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BRITAIN'S TRADE FRENCH NEWS OF
AGREEMENTS
MODIFICATIONS AND
RENEWALS CONTEMPLATED
Landon, June 25, Negotiations to effect the 'modif- cations of certain trade agreements with foreign countries in order to prepare for changes contemplated in Britain's agricultural polley will shortly be undertaken. This wis announced by Mr. Walter Runciman. President of the Board of Trade in the House of Com- mons. He was asked whether it Was. his intention. to give 1m- mediate notice of termenation of "all trade agreements, which could be terminated by the end
thic of
current year by giving six months' notice. Rep y- ing, he said he presumed the ques tion referred to the agreements affecting import facilities accord-
United Kingdom ed in the certain foreign agricultural and Ashery products. The Govern- ment proposed, to open
negotio- tions with the countries concerned with a view to modifying these
tu
agreements. The primary object
would be to render possible. cer- tat changes in the agricultural polley at the earliest practicable date. The Government Intended
to proceed with the negotiations
a rapidly as possible, as soon as the necessary preparatory
existing agreements would be pre- mature and unnecessary. British Wirelem,
THE DAY
FRANCE'S WOMEN
MINISTERS
London, June 14. The appointment of a woman to the new French Ministry was con- announcement that three women but the Adently expected here.
nave been appointed has been
Brected by women here, with sur- Prise as well as enthusiasm,
The games of two of them are known
far seyond their own country, but much less has been heard of the
third, Mme. Suzanne Lacore, who has been 4 school teacher for thirty-seven years and 1 most
of useful member
the Socialist party for a long period. She is an Idealist whose intense love for children will and ample scope in
State for Child Welfare. her work as Under Secretary of
Mme. Léon Brunschwegg. Under Secretary for Women and Orphans.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1936.
ENGINEERING AND BUILDING
SCIENCE AND
CIVILISATION
The Amenities Provided To-day
Although it is a common subject of comment that science and technical advance have changed the face of the world, it is not always easy to remember how recent aře many of the discoveries on which present-day con- veniences are based conveniences which are now taken as a matter of course.
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examples may be mentioned, it was in the issue of "Nature" for September 29, 1892 that Lord Ray- leigh first directed attention to his
RAILWAY EXPANSION
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK"
a
Holders of Chinese bands and those who trade with China will find in the speech delivered by Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, the chairman of the British and Chinese Cor- poration, at a recent meeting. well-balanced and not discourag- ing survey of the Chinese econo- mic position, Because the coun- try had allowed a number of loans 30 drift into default thereby closing the foreign money markets to any new Chinese issue, and its Budget to become chronically"un-- balanced, and because the country long suffered from the scourge of civil war and the menace of Com- munism, not to mention foreign ambitions, the impression here bad
one of the founders of the French Women's Suffrage Union. and has been its president since
Many everyday amenities, now 1924, She is also editor of the widespread throughout the world. women's paper "In Francaise."
are due to developments of phys! Thirty years ago she began her cal science which have taken place public work in connection with the in: the lifetime of those still com- experimental results which show grew from year to year. and that provision of children's homes, Dur- in the war she helped refugees from occupied areas, and started a
tors of munition factories. Per-
frown that China's difficulties
the outlook was gloomy in the ex- treme.
But Mr. Bernard's speech
shows that the position in China is nothing like so desperate as has been suggested. The great floods last year involved 35,000,000 peo- ple. It is computed, but Mr. Ber- mard showed that in spite of the malignant forces in Nature and in man the Nanking Government had been successful in slowly but surely consolidating its position and ex- made five tending the area within which the of writ of its authority runs. The
disposed of, civil war has ceased, menace of Communiem has been
and the hostility between the North and the South has been much reduced.
paratively young. It is only forty ed that nitrogen extracted from years ago that Rentgen announced chemical compounds was about the discovery of X-rays, or that training school for women inspec-Ramsay extracted helium from atmosphere nitrogen.
half of 1 per cent. lighter than
This absei the element clevelte, or that argon vation led to the discovery of haps she is most interested in any w work
was discovered. and yet these argon, which was dealt with in a could be completed. In the thing connected with women's milestones in the history of sc ence joint paper by Lord Rayleigh and meantime, denunciation of the work
bave led ta worldwide Mine. Brunschwegg has always casting services, helium-filled alr-the Royal Society on January 31. broad-Sir William Ramsay, presented to been one of the most, interesting ships, and the multi-coloured glare 1895: The day after the reading of figures at the conferences she has
of city streets by night, It helps this paper, Sir Henry Mlers direct- attended of the International Alli-
to adjust our values, and ance of Womer. for Equal Citizen- estimates of the essential and the brand's observations.
