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us" determined as ever to stand by their Treaty rights is what every sane man, Chinese or foreigner, fully expects. In the mainten- ance of that determination lies the only, true solution of a very dif ficult problem!...
Aviation Research,
FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
That only evil smell- A FALLACY. ing odours are dan-
gorous.
HABIT, our habits form a most Have you ever noticed that
potent and powerful force in our lives? They are so easy to acquire, but when we wish to get cult. The word HABIT itself is rid of them, we find it very dif-
wonderfully illustrative. Take it as a whole and it comes to you Then try to get rid of it. Cut off quite easily and without effort.
its head and the pronounciation is
second letter and there stil re almost the same. Take away the
Discard the
The deleterious effect of a sub- stance is not proportional to the Whilst the Empire was recently unpleasantness of its smell, thrilled by the adventures of the gas, which is used by dentists to Nitrous oxide gas, "laughing" RS3, which broke away in a produce a brief anaesthesia, is damaged state from her mooring not evil smelling, it is rather mast, was blown 130 miles across pleasant, but after inhaling it for Europe, and yet returned safely, come by it without, warning. a short time one is suddenly over- it is 'appart that there are two Carbon monoxide gas is tasteless schools of thought, in aviation, and has only a faint smel, but it The "heavier than air" section is has a pleasant smell, and taste, is a deadly polson. Chloro-form inclined to make capital out of the but of course produces fatal remains a "bit" left. airship's misfortune. The fact aults if too much is taken and the is, however, that both the ship same remarks apply to sulphuric and the mooring mast are obsolete ether. and only retained for, experi- Hydrocyanic acid ha ples- mentel purposes, The Ministry sant smell of bitter almonds declare that experience was gain- (which contain a minute quantity ed aa'a result of the mishap that of the acid), but is one of the would not otherwise have been moat deadly poisons, while the MAYORS IN CLOGS. which, it is obtained. Although worked by a terrible "mustard" gas of the skeleton crew and at the mercy of European War is perfectly in-fast ceasing to be the characteris- the wind, owing to the fact that odorous and invisible, so that its tic footwear of Lancashire, is ahe was so damaged that the victims were unaware of its pre-believed to have been introduced engineer did not dare to put on sence until its dreadful effects into the County Palantine by a her cruising speed, the airship began to
on appelr was able, with the Rid of meteoro-person.
their
number of Flemish weavers who - logical science, scientific position-Lilace Death by the French also century. Shrewd Lancastrians
called settled at Bolton in the fourteenth ." finding and wireless communica- had a pleasant smell. tion, to circumvent the storm, to
find a region of merely stiff
The gas
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third letter, and it" is there still. Chop off still another and it has not totally gone.
The clog,
lamented; is
saw in the wooden sabbts of the strangers the very thing for their The refer-own damp climate, and quickly
sole. The general idea of the life-which seems to be the cause clog as an indication of humble of its disappearance has not always held true. Many folk of good position have preferred it to the ordinary hoot, and not a few Lancastrian mayors have pre- sided over their town councils in clogs.
breezes, and to await a favourable CHILDREN'S SAYINGS. enee to adopted them. though the only moment to run home. The real danger to an airship is that her ways interesting remarks, hue Lancashire clog is the wooden these al relic of the sabot in the modern fuel should become exhausted produced the following:- then, sooner or later, she must land, which' for a helpless craft is girl, "you've got a grey hair in "Why mamma," said a little a most difficult task, The Air your head!" "Yes, dear, that Ministry intend to persevere with came because you were so naughty the construction of airships. The yesterday." "Oh, mamma, what R36 is to undertake a series of a naughty little girl you experimental voyages to Egyp: have been to grandma!
must and atmospheric exploration of hairs are grey?"
All her the air route to India.
