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WAR MEMORIAL
FUND
Of Tomorrow
By A Special Correspondent
an effective, echoes vary so exactly with the
for
The Obstacles
overcome
L
the distance of the obstacle that the
ទេវ
em-
Across a green field Bomo ed to produce thing, flashed. No one could see, weapon of war it, no one could hear it., It had' time being.
bat enn fudge its way within no form, and no substance
the tiniest fraction of an inch. but it killed swiftly, with silent)
bo Chiot obstacles still to
The Navy, taking Ita cue from force.
are immobility (for the bat, Installed in its warships Top-secret weapon after the the sound gun needs a lot of submarine-detecting devices atom bomb-Super-sound-had power for setting up the nee- which sent supersonics down in- been at work. True, its victim ensary oscillations) and the to the water and recorded the was only a rabbit, slaughtered difficulty of switching the beam echoca which they made on at 100 yards by the pressing of from one object to another. They striking submerged objects. a switch. But tomorrow ......?
It is not hard to think of other may prove insuperable. The appeal has today been
Will Super-Round be the Ofilelal secrecy is strict, for fields, opened up by the att launched for the Hong Kong weapon of a third World War7 super-sounds have more uses in vances In scientifle fighting War Memorial Fund and little Scientists outside a tight ring war than potential death-rays. which the closing years needs to be added to what has of secrecy which surrounds of At Britain's Ministry of Sup- World War II revealed, in already been said in advocational research in Britain and ply. which controls all warlike which supersonics can be
America-and in other coun- research, officials say that this ployed, and in which seientists of generous response. Sir trica where the thought of war is a "forbidden" subject, and in many countries are experi- Mark Young's farewell message is taken acriously-say he, that then are silent.
menting. Supersonics may yoi Of course, there la nothing prove to be the means of inter- on the eve of his departure is unless another war is a very
long way off. But there were secret about their existence. Al- cepting approaching rockets; I still fresh in most people's people who and much the same most everyone who has been to and at the other end they may
memories, with its earnest insis about atomic energy..
school known that above the help in the control of guided Ever alneo the walls of highest notea our cars-very missiles. tence that the immediate objects|
Jericho fell, man has had an in- ilmited instrumenta--can hear. But supersonics have their of the Fund represent a debt of kling of the power of sound. are countless others which are pencetime
their uses, too, and honour owed by this community has known It да с possible silent to a beenuse our hearing possibilitles for helping civilisa-
Men have
perished mechanism cannot to victims of the war, and we killer.
коре with ilon, as well as for destroying the Bound of belia
more than 20,000 vibrationa ait, are limitless. feel every
confidence that his from
and sirena, have suffered second. appead will prove not to have mysterious slckncasca after
Naturalists are aware, for in-}
Penetration been made in vain. The fund hearing even distant nolges,
stance, that the humming bird) Supersonics may, In. lime, an. has, as its primary purpose, "tol
But Super-sound has been
goes on singing long after it has swer many others of humanity's known only recently. Its powers, passed what is to us its highrat problems. It is not over-fancl-] render assistance both ໂດ the infinitely greater than those of note, that it to any that its ful to suggest that some day? dependants of members of the the more sound which can
be throat goes on pulsing with they may replace the knife in heard, are still half-mystery silent song. They know, too, that more than one branch, of sur- Colony's defence services who
potentialities, though not man hears only about half of gery, owing to their tremendous died in action or captivity and without promise of some good, the erleket's chirp, the other powera of penetration. also to members of those Services
are sinister.
half being high up in the The sound gun has proved, of wounds or
realm of Super-sound.
ton, to be far who by reason
and far cheaper., than. injuries,...are themselves now in need of assistance." Satisfac tion of this debt of honour is not matter that can be left over indefinitely. There are widows and orphans in, ur midst in dire straits, for whore no adequate provision has been made or
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Alarm
It is the application of these
Bat's Method
CARNIVAL
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BUCK CURRENCY.
