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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1933
"INTO THE DAWN OF THE
UNIVERSE”
WHEN ALL SPACE WAS FILLED WITH THIN GAS
The Second of a Series of Radio Talks on Astronomy
(By Rev. D. MACDONALD S.J.)
→
Some Tremor,
H. K. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.
(Orders by Colonel L G. Bird,
·D.S.O., O.B.E., Command- ing H.K.V.D.C.)`
"Hong Kong. Friday, May 5, 1933.. 1.-Parade.
(a). Corps Rand.
The Band practice will take pl Ton Friday, May 12, 1633.
(b). The Battery.
There will be a parade for Lewis Gun Instruction on Thursday, May 11 at 5.30 pm.. at Headquarters.. (c). Engineer Company.
Practice at Miniature Range on Monday, May 8.
12.
The O.C. Company congratulates Sapper Brown on his success and his general keeness. (d). Corps Signal.
Parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 9, 1933. (6) Machine Gun Troop.
Parade at Causeway Bay Stables at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 9, 1033
Machine Gun Company. The Company Rifle Club will fire at Peak Range on Sunday, May 7, 1933 at 8.30 p.m.
Range Officer-Lieut. V. C. Brun- son, MC.
(g). Scottish Company.
1 Parade on Thursday, May 11,
1033-
Once more we set cut in our magic, primeval gas that now fills all space aeroplane. Last time we conquered so thinly is perfectly uniformly dis space in that breathless dash and wibuted, no little heaps here and The 0.0 Company's Shield for now wo aspire to vanquish time. there and no empty pockets but General Efficiency and Progress, Wo audaciously determine to fly everywhere 'just the same. All is during season 1932-1933, has been back into time, back into yesterday still. No movement, nothing like awarded to Sapper H, W. Brawa and will be presented at the An- and the day before and through winds or weather depressions butual Prize Distribution on May. all the yesterdays that have been just perfectly balanced stillness. until maybe, wd reach the boundary The stillness of chaos, not of the of time beyond which there was no chaos of disorder, but the chaos of yesterday. So off we hop and at an yet unbuilt universe. We have once we see the history of mankind | arrived at our destination and now unfolding itself backwards, the we set forth on our homeward dynasties of China that were rise journey. up in reverse order before us again, each beginning in defeht and disas ter and onding in triumph where And lo, just as we start come history books tell us they began. great tremor passes through the On and on we go, the days of Con- length and breadth and depth of fucius flash past us, the prehistoric chaotio space and the whole face of days become to us as now yester- the universe begins to change. The days as in our flight all things te gaseous substance that was sa uni reversed and effects come before formly distributed, now disturbed causes, decay before prosperity, in its balance, begins to break up death before birth. We have no into immense masses of gas leaving mind to gaze into the maze of regions empty or almost empty. human history laid out before us The gaseous molecules mutually at in inverted sequence, interesting tract one another and from the out-ves Training, though it be, for we wish to go on.
skirts of those immense masses" of. No. 7 Platoon, at Headquarters Spurning the land marks of history gas the molécules aro sucked into under Lieut. A. W. Brown for Ma with thought-like wings we find that mass by its powerful attracchine Gun Training ourselves in the twinkling of an eye tion in fact the gaseous mass be out before the time, when men
comes more and more compact and began to bo, out even before this the empty spaces more and more very Earth itself began to be. "Now empty, Very many of these im the sun does not rise nor set for mense masses of gas are now to be there is no earth upon which toiseen occupying at intervals the rise or ect. And still we hurry on-space that was, before chaos, just and we are before the sun was, but like big globe-shaped clouds. There still the why is open before us, we is a great pressure within these see no painted signboard saying great masses teriding its make them Beyond this there is no way,? burst, up and shatter and go back to the original state of chaos but the greatness of their monseca makes the force of suction, so to speak, by which everything is drawn or attracted towards the centre of the mass, powerful enough to pre vent the mass breaking up, nay even powerful enough to make it con- tract and contract continuously.
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As we travel we gaze at the star cities of our former trip, they seem to be not quite the same as before, yet in general they haven't changed so very greatly, so we travel on and on through fabulous periods of time watching our nebulous star cities becoming more and nebulous. And lo! finally we are before the birthdays of the nebulae and pausa in amazement and awe at the dawn of the universe.. We have undone all human history, all stellar history we have even brought back the great nebular foundationa of the universò into the shattered fragments of which they were built and pause at the threshold of Universal history and gaze upon the scent of desolation that lies before
15.
What do we And there ! Α shattered universe, not like the shat tered ruins of some earthly city, but a universe shattered and re- shattered until the whole of space become a chaos of the ultimate ruins of all things that were. The solid Earth, and plauets the stars liquid or gaseous, the great nebulas all, as it were ground back almost to-nothingness. Spince seems ab- solutely void, but no, the materials of the universe are still here, not solid, not liquid, but gaseous. The universal matters of which all things are made of are there resolved back into a thin gaseous substance.
The Whole Space.
And the whole space of the universe is filled with that tenous gas. And the gas is so thingly dis tributed that each molecule stands apart from its neighbours by couple of feet whereas, in ordinary air the molecules are only at about the distance of 1/8,000,000th of an inch apart,
We are in primeval chaos before all things were that are.
This
Spinning Movement.
