SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1927.
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In Lots of not
'to
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to
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Kowloon,
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The resignation of Chiang Kai-shek, the Nationalist leader, has necessitated a number of political and military moves, the most important of which has been the unification of the Yangtsze forces those of Hankow and Nanking--who have announced their intention of joining any offensive taken against Marshal Chang Tso-lin and his Northern warlords. So far, how- ever, they have done nothing in the way of fighting, and in the meanwhile the Northern forces which completely subjugated Chiang Kai-shek's armies have established themselves on the banks of the Yangtsze. It would seem that they are in a posi tion to cross at Pukow (and thus capture Nanking) and Chin- kiang whenever they like. Important developments are early expected in these quarters. Full reports of the incidents lead- ing up to the present situation are given in this week's "Overland Mail."
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THE CHINA MAIL.
MOTORING SECTION
ON MANNERS.
ROADS.
speed of which the car. is capable is perfectly safe. Now consider.
The
METALLURGY.
VALUE TO MOTOR-CAR- ENGINEERING.
THE USE AND ABUSE OF THE another straight stretch of road, bounded by hedges and with cross-roads intersecting it. To teach a driver how to handle cross-road may be visible or in-
Perhaps the most fur-reaching his or her ear, beyond the mere dicated by means of sign-posts, effect of the motor industry has mechanics of the matter, is like and so the driver can locate its been brought about in the depart teaching anyone to swim or to position exactly. He is, perhaps, ment of metallurgy. Till the end shoot by written instruction-it travelling at, say, 50 m.p.h. when of the Nineteenth Century, steam is not dificult, it is impossible. he first sces the sign-post half & or gas-engines were Only actual driving and experi- mile or so ahead. The distance prime-movera, and it was a maxi- the usual ence will "get there." But there between him and the sign-post demum that such an engine should certain elementary canona creases rapidly, but if he is driv-be heavily constructed; in fact, which can be laid down, anding intelligently and properly, as the more metal that was put into which, if absorbed, will constitute the distance decreases so will his it, the greater was its prospect of very useful groundwork.
speed, until, when he is thirty or longevity. There was no object in But without close observation forty yards from the cross-road, designing a stationary engine of at the start nothing can be done, his speed will be such that, if light weight for its power, hence and if this observation is prac- necessary, he could stop his car the specific tised constantly, after conscious before actually coming abreast of elements
stresses in the effort, it will in due course become the side road. If the cross-road is were
of such engines subconscious performance.. All not indicated by sign-posts, it is these circumstances there was very moderate, In the precepts of road sense may be incumbent on the driver to keep no need to employ anything reduced to one very simple sen- his eyes open for any side turning but ordinary. mild steel in the tence. Never drive faster than that may emerge from what, from manufacture of forgings, and we will allow of your car being stop-a distance, looks like an unbroken find that nickel and other alloy ped well within your range of hedge line. vision, and never attempt to pro-
steels, although manufactured, Here is another example of how were in very small demand. Heat- ceed ahead until you know the the difference between experience treatment was consequently un- road is clear.
and Inexperience is evidenced. Of necessary and generally two drivers travelling along the same road, one will detect that hidden side turning many minutes before the other. As likely as not A Clear Road.
the inexperienced and unobser- Take the second: "Never at- vant driver will find himself right tempt to proceed ahead until you
on to that cross-road, of the exist know the road is clear."
The ence of which he had not the natural comment for one to make slightest previous inkling. The is, "Obviously, I cannot proceed other man, however, will have ahead until the road is clear;" but perceived its existence, and will the point is that very often in- be fully prepared for any possible deed attempts are made when the there, long before he has reached contingency that can happen driver does not know whether the road is clear or not. He may think that it ought to be, but he does not know that it is.
The very simplicity of these two principles ls, perhaps, one of the reasons why they are so often overlooked and ignored.
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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably aure. These will give you a clus to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
HORIZONTAL
1~~~Go away
B-Hypothala 12-Body of a church 13-Intermittent fever 15-Attands closely 16-Frighten 20-Girite neme 21-Narrated
28-Moved swiftly afoot
To play the leading role 20--Graw fear
VERTICAL
Tako by graft
3-in fit manner
4-Abvert
B-Fronten 7-Gotasted Binterjection
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10-Fall back
11Fasteninga
14 Glass for converging rays of
light (pl.)
16-Denoting antrambe
28-Looked at with close attention 17---A blow
27-Low.marsh lands
30-Disease of fowis
31-Stalk of grass
32-Always
14-Child (centemptuous) 38--Rivalry
37Narrow opening'
38-MorzurED
41.Verdant
43---Buitable
45-8tation
47-To take notice of
48-Clownlah persone 80-Preserve
51-Request
62-Basket weed on horseback 54-Boy's marble.
