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號拾肆百弍千堂萬式第
日六廿月陸年寅丙
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
1926 卷拜禮
號四月八年五十國民華中
Our London Letter.
A NEW ZEPPELIN.
EPOCH-MAKING DISCOVERY OF
NON-EXPLOSIVE GAS."
THE "LZ177,".
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
WEEK DAYS
4.K. habl Noc
Tancati... Shatia
פול
Kowloon...
Dsp. 8,40
9.15 10.30 11.40 12,00
6.50
9.24 10,99
12.09
7,0% 9.36 10.51
1981
Taipo Market
Dap.
9.53 11.08
Taipe
Fanlies Bheangehni
7.18 0.40 11,04
721
Dep. 7.82 10.03 111,18
Dep. 7.36 10.07 11,99
* Art, 7,42 20:19:11.93 12.20 13.58
P.M.
'PUBLIC HOLIDAYS-
USDATE «
HOLIDATA: ONE!
8.06. 10.38 11.40 1.58 9.00
Shamchan
Shamehan
Dep. 7421
Stoung hai
..Dapa
8.12 10.43 11.47
Fatling.
7,33
.D.,
Taipa Market
Tipo Shatin Yaumeti... Kowlood...
8.18 10.49 11,51 7.42 8.26 10.59 12.03 Dep. 7,68 8.30 11,04 13.07 Dep, 759 8,43 11.17 13.21 Dap 8,12 8.55 11.29 12,39
237 8.30 9.08 11,97 12,41
0,00 4.85 8.99 7.10 9.81 4,445,29 7.19 2.434,585,51 (7,81 · 9.56 5,09 4,067,46 3,00 818-6.06 17.45 3.11 5.94 619 7,58 3,155,298,23 202
3.21 5.84 629 8.08
FX,
4.17 5.13
6,08 8.07 4.24
6.15 5.20 .8.11 4.08 5.24 8.19
8,31
6,29 5.31 3.
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SHA TAU KOK BRANCH. WEEK DAYS, Fanking ...Dep. 7.45 11.30 2.20 6.95 Bhataukok...am, 8.40 19.25 3,15 7.20
STATIONS,
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SUNDAYS AND PUBLIO HOLIDAYS,
STATIONE
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DANGERS OF AERIAL FLIGHT IN THE EAST.
LONDON COMMENT ON ATTITUDE
OF ARABS.
GIRLS.
An
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SLIM MEN BETTER THAN FAT MEN.
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OUR GOOD LOOKING FACTORY non-explosive gas," which is to replace Mr. Herbert D. Brown, chief of the retrol as furl for airships, has-accord-United States Bureau of Efficiency, whose panied the announcement of the fact that business it has been for twenty-three |
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Eckener at Friedrichshafen. The Zep- Widespread regret is felt here at the Polin, which will be known as ZZ127, tragic death of Mr. A. B. Elliott, the ill carry five 420 horse-power Maybach young-mechanic, and companion of Mr.engines adapted to the consumption of "the new gaa fuel. This gas 19. stated to Alan Cobham on the 13,000 miles seaplane have, roughly, the anime specific gravity flight from England to Australia. As you are aware, he was shot a few days as air, and produces 23 per cent. more calories per cubic metre than petrol per ago near. Basra, presumably by a marsh
kilogram. Ethane would answer this Arab, as the machine was travelling law down because of mist. The bullet smash description, and it is possible that ethane is the gas which has been "dis ed the petrol feed pipe, struck Elliot covered" "Non-explosive" is, of course, amiinomer for if it could not explode it could not work the engine
Some time ago two students of chemis- The widow is not so good," says Mr. don is that the rifle was fired by an irretry at Berlin, Schlumbohm and Peters, Brown. She thinks of her past, lock- BUY YOUR BOOKS AT BREWER'S. sponsible fool, out of sheer devilry, and patented a scheme by which airships filling backward rather than forward. She no political or other significance is at-ed with helium could be made to ascend is often a troublemaker in an office. tached to it. Air Force machines fly over or descend, by heating and cooling their
in the arm, and then penetrated his chest.
