1
I Fliers Abandon
Arctic Headgear
"*• for Sun Helmet
Heat of Equatorial Region
Forces Them to Change
Outfits; Arrive at Hong
kong Safely.
Told By I.OWEIJ, THOMAS.
(Copyright, 1924.1
"In cruising down the China coast
from Shanghai to Amoy we flew so
low," says Jack Harding, "that we
could actually smell China! And this
pungent odor of the far east was
something novel to us. Nor at that
[moment did we
doubt but what
there were 400,
000,000 living In
China. It seemed
as though we pass
ed that many or
more on our 695
mlle hop from the
mouth of the
Yangtze to Amoy
island. It was the
most densely popu
lated region we
had ever seen.
"Why, the mo
ment we had pass
ed one village we
were above another. The streets were
swarming with people, and the coun
try roads almost as bad, while chit
dren, chickens and pigs filled the
yards. And far out Into Formosa
tft strait the water was dotted with sam
pans and junks.
"Whenever we got tired of looking
down at villages and lice fields we
would take a swing out to sea and
play leapfrog with the junks for a
while. Smltty and Fes would pick
out a Junk. Heigh and Hank would
take another. Erik .and I would spot
n third. Then all three planes would
dive toward them, full tilt. If those
Chinese sailors had pigtails I’ll bet
they stood on end, But just before
swooping Into them we would shoot
over the tops of their masts and In
two minutes be miles away. It was
fun for us, and I haven't any doubt
hut that it helped somewhat to break
the monotony of life on board the
junk. If we woke up any opium
smokers I’ll wager a German mark
to a Chinese ta^l with a hole In it
that they thought they were seeing
things.
Picturesque Amoy Harbor.
"At 5:30 In the afternoon we came
down right in front of the Standard
Oil company pier in the picturesque
harbor of Amoy, with pagodas and
temples ail around us. While we
were mooring a sampan came along
side and I heard a voice shout 'Hello,
Tennessee.' The visitor turned out to
be a fellow southerner who used to
live a few miles from my home town.
We worked on the planes until long
after dark and then spent the night
on board the destroyer Prebel as the
guests of Commander Glassford.
"Although we didn’t go Into the
city, the city came to us. Next morn
.tig, Sunday, May 8, when we were
veiled at daybreak, we saw thousands
,;qd thousands of little Chinese boats
crowded around the planes. More
kept coming from shore until we
couldn't see the water. We hurried
out, got up on the pontoons, and for
an hour we went through one of
the most nerve racking experiences
of the trip. There were so many
sampans that the occupants could
hardy control them, and It was all
we could do to push them off and
keep them from drifting into ns and
damaging the plnnes. Some of the
s'tnpans had sails and the wind kept
blowing them toward us. The launch
fr. m the Prebel tried to protect us.
but the officer In charge of it got
l i --- listed and decided the only way
i > diive them off.would be to sink a
f w. So he becked off a few feet and
l hen shot It full speed ahead right
i dn a sampan. He certainly gave
ih“ Chinese the thrill of their lives.
; -oi- of the sampans capsized, throw
It.-- the occupants over into other
l or.tv or Into the water. Then he
would hack off and crash Into the
l > ’.t of them again. The momentum
I the ‘launch was so great that It
1 !ie t sampans right up on top of
each other. Something had to be
done to prevent the planes from being
crushed by those thousands of boats.
It looked as though we might be
squeezed just as steamers are crushed
by ice in the Arctic. And the course
our friend took who was command
ing the launch was certainly drastic
enough. The force with which he
rammed those stocky little sampans
was such that he piled as many as 20
up at a time. It wasn't long until
he had ciearted a space. From then
on. thanks to the launch, the Chinese
boatmen, with their wives, children,
chickens, and pigs, kept at a respect
ful dietance.
Hop for Hongkong.
"No far from where we were
moored there was an antiquated Chi
nese destroyer bristling with guns.
The story we heard about it was
right in keeping with the lurid his
tory of Amoy and its marauding in
habitants. It seems that the captain
had deserted from the rest of the
Chinese fleet and anchored here two
years before. Training his guns on
the city and sending word to the
inhabitants that henceforth they
were to pay tribute to him, he and
his men even went ashore and drove |
off the local military detachment.;
Since that day he has never lifted his
anchor. Today he Is the ruler of all i
the territory within range of his1
guns.
"We had oniy 310 miles to make j
on our flight down the China coast
to Hongkong, so it was not until
10 a. m. that we got under way. Rut
we would have said farewell to Amoy
shortly after aunrise if It hadn't been
for the thousands of sampans around
us.
"Dn ntir way to Hongkong we flew
over hill* said to be Inhabited by
aborigines belonging to a race utterly
different to the Chinese, strange peo
ple who worship a dog as the ances
tor from which they sprang. So, un
like many of the other Inhabitants
of China, they do not frlcaessee their
village (logs. They worship them In
stead.
