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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1933.
Scottish Air-Mail Letter MOST POWERFUL MK. SHAW IS NOT
The Scotsmen's Passport: Royal Visit To
Braenar: The Schottische: Glasgow
And Its Films: Australia And
Scotland: Famous Lawyer's
Promotion.
(Speelal Air-Mail Service)
·SCOTSMEN AND WILLESDEN
Edinburgh, Sept. 12,
Memories of travel between Lon- don and Glasgow before the days of the great railway amalgama. tions were revived - by the prominence which is being claim-
ed by Willesden. To-morrow the Lord Mayor of London will hand over a new charter to Willesden which will incorporate this huge district as a municipal borough. It is, however, not the new honour that is to be bestowed upon it, but Just the name "Willesden" that revived memories. It was here that Scotsmen on their way to London were called upon to produce their "passports." as one cynic tetmed it. All incoming trains stopped at Willesden for the collection of tickets. It was the gateway that most Scotsmen passed through o their way to the Metropolis. Now the Royal Scot hurries past it.
PRINCESS ELIZABETH IN TARTAN
SEARCHLIGHT
Value For Navy And
Air Defence
HOW RAY WASTE IS PREVENTED
The parallel beam searchlight, which embodies a principle now utilised for the first time, is the subject of negotiations with the Government, Manufacturing rights hayo been acquired by one of the
It is the searchlight in less
most
re-
houn, who occupies many import-biggest engineering firma. ant" offices in Scotland. He has The been Lord High Commissioner of various purposee has been discuss
use of this searchlight for the Church of Scotland. Bired, but the dicussions obscured its Iain is a prominent figure in immense importance in air defence boxing quarters, and has refer- and to the Navy, sed many fights. He was cham” pion light-weight of the Bri-
powerful the. world fish, Army in 1913-14, and has for
no than 3,000,000,000 candle long been known as "the boxing
it power-and
has been baronet." In accepting the por ported upon by Air Ministry and trait, which has been subscribed War Office experts in emphatically for by people from all over Scot-favourable terms. It is as great an land, and also in acknowledging a advance over existing searchlighta gift to Lady Colquhoun, Sir Iain said the list of subscribers would was steam" or "sail" in ship arouse memories of the Church and the boxing-ring, Freemasonry and the athletic field, and his other interests, "
It secures intensity of ill ping.
mination at a great range.
300 PARALLEL BEAMS. Its secret is the combination of a large reflector of parabolic form, aud a mosaic of three hundred small, flat mirrors on a dat disc, The illuminating agent is placed between, and the mirrors convert the familiar cone-shaped beam into 300 parallel beams. A cone-shaped bean could quite easily be projected by this apparatus, but even in this ease the waste of light would be negligible_
INTERESTED
In Reichstag Burning Case
London, Sept. 13,
George Bernard Shaw to lay wrote a letter to Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Lobour politician, declaring himself opposed to any interference in the Reichstag fre
Mr. Shaw repeated his objections in the course of an interview given to the press to-day. He said that the live persons accused at Leipzig were being used by the ringlesdiers of anti-German propaganda as a means to their own ends and emphasised that these tactics were éruel and inconsiderate towards
the best policy was to remain the accused. If one wanted to really belp the prisoners, Mr. Shaw declared, sirs. All persons now making such pas. demonstrative show of their sym pathy for the fire accused are the very same ones who some time ago wers in dignant that the British press should take up a hostile attitude" towards the trial of the British engineers at Mos cow and should have attacked the "G.RS." added, are not eveh English- Soviet Government These people,
men.
In a letter read out aloud to the meeting by the chairman of the so called world committee to help the Victims of Garican Fascism, Bernard Shaw, who had been invited, aa- nounced his refusal to attend the meeting, putting it on record in writ Ling that he considered that the meet- ing had no right to interfere in the Reichstag fire trial since the accused are not British subjects.
HUMAN EYE IMITATED
The Iconoscope Televisión
Commencing TO-DAY at the CENTRAL
EDGAR WALLACE'S MIGHTY
SCREEN FANTASY
WHILE A CITY SHRIEKS IN TERROR,
an apelike monster trom the "prehistoric world... strangely stirred by woman's beauty... rushes over streets and rooftops...wrecking autos... breaking walls!
KING KONG
Out-leaping the maddest imaginings! Out-thrilling the wildest thrills! From an idea conceived by
EDGAR WALLACE and MERIAN C. COOPER With
FAY WRAY, ROBT. ARMSTRONG BRUCE CABOT. Doeld O. Salznick, eze, producit
RKO-RADIO Pleturs
Merian C. Cooper-Ernest B. Schoedsack Production
method is limited by the size of the that night is allowed to influence, the aperture and the period of time photo-electric cell..
