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CHINESE HIGHWAY PROGRESS
National Economic Council Report Reveals Expanding Network Of Roadways
con-
China's progress in highway con-in Kansu. The whole line is 748. struction and transportation dur- kilometres in length. The
I ing recent years is reviewed in aatruction of this highway report" lasued by the Burean of Roads of the National Economic
Council.
According to the report, since its establishment in May, 1932, the Bureau has concentrated its atten- tion first on the construction of inter-provincial highways in Klang- au, Anhwel and Cheklang.
was
started in spring, 1994 and com- pleted in summer, 1935 at a cost of $930,000.
SEEING TO THE 1,000,000-VOLT
EDGE OF SPACE
Astronomers Think They Are Near It
The bewilderment of astronom ers, as they explore outward into the most distant regions of space. was powerfully expressed by Six Jame Jeana when he lectured at the Royal Institution, London, re-
The latter highway lies within the boundaries of Shens and is about 420 kilometres long. Start-cently. |ing at Stan, it runs along the northern bank of the Wet River to Paocht, later bending south- ward through the cities of Feng- hsten. Lupa and Faochen Hanchung.
to
8bx lines were mapped out for the Three-Province Highway Pro- ject: the Nanking-Hangehow high- way, the Shanghai-Hangthow tilgh- There was originally a roadbed way, the Nanking-Wuhu highway, in the section between Sian and the Soochaw-Kashing highway, the Paochi but it needed improvement Changhing - Suancheng highway, Surveying work was completed in and.' 'the highway. These highways were work was started in November the Red" disturbances, the construċ- tion work was not completed un- til recently. The total cost fri valved was $2.300,000,
Has space any limit, he asked, or does it stretch without end? If there is a ilmit, how nearly has it been reached? Sir James had to confess that he did not know definitelys He could only pass on had received from a laborious sur- the latest hint which astronomers
present largest telescope, the 100,- vey of space made through the
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q
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USE OF
LIGHT-WEIGHT
CONCRETE
Production From New Materials
The demand for light-weight concrete in modern building is in- creasing and several novel materi-
it, in place of pumice mainly im- als which can be used for making
ported from the volcanic deposits near Coblenz in Germany, or fur- described in a bulletin prepared by nace clinker and coke breeze, are
the Building Research Station, a- It is built round" the great - sued recently by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Re- produce a beam of greater penet production of which is new to this ray tube, 30 feet long and weigh-search (HM. Stationery Office, 48. ing 10 tons, which is designed to
net). One of these products, the
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ments with loans and technical assistance from the NEC.
The construction work of these different highways, totalling 505 kilometres was started simultane- ously in May, 1932, and completed successively in October 1933. A tobal of $983,000 was appropriated by the NEC. for their construc-¡ tion.
For the promotion of highway transport in the Northwest, the NEC., according to the report. established in January 1935, an administration bureau
of the Northwestern Higilways, and ap propriated a aum of $400,000 for this purpose,
Stations at the terminals and
along the highways, repair shope, places for rest and restaurants were provided. Twenty-four Mer- cedes-Bens chassis were purchased from Germany. Of this number ten were used for passengers cars. twelve for tracks and three for service cars on the northwestern highways. Later, an additional 100 chassis were purchased from Germany to ease the congestion of traffic. Repair materials and fuel were also purchased.
The satisfactory results from the Three-Province Highway Project, the report says, encouraged the Bureau to map out in November. 1932, the Beven-Province Highway Project which provided for the construction of Inter-provincial highways over a larger ares, in- cluding the three provinces 'above- mentioned and also Klangai, Hu- peh, Hunan and Honan. It con- templated the construction of eleven trunk lines of a total length of 11,591 kilometres and 63 branch lines of a total length of 11.033 kilometres making up B grand total of 22,624 kilometres.
At the beginning of 1934, the re-
TRAFFIC COMMISSION port adds, construction of inter
For the promotion of highway provincial highways
communication in the Southeast, Shensi, in Kansu, Fukien, Chinghai and onganized an Inter-Provincial High- the report affirms, the NEC. or the border regions of Klangs. Kwangtung, and Fukien was also way Traffic Commission in De
cember, 1932, composed of repre- put in charge of the Bureau, in creasing the grand total length to sentatives of the NEC. and ex- 22,900 kilometres. Of this total
perts from the over 21,000 kilometres were opened to traffic in June, 1936. The total appropriations for highway, con- struction in various provinces by the NEC. up till the same time amounted to $10,649,000.
TWO MAIN HIGHWAYS The two main highways con- structed by the NEQ. In the Northwest, the report reveals, are the Stan-Lanchow highway and the Sian-Hanchung highway. The 1stmer connects the capitals of Shens and Kansu, traversing Blan. Stenyang, Lichuan, Pinhalen, and Changwu in Shens, and King- chwang, Pingliang. Lungteh, Tsing- ning and Tings to reach Lanchow
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provinces of
Kiangsu, Cheklang, and Anhwel, and the municipalities of Greater Shanghai, and Nanking,"
As an advisory body, this Co- mission made recommendations concerning traffic regulation and management, the provision of bus services and traffic facilities such as the erection of gasoline stations and first-aid stations, the instal lation of telephonies, and road signs. polletag, etc. The success of the Commission led to the Participation of other provinces and municipalities, including Fu- Honan. Last July the Commis kien, Klang, Hupeh. Hunan and sion was reorganized as a National
poses.
