HE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER
1926.
NEW TANES-Our piêturo shows two of the new tanks which were on view at the demonstration witnessed by the Dominion Prime Ministers and other Imperial Conference delegates at Camberley. On the loft is the latest heavy tank with its
revolving turrets and on the right the "Honeymoon" tank, "(Times copyright.)
NOT SO FAST.-Dr, Alliert A. Michelson, University of Chicago physicist, who gave the National Academy of Sciences something to think about at Philadelphlà by an- nouncing his revised com- putation of the speed of light. It's not true that light's vol- ocity is about 186,182 miles por second, said Dr. Michel- son; it goes only 186,173 **
miles per second |
OFF TO GREENLAND.— The ship Morrissey,cbroading its way through the pack ice of Baffin Bay on the Hobbes expedition to Greenland.
THE NAVY AT WORK. - The 15 inch guns of the battel-cruisers Hood and Repulse in action during the concentra
tion firing on a target towed by the sloop Snapdragon, (Times copyright).
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AN EMPIRE'S HOMAGE TO ITS FALLEN:-Our picture shows a vlow of Whitehall during the Armistico service and part of the enormous crowd that stretched from Farlianament Square to Trafalgar-Squaro. The Royal party is seen on the far side of the Cenotaph and the Dominion Prime Ministors are on the
left(Times copyright),
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