HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
Fall Of Hailstones In Colony: First Time In Observatory's History
In connection with the fall of hallstones in Hongkong yester- day, which has been unprecedented in the history of the Caelony. Mr. C. W. Jeffries, FRA.S., Director of the Royal Observatory. Hong- kong, makes the following interesting comments on this rare occur- rence: :
For the first time in Royal Observatory history, hail foll be- tween 6.25 and
632 yesterday morning. The hailstones exceed ed in size anything observed by the writer: after the lipse of 1 hours, toxuy single ballstones Fere found in one of the nullahs. trom 1 to 1" in longest dimension
BASKET OF CHICKENS AND "TEA
MONEY"
IMPERSONATION OF POLICE OFFICER
A basket of chickens, left behind the weight of a pellet is sufficient by an unlicensed hawker, Mak Lo overcome the resistance of the Yin, during a police raid on haw- coward air current it will com-kers on February 15, led to three mence to fall
man being charged before Ir. H. Let
tracy yesterday. G. Sheldon at the Central Magis-
downwards of a pellet which has us consider the Journey
reached or is formed at the top of the cloud (8 Km, say). It has with impersonating a police officer Ho Kau, 39, who was charged
to encounter a stretch of super-received six months' hard labour. cooled waterdrops and "saturated whilst Tso Yau, 28, who was} alr mach exceeding " km. in charged with siding and abetting, length, because the air it meets is was given three months; Let Yung. being carried upwards at a speed 22 two months' hard labour on of, say, 8 m./sec.
charges of obtaining $2 by false pretences at Jaffee Road, and atd- ing, and abeting by saying Ho Kau was a policeman..
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SHAPE AND SIZE Their original shape was prob. ably roughly spherical and a translucent core was visible, There were many of a shape Indicating the cohesion of s mum-
STRETCH OF AIR ber of smaller stones.
Wegener computes that the During the storm many of these stretch of air "encounted may be must have been of considerable as long as 14 Km. The pellet is. Sgt. V. Morrison prosecuted size, probably approximating to continuously passing into nir Mak Flu, complainant, sald that in diameter. Judging by those warmer than itself and the tem-he Was hawking chickens in remaining in the nullah, some ofperature difference between the Lockhart Road when someone which still exceeded 14" in longest pellet and its surroundings in-sald that the police were coming. -dimension.
creases continuously umbli the He ran away leaving a basket of There was no damage in the ground is reached, when in ex. chickens behind, which was later Royal Observatory compound, treme cases the difference has picked up by the police and taken Cxcept that many leaves and been observed to be as much as to No. 2 Police Station. twigs were struck from the trees 15°C. and shrubs.
In the
afternoon he met second, and third defendants who suggested to him that he should redeem the chickens from the police.
The air surrounding the hall- The amount of rainfall recorded stone, as the pellet has now be at 6.30 an. was 0.18 inches; tak- Como, la saturated with respect of ing into account that. hall was the surface of the supercooled Mak Yiu asked how it could be stul falling at the time, it is some water drops which are floating in done," and third defendant, sald what remarkable that the follow-t, so that it is super saturated his brother was employed at No. 2 ing hour produced only 0.02 inches with respect to ice at its own tem-Folice Station as a sergeant
of rainfall. It would appear that the majority of the hallstones bounced out of the gauge, instead of accumulating in the funnel as in the case of snow,
perature and still more super- saturated with respect to the hall- stone which as explained is at a still lower temperature.
HELD IN SUSPENSION HAIL FORMATION
Consequently all the water drops The following explanation of held in suspension in the air, hall formation is given in the which the hallstone encounters on 'Meteorological Glossary:
its way down, freeze on the stone Hailstones may attain a great Immediately it strikes them. size, stones as large as golf balls Wegener computes that the fall have been observed in Europe and of a pellet from 8 km. to the the recorded weights range up to ground under the conditions des- a kilogramme (over 2 lb.)
cribed is sufficient to account for the production of the largest
HOW MUCHT
of
GENERAL
Flower Show. Not Affected
By Hailstorm
RECORD ENTRIES: HIGH STANDARD OF EXHIBITS
Mr. J.T. Barram, Hon. Secretary
the Hongkong Society, told the Hongkong Dally Horticultural
Press yesterday evening that the hailstorm, which broke over the Colony and mainland early yester- day morning, had not in any way Tected the annus) Flower Show which is to be opened today at St. John's Place. Garden,
'GOOD CONDITION" All the exhibits had arrived in good condition at "the Show grounds and both the quality and quantity give promise of a record. The pot plants, particularly, aze of a very high standard.
His Excellency the Governor and Lady Northcote will visit the Show at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon and the prizes will be distributed by Lady Northcote.
All in all, an excellent exhibition is assured, and a record attendance is expected.
The Show will be held from 3 p.m. until 8.30 p.m. today and from 10 am until 4 p.m. to- morrow.
Admission for the first day is $1 and for the second day 50 cents; Servicemen half-price.
FINANCE CAMPAIGN OF Y.W.C.A.
