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INVISIBLE LIGHT.
Some Marvel Described.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1924.
CONSIGNEES
The very latest way of track- ADMIRAL ORIENTAL{LIN) ing gorms is by means of "in- visible light."
The Steamship
This is P most romarkable "PRES JEFFERSON" achievement of Rotondo which having arrived from Manil has already yielded a great vic-P.1. via porta on 17th August tory-that arch-criminal
hereb: the 1924, Conalgnoos are gorm of foot and mouth disease] notifled that their cargo ! having at last boon run to earth. being landed at thair rial anys a writer in a Homo paper. Into the hazardous and/or extr. Tho suoret of invisible light-hazardous godowns of the Hong that is to say, ultra-violet lightkong and Kowloon Wharf an lies in the fact that it possesses a Godown Co., at Kowloon, an very short "wavo-longth." Thus, storod at consigneon' risk. by à law of rofraction, the lansos! Consignoos of Carga must pr in a microscope through which duce an Import Permit signed by this form of light is passed "sus the Superintendent of Import biggor." A mouse viewed-wore and Exports, Hongkong, befor that possible by thin light. Bills of Lading will be counter through a quartz lens, would look signed.
infinitely bigger than an elephant Allbroken, chafod and damage as big, indeed, as the prover-cargo is to be left in the godown biai mountain.
where it will be examined
By means of it, gorms so small 10 a.m. on Aug. 22nd. 1924, by th that they can pass easily through Company's Surveyors, Monsri the "poren" of a piece of fino Anderson and Ashe. porcelais, can be brought into All claims must be prosenta sight and photographed. Big-within thirty days of th game photography falls into com-steamer's arrival hore, afte parativo insignificance boside which they cannot be recognisec this tremendous ohiovomont, No claims will be recognise.
LIGST THAT IS DARKNESS. after the goods have left th Unhappily, as has been said,godowns, and cargo undelivere ultra violet light is invisillo. Iton and aflor Aug, 24th. 1924, wi is not light at all: it is darkness.be subject to rent,
And so these magnified gorms No Fire Insurance whateve cannot be seen by the human will be affected.
oyu.
Consigneos ara requested t sond in their Bills of Lading fo
The eye of the camora is more accommodating.
It Cuti, as countorsignature immediately, United States Shipping Board
most people know, detect the X ray and thu ray of radium (both. Emorgoucy Floot Corporation invisible to human sight). It can also detect ultra-violet rays,
Thus, though we cannot bitr- selves aco those donizons of the bacterial jungle, wo can, by fixing a camora to the microscupo, pho- tograph them--and look at the photographs.
That is what is now being done.
Agents.
ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE
4. Den Vœux Road. Hongkong, 18th. August 1924
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
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DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE It amounts to the beginning of a The Steamship now chapter in bacteriology--for
PRES. POLK "
it is certain that the germs of having arrived from New Yori many of our prevalent discasus vin ports, on Aug. 18th. 1924 belong to this invisible, or "too-consigneos are hereby notifie small-to-800" breed.
that their cargo is being lander at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloo Wharf and Godown Company, a Kowloon, and stored at con signeus' risk.
It is quite possible that, within a short time, startling new "finds will be reported. The bacterio logists of the world are now ongerly following up the dis
covery.
Indeed, "invisible light" has given sciencu a new microscope and now eyeя...
MOTIONLESS FLIGHT.
Consignees of Cargo must pro daco nn Import Pormit signed by the Superintendent of Import and Exports, Hongkong, befor Bills of Lading will be counter signed.
All broken, chafed and damage cargo is to bo left in the Godown whore it will be examined a 10a.m. on Aug. 22nd. 1924, by the Company's Surveyors, Mossr Carmichael & Clarke.
