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Pasienger GMnmg To Travel Atlantic Air Lines Tlie British R>100. Now Nearing Completion, WiU Be Used To Test Out and Demonstrate the Feasibility of Regular Trans-Atlantic Air Travel SCHEME NO DREAM British engineers are now coraplet- tng the RlOO, a dirigible passeager airship, which Is expected to make a demonstration voyage across the At- lantic to New York next September. Commander Burney ot the British Navy, one of the designers of the RlOO, who Is now In Washington, des- cribes the airship In the foUowing ar- ticle and expresses the opinion tluit if her tests prove successful a new era In overseas transportation -will be opened. His article appeared in the - New York Times, partly as follows. The illustrations give a good idea of this air monster. Few people realize the great ad- vance which has been made in the design and construction of dirigibles during the last few years, but the fact that plans are now being made to in- augurate a regular transatlantic ser- vice Is an indication that big develop- ments-are impending. As a first step toward the realization of these plans it is proposed to utilize the British dirigible R-lOO as a demonstration ves- sel and to operate her on a New York Montreal-London route beglanlng next Fall. A Far Cry Frtmi the CM BalfooB Days Owing to the fact that dirigible de- velopment hitherto has been maia- ly in the hands of British Government departments, and also because the vessels themselves have .been built for war purposes, it Is difficult to make people believe either the extent of the passenger accommodation which can be provided or the lowaess of the fares necessary to give a com- mercial return. Take as an instance the R-lOO, as this vessel Is now practically com- plete and will be in the air In a few months' time. The passenger accom- modation consists of the equivalent to a three-story house mounted in the vessel (see photos). On the lower floor are the crew's quarters, consisting of a mess deck and cabins. Leading from this to the upper floors is a double staircase, similar to that in a steamship, and on the lower passenger floor one will and two promenade decks, some -fourteen feet wide, specially strengthened to permit dancing; a restaurant to seat fifty persons at one time ,and cabin accommodation for that number. These cabins are of two or four berths and may be compared with those pro- vided in an Atlantic liner. They are fitted with bunks, electric light and stowage arrangements for the 100 pouuds of passenger's baggage which will be carried free. cross-channel service between London and Paris by airplane. Guiding Experiences. There Is, of curse, a vast difference between short flights of three or four hours' dnratlon and the Inauguration of a regular transatlantic service, but even in this respect there is some de- finite experience to show the feasi- bility of such a service. As far back as 1919 the British airship R-34 cross- ed tie Atliuaio from England to America, refueled In America and then made a successful return flight; and In 1»25 the airship Los Angeles crossed the Atlantlo from Frledrich- shafen In Germany and arrived at Lakehurst In about eighty hours. We have, therefore, two sets of ex- periences to stride ufl. In the Bnt place, we hare the fact that on short i flights passene'gers can be carried in these vessels Both safetly and surely; and, in the second, t>4t with the pre- war design of airship â€" when extra fuel Is carried Instead of paying load â€" that vessels of this type can suc- cessfully cross the Atlantic from East to West. No doubt many who to-day think UaOKS AS IF AIR TRAVEL WOULD SOON BE SAFE Not the interior of a factory, but the future restaurant of the uew gigantic air liner RllOO. built for the Bri- tish Air Ministry. This is just the central deck, with the crew's quarters one deck below and another deck above. The air liner is to be put on regular transatiaatic mail service. made, the limits of performance of I such a development but the dream ot ! the airplane can to-day be assessed ! some mad Inventor will become en- thusiastic In support of the develop- ment ot dirigible travel. The pro- posed demonstration flights across the , atiaaiic Atlantic should prove, at any rate. fairly accurately, and there Is a gen- eral consensus ot opinion on the part of airplane constructors that a trans- airplane service is not in sight; aud even if developments en- that such a service would be feasible Balconies for the Passengers. Above this floor is yet another, on which further cabins are provided