“For 10 miles we skimmed over the
W’ater of a narrow Inlet between two
ranges of high hills. We kept just
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over the top* of the hundreds of
boats passing in and nut. All this
traffic assured us .that we were
nearing the far-famed city of Hong
kong. At 1:32 we arrived over the
harbor and the weather enough for us
to see something of the city, which
I* reputed to be the most benutiful
in the far east.
"It was indeed a marvelous sight.
Tha harbor, which covers over 15
square miles and is almost surround
ed by high hill», was filled with war
ships, Pacific liners, freighters, and
tramps from every corner of the
globe, as well as nativa craft of every
description. So far as the amount of
tonnage entering and leaving its
waters is concerned it is one of the
six greatest ports in the world, and
has been built up by the British, who
have owned the lslund ever since the
treaty of Nanking, in 1841. When they
look it over it was deserted. The city
is built up the mountain side on ter
races. These' make it all the more
Impressive as you enter the harbor.
Ijinding Hard to Ideate.
"This was the only place where
there had been any slip regarding
lha advance arrangements. Somehow
the letter explaining where we were
to moor had gotten lost In the mail
So we flew around the harbor several
times looking for our yellow buoys.
Not finding them, we flew down close
to an American destroyer and they
waved us over to the opposite side
of the bay where we finally moored
in a little cove near the Standard
Oil dock. All afternoon we spent re
fueling the planes, reparing all three
propellers, and helping Smith and
Arnold doctor up the pontoon that
had troubled them in Japan. It was
leaking badly. The Standard Oil peo
ple gave us valuable help and be
cause most of us were unable to go
ashore and see the sights of Hong
kong they sent lunch out to us and
also sent out Chinese merchants
with beads, pearls, and silks for us
to look over in case we wanted to
send any souvenirs home.
"Next morning the sun was blaz
ing hot. We W'ere drawing nearer the
equator. There was no mistaking
that. Our Standard Oil friends sent
into the city and had a merchant
bring out a boatload of sun helmets,
from which w-e could select more
appropriate headgear. 'He*' and
Hank' and I wore them from then
on, because in the rear cockpits
there was no shade. The pilots were
protected somewhat by the upper
wing.
Off for Indo-Clilna.
"We had hoisted the Chicago out
of the water, the previous day, and
after launching It taxied across the
harbor, circled around for another
look at the fascinating city of Hong
kong, and then left the Ladrone* for
Harphong. in French Indo-China.
Fortunately, it was a clear day. We
flew tip to 2,000 feet because we had
been told that from there we might
be aide to see the largest city in
China. Sure enough SO miles to the
northwest, in the delta of the Pearl
river, we could see a gray splotch
that we were sure was old Canton,
city of silks, sedan chairs, streets
like narrow canyons, and the birth
place of most of China's revolutions."
"On our way from Hongkong to
Haiphong, the most interesting part
of the flight," says Commander
Smith, "was a TOmlle hop acrofi
a peninsula. Of course, cruising over
such a wide strip o" land with pon
toons on your ship is rather unhealthy
game, because if you have to make
a forced landing you are sure to
crack up. But calling his attention to
lids particular part of the flight I
am not referring to hazards. We
were too busy looking over the sides
of the fuselage at the fascinating
pageant of oriental life underneath
us to remember whether we were
flying with pontoons or wheels. This
little peninsula was the most densely
populated region we had ever seen,
and no one but a person who had
visited China can appreciate what
this means.
Plane* Frighten Native*.
“Evidently the natives of Lulchow
peninsula had never seen airplanes
before. We flew only about BOO feet
off the ground so that w* could see
the sights. As we came roaring into
view we could see Chinese running
In every direction. When we would
catch up with them they would
swing off either to' the left or to the
right. They must have thought we
were flying dragons sent to gobble
them up. After crossing the penin
sula we passed thousands of natives
wading about In the water with hand
nets. When they saw us they
dropped their nets and struek out for
shore as hard as they could go.
“In leaving Hongkong we had flown
out of one of the scenic harbors of
the world. But Haiphong turned out
to nearly as impressive. First we
passed scores of littltf islands, some
of them mere needles of rock. Then
we passed over high cliffs and small
lagoons with attractive-looking bun
galows dotted here and there. Any
one of the lagoons would have
made an excellent place to moor the
planes.
At fi:40. just as the sun went
down behind the palms, we reached
the delta of the Red river, which
flow* down into the French Indo
china from the mountains of Yun
nan, a rugged province of China
which extend* weet to Burma and
the Himalayas.
