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By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 20th May, 1927.
TO LET.-The First Floor on No. 2, Hart Avenue. (Five rooms).. Apply to: Spanish Dominican Pro-BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE curation:
FOR SALE.
COMPANY, LIMITED.
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FOR SALE.-One brass "Hung Ming" pan of the Chinese Han Dynasty with automatic springs. Hong Kong, 20th May, 1927. Price $1,000.00 Apply Box No. 487, c/o "China Majl,"
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Auction
ON
SATURDAY AND MONDAY, ⚫ the 21st and 23rd May, 1927, Commencing each day at 10.30 nm.
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street. (for account of the corned)
A Large Quantity of LADIES' DRESS WEAR AND SUNDRIES.
Comprising:
Day and Evening Gowns, Coats. Frocks, Wrap Conta, Elastic Cor-1 sets, Gloves, Hats, Dressing Mater- inla, Saling, Silkä, Feathers, Flowers, Embroideries, Laces, etc.. etc.,
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITE:.
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By Order of the Board,
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CHINA COAST OFFICERS'
GUILD and
MARINE ENGINEERS' GUILD
OF CHINA.
HONG KONG BRANCHES.. TEMBERS of both Guilds are
1927, at 10.30 a.m.
Full attendance is essential. (sgl.) W. J. STOKES,
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LIGHTNING.
HITHERTO UNSUSPECTED
FACTS.
FREAKS REVEALED BY CAMERA,
THE CHINAƑM'AILUT
Stereoscopic photographs of electric flashes, taken with a new kind of superswift movie camera, have shown that the electric dis- charge moves in irregular cork- screw spirals. With the aid of this camera, which takes pictures at the rate of 2,600 a second, J. W. Legg, a research engineer of the Westinghouse Company, hus succeeded in revealing facts about electric flashes never previously suspected. In an illustrated article contributed to the "New York Times," Waldemar Kaem- pffert describes some of the things that have thus been dis- covered. He writes:
"Quick as lightning" is a comi-i mon saying in every language. In fact, lightning is so quick that not until photography was dis- covered were even physicists aware of the true formation of a lightning stroke.
'Arago classified lightning into zigzag, sheet, and ball. He be loved in angular, jagged light- ning, and he, more than any other reputed authority, is responsible for the sheaf of jagged bolts clutched by innumerable Joves in stone and canvas.
"When the first photographs of lightning were made. simply by leaving a camera open during a thunder-storm, the utter absurdi- ty of the time-honoured concep- tion of lightning became appar- ent. Lightning proved to be sinuous and erratic and, what was even more astonishing, branched. Flashes.
"We see a flash of lightning in its path. Photographs made because the air is highly heated
with moving cameras definitely disprove the old belief that 'light- ning never strikes the same place!
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MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS in London and in the Provincial Towns
MEETING will be held at the truth it always strikes not only Guilds Offices, 67, Dea Voeux Road, twice but several times in the Central (entrance in Pottingersame place. A flash usually con- Street) on SUNDAY, 22nd May,sists of several huge sparks that more rapidly than the average
follow the same path. It is what motion-picture camera.
Travelling in Spirals. electrical engineers call an 'oscil.
"He found, however, that it latory discharge.' In other words, Branch Secretary. clectricity flashes back and forth was difficult to determine the LONDON DIRECTORY
until it is spent, like a swinging either by the eye or photography
exact location of a given flash, with Provincial & Foreign Sections and
Trade Headinga in Five Languages, pendulum that dies down.
"You may lie about lightning So he arranged his camera to take enables traders to communicate direct HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
as much as you please, but your stereoscopic views, and obtained with most wildly mendacious tale will a number of excellent pictures of Programmes and Entry flashes. For in one DRAFT PE the FOURTTY be eclipsed by any one of dozens case where a simple exposure and Industrial Centres of the United (more or less damaged by water)
EXTRA RACE MEETING to be of lightning's freaks.. Numerous seerned to indicate that an arc of Europe, Africa, America, Asia, On View from Friday, the 20th held on SATURDAY, 4th June examples have been quoted in struck the frame of
a machine, Australasia, etc. and MONDAY, 6th June, 1927, scientific journals of persons who the stereoscopic view proved that and other details are classified under (weather permitting) may be have been killed, but whose it actually struck a bolt several including obtained at the Race Course, clothes have remained absolutely feet behind the frame. But in Hong Kong Club and Causeway intact. On the other hand, there particular he was struck by the with detailed particulars of the Goods Bay, Stables.
is an equally large number of fact that flashes, instead of jump-shipped and the Colonial and Foreign
Markets supplied, Entries will close at 1 p.m. on examples of men and women who ing with comparative directness were stripped of clothes, but from point to point, seemed to whose lives were spared.
pursue the most tortuous of "Flammarion reported the case paths. Stereoscopic photographs of a peasant who was left naked of flashes several feet long in his can be printed at a cost of £1. 109. Od. as a Kongo savage by a bolt of company's high-voltage labora- for each trade heading under which they lightning, and the nails of whose tory show clearly that electric are inserted. Larger advertisements at boots were plucked out:
flashes travel in complex spirals.