Observatory, California,
shorter mean wave-length than And the effect of the hint is that has yet been used for the treat been reached: We might find, if this interpretation was correct, Sir volts, the highest constant voltage
any voltage from 250,000 to 1,00,000 iron.
Foamed slag la exterisively used James thought, that space extend-ever employed for healing pur-in Germany and competes serious- be seen. But, broadly speaking. ed ten times as far as could now astronomers were getting to the
ly with pumice even in the vicinity
end.
of the pumice quarries. Building blocks are made of various sizes and shapes so that it is not neces- sary to cut blocks during construc- tion. It is claimed in Germany that blocks 30 per cent. larger, in size than ordinary clay bricks are only half the weight, and for the same volume are only half the price of clay bricks. An example
foamed dag concrete blocks is to In this country of the use
be found in the Fire Testing Sta- tion at Elstree, Hertfordshire, re- It is impossible for a doctor safe-cently erected for the Fire. Offices ly to keep the patient under dir-Committee.
by an ingenious arrangement of ect observation during treatment, but this difficulty has been solved eight curved mirrors. They pass a reflection through a small aper- ture, heavily protected. in the top corner of the chamber, down to the observer's desk,
The X-ray chamber, through which the middle part of the tube passes horizontally, is equipped The survey referred to, he ex-
with a movable floor which can plained, was concerned with the distances. But it was not a ques
be raised and towered, by pressing numbers of nebulae at different a button, so that the range of the beam may be varied widely. The tion of any straightforward "thin-
couch upon which the patient lies in, but rather of measuring the makes possible a great range of tor which he explained would sf- "yurvature" of space Itself, a fac-smaller adjustments. fect the statistical distribution of the nebulae.
It is an attempt, in fact, to translate the Einsteinlan theory of prosafe terms of observation. a curved and finite space into the
possible ways in which the Mount This conclusion-orie of two Wilson records could be interpreted Sir James described as "a rather startling one."
couch so that the patient may talk A microphone stands by the
to the nurse or doctor outside the chamber.
The safety position is automa whenever a door of the chamber is tically assumed by the apparatus opened.
obtained by rapidly heating clays Production has also been begun. in this country of a light material
and shales, while the Building Ré- search Station has found that cer- . tain slates when heated expand to many times their original thick- nees. The resulting concrete is cellular in structure and will float for the properties of various light- A table giving 'figures
on water.
On the extent to which space stretches out beyond the present mits of observation will depend that astronomers may, in due the even more startling possiblity course, be able to see right round the universe, so that the galaxy
weight concretes shows that those BETTER THAN RADIUM of stars of which our sur is a
made from foamed slag and ex- Further precautions for the pro-panded slate compare very favour-. member, might be seen as a faint section of the operating personnel ably with those made from other echo of itself as one of the fain- est of faint spots in an ultra-walls of the chamber and generat-
appear in the composition of the materials. powerful telescope.
ing rooms, which are built of in- As to the alternative interpreta- terlocking blocks of barium con- tion, which would lead to no such crete.. The doors of the chamber romantic conclusion, Sir James are of heavy steel plates, designed stated: "We cannot
at present to prevent radiation leakage. decide between them, and I can- not tell when we will be able to decide....
-SCALE OF THE UNIVERSE About the scale of the known
be more
verse, Sir James could, however, asking
No therapeutic X-ray tube of an equal efficiency exists in the world to-day. There are only three or over 500,000 volts, and, in the Bri- four tubes which can work with tish Empire, the next most power
EXTERNAL USE
In this country lightweight con- internal work. As regards exter cretes have been used mainly for
pal work various failures. the balletin states, that have occurred in Great Britain because of lack of Knowledge of the properties of concretes have prevented & more extended use of these materi-
the
deanite. He began by ful is that at the Cancer Hospital als in external walling. It is felt:
that the lecture theatre at the whole of space. Royal Institution represented the
up to 400.000 volts.
nevertheless, that any consequent
general restriction of the use of
with 1,200,000 volts, but with a
in America, at Pasadena, a tube lightweight concretes is unneces- exists which has been operated sary, since much fuller information Inter-Provincial Highway Tramej 000,000 known galaxies of stars füctuating potential. It cannot als and the precautions necessary on the properties of these materi-
sustain 1,000,000 volts, and in any Lightweight sing aggregates and
In their use 13 case it is chiefly used for physical pumice have been extensively and
now available..
research. The Bart's installation
Commission.