for flfty more persons; a smoking lounge, and two balconies, enabling passengers to move their chairs from their cabins to the balcony and view the scenery below. Elaborate la- rangeinents have also been made (or the comfort of the passengers, and an extensive electric equipment has been Installed so that electric cooking, heating and lighting can be provided, thus allowing normal meals to be served as In a hotel. Lavatory and washing accommoda- tions similar to those in use on fast limited trains have been adopted and equivalent facilities installed. The dirigible has Important advant- ages over both the airplane and the steamship in that there will be no noise of the engines, no vibration and no motion equlvaleat to that la a liner. Therefore, it to bellered, than should be no slckaest. A minimum far* ot |t09 should be adequate to give a satisfactory fluan- da! return. Tlie success of dirigible transportation, like many other do velopments, will depend largely on the ability to cater to large numbers of travelers. The lower the fare that can be successfully charged, the more •table will be the basis ot this uew Industry; and, just as the cheap motor cars can only be produced if they are manufactured in large numbers, so It • til be with dirigibles. A Two-Day Pissage. There is little doubt, therefore, that we can visualise, within a compara- tively short time, a fare between Loit- don aud New York ot only $860. the time of transit to be less than forty- sight hours. The establishment of such a service would entail a verit- able revolution in transportation, (or the Atlantic service would be follow- ed by the establishment ot lines radi- ating from New York and London throughout the world. What the Dirigible Has Dons. So much attention has lately been paid to airplane transportation ami so little to airship transportation that it may be well to recall some of the re- sults which have been obtained in aerial transportation work by airships In the past. Before the war, rarious airships built in Germany oarriad approxlmata- ir 40.000 passaacara without a singte accident, fatal or otherwise, to any passenger, a record which cannot be beaten by any other form of air trans- port. Admittedly the ntgtta on vkWk those passeaiers war* oarriad wars short, not more thaa three or tour ihours In time; ueraraalaaa, they com- j>are (avorablr tc dwratloa with the that.thls system of transport is quite | able a 400 per cent, increase in pay feasible; and as soon as this has beenjioad for a given horse power to be ob- demonstrated. all that will remain to taiued. still it would not be possible inaugurate an efficient Atlantic ser-'t^ vice will be the provision ot the neces- ' sary capital. The Airship Guarantee Company, which has constructed the R-100. has already worked out the general de- sign (or the transatlantic ship for the regular service, and this vessel- called the Atlantic type â€" will be as great an advance over the R-100 as the R-100 is over previous vessels. The estimated cruising speed has been increased to ninety-flvo miles an Island of Sark Must Pay Taxes In Wheat to Revive Agriculture London â€" Reverting to a law and custom of the days of Queen Eliza- j beth, which long has bean la abey- I ancs, Mra. Dudley Beaumont, the inaugurate an alrplaue service, i Dame of Sark. one of the Channel Is- There are many members of the ; lands, has issued aa edict that the in- public, however, who have the idea â-  habitants must pay their tithes la ! habitants wheat or cash. otaer graia Instead of in if seaplanes were employed, as the seaplanes could alight on the water I Sark ranks as "aa entirely Indepen- and refuel from some vessel in mid- ; <I*irt feudal state wlthia the empire," Atlantic. Unprejudiced investigation j being one of the numerous anomalous to the English Crown, and what its Dame says is like'.y to go, in spite of the protests of tha islanders. Her exercise o? her feudal rtgh'.s, however, is not purely arbiu-ary. Agri- culture in Sark has reached a low ebb due to Eng'lsh residents occupying cultlvatable land and letting it run to waste. The Dame's edict aims at making the Island mora sel'-support- iag. With the object ot reawakening Interest la agriculture she has decid- ed to Insta'.l a milling plant on tha into such a project will show its utter j legacies of the Duchy ot Normandy' isianj, w'alch formerly fed itseif. futility. Those who have crossed the Atlantic during this winter so far must have observed that there was uot a single day on which a seaplane hour and the endurance increased ^^^^^ flight on" the water without