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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1926.
LAST LINE LIMERICK CONTEST.
Wireless Devices Inside It.
Can a wireless message roach the earth from the moon or from beyond our own atmosphoro ?. The third week of our East Line Limerick Competition starts,to- This extraordinarily intorcat day, the now.vorso appearing below. A prize of $10 is offered for the ing but seemingly fantastic, pro-bost last line. Competitors should remember that the last lino must blom may be solved in the near rhyme with the first two. The result of last wook's contest will future, when Professor Robert appear on our issue of Wednesday, Goddard, of Clark University, Worcester, Massachuqets, ro- leases a giant rocket on its. 238,840-mile journey to the moon Professor Goddard, who bas bean experimenting with his resket for more than five years, has decided to include in the ap paratus an automatic wireless signalling devico.
A New Verse for Competitors.
The transmitter will be small, but powerful. It will be set in motion automatically at the moment that the rocket starts on its journey through space.
Astronomore bave yearned for centuries to bridge the gap be yond our own infinitesimal plano, and to determine whether or noti other worlds are inhabited by living people.
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The sudden growth of wireless has placed in her grasp a force of most portentous possibl}- ities
EARTHBOUND?
Dr. Heaviside, the famous physicist, has propounded the theory that wireless waves are earthbound, being guided by the electrical properties of the яUZ- rounding gases. Many exports agree with him, but the more adventurous minds have hoped to establish wireless communica-] tion with other planets."
Will Professor Goddard's rocket settle this momentous question?
The rocket will be propelled on
its long journey by a series of
Last Lino for This Limerick Must Roach the Telegraph Office by Noon on Monday, 8th June, 1925. Envelopes must be marked "Limerick."
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A thoughtful young lady named Flo
Wargiving advice to her beaut Sho said, "You should save, ». For a rainy day, Davo,
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explosive charges sufficiently ADVERTISING ON FLAG.' OCEAN YACHT RACE
powerful to drive the body of
the apparatus beyond the gravia-
tional pull of the earth.
This tremendous projectile will Insult to National Colours.
be watched by thousands of astronomers.
For some time past the Dutch
A Sporting Attempt.
The nows that Mr. J. Linton At the same time an army of colours have been seen' flying on Rigg, the well-known Amerloan wireless experts will be standing the rivore and canals, bearing the yachtsman, is going to sail his by their receiving sote noting the strength of the signole as long, as
"Mr. So-and-so's little 16-ton schooner Ellentonga legend that they last.
motors are the best," says across the Atlantic to compete When the world of science Hague message. As long as this in the ocean yacht race that is knows for a certainty that wire method was applied to ships used to be sailed from Ryde to the less waves can penetrate through; Interstellar space the time for for home navigation the Dutch Fastnet and back to Plymouth in further and even more ambitious men did not seem to mind. Re- August has aroused a good deal attempts to communicate with contly, however, a Dutch steamer of interest among yachtsmen, other, worlds, will be hastened.
entered a Danish port with the for it is regarded as a thoroughly sporting effort, and English advertisement flag flying. The yachtsmen are getting keenly Danos wero indignant about this interested in the small racing display of commercial instincts schooners which are becoming so and several papers commented popular in the United States, and
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weight two and three-quarter cwt. The insulation core is formed of slabs of comprossed cork, in the one case din. in thickness and in
Latest Scheme. One of the most interesting the other 2in. The cork on the ex- developments in house construc- terior is enclosed in solid concrete, tion has been inspected by experts applied to the depth of 1% in by of the Ministry of Health, the the cement gun upon reinforce- Office of Works, the Air Ministry, ment. It is pressed in a mould, and the Building Rosearch Board will not swell, and cannot be
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are all anxious to see one gail under modern conditions.
There are many, however, who decision of a Medical Sub-Com-plaint was lodged with the Head
As a result, an official com- doubt the wisdom of this race, for mission in March of last year, Inspector of Navigation, at The the boats engaged in it are small, was reaffirmed at the final sitting Hague, who has now addressed a water-line, and it is able to de- At Betteshanger, near to Deal, made that show its insulation being limited to 50ft, on the of the International Commission ofcular letter to all those con generate into nothing more than for Air Navigation,-
discussion on In a
He requests motor- builders to find other means of a test of physical endurance in worthiness and the maintenance advertising their work than by
which the man who has the best of machines a suggestion was put
egrading the national flag," the steward has the best chance of forward that the British system use of which makes thoughtless
winning. of ground engineers and main skippera appear to the foreign aye. tenance should be included in the to be people who lack all idea of not by any means the smallest The Eilantonga is, of course, Air Navigation Regulations. At dignity, both of their country and yacht to cross the Atlantic under will be so warm that he would the present time the Regulations their flog, or who desire to show her own sail, for it has bo on sailed prefer them to houses made with SCAFFOLD ORIGINALITY. demand an airworthiness cer- their contempt quite openly and in decked ship's lifeboats before 9 in. brick.
It is not easy to achieve orig tificate but do not provide for do so in this deplorable manner." now, and, of course, the famous subsequent maintenance.
The framework is made of inality on the scaffold, but the Shipbuilders are asked to with- little Tilikum matter was referred to a techical hold their assistance from this smaller. But she is small enough brough by Messrs. Dormen, executed at Hanover, seems to was infinitely steel, manufactured at Middles-murderer, Haarmonn, who was sub-committae, which will report kind of advertisement, and skip to make it a
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the tricolour thus mutilated," ed accordingly.
"Au revoir, gentlemen!" skeleton doos not oxceed in
The
ference in Brussels in October.
Another decision of the Com- "mission was that the Air Naviga- tion Regulations, while permit ting the transport by air of sporting weapons and explosives: for commercial purposes, subject to the consent of the nation con- cerned, forbade the carrying of arme, ammunition, and explosives: of war.
FIRST DAY AT WEMBLEY.
Realistic Spectacle of Great Fire.
London May 10.
The new Wembley's first day concluded with a pagoant at the Stadium of "London defended "; representing with thrilling real. im an air attack on London. A warning siren sounded after which, as searoblighis swept the sky, a squadron of illuminated aeroplanes appeared and penot- rated the, anti-air-craft barrago and swooped over their objectivo which was a building at the west ond of the Stadium setting it on fire with incendiary mobs, while dares simultaniously burst out of the tower at the east end. Tho fire brigado was summoned to rush up. After achieving an exciting rescue, the fire brigade conquered the conflagration. The concluding spectacle was realistio, the re-onactment of the Great Fito of London of 1666 in which effectivo 160 was made of searoblights whose giant shadows added to the horrors of the econe,
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