Page
COMMERCIAL TRADE
AGREEMENT WITH
BRAZIL.
London, Aug. 13. An agreement between the Bri- tish and Brazilian Governments Tegarding the most favoured nation treatment is offelally an- nounced. Pending the conclusion of the treaty of commerce and navigation His Majesty's Govern- ment in the United Kingdom and Brazilian Government have agreed In the exchange of notes dated August. 10 to accord to goods from the two countries respectively . most favoured nation treatment
on the basis of reciprocity.
which was
The agreement took effect on August 10 and is subject to three months' notice of denunciation by elther Goverment. The agreement has been concluded to take the place of the commercial agreement of, September 11. 1931. denounced by the Brazilian Gov- emment with effect from July 31. By further exchange of notes on August 10, the existing regime of Newfoundland Brazilian trade which had been terminated by the "Brazilian Government has been prolonged subject to thirty days notice of denunciation.-- British Wirelesa
DEMOLITION OF BRIDGES
Its Work To Be Studied
וי
London, Aug, 13. In order to gain practical scien- tific data on welɛtit carrying capa- city of certain types of bridges which have been standing for many years' selected bridges scheduled for demolition are, de- liberately broken by overloading in the presence of officials of the Ministry of Transport and experts from the Department of Scientiac and Industrial Research and Build- The first ing Research Station. experiment took place to-day near Derby and others will follow in Birmingham and in "Exsex. In-
mechanism genuous
been has
devised for recording the gradual distortion of ridges under up to breaking point- British Wireless.
EVACUATION BY ∙AGREEMENT
London, Aug. 13.
A report has been received from the British Consul at Seville regard- ing the foreign nationals in Grana- da which is in the bands of the insurgents and invested by Gov- ernment troops. An agreement has been secured with both sides in the civil war as a result of
DESTRUCTION FROM THE AIR
COL. LINDBERGH'S SPEECH
London, July 27. Too little notice has been taken of the speech delivered by Colonel Lindbergh in Ber.in last Thursday on the mibject of the appalling destructiveness which air-power may bring to the (geographically) closely associated nations Europe, If It should ever be mis- used. Colonel Lindbergh is as well qualified as anybody to speak in the name of airmen as a whole, and General Göring, his host, a sirman com- famous military
ck
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1936.
ENGINEERING AND BUILDING
THE
REORGANISATION
OF ELECTRICAL
DISTRIBUTION
Uneveness And Sizes
When the Weir Report on the reorganisation of electrical generation and transmission was issued ten years ago, it was accompanied by a draft Bill embodying the recommendations maile, and this Bill, after undergo. ing the usual processes of legislative alchemy, became the Electricity (Supply) Act of 1926 within months.
2
few
manding the air force of a great country, has as large a share of responsibility for the use to which the air weapon' is to be put in the futare as any single man in Europe. It was appropriate there- tore that Co onel Lindbergh should bave uttered his warning at the
It is significant that the Report them those who have studied the luncheon given in his honour at the Air Ministry in Berlin. "We of the Committee, which, under the | difficult subject. The main objec- carry a heavy responsibility." he chairmanship of 8 Harry McGo-tion to this point of view that may said, Aviation had abolished what | wan. "has for the last twelve be advanced is that large under- used to be called defensive, war months been considering the an-takings are not necessarily, or al- Saze. Detence had been converted | alogous problem of electrical dis- ways, efficient, neither is the con- Into retaliatory attack: and the tribution, is unaccompanied by a trary true of the smaller bodies. families the fighter leaves behind similar Bil. One explanation may The Committee recognises this to too the extent that they advance de- him are as much exposed as he is be that the Government is himself. Nor is the new danger fully, concerned with matters both tailed arguments in favour of the confined to the non.com.batants more and less impalpable than policy they recommend. They point who have previously been more or electricity supply, to see their way out that as regards technical lay- less immune from the horrors of to introduce such a measure at an out, capital expenditure, diversity "I see that within a day ot early date. Another may be the la- of load, financial resources, pur- two damage can be done which herent difficulties of the problem. chasing facilities and personnel. no period of time can ever make which become more and more clear the advantages are all on the side good again," Colonel Lindbergh as the report is studied. A third of the big battalions. We admit sald: and he is not the only not unlikely, explanation may be this willingly enough. At the same traveller in Europe who has re- the fact that the Committee's con- time. It would been reassuring if ceived the impression that, unless! clusion seem to lack the definite- some
way
could have been the responsible leaders of theness to deep" conviction. Finally, suggested of inspiring a new spiris various peoples get together, the those who reel that in the present in such large undertakings as may temptation to use this latest in- conditions of the country
other have au outlook more purely com- vention as an instrument of policy matters are more urgent, will find mercial, than is desirable in an may become too great for some- support' in the fact that badly as
essential public service. one, and that then there may be the industry which deals with the an end of civilization.