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· By Dick Turner
B. PAT. OFF.
"You need more confidence in your work, Slug-confi- dence in a monetary system is what makes it operate as a medium of exchange!"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities"
FORCE CHOICE OF EVILS
Rcored the spade A, ruffed the spade 2 with the heart 3, ruffed
Almost certainly not, People recent war up to the advent of the oil is split into billions of two or more different discards / Club K-8, North the club A and
Left to themselves,
return,
S. A KJB 4 2 II. 74 2 D. Nong C. AJT
All that
ΠΟΥ
West could score was his diamond A: After that, club return would give.
three North the remaining
a diamond would' tricks, and give South the J of that suit, whereupon a club lead to dum- 18. Q 9 7 6 my would bring the other two N H. Q
tricks needed to complete his contract. W ED. Q3
more effective, Many of the prettiest plays the diamond 4 with the heart 4, That is why workers in Bri-
the in the game are those which of then led the heart 8 to the K. He ruffed the diamond G with tain's jet factories, where acro- principles to modern warfare machinery previously used for fer the opposition a choice of the heart J, discarding dummy's enginer testing at speed throw which has been kept der lock emulsifying, the process of mix-evits. The declarer first builds with the heart A. Ele laid down off "nelses". which are higher and key.
which he has the heart J. discarding dummy's other Ingredients. up a situation ing oil with
the Then
opponent A vessel containing, say, oil and planned.
club 7, then throw West in with than the human ear can catch,
after Might what
the heart to the 10. West had are frightened
It was with the help of super. water, and placed in the path must make his selection happened to the rabbit happen aonies that the British Navy of a supersonic beam, is led the next move, If it is a squeeze left only the diamond A-10 and to them?
fought the U-boat menace in the with such violent agitation that his option is between either of
spade KJ-8, South the diamond are being bombarded by super-Radar. The device used was a tiny particles and mixes easily, any of which will cost him a 3-6 and club 0-4. East had only sounds all the time, without - simple imitation of the bat's Supersonics will nge new trick. If it is a throw-in play, he the spade Q and club Q-10-9.
pick between two or more The made under the normal rules effect, It is only when the method of finding its way in the wine, giving it the flavour and can
and regulations of governmental super-sounds-on "supersonics" dark.
the "bouquet of rare old vin- different leade on the us they are called-are concen- One of the wonders of Nature tages. In Britain even the laun-ither of which wrecks him, finance.
is The pitter that
trated into a beam that they be is that the bat can fly blindfold, dries are experimenting with granted to widows of members
avoiding even the flimatest ob.! them, seeking a way of shaking came dangerous. of rise Volunteers has already
super-stacle placed in its way. It der rather than washing the dirt out! heen given wide publicity in these sounds, like ordinary sounds, this by sending out from the tip of peoples' clothes.
radiate outwards in all diree of its long, pointed nose beam
machines s. 10 G columes. To their number has tions; but when they are pro- of supersonics vastly higher very like the Navy's submarine H. 10 96 'to be added the families who have' duced artificially in sound gun than the squeak by which detectors are being fitted intoj
D. A K 10 nn legal claims to pensions, the-the contraption which killed human beings know of a bat's hundreds of tahtrawlers. Sim-
087 to presence; and these, striking plified so that even the roughest C. K 8 dependants of men
who died the rabbit--they rush out under Kempeitai torture rather gether with all the punch which against the obstacles, send back old anllor. can use them, they hundreds of thousands of vibra- echoes which the bat's big, show at a glance when there than surrender their loyalty to tong occurring every second can trumpet-like ears pick up. The (Continued at foot of Col. 7) the Allied cause. Early relief in give.
Super-sounda kill by "shak- several such cases is urgent and ing-up." All these vibrations imperative.
liv- The longer-range suddenly concentrating on aims of the War Memorial Fund, ing tissue dislocate and smash ino, are such as should persuade the delicate mechanism of life.
The sound gun, which acts on Hong
Kong open-handed the principle of a simple quartz generosity, for they envisage crystal being violently ancillat measures for the amelioration of ed in a small space with an out-
let in one direction only,
to
has
Meanwhile,
Rain Of Death--A New Atom Theory
C. Q 10 9 5 3 2
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C. 4 4
(Dealer South. Both vulnerable.)
Rides
South
West North East
Pasa
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Dbl
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4 H
Pass
It was a nice example of piling an impossible assignment onto the shoulders of an
-op- ponent.
