ROUND
UP
Roman Villa
AII photography have re- A vented that there may be a Romano-British site on a sle for a new housing estate at Maidenhead, Berkshire, where hundreds of houses and fola are to be built. The exact location! la on land which will eventually Ixcome the forecourt of a block; of flats. The Housing Com- mittee recommended that per- mission should be granted lo Bertahire Archnecløgtent Society to carry out # "rescue" excuva- Bon, if the site is considered to be of suffletoni Importance, 4 prolecilun order can be more lo preserve il. The terial photo- graphs show an outline similar] len Roman vilin or farmhouse. During the first and fourth cen-
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1958.
THE AMAZING
MIND OF KLAUS FUCHS
turies there considerable THE COMFORTING belief that the once outstanding brain of Dr Klaus
Hanan activity in East Berit- Phare, but most of it was con- centrated in arens close to the
old rond which ran from Silcher fer to Staines,
Scout Jubilee
LAMBETH'S
Fuchs, the atom traitor, would be of little use to any unfriendly Power when he emerges from gaol next July was shattered the other day.
Indisputable evidence that his mind is still needle-sharp and stuffed with atomic knowledge in spite of eight and a half years in the so-called "vacuum of prison" came into, my hands.
It takes the form of Fuchs's own copiour notes for a veure of 17 lectares on atomic Their content proves that physics he Boa Just given to his fellow prisoners in Wakefield Gaul. Pucks, now 47, has done much more then maintain his interest in theoretical atomles at which he was probably the best man in Britain at the time of his arrest.
Be
hata developed knowledge by keeping up-
[theti South to-the-minute
with latest discoveries and ideas
videst Scout troup, the Blackslaves-ind ther kingest-serving member, Mr B Stocker-ari velebrat- ing their golden jubilee with the movement. Founded In 1908, the Blackstuveg-the 1st Lanoth Gram-orginated as the 59th, South Central London, whleda was formed from the ammation of several #lone patrols." One of these patrols
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was startedf
young Storker and his brothers and friends, He is now the Group Assistent Seamaster and an
Commissioner for
Dire
Rovers The grap's meeting place hove been varied
railweny arches und zirent corners. Note they have Their own hut in West Norwood, Mr Stocker hus been awarded the Scout's Medal of Merit for hip work.
Army Family
has
How has he been able to do su? Because unknown friends of this allegedly Friends man have consistently supplied ilm with the latest scientifle litera- tute.
Theoretician
Remember that when Fuchs was at the height of his produse tive powers at Harwell he did to laboratory work. He was high-down theorellelan Whi like
They go into details of the H-bomb and how it works. They discuss the latest Bndings on subatomic particles.
His powers
And: "If
half-
me of them at least way towards Bachelor of Science standard.
What
the can
average ris: ner's mind make of plate- ments like these:-
Uraml
Ile dis-
CHAPMAN
PINCHER
NOW SECURES
THE
FUCHS AND HIS FORMULAS
ATOM SPY'S DAZZLING LECTURES FROM THE 'UNIVERSITY' IN A PRISON
sections pare himself for a teaching post
fast in a foreign university.
Cross
Jor
Only sighi 4.ly Eindels needed
magnified a pleted the cou: su. We
Kenerate original ideas.
seven miles wach water molecule stood little of it but it was
than If better
the alternative In what the prisoners jokingly would look like a pinhead.
paper. penell, mad quiet to drop of water to a diameter of interviewed say they under
"I am sorry but that in stili secret," he said in his still-thick German accent.
Confirmed in his Ccoununiam, he hates the British way of life unil above all the political tics with America. It is no coinci-
Hos once again a German subject free to go "home" when releaal or to buy a ticket direct to Moscow. That is the main renson why the security authori- ties turned down his application for parole last men-a privilege which Fuchs legiti imately expected in view of his medel servico as a highly trusted prisoner.
It was ergued that as an alien he could not be given any tre- dom before his sentence endal a ruling which has nude Fuchs
False
ng alous may be imagined By giving Hose lectures and nthera-Fuchs hag developed as arranged in successive layers such that considerable powers as a tracker. 2.8 Angstroms uparl
Thus: "A pas may be com each utem has an area of 1%
Angstros at danen pared with a
foor De space which groups of aletns calledi pogu." mecules dance about hand in
"The neutron hand." he explains. "When the
use becomes hot the dancers in natural get more excited and collisions neutrons total 4.3 barns."
Whereas other prisoners have become frequent."
'spent their energy bemoaning He displayed no emotion when dence that some of his closest com- that their prisoners
Ulme is dragging, discussing matters like isotope friends in prison- including one Those I have "The Doc" has employed it separation and other felds of of the most consistent attenders even more bitter.
profitably.
once-secrét information in his lectures-are Greek which he was the Kremlin's car. Cyprints serving sentences for Physically 100 he is in good
But there might be some terroist offences. shape though he had to inter- psychological Interpretation of rupi his atom course wher 12 the fact that the name of the He has spurned ull money recurrence of his old chest
his fo man his betrayal hurt most-his offers for
story in weakness put him in the prison former Harwell chief Sir John writing Dr in film. There hospital for a fortnight.
Cockcroft-is misspelled Cock is small doubt that Fuche will take the first available boat or Maybe Fuchs
Fuchs, the ex-German who oft throughout.
