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THE WAY TO THE STARS-- FOR A MILLION YEAR TRIP
Imagine an airport of the
By Robert Bourne
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THE NEW DIPLOMACY
One cannot simply shut off the rockel flame and glide back home because the uncontrolled return ing speed would reach about, dix a second by the time the ré-entered upper
miles
Misanthropea, could fice, from rocke here.ta
.
present society. Biologists could retum regularly every hundre
to study the thousand yoors evolution of living beings, and and geologists cau
could take photographs of the earth every million years. Impossible, you say, yet vir- tunt immortality is ns feasible as the idea of ost
of astronautics-the new excitement which is leading New book Yorkers to
to queue up, to Alghts 25 years hence in the first space-ships.
Professor: Auguste Piccard, the Janky, Swiss-born conqueror of the stratosphere, doubts whether a journey even to our neat neigh- bour, the moon, will be practi- cable,
Space-time key.
In his new book he points out that if mon masters the secrets of interstellar travel he will and the key not only to space but te space-time.
For,
whatever our conquests of
The
At that speed friction; with air. molecules would bring the cabin to red-heat and destroy it.
neces-
Therefore, it would be sory to carry sumcidit fuel for the round trip, Why not? could be done if that meant merd ly another 20 tons.. But, strice. the
weight of fuel required to shoot the rocket to the moon must be 20 timps' the rocket's weight, that would mean leaving the earth with a total weight of 40 tons.
Of the proglicability of lifting that weight to the moon Profes sor Piccard mill comments that It offers very intricate, problems.
The professor suggests that the journey at least as a holiday-is hardly necessary, anyway.
•
Extreme cold For on the moon days and nights each last a full fortnight During these long at a time.""
Fireside Echoes--No. 18:
days the surface, temperature is nearly 100 degrees centigènèle, at night it is weli below, minus 100 centigrade. !
And other planets are more, unattractive.
Yesterday afternoon's report on von the jungle girl in Singapore sold that the chluss parents in Holland The picture that Professor Pic-had been receiving, polson pen card presents offers, a cheerless letters. However, It added, the prospect for those sanguino hu- local branch of Ine Red Cross hers man beings who are queueing at has asked the Dutch police to
cense writing, letters,"
What about. the magistrates, the New York planetarium.
So it is not surprising that Pro- fchor Plecart, despite his love judies and statesmen, eh? What
and about them? of exploring stratosphere and
"H.K.F.C. stand fire ocean: bed suggests to lunar es- fundamental "The cuplate that:
Did you expect them to run problem of mankind does not con- sist in deserting the planet where away? man was created, but in organis Excellent Shanghal cook-boy, ing it to render life there, mere cooking and more worthy to be lived."
orderly
Life under bombings
got
now dishes. serves
But ignores the batman?
A four-year-old boy in England
a demand note for incomờ tàx. · Other money-box halders regaril this
ns the thin end of the governmen
pen-knite..
痛
The debate in the House
"The performance was spirited and decisive. If Tonal Sheen of Commons, and the com-
Was InclingIt must be re- ments in the London, papers thereon, revealed the irrita-
However, the stumbling-block mambered that the orchestra way The Lowders, and their two with: a. oigh of rellel, when m} tion, if not exasperation, that
daughters worked indefatigably series di, heavy, cramps shattered was in procuring rectified alcohol not yet necustomed to the acoustics. is widely felt in Britain over
on ithalf of the Customs Clut our thoughts of a peaceful (without draining medical sup- of a strange an
Or maybe he was out getting a pilen too much!). By this timp. during this period, where many Sabbath; y tu bolesny
of beer. the ridiculous' position that
memorable dances, and partico From an allid window, we saw petrol, in the port was worth Us gings has arisen in the attempt to
were held. One such in celebra a danger bllowing cloud af dust weight, in gold; but, somehow, the
to 1, would, just like to put on establish diplomatic relations
tion of Guy Fawkes, Day, Nov-rising, from a point on the Hillpatul trucks especially had
Experiments record that too and nothing to kepi running. ember 5, 1938 was an duistand- in the with the Foochow Clubs be between Britain and China.
were conducted with a variety of do with criticisms of Cavalierja being success. A. atrow effigy of the and Kiergard's house wing-oils boosted with campher Rusticana. But I don't want to The Labour Daily Herald said the universe. we shall still
'bound by Einstein's theory of conspirator wrapped round in tried, to, telephone boil these
'Atleck. wil make a song hoolt it. what nearly all of us are
relativity, which says that time splendid scarlet lined opera quatlers: the line was und We with car engines
Apar The remilli thinking that the People's relative and that its flow de- cloak had been strung up in the rushed up the full and found the charcoal-adaptors,
The fuster a
dis off the toast". Government seems to have pends
on speed;
kurdens at the foot of the long most ghastly, shambles lainginable were workable on atterrain, "A weak depression is still lying timi the slower
flight of entrance steps.
the neighbourhood of the but rather useless in inly
tricts...
