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Mr. Paul Lauder, general mana- ger of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, returned to the Colony to-day aboard the s.5. Empress of Asia.
Mr. and Mra, F. A. Redmond were among the passengers return-f ing to the Colony on the sa. Em- press of Asia this” morning. Ther have been on vacation to Japan. Mr. Redmond is the Bean of the Engineering Faculty at the Uni- versity of Hong Kong."
Sir William Hornell, C.I.E., Vice- Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong and popular Rotarian, arrived back in the Colony this- morning on the a.. Empress of Asia: Sir William who has been to Japan, spent the greater part of his.vacation at Chuzenji in the mountain district. Greeted by a China Mail reporter this morning. Sir. William said he had enjoyed his holiday immensely.
News in Brief.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31 1932
INVENTOR YEARNING
FOR THE MOON
PLANS ROCKET FLIGHT TO DISTANT PORT
EXPLOSIVE
POWER
An explosive that may lead the of each step the speed of the rocket way to visits to the moon and is automatically increased. strong enough to wreck a town.
· Meteor Stations. with a single bomb is being per- The suggestion has often been fected in Vienna by Dr. Darwin made that the sending off and in O. Lyon, the American rocket stallation of a meteor station in expert.
space, to and from which rockets
It is known as T4, and is could be fired, would very largely roughly twice as powerful as simplify the task of dispatching * TNT the most violent explosive rocket to the moon. used in the Great War.
Dr. Lyon sald recently:
"The derision" and "ridicule such a suggestion arouses" in the minds of "The full name of T.4 is Trime-laymen unfamiliar with the pro- thylen-trinitramine. The substance gress made by science in recent has been known to science for many years is as natural as it is unfound years, but it has never been used is fed. Actually there is no
reason
The Technical School for dis- an explosive because it is not theoretically why such a station abled soldiers of the 19th. Route fusible like T.N.T., and cannot could not be sent off from the earth. Army, will be erected upon a site therefore be run into moulds, K., at a tangent, to arrive at a certain' chosen at Tai Tong, Honam, and "German and Italian experts have point in pace where the force construction has already commenc-worked on T4 without succeeding of its own momentum and the jed.
in making it fusible. I claim that earth's gravity would unite to spin I have been able to make this ex-it round and round the world like a Another. 34 sacks of Siberian plosive fusible for rocket work, and, small planet or moon. mail are due to arrive in the by combining it with other explo- The installation of such an air Colony to-morrow on. the 8.8. sives, have obtained a speed of ex-port in space would be utilised, if Yasukuni Maru, according to an haust that will enable a rocket to announcement made by the Postal travel at a speed of two miles a Authorities.
second—a speed greatly in excess of anything achieved to date..
possible, for the refuelling and re-dring of rockets fired from earth. "When romance becomes reality
Earth-Mercury, 9 years. Earth-Mars, 11 years. Earth Jupiter, 65 years? Earth-Saturn, 170 years." Earth-Uranus, 277 years. Earth-Neptune, 485 years. Earth-Alpha Centauri, near- est fixed star, 4,000,000 years!"
SELLING GIRLS.
Hearing Adjourned In
Kowloon Court.
"
The Kwangsi Provincial Eank "Existing rockets' consume so and the first rocket leaves earth on will hold its opening ceremony much explosive in their short jour-the way to the moon the voyage, kere on August 6, instead of to-ney into the air that they back assuming the rate of progress to morrow, since the President, Mr. again after travelling a few miles. amount to five miles a second, would The China Mail. cent.; France, 39 per
Wong Chung-gau is unable to at-An explosive that lasts longer and take only a fortnight. This would cent.;
tend before that time. Italy, 34 per cent.; Germany,
drives the rocket farther is be nothing compared to the time what I have been seeking necessary to reach other planets, an Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 1932.) 27 per eent. Add Switzer- The following is the return of
for years, and now at last may be seen by the following table: land and Canada, and the notifiable diseases for the week I can say,. I think with justi- Earth Venus, 4 years.
ended August 27----Cholera ·8 average decrease comes to 40 per cases, 6 deaths; typhoid fever gfication, that I am on the eve of the great discovery that will cut the cent. While the drop in American cases, deaths; meningitis 1 case, bands of gravitation and atmos exports is above the average, it has 1 death pulmonary tuberculosisphere that bind us to the earth.