To avoid possible trouble the plane to Leipzig in Communist were scrutinised East Germany to join his 84- at mental ivory tower which gave
barred list from Russia when they really entre lectures previously
with lesser mattered, has been most punc- for security. 50 the authorites year-old father there. realistic intelleels-a suggestion sup fous about securit in con- are fully aware of the still-acute
The authorities cannot state of his mind. This explains ported by his persistent belief nection with these lectures, that he
about his him because they took away his has been
their deep concer unfairly
British naturalisation seven punished ter his treachery,
Though he goes into, subsian- future when he la released. tial details about the "Critical The evidence of several men years ago—a move which Fuchs But I think it more likely that size" of the uranium in an who have talked with Fuchs in said was unfair considering he is sold in had made the confession with- he has skilfully used his position atom bomb, he refused to reveal the last few 1 ecks
he could not have as prison education chief to keep the actual weight when favour of the belief that he will out which
been convicted. his own mind in tram and pre- prisoner asked for it.
not alay in Britain,
PRIVATE Macht Simpson, referred to as "The Wakefield we then expanded the water- evening entertainment-ITV.
et Acunia, Yorkshire, has Schoul of Physics," Fuchs dealt drop until it Med the orbit of of the motor Dal the earth, the followed a family tradition by with the entire structure sening on with the Kings DwDatter from the beliefs of the hydrogen nucleus in each water Ye Kabire Light Infantry at the Ancient Pyptians to the Lifest molecule would be the size of
depol
in the
You s Strensail. Michael's father served skine regiment before becoming # Quartermaster in the Signals, while his sister with present serving W.IL.A.C.
data about delayed neutrons,"
n pinhead."
Dis lecture
A nutes include This is easily understandable Royal full explanation of the Zeta to the average intelligence, but is at-power machine at Harwell for most of the way the Iretures advanced for hopelessly the and calculations
non-scientific minds. atomic furnace there.
about
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'Ivory tower'
contact
is
still in
so many
secrets
to
stop
Wherever he goes Fuchs's 'de- parture will cause adverɛe com- men from Americans who still believe his treachery merited the death sentence which they meted out to his fellow conspiratora Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
This
could, perhaps, heve heen offset by the reassuranÇO that after
long out of touch Fuchs's brain, could no longer be rated as a scientific property of much value.
The documents now in my possesalon prove this to bo cptirely faire.
AUTOMATIC LABORATORY
SPACE travel has suddenly come very near. We may just as well take it that the American Air Force's Pioneer Rockot has reached the moon.
What this rocket and its carefully thought-out instruments did make the little bit it has not done insignificant.
Prof. Lovell, whose giant radio telescope is the other hero of the story, puts the importance of the incomplete part of the journey at ten per
cent.
We still do not know what the tact across 70,000 miles has, for "Other Side" of the moon looks the first time,,been achieved like, but then we really do not between two man made care. Experts expect it to be instruments.
we can see.
very much the same as the side Jodrell Bank and other radio Not wat instruments can be telescopes have picked up radio generating from store hundreds of millions of miles
Kot nearer than 40,000 intles waves from the moon's surface, or on
to it, shall we know anything away, but no radio set has importantly new about the muun.
To virele the moon at 40,000 miles up was the target for this week-end's probe. That target Was not reached, but what Pioneer has done is to clock up three Bests, any one of which is a enter human achievement thon running the four-minute mile.
FREE FLIGHT'
ONE
is the first man-made! machine to overcome the puli of: the earth, and eller "Frec
| Flight" in space.
This situation did not inst more than a day.
..
But free Hight in space 1133 1.ever been achieved before. Even for half a second.
TWO: Pioneer has gone higher by about 70,000 iniles-than any vehicle ever launched. What is more, it carried the largest package of Instruments the Americans have yet sent into orbit, and they all worked perfectly.
JUST GUESSES
Soon when analysis is com- plete, we shall know what it is like between here and half-way' to the moon. Until recently the conditions within 90 per cent] of this region could only be guessed at.
And until a year ago, when the
Arst Sputnik took off, only one per cent of this region had been) directly studied,
THEEE-Ploncer has piso made radio history. Radio con-}
FOR
THE MOON
By Angela Croome·
Migrant would be capable of before sent o message to a radio ler to land on and study the
landing on the moon with minia- What will be the scientists' fure Instruments for studying its surface, atmosphero (1t: any) The British Inter-Planetary and magnette Geld. Society is holding a conference I would be expendable and How could it Radio sets in London on space medicine: the carry no passengers. All in- huve never before been so for study of conditions for life in formations would have to be sent away from each other.
space, and on the Earth's nearest back to Earth by its robot radio. We still have only the inspired neighbours,
Britain's role in space research guesses of space fiction writers Society engineers have just for the present musé rest on good about what living, or trying to completed a design study for a ideas and sound thinking rather live, on the Moon will be like moon landing vehicle-an auto- than on. fantastically expensive No one can go there until this is inatie laboratory for sampling practical rocket fring
the moon as a place to live. It is Migrant is a good example of known in elaborate detail,
This means sending automalie called Migrant, and weighs five our way forward. laboratories ahead of the travel tons.
receiver over so great a distance. Moon's surface conditions, NEVER SO FAR next step?
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AREA OF
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AGREEMENT
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"He travels well in space, but he won't get into orbit
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