distribution of electricity may need reorganisation. its progress be-
marked
year
"The object of all who stand for the preservation of European cul- ture must be to labour for the gradual bringing of these terribly effective weapons of destruction under some sort of international control or direction As things are the aggressor, if there is to
THE AIR RACE TO JOHANNESBURG
Start May Be Delayed
London, July 27.
come
more
by
year, and its prosperity, in spite of the disabilities under which it must be presumed to suffer, is by no means despicable.
FARM MACHINERY
THE ENGINEER'S PART
excellent implements they produce, This is not the fault of the highly- skilled men who design the ma- chines, most of which are devoted
NEW BRIDGE AT SUNGKIANG
CANAL DREDGING
Sungklang. Ku., July 31. The new bridge is about finished and it is a great improvement over the old one. The dredging of the canals, however, is not yet over and is shows the long suffering of the Chinese people that they have put up with the inconvenience so long, especially in this hot weather. Chinese newspaper remarked somewhat ironically that
the! dredging of canals was Cever known before in the midst of the Great Heat. The authorities, how-
A
ever, found that the waring bred" in large numbers in the foul water were nutritious so the people were favoured.
Yesterday witnessed the gradua- tion exercises of a kind of officers
school. training
Representives i from nine districts have been training for three months and got their certificates yesterday, There were 397 graduates. These have been given their appointments at twenty-five dollars Der month. They will 'be the instructors in the proposed forthcoming uni- versal drill, which is to begin to- morrow. It is reported that one representative from each family will be given military instruction. į Buddhist priests are also being| given a special drill, there being sixty gathered together who will be given physical drill for the bet- ter development of their bodies. They will also be instructed in First Ald treatment, which is to fit them to act as nurses in case of a war. The nuns will also be looked after when the priests have had their tura.
distance
CARS FOR LONDON TRANSPORT
· The London Passenger Trans-
A reform has been started here which has great possibilities. The beggars have been taken off the 628 UNDERTAKINGS
street, Native beggars are put into be" one, will certainly provide him- As the Committee rightly points
an institution with the intention self with a fleet of bombing aero- ont, however, the trouble is that
of teaching them some useful "Nobody could venture to impugn trade. Beggars from a planes. Unless he is prevented by all the 628 undertakings, whose the prospect that an overwhelm-business it was to supply electricity the inventiveness and skill which are given their walking papers.
bombers will in-on straining force of
March 31, 1934, are not pro have been. combined to produce Not a beggar has been on the 'dividually or collectively, be re-gressing at the same rate. This the manifold variety of farm street now for some time. Things leased in retaliation. there may unevenness may partly be ascrib-machines now in service, but the
are rather quiet down here with come an age of a more fearfuled to differences in their sizes and fact remains that the methods all
the schools. closed. Some piracy than the high seas ever in the character of the districts in used in designing them have large- volunteer teachers, however, have knew.
which they operate, and partly to ly been empirical Engineers have opened a free vacation school. the enterprise or otherwise of their | obtained a complete mastery of respective managements. Other the technique of handling material, obstacles to efficiency are a multi- | but it may be questioned whether plicity of boundaries, tarifs and they are fully informed of the na- DIESEL-ENGINED RAIL systema the arrangement of which | ture of the work demanded of the is distinguished uy a remarkable absence of both order and logic. For instance, control may be in the hands of local authorities with a With the aim of making use of perpetual tenure, of private com-
to working the soll, or to dealing port Board has just placed an or- a fuil moon over Africa for the panies subject to purchave rightà; | with crops growing in the Deld, London to Johannesburg air race, or of Power Companies, whose spart from barn machinery with der for two AEC. Diesel rail cars, the Royal Aero Club is considering tenure is perpetual, but whose which we are not here concerned which will run between Chesham changing the date of departure operations are affected by restric-} Engineers are not isolated in and Chalfont and Latimer sta- from Sept. 15 to Sept. 30.
