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THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1947.
Science At The
Service
World's
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
Once a year in normal times token,to cool the uranium and not yet know to what extent the in Britain there is an unique consequently, the heat generated [formation of products of fission and thoroughly mixed gathering by firslon has to be Umiled to 50 will lead to the poisoning of the of men of science and Interested Kliowaits. The next stage is to chain reaction due to their laymen known 08 the Annual increase the power very con- judditional absorption of the Meeting of the British Aascela ulderably by blowing air- past neutrons reduced. In any case, tion. The primary object' of utenlum rods at high speeds, the immediate and certain ben. this meeting is to make maro The primary uses of this pile efits of nuclear energy will come widely known the progress of are to obtain basic nuclear from the production of radio ac. aclence especially as it affects phy+lent measurements and totive isotopes and the use of the general public of every na. produce radio active isotopes of nucionr reaction for scientific tion. This year we were Dundee, one of the larger cities of Scotland, where we were in- terrupted in the middle of the same enterprise eight years ago. In the Arst week's programine; with the It seemed to me that the subjeels elements that will be of use in The discussion on Penicillin
in
By lan Cox
One of the most
research, Soon then we may ex- pect the number of lives saved by the use of nuclear energy to exceed these lost by the drop. ping of the two bomba over Japan.
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COAT, 1943 BY NTA SERVISS, DR. T. M. NEO, U. 8. FAT, OFF.
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"in his final semester he got all A's--Junior, say some- thing in algebra for Mrs. Parsons!"
Upon the course and outcome of the meeting, commenced yet. terday, of the General Assembly
widest appeal of the United Nations, the future
were biological research, In medical was led off by Sir. Ambrose peacetime applications of
Fleming, Its discoverer. Penicil. of the Organisations and of much nuclear fisstor" and "Peniellin practice and in industry. well depend. Its and other antibetics"-a decision properties of the reactor
Important, ho sold, is an antibetic, that agenda includes a number of con- that was borne out by the very large scale
la the 19,
a substance produced by a transformation of living body which has a destruc. tentious matters of which the large attendance at both of these the elements which takes place tive or Inhibitory effect on principal are the situation in the discussions.
In the fission process--a medium micro-organlam. There are many sired pile is a source ten times opocryphal stories about is dis. powerful as the largest covery, but Ambrose gave us the cyclotron for producing radio true one, which was simply that active elementx, But herein lies while he was working at St. Mary's one of the major uncertainties Hospital, London, in 1928, a stray the roit estimates that a world run tum alighted
of the future for Professor Cock. spore of the mould Penicillin Noto-
on the jelly ason nuclear power would turn out which he was growing some other energy daily
material with a radio micro-organisms, and be observed into activity
of the order of titty that it grew. It had an million curies (even after an al. antibiotic effect on them. Ten lowance is made for a decay of years afterwards chemical work- three months) so the same dis.era in Oxford succeeded in con-
the substance
this posal of these radio active pro.centrating ducts
very mould produced and demonstrat
d. Its remarkable properties. The whle.cure they used was descended directly from that made by Sir Ambrose. During the second World War these Oxford chemists
to 3-earls over the
2-Spades took a specimen of their culture
NEITHER SHOULD
while holding no
defensive As to when nuclear Assion to the United States of America
GET IT
trength outside of North's rehid might be applied to power gen.ond Induced the manufacturera to
When the cards are so distribut- hearts except the diamond K. Be cration in Britain. Professor undertake largescale production, ed that both sides can make game fore doing it, he reflected on the
akie fact
that the opponents their best auit, neither Cockroft was uncertain. He sald A, a result of Penicillin produc-In It was possible that experimental tion in Leth Britain and Amerler should do it. If that sounds para shown a fine spade fit, that he Falve had three himself and that there- the sub-doxical, just consider the power plants would be built dur. there was enough of ing the next five
and stance when D-Day arrived in of sacrifice bids.to cut down your fore North was bound to be short when that was done he might be 1944 for every wounded man t losses. If you have bid to a game in the suit, with surely no more able to make predictions; at the be treated by it when necessary. you can make, and the opponents than a singleton, if that. Hence, moment, however, insufficient is known about possible operating difficulties. For example, we did
or camps.