AUSTRALIAN INVITATION TO SCOTTISH PEOPLE The State Victoria (Australia) celebrates its centenary on October 15 next year in Melbourne, and the Royal Caledonian Societies of Victoria and the Commonwealth A great cheer from a crowd esti-
of Australia have issued invita- mated at 30.000 welcomed this tions to the Scottish people to be afternoon one of the most repre-
present, the invitations being a re- sentative Royal parties that have
turn for the hospitality received by
The loss of light, in fact, is only attended the
An interesting development in the Australian-Scottish delegation the unavoidable 5 per cent. in the television, recently announced at a Braemar gathering for some years. At three o'clock which visited this country in 1928, refector, and a further 2 per cent.onvention held by the Institute of the King and Queen arrived at
The Hon. Richard Linton, Agent-due to the minute divisions between Radio Engineers at Chicago is the Princess Royal Park, and ac-
General for the State of Victoria the mirrors. For many years fam explained in "Wireless World." companying them were the Duke London, who is at present in Edinous optical firms in France and and Duchess of York and Princess burgh, has discussed the matter Germany tried to solve this pro- Zworykin, details were given of the In a paper by Dr. Vladimír
Elizabeth..
with Lord Provost Thomson, and blem, which was at length overcome iconoscope which it is claimed, With them were the Prime Min- the Lord Provost is calling a pub- by a British inventor. The beam replaces mechanical scanning and ister and the Archbishop of Can-lic meeting to be held in Edinburgh is so powerful that a newspaper five several stages of amplification. cathode ray tube directing towards The iconoscope consista of a terbury. A few minutes earlier the on October 26. It is expected that miles from the searchlight can be Being entirely electrical
Mr. Stanley M. Bruce, Australian read in it
and a photo-electric mosaic consisting of Minister in London, Mr. J. H.
with no moving parts it is said a vast number of light sensitive value lies in the fact that any patas efficient as the mechanical can- the mosaic has focused upon it an As an anti-aircraft searchlight its to be several thousand times cells. Through à system of lenses. tern can be projected nito the sky.ning disk. The iconoscope has the image, in much the same way as the Of course, an ordinary searchlight ability to imitate the human eye, in relation between the eye and the gan send a pattern by means of an that it can view a picture continu- brain-is "sees" the whole picture. interposed screen, but only with ously and possesses a certain degree This is scanned by an electronic very great loss of light. By means of retentiveness It allows the beam from the cathode ray tube, of the parallel beam searchlight a transmission of about 20 complete causing the grid pattern can be sent, a chess- pictures a second with a detail cor- accordingly,
cells to respond and producing 2 board pattern of squares, the di-responding to 250 lines to the square modulated current corresponding veal the height, speed, and direc mensions of which being known re inch.
to the light and shade of the image. In the opinion of well-known American engineers the iconoscope marks an important development in
Prince and Princess Arthur of Con- naught had arrived at the 'park:
The King and the Duke of York were both in Highland dress. The Duchess was wearing a skirt or Hunters Stuarts Tartan, and Frin- cess Elizabeth wore, one of Royal Stuart, with a yellow jumper and a dark beret. The little Princess was fascinated as the clansmen "with bands and banners marched past carrying their Lochaber axes.
pikes and claymores.
·REVIVING THE SCHOTTISCHE Lord Huntly, himself chief of the Gordons and so "Cock o' the North." laments the passing, or if not that, the modification, of the old Highland dances. Particularly he laments the Highland Schottie che, a round dance, as it was dan ced in his young" days, with dash and ceremony.
Thomas, Dominions Secretary, Sir Godfrey Collins, the Secretary for Scotland, and others will address the meeting.
DUKE ‘AND DUCHESS VISIT ISLE OF SKYE:
The Duke and Duchess of York stayed last night in the Castle of Dunvegan, the ancestral home of. Macleod of Macleod, in the Isle of This is the first official Royal visit since 1540, when James
fleet,
Skye.
V was at Portée with the Royal of an aeroplane caught in the eat. This has been tested to a height of 16,000 feet.
There have been unofficial visits since then, King Edward in 1602 put in at Uig while cruising in his yacht, and Prince George not many years ago was on the island when on service in a destroyer,
INVESTMENT" TRUSTS -IN
SCOTLAND
Hopeful of reviving it in all its Highland. bravery and beauty, he
The news that the late Mr. Ro- is. offering special prizes for it at bert Fleming left a personal estate to-day's gathering. This means the of over £2,000,000 comes as no presence on the dancing board of surprise to the many people who men and women 8g partners, and have made direct or indirect con- the following of the steps and contact with him through his Glasgow volutions originally associated with investment trust companies. It was he who, fifty-five years ago in Dundee, founded the practice of
the Highland Schottische.