Probably leo weak to move. made up its, mind-or to have body travels, had its mind made up for it lows for that body.
Accordingly, says Professor in Moscow-to make diploma-Piccard, "If we neglect that tic relations with the United Kingdom impossible.
Full and polite answers had been given to all the Chinese Communist queries: Peking merely comes back and asks for more. The Conservatives short while
The party was in full swing when the order was given, to burr the efgy, Fire, was being matter. of energy and propulsion applied thereto, when Lowder rushed frantically down and we can imagine perfectly well- a
rescued his clonk in the nick of rocket bolding several men and six months' supplies in an ult. A.. Ellis, Chief Appraiser was the pujjulor, secretary of tight cabin.
the Customa Club at the time.
"Let this machine. take off with a very great acceleration. in n our travelers will
In
By Wm; M:S:
From Hinghwa some, tins, or sugar-cane spirit were received . "I'm the general manager of by the Post Office for expert- my firm," chop told me at, the mentation. Quietly Kierkegaard club last night, "Morried the had samples analysed by Dr. boss's daughter. Came up tho Gutierrez and otlier medieal hard way."
authorillen. With a couple more reelifenons and a chaigla. In the old days, a man who
samples oved money leather filtering these
NOS a miser; were pronounced it for human owadays he's a nagician, consumption. But house"? urgently, inter-
sald Myrio "That crowd," vened: the Kierkegaard's removal contemptuously last night. They to a new residence opposite the think they're the last word in Stone Church.
complain of gross rudeness | nave acquired a speed almost of fresh food; but.Club steeks) and mirros nod, doctors attend warming party
equal to the velocity of light.
"Observed from the earth with rocket terrestrial clock, our will take thousands of years to reach distant stors, and even mil. tons of years if its occupants with to visit the spiral nebulne and re- turn to our earth,
and provocative language. Britain could ask some quesa tions, too-a great number of them. The Foreign Secretary made it clear that he stood by the decision to recognise the new Government and that he believed in time it would prove to be the right decision. So do we. He also declared his opinion that it would be
better for the new China to be in the United Nations.
Curious effect
once more
formidable.
with
the
7
Everyone turned up thereta civilisation, and really they're and when all was, over out, hosta only the last gasp."
It. Ispace, and were complimented on the reitent cocklali served, of which he was cold days. there had been two decanters in
Tiles, bands in pockets, without evidence, which, it was noted, either making a single remark. the host attended to personal why don't you say something?"
Weald Cohen at last. throughout the evening. bachelors, as it become
"Freeze your
Own hands!"
.
me outside tils; room resulting in the fulce, synthetle Ume-fulce,"
It iscket that would Foochow Amoy LATER, C
Q:
cabia,
the
on overseas remittanPendenti showcoolle whd had been taking Chungking we found the
1.
Position worsens
and except for "being's, a bit wine, almost gorda....
deafened could; not, exactly say,
Q.
Thes
the
So matters progressed through Japanese Consulate General, Aine 1930. There was an abundance bulantes, had got there before us ran law and a system of ration- ing. to the wounded, and dying.
Direct hits in spirits had to be introduced. Beer was never rationed Despite the blockade the occasional
vessel
The Kierkegaards...and their made port at Santuad, or Hansen, were safe, although their king. When this occurred & epso house had received three direct of whisky, or gin, appeared in hits, and two near misses, The the Club, or some delicacy Kierkegaards had left the house available for home consumption, to pick up ser friends leaving tin- the son to have early in with Households were conserving tin- hed provisions.
The pinch came in 1910 when the amph. The boy was,cating in
known hen an upstairs room, when the first "But by a very curious effect
I was estimated the cost of a plosion, took place. The amah long afterwards, were made, the of relativity, time, measured In the cabin of our rocket, will have lying was 6/700 per cent higher swept the child to the floor and gkinen pigs. The other ducan replied Innes,
than it was In June, 1987. The lay on top of him a few seconds ter contained the proper mixture, jadvanced by only a few months blockade was firmly clamped before the house was struck. shid not one us had attempted to
party given by at the moment when the rocket down
Leo Frost ar by
Being an old mansion with en- even help ourselves from it. this time, yot the
Amongst those presen comes into contact Clinicae Postal Administration.