OVER $8,000 RAISED
Some time later the third de- fendant arrived with the first de- fendant who asked MaK NOT much "tea money" he could offer. After agreeing on $2, first defen- dant left saying that he was busy The first defendant claimed that he was Sergeant C113 and, at the same time, showed a police whistle The first report rally of the and chain. Before Jeaving, he Y.W.CA.'s Finance Campaign was Instructed complainant to handheld yesterday afternoon at the the money to the second and thire Y.W.CA. The two hundred and defendants.
more women and girls who are soliciting the $30,000 needed for this year's work reported that to date after one week's work- $8.297 has been collected.
An important characteristic of
Witness was then led by them to cumulo-nimbus cloud is the hailstones."
the back door of No. 2 Police rapid ascent into it of a moist It may be noted that if the Station where the money was current of air, which is quickly ascensional current fails or 19 handed over. The third defendant cooled by reason of the reduced considerably reduced in velocity, went into the station whilst Mak pressure which it encounters aloft, the suspended water in the cloud Yiu and the second defendant As the process continues cloud is no longer supported, and it falls waited outside. After 10 minutes. particles, and finally raindrops, with the result commonly des- second defendant told Mak Yiu he are formed, but if the ascensional cribed as a cloud-burst.
would fetch his friend at the velocity of the air exceeds 8 m./ SHUMCHUN, Mar. .. 4. (Intl)-Stations but complainant saw him sec, all the condensed water is re- People here were rudely awaken- coming out by the front door. tained in the loud (see Rain-ed this morning by hailstones However, Mak Yiu caught him in drops).
which fell in big pieces, break- Fleming Road and they met P.C. ing window panes and roof slates, C.I. 809, Ng Choy. The party "At a level not usually exceeding Some of the hailstones were as then
proceeded to
Taj Yuen 4 Km. in this country the tem-large as marbles and covered the Street where first defendant was perature has already fallen below countryside with a white blanket. identified and arrested. The third freezing point. There is much This was the first hailstorm accused was arrested later on in evidence for beleving that, at experienced in this area... least in many cases. ice crystals are not immediately formed 'as
WATER-DROPS
soon as the temperature falls be- A CRITIQUE:
low freezing point, but that water- drops are still produced. These are in the super-cooled condition, and they are carried upwards into the higher part of the cloud.
Near the top of this cloud, how- ever, ice crystals will appear and these will grow into pellets of soft hall-by a process of condensation direct from vapour to ice. When
PRISON TERMS AND "CAT"
formation.
Hongkong Working Artists' Guild Annual Exhibition
BY LUIS CHAN
The Annual Exhibition of the Hongkong Working Artists' Guid which opened yesterday is one that will represents Hongkong in both Chinese and Western Art, in that the entries sent in cover s wide range, not only in almost every province of art, but in expres- sion as well as style.
are
Although both Mrs. Tuda Panet Charm and delicacy alsu and Mrs. Erne Freedlander are the keynote of a similar study by represented by two olls each, each Yu Chok Chan under the title of of them is well represented: the "Chinese Fan. "Yu's colour scheme former's "Fields at Talpo" is a is cheerful and bright and retains fine arrangement of pattern, a sense of outdoor effect while the latter's "Tree Trunks":
is a very individual symbol paint- ing.
The team, led by Mrs. Kan You- man, holds Arst place in this week's report, having secured over $1,400. Mrs. Wong Tse-Chuen's team is second, and Mrs. Chan Hing-wa's team, third.
A huge candle at the Y.W.C.A. is being painted red as the funda are reported.
The members of the Canton. Y.W.C.A....led by the chairman, Mrs. Jade Wang Wu, were the hos- tesses for the ten.
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Junk Attacked Near Ninepins
MAN CONVICTED:
THREE YEARS
Sentence of three years' hard Skits were put on by the Y.W. CA. staff and by the Business by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl labour was passed on Sung San Girls Club, both illustrating the MacGregor, at the Criminal Ses- work of the Y.W.CA. Dr. Cathe-slons yesterday, when the accused rine Woo presided at the after- noon rally. The next report rally will be held on March 13.
BROADCAST TALK
charge of robbery of an unlicensed was found guilty by a jury on a
junk near Ninepins on Dec. 29,
Mr. J. P. Murphy, Assistant Dr. Irene Hoting broadcast "last night over
Crown Solicitor, prosecuted. The the "local" station following jury was empanelled :-- speaking on the
of the Messrs. E. V. Searle ((Foreman); Young Women's Christian Asso-Wong Theng-shan, Abbas Khan,
ciation:
work
A. L G. Eastman and E. J. de L. J. A. Glendinning, A. Le Jorge, Figuercido.
It was, stated that on Dec. 29 an unlicensed junk left Shum Chun village, Chut Yeng district, with a
400 Chinese silver dollars The cargo of gunny sacks, cloth and
comprised 19. There were also ten master was Yau Chan-sut the crew
She stressed the world wide ex- tent of this woman's movemeh which began in England 80 years ago
and now exists in over 50 countries. and the fact that in China it is a national movement. with a history of over forty years Y.W.CA. seeks to help women The speaker showed how the prepare themselves for community service as informed and respon-passengers on board. sible citizens. She spoke in detall of the work of the Hongkong and About 3,30 p.m., when the craft community to support the YW. of Ninepins, a small boat approach- Canton Y.W.C.A.'s and urged the was off Fuk Kin Tau, north-ens:
which Lady Pollock is the Honor-junk after a chase. The marauders C.A. in its current campaign of ed and the occupants boarded the aary Chairman.,,
then herded the crew into the hold and later took the cargo from the funk...
