HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
First Seismoscope Was The Brainchild of A Chinese Scholar
LECTURE ON "EARTHQUAKES”
The first instrument ever devised to record an earthquake was the brainchild of a Chinese scholar and astronomer, Cheung Hong, who set up the first selsmoscope about 18 centuries ago. The Instru- ment, a forerunner of the modern selsmoscope, was a very novel one as the Rev. J. J. McAser, SJ, described it on Friday night in a lec- tute on "Earthquakes" he gave at Ricel Hall.
different days later a
messenger
arrived
The seismoscope. Is from the seismograph in that it with news that an earthquake had only indicates that an earthquake taken place in Lung-st The ac- has taken place, and such also was curacy of the instrument was thus
proved. Cheung Hong's instrument.
It consisted of a large copper barrel about 30 inches high, with eight Dragon's Heads pro- truding from the cylinder near the top.
Speaking about the seismograph and its use, the Rev. McAsey, who was with the Rathfarnham Castle Observatory, Dublin, from 1933 to 1936, said that all waves of any In the mouth of each dragun strength were recorded by the mo-
GENERAL
Pictured above is the Garden Party to the Sino-British Cultural Association riven by the Hon. Mr. M. E. La and Mrs. Lo and Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Lo at No. 52, Conduit Road, on Friday,
was a small copper ball: beneath dern seismograph, and the distance CALIFORNIA CLIPPER SETS NEW
sat a toad, his mouth open to re-away of the disturbance could be ceive the ball should the dragon fixed to within a score of miles. .drop it
was
IMPORTANT PART the interior of the instrument its most important part Here there was a central column which stood lightly balanced on its base. Near the top were eight araus which just touched the balls in the Dragon's Mouths.
Sometimes it was difficult to de- termine exactly where the waves began-for often there are other markings on the charts besides those made by setsmic distur- Even storms at sea havVE and been frequently registered forecasted 20 to 30 hours before
bances.
RECORD FOR PACIFIC CROSSING
Pan American Airways' Callfornia Clipper, which arrived in The -Hongkang on Thursday afternoon last from San Francisco, can now claim a world record for the trans-Pacific crossing. Clipper left San Francisco at 417 pm. on Saturday, October 26, and touched the water adjoining Kai Tak Airport in Hongkong at 1.45 p.m. on Thursday, October 31. This new, record was made pos-
It was on this prin-sible because the Clipper remained their arrival. ciple. too, that the position of in Honolulu only four hours in- When an earthquake took place. typhoons could possibly be follow-stead of the usual overnight, stop- the rentral column was disturbeded accurately and their course pre-over.. and tottered against one of these dicted, he believed, the speaker arms-where it must rest, as it had lost its equilibrim
NOISE MADE
said
LONGEST FLIGHT The passengers who left San the 4.17 p.m. on Francisco at NATURAL INTERFERENCES Then, too, wind markings and twenty-sixth arrived in Midway at
which of trees
This knocked the ball out of the the movements "dragon's mouth and it was caught shook the ground and might move
4.26 p.m. on the twenty-seventh,
having covered 3,700 miles during
by the toad beneath. At the same the house itself were recorded. Be- this twenty-four-hour period. It
the time a noise was made so that asides these natural interferences. San Francisco to Midway within a ever person near at hand might know there was also always danger from twenty-four-hour period
short that an earthquake had taken spiders and small insects. place,
commercial flight.
a
These longest could cause the chart to indicate completed within such
SECOND CREW As the central column could only larger movements than any pos- period. fall into one of the grooves and sible quake. All these, added to affect one of the arms, there was the distance and feebleness of a only one direction recorded by the quake, often made interpretation plane shock-and it was from this direc- almost impossible. tion that the shock had come...
Evacuation Advisory Committee
Appeals Dismissed: Applicant Appears
In A.N.S. Uniform
Stating that there were special grounds attached to the applications, the Evacuation Ad- visory Committee, comprising Mr. Justice E H. Williams (Chair- man), Major R. E Moody, Mr, C. The Clipper crew which flew the to from San Francisco
Blaker, and Mr. C. B. Burgess, at that Honolulu disembarked
took rejected two applications for ex
the" Colony, One of the most dramatle ex-station and a
on to, Midway. The emption and two for permission
however, remained to When the instrument was con-periences the Rev. McAsey had at the plane structed and set up, one of the Rathfarnham Castle Observatory passengers.
tor 1 three-hour rest dragons let fall the ball from its was the day in 1934 when he saw aboard during the entire period. Saturday morning. mouth while no earthquake tre-the seismograph begin recording except
one of the greatest earthquakes of period in Honolulu. mors were felt by the people.
modern times, the Assam earth-
ACCURACY PROVED
This brought a certain discredit quake of 1934" that took a toll of upon the instrument-until a few 30.000 lves.
