TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1932.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
We beg to announce to our many clients that we have removed to 18, D'Aguilar Street.
We have also just re- ceived a new assort- ment of
SUMMER SUITINGS.
WING HING CO.
18, D'Aguilar Street. Tel. 21417.
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, No. 74, Queen's Road
Central. Tel. 21255.
HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON
ASCENT THIS YEAR
CLIMBING TO ATTAIN GREATER SPEED.
THE CHINA MAIL
PHOTOGRAPHY IN INDIA.
Universal Hobby of Rich and Poor.
The Stone Age-The Iron Age— "Never content with the problems and hopes to reach the height of 12 the Steel Age--the Golden Age- of the immediate present, the miles. It is intended also to make the Age when Poets and Painters divide the an ascent in the Arctic to observe Flourished: historians human mind challenges the far fu-atmospheric and other conditions passage of time according to their
own viewpoint. ture. Experiments with a specially over the magnetic pole.
Count Theodor Zichy. a Hun- Nobody has yet called this era designed neroplanes are about to 'be made in flight to a height of tengarian, and Herr Hans Braun are the Picture Age. It certainly is.
a balloon For a high- It would be impossible to estimate preparing miles, and speeds greatly exceeding altitude ascent, the object being the influence and extent of photo- the world to-day. The the 408 miles per hour record are that of testing an instrument in-graphy on being discussed," writes Major C. C. vented by Herr Braun for register lens and its work touches us at all newspapers and Turner, Aviation Correspondent to ing altitude by the force of gravity. points in our
of In- the Daily Telegraph.
on the
It is not claimed that success in the high altitude attempts will lead NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
to an immediate change in the LAU PAK-WAI, DENTIST, has re-policy of the air lines; but someone moved hia Hong Kong Office to must make a beginning, and many GLOUCESTER BLDG., 1st foor, Ped- der St. (New Bullding next to Hongare eager to ploneer the way, Kong Hotel). Telephone No. 20488.
TANG YUK, Dentist.
Successors to
the late SIEN TING,
14, D'Aguller Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATE Censultation Free.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD,
Kowloon Bay. New Work & Repairs. Call Flag "L" Sole Agents for Kelvin Motora.
HAIR DRESSERS.
LEE YEE,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Har
Dressers & Booksellers. No. 12, D'Agullar Street. (opposite Queen's Theatre).
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
'Phone 22232.
53, Queen's Road Central
SHOES.
Pair Brows
Shoes from $6.00.
Black Dr
His experiment will aim at the other periodicals, in books determination of the loss of weight struction and
with
amusement,
of specified objects with increasing silver screen during our hours of leisure, and in the photographic distance from the earth.
The balloon cabin will be fitted albums of our hobbies.
a big parachute, and The progress of photography aa a descending to about 15,000 feet the hobby has been one of the marvels balloon itself will be detached, and of recent decades. There have been Exploration of the upper air, the aeronauts come down with their other hobbies and pastimes which whether by aeroplane or balloon, is cabin by parachute. This method have obtained a vogue for a short to fade away with the costly; by aeroplane especially, be-reduces the amount of ballast re-period,
been no other cause the machine must have aquired to ease the speed of descent. years. There have
As already announced Messrs. simple hobbies to obtain such a grip sealed cabin, and its engine needs
Short Bros., of Rochester, are on all nations at the same time-if special supercharging equipment.
Air travel at present is handicap-making ready a balloon for a high- we except things like gardening, and dressmaking which are bound up ped by the cost, which in many altitude ascent in England.
Many of the secrets of the upper with man's elemental needs. cases has to be partly met by sub-
From the earliest times when he sidies from the State. But air-air have been revealed by means of
balloons carrying sat in a cave, carving on stone or craft designed to fly at a height of small unmanned
It is wood, daubing on crude colours or ten miles would be much more cost- self-registering instruments.
known that what is called the acratching with primitive. instru- ly than the present-day air liner.
stratosphere, or isothermal layer, ments, man has ever striven to givel The Bottom Mile. The public are being slowly accus- which begins at a height of about to fellow men pictorial records of tomed to the idea of air travel in seven miles, is characterised by a something or other. He is giving the bottom mile of the atmosphere; break in the steady decline of tem-vent to one of those finer human they are not likely yet to be attract-perature with height.
ed in large numbers by travel at a height of ten miles in closed cabins in which life can be maintained only by artificial means.
ns
Many will agree that speeds from 160 to 200 miles per hour, if the or- ganisation provides for night well as day flying, will for some time to come be good enough even for mails.