Green Island Cement Co.
A CHASE
ROBBERY TRIAL AT SESSIONS
SENSE OF UNITY There is a sense of unity pre- Arraigned before Mr. Justice P.
vailing in the work of Mr. V E. Lindsell at the Criminal Bessions
IMAGINATIVE PAINTER
Smirnoff. His "Sunset" is rather five men, named Wong Wai, Yu
Mr. Johnson Lee is an imagina- unusual in Lam, Cheng Chi, Cheung Woot and tive painter specialising in paint elements he chose for it are
that the pictorial Kong Chak, were each sentenceding nocturnes of which he has wave and two salling Junka. His to four years' hard labour.
many fine examples. As a pain- "The Hunt" is a fine right scene. In addition, Wong Wal, who had ter of nocturnes, he was chiefly s.,previous conviction for unlawful influenced by his master Tao Mr. Chan Ting Wat in his water-
The colour wash employed' by " possession in 1937, was ordered to Leng-rueh, a traditional Chinese colour landscapes is full of life receive 15 strokes of the "cat" painter of Soochow in North China, and nis touch very free and while the others are each to have Mrs. Milch Bormann's Woodcuts individual, While Mr. Kan May rangé from a full gamut of Tier's Flowers tull of mellow The accused were stated to have colour such as "Swedish Dance" tone,"
The balance standing at credit robbed Kong Chun-wah of $3,200 to pure monochrome such as Hongkong Academy of Fine Arts December 31, 1939, including the both belonging to the of Profit and Loss Account, as at in Hongkong currency, $1,300 in "Gelu Eausen?””. Chinese money, three gold bangles, Mr: Yee Bon is represented, by tops are Messrs. Wong Ewok Choi,ward from the previous year, and Among other Western Art exhibi- sum of $124,778.22 brought for a gold pocket watch, gold and fade two oils and two watercclouts all Leung Man and Lean Bek after providing for depreciation fred several shots at the small chain, three gold rings and a pair of which are full of atmospheric Chou, of diamond earrings, at No. 56D, effects
and other contingencies, amount- craft. The robbers took fright and One only regrets that As regards the Chinese Art sec-ed to:-$675,89432, Belchers Street, on Dec. 30.
one cannot see more of his works, tob, this will form the subject of board will recomraend
which the rowed away, leaving behind the Mr. E. H. Williams, Crown Coun-in Exhibitions.
at the accused, who had fallen with the my next article to be published forthcoming annual general meet water. WILD AND FREE
He was picked up and tomorrow. Meanwhile." I Lee Byng's watercolours are now rather prefer to leave my own priated as follow:
would ing of the company, be appro- taken to the police station. by Mr. M. A. da Bilva, appeared for more wild and free; they were exhibits to be judged and com. To pay a dividend of $1.00 Yu Lam..
painted under the full spell of mented on by the visitors. The jury comprised Messra. J. R. excitement. His two oils, on the.
shares
12 strokes,
sel conducted the prosecution,
while Mr. Percy Chen, instructed
A Fearne (Foreman), Chang Tak-other hand, are in full gamut of sang, Mak Shiu-ping, J. M. Walker,
colour
C. A. d'Assumpacao, A. E. Gutierrez and Muk Chak-sang.
Mr. Yee Sul Hang's oil paintings
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CORRECTION
are executed in a most thoughtful In our Issue of yesterday, and careful mannen quite different page 5. there was inadvertently
FIRING PRACTICE Lee Byng. Most satisfying of his coming
to the free and thrilling touch of published over a news item con- To
a British soldier, the Firing practice will be carried landscapes perhaps is his "Roofs."Following heading: out between the hours of, 10. am. while his studles of Chinese Attack By Sailor. We regret the..
and 6 pm. to-day,
Fizing Area 'A' will be affected.
womanhood delicacy.
haves charm
185,494
146,020.50
per "share"
... 8195.494,00 *pay a bonus of 75 cents khare on 195,494 shares transfer to the General Reserve in
order to
distribute A Bonus to bring this account up
to $1,000,000
While the craft was sailing, with the robber boat following behind, two other junks approached and the master of one of them sus- pected somthing had happened on master of one of the two junks, board the victims' junk. Fang Tal,
eq funk and, at the same time, sailed his boat towards the pira
PYRRHUS AND AIR MAIL
The postal authorities state that' no advice has yet been received as to whether there was any mall for Hongkong on board the 8.5. 180,600.00 Pyrrhus, which was sunk recent
or the west coast of England. 17,397,00
It is learned that there was no 166,382.82 mall for the Colony on board the Total: $675,886.33 which is missing.
Imperial Airways ner. Hannibal,
Staty Alleged To Carry Forward to next
and error and any embarrassment that may have been caused.
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