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Canton, Yesterday. Owing to the flight of the ex- generals Yu Chok-pak and Li Ming-shui, the trouble in Kwangsl in drawing to an end According to well-informed officis circles, it is not thought that the Ironsides will make any serious advance into Kwangal, seeing that they can ex- pect no substantial help from the Kwangsi rebels, but that it is likely that they will turn back and march towards Hankow to co-operate with the Kueminchun, now reported to be heading for that port.
Pozatbly in anticipation of this movement of the Ironsides. It is now reported that General Chu Shao-liang, of the 6th Route Army, has received instructions from the Central Government to concentrate his three divisions at Shiukwan, to which he will proceed on the 18th or 10th. A military conference will be called at Shiukwan, after which General Chu will direct his, armies to enter Hunan and attack Ironsides. - Canton News
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His next letter promises to be of absorbing interest to all Interested in shares who are advised to secure a copy of next Saturday's "China Mail" early to avoid disappointment.
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Belgrado, Yesterday. Vladimir Gortan, the Italian Slovene student, Was shot this morning.
In the course of his trial evidence was given that firing on the voters was inspired by a Serbian secret society "Orjuna," which is alleged to be responsible for many political outrages before the war, especially against Austria, culminating in the assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand at Sarajevo.--- Reuter.
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'MACHINE TO BE INSTALLED EARLY NEXT YEAR
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Shanghal, Yesterday.
Chang Hsueh-liang, replying to Sir Robert Ho Tung's message, saya that now the reunification of the
In view of the advent of the country has recently been accom- ""talkies" in Hong Kong, a repre- plithed, and the work of national sentative of the "China Mall" inter-reconstruction begun, a resumption ylewed Mr. T. K. Lam, House
Manager, of the Majestic Theatre, of hostilities would lead to the this morning, and was told that the ruination of the country, installation of the machine in the He continues, "I can hardly give theatre would take place early next adequate expression to my profound year, as part of the machines have
ardent love
already arrived from U.S.A., being appreciation of your ordered thorough the Odeon Thea-of peace, which shows your fur- tre, Shanghai.
sightedness and goodwill. If your; The first point the cinema has to idea is carried out, and all leadens consider. seating facilities, which, will, it their differences, the bleasings thus said Mr. Lam, the should meet for the adjustment of expected be rearranged so as to meet with the talkies.
conferred on the country will be unbounded.
The operating room, or machine room, will be extended shortly as extra room will be required for the
"On my part I assure you I shall wires, which will connect with the give whole-hearted support to your amplifier on the stage, which will, scheme from beginning to end."- also in the course of events, be ex- Reuter. tended and the cinema be made larger. The wires, which will be two in number, will be used for two, purposes, namely, singing and talk- ing, one for each.
Cost of $40,000 Questioned by the "China Mall" representative, Mr. Lam replied that it all depend-
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Queen's Theatre (where it will be installed first), whether the Majes- tie Theatre would fix up theire, at a cost of approximately $40,000.
Regarding the audiences Mr. Lam anid that 40 per cent. of the Majes- tie's were Chinese people while! about 20 per cent were foreigners.. Naturally, prices in all parts of the theatre would be raised so as to meet the expense involved by in- troducing the talkies.
Work has been proceeding at speed for the construction of a new sound room at the Queen's Theatre. where the talkie machine is to bel installed.
A three sided brick wall projects out from the mechanical room, and occupies a space in that part of the
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Bucharest, Yesterday. The statement's cabled from Berlin allegedly by the Dowager Queen Marie in connection with the Regency dispute, are declared to be entirely apocryphal. Queen
cinema, commonly known as the Marie gave no interview, and no- gods." Work is continued, we are body connected with the Govern informed, until late each night, and ment made any proposal regarding certainly if appearances are to be the filing of the vacancy taken into account, it will soon be
Regency Council-Reuter.
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The need for British colonisa tion, rather than training men for land work in the Dominions, was strongly urged by Mr. Lansbury at Bromley Public Hall, Bow With regard to the coal industry | he expected, when Parliament met.
Dr. H. Chatley in addressing the plans satisfactory to the workers quest Society at the first meeting of and owners would be adopted. the session spoke on the subject of į stellar distances. He explained bow the distance of the Moon was found by elmultaneous observations from diffor-
the Moon
Tokyo, Yesterday. Herr Eldracher participating in the German-Japanese meeting at Seoul created a new world record ent points on the Earth and how theservation of the small annual displace. for the 100 metres of 10.8 seconds, strength of the sun-light reflected from "parallaxes" for near and distant stars ments. The method of comparative enabled an approximate while Mia Kinue Hitomi establieb estimate of the distance of the Sua ta and the method of deducing the arbite ed a world record for the women's be made. He then spoke of the known reference was made to the velocities in 100 metres of 12 seconds-Reuter.
proportionate distances of the planets from the Sun and described boy simul the line of sight derived from taneous observations of Mars, Venus spectroscope which when compared
of double stars was then described and
the
elected president of the Chinese and Eros, when nearest to the Earth, roughly the distances of stars,
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Until 1013 the only other available Mei Hwa-chuan and Halao Pan, ubled the Sun's distance to be comput method of extending these results was vice-presidents, Mra Wang Tah-jenstars in spite of the Earth's huge on the Sun in light and dimensions. The ed. The apparent immobility of the by nemaming that all stars resembled has been made treasurer, and Miss nual swing of 200 million miles in nearest anes (five light years away of Yang. Ai-fang and Mrs. Klang Yao-cates their immense distance and he say 30 million million miles) do rough chang, English and Chinese secret-described how eventually the distances ly compare to the Sun, but there in a artes, respectively.
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1918 new methods based on the study of the spectra of the stars have enabled falt estimates as to temperature, sire and luminosity, to be made from which, together with the observed magultedes, the distances can be computed. It has also been found possible actually to monmizo the diameters of a few stars The regular variation In the light of curtain pulsating stars called Cepheids bas.niso: enabled estimates, to be made of the distances of very distant groups" and nebulae.
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It appears that the Sun is an aver age sized member of a group of some 80,000, millloh stars, of which the ren eral agglomeration is seen in the Milky Way. The remotest of these In about 100,000 light years SWEY of say 600,000 million million miles. Spiral nebulae are: prubably similar, large, groups some ten or more times further away The duration of a star is some thing of the nature of a milion million years, so that the universe is on an absolutely prodigious séala in time and space. 2 There are certain indications of limits but so rempts that for practical putrpoons there is infinity of space and etartity of time t
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