55-0lark's Income 57-Particle
59Balkanard
60-Musical Instrument
81--Exte
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car, however, the designer was With the advent of the motor- faced with the necessity of reduc- ing weight in hitherto unthought of directions, and thus had to seek from the steel maker material which would possess the necessary strength to permit of the cross- sections being greatly reduced.. Arising from this need an unpre- cedented demand sprang up for tained as a standard product at alloy steels which could be ob reasonable price, and, in contrast with the low-carbon steels with Some time ago an effort was which the older mechanical en- Apply this to the overtaking of made to standardise what was gineers had worked for so many an obstruction of any sort on the called the off-side rule for road years, road. If the obstruction is a
now find nickel, Unfortunately the effort chromium, vanadium, cobalt, cyclist, it is generally possible to has not met with the success it silicon, manganese, and molybde see beyond him and ascertain if deserved, but it is still being con- num alloys in daily use, General- the road ahead is clear. If the tinued, and one may hope that in ly speaking, the use of alloy steels, obstruction is a large steam due course the rule will receive until the commencement of the waggon such range of vision just recognition. It is that at present century and apart from
impossible, but
cross-roads every driver should armament purposes, was confined drivers will attempt to pass from his right and take pre- tools; and hardening these in a give way to traffic approaching to the manufacture of cutting this орадие steam waggon with no
cedence over more compunction
that approaching blacksmith's fire constituted the and with no more hesitation than from his left. As soon as the only heat-treatment then practis- they would pass à cyclist.
was promulgated Bome ed. The result of the change has principle also explains automatic stupid critics said: Why should necessitated the incorporation of ally one of the first canons of our it not be a near-side rule, and the complicated processes of heat- unwritten laws of the road that why should not a driver give way treatment in every-day shop prac- dealing with overtaking.
to traffic approaching from his tice, without which the advantage Car A is proceeding along on
left?-and then, there were long of the finer steels would be miss- its correct side of the road and discussions as-to-whether the rule ed. approaches an obstacle on the should be off-side or near-side...
It may be said without fear of same side a road repair, stand- the same thing always seems contradiction that the metallur- ing or moving vehicle, or what bound to happen if anyone at-gist owes his importance to-day in. not. Car B, also on its correct tempts to lay down a rule or ex-a very great measure to the motor
CURING MUDGUARD side of the road, is approaching plain a simple principle for the industry for, while it is true that
RATTLES. from the opposite direction. The guidance of motorists.
other industries might have made If we can only get established similar demands on the knowledge wings have an annoying habit of obstruction, which we will call 0,
Mudguards fitted with side is blocking half the road. and in the minds of all who use the of the steel makers, no other has rattling, due to the wings coming that is the half on which A isronds those elementary canons done so to anything like the same into vibratory contact with the travelling. Car B, therefore, has that one must only proceed when extent in so short a period of mudguard stays. This rattle can a clear road, but A has not, and one knows the road is clear, and time. it is A's place to wait for B, not not when one merely thinks it has therefore afforded unique op- and slipping short lengths of gen- Automobile engineering be stopped by removing the nuts B's to wait for A. Whether O be ought to be, and that the car portunities to. both the steel erator tubing over the stays to act moving or stationary has nothing speed should never be higher than maker and the metallurgist, and as buffers, then replacing the whatever to do with the case; the allows of a complete stopping in has forced upon mechanical en-nuts. This tip holds good for any point is that B has a clear road the distance that can be seengineers in general, and the works other of the cycle parts of the ma- and A has not, and it is the clear ahead, a great step forward manager in particular, an entire chine which rattle. Little rubber vehicle having the clear road that will have been accomplished.
new regimen in his shop washers cut from tubing are more has the right to proceed.
methods. Moreover, as in the effective than leather in this re- case of machine-tools, we find the spect, although, of course, more manufacture of furnaces a not in- considerable industry, to which
perishable. When making adjustments to or the number of such appliances working over an open gearbox or bearing names from the Birming crankcase it is as well to be care-ham district affords testimony. ful not to drop in a nut or a washer, Mr. H. Kerr Thomas in "Engineer- or even some small tool, for it is not always easy to hook such arti- cles out with a place of wire. Time be saved by packing, not merely or even a complete dismantle can covering, so soon as possible ex- posed parts with pieces of clean
The observance of this little rule automatically prevents dan- gerous driving on benda, folly at cross-roads, and errors in traffic. Remember, it is the man with the clear road who can proceed, and until your road is clear you must wait.
PRECAUTION WHEN DISMANTLING.
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22-Liveliness
28--Fsasted clamorously
27-Raized ima
29-Fiend
21-Pondar ever
33-Sunken track in road
34-Chin cloth
16-Struck dumb with horror
37-Bearching
39-Broad this knife 40-Cooked in ilquid
42—To reposa 48--Loving
44-Nost
46-Egg-shaped
43~Companies of musicians 49-To work for
52-Father (French)
Precipitation 66-Nominal value
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
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