The demand has arisen for more The child offered the honoured money for research, and a new guest of her mother's, a white training ship or two may be put sugared almond. The visit thank- into commission before long. A ed her and proceeded to put the suggestion has been made in one sweetmeat in his mouth. On his quarter that a scheme should be talling her.. it was very nice, she drawn up under which some of answered:-"Yes, I know; it was the wartime airship personnel of pink once." all ranks and departments, who have now returned to civil life, should be induced to keep in said a visitor to a little boy, "No,
"Can you stand on your head partial training
made Sir," said the little chap; "it's too acquainted with new develop high up."
and
which prevals elsewhere in China, The foreign authorities have the support of responsible Chinese in this matter, and their ments forming, in fact, an excluding
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Hongkong, Friday, June 5, 1925.
A DIRECT CHALLENGE.
At the moment of writing there is a lull in the position in Shang-
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Airship Reserve. For long dis- 21 tance journeys, the airship must remain supreme.
THEY SAY THAT
If you want to live a long time, fly-Admiral Mark Kerr.
Colorise at home before con- sidering emigration. Mr. Mac- pherson, M.P.
Nothing on earth will make a woman give up the thing she loves-Mr. S. P. B. Mais,
It is certainly to the influence of the responsible Chinese, that the Municipal Council in Shanghai must look for any betterment in the situation: A perusal of the Shanghai papers makes it clearer than ever that the riots of last Saturday were prearranged by the students at a time when the whole city
was given over to its usual Saturday afternoon's sport. It is also demonstrated beyond doubt that whilst the Police exer- eised most admirable restraint in. There never was an age when
more things were accepted with the face of the oncoming hordes out proof.Mr, T. D. Watts. of riofers. the outbreak would have led to even more disastrous One of the tragedies of the and calamitous results had the order to fire not eventually been given. Amongst any other mob in any other place the Riot Act would have been read order to fire would have been given long before the Police were being driven headlong back to their alation. Elsewhere than in an international settlement in a
working-class boy is that he has no youth.-Mr. R. M. Fox.
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Once upon а
A PARABLE. time there was & man who Went Broaden one to Travel, and to see Abroad. For he said, It doth
Strange Lands, and find how they do things in Other Nations.
And he paid Two Thousand Shekels, and went abroad."
And in the first place where his Ship cast Anchor, he went ashore » and looked round, and bought a Clear, and beheld the sign of a Moving Picture Show. And he said, Aba, ibis looketh like the good old U.S.A. And be paid his money at the door, and went in a room that was dark, and beheld the picture that was upon the
screen.
and he spake unto his fellow pas
And he returned unto his Ship.
sengers, saying, I care not what ye have seen for I d. the really good time.
I saw a Movie, d belleve me, it was Some Movie
Ard when his Shop cast anchor again he sought out another Movie Show, and did likewise. Ard- thus did he wherever he went..
How is one to account MARVEL. for Marvel? Marvel in a toe dancer. He is deaf and dumb; and yet he dances "to the strains of an orchestra in
perfect synchronisation to the end' of the dance. He does not hear is for him a great silence. The the applause. When he dances it world he occupies is a world apart. How does Marvel keep perfect time with the orchestra, when to him it is nothing but a number of black-coated men mov- ing about in dumb show? the most sensitive musician has Yet
not a "keener ear for music" than Marvel. In some mysterious, un- explainable way he is able to receive the air vibrations from the orchestra. If the time is ever so little qut he knows at once. The conductor's baton helps him; but the air vibrations mean moře to him; he never misses a bar of the time. By placing his hands on a piano when it is being play- can receive through the nerves of his fingers the music it produces. In that way he can tell discord from harmony as surely
trained pianist. Helen Now this have I discovered, that Keller, although blind, can tell folk get out of Travel what they colours by sense of touch...... bring to it and not much more, These things are unexplainable. Farthe man's own mind and soul But Laurence Sterne was more than right when he said that God tempers the wind to the shorn
If historians reptat each other, it is merely because history re- peats itself. Mr. Philip Guedalla. ed he and the
The whole of Japanese Labour stands for peace; we are sick and tired of war.Mr. Toyohiko Kagawa.