May, 1927.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 17th May, 1927.
THE Undersigned have received
Tinstructions to sell thy f'ublic
Auction
ΟΝ MONDAY, the 23rd May, 1927, commencing at 2.45 p.m.
at No. 4, Armend Buildings, Kowloon
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising:-
MONDAY, 23rd May, 1927.
Hong Kong, 17th May, 1927.
CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
HE FORTY-NINTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the Shareholders of the above Company will be held at the Offices of the
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The names, addresses
thon 2,000 trade headings,
EXPORT MERCHANTS
One-inch BUSINESS CARDS of Firms desiring to extend their connections, or Trade Cards of
DEALERS SEEKING AGENCIES
£16 per page.
"Not the least curious of the Says Mr. Legg, a multiplicity of The directory is invaluable to everyone vagaries of lightning is its liking loops and twists stand out in high interested in overseas commerce, and for some trees and its avoidance relief, the general effect being a copy will be sent by parcel post for
of their staircase eta bork £2, het cush with order.
accident. The average person
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To "China Mail" Cross-Words," c/o "China Mail" Offices,
No. 5, Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.
DEAR SIRS,
I agree to abide by your rules, and 1 enclosé.......
solution (s) which are attached.
for
Name
Address
25, Abchurch Lane, London, E.C. 4. England.
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BUSINESS ETAHUISJE? IN 1861.
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often and the becch the least screw that has met with a serious THE LONDON DIRECTORY CO., LTD. often struck: If the number. 1| Teak Hatatande, Chesterfield General Agents, Pedder Street, on represents the frequency for conceives lightning to resemble Couch and Chairs, Teak Bookenae, TUESDAY, 7th June, 1927, at beeches, then the ratio is 15 for Glass Cabinet, Screens, Carpets, Noon, for the purpose of receiving
oaks. Curtains, Pictures, Ornaments, etc. the Report and Statement of At-
Protective Cages. Teak Dining Table, Chairs, Ice counts for the year ending 31st) Chest, Sideboard,
"The best kind of protection Glaas Ware, December, 1926. Crockery, etc., etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the against lightning is the cage in- Teak Fedsteuds, Wardrobes with Company will be CLOSED from vented by Melsens in the middle Bevelled Mirrar, Dressing Table, 26th May to 7th June, 1927, both of the nineteenth century. Cage come possible for the first time
Chest of Drawers, etc.
Catalogues will be issued.
On View from Saturday, the 21st May, 1927.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, 17th May, 1927.
daya inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CU.. LTD.,
General Agents. Hong Kong, 16th May, 1927.
HOME TUITION,
TESTOVER
an erratic scratch on a flat sur- face. It is much more accurate to compare it to an irregularly coiled rope thrown from a ship." "By running the shutters at a sufficiently high speed, it has be-
your building, and it is safe. to show the birth, growth, and Since office buildings are gigantic extinction of á flash, together cages, enclosed in stone, they are with six successive stereoscopic immune from destruction. So views taken from different posi- are battle-ships.
tions. At last we have those de- "What is the energy of a light-tails which cannot be recorded by ning flash? What could it do if the ordinary camera.
it were harnessed? From the interference of lightning with
electric circuits. Steinmetz es- Molly was sent to the grocer by THE Undersigned have received within an hour from London. of a thundercloud was 50,000,000, "hurry back."
— STEVENAGE. timated that the electric pressure her mother, with instructions to 1 instructions from Messrs. In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL volts, and concluded that the car home with the shopping. Sheriff Bros. to sell by Public for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A rent in the average flash might
After a long absence she arrived
Auction.
few Bourders received in the House well amount to 10,000 amperes, time?" asked her mother severely.
