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When Eton reassembled without a genuine French master for the first time for years.
As he had served in the French navy and army, and emigrated to
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in
ELEVEN MILES ABOVE THE EARTH
STRATOSPHERE ASCENT
ADVENTURES
THRILLS WHILE LANDING
experiments
Parachutes Donned
were over
The 'modern schoolmaster is get- ting as different from the pre-War Mar Cosyns tells the fascinating four spectrographic work was going In the article below Professor easterly direction. All this while article as the bright, aseptic, pre-story of his adventures in the strasjon and Ionisation bationer is from Suirey Gamp. "
M. Larsonnier, who returns to record breaking balloon ancent. He
tosphere when he made his recent were being conducted. Eton no more, was a joyful remini-reached a height of nearly 16,000 scene of other days."
At 9.52 we took our bearings and He taught efficiently; but he could most in disaster.
and the adventure ended al- etres,
we found ourselves above Nancy. always be diverted into stories of
We were not to see the ground his dead life.
Ljubljana.again for over eighty minutes, OOKING back on the ascent
into the stratosphere which we were able to take some photo- when the clouds troke again and America in his time, there were we recently, completed I can Say graphs. We
that it was carried out in circum the Rhine but could not tell over
BBW we plenty of these,
The favourite gambit on a bor stances which were a distinct im- what apot, but we
estimated. day was! "Please, sir tell
provement on the ascents of a that. us
we were somewhere about the time you and your platoon
similar character in past years, In the region of Strasbourg. Fifty. camped on the Empress's hed
To begin in chronological order, minutes later we took an astro- Peiping."
we cast off from the ground at nomical observation and we found Hour Havenne at 6,38 a.m. on that we were just north of the Saturday, Aug. 18. We rose at a Swiss frontier. At noon we were fair speed, going at the rate of stil moving south-east af about Non-yachting people, although about four metres per second up eighty kilometres an interested in the result of the races to a height of 600 metres. There continued at the same level for hour. We for the America's Cup, were puzzled we slowed down to 1.60 metres nearly an hour and a half and by the names of some of the sailsiper second and then we increased then we decided to rise further which figured no prominently in the four speed to 3 metres. I am quot-into the stratosphere. In view of
The two chief mysteries appear to
ing from my log book.
possible accidents we put on the ba what are referred to as "the bal- The sun was beginning to warm and at 1:30 pm we threw out our Repairs With Vaseline ..parachutes that we had taken off loonor "ballooner," and "the up the balkon and its gas content first bag of ballast which
started expanding. We continued quickly followed by a second one a colloquial rising at a steady rate of three
By this time we were rising at name for the single large sail in metres per second and at 6.32 a.m. the rate of four metres 'n secondi front of the mast.
It is usually we had already risen to a height and in order to increase our rate called a. Genoa, or Yankee, lib. It of 2,300 metres. At about this of ascent we dropped three Science has put into human is used in beating or sailing across time the thermometer inside our sacks of ballast without, however, hands a power of destruction wind. which is in advance of any visi- “The parachute” is a colloquialism centigrade. A quarter of an hour
gondola registered 15 degrees appreciably improving this rate. Hong Kong, Saturday, Oct. 27, 1934 ble development of moral control; for the immense spinnaker which later a first untowird incident oc- shock because we noticed
At about this time we had a' and what makes more panie than these large racing yachts carry when anything else is that the destruc- they are running before, the wind. had developed in our solanometer gondola
curred. We saw
a slight crack three of the cords by which the tion must necessarily be whole-It is a counterpart to the mainsail and we mended it with vaseline. balloon had parted. There was no was attached to the sale and indiscriminate. All the on the opposite side of the mast. old rules about "combatant When the wind is dead astern the speed began to increase-and-at cause twenty-nine other cords-
Little by little our ascending particular danger, however, be- _One_of_the_oddities of diplo forces," "uniformed troops", or two-sails-form almost a straight macy is the way in which a word "armies in the field" are out of line across the boat. which has been totally unknown date so far as aerial bombard- or of very partial currency sud-[ment is concerned. The whole denly meets us in every para- population of an enemy country i graph of news, and acquires a "in the field"; and in Japan more technical connotation. At the than anywhere else has this been When found make a pote
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6,300 metres we were rising at were holding well. the rate of 7 metres a second. At By 2.87 p.m. we had thrown out that moment the pressure inside seven bags of ballast out of the the gondola was only equivalent to eight in the gondalo but our rate an altitude of 2,450 metres. The of ascent had not Improved, in gas by this time had completely fact it had dropped from four time of the "Scramble for Africa" realised. When there was
expanded the balloon and hoar metres to three metres a second. when old maps were raked out thought to be a possibility of war and failed to settle disputes two years ago with Russia, the "Where in that beautiful canary bira
frost began to trickle out of the A break in the clouds enable us to
F base of the envelope.
