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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1932.
SPARKS FROM THE PLUGS
BRITISH CARS IN 1,000 MILES RACE
CHALLENGE TO FOREIGN
MANUFACTURES.
ROAD PROPAGANDA PAMPHLETS
PUSH BUTTON ERA IN MOTORING
SUCCESS OF OLYMPIA
Another
REDUCING FUEL COST
NEW CARBURETTER ·
-DEVICE
known.
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ANÝ LETTERS FOR YOU?
POSTE RESTANTE
-CORRESPONDENCE
At the present time, when the
Mr. A. 6. Adamson, J. J. H. price of petrol has recently been, Aarson, Mr. A. M. Aucott, J. A. One million copies of a simply
and may again be, raised, more Bristow, O. A. Barbert, C. H. worded anti-rail propaganda pam-
than usual interest attaches to a Bernard & Sons, A. P. Blunt, phlet have been prepared by the
Beacon, "Olympia has come carburetter which operates efficient. Remy Busola, Mr. D. Road Transport League for dis-
this general public, and gone, and the show was inly on a mixture of heavy oil and China Sales Corporation Mrs. R. The favourable impression creat-tribution to
two ways the most memorable since petrol. This instrument is known Chamberlain, Dejager, Miss Dun- the war. It marks the real begins the Atomisor, and it is a pro-ham, Mr. Burton Denials, Garmors: vel by British cars at Olympia had says "Motor Transport."
The object of the pamphlet is toning of the push button" era induction of Monsieur H. Claudel, Thomas Evan, Mr. Gandy, H. A. a dramatic sequel when arrange bring home to the "man-in-the-motoring, and it has furnished al-whose name in connection with the Gibbons, Mr., G. Houx, Mrs. ients were made for an attempt street" the danger, from his point most the first concrete sign of an abject of carburation well | Halden, Mis Anne Higgins, Mrs. to consolidate their success by chal. of view, of the present activities of industrial revival.
H. Hule, E. G. Jamieson, L.. S. Five different methods were ex- That this carburetter eat deal King, Kwong Yuon Than, Frederic lenging foreign manufacturers on the railway companies to cripply
rond transpor for, continues hibited there of making car driving successfully and efficiently with a Keller, Lieut. W. H. Lambert, A. their own ground.
Molor Transport," the ordinary easier, and the liveliest interest was fuel consisting of 80 per cent. of Majied, Mr. B. Mills, c/o C. Cook, Floric MacDowell, J.. Great Britain is to enter a full individual must be made to realist | evinced in them and in cars so fit heavy oil and 40 per cent. of petrol | Mim Leam of ears for the Italian 1,000, that the reports he sees in the daily ted by every class of visitor. was demonstrated on a six-cylinder Michaud, K. Nishiyama. Mrs. miles race in April, and at the newspapers about Salter protest
Enterprise and inventive genius Hotchkiss. In the behaviour of the Nazim Nuri, Maria Iné Ochoa, had combined with more than com car there was nothing which would wheels will be three of the finest
mou vigour, and they had their re cause one to suspect that the fuel British drivers: Lord Hawe, Sir
ward for the proportion of buyers and carburettor were other than Henry Birkin, and Mr. G. E. T
He att bo made to realise that who paid for admission was very normal, for starting, tickover, slow running and acceleration were all Eyaton. The core are the new M.G. they do affert hin, and his practi-high.
that one normally expecta from his Magnettes with the self-changing cal assistance must be sought.
gour box-also a British invention.
The Italian 1,000 miles race is
considered on the Continent to be
one of the most arduous tests to
which a car wap be subjected and the leading Continental drivers in
the world's,fnulest racing cars take
part in it.
męstings, etc., do not relate merely to a squabble between transport in terests.
MOTOR INDUSTRY IN GERMANY
SMALL BUT SIGNIFICANT
DECREASE
Berlin. Nis 0. For the first tim in the after-war period the number of motorcars in Germany Lord Howe has had much ex-j
has decreased: Motorenrs in use périence of Continental racing; but throughout Germany amounted, ne it has almost invariably been in cording to just published statistics, French or Italian motor-cars. Hig' on July 1, 1o 1,409,724 while at the date in 1991 they totalled agreement to race the new British 3.D. is a sign that he believes it
will be equal to tho best dunt France, Italy and Germany rome wend against it.
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Haine
1,507,129.
Though, necording to these figures, the decrease is only 1 per covat., it is stated that the actual I decrease is much higher as in the
car.
As the result of orders received during the nine days one firm i now working night and day with
There is no trace of the pungent three shifts, two more are working oil fumes which would betray in double shifts, and orders in hand samplete combustion in the exhaust. are such as to guarantee full-time | 804. employment in other Midland fae Careful tests have shown that the tories over Christmas.
power output of a engine fitted British cars were predominant, with this carburetter, and running For the first time they outnumbered on this mixture, is increased, the those from Europe and America three-litre Hotchkiss engine show combined, and visitors from abroading an increase of 1.9 b.h.p. at 520 were quick to admit that their r.p.m., 4 b.h.p. at 2.200 r.p.m., and superiority was not in number 3.6 b.h.p. at 3,200 r.p.30.
aly.