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Slender women are, as a rule, better tacked. It was the most unlucky shot te Dr. Eckener to use gas fuel instead physique. When a slim woman puts on flesh she is liable to lose some of her of liquid fuel. They now propose a aver fired, first to hit the machine, nad sebene which would wear to be an ad II.
Mr. Brown has some equally bard secondly to bit Elliott. He was a revance on the one adopted for LZ127. truths to say about the so-called sterner The scheme is to use rot one gas with markably clever mechanic, and had flown about the same specific gravity as air, with Mr. Cobham on his long trips to but two-one lighter and one heavier the Cape and back, and to India and than air. If the airship is to ascend then the engines would burn the heavier back. They were very much attached togas; if to descend they would bura the
lighter.
each other.
Uncertain Attitude of Araba,
In airships Glied with helium the two fuel gases would be stored inside the helium. As the gae does not explodo except when mixed with air the dang of explosion or of the airship catching fire would be almost entirely eliminated, eren in war-Manchester Guardian.
CHINA TEA.
Mr. Elliott's death is a reminder that the perils of flying over the desert, which have been spoken of in warning tones by earlier travellers, must not be lightly regarded. Although it is said that there have been no similar incidents in the particular area where this lamentable in- cident occurred, it is of course well known that Royal Air Force machines on service have serval times been fired at by Arabs. It is also recalled that not long-ago-shots were fired-at-e-motor-I was a little surprised, writes or caravan and there were causalties among to note that China was not mentioned respondent to the Manchester Guardian,
the passengers.
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more than four inches abore five feet in stature.
There is an unmistakable relation
between physique and mentality. The fit, placid man is not likely to forge ahead. He is too easy-going. The large, hasky man is not usually successful in commercial life. Married men, as a rule,
are better workers than bachelors."
Another variety in Mr. Brown's inex haustible catalogue is the red-headed worker, who, he says, in dynamic on his job, but less easy to manage than others."
A Daily Express representative toured a number of London offices to find out whether English workers come under this category. Some of his inquiries proved illuminating.
It is impossible to generalise," said The capability for work does not de- an official of a business training college. pend on the physical qualitica of either Far. women ofter proved better workers than thin ones. Everything depends on the mentality of the person concerned."
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"Spinsters, who are resigned to spinster-hood, are among the best work- ers," said the manager of a large store.
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NINE YEARS WAR MYSTERY.
SOLVED BY SCRAP OF POSTAL ORDER.
as the Socialist Party. Thia Committee has sent a letter to the Whips of the Parliamentary Party instructing them to raise the question in the House ne pro- posed by Mr. Johnston. Obviously it is a An example of the care and patience of very serious blow to Mr. MacDonald's the officials of the Imperial War. Graves prestige, which has been on the wane for Commission in establishing the identity some time, and the latest report is that of dead British soldiers in France has it will eventually cause him to sever his been provided by the identification of a official relations with the Independent soldier of Clarborough, Retford, Notting.
hamshire. Enhor Party.
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in the Miscellany" paragraph-about A possible explanation of the attack the relative consumption of tea by on Mr. Cobham's aeroplane is that dur various nations For Chinn not only
zapplies Us with what mang ing the war all airmen carried a letter noisseurs declare, to be the best brands in Arabic which promised rewards to of ten, but her people also "take their those who protected them and brought on medicine" prodigiously. "Even 50 early as the fourth century B. C. ten was them in, and this custom may still pre-highly prized by the Chinese for re- vail. The hope of reward has been living fatigue, delighting the soul, known to tempt even friendly tribesmen strengthening the will, and repairing the to shoot at an aeroplane, so that they eyesight"-almost as many excuses
sense of proportion, Married could succour the occupants and escort the modern American invents for the
women are not usually good workers, be- them to headquarters.