Lord Huntly's challenge to the Highland lads and lasses of Deeside as dancers worthy of their dance inheritance is sure of a warm res- ponse. And who knows whether it
may not have a wider influence on
our ballroom fashions?
THREE, IN RETIREMENT
When Sir John Lamb leaves the Office there will be
investment trust company finance. and who made such a success of
States and on the European con-
CHANGING THE PATTERN. ' four seconds to alternative patterns, The pattern can be changed in such as a long, straight line, or a series of lines, or rings. The flat beam can be made to extend sixty degrees, so that if a warship had any need simultaneously to illumine the whole horizon, it could do so with six of these searchlights.
The parallel searchlight beam has the further advantage that it cannot easily be evaded. The ordinary cone-shaped beam can be seen by the pilot of an aeroplane, and can often be avoided or escaped from Pilots who h we flown in experi- ants with the new searchlights say it that he was quickly emulated that they cannot see the grid until in England, and in recent years they are inside it, and then they (since the war) in the United to right or left. They are like fies cannot see the next line in front or
tinent. There are now over a caught in a spider's web In the hundred such companies in Scot- official experiments it proved so affi- land. They together control £200.-cient that tests which would in the 000,000 of capital.
ordinary way have taken two Mr. Fleming's three Dundee com- months were completed in an hour. panies, the pioneers, by name the It can throw a perfect flood First. Second, and Third Scottish fight" to assist aeroplanes landing the Duke and Duchess of York at American Trust Companies, stand at right; and, being mounted on a Dunvegan Castle, and Sir James out as a monument to mare than orry, it can accompany an air force Miller Dodds. Sir Reginald held half a century's shrewd work. He in the field. the office from 1902 to 1908 and himself crossed the Atlantic Sir James Dodds from 1909 to hundred times in that period to 1921, when he was succeeded by find out for himself the prospects Sir John Lamb, who in 1926 be- of the American railways. That THE GOVERNMENT VACANCY.
When came the first Under-Becretary of was his technical speciality." Hi
the Lord-Advocate, ir State for Scotland,-
other speciality was hard work Craigie Aitchison, leaves the Gov- His colleagues could never com-ernment next month for the Boot plain of the way he worked them because he himself, worked
Scottish three Under-Secretaries for Scot- land living in retirement, the other two being Bir Reginald Macleod of Macleod who is about to entertain
"UNUBUAL" · FILMS FOR
[" GLASGOW
the
sie-mouth
The device would appear to solve one of the most difficult problems of television; that of definition. The efficiency of the scanning 'disk' television.
AMERICA'S COAST DEFENCES Army's Experiments With Long Range Guns
CALIBRE 14-16 INCHES: RANGE 25 MILES
Washington-As an aftermath of The largest mobile gun found prac the practical collapse of the Generatical for coast defense purposes is the the War Department has resumed its jectile weighing approximately 1,600 Disarmament Conference at Geneva 14-inch ride which throws a pro. experiments looking to further de pounds. Its maximum range for ac velopment of large calibre, long range ourate shooting is approximately 28 coast defense guns.
The continued existence of the 14-
miles:
Astonishing Accuracy The fire of these guns can be con- trolled with astonishing accuracy up to a distance of 95 miles, - Coast Artillery officers declare. If greater range is attempted the ratio of ac curacy is reduced rapidly,
ficers believe the development of guns
For this reason Coast Artillery of similar to Big Bertha of World War fame is unlikely. Such s
gan is not practical except for freak attacks. where moral rather than sctual physic al destruction is desired, the officials say. The United States Army plans to use bombing planes for long range attacks and bombardments. Aerial bombardments are more easily con trolled than long range shelling by artillery, officials atate.
Bad 16-inch coast defense rides was threatened at the Cleneva Conference by President Hoover's proposal that all mobile heavy artillery and land tanks be prohibited under interna
It was not Pre- tional agreement.