FUNERAL OF MR. Deaf Pupils
A.
GEORGE
Give Annual
CAME TO CHINA Demonstration
40 YEARS AGO
second crew
POPPY DAY FUND, 1940
return to
On
Mrs. M. Clark, who appeared in the uniform of the "A, N. S., sought exemption and in support of her application, read out let- ters she received from the Direc tor of Medical Services referring to her voluntary help at the Tai Hang Refugee Camp, and from Previously acknowledged $2,857, the secretary of the A. N. S. F. Groves 25, B. Wylle 25, Mr. and stating that arrangements have Mrs. Andrew Nicol 15, C. B. Rosse-been made for her to undergo a let 6, J. M. Sandford 50, G. Petre-hospital course on January & next. Holding that there were no ex
the circumstances, quin 10, John Moodie 10, Harbour' View Hotel 20, H. R. B. Hancock ceptional
MRS. B. PEARS
The Hongkong School for the 25, Hon. Mr. G. P. de Martin 20, Chairman rejected the applica- Deaf held its commencement exer-E. W. Hamilton 25, Prof. W. Brown tion. The funeral of the late Mr. Al-cises and the annual demonstra-20, V. Sorby, 25, E Kern 25; Toc H. fred George, formerly of the Royal tion in the great hall of the Heep Kowloon Circle 30, Lt. Col. H. B. Naval Yard Police, who died at Yuen School on Saturday. Mrs. Dowbiggin 25. Mr. and Mrs. R. for exemption, said that she re- Kowloon Hospital Saturdays. W. To distributed the certi M. Wood 5. Hon. Sir Robert Kote-turned to Hongkong from Manila
on
took place yesterday afternoon at
One of his sons, Mr. Fred George,
neates.
Tea was served. Presenting
the Principal said:
Mrs. B. Pears, who also applied
wall 10, L. E. H. Ryan 60, C. Austin-although told not to--because Before her marriage, she 10. P. de Roux 100, J. T. Bagram she was unable to keep going down the Colonial Cemetery, the Rev. J. The programme included many 25, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Macgregor there. R. Higgs, Vicar of St. Andrew's amusing and interesting demon-50, Sir Robert Ho Tung 100, J. D. said, she was of German national Thonson 20, Mr. and Mrs. John Hity and became a nationalised Church, officiating.
The audience was requested to
Bruins 25, B. O. Anderson 10. British subject after her marriage. She said she had been separated The late Mr. George la survived trations by the pupils. by his wife, of No. 1, Torres Build-ask questions and the pupils re Gordon's Ltd. 10. A. Hyde-Lay 10.
J. Owen Hughes 25, 6. T. William-from her husband by agreement plied without hesitation. Ings, Kowloon, and leaves two
son 100, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Ross and that she has no financial
means outside the Colony,
00 financial sons, four daughters, and several
her annual report,15: Total $3,777. He was born in
Remarking that contribution will be
Committee grand-children.
"We do hope Further
alone the Wales about 68 years ago.
will come forward to join our 1tary. Earl, Haig's Fund, Hongkong could not advise the Governor to I in Hongkong, while the other is more young Christian girls gratefully received by the Secre-grounds
Building. grant exeption, the Chairman at sea in the mercantile marine.tle group and work for the interest and Shanghai His daughters, who are in Austra-
to Thomson & Co. and Ia, are Mrs. Patey, Mrs. Bruce, Mrs. and happiness of these unfortun- Cheques should be made payable rejected the application.
DAILY LIFE
"Poppy Day Fund." L. Stevens and Mrs. W. Sullivan. ate deaf, sisters and Brothers
With reference to the daily life WAS IN TIENTSIN The late Mr. Alfred George came of the pupils, the Principal said, out to China some 10 years 280. Early in the morning, they will NEW APPOINTMENTS that she had experience as an having enlisted with the Foyal be basy making their own beds, Welch Fusiliers, and was with the dusting the chairs and tables, and International Expeditionary Force sweeping the floors. Later in the in Tientsin, and Peking during the morning they will be learning their Boxer uprising
Bank
crosséd
TO ARCHITECTS
COMMITTEE ··
The following have been, ap-
MRS G. B. S. THOMSON Stating that he was unable, to support her in Australia, that
have
children, and they
01
A. R. P. Warden, Mr. G. B. B Thomson applied for permission for his wife to return to Hongkong. In "rejecting the application,
work were not allowed to return. On Mr. Thomson asking whether he could take the case further.
