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The China Mail.
Hong Kong. Saturday, July 16, 1932
Anglo-Irish Dispute.
With the threat of a tariff war
reached a serious stage and the issue should be decided definitely at the earliest possible moment. Any
News In Brief.
The next Criminal Sessions will be held on Tuesday, August 2, at 10 a.m.
The western end of Railway Pier, Kowloon, will be closed as from Monday, July 18, whilst un- dergoing repairs for a period of two months.
Quarantine restrictions have been imposed by the Philippine Is lands, Shanghai and Japan against larrivals from Hong Kong on a
count of Cholera.
SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1932.
GERMAN AIR RAIDER STRANGE ELECTRICAL
TELLS STORY.
Zeppelin Adventure
In Wartime.
FELL INTO SEA.
POWER.
Unusual Experiments Conducted.
CARRIED TO BRITAIN.
A series of Zeppelin raids on In his lecture before the London, were described by a Cer- Royal Institution on the man airship commander in the Electrical Conductivity of third of the "Hazard" series of Metals at the Lowest Tempera- talks broadcast by the B.B.C. tures Professor J. C. McLennan The Zeppelin commander was gave. a demonstration, as an- Mr. W. A. Simpson of No. 3
de Kapitan-Lieutenant Joachin nounced beforehand in ""The Almai Villas, ground floor, reports Breithaupt, who was captured after Times" recently, of the persist that his jacket was stolen yesterday a raid and interned for the last fence of an electrical current in a morning. It contained his pen and two years of the War at Donington metal at the temperature of pencil which he valued at $20.
Hall.
liquid helium; 4.2 K, i.e. "Some people may think that 268.8°C. or 457 F., below the this talk is adding insult to in-freezing point of water.
HOTEL ORCHESTRAL ARRANGEMENTS.
Schedule of Dinner Dances..
Jury," Herr Breithaupt said, "but One morning aquantity
war.
of that is not my wish. I do not wish helium was liquefied at Leiden in to hurt your feelings."
Holland by Professor Keesom, He spoke of the hazards of the with the help of his assistant, raids, stating that only a few air- Mr. Flim.. This helium was col ships. remained at the end of the lected in a large Dewar Flask
He described his first rald on Dewar Flask filled
which was supported in a second with liquid London in command of the L. 15, air. These two were then sup The Orchestral arrangements of and his account of the searchlights the Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, and bursting anti-aircraft shells; ported in a third Dewar Flask Ltd., have been changed to permit recalled these anxious nights to small ring of lead about an inch ¡also filled with liquid air. A of Dinner Dances being held in many listeners, their Hotels as follows:-
in diameter was placed in the "It is said that my bombs did inner flask immersed in the liquid At the Hong Kong Hotel on serious damage along the line Hyde, helium. A current of several Mondaya, Tuesdays, Thursdays Perk, Charing Cross, Strand, Lia hundred amperes was then in coln's Inn, Chancery-lane, Hatton duced by an external magnetic
of
and Fridays.
At the Repulse Bay Hotel on Garden, Houndeditch, Algate, and field in this lead ring. Wednesdays and Saturdays only Limehouse. Our intended targets Through
At the Peninsula Hotel op were the Admiralty and the Bank of Colonel the Master of Sempill,
the kindness Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and England. If we did not hit them, who flew over to Amsterdam Saturdays.
the newspaper quarter of Ludgate. And at the latter hotel the Hill did not seem less worth trying recently for the purpose, Profes- sor Keesom's assistant, Mr. Flim, Massed Bands will function at its for." Sunday night Symphonic Concerts. Finally, he described his last carrying the Dewar Flask, was contended that any effort to solve It is felt that these revised ar-raid, in the course of which ble ship brought by aeroplane to the aero- the dispute by arbitration would be rangements will meet the desires was struck several times by shell drome at Hanworth, and then by.. fruitless, and events to date have of the hotels' clientele,
fire. "By a miracle we did not motor-car to the Royal Institu- tion. Through the extreme care supported that contention. It is exasperating that such B ITELKI should be in a position to interfere to such an extent in Empire affairs, but in the circumstances be must be
It ment
ANGLO-IRISH PARLEY UNSUCCESSFUL.
