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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE. ONT.. THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1928 3 Wilkins "Hop O'er the Top" Greatest Event in Aviation! ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES--By O. Jacobssou The Australian Knight of the Air Accomplished a Wonderful Performance in His Little Advertised Flight OF SCIENTIFIC VALUE To the aviation records of a year already replete with wonderful adventures in the air must be added the greatest of them all--the flight of Capt. George H. Wilkins and Lieut Carl B. Eielson from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Svalbard (Spitsbergen), on a great circle course between Greenland and the North Pole. Thi3 nonstop flight of approximately 2,200 miles was a victory for a practically untried machine, and for the type of air-cooled engine made famous by Lindbergh. It was the third attempt of the Australian soldier-explorer and his American pilot to explore by airplane the unknown area between Alaska and the pole, and, Captain Wilkins deserves all honor for his conquest by what is regarded as thi plane into the air, with its load of 3,400 pounds. Most of this consisted of gasoline and oil--370 gallons of the forer and twelve gallons of the latter. When they landed, there was barely enough fuel in the tanks to carry them a hundred miles. Furthermore, they landed on a bleak and desolate island during a storm, in which a radio operator at the neighboring King's Bay station lost his way in walking from the station to the village, and froze to death. From previous experience, Captain Wilkins decided that the machine for the arnspolar flight should be the lightst and fastest monoplane capable of covering the distance. He chose a practically untried machine, the ocLkheed-Vega, powered with a flight in history. He takes Wright air-cooled motor. The food, his place, as a result of this flight 3UPPJy consisted of chocolate, biscuits, over the top of the world, among the 1 Pemmican, malted milk, and raisins, truly great figures in aviation and Tney carried two primus stoves, which' Arctic exploration. There has been *)urn vaporized kerosene or gasoline nothing like it in the annals of avia- under Pressure; a rtte and 350 cart-tlon, the achievement clinches the "idges, in case of a forced landing contention of Captain Wilkins that the Arctic ice-pack; sounding gear .r-ue, rather than the dirigible, ! thermometers, snow-shoes, is the most suitable medium for proof tent- and sPare clothing. Arctic exploration. 1 wlreIe3s set functioned for a time, Amundsen, Ellsworth, and their,thei? gave out-companions flew from Spitsbergen to- The successful outcome of the first ward the North Pole In two airplanes, transp0lar Journey by airplane, in the were forced down, and made a thrill- °p)nian °jCaptain Wilkins, was due ing escape on the one plane which re-110 the skllful of P«°ting of Lieutenant rnained serviceable. Byrd and Ben- EIelSM>. a pertect monoplane and en-nett went North with a crew of volun- , "jjj** ^°}ine. f°d 0il' ^ teers, and with seeming ease took oft for the pole, flew around it, and were back within a few hours.- The Amundsen-Ellsworth expedition, with its personnel transferred to a dirigible balloon, next flew to the pole from Spitsbergen and continued on to Alaska. During all that time Wilkins was struggling against a heart-breaking defeat of his efforts at exploration with Point Barrow, the northernmost tip of Alaska, as a base. This was his third expedition The first was almost a complete failure, though a brief flight over the Arctic Ocean bit a sizable piece out of the unexplored area. The second was marked by an air cruise which charted an Immense area of the ice-cap. Wilkins and Eielson brought their plane down, and landed on the ice to make soundings which would determine the ocean depth. They found it was more than three miles. They made a second landing for scientific reasons. On the third landing they crashed and were Their able weather most of the way, good luck, and careful navigation. Wilkins himself did the navigating, yet one might gather from his story of the flight that he was a mere passenger. As a matter of fact, it was his experience in exploration and his knowledge of aviation that enabled him to fly over the top of the world. His success against heavy odds will bring a sense of satisfaction to all who have admired his pluck and determination in sticking to his original plan. Of Scientific Value The Wilkins flight makes a contribution to our definite knowledge of the globe; it is more than a flying In th< Good bve,ue»\r. • FRiENQSf I Mfly be 0 Accidents Will Happen. Veterans Trained for Farms Ready to Settle Here Commandant of British Army Vocational School in Montreal MANY "AVAILABLE Discusses Project With Railway and Canadian Gov- ernment Thousands of men leaving the Brit-establish beyond further doubt the' ish Army yearly are available to come non-existence of land between Alaska - to Canada if satisfactory arrange-and the Pole. It also shows that an j ments can be made in the Dominion air route over the polar regions, be- j to accommodate them, according to a tween