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TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1933.
Aviation, Engineering & Building
Skyscraper
Absence In
London
Queen Victoria Vetoed
High Buildings.
London.
Queen Victoria, d not Lon- don's clay subsolt, in
responsible
for the absence of skyscrapers in the British capital, according to Mr. Maurice E. Webb who recently
Arts, here.
addressed the Royal Society of
ly due to the nature of the clay subsoil around the Thames. Legis lation to remove the restriction is at present being considered.
ENGINEERS PROBE DEPRESSION
THE CHINA MAIL.
UNCONTROLLED ADVANCE OF MACHINE
THE MODERN PUZZLE
New York.
man
“BRITAIN'S - AIR
PERIL."
Bitter Criticism Of Geneva.
MAJOR TURNER'S BOOK.
MAPPING FLASHES OF LIGHTNING.
Machines Which Track. Them Down.
set.
done, with British-made in-
WATCH FOR THE
OPENING DATE-
OF THE
EXCELSIOR
RESTAURANT
22, DES VOEUX ROAD C
Train of Oscillations. The job is not so simple as it seems. On one lantern slide dis-
(Opposite Government Radio Office).
A flash of lightning, even if it is invisible to you will, an every wireless fan can vouch, set up dis- Major C. C. Turner is the doyen concerting atmospherics in your of those British journalists who The Radio Research Organisation have devoted their energies and have set out to track down this up- talents to the study of aviation and setter of the other. Mr. R. A. Wat- strive mightily day by day to College by means of films, what is gon Watt showed at the Imperial changes in the present system, explain the progress of this new be!"
"technicracy": does not Has a small group of research which engineers, working silently for pecify, the machine is seen as art and science to the millions of struments, to locate electric signals ten years in the niassing of aan ogre steadily increasing un-the general public, many of whom that come out of the void.
The One day, said Mr. Webb, the huge body of statistics, found the employment.
research unfortunately are apparently still place at Slough and at Leuchars, Experiments have been taking Queen was looking out of her win explanation of present economic abounds with startling statistics, unable to distinguish one end of in Fifeshire. The record is made dow in Buckingham Palace when difficulties?
as these:
of the cathode ray she saw that white-glazed brick
In 1904, the beginning of the an aeroplane from the other or to by means "Technocracy," the title motor-car industry, one
understand what the new method oscillograph. structure of Queen Anne's Man- site. This building, still one of which the engineere have given needed 1.291 hours to build a car of transport means to them and flash at Slough was S.S.W., but the In one ase the direction of the themselves, believes that explana by 1914 he needd 400 hours; in the world in which they live. That same flash at Leuchars went S.W. London's highest, towered above
tion is found in "the uncontrolled 1929, 92 hours; and to-day only Westminster's smaller dwellings.
is not to depreciate the value of By. trignometry-it was worked out Queen Victoria sent for her Minis-advance of the machine," and in 73 hours. ter and there and then insisted on what they call an ever increasing
In 1830 a man could make 45 the work done by Major Turner exactly where the flash occurred— Debt machines bricks in 60 minutes. Today, if and his colleagues; the public in West Europe, of In burden
somewhere at a point in South- a height mit being included
which force unemployment; debt he followed the best extant prac the Building Act
At present London buildings which cannot be paid off at any tice, he could make 40,000 bricks every country is notoriously slow cannot be erected higher than 80 where near the rate at which it in the same time, say the "tech, to adopt a new idea and if the feet, with two roof stories in ad-lis incurred.
nocrats," though this figure is process of inculcating "airminded- played by Mr. Watt there was re- dition, except in special circum- The researchers are working declared grossly exaggerated by ness" is complete in another fifty vealed a train of oscillations which stances. There is a widespread at Columbia University in asso-a leading member of the brick belief that this regulation is main- ciation with the Industrial En industry. Such efficiency has years the aeronautical journalista occurred at the rate of 23,000,000 per second, corresponding to a gineering department. A Mr. been obtained only in isolated will have done well.