Hoover's intention that sident at character should be included in stationary armaments of purely defen the prohibition, but when his proposal came up for discussion by the various delegates at the con- ference an attempt was made to include alguns of more than 155 millimetery calibre in the prescribed class This would have meant had the proposal been aniversally adopted, that the Unite Bites would have had to scrap practically all its const defense tish Berich he will not be mere- States but in the fortifications of the sirmaments, not only in the United
Big Bertha was freak gun, con still an ordinary member of the Pandit Canal Zone, Hewall and the structed for a freak purpose. It fired
Court of Session or, to give a Philippines Beottiah Judgeship its more High officials of the United States firing life was extremely limited. The so besty a charge of explosire that its norous title, a Senator of the Col- Arany never beloved that the pre trajectors of its projectile was so high lege of Justices onscription would be universally adopted and the distance so great that spourste His appointment will be as Lord but the uncertainty which bung, over bring was impossible. Artillery of Justice Clerk and President of all heavy calibre guns caused a practi- | ficers extunate one bombing & plane the Second Division of the Inner cal surpension of experiments, and could cause more accurately planned House, or Court of Appeal. In pre- development with the type of arma- I destruction on a angle fight against cedence he will rank second only ment. - Firing practice with the big | an objective 70 miles- distant - than to Lord President Clyde,
guns was almost totally abandoned, could be done with a big berths Like Lord Alness, whom he will partly as a government economy during its entire lifetime of firing, succeed. Mr. Aitchison is a son of measure and partly because of this working to increase the mobility Just now artillery - officina are the manse,
tmbérnational uncertainty.
of coast defense gans, particularly the SCOTTISH "MARSHALL HALI-'- A Big Guns
16 inch railway guns and their pro- | Mr. Aitchison, made his name as a criminal lawyer in a series of removed with the practical collapse of the muccessful, transfer of a whole bat
This uncertainty has now been tactive batteries of anti-aircraft guna For this development was murder charge defences, and was the disarmament conference and the acclaimed the Scottish Marshall indications that the present, administery of these big guns from one cust but seldom find their way into Mr. Ramsay MacDonald left Eus- Hall.
tration will oppose any attempt to of the Panama Canal Zone to the other the programmes of ordinary on by the eleven o'clock train last His forensic style, and even his restrict the effectiveness of the United | in a few bouw cinemas, because they demand night for Perth on his way to Bal physical appearance, supported the States cost defents works, and the In addition to the development of little thought. The difficulty of moral, where he will be the guest title,
development of the big guns is again the moveability of those big guns, ex- some of them being in a foreign of the King and Queen, eta Like Marshall Hail, he was much dog forward. This development, at pariments are constantly in progross. language is surrounded by the su perimposition of titles in English station in the company of his cution. Again like Marshall Hall,
Mr. MacDonald arrived at the happier in defence than in prose the present time, is principally in the with newer and speedier portable field of perfecting firing bases for the bases for smaller guna such as the hich tends to combine the appeal daughter Miss Sheila MacDonald he has never done himself full gure more suitable mounts for the big 9-inch rife, the 155 mm. gun and anti- of the silent film with that of and his two sons Malcolm and Aluustice in the House of Commons: mobile, railway gan auge finding aircraft guns. These are mounted on the "talkie."..
ter. He was wearing a light grey And of course, since he became apparatus and fire controls
pneumatic tired trucks, drawn by Army authoritza bera mat convinced | trsotors or motor trucka, and can be lusfour it and cap, and it was National Labour, he has been rea that the 16 inch rifle de largest moved about, the county at high roticed that he also:- wore his - zarded "fair game” by his calibre long range gun. sible for speed. The trucks are 80: cóm usted Clan chiefs in kilts mingled with horn-rimmed glasses Mr MIS
eagues, and in partien practical purposes: This
throws" that ther can be more sombrely clad visitors from ronald, who looked tired said
projectile approximat "all parts of Scotland who gathered "T ́have had a beary day. I shal
been_ankious, toj weighs nea even at such an early filled
I hear that, Glasgow has been harder. hosen as one of the key cen-I myself (writes a correspon trea" of Great Britain where "un-dent) saw him still at his deak at usual films seldom shown out of 8 Crosby Square, London in London are to be exhibited re- January of last year, at the age of gularly. Mr. Eric Hakim, who has
86. N successfully pioneered the moye- The King and Queen of Bulgaria ment of "unusual pictures here, sent their first day in Scotland tells me that, a close study of shooting over Kilbryde Moor with cinema audiences throughout. Bri- their host, Bir A Kay Muir of tain has prompted him to extend Blair Drummond, Perthshire, and his activities to the provinces and Lady Muir, on whose extate the Scotland. Mr. Hakim is not of the moor is situated. King Boris had "highbrow school" who must have twenty brace, King Boris and something so execlusive, on the
Queen Giovanna proceed to Bal- screen that few can understand what it is all about. The films he moral on Friday. chooses are primarily entertaining;
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