cause their time is occupied in thinking finak in his pocket Taoists actually about their homes. There is not much Beauty in the Factory.
used it as an ingredient in the elixir to choose between a bachelor and a mar- "Sir Thomas Legge, Senior Medical which was supposed to renew youth per-ried man. Officer of Factories, has come into pro-petually Buddhists, who knew not Short men are generally efficient, but minence in the news-columns of the coffee drank it to present themselves man red-haired men are full of bluf papers this week by a statement he made frem falling asleep during devotional at the Sanitary Institute Congress at Westminster. Twenty years ago, he said, his records showed that 30 to 35 per cent. of working girls suffered from anaemia; to-day he put the figure at 5 per cent Open-air life, exercise, and high wages were the chief causes of the improvement. In his view London's working girls are growing more beautiful every year.
"In the last factory I visited," he said, "" I noted that 79 per cent, of the girls were good-looking of the Rossetti, Burne-Jones, or Greek type 28 per cent, were average looking, and none at all were bad looking." This is a handsome testimonial to the factory girl; and one can endorse the comment of the President. It appears that there is a decided move of the Congress, Mrs. Ellen Wilkinson,ment in London towards a revival of the M.P, that factory girls will now take a dinner party at home and the house much more lively interest in Sir Thomas concert. It has become noticeable, dur- ing the present season, in which there Legge.
have been more dinners, given in Mayfair than at any time since the wur.. One ex I hear that a decidedly piquant situa planation is that many people are be tion has arisen in the ranks of the coming tired of hotel and restaurant hos Socialist Party Some time ago Mpitality, and a dinner party at home if Thomas Johnston, one of the Members it can be done with the present dearth of for Dundee, proposed in the House of capable servants has now a prestige that Commons that a Committee representing no outside dinner has. – There are few sumed killed. all parties should be set up to investigate people with town houses and staffs The parents remembered sending the the whole question of unemployment equipped for entertaining on a big scale. postal order to their son, Private J. W. Later, he brought the matter before the Another explanation is that we are Stevenson. Thus a nine years mystery. Socialist Party, where it was strongly having a return to the old English tradi- is cleared up, opposed by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald on tion that the proper place to entertain There is a special department, of the the ground that if they did anything to your friends is under your own roof with War Graves Commission which follows help the Government to solve the problem your feet under your own mahogany, and up these slender clues. One official, by of unemployment they would deprive that this instinct is reasserting itself in his painstaking care and acumen, has themselves of the right to attack the Gov'the case of people who are able to gratify won for himself the name of "Sherlock ernment for failing to find a remedy for it. The revival of the concert at home Holmes "not inappropriately, secing the evil.
is also to be noted as a return to that his office is in Baker-street. It was supposed that the matter had Victorian fashion; and it is remarked by been settled, but it now seems that Mr those who make a point of observing Johnston and his friends have appealed social tendencies that this sesson mothers to" the Unemployment Committee of the are reasserting themselves, so that more Socialist Party, which contains repre- of them are to be seen going out with sentatives of the Trades Union Congress their daughters In other words, the and the National Labour Party as well chaperone in a new plane. is again on
(Continued on next column.) the scene in London.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald Flouted.
The Dinner Party at Homs.
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During the work of concentrating the bodies of the fallen from isolated, graves into authorised British cemeteries por- tions of a postal order isined at Clar borough on March 20th, 1917, were re covered from the body of an unknown soldier of the Royal Scots who fell in action at Monchy-le-Freux, east of Arras, about April to June 1917, f
A letter was sent to the postmistress ut Clarborough, and it so happened that she was a distant relation of a Clar borough soldier who had been in the Royal Scots and had been reported pre-
He established the identity of one man through finding the receipt for a War Savings, Certificate on the body.
Another time a watch was found, the maker's name being just discernible
fragment of a memorial card of someone buried in London cemetery, led to another identification.
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