tions of a peculiar kind. The fe-
tions on this ignorance; they are in com-
the Metropolitan line. The club wishes to obtain as near sult is naturally confusion; and if pany with society of equal calibre These rall cars, which will be to perfect weather conditions as it is allowed to continue to their own, whose business it is similar to the type, now used by possible. A full moon would assist this confusion will become to tell them what is wanted "1e the Great Western Railway, will pilota and make the race practically worse confounded as the existing the soil scientists, the agronomists be the first to be put into service non-stop except for the compulsory rights of purchase come to be ex- and the multitude of other selenti- by the Board. Each car, driven control at Cairo.
ercised. This is shown by the ic specialists whose business it is by twa 130-h.p.: six-cylinder "oil statement that the result of such to clear up the problems of plant engines, will have an overall length exercise during the next ten years growth, on the solution of which of 62 It.. will seat 70 passengers. would mean that no less than 344 the plenteous future of all animal and will be fitted with air-operated undertakings would be substituted Ke depends. These scientists doors and other safety devices. for a given 108 that now exist. And, have indeed recently been treated The maximum speed of the cars as if this were not bad enough, with some disdain, even by a dis- will be 65 mães per hour. Among the notifications of en- the number of local authorities who tinguished member of their own provision 01. electro-pneu utic trics are those of Mr. Victor Smith, have the right of purchase is be- ranks, Professor H, E Armstrong, controls will allow two, or more, who will fly a Miles Sparrowhawk, ing gradually increased by the mo- who has gone so far as to say cars to be driven together as one which has a top speed of 185 m.p.h. difications that are taking place in that agricultural science has up to train." and Flt. Lt. Tommy Rose, piloting local government boundaries. date done little more than con- the BA Double-Eagle machine.
firm the traditional practice of the which did so well in the King's Cup
farmer. Though somewhat harsh, air race.
this verdict undoubtedly contains a measure of truth, and being so, it is difficult to see how engineers can be blamed for trying only to design implements and machines which will perform the traditional operations of farming more effec-
which arrangements have been made for the evacpation of 200 foreigners by aeroplane. The first aeroplane was leaving Seville to- day and was due back there to night. Among the two hundred there are known to be 11 British subjects who wish to be evacated It is not known if there are any
ather British who have decided to
remain. British Wireless.
OBITUARY
'Lord Banbury.
London, Aug. 13 Lord Banbury dled to-day "at his residence in Wiltshire aged 86. A member of House Commons for 32 years and representative of City of London from 1908 till he was created Baron in 1924, Lord Ban- bury was conspicuous for his un- compromising opposition to modern tendencies in politics and had the réputation of having blocked the passage of more private bills than any other living member. British Wireless.
Among minor, alterations in the previous rules is the changing of the turning point in Európe from Vienna to Belgrade.. An offical announcement on these points will be issued shortly."
"AIR RACE
Entries Total 13
London, Aug 13. The latest entries for the Eng-
He
REORGANISATION IS
NECESSARY
tively than before.
ELECTRICITY COMMISSION
In Southern Rhodesia
The
The general feeling that to over come these disabilities some reor- ganisation is necessary, is, there- fore, based on good grounds. This reorganisation, the
Committee points nut, might take one of two
A commission to co-ordinate the forms the establishment of Re-
supply of electricity in the whole gional Boards, operating over wide But now, all the world over, dis- of Southern Rhodesia has been areas, which would purchase all the
content is, being expressed both set up with Mr. A. R. Metelerkamp, existing undertakinga; or the re- by scientist and engineer, and a electrical engineer to the Munici- land Johannesburg Air Race attention of the larger and more very wholesome admission of the pality of Bulawayo and, previously, the end of September includes Mr.efficient" of the existing concerns, lamentable lack of knowledge 1 of Balisbury, as chairman, Al- C.WA. Scott, the winner of the "maller and less efficient" bodies. prelude to closer-investigation of in coal, owing to the difficulties of and the absorption by them of the being everywhere made, as A though. Southern Rhodesia is rich England Australia Air Race. will fly & Percival Vega Gull The frim consideration on the grounds not only a marked feature of the ing used to an increasing extent. The first alternative is dismissed the problems involved. This was transport, imported fuel oil is be- SIR HARRY PRESTON closing date for entries is still nearly three weeks of but com-
that it would only be fustlied were International Congress on Farm Accordingly, an effort is to be the undertakings generally ineffici- Engineering The death occurred to-day of petitors to date number 13: At
(Genie Rural) held
made to 'supply enterprises now Sir Harry Preston, Brighton Hotel least one entirely new type of cam-en unprogressive and incapable in Madrid last September, but is using fuel oil, especially when these sponsor mercial aeroplane will make its The second is recommended for The result of this discontent is ties, with electricity derived from
of being improved by evolution. elsewhere proprietor. sportsman,
generally recognised.