be- from 4,000 miles to 6.000 miles. At | ,„g instantly destroyed. It may be. the same time more luxurious accom- modation has been provided for pas- sengers and the number to be accom- modated increased from 100 to be- tween 160 and 170. Let us now examine some of the adverse factors to see why so long an interval has elapsed between 1919, when this development was shown to be possible, and the present time when they are actually being made. The flrst big setback to airship de- velopment was undoubtedly the des- truction of the British vessel R-3S when over the Humber In 1921. This disaster was closely followed by that of the Roma in America, and that was followed by the destruction of the Dlxmude in the Mediterranean. The reason for these disasters had hardly been analysed when that of the Shen- andoah occurred. The Inevitable re- sult upon the public mind of this suc- cession of disasters was to confirm the idea in most minds that these great ressels would always suffer from such Inherent structural weak- ness that It would be Impossible to build a really practical vessel. Un- prejudiced technical examination of the position does not confirm this opinion â€" the causes of these disasters have been analyzed and obviated In the new designs. As a result ot the use of these ves- sels during the war, designers both In Germany and in England were com- peting in an endeavor to lighten the structure of the vessel to a maximum degraa in order to enable the vessels to reach as great a height as possible, so that they might avoid anti-aircraft gunflre. It was, no doubt, perfectly legitimate to take the great risk which such a Itghteulug of the struc- ture involved during the war, but it Is now kuown that all these vessels were structurally weak. Structure Problsms. Before any part of the R-100 was constructed, about two years were â- pent In Investigating the various probleaM connected with the pro- vision of a stracture sufficiently ro- bust to withstand such aero-dynamlo forcea aa were likely to be brought upon it during flight: and, as a result of these Investigations, the R-100 is approximately five times as strong as any airship which has hitherto been built. Her cruising speed, further- more, is approximately equal to the maximum speed of any vessel pre- viously built; and it Is thought that as a result of these two major im- provements the R-100 should be able to eacouhter successfully even abnor- mal storms. One thing, however. Is quite cer- tain, aud that is that the public cou- fldenco will not be regained by the airship until a deflnite proof has been liven to the world that the claims put forward by the designers of these craft can be substantiated in opera- tion. It is mainly for these reasons that the deaonstsation flights across the .\tlantio by the R-100 are being plan- ned. When a considerable number of snch flights have been carried out (uccesatully, and tha experience gain- ed on these flights embodied in the uew AtUuidc type of vessel, we shall be on the eve of a uew era in ti-ans- portatloa. Ualaas sone unforseea invention is and probably will be possible for cer- tain spectacular flights to be made by either airplane or seaplane by care- fully selecting a day in which meteor- ological conditions are favorable; but Shipowners and Australian Trade Leeds Yorkshire Post tCons.): At practically all the Australian ports the shipowner's expenses are fully three times as great as at Montreal, and it takes a vessel three times as long to load or discharge her cargo. . . Very heavy losses have been sustain- there is a great dllference between a ; ed by shipping companies engaged la spectacular flight carried out at great risk both to the pilot and machine at a selected moment and the continuous running of a service on regular sche- dule. Airships for Long Trips. One hopes that the proposed flights ot the RlOO will turn public opinion to appreciate that the airship and air- plane are complementary and will not operate in opposition to each other. The airship is pre-eminently the ves- vel for the long-distance transoceanic flights and the allplane the type of craft for short-distance operation. Tlie British Government has appre- ciated this situation and Is laying the foundations of a great imperial air- ship service stretching from London to Egypt. India. Australia. New Zea- land, South Africa and Canada. Al- ready airship bases are erected or in process ot erection In Egypt. India, Canada and South Africa, while the Governments of Australia and New Zeahind have slguifled their Intention of erecting airship bases in their