London and Tokio, for ex-1 statement by ol. H. J. Stibbard, com-, . . ample, is feasible--and thousands ofjmandant of the British Army Voca- If63 miles shorter. The map of the world j tional Training Centre, Chisledi receives regular pay right up to the : tralia to secure these people on article his training for overseas settle-j rival. This is remarkable considering mflt is complete. The men do not that the -Austrlian scheme for settle-alf join at the same date, but are ! ment closed in 1924, but the real rea-transferred from their unit on the' son for the demand for army trained first of the month, so that there is a j settlers is the fact that they have continuous stream of men coming in done so much better than any other and going all the tii During their course the men develop what I call a farm sense and the course of Instruction is quite broad. The men earn to drive horses in pairs, fours and eights. In this connection remounts are used--a horse of lighter type than English farm horses so as to correspond as nearly as possible with those in use in Canada and Australia. class proceeding to Australia. "Now, I hope that the future will bring a similar demand from Canada. I am here to study conditions for myself, and Canadian schemes of settlement which are at present available, with a view to.sending trained colonists next year. If I may say so, without, of course, any intention of being the least little bit critical, my obser-has been that in the past Cana- mounts are unknown, which, of course, dian schemes have been launched too added opportunity for the men to | late in the year to allow proper prep-learn the handling and care of these aration on our side and for a scheme Imals. Then we have 100 dairy to be actually taken In hand and the and while a man is engaged in i necessary training begun before the part of the course he milks three I plan could actually come into oper-I tion the following spring. Flogging of Native Boys Is Protested in Great Britain Missionaries Regret Colonial Secretary's Approval of Southern Rhodesia Act London.--Two veteran missionaries, Arthur Shearly Cripps, of the Society for the Promotion of the Gospel, and John WThite, of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, express regret at the approval by the Colonial Secretary, L. C. M. S. Amery, of the new Native Affairs Act for' Southern Rhodesia, whereby under clause 18 native offenders under 16 may receive a whipping "not exceeding 15 strokes" in lieu of imprisonment. They declare that in the Govern-ent White Paper dealing with this t, which concerns a population of larly 1,000,000 natives, described by their governor as "loyal and law-abiding," notable attempts are made to abate the old-fashioned British prejudice against the habitual use of a punishment for Africans, which was an outstanding feature of preabolition days--punishment which is unforgettably associated with the treatment of Africans as human chattels. Again and again, they say, plea3 ere advanced that the substitution of corporal punishment for Imprison-I ment will rescue the youth of Africa I from the contamination of prison I surroundings. ' The missionaries allege that "the I j>.droit presentment of this insidious j plea Is the real menace to British co-{lonial policy in present-day Africa." I Mr. Cripps and Mr. White refer ap Iprovingly Society's committee, which says: "Our committee's opinion Is that the resources of a humanitarian policy for keeping young offenders out of prison cannot be said to be limited to corporal punishment, which tends, we submit, to brutallzation, and we suggest that an enactment for serving sentence in existing industrial schools instead of in jail, would meet the rekuirements of the case." According tp the Executive Missionary Conference of Southern Rhodesia, "The power given to native commissioners, almost at discretion, to inflict corporal punishment on boys of 16 or under for offences in some cases In which the native commissioner himself may be concerned is against British principle." leai « a uin:.: mat |, Poultry Methods Stuc parts of It into a sled and 'mush' Eielson flight, and such mythical ter-! anada to' study ways and "means of IcluXT^to^at'ei Toultrv methods. The ! an outlMtaor V^u.* DGfl»U«. to. r.e.t riinri.. 00 K-oor,o„ t „„,1 „„.i ___1,__! K„i„„t„„ „K„„t „„ocii,i„ i ™ ™ i ! ^ v . . . head, return to England, circularize r unit of the Bri- their way out--a harrowing experi- rltories as Keenan Land and Crocker j bringing about this possible immigra- j men themselves record select ence i Land definitely eliminated, tion. bate naturally and artificially,' rear, !ray Agings to .. . Wilkius's work has been of extra-1 Writing in "The Elks Magaine" at Col. Stibbard is on his way to Ot-'klll and pluck Another part of the tisn army ln Great Bntam so 1 , tne ordinary value to world scientists for the time Captain Wilkins was making , taway to interview representatives of :course covers the making of ham and;best avallable types can be selected many years, and it is strange that his P'ans, Burt M. McConnell, an as-j the anadian Government concerned bacon - tested, and put in the necessary six the public generally has passed him ' sociate