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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1937.
SIR PERCIVAL
15.
PHILLIPS DEAD
War Correspondent Who Travelled The World
than most man.
MACHINES THAT ONE SYSTEM FOR
THINK
Developments At Cambridge.
PROBLEMS ANSWERED
TELEVISION
Marconi-E.M.I. Adopted
TEST PERIOD OVER
Cheaper Receiving Sets
The experimental period during which two entirely different sys- of television transmission
see more of the grimmer side of life within the next low.) E.MI, shall be used. This recom-
Since 1887 he had hardly missed s war, no matter in what part of the leat world it happened.
years
The Army As A Career
Serving The Cause Of Peace
Mr. Duff Cooper, Secretary of State for War, was present at Charing Cross Underground Station recently to open a recruiting exhibition depicting the work of the modern wldier.
same time serving their country. They could also see that when their service. was over they were properly trained, and that there would be a demand for their labour. Could there be a better. way of spending their life in the period between boyhood and manhoort f
Mr. Frank Fick, vico-chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board, said that Charing Cross station was
The exhibition consists of a working fortunato in possessing a spave set aside for representative movements in model showing an army in the field life. At this time they had in their carrying out a policing operation
rule. " in a country under British minds the necessity of recruiting for The hostile force is supposed to be
Mr.
Sir Percival Phillips, famous war. Complicated mathematical problema are now so usual in research work, correspondent, died in a London nurs
particularly in physics, that scientists ing home, aged 50.
"He was taken ill in Spain where he are coming more and more to depend Was reporting the civil war, and was on machines to do the laborious work brought hone
to England on January entailed in their solution, just as tems
banks, insurance offices, and other big were operated in alternate weeks the Amp Cooper expressed his masing in parts of the the country too. A charming personality with a fund commercial concerns use mechanical from the Alexandra Palace station
which is confined to the forwarding of of quist humont, "Percy", Phillips had calculators to reduce the time formerly has ended. The Television Advi gratitude and the gratitude of the off to be represented on the model Council to the London Passenger the troops from the base port to a con by clerks to do suros in sory Committer has recommended Transport Board for the use of the
columns with head, pen, and paper that one system only, the Marcon-premises. There was no greater work centration area from which
University is spend at
to
con radiate The port, an ordinary that could be for the cause of peace,
commercial harbour, has been con- building and setting apa mendation has been accepted by he said, than to present the world with vertel fat military use. Evory fighting
Empire.
of commating Laboratory,
Many of the the Postmaster-General and by strongly armed British
section the, Army is represented. The world know that the British Em-
There is also a realistic model showing instruments to be installed are so
the BBC, writes a Home corres-
pire was determined to have peace an enemy air raid on London with the ingenious that they seem to the unis-
pondent.
and they did not want to leave DY D itiated to be actually thinking,
uncertainty whether the British Emption of the aircraft by anti-air- was strong enough to secure the craft units, Trades are also represent Here in this exhibition there was the opportunity of seeing unething of
once, that it so earnestly desired. od by furniture and brickwork made what life was like in the Army, General), Major General Barker (Direc and many seeing it would realize the tor of Recruiting and Organization), opportunity they might be missing of and Brigadier General F. G. Spring spending six to seven years of open: Inspector of Recruiting) were also air life in foreign travel, and at the present..
ALWAYS TRAVELLING He was constantly travelling. He had the bappy knack of describing what he saw in exactly the right worts.
One the first of these mathem No substantia: change in the atial instruments to be invented was system chosen will be made for at made in 1814
curve. have already purchased sets will His first war was with the Greek area bounded by an irregular least two years, and those who Army Against the Turks in 1897; then This was subsequently developed a not be inconvenienced in any way, he was off to the Spanish-American the "planimeter and is now made in From their point of view, all that war, which broke out the following forms which sulve directly and quick- year. He missed South Africa, but hey many problems connected with has happened is that the switch to WAR in the Balkans in 1909, the Cata- irregular plane figures, which would change from one system to the lonia revolution, later in the same take hours to work out by algebra other need no longer be operated year and in Portugal in 1910, when and arithmetic
at the beginning of each week. revolution broke out there.
WONDER MACHINE WA
The most complicated mathematical
He went with the Italian expedi¦ instrument in the world is the "pro-
1911, to India for
to Tripoli in Coronation Durbar the sapie year, and in 1913 he was with the Bulgarian General Staff in the Balkan war.
During the world war he was in Belgium when hostilities broke out, and remained with the Belgian Army
until the fall of Antwerp.