Tomorrow's Problem
S.K 7 2
II. Q 8
D. K Q 9 6
C. K Q J 6
8. 3.10 ·
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SD. A 8 2 JC. 8
H. 10 9 8 7 6 4 2
S. A Q 9 5 4
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C. A 10 7 5 4
Pass 8 D Pass S. 8 6 3 5 H
H. KG South, who was a canny attor D. J 10.5 ney; John J. Robinson, playing │- 4-8 -- with another keen member of C. 9 3 2 Parla, May 29. and the jitterbugs in the juke the same profession, Archi Me conditions among the Colony's not yet been tried on man. Constantly a thorn in the side box joints. under-privileged and tangible ad- Wartime experiments, shrouded of the Germans during the oc-
Grath, was sound to refuse that "The cry to put these parasi alam Invitation, feeling he had much secrecy as Radar ditions to the Colony's social in as
France's "Lazous" tes cupation,
to work hos and the Manhattan Project, fall have now become the chief pro- spontaneously from
come already bid enough. Because of amenities: These are aims to
France's his pass and his ensuing play; paganda target of the Com-labourers who see them loafing he won a floo score for the which all can Bubscribe, in
munist-controlled labour unions, around in their fancy clothes, Montauk Club of Brooklyn in vulnerable.) memory, and in thanksgiving that
The wartime "zazous" move spending money In the night the strong Mayfair Club After North's 1 Diamond, war's shadow has been lifted.
ment was a rebellion against the clubs".
East's 1-Heart, South's 1-Spade Contributions to the Fund should
militant German work program- The CGT spokesman admitted He ruffed the diamond Kand North's 2-Clubs, what be addressed to Messrs. Lowe
the organisation had no concreto lead with dummy's heart 2, should South bid? |Bingham and Matthews, Mercan-
programme for putting the1 tile Bank Building, and cheques
"zazoua" to work and denied it should be crossed and made pay- able to "The Hong Kong War Memorial Fund."
100 Years
Ago Today
(From the files of the "China Mail," May 31, 1847)
By ELTON 'C. FAY
ia advocating forced labour. -
duplicate in New York.
(Continued from Col. 5.)
(Dealer North. Neither sido
the ends is a question of which the
of
poses is gradually becoming an "For my part," he said bit are shoals of fish under the keel, everyday affair, though how daher far it is keeping pace with their terly, it would not hurt me at and so vastly case the EX "MARY SPARKS"....Iron
me, Young French blades show all to see these people herded men's_task. Something very employment for more sinister nails assorted, Copper bent do, ed their contempt for the
Ocinto labour camps. Freedom is similar in being used by HOOVER
small chain for Topsail sheets, cupants by adopting an extreme relative and does not extend to Admiralty for mapping the sea- answer is a State secret. Hoop Iron, cooking utensils, conversion of the American ARGUMENT
2001- Ilving off the work of you fel bottom, and locating wrecks. many lands. furniture, pen knives, Cross cut,
alow men. But of course, ve
Little publicly known Everyday Affairs Ex-President Hoover's accusa-Hand Cuffs and Leg Irons, Axes, sulters costume, speaking
much English as they knew, don't seek any such extreme Recently It has been found the dangers they may hold for Dog Chains and Dollars; also a tion that Russia is determinedly few 6 lb. Jacs of very superior dancing to American jazz, and measures".
that supersonic beams, penetratinankind, even when peaceably of spurning all useful labour. delaying the rehabilitation of the
the ing steel, will discover flaws, employ the very dangers "To tell you the truth former Axis nations opens a wide
The Communiats, now earnest campaign against the Izazous'oven through. thicknesses of 20 which the jer men are now ap дуспие for reflection. That
ly engaged in winning France's was launched without any very feet and more, British railways prehensive. Minor effects are there has been continuous obstruc-)
post-war battle of production, soild programme. It is up to are using them regularly for known to be apathy, and drow-
siness; future possibilities claim there is no further point the law-makers to figure out teating axles. in the rebellion,
In fact, the harnessing
and› tho- rabbit's means of putting them to work". !
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