of his on the Stefansson ex-, with immigration to Canada. Col. Stib- particular attention is paid to the Imonths' training and be ready to He pedition, explained that-- | bard carries on his work at Chisledou by for more picturesque heroes. _.. Is an Australian. His first experi- "Captain Wilkins win search om I under the jurisdiction of the British ence in the Arctic was with Stefans- meteorological and commercial flying! War Office, son in 1915. He came back to fight! data at the top of the world. Later,] Tested and Trained in the British Army during the World , from the information obtained on this! Wa and won conspicuous honors for expedition, he hopes to interest the The men rePresent the highest type bravery. The war gave him training circum-polar nations in establishing °* manhood and wiJL.be trained for in aviation, and he was navigator of meteorological stations in the Arctic "f farm before being brought to Can-one of the planes which made the a"d Antarctic, and in working out a \ada- declared Col. Stibbard. In this London-Australia flight in 1919. Few system of Jobservatlons whereby j [™ ™t™: ..... nftft in this country will remember his weather conditions for th entire world! Approximately 30 000 to 35,000 ensuing exploration of ironical Aus-1 may be forecast. men leave the British army in Eng- tralia liter he^ was second in com-1 "Captain Wilkins believes that >f he!land <™ y*ar- A certain propor-mand of Sir Ernest Shackleton's last >a"d * the unexplored area j «°»f »|f*]• *? £ their own home dls- Antarctic expedition. For the past *°rth °f Alaska' 11 wiU nave great! tr'ct where their friends and relatives three vears most of Wilkius's fellow Potential value both from the com-1 reslde and 8ecure work- The lareer explorrg have been Inclined to scoff Hrcial and milltary ^'-points. His I ™"°n;*°We™; haVe r'°thlng at his efforts in the North. They could i chief purpose is to discover whether ! t honor him for his courage and deter- the last unexplored area of the North- ™e try10 ination, but could not understand ern Hemisphere is land or sea, but he ™ey are will also attempt to prove that thejtest and to shortst air-trade routes of the world I settlement. are across the Arctic wastes. Since I "From a Physical point of view, the days of Magellan, Steffansson re- these men represent the best that minds us, it has been a commonplace i GrIeatJ1^itaIJn haa to.give' With the that you can go east by sailing west. j sPIemlld food and training which they It is now about to become an equal recelve in the army tnis fact can De enmmnnm.Po that you can go east by readlly understood. "The testing and training centre at Chisledon covers 1,000 acres.^ Six months before a man is due for discharge from the army he is transferred from his unit to the centre and his adherence to airplanes reyance and to Point Barrow as a base. His faith has been vindicated, and he stands to-day among the greatest of living explorers." Hits Bulls Eye In flying from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Dead Man's Island, in the Spitsbergen group, Captain Wilkins performed a feat of navigation that Is acclaimed by his greatest rivals, Byrd and Amundsen by his preceptor 1: ploration, Stefansson; and by the man in the street. While the transatlantic flyers of the last nine years have tad a continent to aim for, his setting a course for Spitsbergen, over 2,000 miles disstant. was like looking for the proverbial neadle in a haystack. I In his flight to the pole, Byrd follow-J The ed a comparatively simple course, par- j buoy allel with the Greenwich1 meridan. as were did Amundsen; Wilkins flew over a The i route much more difficult to navigate. | as lit Scoring the fame that would have bergh' been his as the second explorer to result These are the men ne months before demobilization, to test and to train them for | "Wilkins is probably better qualified for the flight he contemplates than any other man. He has had mo« perience in aviation than any other explorer, and a broader training both Arctic and Antarctic explora- than any other No Advertis > blar of t im up and hearten him. There o loud or lurid proclamations, venture was undertaken with e initial publicity as Lind-famous trip to Paris, and the accomplished with equi irplane, ease in relatively as brief he deliberately fallowed the course And what is gained to science previously mapped out over the area garnered for human knowledge most likely to contain land. Wilkins's flight? There are no doubt No foxes seen, says his brief mes- scientific gains. But the greater gain sage to the American Geographical i lies in the exaltation of the human Society. Decoded, this means that he ' spirit that all such victories over na-discovered no land. But the knowl- ture bring; in the lofty hope that edge that land do?s not lie along the course of his flight is of just as much tural obstacles, will yet wrest all her value to science as the actual discovery of a new confinement would be. Wilkins Modest Captain Wilkins and Lieutenant Eielson, according to newspaper dis- UTIginal Survey Kecords patches, flew from Fairbanks, Alaska, In the Record Office of the Topo-to Point Barrow, a distance of 550 graphical Survey