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GANGES' NEW COURSE
11,000 Men To Save Railway Bridge
engineers Calcutta. Skillėd and an army of 11.000 labourers are working day and night to save the Hardluge Bridge over the river Ganges on the Eastern Bengal Railway Une to Siliguri and Darjeeling; the longest brid- ge in India and the Afth longest in the world.
The Hardinge Bridge, which was opened in 1915, is menaced by the river threatening to cr nge its course and and its way back to an old channel an the right bank and behind the bridge abutment, wher, 4′′ How- ed 66 years ago. The work nów-
rendered proceeding has beca necessary by the breaching last year by flood water of the right guide bank, which was designed to guide the erratic course of the river. The work must be .com- pleted by June 15 before the coming of the monsoon, or the Hardinge Bridge will be in grave danger of demolition when the Ganges is in flood in July,
and August.
September. The protective works alone are cost-.. ing a million pounds.
CATHODE-RAY TELEVISION.
The Velocity Modulation Principle
by
The remarkable progress which is being made In cathode-ray television was illustrated in a paper read by L. H. Bedford and O. S. Puckle. of Messrs. A. C. Cossor, Limited, before the In- stllution of Electrical Engineers.
The paper dealt with a com- plete television system developed by the authors, using what is known as the velocity modula- tion principle, which was sug-
1911 gested as far back as Boris Rosing. In order to pro- duce the light and shade of a televised picture on a cathode- ray oscillograph screen, it is usual to cause the delineating spot to vary in brightness. This can be done by increasing decreasing the speed of electron beam which produces the spot. In the velocity modul- ation method. however. a spot of constant intensity 1 used. but the subjective impression of light and shade is obtained by vary- Ling the speed with which it"tra- verses the different parts of the picture.
Or the
At present the picture subject- matter is, on grounds of scann- Ing-light economy, restricted to Alm material, but the transmis- slon of any direct subject is not considered to be outside the bounds of possibility:
Orders For English Firms
Railway and
The Chinese Government Pur- chasing Commission hus placed In this country two large orders for ralis-10,000 tons for the Canton-Hankow 7,000 for the Shantung Railway, to be delivered at Hankow not later than June, Reuter learns. These orders are divided between Dorman, Cong," and Company and the Cargo Fleet Iron Com- pany, Limited.
Tenders from British Arms for £20,000 worth of machine tools of all kinds for the Canton- Hankow Railway" were received
HONG KONG DAILY
RADIO-ACTIVITY | H.K. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.-
New Discovery At Cambridge
by
(ORDERS BY COL. L. G. BIRD, D.S.O., O.RE. COMMANDANT, H.K.V.D. CORPS)
1.-PARADE
(a) Corps 1st Battery:—
The announcement ponde DocLoys Cockeroft, Gubert, and Wakon In "Nature" of the production in the Cavendish (1) Parade at Belchers Fort at Laboratory at Cambridge of radio 5.45 pm, on Thursday, April 12, activity by the use of high velocity! Every member is expected to at protons opens up a new and ex-tend. Dinner will be provided. tremely interesting feid.
of
Bri
Ever since the discovery of radio- activity, Dr. J. A. Crowther, Pro- fessor of Physics in the University
Reading, recalled in interview with a representative of "The Observer" attempts have "been made from time to time to induce this effect into non-radio-
Dress:-Overalls, Blue Caps and Platform Shoes.
(2) Any one who has not fred Musketry Parts III. will fire on Sunday, April 8 at Stonecutters. For details see General Orders. (3) Uniform and Equipment: Any member who has not yet ob-
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1934.
The Women Behind SIR JOHN SIMON'S
POSITION
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Famous Men
(Special Al-Mali Service)
London, March 20.
Miss Patch.-Bernard Shaw's Becoming More And
More Difficult
secretary. Has his wit, his hum- одг. but more restraint. Been with him for years. Delightful woman. Tells you G.B.S. can't see Sir John Simon's position a you so charmingly that you feel Foreign Secretary is becoming you were, à brute ever to have more and more difficult and in- asked. People try to see Bernard secure. Shaw for the exquisite pleasure There is a remarkable degree of of being turned away by Miss unanimity at Westminster that his Patch. Quiet, calm, trim, tall position has been undermined by Thrust fifty photographers into his own handling of foreign affairs, outer darkness on one day.
and that it has been made almost. Mrs. Elleen K. Wade joined untenable by the attitude of fellow Lord Baden-Powell, 'to release a Ministers and by the activities of man. on the first day of the war. Mr. Eden as a substitute speaking Married, two children. Son a Boy abroad with an authority equal to be. Left London with family to live at Bentley. Hants. near Chief Scout's home, Learned geography from her correspondence.
and Sates from French, Italian.
