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MAKING THE SEAS SAFER CARNIVAL
That Britain is an laland has made the conquest of the sea vital to her existence. In war- time keep open the sea routes becomes a matter of life and death. An in Ho, many other ways, war stepped up research and discovery in nil things per- taining to the ser, Today, not only Britain, but other nations, maritime and otherwise, benet from new war-thuc devices and safety regulations which should save thousands of liver in the next few decades,"
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prepared special waterproof plete covering of wind-and charts for storing in lifeboats water-proof matorlat which en- In place of the former Ad-velopes the body. The legs of miralty charts which were ruin- the trousers end in a form of ed by immeralon In water.
Thousands of lives were lost in the past when the list of a sinking ship made it impossi- ble to launch the ships bonts. a launching skid has Now, been invented which allows the
By PROFESSOR A.M. LOW
A sailer's life is still one f! boats to the most dangerous of all, but thanks to scientifle. Invention ench voynge is no lenger adventure with only a 50 per cent, chance of survival.. Yet, t fuse. the same fine, rollista, The correspondent who urges alipwreck and, siner World War ats and so vague references to big 11, floating mines, take their Time collaborators and recom- toll of slipydog
and human emblazon the jives. mend tha Wr names twice-weekly, overlooks utte nt imur mod essential points. The Jaw of libel has yet to be removed 11- the
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rubber-lined shoes. The neck is also rubber jlnes, and the wrists are made airtight. The hands can be withdrawn into so that they are the sleeves completely covered. The ad- vantage of this wait is that if the wearer
to the is soaked skin before putting, it on he will quickly get over the chill. beenke the body heat raises the temperature of the water in the wet clothes. In the case of
A device has nino buen per- fected which enn be attached to a life-jacket or sult to give n light to indiente the wearer's 11: the water. The lamp is entueeted to a battery in a pocket, and will burn for about 10 hours.
1 is only in the 2012 century
position a great de that we have seen velopment of safety measures at sea. Before the coming of the and high explosive torpedo bab men ran moar pisks from the hazards of the pen than from any cuemy. the #abmate has introduced a deadly menace and the dangers 10 seamen are increased a hip
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be launched from either side of the ship. These strong sun the clothing acts skids are so simple that they as an insulator and keeps out! can be constructed from the excrunive heat. The auit is. ordinary materials found on elusel by zip fasteners and in any vessel,
so coloured that I in casy to To overcome the difficulty of | see.
lifeboats, carrying sufficient
now dino supplied. ruft are Permanent rafts are a feature of ship, and merchant vessels have to carry at least one of the specially-designet Ministry of War Transport rafts. This is made of wood with weather board round the sides and
tanka buoyancy
to keep it allout. It is so easily launched itgeft") that one man can jush it off Now, with his foot. It has a mast, A new type of stretcher ini
crude sails, a rough rudder and the result of war experience. equipment. The This is of stout canvas stiffen- lockers for effectiveness of this type of ed with bamboo slats and has raft is demonstrated by the ease the advantage of being easily of in British senmen, who. borne in narrow corners and in 1942, made a voyage kasting; steep stairways where an or- 34 days on one of them, 10ft. dinary stretcher would be use- long and 81, vide, when they lens. The patient is enclosed in were enat adrift in the South) a protective' flexible cane. Atlantic.
The maker, and standard, of} lifeboats or rafts to be carried Tabloid Food
on ships has also much im- provent. Every merchant ship Heltain has mandé good use of of 3,000 tons or more must now who have at least one motor life- wide with ade- gestions from seen bave had first-hand experience boat on each of shipwreck. The installation; quate supplies of fuel and radio of small metal mirrors in life-} équipment, the latter of ape-
early
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By Dick Turnor
„SOPP_119FTENEA BEOVER, NIC T. HI BIS. U 3. PAT. GEE.
“Well, with the housing situation what it is, do you think! it's safe to give the neighbors a chance to complain to the fandlord about my practicing?"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on
LATER TRICKS REQUIRED
Authorities"
bonts is que result, suggested] el design And capable of take made by average players, the defenders trum taking
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not just the eight tricks. which those hig carda will take. There Beyond doubt, the worst min was no earthly way to prevent by a seaman who used the lid operating even after being sub in use or misuse of the Black-trump trick unless one of them of a biscuit tin to flash signals | merged. Another interesting wood or Culbertson 4-No Trump would be foolish enough to lead a heart, which neither was. So to an approaching vessel. point is the installation of steel, slam convention, comes from em- the contract went down one.