He was one of the first five accredit-
ed correspondents with the British Army on the Western Front in 1915, and stayed there until he went with them into the Rhineland. He had only one break-the trouble in Ireland in 1918.
ROYAL TOURS
Sir Percival accompanied the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales, on his Canadian tour in 1919 and also went with him to India and the Far East in 1921. There is hardly a corner of the world to which he had not been. In 1996 he went to China for a revolu tion, two years later he accompanied the King and Queen of Afghanistan from India to Europe on that tour which cost them their throne; in 1930 he attended the Coronation of Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.
Sir Percival was born in Browns- ville, PA, USA, and was knighted in 1990, He never married.
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duct integraph at the Institute of Technology,hich is sous eighteen fest Massachusetts. This in- strument, some long, is driven by electricity and an- swers some mathematical problems which are far too complex for the
human brain to
“CIVILISATION
"
MENACED"
Single system working has been. pressed for by many manufac- tarers, and now the decision has tion in the price of receiving sets been made a considerable reduc-
will follow.
In choosing the Marconi-E.M.I.
system in preference to that of Baird, the Advisory Committee was not, I understand, influenced by the quality of the received pic tures, in which there was little.
any.
US
Steady Decrease. In next we left the rough for
Birth-Rate
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
Well might the defence for the
comedian who introduced sakit on
free:
Herr Hitler into a Hammersmith
the pantomime point to preas as compared with the ham pered stage, at the same time handing up to the magistrate a
comedian, who was duly fined un-
WES
t
by
General Bir Harry Knox (Adjutant--
LENSES · MADE FROM SYNTHETIC RESIN
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New British Process
A British inventor, after live years of research, claims to be able to pro duce lenses equal, andin some respects superior, to lenses of ground and polished glass from a combination of plastic materials, pressed in moulds.
At the Waldorf Hotel, London, AD held of the lenses and
that
WES
Most mathematic
matical equations can be represented as a curve drawn on squs red paper. In the "product integraph the equations concerned in the different parts of the problem to be solved are led into appropriate places in the mac-
exhibition To my mind, the most impor-printed cartoon of the same pro- hine and the answer is read as another
minent International character curve at the end. Computations which lant of the new improvements is
photography. Photogmphs, with en- would take weeks to complete by the springing. We suffered the most But the analogy did not save the of some of the results of their use in aire of 12 square old methods can be finished in a few atrocious suspension for years, the
largements Up to hours by this instrument. Problems rate of progress between 1910 and der that section of the Theatres feet, of a very high standard were The new product's poten- that would take an hour or so can be about 1930, or even later,
Act, 1843, which has to do with shown. being done in a few minutes.
possible insults to friendly tialities are to be demonstrated at the
Fair British Industries negligible. They tried to improve
The inventor is fr. Arthur William their antiquated system of springs Power." No doubt it was the same by giving balloon tyres, a section which at the beginning of Kingston, and his firm is Combined this century even produced a tem-Optical Industries Lid. Certain fea- palliative that was often worse than the disease cecause they porary prohibition of albert and tures of the moulding process are Sullivan's "Mikado" on the some- already patented. Others are being spolit the road-holding and the
kept secret. what remote Eround that our new steering. And then, rather sud-
It is claimed that at a cost for below denly, the faults were discovered ally Japan might be offended by
of grinding and polishing glass that particular stage spectacle. lenses the machine can deliver in large and between one year and the
But even in those days, when quantities Janses suitable for cameras, the
Japan
spectacles, talescopes, nearest our
and binoculars, smooth path.
dearest and when the newly "in-range-finders, stereoscopes, television There are still noticeable dif-
and all kinds of scientific apparatus. ferences between the springing of stituted Order of Merit was being Th appearance the lenses are similar the various cars, but the average bumped out with the names of to glass. They are made of materials is much higher than it was only eminents naval yand" military com- of the "synthetic resin cines, and their five years ago, and in the trials Imanders from the Far East as base is "Perspex, carry out for "The Observer" I find honorary foreign members, the em- per gra
practical par. a steady improvement in nearly bargo on the "Mikado" was scon
poses, unbreakable, and is stated to be laughed out of existence.
impervious to climatic conditions. every new model.