In some of these massce, as we watch them developing the suction exheting towards the centre and these just become great big balla, so to speak, of gas of fabulous size and weight. In others the rush of
the
No. 6 Flatoon at Kowloon 'under Lieut. T. P. Saunderson for Revol-
2. Annual Prize Giving-Fri- day, May 19, 1833
Attention of all"Ranks is drawn to this: function and it is hoped that the Company, will be strongly represented. Tickets are obtained in the Canteen.
(h). A.ALA. Company.
As from May 1, 1933, parades will be held only on 1st Monday of each month.
(1). Antao Company.
The Company will parade in full strength in mufti at Headquarters on Monday, 15th of May at 5.33 p.m. As this will be the first parade for the new training season all ranks are asked to make a special point of attending..
There will be an N.C.O's. parade on Friday, 19th and all N.C.0% will be expected to attend.
Machine Gun Instructional Clas ses will be held each Friday through the Summer months in order that the Anzac Company's N.G.Os. may be in a position to train there. mainder of the Company in Ma chine Gun work.
(k). The Officers Commanding the undermentioned Units will issue their Orders separately to
Commends:
3.-Transfer.
their
from
gay does not go radially but Bets a slight twist (we didn't just
Armoured Car Section, quite perceive how it got the twist,
Motor Machine Gun Section, and so the whole mass starts off.
Portuguese Company, with a spinning top movement, i.e.,
2. Promotion. the whole mass starts off like a
L/Sergt. Bort of revolving ball of gas. Wo Company, No. 10 Platoon, promot Baleros, Portuguese didn't see how that initial tremored to Sergeant with effect came about that set everything March 1, 1933.
gog, nor did we see who or what somehow we got the idea that there Company, transferred to The Bat started it, nor why it started, but
Pte. 1880 D. A. Hynes, Anzné
universe from its slumbers and was a tremor that woke up the tery with effect from April 15, 1933. made it begin the work of its long
4.---Leave. cay. The big masses that thus Engineer Company, granted ten Second Lieutenant F.W.T, Ross,
start their career revolving like months leave from 11.5.33 to 28.2.34. 'Pte. 1121 G.E.L. Johnson, En- interesting than the others for the gineer Company, granted eight grent spinning tops are to us more others just don't do anything but months leave from 20.5.33 to 1.1.34. wait, I suppose, for someone to give them a shove to wake them up, so we ignore them. The others con-
5. Strength. tracting and revolving at the same
No. 2053. Pte. R. J, Tyler. time engage our interest because P.W.D. Engineer Coy, 1.5.33, we see that, as they get smaller and smaller, while yet of course, im Govt. Ele Work Engineer Co., No. 2054. Pte. R. J. V. Everest, mense in size, they revolve moro 1.5.33. and more rapidly. We estimate the
No. 2055 Pte. Lt A. Hurlow. 21, masses of these big gas clouds, and, Fook Wah Str. M. M. G, 'Section, strange to say their masses are just more or less the masses of the great star or nebulac of our first universal flight.
(To be Continuel)
RECKLESS DRIVING masing the Chince drivor of a
BATCH OF TRAFFIC CASES DEALT WITH
Pte. 1440 D. F. Davies, Armour- leave from 12.5.33 to 18.3.34. ed Car Section, granted ten months
1.6.33.
دینو
Shamshuipo,
Hong Kong Bank, M G."Troop, No 2050, Pte. E A. Browning
2.5.33.
No. 2037. Pte. A. H. Stedman. Williamson and Co The Battery.; 4.5.33.
private car for dangerous driving Cleverly Street to the Empress in Wanchai, said the only explana-Hotel at a speed of 3 m.p.b He tion seemed to be that the defen- sounded his horn practically the dant was half asleep, at the time. whole way, was fined $20.
Mr. Calthrop said he was driving His Worship said that on top down Arsenal Strest when defen- more The Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe dont approached on the wrong side offences, he would recommend the convictions for similar prosecutód "in à case in which of the road, at a spect of between cancellation of the licencs. Chinese taxi-driver was charged 30 and 40 mp.h. and Mr. Calthrop with reckless driving. It appears had to, apply his brakes to avoid a
To Many Passengers. that the offence took place on the smash. The defendant than cut ceas of the authorised number, the For carrying 18 passengers in ex morning of, April 22 near the North serors the front of his car and, final-conductor of an Aberdeon hus wa East corner of the Cenotaph. ly ended up on the other side of the fined $7. The passengers, it was
road.
stated, were going to the Chinese
Mr. Wolfe in the course of prose cuting made the following obser- vation
A few nights later, the defendant Christian Cemetery. Imp. Alexan- Taxi drivers here are exactly the junction of Murray Road and journey down the Dairy Farm hill.
committed another dangerous act at der said real danger, lay in the f like their comrades in Europe, 1 Garden Tond, hut se it was n When they have a fare they are al- doubtful case, he did not take a
ways in s desperate hurry and ex- tion.
pect everything to make. gay for them, but then they have no fare they font about and got an the way of other traffe
ME. LH. C. Calthrop, Asatant Superintendant of Police, s
A fine of 825 was inflicted. Trand Inspector Alexander, aum- monid taxi driver for dangerous Des Voeux Road Central. bed tax defendant drový
inti the pavement near the Tai Another driver, who drive his car
Tung Restaurant, to get fares, was fined $20
A'fire of 35 was imposed on Mr. J Barnett by Mr. Grantham at the Kowloon Magistracy for failing to kếếp, to the left side of the toad whilst rogné a ben
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