The attendance at the show on
the last day was 27,837, as compar- ed with 27,012 on the corresponding day last year. The total "attend-
180,773 last year. "
1,773 116, compared with
Lord Howe and Sir Houry Birkin¦ last three years already, the nuniler | pecially Berlin, registered by far had spent much time at the M.G. of newly bought cars has been the greatest decrease, while
agricultural regions, as a genera stand at Olympia before Mr. Cecil | stoadily diminishing.
rule, the number of motor-cars has Kimber announced their decisions. Industrial districts and cities, es- | increased-Transocean Kuomi.
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According, the saving in fuel cost is estimated to be between 30 and 60 per cent, this being due to two factors, first, the greater mile- age per gallon, and, secondly, the B. Lawrence Bradley, City lower cost per gallon.-"The Auto Exeter, B. C. Fuiletoria, Mrs. W.
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LIFE AMONG BUDDHISTS IN the senders on production of the
REMOTE MOUNTAINS
MAN DOOMED TO STAY INSIDE CHALK LINE
Strange stories of Buddhist monks in the sacred monasteries of Chins wore told in London by Sir Reginald Fleming,
certificate of posting:
Hong Kong 130A to Shanghai, Hong Kong 585A to Shanghai, Hong Kong 151C to Shanghai,
Sheungwan 20670 to Qat{unt,
Calif., Wantsai 590 to Shanghai, Wantsai 103, to Foochow, Hong
Kong 0210 to Manila, P.I., Hong
Kon
103A to Trinidad.
During 32. years in China, Sir List of Unalaimed Radio Telegrams. 1131 3344 3404 1618 0367 0702 fron Reginald lived for months at a time in mountain monasteries in the Yennanfu, Gp. Baiquangtung from heart of the country. He was the Mecay, Oppenhem, 47 Bonham, tutor and personal adviser to the from Harbin, Fung Fat Fuito- ex-Emperor, and received" more chong from Taihoku, 1100 from honours than have ever before been Tsingtao, 7569 7106 5994 0934 0377 bestowed on a foreigner. He is a 0360 from Nanning (two), Notraco mandarin of the highest rank-tha from Tientsin, 0048_7893/2489-6007 first of the nine grades. He said: from Shanghai, Lim Yu Poy, 387 "I have visited each of the four Quono Center Rond from Manila, Lewis Kremlin, from Camden, N.J. famous sacred mountains of China, Conditions have improved now, but they are still not easy of access. nals. Once a Taoist priest chal- When I went to Omei: Shan, almost lenged a Buddhist monk to a Wine on the borders of Thibet, it took drinking contest. The Buddhist de nearly five weeks in a junk on the clared that his religion forbade him Yangtze River. Most of the way to drink wine, but if it were poi the boat had to be dragged along son he would gladly drink. Bo by trackers-Chinese coolice on arsenic was put in the wine and the the banks. The river is full of mook drank copious draughts. He rapids and the current is too strong suffered no effects and so the for poling the boat.
Taoist was very scared and flatly refused to carry out the bargain.
"Perhaps the most famous of he sacred mountains is Wn-T'Ai in The sequel is interesting be the province of Shansi. Ta resch cause it recalls an old belief stil! the mountain from Peking there is common in England. Many coun- a range 10,000ft. high to cross It: try folk believe that if a white cir is a five-day journey on mule back,elo is drawn round a hen, the fowl becomes hypnotised in some way and dare not cross the line I be lleve there is some scientific truth in this story.
100 Monasteries,
There are about 100 monasteries and temples on Wu-Tai Shan- "However, the monk drew a which means the mountain of the chalk line round the priest and the five summite and it is a place of: Was & prisoneret abjectly pilgrimage for devout Buddhiste all crawling round in circles. Even over China
tually he was released by the in- tervention of the Emperor.
"Then there are stories of monks
Wu-T'Ai goes back to the very beginnings of Buddhism in China to the first century A.D., and pre fed. on nuts brought to them by served there are the annals of the heavenly spirits and of fruit and monnatorics, written by the monks flowers brought to offerings to a loog.conturies ago. Some have great teacher, by the spirita of the been lost, others destroyed in one mountains. These are interesting of the firos which have devastated | because of their resemblance to, the many of the sacred buildings, su Biblical story of Elisha and the of which are made of wood. Yet for 500 years or so there is a fairly complete collection. They are print ed on rice-paper from wooden blocks, and all the work is done by the monks. themselves.
"There are many other stories of munks who were able to cure peo plo of disease by a sort of magnetio power. I believe there is a good deal of truth underlying-thiemits Poison in the Wine.-
fluence on, the sub-conscioúa: mind when the subject is in a state of "Bomo amusing legends of the religious exaltation may well pro monks are recorded in these en-vide a qura in certain nisex.”
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