Special tabloid food which is instead of wood lifeboats on, ploying at the wrong me,
The grand slam try at. No easy to store is provided and tankers,
Such probing for aces and kings Trumps would have been Just vecial clothing to aid survival. Britain has first place in in the partner's hand should The main principle of this these inventions and develop- seldom be done except when the as disheartening.
Lack of the heart 2 wan the to conventional bidder holda no
most important omission in the The ship their common use in the gen- adequate amount catrength in clothing a to use the air for ments which should lend retaining warmth. from wreck quit consists of a com- eral interest of the whole world. his own hand, over anil above declarer's equipment, but in No
other two qucènsin Trumpa the his own aces and kings. Later held by the defence could have trick-takers, consisting of
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Political China's
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Nanking, May 25. Recent statements of General
work of shore radar installnissimo Chiang Kai-shek and tions covering all parts of Bri- Premier Chang Chun reiterat ing the Government's willing tain.
As to achieve a political set- thement with the Reds are not
Conditlens of disaster at ken
dex of the country's position war, resulting from the civil crops are the only true baro- meter,
to queens, jacks and estabilshable made the grand slam possible
if they had been switched long-suit small cards or short-
the other side. ages where ruffing can be dune,
order of Incidentally, the are t to make the topcard
the bidding would oventa in information decisive,
have been sounder if West had."
hia properly bid 2-11earts on frat turn with that mighty line- up of his,
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hand to have a realistic applica- It is our thing to know, 14. anmather to prove.
It is relatively
conversational Radio aids to muvigati ʼn rank to dreover stenunciators of this, that the high is the developmenta
the man, and quite another to safety at sea. In 1944, the Bri- them to repeat their tish Government had strewly 312- alkratige in the witness box. begun inventrating the Mor impozant, whether we air sibility of using radar to help.
merchant shipping, and in terment with the decision on not, 43 amnesty covering a wide in 1940 Britain took a leading field of collaturation has been part in the London Internation- declared, and it must be presumed al meeting to enaider the msiy All Ad- that these who have not been problems involved.
miralty experimental vessel, a bought to trial have been
GOD-tun stemmer, was brought compted as coining within its
up the Solent entirely by the perius. Black with guilt as many use of radar. Seral systems of them may be, they have, for of, radio and radar were reasons of high policy which few stailed on this vessel to show have been able to follow, heen how British naval radio and played beyond the reach of the radar can be adapted to law: t so the newspaper which world needs. Radar apparatus ventured, at this stage in the reflects all radio waves
the as their nearby objects, such puceedings, to hold up
to public contempt and const, ships or bouys. upprobrium. Considerations such are picked up by a receiver and
transformed Into
moving as rise largely prompted our
htt criticism of the sentence in the picture on a chart su that the Gracie case.
When those who navigator gets a view of made fortunes collaborating with, position and the range of any the Japanese are not to be held object can then be measured ex actly by a device that draws answerable for their offences,
a cirete round its bearings,
been there is, as we have already said,
Plans have already something wrong, and contempti
made to have a complete not- ble, in pursuing those who cannot afford to meer even the expense of counsel to handle their defence. And when, aver and shove that, the sentence passed appears to be in war-time differ materially unduly harsh
whatever from those encountered in peace, angle the case may be reviewed, but many of the improvements and devices produced by Bri- then it is time that protest was
rats talu as result of war expierlence voiced. 'The
who
are likely to be equally valu- seen here as a new pence move, against his country is nat pleasant subject, no matter what able in saving life from ship as a revival of negotiations is his motives, nur how bitter his wreck by antural causes. For still conditioned ou
railways, ship-to-shore withdrawal from provocation, but to make fish of
medical service which started condition which the Commun- imme type and fowl of the other prior to the war has now been ista will never agree to. is by and large the greater crime developed into a first-class aga Partly as a result of the Gov- against society. Gracie, in any welfare organisation. Arouternment reverses in Manchuria, case, struck observers as a last Britain's cruals are 12 radio the impression has gained firm- sheep, a prodigal son, rather than stations from which operators er ground here that neither of a scoundrel, and therefore
askerp ceaseles watch for calls the warring factions in capable deserving of sympathy rather for help. In the vicinity of each of inleting a clearcut decisive
is defeat or the other. than misguided severity.
station a panel of doctors
The Reds, flushed with their available and, in, urgent cases, he can send and receive meя- Hucces in Magchuria, are con- able to function.. This stage, it now than is contended, in far off, certain- sages regarding treatment and sidered lean likely diagnosis. The importance of ever before to make peace ex-ly not on the cards this year.