measure our horizontal speed about boundaries because it was Japanese Government, with that of yours that used to sing, no cleanly Masses of cloud were encounted which fell for a short while to 55 found that rivers had altered thoroughness of preparation for and sweetly?" asked Mrs. Weatherbee between 8,000 and 5000 metres kilometres an hour. their course or spread out into which it is famous, put the whole said tearfully. My son left the cage see nothing. We still continued
"I had to sell him," deltas, we had to become familiar country through a drill of pre-on the radio set and he learned stato rise and half an hour later we river. which must have been the
Mrs. Butiam up at about 7 a.m, and we could
Views Of The Alps with the word "thalweg" which paration for air-raids, with tic.""
We saw and photographed a was of course of German origin, lights out, stoppage of traffic, and
found ourselves at 11,000 metres. Inn, and far away to the south Fortunate
We had therefore entered the east we could view the chain of portion of the bed of the main Even if this was only experimen-
Poet: "Darling, I love you more than statosphere. stream. To-day we are the word tal, it seems-probable that the words can tell."""
the Alps. Atmospheric pressure She: "Good, I was afraid you were the first time of the handle of the about 80.5 millimetres. A three We now began to make use for outside the gondola had risen to
and meant the central or deepest shelter in bomb-proof funk-holes-
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"global" bandied about with the experiment is very largely respon-going to write another poem for me." stabiliser fitted inside the gondola o'clock we were over the moun- same familiarity. It has noth-sible for the restless war neurosis Rheumatism, asthma, sciatica, ing to do with any globe, the in-from which the people have suf- lumbago, insect bites, sores, head-terests of the orbis
Sk-h-h!
and it worked admirably. This aptains at a height of between 15,500 terrarum fered ever since; and the effect Pedestrian (to boy leading a skinny paratus enabled us to stop our up and 16,000 metres. By this time aches, coughs, colds, chilblains, being the last thing to be con- has not been decreased by the mongrel pup): "What kind of dog is ward journey. The only failure in pressure was at its maximum piles, sprains and dislocations. sidered.
strict press censorship which has that, my boy kept back any realisation that Pedestrian: "That doesn't look like the rest of the world is not as a police dog.”
matter of fact straining at the Boy: "Nope: it's in the secret into splinters. leash to blow those crowded cities vice."
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The idea of limiting navies by specifying a grand total of ton- nage for all the ships flying one flag that would be available for use in war, was put forward by Japan at the London Conference;
It is natural therefore that the
Boy: "This is a police dog."
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
ser
it was rejected because its ap-call urgent demand should be parent simplicity faded away on for the abolition of aircraft-car close analysis, like the equally riers, which are nothing But The 3.8. Sirdhann left Singapore attractive classification of wea- movable bases for the form of at-for Hong Kong on Thursday, and pons into offensive and defensive. tack which causes the most an-is duc here on Tuesday morning. In meeting an invader what is xiety. One may admire the en-
a defensive weapon from the terprise.. of correspondents in
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tion at the rate of 60 kilometres.
an hour. We remained at a height
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LAURENTIC'S GOLD CARGO
a cane ring which was intended to the end of our flight at an altitudo the fitting was in connection with point and we remained almost to keep the handle of the stabiliser equivalent to a pressure of 70 to cylindrical. This was damaged 80 millimetres. Inside the gon- while we were making our depardola pressure was only the equiva- ture but it did not in any way inter-lent of that to be found at an fere with the working of the ap-altitude of 2,300 metres and the in-.. paratus.
side temperature slowly worked Spectographic Pictures up from zero centigrade to 4 de- ground as we were floating above
We could see nothing of the grees centigrade.