wireless wave-length of 12 metres. Howard Scott is their director instances, but "technocracy", is Lack of appreciation of the imej
Another slide showed the elec They have produced to date some convinced that industry will seek portance of the new vehicle in its trical changes which occupied only 300 charts on employment and this possible efficiency and obtain
relation to warfare is Major one thousand-millionth of a second, production in manufacturing in-it so fast that more and more dustry, and with the help of men will be thrown out of work, Turner's excuse for an admirable the time occupied by a light wave
in travelling a little less than one: unemployed engineers and On a general estimate, based little book, entitled "Britain's Air foot. The point of the "pencil" draughtsmen furnished by the on use of the most efficiency ma Peril," which places in proper was moving over the "paper" (ac St. Louis, Missouri. New York Emergency Unemploy-chines and practices now avail.
perspective the value of the air tually a photographic plate) at a Three brothers have invented ment Committee, expect to com. able, "technocracy" estimates a machine for determining which plete several hundred more. that between 12,000,000 and weapon and utters a timely warn speed of some hundred million
miles per hour. hens in a flock are laying eggs Around the research, a con- 15.000.000 people could do every ing about the dangers to Britain's
One film showed flashes and which are "loading" on the siderable furore both as to "tech thing required to run the nation. safety inherent in rash measures ring in various parts of Europe job.
nocracy's" interpretations of its There are about 73 million adults of aerial disarmament.
land on the ocean. Storms in mid- "If "Biddy" deposits an exg in data and as to the accuracy of in U.S.A. to-day,
In sober, restrained language.is, Germany, hungary, and the Atlantic, the North Sea, Scandina- the nest, an exit automatically the data itself has arisen,
As for debt "technocracy” cal- | opens. If she doesn't, she has to "Technocracy" does not criticulates that the present debt is buttressed by quotations from Balkans all contributed atmos- leave through an opening which cise the machine in itself. em-about £44,000,000,000 (at par) leading authorities and many pherics within single half- leads to the "slackers" pen. ---- phasizing rather the lack of con- and that it is certain to increase startling facts taken exclusively minute's recording. Reuter.
trol of the machine. Without under the present system. It says from official sources, Major Turner "Every flash, I calculate, holds that there are bonds still unpaid makes plain the dangerous inade. £100 worth of energy, judging by on machines which have been dis- quacy of the Royal Air Force to electric light companies' -reckon-
vance has made _new_machines aeroplanes of all types which are more efficiency. "Technocracy" unmatched anywhere in the world Mar. 11 June argues that such advance will be in speed and general flying per- NEW "BYNG” HOUSE,
1033 1918 more and more rapid.
formance. He estimates that the Cts. Cla.
Critics of "technocracy" say,' Force has less than half the however, that the figures are for strength in fighting personfèl and isolated instances, that they are material that is needed to ensure 30 incorrect in several instances, security. Britain is only fifth 28 and unfairly interpreted in among the nations in grand total 28gTOARly exaggerated in others,, of fighting aircraft, though her
London. Reuter.
responsibilities, unlike those of
London University's new College any other Power, oblige the pre-Hall in Malet Street was opened of R.A.F. squadrons at by the Queen. It is the only hall' MAN WHO MINDS A strategic points in three
con-of residence for women in London tinents. He shows clearly why and is the direct successor of the MILLION VOLTS.
Britain's geographical situation small-yellow house in Byng Placo makes her more sensitive to serial which-known familiarly as 'Byog' He Can Switch Off Half attack and consequent paralysis of has served the students of Lon-
industry and the national life than don ever since 1882.
MACHINE TO CHECK UP ON THE CHICKENS.
HONG KONG MARKET
PRODUCE mantled because mechanical ad- day, in spite of its possession of ing," said Mr. Watt.
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
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Breast
Soup
Stenk
Stenk Sirloin Sausages
Mar. 11 June
1933 1918
Cia.
Ct.
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ib.
POULTRY.
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Chicken Capons, Small
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44
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Geene Pigeons, Canton
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each
85
1.05
F
1.80
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anch
15
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lb. 29
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Lemons, China Lamons, American
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Persimmons, Large
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1:20
England.
sence
Opened By The Queen.