Written, official" history. German. of the Scout movement. Works. roughly. 9 to 12 in the mornings and 8 to 12 nights, afternoons to family,
acaive bodies, or to influence the tained Overalis or platform shoes Scout, daughter a Girl Guide-to-that of the Foreign Secretary him-
rate at which these bodies disin- tegrate, but hitherto without suc-
cess.
must ring up B.Q.M.S. Buxton 20252 who will arrange for issue of same.
such
Tran-
self, Sir John will continue in office in MPs are speculating how long
face of these hints and rebuffs.
Why?
The Home Office has been thrust
at him without success. Now his name is being breathed in select circles as the next Lord Chan-
But in many influential quarters the proffering of baits at all is not regarded with approval.
(b) Corps Signals:-
Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 "I is only a few weeks" ago." he said. "that Curie and Jollot in p.m."oh Tuesday, April 10, 1934,
Musketry, Part II.-All members Paris reported that they had pro-
who have not fired their Musketry duced a number of new radio, active substances by bombarding Course for this season are required some of the lighter elements with to do so on Sunday, April 8, at alpha particles. Doctors Cock-i Stonecutters Range.
Frances Louise Stevenson, C.BE., cellor. Launch will leave Queen's Pler croft, Gilbert, and Walton now re- !
the blonde bewilderment of Ver- port that they have succeeded in at 8.30 a.m. and Kowloon Police
sailles. They couldn't understand producing a radio-active form or Pler at 8.40 am.
a lovely woman being a world statesman's secretary. Been nitrogen by bombarding graphite
secretary with high-speed hydrogen atoms
Lloyd George's
since or protons, such as they used in
daughters took her home from the experiments in which they suci
school In 1913. Scots father, ceeded in producing for the first
French mother. B.A. London time the artificial disintegration of
University (honours classics), but thium...
dresses well. Suffragette, Exche- quer. Munitions, War Office, Prime Minister, Versailles, post-war Lloyd Georgian wilderness, Linguist, Belleves in regular meals, early. bed and 'fresh air.
"The new radio-active nitrogen, since it is produced by adding a proton to a carbon atom, wili pre- sumably have atomic weight of thirteen, and is thus an isotope of ordinary nitrogen,
Shorter Life.
Dress: Uniform is optional. but belt, frog, braces and pouches must be worn.
(c) Corps Engineers:-
Parade at Miniature Range on Monday, April 9, 1934 at 5.30 p.m.
Thursday, April 12, 1934-DL. Training at Belchers Fort at 6 pm. Dinner will be provided.
Dress: Overalls.
(d) Corps Machine Gun Battalion: "(1) There will be no further special Instruction on Machine Gun Parades on Tuesdays until April 24, 1934.
1.
Why. It is asked, try to attract out of office by means of seductive balts a Minister whose presence is a source of embarrassment?
There is reason to believe that Sir John does not, now command the degree of support in the Liber- al National group which he was thought to have."
Rosa Rosenberg. "Amazing HITLER A MAN
Fabtan
OF PEACE
her. girl" they call
Healthy. "Like other radio-active sub-¦
hearty, folly. Black hair, black stances, it begins to disintegratė
Suffragette at (2) Troop:
eyes. Londonër. from the moment of its formation
at seventeen. Dowbiggin Trophy Point To fourteen. and half of it disappears in about Paint.-The Troop will travel out Laughs easily, sings sweetly: Soak- ten minutes. Its life is thus con- to Fanling on the 1.20 p.m. trained in Shaw in her teens. Labour, "I would be prepared to stake siderably shorter than
Became Ramsay all my Intelligence that Hitler that, for on Saturday. Tickets can be ob- party stalwart. example, of radon, which is used tained at. Kowloon Railway MacDonald's secretary 1923. Smiles means to be a man of peace so so largely in medical treatment, Station
copiously when turning callers far as Britain is concerned," de- no dragon could be clared Commandant Mary Allen, away. but more protective. Disarmingly in head of the Women's Auxiliary Likes dancing, music, Service and founder of the new scrutable. plays, and the Prime Minister's Women's Reserve, speaking at a daughters.
literary luncheon at Grosvenor House, London. ..Commandant Allen has Just returned from. Germany, where. Gshe had an interview with Herr
Hitler. She continued:-
stances.