own countries as soon as the R-lOO has proved successfully that it can oper- ate with both safety aud reliability. It remains only to establish a dally service between London and New York to bring not only those material benefits in trade that must Inevitably result to the world as a whole a great- er stability, a more earnest wish for peace and a better understanding be- twoeu the peoples of the world. Turkish Language For Turkey Students Want Foreign Ton- gues Banned in Com- merce and Public the t grain) trade, and firms which used to hava upwards of a dozen ships operating on the Australian ser- vice have now only two or three. The great developments In the shipment of grain from Vancouver and the Ar- 1 gentlne, and the determined efforts In ' Canada and South America to Im- prove the facilities make It all tha mora Imperative that Australia should take steps to put herself on a more corapetltiev basis. . â€" ^ Lions Eat in Juny:le j Fearless of Auto Hatton. the British Hunter, Brings From Africa Rare Films of the Beast Taken at Qose ^ Range '" "*â-º Denys Finch Hatton. the bis game huntrtr and phi>tographer, declares la an article in The London Times that the lions of the Serenget Plains, Bri- tish East Africa, have no f»»ar of aa automobile, but rather cuitivata its presence. Mr. Hatton has just re- turned to London from an expedition bringing with him some remarkable film pictures of the king of bf^asts. "In the fourteen days wa ware there," he says, "we saw no fewer than seventy lions, counting males,- females and cubs. In varying groups, from singletons up to one magnifloeni troop of twenty, which was seen byi my two companions upon a day when' { It was my ill-fate to be engaged In re- I pairing one of our lorries. The largest ; number which I saw together was a i troop of eleven lionesses without a single male with them." One of (he most striking episodes I of stalkia^ a group wiih a movie I camera from tha automobile is r»- jlated by Mr. Halton as foUows: j "About 2 o'clock my gun bearer re- ; marked that the lions were behaving very well, and that as they looked i very hungry we ought to shoot a coon- igoni for them as baljesheesh when wa â-  had finished taking their pictures. This seemed to js an e.\cellent sug- . gestion. and save me the idea of try- ing to get a picture of tha lions cam- Ins on the kUi. "So wa went off In the car and shot a consoni on the edge ot the plain not more than 600 yards from tha lions. Tying the aatelope to the rear spring by a slip knot we dragged him down to where the lions were lying, and loosed him as we passed in ttill sight at about thirty-iive yards. "We then drove the car up under a tree about forty yards from the kilt, and got ready to take th-j picture. Wa had not waited for more than a . minute before a lioness left the group ; and cautiously orept up to tha con- gon!. finally taking possession with a !i'tla rash from six yards oi. Tha others came up one by oul'. and "Jia feast began. "Every now and again a blood-red face was lifted to take a look at the car as we crept up by stages to get j closer p!'-tures. l;'.ent upon the busl- : ness in hand, they showed no appr*. ; hen?!oa even when we reached seven- ] ty feet, the ciosast photographing . rang^. which Included tha whole ' group in one sliinch lens. "After about halt an hour they [ seemed to be temporarily sated, and evidently felt the sun too hot for full bellies. One by one the two lionesses ; and the youngest lion walked slowly away and lay down under a big um- ; brella thorn near by. leaving tlia larg- , est lion to bring the remains of the â-  cutigoni to them in the shade. 'After a few minutes ha picketl up NO RULE 1 7 THERE Constantinople. â€" The stiidonts of the University of Stamboul. the local institution of higher learning, have hel da mass meeting and petitioned the atuhoriiies to enforce tha use of Turkish alone in. the commerce and public life of this cosmopolitan city. For centuries the streets of Con- stantinople have resounded to the tongues ot Europe and Asia. Before the war the street hawkers cried their I the half eaten carcass of the Iarg« wares In Greek, while Armenian was ; antelope la his mouth and carried It also the language ot the shoppers, ^o the tree as easily as a retrleve» But. after the establishment ot tha ; carries a hare, but with a sltghtlv repubUc and the exodus of large num- : straddling swagger, due to the con- bers of Greek and Armenian middle- goals trailing legs. men. nothing but Turkish has been , -We had been photographing busi'y cried by tha Constantinople hawkers. : al this