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The Gleep
The "Cleep" is a small pile. about six tons of pure uraniuin being used with several hundred tons of pure graphite. At present no special measures have
is likely to be a
problem an on
becomes a atomic power been spread actuality.
100 Years Ago
(From the files of the "Ching Mail")
Operating Difficulties
years
21
No Miracle
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority as Authorities"
had
5-Hearts
then overcall with a game contrast there might be a play for game, which they can make, are you go and in any event the ing to let them get away with it? probably could not be punished Wouldn't you rather go one level fndly, Sir Ambrose was very firm in higher than your maximum safe stating that Penicillin is not a contract and be set one? That will miraculous substance that will cont you less than their game
would, cure all ls. It must be used on
8.0 the 'right microbes and, be ad. ministered in such a way that it reaches the infecting microbes in sumetent amounts to kill them.
Balkans and the problem of Pales-}- The session on nuclear fission tine; but the whole outlook is was of particular interest be- it occasioned the first governed by the question whe-cause ther any fundamental agreement public appearance of Professor the J. Cockroft, Director of will or can be reached between Atomic Energy Research the Western Powers, on the one tablishnient at larwell since hand, and Soviet Russia, with first pile in Britain, know her group of Central and South-"GLEEP" (Graphite low Eastern European States, on the experimental pite), came |ofer, Given a spirit of agree-") uperation,
inent none of the items on thei Assembly's agenda. inherently
them difficult though some of are, would prove altogether in- tractable. In a sprech Bostant. Bussachusetts, last week, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Trygve Lic. dealt frankly with this danger. From the standpoint of the United Nations, he said, it is simply not conceivable or tolerable that the world shall be divided pendanently into several groups "1 say this," Mr. Trygve Lie added, "knowing that many conscientious and well meaning people in many linds have grown tired of the argunent and are tempted to call it off. In any case, and I say this in all seriousness, I cannot inake myself believe that this situation will be allowed to lead to another war within the foreseeable future. Everything that I know from observation, from the information at my disposal and from my con- tant with the leaders and people of the nations, convinces me that country with the power, to make war regards war as a prae- had tical proposition now or in the future. My immediate
Sir Ambrose's conclusion is that pre- PUBLIC AUCTION.-The sale It happened six years ngo
will continued
the study of antibiotics Mr. occupation,"
Ernst Koestrin of the Whale-ship "Hamilton", and and General
treatment change medical
In Trygve Lie, "is not that the air her effects, postponed on account et le sore about it. of hostility which prevails in so of the inclemenes of the weather,
but many ways largely as a result of vulnerable.) Now 70 years old,
In them of new 11militarily erect and snappy, the the discovery many quarters todays may lead to will take place on Tuesday at
o'clock .. actual armed conflict
German cavalry general of the chemical linkages which are des. tructive to bacterin. With a know.. Old School lives quietly global proportions. My greatest Just Received and for Sale-A Munich remembering what
of these linkages, ledge
the concern is with the effect which | Quantity of Holland's Geneva
chemist will doubtless be able to misunderstanding has upon the one doz Cases: Dutch Cheese; double-crosser was Adolf Hitler. prepare modifications which will
He told about it today over a have all the advantages and none because Foochow Bacon and Hams; Am whole scheme of work envisagede
Prime Butter in 16 lb. cup of coffee which even a Ger- of the disadvantages by the San Francisco Charter.'
to tural products. ・・ Hama; get any more. It is a tongue- voice of wisdom. Yet it cannot French Fate's: Martell's
Dark loosener, be forgotten what may be a crucial Fronch Cognac in Cares;
Brandy in Wood and
Bottles
Koestrin was military attache Real significance of the present As Jamaica Rum: Allsepra
Bassin Moscow in 1941, had been, sembly of the United Nations. Hodgson & Abbott's and Tennent there for years, so it was logical Its atmosphere threatens to re- Pale Ale in Hogsheads; Barclay & to ask him how much advance semble that of the Assembly of Perkins' Stout; Colonial Bottled information he had about the the League of Nations in 1935
Beer; Spanish Wine In Quarter Nazi attack on the U.S.S.R. in and 1936 which failed to agree and Port in Bottle and
Casks; Shaw & Maxwell's Sherry June.
