SOUTH DOWN WINDMILLS.
Rottingdean; and Some Others.
SYNTHETIC FOOD,
Professor Rathbone's
Discovery.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12 1923.
LABOUR TROUBLES. DAIRY FARM NEWS.
Tobacco Workers' Demands.
Following the recent strike of Mr. Hilaire Balloo's appeal for To the man in the street there tobacco factory workers in 2400 to save the old windmill on may be little worthy of notice in Shanghai, ti would appear that the spur of down west of Rotting, the announcement just made that similar workers in Hongkong are down will awaken memories for sugar has bean manufactured in now making demands for the those who know the South Downs the laboratories of Liverpool Uni-Shanghai settlement terms to be and their few remaining wind-versity by a chemical process, applied here. The Canton Nan- mills; and will aronse regrets that but this achievement is not only yang Brothers Tobacco Company so many of these picturesque ro- ja great scientific victory, but it received a letter on Tuesday last, minders of so old industry and has a supremely important bear-purporting to have the support of handicraft should havə vanished,¦ing on the future food supply of all the workers, in which it was writes a contributor to a Home the world.
demanded that the terms agreed: paper. It is, interesting, perbaps,| Of late years many eminent to in Shanghai should be made. to recall to mind a few of those people have been concerning applicable dere. Thero which remain.
themselves with the problem of no fewer than seventeen terms
wore
Io connection with the recent strike of bakers and the closing of the Guild, we understand that petition is being drawn up for presentation to the Government for the re-opening of the Guild. One of the leaders of the Guild, who was deported, is now being maintained in Magao out of Guild Funds.
In bygone days the South the growing populations of the agreed to in the North and Downs were sprinkled with wind-world and the possibility that Home are not applicable to mille, and from the tweth existing sources of food supply Hongkong. The principal terms, century on, right down to the may in a comparatively brief however, is that an all-round days when the Regent drove ses-1period prove insufficient to meet increase of $3 be granted to all wards to Brighton, the slowly, the demand. One investigator workers, and that there should be turning sails of scores of mills bas calculated, on the basis that an sunnal increment of at least#1, must bave been a familiar sight each individual requires the pro- The Company bas nai yet given to all Sussex men. There were, duce of two acres of land for his a reply to the letter. as recently as a hundred years maintenance, that if the average go, pretty nearly a dozen on the annual increase of the world's hills round Brighton. Now, with population-just over I por ceal one or two possible exceptions, is maintained, in less than 200 such for instance as Friston Mill. years the earth will contain the those which remain are silent, maximum population it can and the few old rails that still support. dominate the slopes are too often Most of those who have studied carcases only-with their sails the matter agree that this is a gono or going. Of their numbers fairly reliable estimate, but some it is possible to get some ides are confident that it mankind from the Windmill Hills, Mill concentrates on cultivating the Hills, and Mill Cottages on the waste places of the earth, sim- map of the downs. Occasionally. ultaneously with its intensive too, the wanderer with an obser-cultivation and the scientifc. ysos eye will pick out from a breeding of those animals which group of buildings in towo or provide us with food, the evil day, country the circular or octagonal may be postponed, by many base of what was once a proud centuries. and towering windmill. There is one at Brighton, and another not far away in an outlying part of Portslade.
THREE VARIETIES.
AN END TO AGRICULTURE,
Others have emphasised that the future of the tuman race ca only be safeguarded by ceasing to te dependent for sustenance Far and away the most prom-un animals and agriculture, and inent of the remaining mills one of the pioneers of this view are the two at Ciaston, just above was the late M. Berthelot, the the entrance to Clastoa Tancel famous French chemist.
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on the L. B. and S. C. Railway. work the vegetables have so far to be seen from miles round, and done." he said a few years before from many points on the journey his death, science will soon be to Brighton by road and rail. The able to do better. There will then mills of Sussex were of three be no passion to own land, beasts] linds; tower, hooded or bonnet,need not be bred for laughter.1 ant amoek. The sails of the two and the barren regions may be Arst-named were kap: to the, referable to the fertile for habit-1 wind by a revolving cap. hood able places, because they will not or bonnet, whereas other mills be revolved bodily оп
their manuring. The reign of chemis-Dockyard, to succeed the Rev. The new Chaplain to the Naval bike. One cf these atry will beautify the planet." Clayton is, a tower mill built of He himself succeeded in pro-the Colony from Home. He is Crole Rees, recently arrived in brick, the other a smock mill.ducing by chemical methods two the Rer. G. Charsley Howard, The tower mill is not ancient, of the three fundamental cate having
Mr. Howard has seen many years in thegories of substances necessary service with the Navy, having nineteenth century, but adjoining for human food, but the synthesis served in West Africa, the Persis is the base of a much older mill.of the albuminoids bas yet to be Gulf and other remote parts of These two mills are honoured in achieved. But he was confident the world. forming the subject of a book. of the final conquest-the artifi aboard H. M. S. Swifteure during
He was Chaplai "Life in a Sussex Windmill." by cial production of autritive food the Dardanelles operations, and there were impressive military Mr. E. A. Martin, F.G.S, who for substances from elements probas the distinction of being one displaye in connection with the A recent Cologne message said a time lived in the abandoned curable simply for the taking" of the few British officers who visit of Lord Derby. A large force tower mill for the purpose of tak-Sir William Ramsay gave it as landed on Gallipoli before the of various arms, commanded by ing meteorological observations. bis opinion that when the secret military operations commenced. General Kennedy. paraded in "Rottingdean Windmill has per- of the albuminoids was solved. He escorted General Birdwood Cathedral Square before the War baps only been preserved because a passable steak or chop" could round various ite gaunt carcase on the skyline be manufactured by the chemist: Peninsula in January 1915. two by the British, French, American parts DF the Secretary, who was accompanied of the down has made it a useful but he thought the process would months before the Allied Navies and Belgian Commanders, when landmark for vessels. It is a be so costly as to make its com-made their combined assault on admiration for the bearing of the makes a touching story of how mill of the hooded or bonnet type.mercial atilisation quite impos. the Dardanelles.