48 deaths. It has long been recognised that not disturbed the leading position
"The wet blanket of the atmos- one of the principal factors in any of the United States among world For keeping a common, gaming that the sea retards a liner, doubl- phere retards speed in the same way economic depression such as that exporters. In 1930 the American house and issuing lottery tickets.ing the speed of a rocket merely the world is now experiencing is proportion of world exporta was Tung Shan, a Chinese, was fined
quadruples air resistance. There is, the lack of confidence consequent 14.31 per cent, compared with 10.85 Court this morning. "These
$125 by Mr. Fraser at Kowloon
xie however,
consolation that places upon any slump of large dimensions. per cent. for Germany and 10.51 per are getting far too common," said gravity decreases in regular stages WOMAN ACCUSED OF
as the distance from the earth in- When prices and values fall un-cent, for the United Kingdom. It His Worship, imposing the fine. creases. For instance, a rocket employment grows, and business is too early yet to give the precise
that weighs a ton on earth will Leung Sit-chan, 19, a married weigh only a quarter of a ton when generally slackens, fears are arous-ratios for 1931 All that
woman, residing at the Hung On 400 miles up, and only a twenty- ed in the individual which create an told from the Commerce Depart-Boarding House, 81. Connaught fifth of a ton at 20,000 miles above atmosphere of doubt and exaggerat-ment's figures is that the United Road, was admitted to Government
sea level. Civil Hospital yesterday at 5.50 ed caution, Thus the crisis is States is still in front, though by aj
p.m, suffering from opium poison-: deepened and the solution made more narrower margin, as is obvious from ing. She died at 12.30 a.m. to-day. difficult. Banks are inundated the fact that whereas United States
Mr. Sun Fo has not yet left for with money which lies on exports declined 37 per cent, in
Shanghai, but his secretary, Mr. deposit and ceases to. become pro-value last year, Germany's declined Leung Hon-tao left yesterday ductive. It is not until an adjust only 18 per cent. Of major im-laboard s.s. President Grant. He the will study the situation there and ment takes place that economic portance in" accounting for
report to his chief shortly. Mr. order is restored and it is during abnormal American decrease is the Sun anticipated an early visit to the period of adjustment that the drying up of American foreign the northern port himself. [slump Is' prolonged through mis-loans. When dollars are lent]
apprehensions held by. the public abroad,
The death occurred in Hong miles a second is needed before the refused to return the girls. A re the borrower, generally Kong yesterday of the centen-earth's gravitation can be safely port was made to the Sham Shui at large, Figures and statistics spends them in buying American arian grandmother of Cheng Kwok-overcome as a prelude to a flight Po Police Station, and the case are useful and valuable guides to goods. But in the last eighteen yau. Cheng, was recently convicted through space.
was referred to the Secretariat for those who understand them but are months there has been little borrow-by a special jury on a charge of "People still find it difficult to Chinese "Affairs.
procuring the murder of George understand the rocket principle. the ed money to spend; hence the fact Fung, and his case is now being They are apt to confuse it, as a ROTARY ADDRESSED uninitiated. Trade figures form that the United States and the argued before the Full Court. projectile, with a shell.
Kingdom, good illustration of the misconcep-{United
A Chinese male, Li Kam, 21, a land a shell fired from a gun is that tion that. сап
have arise. Export leading lenders,
bean
boatman, and his wife, Chan Cho a rocket fires itself, continually pro- and import statistics during the hardest hit in
export mul, 29, of 481, Shanghai Street, pelling itself through the air by The trade. past year have, in most countries,
next reason for were admitted to the Kwong Wah the driving power of its own ex- the abnormal decline for the United Hospital at 11 p.m. last night haust, while a shell is fired from a revealed a failing-off which some-|
often misinterpreted
by
per cent, decrease, or more. But a further study would reveal that the price value had fallen in an
the
<
their
world's
serious.
