Machine Whittled Out of Bamboo Can Be Carried On Horseback; An Aeroplane His Next Task Nanchang, July 2.
Some soldiers like to whittle in their spare time. Sergeant Kenichi Maeda whittled so long and indus-triensly during his two years at the front that he has just produced a bamboo glider which is causing something of a sensation in the Blider world.
His glider costs half the amount of the old style gliders. It is as light as a feather and so easy to handle that it can be dismantled and transported on horseback or in a vehicle, according to Sergeant Maeda.
The soldier inventor was affiliated with the Maeda Light Aeroplane Manufacturing Company of Osaka as senior partner prior to being called to the colours two years ago. The company's plant turned out most of the record-holding gliders in Japan.
Sergeant Maeda was the first Japanese soldier to enter Nanchang after crossing the Kan River. He perfected his new glider after overcoming many difficulties, he told newspaper men, but added modestly that anyone could have done it with a little knowledge of bamboo. After looking at the glider newsmen did not think so. Sergeant Maeda has applied for a patent.
He use Japanese bamboo. Most gliders are made with a few pieces of aeroplane materials. He had planned long ago to construct a bamboo glider, he told reporters, but was handicapped by the technical difficulties of joining bamboo with metal. The glider can be easily repaired by an amateur if it is damaged he said.
Industrious Sergeant Maeda revealed that his next big whittling job will be to construct an aeroplane cut of bamboo.—Domei.
A uniformed search party, consisting of one foreign and three Chinese members of the Shanghai Municipal Police, yesterday were saved from almost certain death at the hands of "Ta Tao" gangsters thanks to the prompt arrival on the scene of a party from Bubbling Well Police Station, Some 20 shots were fired by the gangsters notwithstanding the large number of pedestrians on the street at the time but the police did not reply, not wishing to cause casualties amongst innocent pedestrians.
This one-sided gun-battle, one of the worst to have occurred here during the past few months, commenced when five or six suspicious-looking Chinese who were coming on to Edinburgh Road from the Ts Vu Pang alleyway on the west side of the thoroughfare, refused to submit to a search and dashed across the Settlement street into an alleyw: on the other side from where, assisted by additional gunmen, they opened fire on the S.M.P. men
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