Even If All circles realise labour and cept on their terms. such a service needs no elabora these conditions were to be fni student unrest in places like
Hankow, May 25. tion. It will be the means
file-and prospects, admitted Shanghal has considerable no-
Seventeen were seriously in- saving thousands of lives. This here, would be all-no one in litical influence int little effect jured and two houses wrecked by acrvice, by the
A scientific expedition to Nanking expects
Reds over the economle situation, thu
an explosion yesterday afternoon free of charge. ·
would agree to enter the Gov-
A crucial question in this na-in a dugout near the workmen's conduct research into the fish- ernment as junior partner tion remalas always the har dormitory of the Service of Sup- lug resources of the Okliotsk Chances Of Survivors
and sacrifice their armies on vest. It in freely admitted by ply's No. 7 Ammunition Depot. and Japan Sean left Leningrad
all sides that each successive resulh which their power now rests.
The dugout, crudely erected by for Sakhalin and the Kurile In- The many war-time
There is, however, no fear crisis was worse than the pre- the Japanese during the war lands.
Govern- ceding, but it is believed the contained about 500 kilegrumines
expedition has four of a downfall of the men! in the sense of control country can surmount a pyra of explosives which exploded due passing to a completely differ-miding crisis sometimes with to the summer heat. The No. 7 shipa at its disposal and it is ent group and even if the milf- out the banishment of the cen-ammunition depot, however, was intended to sead at least 15
situation tral authority.
not affected by the explosion parties to various placca in this tary-politico-economle
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immense area.-Reoter. retrogresses still further It would have to travel very far Indeed, in the opinion of most abservers, before Chiang Kai-
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SHOP WINDOW In spite of the difficulties errated for British industry by the furl fanion, the British Industries Fair, which has just closed, is a sigu that the wounds inflicted by that disaster are not mortal, Be- fore the war the Fair had establi shed itself as the greatest national trade fair in the world, the tions and equipment supplied Empire's shop window in a real for ships boats will also be of of the word. That it inestimable benefit in peacetinte. should be resumed at all so soon Britain's Ministry
click world-wide after the war would have been Transport evidence of confidence and vitali-service in laying down the exact to be carried In ty. Its resumption on an enlarged equipment.
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the Red
The process of economic dis integration began in. wartime, inexorably continuing but what point this disintegration will becutre a collapse is any- one's guess.
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How should South play for 6- and if the country splits into West have all of the aces and regional divisions, defying the all of the kings, but it requires Hearts in a rubber game, after central authority and if as a 13 tricks to make a grand slam, Weat leads the diamond 107 result the latter becomes un-
EXPLOSION IN HANKOW
Central News.
EXPEDITION TO OKHOTSK SEA
The
Moscow, May 25.
sea shek's personal ponition would THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
Here are a few of the dc- talle which Britain's lifeboats
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Communista
difficulties of the winter is in survival for shipwrecked itself a definite achievement. men have enormunely improved. be compromised." More buyers and more interested visitors attended than had before,
Student Unrest doubly to justify the enterprise now have to carry-First-aid The only big group today in China which can be described Nevertheless, we must recognise outfit in water-tight case; that a shop window which invites for massage and for pouring as optimistle are the Chinese themselves who purchasers for wares which cannot on rough water; red flares for
"ontinually claim military auc- be promptly delivered in scarcely attracting passing vessela;
conviction fulfilling its purpuse. It is re-loud-hatler which will carry the ceasca and exorcas
convle- assuring to
Butch note that delivery slightest whisper 5,000 yards; of ultimate victory, a
fall of terms for articles exhibited were hand rockets, and smoke signala kion unshaken by even reasonable and in some instances which float on the water and hat setbacks, as the
Yeran, make, distress signals visible good. The Fair is, of course
The present student unrest is from air and Bea special mainly a sample of quality but, in
acen by all quarters here na be to produce drinking ing of immense significance, devicċa a world hungry for consumer
wator fram sea water; wire particularly in goods of all sorts, quantity and ropes Instead of hemp. Lifeboat the Government and weakening embarrassing speed of delivery are sets
equipment is fixed so that If its prestige, but it is believed usually attractive. How far the boat, upsets when launched the administration will nome- they can be claimed for British the equipment remains in pohi-how. manage to bring it under products depends to a very great tion, and drinking water con control.
extent on the introduction of the | tainers are, fixed to, the hulls Foreign exports on China five-day week in the mines. The of lifeboats. to enable people wille concerned, aro not alarm response of the miners will who scramble on to them to ed by the steady blackmarkot decide whether the shop window hold on in comparative safety, dopreciation value of the Chin- really means business or is only Britain's Navigators, and Enese dollar, their argument being. a brave gesture.
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