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"Rainmaking" Experiments
WE
TE commend readers to a careful perusal uf the leading story on this page today which describes in "'rain- detail the scientifle making" experiments which the
Royal Observatory, with the co-operation the PWD, intend to engage in next May.
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The important point to appreciate is that while our meteorological experts will lay no claim tu positive results, there with bu nothing "happy-go-lucky“ about the experiments,
Residents will remember two early post-war attempts to "make rain" in Hongkong
fargely They had to fail, because they were carried out incking meteorological data and sufficiently Reientide preparation, The result WAN the public wiped off "rainmaking" as wishful thinking.
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The endeavours which the
Royal
Observatory
and)
PWD will be making short- ly to produce stimulated rain are based on a new, but tried theory, and
for
this reason deserve to bel taken seriously.
I successful, the possibili
ties of "manufacturing” rain during the early part of Hongkong's summer are! Immensurable.
If these clouds can be made
to "open up" over eatchment атенк
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Of Today's China Mail
Here are the highlights
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P. 6: The last chapter of Wolf Magener' POW ercapo thriller, "Bluft Was My Armour."
P. 7: Chapman Pincher's new series: "Do You Tell Lies?''
P. 9. Mary Hampton re- porta that Latin lovers are wanted urgently by All Dver the Women
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In
A New 'Ban Bombs'
By Government Demand By
Departments
WILL APPLY NEW THEORY
By Robin Hutcheon
Hongkong Government meteorologists plan to carry out 'rainmaking" experiments on the Peak in May. They will try out a method-new to the Colony-which has had striking success already in New South Wales, Australia where climatic conditions were almost identical with those in
Victory For Hongkong. Eisenhower
new
Washington, Feb. 18. President Eisenhower'S liberalised Trade Bill passert House of Repre- though the sentatives here tonight without change, despite a move by high tariff interests to amend it.
The BIU
the life of the expiring Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act for three more
will extend
The vote was 295 to 110. Approval of the bill, one of Mr Eisenhower's greatest legislative successes so far, came shortly after he had Intervene
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The experiments will be undertaken by the staff of the Royal Observatory in conjunction with the Department of Public Works and the Water Authority.
The theory they will be testing has never been given a trial in the Colony before. There will be no aeroplanes involved and there will be no "seeding" of clouds with dry ice or silver iodide.
Russia
London, Feb. 18.
TODAY'S RACING SELECTIONS
By "Rapier"
Ficetmaster Colin
RACE 1
Russia tonight urged the Strathpeffer United Nations to call a Outsider-Trade Wind, world conference this year to
RACE 2 reduce armaments and ban Not So Bad
Misty Law the alom and hydrogen so Nice bombs.
in a statement broadcast by Moscow Radio she
proposed that the nations should pledge
themselve
(1) To destroy all stocks of and hydrogen wespons
atomic usc
Blom
and
power
clusively for graceful purposes;
(2) Not to Increase their armed forces or armamenta their military budgets above the level of January 1, 1088.
In a comment on the forth- coming London conference of the United Nations Disarmament Sub-Committee, Russia sald:
Union Sovict Th
considers that delivering the peoples from the threat cf an atomic war 16 the most important task of the United Nations organisation."
In this Arst major policy statement by new regime since Marshal Bulganin replaced Mr Georgi Malenkov as Premier,
the
Russia assorted that public opinion
wps
demanding the atomic and destruction
of the
declares "The "Soviet Union
in favour of setting up un appropriate international con-
INSTEAD, HONGKONG METEOROLOGISTS WILL SPRAY JETS OF FINE mogen weapons WATER DROPS INTO THE CLOUDBANK.
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methods
most
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Atomic Test Carried Out In Nevada
One all-too frequent sight in years and give Mr Eisenhower According to these scient- seeded in Now South Wales. ¡fino water particles will succeed trol for the supervision of these May and June દ A sky new authority to reduce tarifsista, both the dry ice and the The prevailing winds blow from la turning the fat banks of decisions"-destruction of A and laden with heavy,
todide dark on selected items by 15 per cent silver
southwest so that sterile cumulus into reis clouds. H bomba the south or are unsuitable clouds which slowly flont over that period.
In the Colony's these coulda pass over the Peak
Pipes On Poak across the Colony withous
warm climate and the cloud and head in the general direc The three water pipes wich. conditions that exist in the ion at Kowloon and the New the scientists will use to inject
REPEATS COMPLÄINT yielding a drop of water.
early summer mouths,
Territories.
the wafer drops into the cloud Russia renewed hör complaint is the May The virtue of the
suitable will be situated on the ridge of that there was no Asian repre- water-month for the experiment
the Disarmament be-the Peak lying across the direc-sentative on
Sub-Comanitice, There will thus be a "strip" or. The Western Powers had re-
water "seeds" which will move China, India and Czechoslovakia. across Hongkong towards Kow-This had resulted in a composi loon.
tion for the committee which And at the Observatory the could not be considered satisfac- exporta
already will be strategically tory "and which
An atomic bomb dropped from an Air Force situated waiting and watching had a
bomber exploded for resulta.
over the Nevada proving grounds They will be its wogative influence on all equipped
The statement with rangefinders,
accused today to mark the opening of the 1955 winter-spring theodolites and possibly
Britain, America and France of
nuclear tests. will enable 5.cps radar set wideh
which would leat to them to "look into the clouda" | speeding up agrements on mission
the arms race and The
Germang were
loon it guarantees Bubstantial relief from Hongkong's chronic water shortage.
