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CHINA REPORTED BUYING TEXTILES FREELY.
RADIO ECHO FROM
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NORWEGIAN PROFESSOR'S STARTLING "DECLARATION,
Washington. Aptl 6 world- SHORT WAVE DISCOVERY. Bangkok (U.P.) :—A
wide acceleration in the cotton catching fresh-water fish as big as spinning trade is shown by the cows is related by a Chiengrai cor-statement of the National Bank of
A sensacion has been caused by respondent of the Bangkok Daily Commerce released to-day.
the claim of Professor Stoermer, of Mail. Desiring to show that its
Chinn is shown by the report to
Dale, that he received from out of news enterprise was not founded by buying cotton textiles freely in the universs echoes of the signals on fiction the newspaper subsequent the foreign market while maintain- from a Dutch short wave station. ly obtained and published photoing normal production at home.. Professor Stoermer, who has made graphs of the fish
Interruption of communications a name for, his researches into the Pls Buk" is the Siamese name in the interior of China apparently phenomena of Northern Lighta, as- of the creature which is described has created a shortage of these serted that he had heard these as much like a dolphin, sealeless, | materials which will take consider-signals twice, once when they were having a hide an inch thick and able time to remedy, according to edible flesh. The eggs are a rare the statement." delicacy in Bangkok but imitations Are often served..
Exciting Times, Catching the fish is declared by the Daily Mail' writer
to be
almost as big an affair as the fish itself, involving practically the en- tire population of Chiengsean which is situated on the bank of the Mekong."
Two by two, the great creatures fight their way up-stream in spring- time. going from the fresh-water lakes in Cambodia in order to spawn: At the proper season every househoid nendy nets. prepares harges and otherwise makes ready.
A high ilitary pole" continues the correspondent, is set up on one of the islands in the middle of the swiftly whirling current.
On top of the pole is stationed a men, the signaller, who is to watch for the coming of the game.
At the same time there is a bustin of activity and excitement.. Barges loaded with hets and other necessary equipment are stationed along both banks proper order, and their crews are watchful to obey the least signal from the watcher on the pole.
Towing the Catch.
The enormous bulk of the fish coming up against the current is easily detected by an experienced man. The action of the 5sh fighting against the current leaves the sur
not unlike the face disturbed cleavage of the water by the bow of a motor bont.
After a tedious wait, and the wait may be long, the watchman is seen to straighten up. He stares down the current and then gives the welcome signal: The fish are coming! They usually travel in pairs.
Effect of Boycott. The boycott in operation against Japanese goods bas somewhat offset this handicap, says the report.
Great Britain and Japan will predominate in the foreign distribu- tion of textiles, it states, the decline in demand for British goods in Aus tralia and India being partially alleviated by improved trade re- lations with China.
"DRY" LAW ENFORCE MENT,
sent, and then again after a com- paratively greet interval during which, in his opinion, they must have penetrated into space and were then reflected back to earth."
To throw all possible light on the matter. Germany's most prominent Wireless expert, Coung Arco, has
been approached for his opinion on
the possibility of interplanetary Professor Stoermer's snim in par communication in general and on
ticular.
The statement places the new raw
Ides No Longer Absurd. cation crop in America in a favour-
Said Court Areo, "the idea of able position as regards world sending electrical waves beyond our markets because the evisting sup-atmosphere and thus communicating plics of cotton are smaller than the with other planets can no longer 1938 consumption. The outlook for be regarded as absurd. The re the American cotton planter is de vision of opinion is due to the dis finitely improved from every angle, covery and perfection of the short says the report.
wave and the beam system, enabling two given points to comtiunicate with far greater exactness and less expenditure of electric energy than I was possible with the long wave.
"To explain the peculiar features of the short wave, it passes through Washington, April 6.-Attorney- the lower layers of the atmosphere General William. De Witt Mitchell upward till it reaches the so-called speaking over the radio to-night Heavyside Stratum enveloping the stated that the Hoever administra-corth at an approximate distance tion in planning an unspectacular of 15 kilometres. This layer is but progressive campaign to" en force the prohibition amendment. The new Attorney-General said that it would take weeks, months and even years of persistent, con- servative effort to show results in law enforcement.
"MAY TAKE YEARS.
He said that President Hoover would not countenance infringe ments by federal agents of the Civil Liberties Act.
the not too distant future man will be able to exchange signals with his neighbouring planets
Such forecasts are, of course, always subject to the conditions prevailing on these planets. One
susceptible to magnetic induepres and retains the short wave until it strikes downward again towards the receiving station. However, during this process a fraction of the electric energies, diffused in the Hearyside Stratum, breaks through it and estapes into the universe beyond.
When, about two years ago Tele- funken entered upon its first ex- periments with the transmission of pictures, these were found, at the receiving station, to show peculiar parallel lines, giving rise to the assumption that the signals had twice reached the station, with one group of signals arriving after the others.
The next moment everything is alive. The course the fish are folcan at any rate admit the feasibility To test our belief that one set lowing is determined. Vets, sewn of communication despite the lack of signals had reached the receiver together, are cast across the river of a common medium for it. Al-by a roundabout route, we employ. Barges, holding the net lines, stand though we could not communicate by ed an oscillograph. Measurements ready a little way from the nets.. words, we could send sounds and demonstrated conclusively that the As the fish approach, the fishermen combination of sounds and. we identical signal would pass round move toward them so as to be in a could transmit pictures.
the earth as often as five times. proper position to follow the moves ment of their quarry,
But AB yet man is not confront- ed with this problem. There is The enormous fish, there may every reason to believe that much be one or two. strike against the time will elapse before we reach nets. the barges holding the Line that stage, and that even Professor yielding to the force of the impact. Stoetmer'slaims are rather rash. The head fisherman then twists the Our own experiences would indicate ret around the fish, after, which all that what Professor Stoermer as the barges will be in tow of theserts to have been echoes from out great fish which at finding itself of the universe were probably the enddenly entangled in the meshi's identical signals of the Dutch dashes wildly upstream. The barges station which had circled the globe Iollow for some kilometers until the a considerable number of times. So fith shows signs of being tired.far, there has been no definite proof Then the fishermen start to row back that an appreciable fraction of and unceremoniously drag the catch electrical energy has ever been ashore,"
radiated into space."
Prove Short-Wave Sending. "These phenomena plainly prove at least the feasibility of sending short waves through the ether into the universe, provided the waves are radiated at a certain angle and are given a certain direction. Our re ceiving apparatus, too, has been perfected to an extent where we are able to ascertain the degree of heat radiated by the most refaote star
"Finally, modern astronomy has enormously widened our knowledge of the universe, and on the whole there is a reasonable hope that in Continued on Previous Column.)
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