Samples of Air.
instinets which separate him from the animal kingdom. The psycho- d'atre" for the deep down in human
The inventor of the
It is known that in this region logical "raison also the wind's speed increase, com camera. lies mon with increasing height up to nature and goes back through the five or six miles, or so, declines, and centuries. that there is comparative calm. camera gave to mankind a little in-
desire Physicists, however,
to strument for which he had been un- for many learn more of the chemical constitu- consciously searching tion of the air at great altitudes, centuries."
Mirroring The World. To fly at a height of ten miles the Among other problems is that of
And to-day there are many mil- the assumed presence of hydrogen engine must give sufficient power and other light gases in greater pro-lions of these little lens boxes click- throughout a wide range of atmos-
portion at great heights than nearing merrily away all over the globe. pheric pressures. A supercharger the ground.
Their clicks bring to fellow man the! which enables aircraft to give good
Some surprise has been expressed imarvels of his world as nothing else ever do. If one except the performance at 25,000 feet, or five miles, "will not suffice, and it is at the absence of evidence of this in could probable that the engine will have samples of air taken at a height of motor-car and the steamboat, it is seven or eight miles. One would safe to say no other invention has to be equipped with two or even
suggest, however, it is not likely to done so much to link together na- three superchargers.
at much lower altitudes tiona and peoples, and to help them be found Otherwise, designed chiefly for
to understand one another. The Rinck or Brown Boota from 18.00.
very high altitude work, it would than 30 miles.
Descriptions of the view of earth power of the lens when linked with Children's Boots or not be able to get off the ground. Shoes from $2.00.
Even now many aeroplanes are de- and sky from the cabin windows of cinemaphotography is so vast and the high-travelling aeroplanes and pregnant with future possibilities as Best styles, most complete stock of all sizes. Repairing a speciality, signed to give far better perform-
ance at 10,000 feet than near the balloons will certainly be interest-to appal sociologists and folk who think the human race should move ing. WONG SIU WOON
ground. 21, Pottinger St.
The sky will be deep-hued, and it only along well-ordered lines of It is reasonable to claim that at great heights, where the air offers is not impossible that at 10 or 12 their own making. The secrets of will be the heavens, of the microscope, of little resistance, great speed will be miles some of the stars attainable, and with the further visible by day. The globular shape the air, the land, the sea and even great advantage that a machine of the earth will not be any more under the sea-these and a hundred with the very large wing surface in visible than it is to an airman flying and one other things are brought
at 26,000 feet.
home to us in a graphic way which relation to load necessary for sup port
As to him, the earth, much ob-no pen or brush could accomplish. in very thin air will, оп
Is it any wonder that when a man, descending to the dense air near the scured by mist, will appear as a
horizon on a level woman or even a child can buy one ground, obtain so much support that concavity, the
with the eye.
of these clicking instruments for a it will be able to land slowly.
few rupees they should feel the urge Hawardous Risks.
to join the ever-growing army of Variable-pitch propellers and
amateur photographers? At first
ALEXANDER
INSTITUT
DE BEAUTE
Phone 25160,
Pedder Building
(1st Floor)
Opposite Entrance to
Phone 21474.
Hong Kong Hotel.
Lustrons Oil Permanent Hair Waves
which are Large, Soft and Natural, variable-ares wings would help to Artistic Finger and Marcel Waves, Oil secure reasonable efficiency through- REDUCTION IN PORT OF LONDON they imagine there are some hidden
Treatment, Shampooing, Henas Pack out the great range of conditions (any colour), Hair Cutting and Mani- enre for Ladles and Gentlemen. Con-from the ground to the
ten-mile
They would
scientious, Artistic Work by European operational height. Expert, Mr. Alexander.
add to the complications, and still} more to the cost.
CHARGES MODERATE.
A VISIT WILL CONVINCE YOU.
CHARGES.
To Operate From April 1.
At the great heights in prospect The Port of London Authority life can be maintaned only by the has decided to make reductions artificial preservation of atmos-in charges as from April 1.. STANDARD. TIMES. pheric pressure around the body,
mysteries in the lens box. Only when they try themselves do they realise how absurdly easy it is in these days to take good photographs. "You press the button and we do the rest" is really true in 1932, with modern improvements in the cheap-
est cameras, modern films sensitive to all colours and the marvellous These include & reduction of modern service given by photo with the necessary supply of oxygen 71% per cent. in the dock towage graphic dealers all over the world. for breathing. The deathly cold rates, and of 16 2-3 per cent. in Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong must be fought by suitable warm-the charge for water supplied to for February, 1982, (Standard time ing apparatus. If anything went vessels. The present discount
Greenwich), are as follows:-
A New Joy in Life.