"Where have you been all this of the Principal. Individual care with a duration of perhaps one was playing with Joan," was WEDNESDAY, the 25th May, 1927, and attention, For Particulars
commencing at 7.30 p.m.
ten-thousandth of a second. From the explanation. these data an electrical engineer{ at No. 69, Queen's Road, Central apply to:
"I thought I told. you to hurry The Whole of their
would figure that the energy in back?"
on
SHOP FITTINGS
comprising:-
English Made Glass Showcases, Teak Cabinets, with Glass Shelves, Thick Glace Shelves OB Metal
Stands, Jewel Stands and Trays, Desks, Tabica, Ceffing Fans and Electric Fittings, Etc.,
ALSO
A Few Pieces of SILVERWARE AND CUTGLASS
'AND
with
1 Large Chubb's Safe-
Compartments for Jewellery Tray.
1 Large Ratner Safe with Shelves
and Drawers,
HORARLAND
2. Other Safes.
On View from Tuesday, the 24th
May, 1927.
Catalogues will be issued,
Terma-Cash on Delivery,
LAMMEET, BROS.,, Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 10th May, 1927,
MISS RUTH CULLEY
(Camb, Higher Local). (Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER
(National Frodel Higher
Certifiente),
THE NEW FRENOH REMEDY. THERAPION NË 1 THERAPION NO.2 THERAPION NË 3
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For omsturias amenʻzidat
Da Ulettled. Tags and var die
(LL.Bameson Jor,. Pročjald $210
GEORGE Y. LEE. P.O. Box No: 1547, Hong Kong,
No. 40, Queen's Rd. C.
Since
Why, mother," was Molly's ag
NOTICE
a lightning flash mounts to 50,000 grieved reply, "I did hurry back like kilowatt-seconds.
this anything. I met Joan going, You! means nothing to the layman, let didn't tell me to hurry going." us translate it into ordinary Eng- lish and say that a lightning flash has the energy of a 200-ton train rushing along at the rate of fifty miles an hour. But this energy la applied only for the fraction of a second. Hence Steinmetz con- cluded that the cash value of a respectable lightning flash ia worth about seventy cents."
Although Legg has not actually photographed lightning, he has studied lightning-like flashes in his laboratory and photographed them, proving beyond doubt that the discharge, as Mr. Kaempffert expresses it, is not a celestial sword thrust but "is a heavenly lariat writhing through air." He guesion:
"Legg worked out a method of high-speed photography by which he could take pictures at the rate of $2,600 a second or 150 times.
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CLOSING DATE FOR COUPONS, MONDAY, MAY 28. [Coupons received at the "China Mall" Ofice after mid-day
on Monday will not be included in the competition.]
1. Manifests.
Across.
7. Consequential,
12. Flerce.
18. To cause to rise.
16 A prefix meaning iteration. 16. Vanishing.
17. A prefix signifying in conjunc
tion.
18. Largest great division of the
globe.
20. Imitated servilely.
23. A protuberance.
25. Denotes presence.,
20. T. R. (actual),
27. A rude, rustic, rough man.
28. E. S. (actual).
29. A. .A.
(actual).
30. E. O. (actual).
32. To bend.
86. Out of the common path.
37. A magpic.
39, Doomed.
40. L. S. (actual).
42. Japanese lady's sash,
44. Uncommon.
47. A sharp loud butery.
49. Father.
52. A hostile incuraton,
54 Vigorous.
55. Yellow part of an egg,
57. Moderation.
[58. Towards.
59. Myself
30. Honey (French).
|61. E. Y. (actual).
02. Same as 49 'scross,
03. A
water game.
54. R. I. (actual).
65. An article of food.
68. E.. U. (actual),
69. Landon district (abbreviated).'
70. A walking about.
Down
2. T. B. (actual).
8. Part of machine moved by the
foot.
4. E. E. V. (actual).
6. Kissed with violence.
0. Fits for insertion into a mortice?)
7 The grampus.
8. A wave.
2.- Natural.
10. Captures by wile.
11. To make a harsh grating sound. 13. C.-S. (actual),
14. Knotted.
119. Impersonal neuter pronoun.
21. A fit of peevishness.
22. Strays from the right path.
24. Some as 49 across.
31. Musical drama.
38. A point.
34. To rise In blisters, breaking in
white froth.
36. A hiccough.
38. An injection.
41. An oriental soldier disciplined in
the, European manner.
42. A town in ancient Greece.
48, L. P. (actual;
45. The rapid reiteration of tanes without any apparent cessation. 46. To.concur,
48. L. R. (actual);
-60, Yes
51. Hebrew Deity,
53. Pertaining to the god of the
winds in ancient mythology..
56. A kind of scourge used in. Itussia. G2A. A quid measure in use among
the Dutch.
08. A legume.
65. V. B..(actual)..
66. North Britain (abbreviated),
67. D. U. (actual).
[Clue No. 61 Across should read. E. Y. (actual) Instead of E. V. actual).
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