On that scale, each of the 100.-
For improving the technique of
would have to be represented by something about the size of a pin's road- building the Bureau of Roads, according to the report contained 100,000,000 or so stars. head, although each galaxy itself has constructed two experimental All the stars which could be seen roads in the vicinity of Nanking. with the naked eye would be in- The first two kilometres long was cluded within the space of a speck built with different types of pave-of dust. And the sun, ment, using only such materials looks so big, would have to be re-equality with that which would be In view of the great economies in
which as produced in the locality. Its presented by a mere electron--the produced by far more radium than
purpose was to test the economy and durability of the different kinds of surfacing.
· “Thẻ second road, 1,850 kilome- tres long, was built to compare the relative economy and efficiency of different bituminous materials for surface dressing of clay-bound macadam which is becoming very popular: in China,
HIGHWAY DEVELOPMENT As reference for highway de- velopment, the Bureau, the report
shellest particle known to science, and, on this scale, inconceivably beyond visual identification,
For the earth, Sir James had to confess, no counterpart in thle model could be allotted. was nothing small enough,
There
"Showing The Flag” Neglected
can provide a range of radiation most successfully used in Germany which includes all but the very in France lightweight concretes are in external wall construction, while radium, and an unofficial specula-freely used for the miner leaf of highest of the gamma rays of tion puts ite intensity on
ก
can at the moment be assembled in
one bomb.
new car.
hollow walls in framed structures.
weight and the enhanced thermal kind, it would be unfortunate 11 Insfilation afforded by walls of this
their rational development were to be prejudiced. T
further states, has conducted e-War Office Unfavourable Topected from its use, and it will protain
F
London Scottish March
IMPROVED
RECRUITING NOTED
RECENTLY
will achieve a much greater ef- It is certain that the Bart.'s tube ficiency for healing purposes in all
Porous concretes cannot be ex- cases of deep-seated cancer, but pected to afford any high degree or for this it must be "run-in" like a protection to embedded steel from external corrosive agencies, so that Perhaps of greater ultimate Im-some additional protection will be portance are the facilities it will necessary. All lightweight con- give for acquiring new knowledge, cretes. It is stated, appear to take by investigation and research. But normal plasters quite satisfactorily. no speedy "discovery is to be ex-provided the concretes do not con- an appreciable quantity of bably be five years at least before salts soluble in water which may its full value can be announced to solve out of the blocks and pass the world:
into the plaster, so causing stains.
the regiment was certainly in our field training, a march was very much happier position than one of the best trainings a bat it was a year ago. Their numbers tallon can have. I do not think account a certain number of re-lion arrive in Inverness or Edin- ware slightly over 518, taking into that anybody who saw the batte-. crusts whose papers had not yet burgh will dispute that fact. come through from the record of Ace. He hoped this increase would continue and that they would soon be at full strength.
tensive road research work, in- cluding the compiling of statistics of highway mileages, coats of road materials and labour wages in the provlaces, the publication, of a road dictionary in both Chinese and English, the study of road soll, the testing of road materials. and the opening of a road ma- Hallowe'en dinner of the London In the course of a speech at the terial exhibition room.
Scotti, Col. L. D. Henderson, the The problem of fuel supply has Commanding Officer, made special engaged the attention of the reference to the traditional march
tton the poor infantry will have to "Even with all this mechaniza- NEC A cotton seed all research in Scotland which the battalion
march again one day, and I think committee composed of all experts carries out every four years, and and representatives of various rhe remarked that there was not
the time will come when our me- ganizations concerned has been enough "showing of the flag" in he added. "If next year I can hand we shall have to get on our feet I shall be a very proud man," chaniantion may break down and formed by the NEC. to study the the British Army at present possibility of manufacturing a
over the battalion to Major Ben-again. Col. G. M. Chids, Commanding nett at full strength.57 suitable fuel oil from cotton seeds the 2nd (London) Infantry, Bri- COL Henderson said that next
BENEFIT TO REGULARS In view of the scarcity of both gade, who proposed the toast of year they would be going on their we march through the Highlands. "I also told him that every time technical and administrative per- "The Regiment," said that the traditional march sonnel the N.E.C, has opened increase in the strength of the which takes place every four years, but the regular regiments s830- In Septland, not only is our recruiting assisted training classes for traffic officers, London Scottish since this time final permisalon being dependent ctated with the districts we ho engineers, and drivers. Under the last year was very gratifying. To- on their doing a certain amount through also benedt very much by joint sponsorship of the M.E.C. and day it stood at 516, compared with of field training on the way. This our march. In these days when it the Chiaotong University, a De 438 on October 31, 1935, and he morning I met the Director-Ge- ls hard to get recruits that is partment of Motor Engineering thought it was a magnificient heral of the Territorial Army," he something to go for. After all, has been opened in the College of thing that the regiment had once continued, "and I found out quite, this showing of the flag is not Mechanical Engineering of the more topped,500.
by chance that he was not, in fav University for the training of mo-
being done half enough in the BH- vour of it. This was rather a set tish Army at present, and I hope tor engineers
back to me, but eventually I think we get apal permisaton to go on Fentral News.
I convinced him that, apart from this march
MARCH IN SCOTLAND Cal. Henderson, who repiled and and proposed "The Guests," said