"werd made with this werd Hammond, hid. 'assistant Mr. Bevin also indicated that with our carth.
rily continued to operate, ajservice closed verandahs on all sides the in due course, further experi- Ewo.
quantity of glass was prodigious, ments Our
travellers will hardly
Shanghai, via Amoy. Britain had no intention of
In the room where they were sugar-cane alcohol; using cloves, Hail and Ward, British, and
lemon-grass, Kierkegaard was
American Consuls Director there was, scarcely, six square aniseed, cinnamon,
respectively: submitting to this new tech-have aged, while countless gen- nique, which derives from erations will have succeeded one of Posts, for Fuklen, and although inches of plaster that find not orange and lemon-peel, burnt Garcia, Elis, Crossland, f,&
another
on our planet."
due for retirement at about, the been struck with: long wicked sugar, and what-have-you, until Gawler, Skinner, the Lowder. Moscow's prompting The Despite this tempting prospect time hostilities encroached, the glass splinters. It was definitely we perfected a palatable drinks family, the Chubb brothers, Os- - Thii, was it le the Hender onus of keeping China out of dismisses the, lues, sa, inpesible: Lashes. Fervice with No need bay survived without a scratch, nothing to chow with it, Ye hadi 1930, Just before t
idea further the
Anyway D
abna nrrived. the United Nations was on not, because its theory is flawed, Government rather than, quit at and a miracle the Kierkegaards four-mulepower kick.
in the house. that was up to and how you Gradually the numbers of the Russia. When the question but because the technical pro- a time they were. It need of themselves were not a room, srdered it from the Bir-boy, It Foreight Community dwindles un- of the legal position was being Although, in the days when he
leadership in niany departments As
It is worthy of
of records that which the cocktails were to have was, customary to order a full-ll, of the business community, a examined Russia had walked
peg and divide it. among four there handful were holding the was on the eve of his successful solely due to his efforts the been served a bomb had slither out. It has sometimes happen- balloon flights into the stratos- Chinese Post Office was able to ed down the side of the house sherry glasses, adding a spot of fort: when the Japanese decldari orange- ib occupy Foochaw for thearst ed on the playing fields: sel phere 20 years ago, the Professor operate, in Fukien without, bind and exploded. In the serden just water; filling up with
or time on April 19, 1941, AI dom with impunity. In this was laughed at as "the man who rance througtiout the
V-J DAY.
The tomato juice. This famous war- have already mentioned, whole ceiling descending. case it is not merely a case of wanted to reach the moon," he hostilities to
only article remaining unscathed time product we named, "Gas-otow found it more practicablo bad mannerst approaches still refuses to believe that men two enemy occupations of
This Is especially i
in, the room was a tiny silver gin." I believe it was Mattie shelve Club Rules while.
uncertain haye mastered the problems of chow. blackmail. Mr. Bevin declar- rocketing there--at any rate with worthy when it considered Vass on the mantlepiece holding Tribe who christened that futuro, not only looked
the viewpoint
Well, we all survived, the several for themselves, but in geral. In rose-bud, lower
The three recreational centres ed that the Russians are on any reasonable hope of returning
and their, use of the One of the gate-keepers must ave-gallon sinfuls we ultimately
оред being: strike and must return to safely to the earth to tell the Postal Savings Banis, bg, also, the haye received a direct hit, for he drunk before individually eva they strove to keep
On reaching.
ing the Forchow Club, the Customs work pending negotiations "I tale.