MRS. RM. BIGAZZI
lessons, with their eyes looking at pointed to be members of the the Chairman said that many He joined the Royal Naval Yard the teachers tips, and their hands Authorised Architects Consulting persons experienced in & R. P. Police in 1902, retiring in 1932 with busily writing. They are, taught Committee:
Mr. W. JH. Cooke, vice Mr. L. the rank of Crown Bergeant. He the same subject as an ordinary
HL Chater, resigned, with effect then left for Home on long leave.school.
afternoon they will be from Aug. 23; COL. E. H. M. Clif- the Chairman replied that they but returned to settle down in
doing handwork, boys doing basket ford, C.B.E, M.C., vice Col. G. C. were not there to advise on such Hongkong
Chlef mourners at the Imeral work, and girls sewing or fancy Gowlland, resigned, with effect matters
Mr. Ha applied for yesterday were Mr. Fred George embroidery. When School is finish-from Aug. 28; Mr. H. J. Tebbutt, his son, and two sons-in-law, Capt. jed, they have an hour's recreation, ARIBA. vice Mr. W. A. Cornell, Patey and Sgt. W. Sullivan playing the same games as heat-resigried, with effect from Sept permission for his wife to return Others present were insp . B. ing children; enjoying the fun like 16; and Mr. J. H. Siddons, M. Eng., to Hongkong on the ground that Allan, Sub-Inspectors Hudson and ordinary ones. Besides the Scrip- AMICE., vice Mr. J. L. Hunt. she is indispensable to his busi Singapore, there was no one tỏ effect-from-Oct. 23' McClelland, Sergeants McNay, ture lessons the boarders attend B.SC., A.M.ICE, resigned, withness as, on his frequent trips to
look after his affairs here, Mill, Buckingham, Long Man Sunday School on Sundays"
This application was rejected waring Curd, Bellamy, Wilson, Kernagan. Rea, Shaw, Kemp, Messrs. Normington, B. Hol- and Shirley, Moira and Robin. Brotherston, Sgt. M. J. Curd, L G. lidge, H. Budden, Fitzgerald, Boyd Terry and Coll, Mr. and Mrs. D. Lawrence G. Sherry, Harry Run the ground that pernasion George Miss D. George, Bessie Simpson, Indian Police Sgt. Allah could only be granted to those and others
helping their husbands. A detachment of the Indian and Henry Brown, Mr. and Mrs. H. Baksh, Superintendent and stem who are actually running their contingent of the Royal Naval Budden and family. Mr. and bers,, Royal Naval Yard Folice, W own business and not merely Yard Police paraded under Bub Mrs. J. Rackley, and family, Sgt. A. A Fergusson, on behalf of the A bug- and Mrs. McNay and Ian; Mr. and Royal Welch Fusiliers, Royal Naval Insp. Ghulam Mohammed ler from H. M. 8. framar sounded Mrs. A. M. Holland, Mr. and Mrs. Police Mess, Kowloon Depot. Royal Buckingham, Bub-Insp. and Mrs. Naval Yard Police, Mess, Stonecat
It is learned that preparations Mrs. Long, ter's Island, Indian Members, R. N the Last Post
McClelland, Mr. and " THE WREATHS Wreaths were sent by Maud and Mr. and Mrs. IT. B. Low, Mr. and Yard Police, H. M. Dockyard, the
will take place before the end of the year Bonny, Alfred, Betty and Bruce. Mrs. C. Bond, Mr. and Mrs, J. Mac- Commodore, Officers and Men or are being made for a daylight air Fred, Julia and Michael, Les and donald, An 'Old Pal, Insp. A. BEM. Naval Establishments at raid precautions exercise which Win Peggy and Bull, Rosemary Allan, G. M. Arthur, Sgt A. Hongkong, the Sitland Bilk Store.
Griggs,
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DAYLIGHT AR.P. EXERCISES
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4,
1940. -PAGE 5
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