Before the final vote, The House rejected a motion to send
Bil back to the comunitie with instructions
to strengthen
The acting Director 11f the its "cup" clause under which
Royal Observatory and his, domnesc
con.
three
has
in the close struggle with a last-seeding plan is that technical cause although these same cloud tion of the cloud bankt.
minute plea for support for hisfy it is simple to carry out. conditions foreign economic programme. It involves no more than this: July, typhoons are apt to "zone" of cloud bearing the lected her proposal to include
laying
•
Iron pipes disrupt conditions. 20 r
long horizontally Now a cloud is, after all, only near the summit of the
vast formation vf Ainy Peak, Each pipe is bored particles of water which swirl with a number of boles around in the currents and up- arans of the air. There are two to give off a fine spray of
kinds the water drops with a LAŽJA -
"unstable" or rain
cloud meter of between 1/250sh producing
ant
the and 1/1,000th of an incia: "stable" "clouds which produces erecting
no ruin. auxiliary pumps 10 carry the water to the pipes and to maintam xU adequate pressure;
Industries con
claim 1 protection They arz colleagues arist governmental
threatened by imports. public's merit the
Voting on this was 200 to 190, gratulations for the initia-
ຄ seven-vote margin which Üve they are showing in
surprised many observers who trying to augment Hong-had believed the protectionists
kong's erratle rainfall with strong enough to be able to ob- more constant man-made tain a revision of the claus.—-
Reuter. downpours.
fail
There will be no recrimina
tions if the trials yield hoped-for results. But everybody will be wishing the experts the best of luck in their experiments. For if they do succeed, they will bring Incomparable benefits to the Colony,
PINEAU FAILS
his
305 votes to 270.-Reuter.
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In the "lable" cloud the par- ticles or drops of water are too
to deduce what is actually | mild the ernal and bou light to fail os
happening to the water seeds rearming While in the "unstable" And then when the Peak rin.
they have planted.
evidence water drops are
of this. ta covered in cumulus cloud, some.
The New Scuth heavier and unite
Wales tests An international
pledge cloud-just turn the tap bigger and
with the finer particles to form showed that rain began falling refuse to use atomic
weapons and eventually fall as rain,
about 25 miraites after injection would bc an important step Flain ganges all over the towards banning them, Ruszla So what the
Hongkong Colony will record the rainfall. said---Reuter. "rainmakers” are trying to do But how will the scientists
very
Essarance.
in
ex-
SNATCHERS' $19,000 HAUL
Financially
project in- volves
little
direct Paris, Feb. 19.
And for those who Leader Socialist
Christian Penditure,
is to make the "stable" clouds, know that In may be worrying about a new Pineau was defeated today
their seeding has impost on our already depleted that hang uselessly over the attempt to form France's
been successful? water stocks, the meleurologists
Colony bathing 118 all in 21st post-war government,
the
buckets that the
these Broadly
are the lines of perspiration, Into The official count confirmed give
"unstable” clouds by Injecting they will follow: the injection the that M. Pineau was defeated by quantity of water used
them with the bigger drops process Will experiment will be "negligible."
take place on In fact, they can use non-drinis- which they hope con then alternate days. The meteoro mg water, or even sea water if malle with the finer particles logical records show that in a
New York, Feb, 18. to form raiti. necessary.
portal
Summer month each Four gangsters today made a The tests--and the scientists
These Infooted drops will not gauge records rain on about the haul of $19,000 by mingling for stress they are only tests-w(1)
fall back on the Peak again be- same number of days. Also, a few minutes with the workers bre made
month is separated into on alternate days cause the updrafts in the cloud if a
construction job in and the wind throughout May, beginning at
blowing against odd numbered and even heart of the city here. midnight and ending early
Working with the Peak will carry them up numbered days, rain falls on Into the body the afternoon of each day.
Lato bank. What Happens Broadly speaking this is what happens
SANTAL SOAP
On
E3
In May, towering "cotton- wool" curnulus clouds form over Hongkong very similar to those which were successfully water-
HUMBER HAWK
Rain Gauges
·
Now quite a number of rain
who were
the
split secon!
of the cumulus about the same number of days timing they jumped on two men
In each group.
returning from the bank with the construction team's pay roll.
who The gangsters masquerading as workmen, van- ished in a waiting car before witnessest even had time to raise |the alarm-Franco-Prozso,
Initially at any rate, thu meteorologists are not out to save our desperate water post- tion, but they are simply try sauger will be in the path of tie treated clouds gauges ing to prove whether the theory
situated in Kowloon, tho is correct-that this union of artificial "heavy" drops with the¡ (Conid, on back page, Col. 1)
SUNBEAM
were
Now York, Feb. 18,
Д
Minules Atomic Energy Com-, horizon.
Σπίστ conßrmed the bomb thunder-like rumble was heard
as the sound wave arrived, went off at 8 pm, GMT over Yucca Flat, 75 miles northeast of Las Vegas,
It was the 32nd nuclear blast in Nevada and the 33rd in the United States,
Within five mautes, the signa ture of the A-bomb-ita tower- ing, bolling mushroom cloud- wrote its way vertically: 10,000 feet into the sky,
An aircraft from the special The explosion, apparently of weapons centro at Kirtland Air nuclear weapon in the "small" Force Base, Now Mexico, deliver, category, was heralded here by
od the much-postponed first a small lightning-like flash "shot" in the test ocxies, dubbed that momentarily whitened the "Operation Teapot."-- United cloud - covered northeastern Press.
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