(Continued from Page. 1.)
burst into flames
“All the bal-
last had gone. We set a course for taken by the Master of Sempill home, but I realised that it was in flying, the flasks were deliver- Thirty miles from ed with a large supply of the hopeless.. the coast we broke in two. I was liquid helium still in the inner Dewar Flask and the induced jin a gondola with two of the crew.
The gendola was entirely submerg-current in the lead ring still threatening to disrupt Imperialeverely dealt with until his own with a view to coming to a settle-jed. One man never came up. The dowing undiminished in inten-
other had his teeth knocked out. Isity.
By this experiment liquid unity, the Anglo-Irish dispute has nation rejects him as Leader.
is the more annoying when it is re- He was met on his arrival by was dragged up into the ship." called that De Valera lacks even a
The survivors were eventually helium and an electric current in the Attorney-General, Sir Thomas
to a superconducting metal were ex- Inskip. The meeting, which be saved by trawlers and taken majority, being maintained in
gan at
8 o'clock, was brought Chatham-the first Zeppelin crew to hibited for the first time in Eng. iland. When a metal is in the power by a small Labour group about through the intervention be captured. more delay and doubt will serve no which is not only weak in numbers, of Mr. William Norton, Leader Herr Breithaupt concluded with Buperconducting state it offers purpose and every effort should be
of the Irish Labour Party, who, a generous tribute to the bravery no resistance to the passage of made to effect an instant agreement; As the Irish Duties Bill, a measure after meeting the leaders of the and skill of the British airmen who an electric current, and experi failing which decisive action should introduced in retaliation to the Bri-British Labour Party in London combated the Zeppelin raids, and ments made on the persistence of The fiery and foolhardy tish Bill to impose duties on Irish last night, had an interview with a recollection of friends of his who these superconducting currents be taken.
imports in order to meet the de. Premier MacDonald: Lord San-led raids on England and never re-show that even in as long as 18 Republican President, Mr.
key, who is Acting Secretary for turned. "But," he added, "war is hours no evidence of decrease in faulted paymente On
intensity can be detected by the the land the Dominions, in the absence of war Valera, has over-stepped the mark,'
most refined methods of measure. and if he cannot be brought to a con-annuities, has been passed by the Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas in Ottawa, ciliatory mood, he must be punish-Dail the tarif war will soon be and Sir Thomas Inskip, were pre- STAFF REDUCTIONS started. The Free State is en-authorised Mr. Norton to convey sent at last night's meeting which
AT WHITEHALL
De
Fresh Economies Suggested.
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ment as yet available.
NEW ERA OF SPEED HAS DAWNED.
High Speed Express Trains.
ed. It is unfortunate that such
a con-aging in an unequal battle as while the intimation to Mr. De Valera punishment would involve siderable section of the Irish people, she depends on England for the bulk of the Prime Minister's readiness but if these people suffer, they hold of her exports, England's market in to meet him.
Dispute Explained. a very large ORE. The dispute with Ireland arises the remedy in their own hands. De Ireland is not
London, Juse 18. Valera's actions during the past few The Irish farmers, particularly, will out of the non-fulfilment by the afected and their Free State Government of obliga-
New demands for reductions in months are not only extremely be gravely
with land Bn Civil Service staff have been foolish, but they are also highly im-reaction may precipitate. De Valera's tions in connection
nuitles' payments and be proposed made in the House of Commons by In the meantime the British withholding of other periodical pay Conservative M. P.'6.
London, June 12. pertinent, and it would be
weak fall
The alphabet, the printing press, on the grounds Sir Charles Cayzer was to ask swift transport- these are indeed were his bluffs to succeed. Government has little to do but to ments to Britain
the that the agreements to pay, which the Parliamentary Secretary to the three inventions, in the estimate At the moment it appears that this roaintain the firm stand adopted.
were made under the treaty of 1981, Admiralty if he could, undertake to of the 19th century historian, which were not ratified by both Parlia- reduce within six months the 1,866 "have done most for the civilisa result may be achieved, and many
The offer of arbitration by members of the clerical staff to 829, tion of our specles." ments. will follow with apprehension the
an Empire Tribunal, which Was as at August, 1914. conference to be held in London be-
made to Mr. De Valera during his "If not," he says, "will you allow, world's record in railway speed. tween Mr. MacDonald and the Irish
last visit to London, having been three. M.P.'s nominated by the And if 80 odd miles an hour, start rejected, the British Government Pubile Accounts and Estimates to stop, does not suffice to impress President. It is significant that!