Nevertheless it does seem a little cannot be used in apparatus in which bdd that a pantomime, which will great beat is employed. It admits the passage of 35 per cent more ultra- never be seen at all in Germany, violet light than ordinary glass, should be more strictly curbed in the matter of jokes against Herr Eller than a newspaper whose it and abandoned it, others have cartoons could easily reach the adopted it permanently, others will country where they might be re- have nothing to do with it, and I sented. But it is just a matter of some luck; the one type of jest comes weat of Europe, roughly from the Bu have found that while in tie to the Pyrenees, including Scan cars it scarcely affects comfort under the Lord Chamberlain's au dinavia, Denmark, Germany Holland, and road-holding, in others it thority as censor of plays and the Belgium, the Britisfi Islands and Fran- makes a the difference, Of the other does not. If you want to poke fun at foreign countries you ce, the human birth-rate is decreasing latter is the Oldsmoble.
the decreasing at a pace which swampa
BIOLOGICAL WORK NEEDED
Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, the biologist, in a paper issued in London recently, raised the question: "Will mankind in North-West Europe, die out in acomparatively short time?"
The paper was
was written to emphasise the need of further attention at Oxford University to biological problems. Its issue was concerned with the Univer- sity's appeal for funds.
Compilers of human statistics" Sir
Peter stated, "report that in the worth
At
THE OLDSMOBILE SYSTEM
That improvement is not always effected by independent front wheel suspension, a system which good deal in seems to vary a results. Some makers have tried
In most respects the typical must avoid pantomimes and take death-rate and the increasing daration sound American car, this new to print. of life.
The higher estimates of the rate
model is outstandingly well sprung. Looking over 'my
notes for the Dast three years, I can only find
of decrease are almost fantastic in their vision of swift desolation. Even the lowest estimates foreshadow apone car that was better sprung plane, nor is it the steep rise and proaching crises of profound than this, and that was a Tall C-springs used to give grand portance to humanity.
very four
mamma's 'barouche.
It's a rest-
Chemical Induct of Im-
did.
DOCTOR'S DEATH
FROM
PRICKED THUMB
Faulty Glove Worn-Ai Post-Mortem
:
7.
Muriel
The vain efforts of Dr. Osborn to save the lie of her hus- band, Dr. Henry Alexander Osborn. aged 43, of Mill-road Hospital. Liverpool, pathologist to the City of Liverpool, were described at the in- quest at Park Royal recently.
All special machine with BIOLOGICAL QUESTION.
wheels independenty sprung. The ful sort of floating.
A verdict of death by misadven- "Our existing civilisation seems to
Bomething like the effect has ture was recorded. He died from have had a shorter period of youth riding, whether you are sitting in
now with septicaemia arising from a slight- and a quicker growth than many of front or behind, is extraordinarily been produced before
motor the extinct civilisations. Is it, there even and shockless.
springs, but usually it injury caused during a post-mo fore, more near a
swift period of Its action is unlike that of any compelled you to keep the speed tem examination. riecay? This, in the first
is a car
I have driven. On an down to thirty miles an hour or biological question to be
more intensiva biolag ATLY adjust the new adaptations, if even
to make the normally reduce your speed and seventy miles an hour exactly as po other hope than to death of our civilisation an euthanasia set up some sort of jar or at least it does at thirty. Better, in fact, for that the humanities and a pronounced tremor, the only because, while the oating re- science will have to work together."
Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell is one change in the motion is that a mains the steering grows lighter of the fow Britons remaining in sort of long gentle up-and-down and steadier as the speed rises, Malaga, which has just been entered movement begins. It is not 3 This is an example of good "knee-
with
And
| ordinarily "good surface you feel less, the roadholding falling off nothing at all, but when you come very seriously at anything above to a rough patch that would that.. The Oldsmobile behaves at
by Spanish Nationalist troops. He pitch, as the car stays in the same action." was reported to be safe."
KANGAROO CAUGHT
IN SCOTLAND.
After being at liberty for over six months a kangaroo, belonging to Lady Forteviot, at Duppiin Castle. Perth, was recaptured. It has de- fled many efforts of police and est- ate workers to end its freedom un- til an error of fudgment · brought about its downfall. - -
A farmer endeavoured to catch it, and in trying to jump away the Kangaroo crashed against a fence and was stunned. It was quickly secured and placed in a large box. The fact that, it was in better condition than at the time of its escape, despite a stormy winter, is taken as indicating that kangaroos, can live and thrive in catural Boot- tish conditions. Tha kangaroo WAS R gift to Lady Forteriet by an Aus tralian friend.
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Dr. Muriel Osborn said that on. December 17 her husband told her that he had a blister on his left thumb, and that, he wore a faulty rubber glove during s post-mortem | examination.
She added that her husband al- ways tested his rubber gloves be- fore a post-mortem, but on the day he pricked his thumb, he was so.. busy that he had not done them.
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