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HONG KONG
THE
1932
ISSUE
OF THE
DOLLAR
DIRECTORY
NOW ON
ON SALE
AT THE OFFICES OF THE PUBLISHERS,
3A WYNDHAM STREET.
ALSO ON SALE
AT
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO.
* BREWER & CO.
KELLY & WALSH, LTD. EXCELSIOR BOOK STORE.
LEE YEE KELLY SAYCE
are bound to be thousands of re- So more and more folk who pre-cruits each year in India. Why! viously knew nothing about it go on Because it is a country of sunshine
of the 120th Meridian, East of wrong with this equipment the re-of 5 per cent. allowed off foreign buying new cameras. In starting and photography depends to a large
Suprise.
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There are three machines nearly cent. ready for flight to the upper air.
There are also to be
a saapshot album, in filling it with extent on light and sunshine. Be photos of thair friends, their cause it is the country par excellence familles, their children playing, where one can always find good sub- revised their week-end picnics and their fects for the lens "Jast round-the One is by the famous Farman Arm.schedules of import dock charges holidays-in this and a hundred corner," on a five-minutes morning
It will be flown by the French air on wool, wood, meat, cheese, other ways they find a new joy in walk, Because it is full of never-
The machine is a man, Coupet. monoplane. with
spread of wing. The cabin is fitted
DON'T
NATIVE FASHIONS CHANGING.
.
The Modern Zulu.
FORGET
TO PROCURE YOUR COPY EARLY.
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PRICE
$1.00
TRIBUTE TO BRAVE CHINESE.
Compassionate Grant.
with air compressors and is elec-ductions, is estimated at about pleasurable moments all over again: storica of human interest, the kind seen in public wearing a bead by the Shanghai office
trically heated. Flying, will be al- £77,000 per annum.
most entirely by instrument, and
not by sight. The engine will be
triple-supercharged. Another French
By order of Gen. Teal Ting The Zulus no longer love!
In fact, no fashionable kai, commander of the 19th ebbing interest for yellow creatures. beads augar (bulked at landing), and life. They build up a permanent
of the an enormous bulk grain discharging
collection of pictures which later on Because India is also fall of the Zulu belle would dream of being Army, $1,000 has been granted
untold
19th Route Army to the family The total amount, of the rein life, enables them to live their dramatic, teeming with
of Chen Ching-chuan, a chauf of graphic stories which can be told necklace or armlet.
Fashions among the natives feur who volunteered to trans and the more they build the keener
by one click of the lens shutter... they become.
One has only to examine all these these days, change almost AB port ammunition for the Chinese among European troops during the withdrawal of They may or may not take any obvious facts for two minutes to rapidly as Altenrest in the technicalities of the predict that photography, as a hobby women, and the latest decree hea Chinese troops from Chapel on MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS. ens box and all the feselnating, pro-will become nation-wide from the hit importere of beads severely. March 2. The compassionate cesses associated with the silver Himalayas to Cape Comorin in the Everybody in Zululand to-day is grant has been made by the
wearing fancy garters.
Chinese army, to the deceased's ultrate image which is produced by next few decades.
One Durban importer was left relatives as a token of the army's it. If they are not interested: they
with 20 cases of German and appreciation for the bravery and Shanghai, Yesterday...never need know anything about it;
MINERS REFUSED BENEFIT.
Italian fancy beads on his hands. patriotism displayed by the de The new Minister of Home dealers, who develop films know that
Knowing his market had va ceased, it was stated. High-altitude balloon ascents will Affairs, General Wang Shao-hung, quite often some of the finest work
"stratosphare" machine is one de
signed by M. Guerchais.
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The German firm of Junkers also! have prepared a special machine for flights to the upper air, and trial flights to a height of 30,000 feet are about to be made.
Wang Inducted.
be made this year. They are in-was inducted to office this morning is brought in by photographers who tended for the purpose of atmos at nine o'clock by Mr. Wang Ching, have, only just bought a cazberat pheric research, and it will be re-wel, the President of the Nanking But if the membered that Professor Piccard Executive Yuan, at Nanking
claims that as the result of his re- Hauter.
cent moent to 91⁄2 miles be obtained
valuable to science.
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