The ground engineering courses pat jculariy are proving most pop the additions referred to include 4 greatly enlarged practical engiieer-Jing workshop. Here may be seen numerous examples of modern aitjeraft engines including radial and incline air-cooled motors and waier-cooled motors.
Large scale instruction charts are available in quantity showing aero-magnetos, carburetters, oiling and ignition system, and sectioned engines of many types in addition to important components and parts, Tne work is directed by fully Jqualified and certificated British engineers assisted by Chinese engineers and interpreters, In the lecture room may be seen much interesting equipment used in Instruction, Aerial navigation—instruments, compasses and" parts Recessary' for their adjustment are favailabie. in connection with instruction im the latter. item, a Deviascope" is used by which tridents are clearly shown how to compensate for the various magnetic forces acting on the compass in alt craft, vent Oun Own Comesroxext Sukao, July 8.
The rainy season this year is past and no rain has come. All through the country, the small canals are empty. Only those fed by tha Yangtze River contain water. Many wells and water holes are empty. JCrops are scorching upon the fields JSome of the early corn has been cut for fuel long before the grain began to appear. Cotton and soya bean Jare the best promising crops at present, Huge parades praying for rain move about the country. The other Jday some 10,000 people, it is said, were parading through the country Jand city with idols and incense. JEven though the magistrate strongly Jadvised against such parades he Jcould only induce them not to parade after he had promised to go to th temple himself and make intere sion for the people.
Repeatedly already meat shops Ihave been ordered closed, the last Jorder covering six days in' which no meat, sea food, and fowl can be bought in the open market, The heat this year came early and the thermometer "has registered 100 each "day now for ten days, JThe "great neat" is still to come, [The prevailing southerly winds seem know of no variation, Several cases of beat prostration Jare reported. Cholern is fortunately New roads are completed this year. It is now possible to leave Jukao city in any One of four direc-ons by way of motor roads, Avro "Cadet" training "machines fare used by the school, Atted with Armstrong-Siddeley "Genet" engines. These laic-type training machines are fitted with metal propellers, Jow-pressure unaercarriages, Handley Page safety slots and elecirie starters.
Pupils of all nationalities and both sexes are in attendance at the school which has contracted with the Hongkong Government for the training of number of selected members, of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps.
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