Machine Gun Instruction:
but it is quite comparable with that Parade at Volunteer Headquar- of some other radio-active sub-ters on Tuesday at 5.30 pm for
"These artificially produced sub- Those detailed will parade at stances differ from the natural Volunteer Headquarters at 5 pm. ones in that the rays which they on Wednesday, April 1 for the give out appear to be primarily Second Stage of the Machine Gun positive electrons the. particles
Competition... whose discovery caused so much interest only last year. These positive electrons have themselves: a very short life in ordinary mat-
ter, and their annihilation gives rise, according to the experiments made at Cambridge, to penetrating gamma radiation."
(3) Armoured Car Company:- The Company will parade at Headquarters on Monday, April 9,
1934.
(4) Motor Cycle Section:
The following NC.Os and men
will parade at Headquarters on Discussing the value of the dis- Monday, April 9, at 5.15 p.m. and covery Professor Crowther point-proceed to Kennedy Road Range ed our that the detalls at present to complete the LA. Test in con- available are hardly sufficient to nection with the Machine Gun estimate the yield which can be Competition. obtained of these new bodies; "but if he said, "It should be possible to produce them in appreciable quantities the discovery will be cne
of the utmost importance.
L/Sergt. Stoker, L/Cpl. Groome, LCpl. Lewis. L/Cpl. Pearce, Fte. Spradbery. Pte. G. Fowler, Pte. 6. Fowler, Pte. Neale and Pte. Shields.
Dress:-Murti.
(4):~
(5) No. 3 (Anzac) Company:- The Company will parade at full strength on Monday, April 9. 1934 at 5.30 p.m. for M.G. Instruction.
"The use of gamma radiation, particularly in high in:ensity, is already giving most promising re- sults in medicine, as shown by the work done on the radium boms Radium. as you now, is "an ex- The members of the Competition ceedingly
and scarce
expensive Team will parade at 5.15 p.m. en metal, so that few of our hospitals Tuesday, April 10 and proceed to сап afford the large amounts Kennedy Road Range for the pur necessary for this kind of treat pose of carrying out the Second ment. It is quite clear that if it Stage of the Competition. All should become possible to produce members of the Team are asked these new substances in large to note the date and time. quantities at a not prohibitive cost
at the end of last week and are BOW being considered. Four passenger engines are shortly to be ordered for the Hangklang Railway.
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All these materials are paid for "out of the British Boxer in demnity returned to China
1930,
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Company will hold their Annual Dinner on Wednesday, April 25 at Headquarters, at 8 p.m. Tickets at
belt, frog and pouches must be April 8, 1934.
Range Officer-Lleut........... E Stewart."
Dress:-Uniform is optional, but
worn
Launch will leave Queen's Pier" at
8.30 am. and Kowloon Police Pler
at 8.40 a.m, '
3.-APPOINTMENT Lieut. J. S. Rodrigues will off ciate in command of the Corps Infantry (Portuguese) from April
1 until the return from leave of
Captain S. Jarvis, M.C.
No. 1910, L/Bdr. F. W. Kendall, Corps 1st Battery, is appointed Acting Sergeant from 31.3.34 to
31.10.34.
4.—EXTENSION OF LEAVE No. 1403, Sergt. Barnes, J. Corps Signals, leave extended to April 30, 1934,
5-RETURN FROM LEAVE No. 1723, Bergt. J. M. Sunley from. sick leave on April 6, 1934,
No. 1873, Pte. C. B. Dalziel from sick leave on April 6, 1934.
6-LEAVE
No. 812, CS.M., A, Gillard, A.B.C. Cadre, granted 8 months leave as from 8.4.34 to 7.12.34.
No. 1985 Pte. E. V. Critchley, Motor Cycle Section, granted six months "leave as from 17.3.34 to 16.9.34
$2 may be obtained from QQMS.1 Company, No. 2 Platoon, granted „No. 1094 Sergt. A. Urquhart, No. Dudley,
nine months leave as from 23.3.34
i
to 22.12.34.
LI
7-STRUCK OFF THE STRENGTH Leaving The Colony
Dress:-Dinner Dress or Uniform with slacks and blue cap. All ac- tive members and those on Re- serve are asked to make a special effort to attend.