Flying Officer R, Brown sailed felt it had no option but to pro- Committee to test the stafing and the imagination, we have the Agures Mr. De Valera has waited for the
on the P. & D. ceed with its policy of collecting so bring about an early reduction of the traveller who covered 23% departure of Mr. Thomas before for Home to-day
8.5. Rajputana..
money by special duties on Imports to not more than 8297"
miles in three separate trains at az from the Free State. Duties be making a gesture of concillation and
Other members are calling for re-average of 77 miles per hour. came operative to-day.
ductions in the staffe of the Wax it would seem that he intends to at-
Mr. W. C. Shields, M.B.E., the Meanwhile an Emergency Tariffs Office and the Board of Education tempt to effect a bargain with Mr. Naval Armament Supply Officer, Bill has been introduced in the Free MacDonald, who will prove much left for Home this morning on the State Dail, empowering the Execu- JACK HOBBS CARRIES HIS BAT.
tive Council to impose Customs more pacifist than the Dominion 2.8. Rajputana.
Duties of such amount as they Secretary. Mr. Thomas had handled
Personal Pars.
(Continued from Page 1)
This week we have had
a new
Thus do we celebrate the .cen- tenary of the year in which the House of Commons declined to allow a railway between London and Bir- mingham because there was no case to warrant the forcing of the horrid quiring 28 runs for, victory with properties of so great a proportion Invention "through the lands and only two wickets in hand.
of distinguished landowners and Glamorgan Just Fall
proprietors Surrey managed to secure When the first railways were built Bill and the Land Annuities, 25. Among the passengers leaving in, the Dail was overshadowed by or points at the Oval against it is commonly said there had been Glamorgan after a thrilling strug- no increase in the speed of trans- direct repudiation constituting a for Home to-day on the 3.8. Raf- the prospect of a renewal of negotiagle for the first innings points. port since the days of the Romans.
While maintaining putana, was Mr. V. H. W. Chitten- tions which, it was generally assum Gregory (131) helped consider-This is not quite fair.
would be necessful. British ably to the Surrey total of 424
the negotiations in the only manner by Mrs. Field and their child were absence of Mr. De Valera, the B
Capt. L. F. Field, accompanied think proper, and to-day in the possible, his interpretation, on be among the passengers departing passed through its final stages half of the British Government, of for Home to-day on the 8.5. Raj- The situation thus created caused
grave uneasiness in Ireland. the Irish Dail's action on the Oath putana.
The Importance of to-day's debate
correct view.
his original firm stand, Mr. Thomas den, boatswain of the Harbour Deed, opened the way for negotiation, but
amy
partment.
Wireless Servicematen duen
Self-Defence Measure.
k/Dublin, Yesterday: offers for settlement were Mr. R. H. Griffithe, B.A assist-
The Dall by 66 votes to 51 has either spurned or ignored by De ant master at Queen's College, is
proceeding Home to-day per the Passed A financial motion string Valera, who has been, manoeuvring P. & D. liner Rajputana. Massent to the emergency, Impcaftio
for a position where he could dictate Grifths is glowell-known local his terms. Mr. MacDonald has so Rugger player.
the right course" and it
Puma M. Mr. and Mr H. S. Fitzroy were that his well-known among the passengers leaving for with the Home day per the SK Baj;
Mr. Fitzroy is the, pro not
& the Government
Cord have Pat
[ot ́ Duties: 'Bill, which
McEntee, the Mmi sald had been intro 'defence
SHANGHAI
for 8. Glamorgan, however RUSSIA BUYS FROM were not in the least over-awed by this formidable total, and a brilliant innings by Dygon (208) took them to within three runs of the home side's total; Body Sussex Win,
Gloucester continued oints, Parker (11-1
collect
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