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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1947.
Prof. Piccard's Venture
Into The Unknown
•
By Alfred Cheval
Fifty three thousand feet up to avoid losing time in making be quickly brought to the sen's in the sky, in 1932, and 12,000 notes,
surface. The plot will be able feet below the sea in 1947, or a Chemicals will keep the to control release of gus-oto total perpendicular distance
breathable of atmosphere
while slow down too speedy ascent. €5,000 feet such will be 63- batteries will command the in- Another of Piccard's probleme year-old Swiss scientist Auguste strumérle
was how to know whether the Plecard'a record if he succeeds One window frame will be re-submersible is going up or in hia deep sea expedition in movable and used as an exit down. This was solved by the Gulf of Guinea
but it will open only when the small electric device composed on of a propellor moved by the
*
water flow. It will send radio be signals to the cabin on up or
Plecard and Max Conyna, hla submarine vessel is back naslatant, are now busy getting board the mother ship. their "bathyscaphe" (from the The spheric cabin will ***Greek meaning undersen vessel) topped by two motors to pro-down movements.
3 months
6 montba
One year
H.K.$18.00 H.K.$30.00 H.K.171.00
DEATH
ANGUS.--On Oct. 1, 1947 at 0.18 p.m. at the Queen Mary Hospital, Mrs. Matilda Angus. Aged 74 years. Funeral will
pass the Monument at 6 p.m. today,
COLLISION
ready and hope to leave Ant-pel it over the ocean floor. The By favour of the British Ad-j werp for the Gulf of Guinea, shipshaped container to which miralty, the Scaldis has boen | West Africa, at the end of Sep. the cabin will be attached will fitted with a short, wave device tembor on their transporter be filled with lightweight gas. by means of which the submer- ship, the Belgian cargo vessel oll, caaleat and cheapest meanssible will be in contact with the "Scaldis."
to replace the too easily com- mothership, pressed he lum.
Plecard's aubmarine, or "un dersca balloon" ns he likes to call it, la indeed very similar to the Professor's
Electrical Control
Crossing A Bridge
The sub will then be dropped
to
pressure device Antended bring it up again. If all goes well, Piccard and Cosyns will
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner,
8-17
COPIL 194Y HY MEN TERVISE THE LAA
"Have him take the pink pills every three hours and the *brown ones right after he gets my bill!”.
Weighing 60 tons when fully loaded it will not be difficult When the Soaldis, darrying stratvapheric for Piccard's submarine to be Plecard and a few scientists, ballon, the prowar F.B.R.S.I. brought down to the bottom of geologists, and naturalists and 'The collision between thei
The bathyscaphe's main part the sen. One of the great pro- biologiats, nears the zero point United States and the Soviet over pheric cabin suspended from a Professor had to face was, as will be put on the sea by the ls like the stratosphere balloon's blems the tall, white haired in the Gulf, the bathyscaphe| Security Council membership, now light metal shipshaped container in a balloon, how to carry release mother ship's winches and ita likely to be resolved by agreement holding gas-off as a balloon holds able ballast and how to drop containers filled" with gas-oll. on the selection of Czecho-hellum or any other light gas. it, islovakia, is sufficient to reveal But Plecard's undersea balloon This is how Piccard has solved unmanned, under control of ♫ how important the present session will have to bear pressure of that problem. of the United Nations Assembly 6,000 pounds per square
Inch. may be in the history of our tirnes. Its steel cabin walls therefore: A small matter in itself, on the are about 3 1/2 inches thick at
Under the gas-oil container then go on board to be carried surface, it is nevertheless, sympto
their thinnest part,
powerful electric magneta will deep into the sea, to one place Through thick The United States Secre- plexiglas windows, one looking and iron filings as well as the being has ever been,
cone-shaped attract pieces of ferro-concrete on the earth where ao human tary of State, Mr. Marshall, has downwards and the other made it clear that he intends towards, the pilot and his
up-heavy batteries commanding the Piccard and Cosyns are now com- machine, Release of the bainst busy In Antwerp getting ready bring matters to a definite issue panion will be able to observe will
Belgian with Russia during this meeting. deep sea life lighted up by out- from the cabin.
be electrically controlled to realise, under the
National Selentific Research The primary question which healde powerful searchlights.