Farewell Ceremonial Parade to No., 2059, Tpr. F.J. Bond, Colonel Bird:-Members of No. 3 Machine Gun Troop,
as from (Anzac) Co. are reminded that 23.3.34. there will be a Farewell Parade to No. 1985, Pte. A. B. Henry, M.C. the departing Commandant, Col. Section, as from 28.2.34. Bird, D.9.0., O.B.E. on Tuesday, April 17 at 5.30 pm, and all ac- tive members as well as those on Reserve are requested to make a special point of attending.
2.--Musketry. Casuals Musketry Part III will be fired at Stonecutters Range on Sunday
their value, in the treatment of cerain diseases might be incalcul- able.
Transferred' To R.N.V. Force
"It is up to us, as the strongest and nest nation in the world, to withhold our criticism df nations. which we are not in a position to
We do judge.
not know the difficulties of other nations!
"The enemies of our nation are strong, and wish us to take a one-sided view of everything that happens in Europe.
there
Looking to Britain. "If we are strong now will be no war now but if we are weak there will be war in Europe. All countries are looking to us to give a lead--not as pacifists, they tired of that, and not "by disarmament. but by being every- body's friend.
were
"We have not been called upon as an Empire to suffer as other European countries have suffered. We are apt to stay at home, somewhat pampered, and to Judge the difficulties of "what we call the ruthless behaviour of other countries in Europe.
It is my considered opinion, after visiting Germany, that there nation looking to us for Was pathy, but at least for under- standing."
a lead, not necessarily for sym-"
U.S. SILVER PLANS. HELD UP
China To Be. Consulted
(Special Air-Mall Service)
London, March 20, President Roosevelt halted action by the House of Repre
No. 1573, Pte. J. E. L. Parrysentatives on the bill proposing the purchase of 15,000,000,000 Wingfield. No. 1 Company, No. 4
ounces of silver. This followed. Platoon, as from 29.1.34.; "
the acceptance by Prof. Rogers, 8STRENGTH
one of the President's closest finan- cial advisors, of a proposal that
(sd.) P. 8. M. WILKINSON, Captain,
Adjutant, HKV.D. Corps.
NOTICE Corps Athletic Sports Meeting, 1934 "We may certainly hope that the The preliminary rounds of the discovery that radio-active sub- Inter group and Open Tug of War; stances can be produced artificially and the Finals of the Inter group will throw much fresh light on Putting the shot, will be held on some of the intriguing problems Murray Parade Ground on Friday connected with radio-activity April 13 at 5.30 p.m. itself."
DOG RACING
MEETINGS: Saturday, 9.15 P.M.
ADMISSIONS
Sunday, 9.15 P.M.
Pari-Mutuels; $1 Cash Sweeps; Members' Stand $1, Public Stand 40
Cents
No. 2124, Gor. A L Cole, Police Headquarters, 1st Battery, 5.4.34. loon Dock, No. 6 Platoon, 5.4.34
No. 2145, Pte. A. Marshall, Kowe should go to China immediately
to study the silver problem.
The House, passed, soother bill providing that the United. Statée. should accept silver imports at 25 per cent. above the world price 1 exchange for agricultural ex- ports from America,
Explaining the objects of Prof. Roger's mission, My Morgenthan, Secretary to the Treasury, said thought of the silver problem. One that there were two schoola" of
believed that the higher silver price would increase American ex- porta to China, while others held that a price increaza would com- pel China to curtail her importa He added that Prof. Rogeri would ascertain which theory was correct by consulting mall business men and Chinese farmers, besides bankers and the Government,
Entries for the other events will close on Monday, April 18, 1934 at 5.30 p.m.
.: AFTER ORDERS The Farewell Parade to Colonel L. G. Bird, DS.O, OBE. Com mandant, HK.V.D.C. will be held at Corps Headquarters on Tuesday, April 17, 1934.99
Time: 5.35 p.m. (Markers at 5.30 p.m.).
Dress. Ceremonial (as per An- nual: Inspection) (A.S.D. Cadre in Mufti
Colour Party Regimental Colour: Lieut, V. C. Branson, M.C.
Escort: Bergt.EO Hudson, M.C. and Bergt. E. H. P. White.
the Order of Ceremony
(L)-Salute.
· (1.) ---Inspection.
(1)Presentation. (iv)-Speech:
(v.)-March: past in Column of
route. (vi)-Dismiss.
Flon of Parade is posted in Dril Hall.!
All Ex-Volunteers are welcome and should parade with AS.C Cadre,
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