are reasonably near municipali- of charity, boxdng tournaments first appearance. In the race which and outstanding personality with is for prizes aggregating £10.000 adoption with the definite object that a large amount of work is friends put up by the South Afrlean in the number of undertakings, the that engineers may, in the not too substantial reduction now, in hand, and it is possible of great number
rufe. In 1827dustrialist. Mr. J. Schlesinger. prevention of splitting up owing t in all weeks me received the presentation of Only British pilots and British the exercise of purchase rights, and more exact data upon which to distant future, be presented with Bulver Chippendale aliver engraved aircraft m
that is schedule to start on the night the elimination of duplicate po work out their designs; and this with 126 names including of the present King as Prince of of September 29. No time allowwers, where these exist in the same in turn may lead to the applica Wales. He was born in 1880 and ance will be made for refuelling or
tion of principles now andreamt Up to this point the Committee of by practising farmers-Mr. G. received his Kingthood in 1933 other ground work-
will, we think, have carried with E Fussell;
"British Wireless
compete, The race
British Wirelesu.
of securing
area,
coal,
AND
EMERALCRETE
RAPID HARDENING
PORTLAND CEMENT
IN PAPER BAGS OF 94LBS NETT
PRODUCT OF
(TREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO. LTD.
EXCHANGE BUILDING. HONG KONG
THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY OF HONGKONG, LIMITED.
BUILDERS OF ALL CLASSES OF SHIPS. BUILDERS OF RECIPROCATING STEAM ENGINES. BUILDERS OF MARINE AND LAND BOILERS. BUILDERS OF TURBINE MACHINERY
Under License From Messrs. Parsons, BUILDERS OF DIESEL ENGINES
Under Special License
From Messrs. Sulzer Bros., Winterthur. Licensed To Manufacture Lanz Perlit Iron, Specially Suitable For Internal Combustion Engine Working Parts.
"DOCK & SLIPWAYS.
FOR DOČKING VERY LARGE, AS WELL AS SMALLER VESSELS,
ON ANY TIDE.
ALL CLASSES OF SHIP, ENGINE AND BOILER
REPAIRS AND EXTENSIVE
WELDING, BOTH ELECTRICAL AND OXY-. ACETYLENE SKILFULLY AND PROMPTLY
· CARRIED OUT.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents,
HONG KONG, CHINA & JAPAN.
TEL. ADDRESS: TAZKÓDDOCK," Howa Kona. Tataraons: 80211
Call Fram: "Nuwkas One "Over " Perrant ÅNG”
SPEED EASTWARD
FROM SEATTLE IN
"SOLID
COMFORT"
ON THE
COMPLETELY
AIR CONDITIONED
Olympian
You'll enjoy its smooth, gliding swiftness, over the shortest rout of longest electrification.....its luxurious accommodations and friendly service...its sumptuous media..... its inviting beds ...the freshness of its air conditioned equipment, i "You'll meet discriminating travelers who prefer to trával. Milwaukee...you'll thrill to magnificent scenery. Include the journey between Seattle and Chicage on The Olympion as a part of your itinerary,
For further information inquire at your nearest stoomG
ship office, ney Travel Burnou, or
ERIC MARSHALL, AG001-
Mother: "You are at the foot or
the spelling class again, are you?"?
Boy: "Yes'm Mother: "How did that happen?" Boy: "Get too many z's in scie- Sors."
THE
1902 Goraramanë. St., Victoria, B.C. F. L. CALKINS, General Agent.
****793 Granville Sf., Vancoliver, 11.C. 1. F. HANDALL, Dit. Faminger AgME
(2066) Marken, St., Son Francisco, Cal. F. BANK, Amt. Gu. Passenger Aquari
GEEL. IL KAYNES, Fail Thrusc Mgr.
MILWAUKEE ROAD