while, but unluckily the cam- j many of whom were Turks using era now Jammed, so that we did not J Greek and Armenian. • gg,t ,1,13 ^^ry interesting closing in- I In addition to this reform the Gov- ; cldent It was now nearly i o'clock, ; ernment demanded that all shop 'â-  and after taking several still pictures signs must be in Turkish as well as : of them under the tree we pulled out the !aa,?uage of the owner, wjilch, ' for camp, leaving the lions as uncon- cerned with our movements as thay had been upon our flrst appearance In the morning." -• One of our youngest airwomen Is a Bristol schoolgirl, who belongs to tha light aeroplane club of that city. She is only about fourteen years ot age. "la Tom as thl«k witb Mso aa he MNMir* 'Sura. She's been trying ta shako him evar since Chriatniaa and he's too thick to se« It." whatei*9r his nationality, was French, the lingua franca of the business world. To-day these signs, so far as Turkish goes, are practically unintel- ligible, for the sign painters exploit : tu V t. T »l a- ct L» all the decorative possibilities of the' *"* '^'"* 1 ransaUantlC Might arable script with Its diacritical! Ottawa Journal (Cons.l: Ths marks lu producing a beautiful but d- j ""P'-P^'s '" the Ottawa Cc!Ieg!ai» In- legible legend. j stitute. when 39 out of 10 students The acUon of the university stu- j answered that Lindbergh was the flrst dents may ba ascribed to two rea- ' "â- rman to cross the Atlantic lllustrat- Canada Leads Educating 8«0.000 pupils lu elemen- tary schools. .10,000 in secoudary schools. 60.000 In technical Institutes. aud 130.000 young men and women at evening classes cost London £li,»Jl,- 200 In 192«. ; sons, one patriotic and the other jeconojuif. Tha hundreil per cent, mood of youns Turkey is coaimeud- ,abl-j eaougU. especially since ihero i.* Bloamfoutein Kriend; Yeais ago,<alk of fouudin:; an academy like that Canada want much further in the mf-'^^t Krance to purify the Turkish lang- gotiations of independent treaties j uage of its Arabic aud Persian wonis. than South Africa has ever done. She: and to encourage has trade conimissiouars in many Mtarattire. foreign countries. Indeed in commer- cial matters Canada autlcipiited tha new status laid down at (>i> Imperial Conference last year. An Inside View ed something of tfc* elTeet In Canala of tht> self-adver!i<;ing of on- Amer- i.!«!i frieuds. . . . S'-veral British air- ;!Kn crossed the Atlantic ba.'jie L:\ti- 1-1 igh did. But evidently the rest of Hi did not ba;iy-hoo enough about theui. . . . All .\merican gees-t ara a purely Turkish ' sw*"*. bat perhaps that Is not as bad. natioualiy. as to let all our British geese be taken for ducks. The U.S.A. and Latin America Loudou Times (In.l.i: Kear* lest the •tesdy and Irresistibln march of American hiisluess will lead to In- creasing political intervention and control aro widely euterisined. especi- ally by people who havs only encoun- tered representatives ot the less I worthy side of .\tn<?rican comnierc?. j These same fears kKtk so unreasou- I able when brought to the atteuiioii ot .\n14ricans who ara conscious o' tlieir complete fr?edi'tn from contem- plated aggression that ihey are at tributed to envy or malice. But V.u-y ' •*»' are real, and in coaseiiucnce the u«e \ *" â€" ^~ of the lofty language of idealism has ! "Si:i;;tng." declares a doctor, "will served tha Vuitati States badly, i kill iuntieuta .mfrms."" The difflcuUy. I Kverybody knows that behind a fa | of coitrse. Is to get the little devils to cado of democracy aud represe'itativo 1 sing. instittillon.s there frequently exists a ' ♦ p.irmly so grotesque that the parodists have no real claim to be respected, and that tha case for the .\mcrican interests is generally a strong case when It ia stated simply on its merits. ' NOT A SOFT DRINK "Why dont you think pop is a •oft drink?" "Evar since I mmu hit with a bottle full ot it I haven't thought This view gives Leviathan ot the air. LOOKING ALONG THE R 100 some idea of the genera', coustru.^iioti ot liritaiu's Th-re is an amusing story of how Sir Morel Mackenzie, the eminent doc- tor, twtk a rise out of Whistler. Ona day Whist I'sr called him in to attend to a sick French poodle. Mackensia -♦ i was none too pleased, but took his fea Last year saw a greater niimb/^r otjand wont away. .\ little while* attar cooks i.«.«ued than in any othvr ye.ir.thU he sent for Whistler urgently. on r9i>ord. There were 13.J10; this , Whistler arrived 'Just wanted to saa is 60S mora than in 19»5, previously you " said Mackentie. about haviog the record year. |my front diK>r painted."