Wood; "Advance Information?" he upon the effective means of pre- Byass Pale Sherry; Superior
snarled, venting or punishing Italian ag- Hock, Claret, Sauterne, and other
"None, gression against Abyssinia! That light Wines, &c. &c. Smith and failure encouraged Nazi Germany Brimelow,
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Catholic regularly by the clergy zealcus in the labour convertion; And they died nominally Christians. We are told that with one exception the criminals shewed great firmness an the scaffold and did not suffer much. The duty of Exceutioner was intrusted to an American who A brother killed by pirates some years ago..
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Still Soured
By Hitler
By TOM REEDEY
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The John L. Lewis
Of Britain
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Arthur Lewig Horner, gen-
What bidding would you favour eral secretary of the National problem, and with a sufficient here, with a fine card player in Hitler never told us anything. called the John L. Lewig of Bri-able prosperity.. Without a suf- the North!
Absolutely none. Union of Mineworkers, has been amount we can sustain a reason- } the South and only a fair one in
We found out from the Russians tain. He objects to the comficient supply, everything we
that we were at war,"
It was
Koestrin sald' that it
parison, and the two men to themselves to contrast, all.
The 53-year-old Horner, high Communist who has seen to inalde of five prisons,
lend aim to do is made impossible.
Full employment is a Utopian The
adream unless enough coa)
the provided."
was
is
Thus speaks the voice of Bri- hia elected by Britain's miners as tain's miners, who himself en-
or their leader even though three tered the pits at 18, after run-
to
Dutch Budget
of
to annext Austria, to crush Czechoslovakia in 1938 and to of warfare as we have known it 300,-
mortal blow attack Poland in September in the past. His view is, of Koestrin's pride, most of 250,-
1939. The second World War course, the only reasonable view. Well known to all the 400-thus started lasted until May and Yet it may not make sufficient Soviet military men, he had
August 1945 Meanwhile the allowance for human folly or for either_admit ignorance of 200-United Nations had been horn famatical plesigns. In 1867 the own. Government's doings
The Hague, Sept. 10. and in June, 1945, had been | English philosopher Herbert admit duplicity. That was
a montha_previously they had re- ning out of money while study. An optimistle note was struck [endowed with a Charter
wrote more Spencer
that war in pretty poor choice,
jected Communism. In influence, lag for missionary work at a by the Dutch Minister comprehensive than the League Europe was inconceivable because
Was his job compares with that of a Baptist college. His career in Finance, M. Pleter. Liefunc, Covenant. A year
later, in the commercial and financial in typical of Hitler though to make Cabinet Minister, and both Fer- cludes aid to the Irish citizens when he presented his 1948 Antil, 1916, the League of terests of European nations were gardless of their military effect. puty Minister Morrison like arid 1916, a jail term for refusing House this afternoon.
ail the political decisions re-eign Secretary Bovin and De. Army after the rebellion of budget to the Dutch Lower Nations held its final Assembly at so closely knit that war would The Fuehrer thought, said the admire him. Geneva and decided to go into involve losses out of all propor general, that all military men
fight for the capitalist It was intended 10 cut the "We just wish that he wasn't system in an ormy liquidation. Its palatial build- tion to any gain it might bring were dopes about things politica Communist," they say.
uniform, budget by 1,000,000,000 guilders many visits to Russin and
4] (some 498,000,000) he said and ings became the European head-Three years later, 1870, Prussia al. So he kept them in the dark. Horner describes himself as steady riso in British coal though great difficulties had quarters of the United Nations provoked the Franco-German war A little closer. Hatson might "a
Marxist and scientist," miners unions,
been encountered in the effort and its non-political activities to which gained for Germany the have kept Hitler informed about whereas he terms John L. Lewis When he became general to decrease expenditure, he felt gether with any members of its rich provinces of Alsace and Russia's potential might, the cover tactician who lives secretary of the National Union that a considerable improvement experienced staff were transferred Lorraine and a gold indemnity of general asserted.
