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ing the manner of treatment, and in timing, those operations which in the past have been great and sadden smoke producers.
But the total elimination of smoke Ims not yet been effected the big industrial centres, nor must it be expected until coal fuel becomes a thing of the past.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1931.
Evidence as to who was respon-
finished, we are told, to over 12,000 hand-writtan volumes, of which at sible for the erection of the three one time there existed three entire shocks at Wongneichung, just below ots. Two of these were destroyed the site of the new Jockey Club at the downfall of the Ming stables, was given before Mr. dynasty, but the third set survived, Schofield, coroner and jury depleted by borrowers, in the lan yesterday afternoon, when the en- Lin College, Paking, until the Boxer quiry ivas, resumed. Peter Pang, of the Hong Rising in 1900, when the college assistant manager was hurned. Less than 300 volumes Sang contractore gaye evidence and were rescued from the flames, and the further hearing was adjourned. of the many which were dispersed the Museum now possesses nine.
This timendous work, which contained many drawings, was dictionary Orientalists tell us, no
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The service in memory of those who lost their lives in the Kwong- sang disaster will now take place September 11, and not as previous
at St. John's Cathedral on Friday,
ly announced.
The China Mail
Hong Kong, Friday, Sept. 4, 1931.
Clearing the Air. The question of smoke abate-
Three important, dykes outside the West Gate at Nanking were washed away "yesterday and thou- sands of refugees are now living,
smoke reduction, however, by contained all the characters in the walls. The level of the Yangtsze is nine inches higher than that of Sheffield under the least favour-Chinese language. The table of
the city. Emergency measures are able conditions in the world have contents filled twenty volumes. being taken to prevent the flood The books received by the Museum measure 50 by 30 centimetres, and waters from entering the capital. the binding is covered with yellow The situation is serious, cables silk.
drawn the attention and the visits of industrialists from every quarter of the globe to that great steel centre. And these appli cants for advice are not all from the old established manufactur- ing cities who are already suffer- ers from the smoke evil. Many who are studying this question from comparatively new eities, where the rapid growth of local industries already fore- shadows the possibility of the ad- vent of the smoke curse.
came
Though complete, elimination: is not yet within mensurable' dis- tance, it would seem that at last Sheffield has hit upon ap inven- tion which bids fair to bring it a step nearer to that idegi. This is a new furnace such as is used in rolling mills, which have on among the most prolific of Shef- field's smoke producing plants in the past.
*
The Music Teacher.
To fulfil the requirements of Sir] Hugh Allen, Director of the Royal College of Music, the music teacher must needs be a person of immense- ly varled attainments. He must possess:
The hand of a musician. The mind of a seer.
1
The persuasiveness
Orpheus.
of
Reuter,
LITERARY HISTORY OF FLEET STREET.
Records of St. Dunstan's,
The registers of St. Dunstan-in- anthe-West Fleet Street, dating back to Elizabeth's reign, have been re- stored. An exhibition of them was arranged by Sir Ernest Benn and |the Rector of St. Dunstan's at Bou-
verie House.
The eye of a hawk. The ear of a terrier. The patience of Job. The optimism of a Micawber, The delicacy and quickness of
a dragon fly.
Entries in the registers, give proof that Fleet Street has been for centuries, the contre of writers, printers and publishers.
John Jaggard, the law printer,, father of the Isaac Jaggard of the inShakespeare First Folio, was mar
ried in the church in 1597.
The courage of a lion, and The diplomacy of an archangel. Sir Hugh's ideal of that perfec- tion was quoted in an address given at the tenth summer course music teaching, at Oxford, by Mr. W. A. Clegg, assistant secretary to Plymouth Education Committee.
Isnak Walton's "Compleat Ang- ler" was printed in St. Dunstan's Three of Walton's Capt. P. S. G. O'Donnell, Direc- Churchyard. tor of Music to the Royal Marines, sons were baptised in the church. In that particular city, the
had some advice to give to various The records of St. Dunstan's are This fornace is claimed to smoke problem offered far more
adorned with names of famous instrumentalista.