If by accident the electric Fund's sponsorship.
the pro has selected for his purpose is
power should be cut off, the feasor's 40-year dream. the threat to Greek independence The spheric cabin, cybing 141 ballast would be dropped and, Having radiographed every selection of From the Communist-dominated square feet, will contain several because of the lighter than water inch of his aphoric cabin walls leaves no doubt that States of Albania, Yugoslavia and gadgets including a "dietnphone" gas-oil, the submersible would and tried its floats under high avidity for colour, style Bulgaria through their aid
pressure to avoid any possible beauty will be further satisfied haired and sparkling, sho JA accident, Greek
the tall rebels. Behind
professor by so much youthful charm and ove these States stand. Soviet Russia, Over
likes to compare, as far as risks loveliness,
friends are concerned, his expedition to Counted among the eight who their activities she has cast the protective mantle
of her veto.
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In an attempt to deprive them of that cloak of diplomatic in-
Spheric Cabin
Re-Educating Nazi Children
The American military gov- F. Shafer, who recently termin.ed Press. ernment has had little successated two years of service here in re-educating Germanas head of AMG's education
the
children in Berlin for demo-branch for Berlin. He is re- cracy, partly because its pro- turning to a post in the Glen- ramme has "not been dynamic dhle, California public school
"we've system, which enough" and because been alckeningly
clous.**
he loft four to serve with penny-con-years ago
the army and military govern-
to
That is the opinion of Paul ment.
100 Years Ago
Surveying Allied efforts re-educate the German chil-1
Д
Princess Elizabeth's Bridesmaids
Austere the wedding of Prin-[of the Queen also will serve cess Elizabeth may be, but the the Hon. Margaret Elphinstone, her bridesmaids 22-year-old daughter" "of Lord public Elphinstone, who married Her and Majesty's oldest sister. Dark-
of
Elizabeth's clonest.
Like another of the brides-
accom-
tho
a train crossing a bridge which were chosen-the traditional maids-Lady Caroline Mon- has just been approved for number for a royal wedding- tagu-Douglas Scott-Margaret three or four times heavier load. are some of the fairest girls of Elphinstone has often "No one is afraid of crossing court and kingdom, most of paled Princess Elizabeth and the bridge," he said-Associat- them related to the ruling Princess
to Margaret
dinner parties family, and all Intimates of the theatre, and to bride-to-be.
and dances in fashionable West them-End clubs and restaurants, Lady Beven. Caroline, 20, is the younger of the Duke and and Alexandra of Kent, ten Duchess of Buccleuch and ✡ years old, and the youngest in sister of the Duchess of North- the array, for whom this will umberland, be her second time as a bride's attendant.
Two are princesses, selves, Margaret Rose
No Welcome teen-year-old sister of Elizabeth, daughter On The Soviet Map
The choice of Princess Mar- guret to be chief bridesmaid was, of course, Inevitable, for and it is sometimes forgotten
Washington, Oct. 1. dren here, Shafer said in an Russia has refused to permit interview:
members of the US Senate Ap.
élder mald at the wedding of four occupy-propriation Committee to enter she stands next to her
the
har
of
of
Cavan
Cavan,
to
ly to prove mortal as an open with no small difficulty have ani "We spend billions in win- the object of the trip was to in- Eldest of the eight la Miss Who was a lady-in-waiting
The
Jugglers
from
KWANGTUNG
PROVINCE,
their
overcome,
| visibility. Mr. Marshall is rais. ing the Greek question in the General Assembly, from whom he will demand "prompt action." The Russians must respond to blunt a challenge. It is on he nature of their response that the future prospects of the United Nations organisation rest. It is
Supremo's Daughter by no means impossible that the
Second youngest is Pamela outcome may be Russia's with.
Mountbatten, 18, daughter of drawal from the organisation al-
Viscount and Viscountess Louis together, in which case, whatever
Mountbatten and cousin of the the residue may call itself, it
bridegroom. She was a brides- will not be the United Nations,
"None of the ing Allen has succeeded
the sister, Alster toofthe Soviet Union to visit
in succession to
Patricia, for the Soviet would not depart
to Lord ¿ alone. Such a result would be a
well. You can't impose demo- American Embassy.
throne. Less than a year from Brabourne lust Fall.
Mar- eracy on a people. They have Senator Styles Bridges, Reher own coming-of-age.