possible to de- large number of familles in the Uterally disappeared. A rick cunting the port
Club
fub | Club,; and the Recreation Club, cannot agree that I should be
Banging themselyes--together- to lini afew secords previously the dishing out much the sand dubbing themselveszthe told I must do this, that, or the reach the mean. He sees it 23
had; been merely bowled over liquor, though much inferior: in other, unless someone else is spherical, aluminium going to fulfil their functions." two to two and a half metres in The Kremlin, has embarked diameter, weighing, with crew and
instruments, about one ton." on a grave challenge to the Fuel to propel it to the moon United Nations. Time is pass would be about 20 times ing and China is not the only country in which, change is imprisoned on faise charges, the order of the day. If this correspondents expelled, and feeling of exasperation and businessmen imprisoned. But frustration is not remedied even the Kremlin is no doubt on carrylog Lands in the soon, the consequences will beginning to wonder to what shape of postal orders or letters soon be apparent. It may it is, leading. The increasing of credit, on Pos give the Republicans a:isolation of the satellites is roule, it is an astou achieve
· meht. - Mortovers fried out by! thumping victory in the hardly to their own liking. Tikkegaard without any foreign November elections, and a It makes Russian dominationalstance th the office and not the house that, been repaired and majority for the Conserva more and more painfully without tives in the next elections in clear. And Moscow, which has risk
Mrs. Kierkegany, and her little Britain. We found an alter had to use so heavy a hand to
son, Erling, mained in Foodkow native for Russian obstruc- maintain control, probably throughout the hostilles, at the tionism and arrogance in Ger- realises that the common commichéergent of Which they many. The alternative for diplomatic form provided by were occupying the large rell the United Nations has been the United Nations is more oppolite the Japanese Copstilata
dence.. averlooking the liver put forward by the most in-than ever a necessity General Less than
quarter. fluential, of" "Republicans ex- Certainly the boycott is nie new cat from which, the President Hoover Long be gaining nothing and is becom Hunches plying between Klenow fore the walkouts the repeated ing inconvenient to its instiga Nanping-Shulkow-Foochuw. Soviet vetoes and other formsitors. Poland and Czecho- bark passengers, of non-co-operation with the slovakia have had, to with- As the months papld bri
for the world had made a draw, from the International fatty became alone, orte, cayesh note, who amoke buried over
increasingly, active, and lot of people, furious. Even Children's Emergency Fund,
would become, thes for hir haldimas pasaresembling à those who would go to unwar of which they were, large-adrial-attack; but I was not tong Miettine The Ladies were ranted lengths in, propitiating scale beneficiaries, just be, be for a long while to come a
to illónce, and not daring to Russid, or at least in trying cause their masters refused cleumstance which had every (Ahed in the doorway" hushol one guessing "as, indeed, was the move. The song was ended-and to go our separate ways into sit there. The satellites cafe with so many obvious moves as the good doctor turned to peace, are losing patience and have had to walk out of the Japanese might could bows to Mrs. Kierkegaard he being conditioned for a drama UNESCO in which Rus bas have taken, but did not per
The Kierkega bed werit out! tic and fateful parting of the never sat. Every now and
invitations to
#livade Sof ways ove
then a satellite diplomat, re- foreign firms, then ifn, port, ins Yet it remp
volts, resigns, and says what a cluding the remaining/two, Con to keep in be
great many of his country sus and Commissioner of Cus toms and Salt, to attend a cock men in the satellite States are work for curtain
undoubtedly thinking. An
known
Fairs
trot re
Filque:
thou
tha: Chinese
its
As the economical position what happened. It was esti worsened, under total blockade mated some 300, civilians, lost of the coast, and, both forelia add their lives in an area scarely ex government bank wihdrew cending an acre, the majorly by elther to Chungking or point in blast, having taken shelter in
interior difficult of
Slopes or steps leading and wilta, Sundrea Farathponds close-hill wider the shelters; of of refugees
Tad party walke, trans ferred to the Fooohow Club province and chekland
Veryone expressing their thank fulness at their narrow escope, One wonder what would Have happened had the whole business community beer, snuffed out,
Ona, more anecdote concerning this family, did the sumo : house. personál. It was Christmas with the tree in, the drawing rodin- decorated, iny real, Danish, style, with many ornaments almost family: helr- lough The parts was over, and the guests had departed with the exception of a chosen few, pli While walling for the Indies, Adestined to visit the
club in body. Dry Gutlerrez was prevailed upon threader La Filoma without mulca accompaniment. He w
prenajaty with the high standing
ing on the hearth-rug doing notes.
Considerable
tall pary one Bunday hoon N
residance.
At about 111.
clook!
alarm sounded wither des
bombers appenfiḥg:
Hide" from the Southse
ancoś
Foochow
He stapped "bark with, his arms Coindun 23 holding the highest of that bedutiful, arin
low ebb
Club stocks The good up-country-Kat
had "some too:
away
or a fine brew of Gong" they word: the Klerko
Hendersons, Skerrett=" Rogers, Tribes, add. Cromlandfi sherry, obtained not far
'so far as busbands' and, wives down river. On arrival Calcutta we got polaphed with Bengal, gin and Bengal rum; buy that is another story.
Were concerned, with gra widowers and bachelors Ward, Pouncey, Gutierrez, Ellie's Cons naughton, G. Shaw, and the
Fancy dress party author. One of the last appearances in happened to be at a Fancy Dress public of Mrs. G. T. Siemssen
(To be continued}}
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