AIR LINERS AND THE FUTURE.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1927, Page 3

AIR LINERS AND THE FUTURE.

“Experts who are now concentrating upon researches predict that regular air speeds as great as 390 miles an hour, or even more, will become possible lor long periods with a perlected. highaltitude passenger machine. What this will mean, in spanning the thousands ol miles of great oceans, ran readily he imagined. It will menu a revolution in all previous ideas. It will tumble plans to be formulated wliieli would otherwise seem fantastic. We shall send air lineis sweeping up till they are lost sight of far above the clouds. Ale shall span the Atlantic, miles above its surface, •between breakfast and dimiei. . A\t shall flash from London to Australia in not more than about thirty bonis. In marvellous, thrilling rushes, high through the upper air. we shall effect complete globe-encircling flights, devouring distance at Such enormous speeds that we shall reduce the eighty \ days of Jules Verne’s famous traveller '-to not more than about eighty hours!” X.Mr Harry Harper. AMERICA AND JAI’AN IN CHINA. “America and Japan are seeking different objects in China. America, guidVed partly liv her .business interests, partly by a rather naive and interfering benevolence, seeks a democratised China. Her extensive interference in Chinese education is part of her activity to that end. Japan on the other hand, lias more practical aims. She seeks in China a vast market for her manufactured goods, and she would like, if possible, to have a monopoly of that market. Further, she seeks through the agency of Cluing Tso Lin the sole right to exploit Manchuria, possibly as a prelude to annexation. Further, since the conclusion in 1922 of the Anglo-Jnpanese alliance, she lias come to feel rather acutely her isolation in the Pacific, and believes that at the moment she must extend gestures of friendship to China, and endure quietly any indignities which her own ■nationals may suffer.”—“The Times” (London) <