On a charge of having taken Explosive Key.
part in a transaction concerning "Explosive is the key to the the sale of two girls, aged 14 and rocket problem. Even the difficul-13 respectively, for the suma of ty of transferring the explosive $120 and $70, a Chinese woman and causing it to ignite so that a from- Amoy, appeared before Mr. continual, even fire is maintained Fraser at the Kowloon Magistracy: is not so profound a problem 'ad yesterday. Detective Inspector the choice of the right explosive. Shaftain prosecuted, and after "The most favourable combina- evidence, had been heard the tion of oxygen and hydrogen could hearing was adjourned.
not give a speed greater than three Defendant, it was stated, when miles a second, and a speed of seven approached by the girls mothers,
"The difference between a rocket
BY PHILATELIST.
Interesting Analogy Is Drawn.
reproduction of "the one" penny British black, the first adhesive stamp to be issued to the public,
An interesting talk on the sub- times amounts to as much as a 100) States is undoubtedly the tariff. suffering from some form of poi-gun..
[fect "The Spirit of Rotary in soning. It was stated that they "A shell is a passive weight. A Scrap of Paper" was delivered by Nations that cannot sell their pro had drunk some hot water contain- rocket is active, like a motor. Whiler. W. B. Watson before members duets cannot buy. When these ing a Chinese medicine and had a shell reaches its maximum speed of the Rotary Club at the weekly study would reveal inations also debtors to the been taken ill. Their condition is as it leaves the muzzle of the Aring tinn held at Lane Crawford's gun and slowly decreases speed Restaurant yesterday afternoon. equal proportion. It is the volume United States, they must also sell
owing to air resistance, a rocket Prior to the address a facsimile and not the value of foreign com- more than they buy if they wish to Only formal business was con- constantly gains speed as merce which should be studied and
settle, as it is desirable that they ducted at the Sanitary Board Meet pushes its way through the air
'Problem of Speed. should, in goods. Per contra, the ing held at the Sanitary Board when this application is made it is
United State, in order to receive present at the meeting were Mrmined by the speed of its exhaust; present.
Room yesterday afternoon. Those "The speed of a rocket is deter-was distributed amongst those seen that world tradé is not in such
disastrous position as many buy more than it sells. Though ther
interest payments, should logically G. R. Bayer (President), the Hon. the speed of a shell by the force of The lecturer spoke interestingly M. Henderson (Vice the explosion that sets it. In motion. of philately, and made special re would have it. A useful example can be extracted from the United logic has not been revealed in the Shlu-fan, Messrs. C. Champkin, L-step principle Actually, there are between stamps and Rotary.
Fresident), Dr. G. Pope, Dr. Li "The Lyon rocket is built on the ference to the analogous position States, the
American tables of trade, it is the C. F. Bellamy and Wong Kwong several inner rockets within the leading commercial country.
verdict of the 1981 report that the tim The United State
tatas De- partment of Commerce does not trend is slowly in that direction
give the volume figures for other Last year Imports declined less HEAVY SENTENCE countries. But since the fall of than exports, a result which reduced ON OPIUM CARRIER prices is a world phenomenon, the surplus of exports to the lowest money statistics are permissible in figure since 1014. The trade this making comparisons. For practi-year has deepened the tendency. tates actually dign, coun-
cal purposes the relation will be the In-May the United same whether the base of con- bought more fro trast be
Ac tries the
cordin
tions data
dropped
Nine Months' Prison
And $2,000 Fine.
PREFERENCES.
Canada And S. Africa Extend Pacts.
outer rocket, like the eng-within-an- FREE STATE GIVEN egg or box-within-a-box toy of children Each successive step timed to fire at the moment the or layer is fitted with explosive, and
previous step or layer is exhausted. “The empty step is discarded when its function is over, mechanically drops into space, leav- ing the succeeding, forward steps to carry on one after another A small gyroscope gis- end of " step this stendy
Caught carrying 82 taels of raw
handbag” Chi"Lum,
the
Dublin, Yesterda The Irish Free State the same taria dreta Canada" as Britain, La Mass, Minister for Commerce, on › Hin z from Ottawa,20) South Africi
Ireland fi
to tow