Seventh of the elect la Lady major disaster. None the less
to learn it through living de publlenn, said today that the gare is a decided
favourite Mary Ilona Margaret Cam- the Secretary of State has taken
mocratically. At the same committee asked for visas while with people on all levels, her bridge, 29, daughter of the Mar- his stand in so uncompromising
time, the American Military on their European tour.
twinkling humours and inquess and Marchioness of Cam- a manner, that there can be lit-
Government hasn't had enough
seldom bridge and a grand-niece The Russian Foreign Minis- Fratlating personality tle doubt that he has included
applauding Queen Mary. support from the people back try replied: "Inasmuch as the failing to prompt
With Princess From the files of the "China home for the work it has been USSR is not considered a coun- comment. this possibility
Elizabeth, she was bridesmaid in his apprecia-Mail) tion of the situation.
to the Duchess of Evidently CHINESE JUGGLERS AT THE trying to do."
try that could be made the sub- Innocent Mischief
Gloucester, he regards the ebbing of world Patronage of the Public is most res
| VICTORIA THEATRE !!! The Shafer asserted that his jeel of an investigation on the Princess Alexandra of Kent and
graced the Duchess staff had bean constantly re-part of the confidence in the organisation's pectfully solicited to the above enter
vigiling Senators,) is a highly attractive child, Kent's bridal procession, duced and that materials we do not consider their trip to roundish-faced, full of bounce, Elizabeth Lambard, 23, daugh- Finally, there will be Lady effectiveness, which is the direct ftainment, to take place on Saturday books, supplies, paper and be suitable".
whose sense of innocent mla- consequence of Russia's cynical evening next.
other essentials-had never ar- Bridges said: "The requests chief at times outruns her strict tor of the Inte Earl of use of her veto powers, as like-
the rived in sufficient quantities. for visas specifically stated that instruction in the regal manner. and Joan, Countess of cleavage, The doubts and dis-sational prejudices been
ning the war, but in re-educat-speet the operations of the Am- Dlana Bowes-Lyon, twenty-
the Princess Royal for several appointment of the smaller and themselves persuadest to appearing the Germans toward peace- crican Embassy In Moscow." four years old, daughter of the years. The Powers are likely
before an European audience. Shoulful ways we have been sicken. He added that a second request late Hon, Herbert Bowes-Lyon,
announcement which to find ex-this attempt prove successful, the Freingly penny-conscious," Shafer by the American pression in an attack on the ins-prietor of the
Ambassador, second son of the 14th Earl of come from Buckingham Palace, Theatre i confident, anid. titution of the veto itself.
Walter Bedell Smith; was alaqĮ Strathmore, and a niece
left two things open to specula. Mr. that on future occasion a full com Contrary to Marshall takes the view that it pany of Tumblers, Jugglers, &s, ke.. economy, Shafer asserted, the
American rejected--Associated Press.
which Queen Elizabeth. A second niece Lion-the exact order in
the bridesmaids will walk at is not the machinery but the will be induced to visit this Colony Russians in Berlin have spared
for our much greater amusement.
the wedding th Westminster | spirit in which it is worked that
Ilttle in money and materials
Abbey on November 20th, and is at fault. The veto is the con-
in trying to put across their
the colour and design of their stitutional expression of the Just Arrived from Europe, and on
way of life to German youth.
gowns. The Lord Chamberlain's realities of power.
"Still they have made little If so great victoria, for sale: splendid seler, headway because the attitude
specialists in royal etiquette are a Power as the Soviet Union is tion of Alabaster and Agate Oma of the Germans has been so
determining their precedence. determined to resist the findings mental Ink Stands, Paper Holders, anti-Russian," he said. "But,"
The patterns of the dresser will be kept secret, along with of the majority of the United Vases, Jugs, Fountains, Nations, it matters little whether Fruits, Bits, Animals, and Foliage "what's going to happen in the Imitation he shrugged his shoulders,
other details of. Princesa she holds a formal right of vetodern, most beautifully
of all descriptions, Oriental and Mo long run may be another mat-
He won that trick with the A and Elizabeth's gown and travelling immediately tested the greathst dap- costume, for some little time Carved and or not. In selecting Greece as a Inlaid, forming sets
ger in the hand by leading the spade I yet.-Associated Press.. test case Mr. Marshall has prob- anperb and comly specimens of the
Good Job
|Q, prepared to let it go through nbly been influenced by the ex-Fine Arts suitable for the Drawing
One near play seldom employed not covered, East, however, put an Shafer said that the
U.S.except by the very finest players the K and the A won. Next came tensive documentation of the and Cabiner ever linponed.