ed Ramsay's attention to Hille- ship, for she is a handsome and superficial. to remember how re- year earlier. of the presence extremely able woman, a good concent and new all these things are versationalist, and a driving force and Sir Richard Gregory, by re- in the mineral cleveite, Ramsay what was believed to be nitrogen
minding us. In his Royal Institu- investigated the matter and found tion discourse recently of what a new gas, which he at Arst science has
sample to Sr William Crookes. for thought was krypton. He sent a
spectroscopic
SHEIK OF BAHREIN
Invested By The King
London. June 25. The Shick of Bahrein who is t present visiting England was re- ceived in audience by the King at
·Buckingham Palace this afternoon and was invested with the insignia
...of K.C.LE----
British Wizelen.
on committees. Professor Brunsch- wegg her husband. is a distin- guished philosopher. She has been
with him at many scientific con ferences in other countries. and in her beautiful home in Paris she entertains many of his academic
friends. Those who know her say
strator, for she is a woman that she should be a good admini- who fets things "done,
A DINNER TO MME, JOLIOT- CURIE
our
last forty years, not only greatly accomplished in the interested his hearers. but render- ed a definite social service.
IMPORTANT STAGES
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THE FIRST TRANSLATION
Other examples of the service which the journal has rendered to science are the publication of the first
English translation, Oc
23. 1896, of Röntgen's
NEW RAILWAY PROJECTS examination... who announced that it was hellum, up
Moreover, the Central Govern- till that time not known on the ment has shown Itself capable of earth. but which had been obser- undertaking a constructive econo- Sir Richard's address was entit-
ved in solar prominences by Sir mic policy by arranging, among led "Science in a Changing World; | Norman Lockyer. twenty-seven other things, for the construction Recollections and Reflections." He years earlier. Again "Nature, in
of important railways, traversing began by telling his audience that March of the same year, had the some of the Central and Western nis subject had been selected for honour of publishing the first provinces. Last year about 1,500- The third of the new women! him-he had been asked to deal announcement of this romantle km. of railways were completed, SIR MILES LAMPSON Ministers is Mme. Jellot-Curie, the, with it and it was a' coincidence discovery of terrestrial heltum. and 2.500km, -of new construction
Under. Becretary for Scientific Re-not a prearranged intention that
are in hand. It had introduced a To Return To Cairo search, who was, with her husband. the date on which it was given fell
new chapter in Chinese finance by the winner last year of the Nobel within two days of the centenary
Shanghai to loans amounting to Prize for their discovery of artin-ut the birth of Sir Norman Lock-
Hankow-Canton and the Shang- £2,600,000 for completion of the London, June 25. cially induced radio-activity. Iyer and exactly, to the day. on Sir Miles Lampson, High Com- was a happy coincidence that to the forty-third anniversary of his
hal Hangchow-Ningpo Railways. missioner in Egypt will return to night, just after the announce appointment as sub-editor
Mr. Bernard said that the com- Cairo by air on Saturday to re-ment of her appointment. the "Nature."
the Medical Association of the Inter- he felt. and his aud ene: clearly X-rays, while the orst suggestion Chinese railway loan to be offered In these circumstances paper announcing the discovery of pletion of the latter line marked a new departure, for it was the first Egyptian Government, Sir Miles national Clinic should have given felt with him, that it would be that cathode ray. the basis arrived in England on June 4 and a dinner in London in her honour.
appropriate to trace some of the modern television. might be used
to the public on its own merits has since been in consultation She herself was a quiet agure at important stages in the advance of for the transmision of vision was
without the adventitious support this dinner, smiling but self-depre-science in the last forty years, a made by Mr. Campbell Swinton in
or any collateral security. China | catory when Professor F. Hopwood they had been recorded in te a letter in "Nature" on June 18.
is also making progress in the set- described her discovery as one of pages of that journal. During the 1908. It is of great interest that
tlement of loans in default. Mr. those most important made in five editorship of Sir Norman Lockyer. at that time, twenty-eight years
Bernard mentioned that Bir Fre- years of "explosively rapid disco- and to an increasing extent during ago, Mr. Campbell Swinton wrote:
derick Leith-Ross's mission had veries." But one heard to-night the thirty-nine that her position in the Cabinet. Richara has occupied the editorial is concerned the moving kathode this respect, and he mentioned years that Sir "So far as the receiving apparatus already led to important results in
though partly the result of
a chair, "Nature" has been in the beam has only to be arranged to specially the settlement of the ar- desire to pay her signal Honour.. happy position of being able, time impinge on a sufficiently sensitive rears on the Tientsin-Pukow Rall- will also entall much practical after time to publish the first nuorescent screen, and given guit-way loan. Mr. Bernard realizes hard work in co-ordinating scien-announcement of discoveries of able variations in its intensity, to
that in order to facilitate a settle-, tine research throughout France. prime importance 'n,the history of obtain the destred resuit." Her department is completely new.scientific achievement.
sume conversations: with
with his Government in regard to the matters which had arisen during the earlier phase of the Anglo-Egyptian conversations —– British Wirelern,
MR. EDEN ON WAY TO GENEVA
Londen, June 25. The Forelg Secretary, M s that she has, as one of her Anthony Eden dew to Paris this assistants ald to-night, to build up afternoon en route for Geneva, Lrom zero. where the League Council meeting opens to-morrow.