"It is essential for a French horn men of lettera William Tyndale formidable obstacles to à perfect burn up all its own smoke, and solution than in any other and it the inventor, who is chief en-player," he said, "to have a good preached there, and Dr. John Donne is for this very reason that Shef-gineer to one of the big steel car. He really should be a singer, had his name in the churchwarden's works, has expended ten years of from sight he will pitch his notes his life in working out and per- on the French horn well, but other- And now wise he will get all muddied up." fecting his designs.
for if a man can sing a passage book:
BAN ON BROKERS!
field has never allowed herself to sleep on this important matter.
Sheffield's difficulty was not
Capt. O'Donnell urged trom- An official notice over the signa-. merely due to the great volume one of these marvellous furnaces bonists not to go jezzing about on ture of the Hon. Mr E. D. C. has been working for some their instruments. "They often Wolfe, Inspector-General of Police, of her steel production, but also to the infinite diversity of her months at a big rolling mill make a fearful sound in doing so which appears elsewhere in this steel manufactures. Each one of under the watchful eyes of the instead of getting that beautiful issue. states;---
crescende singing tone which trom- inventor, the smoke authorities, her industries is naturally a
bones can produce." great smoke producer and to engineers and health and other counteract this has been the un-show an entire absence of smoke. experts. The result seems to swerving purpose, of Sheffield's
What this and other new in-
News in Brief.
ment has always been a serious highly efficient Smoke Abate-ventions will mean to Sheffield dividend of 7 per cent per annum,
problem wherever modern fac- tories have been gathered to- gether in the world's industrial centres. But, while it has ab-
sorbed, a great deal of the atten-
ment Research Committee.
The efforts of the smoke fighters in Sheffield have been so far successful that, although
Sheffield's output to day is much
greater than it was in pre-War days, the density of her smoke cloud at present is far less than it ever was at that time.
The Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, has declared an interim
and the rest of the world when less Income-tax. their use becomes géneral can-
д
From the local office of the Dollar not be estimated, but in any case Line we have received a packet of they should be of infinite value matches, each box "bearing to all who are figigting, or suffer- Dlustration of a Dollar liner. ing from, the smoke nuisance.
Mail Commentary.
Society's Ostriches,
"Society to-day," says
It is learned at Nanking that the Sino-Soviet Conference at Moa- cow will resume its meetings on Sunday, September 6, says Reuter.
4
A man named Lo Ro was charged Lord before Mr. Fraser, at the Kowloon Eustace Percy, "consists of a mum Magistracy yesterday afternoon, ber of widely scattered ostriches with unlawfully impersonating which, with their beads buried in police officer. After some evidence a patch of sand, are exclaiming in the caso was adjourned.. a muffled tone that theirs is the
only patch of sand which it is
Sir Cecil Clementi celebrated his really worth while for anybody to 66th birthday on September 1.
The Straits Echo says:
bury their heads in." **
He is
a
"The public using Ice House Street between Queen's Road and Des Voeux Road during business hours arc
reminded that this street is a public thoroughfare open to every one and not a place for the transaction of private business.
to
"Police have been instructed to keep persons using this road on the move, and to charge with ob struction all persons failing moye on when ordered. Riki shas may be parked on the east side. The parking of rikishna on the west side is strictly pro- hibited."
A "BIG WORM."
tion of machinery users, en- gineers and scientists, and while "smoke consuming" appliances of many varieties have been used on boilers, furnaces and so on with Then, again, Sheffield, by the
"Look what a big worm I have more or less success, the problem nature and volume of her pro-
found," said Phyllis Lowe, aged of smoke elimination has never ducts, ought to be the smokiest
seven, who was playing in the garden of her house in Chilcott been actually solved up to now. place on earth, yet her. at- In fact, the huge difficulties in mosphere is far cleaner than
Road, Knotty, Ash, Liverpool, to her eleven-year-old brother John. But John, as a Boy Scout, had at- attaining that ideal condition that of many cities where the have caused the matter, general-smoke problem is far less severe,
tended a lecture on snakes, and ly speaking, to be shelved and The great difficulty does not
after instructing his sister to drop the "worm." which was three feet. sometimes dropp1 altogether as lie in the mere creation of
He went on to say that it was remarkably fit man for that age long, cut its head off with a space.
The father of the children, Police impossible.