Army had done a good job consists of tossing a sure losing cand two diamond tops, a lead to the 'club- affair. He might as well have show of these goods; the Rooms next
Mr. Dudell invites the public to the with its widely advertised Geron another sure losing card. By A, the spade J and ruff of the
New York, Sept. 80.. chosen for instance the door to the Auction Mart are open features neighbourhood sports made in any other way, especially East had only black cards left it man Youth Programme-which doing, the declarer te sometimes able spade 3. It was now pretty likely
Planes of the American Over nanifest interference of the Rus-from sunrise to sumACT,
to score one more trick than could
seas Airlines have been ground- sians in the internal, affairs of
and reading clubs but he con- if the defender who wins that particlub I was ruffed in the dummy, and , the contract could be made. The The hours of Divine Service at St. tended that
ed by a strike of pilots which Hungary, for the issue in both John's Church are on Sunday at 11
this programmecular trick is then obliged to make the crucial play tried.
started this morning, accord. cases is the same. It is the am, and past 5 pm, and on
was insufficient in itself.
a return which present a gift. Trick
Behncke, South led the spade 4 from dummy, ing to Mr. David "In the place of every young to him. Ordinarily, when you are this puiting on the heart $ and leaving President of the Airline Pilots issue which the British faced in Thursday at A past 6 p.m.
GI in charge of a German play made, it is because the declarer him only the heart and trumps. Association. Athens in 1944: whether or not
Youth Club wo should have a has either a definite or a probable East ure enough had only black The company concerned trained oducator," he said, reading of the outstanding cards up cards, and it made
to then unplayed.
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munist minority shall be perinit-portunity, without resort, perhaps, "Theae, in turn, should be used ted to seize the reins of govern- to more dubious tactics, Thus in training the right kind of ment in a democratic State by the attitude taken up by, Mr. German youth lenders,
To- violent, means. There may be Marshall at Lake Success would day's young_Germans are dis- degrees of violence employed, but appear to be the political council in us, but we haven't been HKQJ94
illusioned. They are interest- the methods in Hungary, do not terpart of his offer of economic dynamic enough in supplying Dr differ in kind from those which aid at Harvard. The two re the desired Information." were, countered by British. arms present a solid and consistent
Shafer said that the four in Greece, There, is every policy which is likely to be ten- occupying countries: here had evidence that we are faced in aciously pursued. Britain has got along well in education ex- Europe with a conected Com already made its position plain. cept on the mafor ground- murtist attempt to exploit to No effort will be spared to seek ideological. He said that the their advantage the economic and a compromise whereby Russian Allies agreed on school lunches (Dealer: political confusion of the Con co-operation, both in European for the children, materials for South
nerable) tinent. Under the shadow of economic reconstruction and in rebuilding schools and such ID things. But when ideology D Russian arms this campaign is the fabrication of an effective pursued in contempt of demo world security system, can be ob- of the West against the Rus- 61 was involved there was a spilt D Sintic procedure. Further west tained. None the less no com alane, with the result that his
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no difference operates a North Atlantic which he returned, as both North and route to Shannon, London and South were now vold of black tards. various European points. Bast picked a club, whereupon South
discarded his last heart and ruffed Mr. Bahncke aafd that the in the dummy, which left him noth-strike had been voted owing to ing in his own hand except good the company's "strong arm"
tactics. In the negotiations for trump".
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Washington, Oct. L "Present predictions here are that the Wedemeyer report will not be published, " an authorl- tative source said today..
The report to President Harry Truman with his Andlags and recommendations regard ing Chian and Korea is a close secret. - So far it has reached
it follows a more:: circumspect | promise, can be accepted which tory, for instance, can't yet be the dummy. West's lead of the heart (Dealers Bouth, Neither side vul only the White House and the
mic collapse might furnish the ciples of freedom that the Char cause the Western Powers won't winners in that suit for the defence: Communists of Italy' and France ter of the United Nations binds agree to a Marxist version. with a favourable political opus to defend
Associated Press
Why would one more little haner la Bouth hand be doubly important
But the declarer found way to pull {through muccessfully,
for: No Trump play?
partment Neither has been highest level of the State De- willing to comment Assoc!--
ted Presa.