Occur.
any other land. He proves, too, The new "Byng" offers study- that passive measures of defence bedrooms (there are 112 of them) One man, sitting in a vast circu- such as searchlights, anti-aircraft fitted with modern conveniences In pair 2.60 2.80 lar room, will shortly control the guns, balloon aprons, and so forth heating and lighting, a long, well- electricity supply of the whole of provide but slender prospects of stocked library, vast common room, south-eastern England, from Peter- safety; in the test of major war studio,, laundry, veranda and a borough to the Channel.
the only effective retort to air wide roof garden. The hall stands Already the system is in oper- attack would be the launching of in the heart of Bloomsbury, Im- 35 tion. While the main building at heavy and prolonged counter-mediately opposite the site where,
Bankside, Southwark Bridge, S. E., attacks on the forces, communica-presently,
university is being erected, the "brains" of tion systems, concentration points, buildings will be erected, and so To the southern area of the National railheads, seaports and munition, inherits all that traditional 25 Grid system work from a large hut, works of the enemy.
romance which always has bound
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Carrola
20
Chillies, Dried.
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Carp
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Cuttle Fish
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Eels, Congor
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11 Yellow
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Garoupa Gudgeon
40
18
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Pereli
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Pizica
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Indian Corn
LoLluce
Okroes
Onions, Bombay
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Green ...
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Puraley Potato, Sweet
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Purspidin Radish Rhubarb (Fresh).
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10
Apinach
Turnips,
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Vegetable Marrow
Water Cress..
12
Water Lily Boot
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nearby.
He criticizes pungently pro- the student to this particular The walls of the hut are entirely posals placed recently before the corner of London. papered with a large-scale diagram Disarmament Conference at of the grid, on which every town Geneva. He exposes the total in- and village taking supply is repre- ability of many of the plans put thening of the Air Aira the total sented.
forward to avert dishonest evasion)cost of defence can be much re- Coloured tabs represent the vol-—“many countries have designed änced and that much of the work tage passing through the switches their civil aircraft with particular now done by the Army' and the at these towns-pink, means 180,- reference to their swift adapt-Navy can be performed more eff- 000 volts, blue 23,000 volts, yellow, ability to war uses" and the ab-ciently and at vastly less cost by 66,000 volta
¡surd illogicality of other sug- the Air Force. Even those who At a word, the man in control gestions. For example, he points "fy off the handle” at this latter could plonge a vast section of Eng- out that the proposal to prohibit or remark will find it hard to refute land into darkness."
Kimit the size of heavy hombers is the arguments and facts marshall- He knows the exact number of futile, because "two single-engined' ed by the author in this extremely Kilowatts generated by every sta-bombers can do as much, often competent and interesting little tion in the area.
more, damage than one big one."- volume, which is well worth the Finally, Major Turner makes the five shillings that Pitman's, the blunt statements that by streng publishers, ask for it.
COASTWISE
by
'ALGIE" BENNETT. An interesting book of Cartoons depicting “Happenings" on the China Coast,
PRICE $1.00.
Now on sale at
BREWERS'
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAWA
· EXCELSION BOOK STORE.
and at the Publiskāra
f
The Newspaper-Entétprius Ltd.
China Mail“Building.
Sugar And Colton Houses?
Building Research Test] In America.
Detroit, Michigan. Houses of sugar and cotton have been described before a bailding Congress here, as possibilities of
A cotton
[thering the builders' claima' of
economy in construction.
At the same time delegates heard a research expert describe the "house that sugar bulit.”
"Sugar," he said, “forms, a soluble compound with hydrated| lime, a compound which he claim the future in American architec» ed is more active than the ordinary tare.
|slightly soluble sinked Hima,”
"The" addition of sugar,” he attan,|said, "would Increase the strength “Con- of limp-mortar used in construction grisk. The exterior" wally, the by 50 per cent.". roof; and Interior walls' and patti- "The legidal extension of the [tions are surfaced with cotten application of sugar to lime inʼita fabric, with wooden framework fusos la to include surar în mand- and "light-weight ⠀ sheathing fur-{lima brick,” he added, "Reuter.
ploying cotton fabric,' dra tion at the exhibitą
SOMETHING NEW IN
THE WAY OF FOOD
under European
--but now
you can
Management.
REMEMBER
teeth are living paris of your body. They may be ill through lack of, the proper nourishment - Calgium.
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from within—”
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The Committee of the above Society would be mort grateful if those interested in its work would kindly send in their donations or subscriptions.
Money is urgently needed and funds are very low, No amount is too small and will be most thankfully scafved by the Hon. Treasurer,
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