If you want a peaceable settle-
keep harping on your legal rights. a-Judge Scully,
hal so far as actual riots are con- Chinese city, there would have ment and to restore peace, don't cerned, the students concentrating their efforts on extending the strike. However well organised
a simple strike movement may be,
as a
been resort to firearms, as means of defence, long before the to endeavour to wrest the weapons Sunday is quite apart unique rioters got so far out of hand as day into a day like other days.
It is no use trying to turn Sun-lamb. it is better than intermittent out from the Police-weapons given Miss Viola Tree. bursts of frenzied madness, lead-to them for the express purpose ing to bloodshed on both sides and to a bitterness of feeling that will take years to die out.
of
Though peace was signed six years ago, there is no atmosphere of pance, even to-day.
- Mr. Austen Chamberlain, M.P.
TO-DAY'S SMILE.
CROSS-WORD
Now most of the Movies that he saw were made in Hollywood and shown in the Empire Theatre on Main Street in his own town. And he could have seen any of them or all of them without wandering: further than two blocks from his Own Fireside.
But he thought he got his money's worth in every place, and If he thought so, it is no affair of misc.
and interest in life must be the measure of that which he doth behold, whether it be at home or“ abroad.SAFED THE SAGE
PUZZLE DINNER.
of the distinguished novelist who
of maintaining law and order,
Then, added to the riots them- The latest Shanghai papers to of inflammatory leaflets attacking Wrong economics have been which attacked the opening course of which are being ransacked ty
selves, there was the broadcasting
It must have been a curiously the most erudite scholars at those silent and preoccupied company scats of learning, all the resources hand to-day make it clear that the the "Imperialism of Great Bri- more fruitful of harm throughout of the annual dinner of the the hope of worsting. the ingenuity disorders are a direct challenge to
tain, the United States of history than almost any other the foreign government America and Japan." No nation Otto Kahn.
single act of Government. Mr. Pianoforte Manufacturers Associa han constructed this miracle of Shanghai. That being so, it must with any sense of its diguity, and
tiou, comments a London paper. difficulty. Public librarians, lately still be open to doubt whether the with due regard for the safety of
For each guest found in his place called upon to describe the cross students will really confine their its nationals, could tolerate for a
at the table a copy of a cross-word werd situation as it affects them, futara activities to extending the moment an exhortation to "unite.
puzzle
with sixty-eight clues, have all recorded an immense accompanied by an announcement growth of interest in the dictionaries strikes. Time will tell. But there
that & magnum of champagne would and works of reference under their is this to be said in favour of the there must be perfect agreement and defeat Imperialism.” Thus,
bo the prize won by the first Ender care; but not a few of them havo of the correct solation, Champagne, added that there are plain signs of Municipal authorities, as pointed with the "Shanghai Times" when
even in prospect has stimulating a falling-off in this sudden thint for out by the" "North China Dally it declares that "we cannot re-
properties, and the competition apinformation. It could not endure News"; "The fact that over a gard this document as containing
pears to have been keen, the winner for ever and the cross-word will of the magnum lending only by a presumably go the way of the jig- million Chinese are content to the vapourings of semi-educated
minute or two. His time, never saw and of so many more forgotten dwell under the rule of the Muni-youths which could well be passed
theless, was close upon one hour: enthiminema. But it will have cipal Council, vastly preferring it over. These leaflets were part
so that the puzzle in question can achieved triumphs, while it lasted, to that of their own officials, is and parcel of a carefully laid
not have ranked among the easiest, much more sensational than, did any There are wide differences in this of them. In Americh it is said to sufficient proof of the beneficence scheme to challenge foreign con-
matter. An eminent man of letters have strained the capacity of the has told us that the average crose natio asylums; in this country word puzzle surrenders alls heads of business firms have noted secrets to him in from seven to tea a'decline of afficiency in their office! minutes. On the other handy" & staffs of not less. 50. per cent, weekly¦periodical hãe lately, boen Anf.
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of that authority. And again, trol in Shanghal by stirring up there is this to be remembered, in animus against all foreigners." the words of the "Shanghai It may be early to predict theNA Times The Interests the result
Chinese merchant cla
cide with those of 1
Peace and good goy essenzial. - We conn Imovement toward that
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