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troops was unstintedly expressed Mrs. Meynell and her husband A ROYAL REFUGE,
by the crowds of German spectacued the Lancashire-born poet, Old mill are still to be seen at always be infinitely cheaper,
tore. The unusual spectacle was when, driven by starvation and Lewes and Eingston, facing one)
witnessed of the British military Physical collapse, he was on the another across the valley of the
police and German police, who point of committing suicide. His Brighton road. That at Lewes Certainly the sugar industry is
identity and whereabouts, both maintained order, proceeding in would be interesting if it were on not perturbed at the synthetic
ane unit through the Square only after continued quest by the unknown. were discovered the site of that in which King competition in Liverpool. "How
der the charge of 4 British Henry Ill. took refure at the can you beat Nature by an intri
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Meynells. For Thompson had Battle of Lewes in 1264, but that cate process like that indicated
written poems (some on scrape of mill was farther north and west. by the reports of the
Australia's conscription system had seen, and seeing had rec
grocers" augar paper) which they The Kingston mill
n-statement made at the Univer- W#5
was apparently an issus at the loznised as poetry of the highest BUI in having eix saility by Professor Rathbone?" The Japanese Social Affairs general election. The leader of Another old survivor is the asked
on Board, which was made sa inde- the Labour Party, Mr. Charlton,dawn, he was taken to their home
(devotional) authority ΕΠ
order. Tracked mill on the gaunt spor at Hal- the technical side of the trade pendent organization last fall, according to a cable message; and nursed back to health and maker, Dear Goodwood, which who was consulted recentis bei will present to the 46tb. session made a definite pronouncement happiness; and some of the finest can be well seen from the road a representative of The Observer, of the Diet a budget calling for in favour of the abolition between Arundel and Chichester." You sow beetroot in the spring," Y4,630,000 for the next fiscal year, of the system and
things ever penned by the inspira- & return tion of gratitude came Nearer to Brighton there still and the result of a season's growth an increase of Y1,230,000 over the to
volunteering. As a matter Thompson in result to the noble remain two mills-the one above is that you have a plant with budget for this year. A bill will of fact, abolition bas been Patcham which, prominent en- from 15 to 17 per cent. of sugar also be presented advocating reou the officia! programme of
devotion of Alice Heynell, ough from 2 few points of in it. To produce eynthetic sugar, vision of the factory law so as to the Labour Party for some years vantage, is yet strangely incon- having started with plenty of bring a larger number of factories and has been strongly favoured spicuous in general," because of water and sunlight, you will have under its regulations. The meast the Party Conferences. But its situation amid converging to ranke carbonic acid. That sure calls for application of the many of the politicians holding folds of the bills; and that at means that you must get such law to all factories having 10 or Beats as Labour members were West Blatchington, wel seen material to burn as wood or coal, more workmen, whereas the law foarful of offending the electora from the railway then quitting and the same land that would be present affects only those on this subject and it was an Hove. This is unusual in that required for growing, say, the factories with 15 or more work open secret during the Iasi the milf proper rises from the wood could be used more econ-men. At present, it is pointed election campaign that they had roof of one of the farm buildings.omically for the beetroot itself. out only 20,000 factories come been instructed to use the soft the machinery being within thei "The world's production of under the law, with 60,000 expedal in discussing it.
sugar is seventeen or eighteen empted from its provisions.
barn above which it towers,
Perhaps the marst splendidly-million tons a year. Look at the A bill changing the minimum A suit of armour may seem to sited of all remaining South amount of material you would age for juvenile workers from 12 be the right wear in which to Downs mills is that at Friston, require to make that quantity, or to 14 years, in conformity with frighten somebody, but it is rather which neighbours the tiny church anything approaching it, synthe- the action taken at the recent a handicap to sudden flight on the crest overlooking a great tically. It is, of course, extreme-international labour conference, least, in the view of a man who valley of the downs and immensely interesting for science to show and shortening the hours of labour for 24 hours was fed through a slit sweeps of downland and sea. It us how Nature produces things for this class of workers will also in the visor of ench a suit of armour is, I believe, still in working like sugar, but no person in the be introduced in the Diet. The because he could not get out of order. At all events, the mill-trade need be anxious about the board is also contemplating the it. The man in question intended bouse it still occupied. On any discovery, for it is not in the least establishment of health into rob M. Tiercelette, an satique summer day you may quite likely that & round-about processurance department for workmen dealer in Paris. He broke possibly see a dozen artists work will ever supplant the natural pro- in keeping with the provisions of into the shop at night and, seeing ing within a hundred yards of duction of sugar."-The server be bill passed at the last session a suit of armour at the foot of the the mill and church, so pro- nounced are the beauties of the Deighbourhood. As the mill is a stopping place of the Southi Downs motor-buses, it is favourite "objective of the inhabi- tants sud-visitors of Eastbourne
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of the Dist. An investigation of stairs, he put it on, expecting to the conditions among 2,000,000 maks M. Tiarcelette believa workmen will be started soon and he was & ghost. Bat M it is planned to have the new de Tiercelette flung "bimself partment in operation at the be- the armoured intruder, bowl- ginning of the fiscal year ofed him over, and placed a 1924.-14.
heavy chair on top of him. In his armour the burglar WAS
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