Branch, Department miles, on March 19. He had made the]of the Interior, there are on file over trip over mountains 10,000 feet in 54,000 different items in the nature height a dozen times before. It was of plans and original survey notes, be-nearly a month' later--April 15--that ing the returns from Dominion lands they managed to get their small mono- surveys since their inception ln 1869. ) Canada r spring. tired of stressing the undertaking, training are not those demoralized by hav-ng had nothing to do for years. After i hard training they leave Great Britain, and if, after a thorough test in 9 of families, the woman is idered the type that will make a farmer's wife, the whole family is returned to the regimental unit and another takes its place for testing and training. "You may be interested to know," >]. Stibbard concluded, "that our heme has been In operation for seven years. The centre was first located at Catterick, Yorkshire, and the plan was known as the 'Catterick Scheme.' This camp has now, however,, been made into a permanent Aldershot of the north.' The whole atmosphere of'our scheme and centre, while dealing with men still on the pay-roll of the army, is what you might of the men and families call one of demilitarization. Our whole trained at the centre have gone to idea is to get the men used to civilian Australia, and they have earned such agricultural work and civilian ideas." a reputation in that country that when j •-<•--- it Is knowai that colonists from the j jsn't it strange that many houses centre are available there is a very j furnished in modern style are just full strong demand emanating from Aus- 0f antiques? training of the soldiers' wives and the | children. Col. Stibbard regards this | as essential for any successful scheme ' ^tl^ Je^U™o °jV of emigration from England to the jTbe ^ Dominions overseas. "You will be particularly interested to hear." continued Col. Stibbard, "that excellent provision is made In connection with the training of the ' families of married men. They are ' all accommodated at the cen wives are taught milking, poultry ;' methods, and in addition given tion in domestic housework. Even the children, are included and all over ( the age of twelve, when they leave the centre, are good milkers. 'The real reason of course why we ] pay particular attention to the question of the wife Is, as I haveisaid from the platform time and again, that a ; tan represents 90 per cent, of the failure or success a man me< in migration to an overseas dominion, i Go to Australia Scotties Believe in Getting Their Money's Worth Egypt Replies to Ultimatum Sent by Britain Note Is Conciliatory, out regrets Attempt to Interfere With Legislature Cairo.--It is hoped here that Downing Street will be satisfied with the Government's reply to the British ultimatum demanding withdrawal of the Public Assemblies Bill, inasmuch as, despite the Government's declaration to the contrary, the reply establishes the British right to interfere in matters affecting the security of foreigners. It Is true, the bill is postponed only till next session, but this is generally taken to mean sine die. The text of the reply which was handed to the Residency will not be available till it reaches London, but It is understood to be couched in conciliatory terms, while maintaining th« viewpoint that Britain has not the right to interfere with the country's legislation. The note expresses Egypt's desire to maintain friendly relations with all powers, especially with Britain, and that, animated by this desire, the Government had recommended the Senate to postpone discussion of the bill till next session, thus hoping to afford Britain an opportunity of re- -considering its position in a calmer atmosphere. The reply further regrets that the bill is made an occasion to attempt to interfere with the Legislature in a manner incompatible with a continuance of constitutional Government and states that the Government will not submit in future.. CHEERING SCOTSMEN INVADED PUTNEY FOR THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE The happy lads of the land o' cakes had journeyed down to old Lond on for the international football matcn between Scotland and England, and it is evident that they made the most o f the opportunity by taking in the boat race too. One fare covered both events. British Warship Limps to Harbor Bacchus Travels Stern First After Sinking Ship With Loss of Ten Lives Portland, England.--The crippled British warship Bacchus reached haven with the survivors of the crew of the Greek steamer Igannis Fafalios, which it had sunk in a collision in the channel recently. Ten of the Greek sailors were drowned and two others died after being picked up from the The Bacchus itself was so badly crushed forward that it was ln grave danger of sinking. Its crew were able to navigate it slowly, stern foremost (since it was so down by the head) toward this port until two tugs and the battle cruiser Tiger came to its aid and took it in tow. The masses are said to enjoy good music when they hoar it. When they can't hear it, however, they don't, Willesden Magistrate: "Are you old enough to be married?" Young man: "Yes, but not silly enough."