"amoke-consuming" plant but in the duty of teachers to remedy this seeing that he has served over
Constable J. Lowe, has expressed Many spasmodic and some the creation of such plant as may by stripping away prejudices, and thirty years in the East.
the opinion, as a result of experi- times very expensive efforts be applied without either reduc- turning a quaking morass into firm
ground for the generations of the Charged with the manslaughter ence of snakes in India, that the have been made to dissipate the ing the efficiency of manufactur future.
of a man named Li Fat, in Nathan snake in question is a poisonous "smoke cloud" and is always asing or raising the cost of produc Society has been the butt of the Road on August 4, a stoker named carpet snake, and that it may have. sociated with the big industrial tion beyond the commercial limit. cynic and so-called humourist from Chan Kam, employed by the Gas escaped from a crate of fruit in a
Works, committed to the railway siding which is centres, and strict and often Scientists and statisticians, time immemorial, and Society will; Assizes by Mr. Fraser at the district.
local reg very inconvenient local regula- backed by all the resources of the claed for long yeare yet to come. Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. tions have existed in some of Sheffield University, have had Much of the ridicule and criticism them for decreasing the nuisance. the whole-hearted co-operations dirarily the outcome of envy. It The case in which Kang Sze-yik may be likened to the yapping of a. and Leo Artur D'A, Guimaraes who of the manufacturera in working toy-dog at a Great Dane. On the are charged in connection with the 3moke Abatement Act which, if out and testing this problem in other hand, there is much in and alleged $7,000 fraud, the victim of not very popular and not in all Sheffield Present and past about Society, especially its undue which was Wong Topo, editor of respecta particularly workable, at
methods have been closely x-tendency to artificiality, which de. the Teun Wan Yat Po, was con serves criticism and ridicule. But, tinued before Mr. E. H. Williams in all events tends to make people amined, criticised and amended. place Society In the balance, and the Central Police Court yesterday] think about the subject Never Every accepted
In Britain. too, there is
"....
Ten Years Ago
[From the "Chins Mall"
September 4, 1921.1
”
In the
theless, the world, though re method of smokej pile up against it all its faults, all, afternoon. Further evidence was forward this morning to the argu
cognising the evil of the smoke
It as a necessary, evil
overy, new
To-day's, dalier is worth 2/8 1/8.
Some opposition has been put been installed, its abuses and shortcomings, yet given and the further hearing and ment advanced in the Legislature that the rates here ara trivial when? will the balance weigh in favour journed.
compared with those at Home. invention for the pur of Society. A bold statement fo nuisance, has generally accepted nose has been patiently. tested make these days when so much is. A Reuter message from Nanking "It should be remembered," sayı” and only thrown out when it fail-heard of the evils of class distinc states that the Government has a contemporary, that rents here are approved the terms of purchase of generally enormously greater than But, while people, often direct-, od to effect its object. The re-tion and the necessity for equality 450,000 tons of wheat from Ameri- are demanded" for aimilar accom ca for relief of flood victims, the modation at Home and consequently ly affected, have neglected the gulation of the temperature of A Stupendous Encyclopaedia. price to be the prevailing market the rates based upon these rates are question of practical smoke furnaces and toilers and the The British Musaum has lately price at the time of shipment, one actually much higher than the abatement, there is one city steady feeding of fuels have been presented with three volumes third of the total to be paid at parcentage would suggest. where this very serious difficulty played a great part in the reduc from the Yung La Ta Tien, the the end of 1984, one third in 1986, A simple calculation will show tamoneChinese encyclopaedia, and the final payment at the end how true that is. Say a house has never been shelved and that tien, of the smoke volume, which in all probability was the of 1986, with Interest at 4 per letting here for $140 a month is the city which certainly was in Than the careful application of most stupendous literary work ever cent. The wheat le' to be shipped would let for £50 a year at Home. the past one of the greatest of all electrical heating in place of coal completed. Compiled to the order in American steamers, a minimum sufferers from the smoke co and gas where possible has done reigned at the beginning of our port and insurance charges to be
w of the Emperor Yung Lo, who of 50,000 tons month, a Hong Kong rate $247, or say £81 Sheffield:
much to improve matters. Final- Afteenth century, it amounted when on China's account.
"Home vrate, say at 70 per cent