from day to day":
in August, 1946, he became the had been achieved. to the United Nations. Today: £290,000,000, The various "We knew for years how Horner himself does. not most influential Commanist In The total expenditure estimai- in New York, the anxinus ques states of, Germany were united strong the Russians could bo", scorn a tactle here and there. Britain.
ed for, the entire service. In 1948 tion will haunt the minds of the in the second German Empire he said. "That Finnish cam Barred from the recent labour On election, Horner declared: amounted to 3,909,000,000 delegates in the United Nations which, in the space of 43 years, paign misled a lot of persons but conference at Margate because If ever there was a time when gudders about 806,300,000); Assembly whether this beneficient became the strongest and most of the Russians. It was a mis-called a press conference,
It was not deliberate pra the part of his Communism, Horner we all ought to work together, a decrease of 081,000,000 guil-
at regardless of our political num-political work is to be prosperous country in Europe. take,
orders (about 458,900,000) | on jeopardised or lost; and whether Its Emperor and his advisers innd would fall over easily, so euatority programme, that stole coal crisis. It is
They thought that Fin which he announced a three-year religious opinions, to solve the 1947-Reuter.
now."-As the folly of permanent disagree-dreamt of mastery over Europe they sent only half of an army. the whole show.
sociated Press. ment, and the division of the and the world. In March, 1914, Once the Finns
showed how. The short and sturdy Welsh- world into antagonistic groups, the " German Ambassador in proficient they were and that man, speaking as a member of WAR MEMORIAL shall drive the United Nations London asserted that any thought dawned on the Russians, they the Communist Party executive, along the downward path which of war would be folly. In the sent in a really good army. told the Government that coal
FUND the League of Nations was com following August. Germany let Then the Finnish campaign was the key to Britain's plight | In Memory of the Jale Geo. K, and police: in Jerusalem today pelled to tread. To this ques: lome the first World War ended in a month, of course," and made these demands for his Hall Brutton-Mr. & Mrs. DL after reports of explosions near tion the answer "must" depend Undeterred by disaster Nazi Koestrin says that the Russian miners: Exemption from in Strellett 8300, Mr. J. Prior the Jewish Agency bulldings in. Ingely, if not entirely, upon; the Germany unleashed; the scconda first class infantryman, but come tax, larger food and 300, D.K. 128. Total 405: Hong King George Avenue; and, in a policies of Soviet Russia and of World War in 1939. Like the that the country is still far from clothing ration, better lighting 1405 Received to 18th September, Jewish suburb, ja the United States. In his speech League of Nations, which was war. In the Second World War, minimum wage of six
able to produce the materials of In the mines and a Weekly 1947 $2,819,487.02. Grand Total
The alert lasted 80 minutos. at Boston, Mr. Trygve Lie anid, formed in 1920 to svert further he adds, the Russian tank and sterling ($24 United States)..
pounds $2,860,307,03.07
The explosions were · described. "We in the United Nations are war, the United Nations is now piano was interior and after His plan wint further than
ss' of 'a, type similar to those proceeding on the rock-bound faced with a possibility of failure: giallagrad it was only American benefits for the mutare. A con- With cheers and acclamations courses.
Canberra, Sept. 10 made by the Army of battle thesis that there must never be Upon the cohesion of its members material that helped the Red stant advocate of greater coal for Mr. Joseph Chifler the Prime another war." No country on the future of the world may armies to bound back.
The police Bendour per prodnation; he urged, volunteers Minister, the Australian-Labour radio: Instructio9%. earth, he declared, can now or in hang. If they are Hirim and to his opinion it will be a long in key industrise to work one Cacaneve retuxrizontalton - cara ao watch od
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