Pacific to report on last between 15 and 17 years of age inclu- j year's disturbances there. The man-sive. They will receive all assistance j date for these islands, it will be recal-and on arrival at Winnipeg will be iedi i3 held by New Zealand and there sent at the earliest moment to selected 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." More Charges Against Turkish Ex-Minister Constantinople--A Leafo case of alleged peculation by an ex-Cabinet Minister is to come before the Supreme Court when the trial of Ihsan Bey, ex-Minister of Marine, terminates. This time Aid 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 $250,000 with whiob he was to purchase cereals from Russia while The charge is regarded as further proof that the Government is making i distinction in the campaign to rid e country of corruption. Magistrate--"You here again! I told you I didn't want to see you again." Picpocket--"I told the policeman that but he wouldn't believe 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 arrested by an expedition sent to restore order. These prisoners were released this year. Official Quits Auckland, N.Z.--It is announced that the Administrator of Samoa, Maj.-Gen. Sir George Richardson, who completed his term on March 16, has been appointed New Zealand's representative at Geneva, when reports on mandated territories would be considered' next June. The Prime Minister state* that this apppointment is the reason why Sir George will not be reappointed as Administrator when his term is up. Counsel, appealingly -- "Will you kindly try to understand my question?" Man--"I do; but will you kindly understand my a One of the strangest things in this •world is why the self-made man employs college professors to make h:a sons.