French insist on Entertaining
“Here at Haiphong we again moor
ed the planes near the Standard OH
pier. The French offlcals wanted ua
to come aboard a destroyer and at
tend a recelptlon, and couldn't under
stand why we should have to remain
and work on our cruisers when they
had a tea party all arranged for us.
"Becoming impatient, most of the
ladies and gentlemen got into
launches and came over and watched
us. It was dark before we had fin
ished servicing lip the ships, and
when we climbed aboard the destroy
er nearly all of the guests had given
us Up as hopeless and gone home.
But tile French governor general
whs still there, patiently sticking it
out, snd despite the fact that his
followers had deserted him he made
us a neat speech of welcome and in
vited us to attend a formal reception
and ball to he held ashore in our
honor that night.
“When we had so much -trouble
getting off the water the day we left
Japan for our hop across the Yellow
sea w* had lightened our loads hy
throwing overboard every unnecess
ary thing, including all our clothes
excepting those In which we flew.
This meant that w« couldn't attend
functions unless we could borrow
clothes.
“By now we had the borrowing
business down to a fine art. As soon
as we could board a destroyer at the
end of a day’s flight, we would size
up the officers. Then w-ithout their
being aware of our evil designs, each
of us would pick out an officer about
our own size whom we would later
on relieve of a pair of white trousers,
socks, ahoes, white shirt, tie, and
sun helmet. This would enable us to
mount our awaiting rickshaws and
sally forth to the evenling's festivi
ties as snapplly groomed as the most
debonair rake eaters of the Chinn
coast.
(out petition on Jump
"At the reception In Haiphong that
night our French host* told us that
they had just received a radio mes
sage with the news that two of our
competitors, the Portuguese world
fliers, had arrived in Rangoon, Bur
ma.. The last we heard of them they
had crashed in India. But the British
royal air force had supplied them
with a new De Haviland two Beater,
in which they had been fortunate
enough to at least get past Akyab,
the hoodoo town on the Bay of Ben
gal where so many airmen had crash
ed. McLaren, the British flyer, was
still at Akyab, awaiting the arrival
of the American destroyer bringing
his Vickers-Amphibian around from
Japan.
"This news of the progress of the
Portuguese was just like a tonic to
us. So excusing ourselves from the
reception we hurried back to the de
stroyer. got a good night's sleep and
were up at dawn the next morning,
hoping to reach Saigon, or at least
get half way that day.
"Our Libertys seemed to be hum
ming a song of Joy and contentment
as we warmed them up to the ac
companiment of the temple bells of
llulphong, and little did we dream
that liefore night we would be strand
ed on a logoofi In the heart of the
Tonkin Jungle.”
Read the next Installment of the
thrilling story of the round-the-world
flight In The OmHliu Sunday Bee.
SIXTY HUNTERS
KILL 530 RABBITS
Bridgeport, Dec, 26.—Five hundred
and thirty rabbits were killed by 60
hunter* of the Chappell district In a
community hunt, with a view to rid
ding the country of animals that are
doing much damage to crop* and
trees. The rabbits were sent to Den
ver as free gifts to the poor people
there for Christmas dinners. The fol
lowing day there was a coyote hunt,
but only three coyotes were killed.
A co-operative hunt for rabbits and
coyote will held in Colorado Monday,
December 29, citizens of Weld, Mor
gan, Logan, Yuma, Washington, Phil
lip* and Sedgwick counties uniting
to rid the country of these animals.
Beatrice Woman Suffers
Third Fracture hy Falling
Beatrice, Dec. 26—Mrs .A. V.
Bohinson, wife of Dr. A. V. Bohinson
of this city, slipped and fell at her
home. 402 North Fourth street, break
ing her right arm at the wrist. This
the third accident of this nature that
has befallen her during the last few
years. On two occasions she broke
her right limb.
Court Reporter Named.
Beatrice. Dec. 26.—Judge William
Moss ha* announced the appointment
of Ernest Kretsinger of this city as
his court reporter. Mr. Kretsinger,
an ex-service man, served in the same
capacity with the late Judge W. L.
Colby.
M’COOK “Y” DRIVE
REALIZES $15,576
McCook. Dec. 26.—The drive for
*'V" funds to complete and endow
McCook * V. M. C. A. proposed
structure has closed for the present.
Of $20,000 sought the aum of $15,576
was pledged during a week of very
severe weather. The ‘drive will be
completed at a later date. A $60,000
building will be begun in the early
spring, to be completed the coming
fall.
Weiss Gets Nw Post.
Oering, Neb.. Dec. 26.—Andrew
Weiss, who has been associated with
the North 1'latte valley Irrigation
project as manager ever since it* In
ception. has been prompted to the po
sition of director of farm economics,
with headquarters at Denver, and H.
A. Bashore has been appointed to
lake his place at Oering.
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