We carried ont a certain num- the thick mass of clouds. We oc ber of experiments with reference cupled ourselves in measuring aur to ozone bat from 4 o'clock on- point of view of the army that is Washington who are able to an fever was reported in the Colony clouds and we found that we were gan to give us a lot of trouble. One case of imported typhoid horizontal speed in relation to the wards the damp and the cold be- resisting the invasion is tactical- ticipate argument and counter during the 24 hours ended October moving in a south-easterly direc ly offensive, and vice versa. In argument that are being sur naval construction what makes posedly pressed behind closed all the difference between a feel doors in London without attempt. ing of security and panic is the ing to emulate their omniscience; H.K. ANTI-MUI TSAI range of action of the opposing but this at least may be pointed fleet. In the last war quite a out, that the demand for the number of American citizens abolition of aircraft-carriers is had been drowned by the sinking inconsistent with "global limita- of passenger ships without pro-tion". Taking for granted the ducing any national movement fierce aggressiveness which 19 for intervention; what made assumed, any malevolent nation the difference was the appear-would concentrate on the form of ance of long range submarines armament most disliked by the off the Sandy Hook lighthouse, enemy in this case, that very outside of the harbour of New type of ship. It is surprising York. From the Japanese point therefore that our informants Hong Kong held its fifteenth anndal with great diffenity three radio was still £1,000,000 waiting to be The Anti Muf taal Society of of view the undertaking not to have already begun to hedge by meeting at the Chinese Young Wo-messages and I see from my log recovered. turn any Pacific ports into naval talking about "classified global man's Christian Association at that they were noted at B.07 s., Commander Frank Gilliland, of bases added enormously to the lam", which is not globalism at Bonham Road last evening, when 8.36 am and 8.51 am. They were Londonderry, in a statement re- relative strength of the Japanese all, but the system adopted at the the report on the year's work was Belgian radio messages but we garding the Admiralty salvage fleet by increasing the range at London Conference for battle. which any enemy would have to ships and cruisers. England, an-
presented.
could scarcely detect any words operations, said that he had re-
SOCIETY
Annual Meeting At Y.W.C.A. Yesterday
PAST YEAR'S WORK REVIEWED
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the purpose of taking spectro of 11,000 metres for some time for
graphic pictures, PA
It was intensely cold outside the
Officially Stated £38,900 At Old Valuation
registering 40 degrees centigrade balloon, our outside thermometera
of frost. Inside the gondola the The value of the gold still lying temperature was less than five de in the hulk of the torpedoed grees centigrade below zero. Both liner Laurentje, off Laugh Swilly. the temperature and the atmos Co. Donegal, is officially stated to pheric pressure inside the gondola de only £38,910, at the gold ktan- remained largely atationary. (dard price of the inetal
At this moment we picked up
It had been supposed that there
of
act. The newspapers whose en-xious to protect her homeward The report shows that while because a very powerful German Ceived a letter from Captain G. terprising correspondents have bound ships in the narrow seas much good has been achieved in station on much the same wave C. Damant, who was in command been freely expressing intelligent proposed the abolition of subconjunction with the muf tei Regis length was blanketing the Belgian of H.M.S., Racer, which carried anticipations of the confidential marines, a security which was fration Department at the Secre wave. At 8.15, however, we did out the salvage operations; and London are inclined to talk as I she had, so many barbours, from much more to be done before the gian station complaining that it official figures were! Val discussions now proceeding in firmly rejected by France because tariat of Chinese Affairs, there was honr for a moment or two a Bel. Captain Damant stated: "The At the Washington Conference no tively. Naval limitation may be ficulties in the way of total aboll- from us, all the trumps were in one hand, which they could be used effec: evil is finally eradicated. The dif- was not receiving any messages gold sunk, £4,997,618 value of less than five treatles were sign-useful for economy; but the only
800 recovered £4958,708 value tion were
again instanced by Five or six mintues later the
gold abandoned £98,910, ed, and the privilege of abroga-radical solution of the intricacies speakers at the meeting, tion is not confined to any one is to give up the wish to blow A musical programme was ably see the ground far beneath us. We course, the price of gold
clouds broke and we were able to
The letter addel "But of the signatories. other people to bits and to regain rende by students of the Yeung quickly calculated our
60 per cent. The question of range of action the old confidence that foreigners Chur has been revolutionised by the are equally free from any such
so the valu development of, the air force genial designs.
Girls School and others, the gro
eed over when these
and found atiafrate
Wong Sum-kan took the were chair, and Introduced the speakers metres an hour still in: Voi
bara corresp