Severe Tests for Helicoptor. August i was fixod for the opening of the trials of the world's holicoptors machines rising and descending vertically, hovering motionless, and moving rapidly
All claims must be presented from point to point-entered for
within thirty days of thi our great official £50,000 contest.
stoamer's arrival horo, afto Actually the test will continue, which they cannot be recognisec on datos convenient to the judges No claims will be recognises and competitors, until April 30 next year, and they will be held after the goods have loft the on the flying ground of the Rogal godowns, and cargo undelivero
on and after Aug. 24th, 1924 Aircraft Establishment, at
wit be subject to rent. Farnborough.
No fire insurance whateve will be offected.
Ninuteon entries have been re- ceived by the Air Ministry and of those 16 bave now bean do finitely weeeptad.
Tho United States the home of s many experiments with verti cal-flight craft, heads the list with ning machines. Four are from Britain, and one each fron France, Holland, and Italy.
AD-
The judging committee. pointed by the Air Ministry, will comprise the Directors of Tecimi.
Consignees are requested t send in their Bills of Lading, fo countersignature immediately. DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE
4, Das Vaux Road. Hongkong, August 18th. 1924
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEE",
COMPAGNIE DES
cal Development and of Scientific MESSAGERIES MARITIME Research, and the Controller of
Experiments at the Royal Air-The Steamship craft Establishment.
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What a helicopter, carrying its! Consignors of Cargo Irob
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OF HONGKONG, LIMITED,
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NOTICE.
-DRY DOCK-
LENGTH 787 FEET.
LENGTH ON BLOCKS 750 PERT
DEPTH ON CENTRE OF
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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents
EUNGEUNG, CHINA & JAPAN.
ARL PENNANT,”
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.
to
round Voyage, including Moals while the steamer is in port.
Tickets will be issued for Round Trips during the months of July to September, from Hong- kong
Toochow (Pagoda Anchorage) and roturn, calling at Bwalow and Amoy on both tho connection with abo upward and downward Voyage, Riso 2,000 foot straight updtoamer are hereby informed the by the Company's now, fast, woll into the air, and deseond with their goods with the oxcoption appointed stoamor "Hai-Ning" at pium, Treasure and Valuable reduced rate of $80. for the out damage:
are being landed and stored their risks into the Godowns • the Hongkong Kowloon Whai Fly horizontally at 60 miles and Godown Co., Ltd. Kowloo whence delivery may be obtaine an hour:
Shut off its engine while immediately after landing.
Optional Cargo will be forward aloft, and alight in a confined circular area having a radius od on unless intimation is rocci
hours. ed from the Consignoos bofor If any helicupier can do all noon to-day roquesting it to b thesound no existing machine landed here. has yet got anywhere noar them
Kamio
Riso again the
10 altitude and lover thero, motionless, for balf an hour;
of 100 feet.
Bills of Lading will be counter
it is considered, officially, that Bigned by the Undersigned. Good such a machine will be of ox- remaining unclaimed after the 23rd. instant, at Noon will be tromo practical value from a
ront and ladin military and naval point of view, subject to and also for the operation of obargon. [commercial air derviuog in and
out of the heart of cities.
EVEREST EXPEDITION
RETURNING.
„All claims must be sent in to mo on or before the 27tl Inet. or they will not be re cognized.
All damaged packages will be. on Saturday thi
The Everest oxpedition is back examined
at Darjooling aftor ten day's rost 23rd. instant, at 11 m. by in the Rongshar Valley. Dooior Mesara Goddard & Douglas.
No Fire Insurance has búni Howard Bomervell, one of the]
Effooted. olimbers, has dooldod not to re- turn to England but to devoto himself to medioal mission work Hin India.
R. RODENFUSER,
Acting Agent. Hongkong 17th August, 1921,
Those Special Tickets will be available for return only by thie steamer, either by the Voyage for which it is issued or by hor following eailing from Foochow Duration of stay at Foochaw 48
The Trip oceuptos 8 to 9 daye i and tho stoamor will leave Hongkong from the Company's Wharf at 5 p.m. arriving at day- light on hor rotura (Weathor permitting).
The Company's Steam Launch will convey passengers from Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow City, if required-
For further particulars and dates of sailing Apply to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.
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