During his brief stay in Paris to-night he met the Prime Minis- ter, Monsieur Blum and the For- eign Minister. M. Delbos who were guests at a dinner at the British
Embassy. British Wireless,
MINISTERIAL CHANGES
London, June 25.
*
STRIKING EXAMPLES
o January
of
A fur- ment of the defaults bondholders ther matter, to which Sir Richard will have to make some conces- Gregory referred with justifiable satisfaction was that at the time One of two of these discoveries when the possibilities of mechar In her own research she, is now engaged on biological experiments opening paragraph.
we have briefly referred to in our cal flight were either disputed on with her newly discovered radio possible to
It is not theoretical grounds, or derided by active bodies with a view to apply- Richard's account
follow in detail Sir practical men, "Nature" gave pro- ing the results to medicine. But announcements but some striking experiments on aerodynamics.
of their
first minence to ali Professor Langley's
until her Cabinet department is in working order she will have to suspend this research of her ownI. YPRES HONOURS KIPLING "Avenue Kipling" will soon be a feature of Ypres, the mayor and council of the town having decided to give the English writer's name to the avenue which forms the prolongation of the Avenue Maré- chat French. The poet's widow. Mrs. 'Caroline Kipling. has sent Baron Cartier de Marchienne, the Belgian Ambassador, the following letter:-.
MINE CAGES MADE
OF ALUMINIUM ALLOY
latter
sins. Bondholders of experience will also realize the advantage of accepting a reasonable settlement of their claims over a prolonga- tion of default, for the sometimes undermines the will of a debtor to pay. In the absence of a political crisis, the risk of which, however, cannot be ignor- ed the general economic situation in the country would hold good prospects for the future. The de- valuation of the currency has al- ready corrected the adverse ba- lance of payments; the level of stabilization, as Mr. Bernard point- ed out, appears to have been dis- creetly chosen; and the arrange- ment under which the Govern- ment of the United States has undertaken to provide China with supplies of foreign exchange for stabilization purposes should also promote stability of the currency.
securing public subscriptions in The principal tension-support- The operation of a heavy piting and lifting members are of The King has appoved the ap-
case not only involves unnecessary mild-steel angle and channel sec-. pointment of Mr. Horace Seymour,
expenditure of power, but in a tions, while the four decks are also Counsellor in Foreign Office to be
deep mine adds unnecessary stress of mild steel. The plates are sup- His Majesty's Minister at Teheran Dear Excellency-1 am honour Icaded by their own weight. At-
twinding ropes already, heavily ported on Duralumin angle and in succession to Sir Hugh Kpatched by the proposal of the burgo- tention has been given of late to doors, &c.,"are of Duralumin. The channel sections and the casing. bull Hugessen who has been ap-master, aldermen, and corporation the problem of decreasing the sides are 1/16 in. thick, with stif- pointed Ambassador in China.--
of the town of Ypres to name an British Wireles
weight of the cage, without impair- avenue after my late husband. and ing its strength or capacity, and
feners where required. The decks would appear that a considerable weight has been I would be very glad if you would one solution arrived at by Messrs. take ore trucks, and the doors are
are provided with 20-lb. rails to reduction in
effected by the partial employment convey to the burgomaster that vickers-Armstrongs, Limited, Els- arranged to admit such trucks, of Duralumin, instead of making accept his proposal. The approval wick Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, in el your country shown
each door being hinged and swing- use of mild steel construction construction of 3 four-decking inwards, so that the front and
throughout gesture of the burgomaster 2.4 cages, for Messrs. Daggafontein back are fully open when ore only forming another link the Mines, Limited, South Africa, has friendship
Ls being carried: the doors are the of
two
nations been to make these chiefly of effectively secured in the
Duralumin. These cages are each position. Each door is capable of carrying 60 men, or divided vertically. so that one- may be used for the transport of half slides over the other, thus an equivalent weight of ore, or a giving a narrow opening into to the Jews for the purpose of inconsistent with the terms of the combination of men and are. Each partially-enclosed space for establishing & free and indepen- Mandate or with their responsibi- has an overall height of 26 ft. 11
entry of men, the hinged half of dent Jewish nation. Mr. Ormsby lity for safeguarding the rights of
in, with a width of 4 ft. Bin, the door being locked in position, Gore replied that His Majesty's all the inhabitants of Palestine and a depth from front to back of Government had no intention of irrespective of race and religion 5 ft. 11 in. over the doors. The 'taking or countenancing any action ' Keitish Wireles
weight per cage is 34 tons.
PALESTINE AND THE JEWS
London. June 25.
in this
The Colonial Secretary was ask- would, I am sure. Have given my
husband infinite satisfactión..
cd in the House of Commons what were the intentions of the Govern ment as to passing Palestine over
the
open further
the s
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Jimmie McFadden; "Piaze, Miss. it do be a how in the bottom of a tay-kittle."
Customer: "Say, aren't those and the silding half forming the large oranges; Fat?" entry and exit. For a cage of Pat: "Yes, it wouldn't take many these dimensions and capacity, it of them to make a dozen."
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