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SHANGHAI
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1927.
TRIAL,
SELECTING TEAM FOR INTERPORT.
STRONGER THAN EVER.
MAN ORDERS TROUSSEAU.
WEST END SHOPS.
VICTIMISED.
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TICKET-OF-LEAVE SHARE-PUSHER.
£1,000,000 FRAUD.
American
New York, Dec. 18.
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HOW SCIENCE KILLS SHAMS.
FALSE TEETH AND DIAMONDS.
At the end of the Great War
A man who was said to have had West End mannequins paraded since the Daily Mail's exposure of before him and to have ordered their activities in England, have Professor R. W. Wood, that genius The opinion that Shanghai will trousseaux to the total value of developed an amazing spirit of on- among American physicists, came of the London be able to field a side stronger £3,712 at eight establishments and terprise in their own country, are to a meeting than any previous representative then vanished, appeared before mourning to-day the arrest of one Physical Society and revealed the team when Hongkong pays its Mr. Mead, the Marlborough-street of the chief ornaments of their
methods of invisible signalling Chinese New Year's visit for the magistrate, on November 21. The profession, Charles Knightly, just
Vincent, can-As he was preparing to deprive used by his countrymen in fight- soccer interport, is expressed by man, Harold
| Ing the enemy. He showed a tele- no fixed a Northern commentator in the vasser,
address, gullible investors of £1,000,000. -
Knightly, who was apprehended scope in which a six-volt lamp Shanghai Times.
plunded guilty to incurring under been held, the most recent be£5 12s. 11d. with intent to defraud palatial offices in the General closed by means of a pleco of One or two trial games have fraudulen: pretences last August recently at Detroit, had opened was hidden. The telescops Was tween the Possibles and Prob- Mr. George Alexander, proprietor Motors building in that city and ables taking place on Saturday last. The grounds. were water soaked and the writer says:
The trial in itself could not have been much assistance to the selection cominiltee of the S.F.A.. who, even if the ground had been hard and perfect, would not have been much influenced by the dis- lay put up by any individual player in any one match-trial" (" not. Such n, match
may furnish an opportunity of decid-1 ing between the claims of players when there is practically nothing choose buiveen. thêm. But teams are not usually selected from such encounters, the process of selection having gone on for many weeks before the "trial." Thus, as measure of form, the trial was perhaps not se spoiled as one would at first imagine.
to
Interesting Comparisons. Taking the players man by man and comparing them is interest- ing, though possibly not particu- larly instructive. As a matter of interest, then
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Of the two goal-keepers Love- Jand had by far the more work to do and did it well. Goldsmith was safe, but was not called upon seriously to exert himself. I showed a tendency to be unecrtain along the ground. which was not altogether the fault of the slip- pery surface. He has shown the same tendency In recent matches in which he has appeared for the Police. In regard to a goal-keep er, it may be as well if the selce-
a fluores-
of the Park View Hotel, Knight- had started the publication of the special glass which allowed only bridge. He also admitted stealing Vertical City News, which falsely the ultra-violet rays to pass, and on August 18, at the same hotel, purported to be the house organ was focussed on a distant point where the beam projected by it a wristles watch belonging to Ena of General Motors Corporation.
As bogus representative of the was received in a similar telo- Maud Rice, a shorthand-typist.
Mr. Muskett, for the Commis-Du Pont intercats he secured bank-scope provided with signer of Police, said that Vincent in support for several grandiose cent screen. Mere signals could schemes one for the purchase of thus be sent over a distance of six had been convicted seven times.
quite unknown to the three years penal servitude at a In June 1916, he was sentenced to several thousand acres in the heart miles,
of the city on which he proposed enemy, since the signals were only held general court-martial for
to construct homes for working revealed by the flashes on the absence from duty, frand, and ron-Feople and another for the erec fluorescent screen itself.
tion of an elaborate American club duet unbecoming an officer.
He came under the notice of the in Canada. Stock in both enter- police again on November 16, avertising campaign had been sold prises, alded by an expensive ad- the result of a visit he paid to an extensively throughout the United employment agency in Soho, where, in view of the suspicion he aroused, detectives were called in. Vincent was arrested.
It was then found, snid Mr.
States.
secured his arrest after exposing The "Better Business Bureau"
the fact that Knightly is a ticket- used, the name of Mr. Edsel Ford of-leave man who three years ago
The Evolution of Sight, The phenomena of fluoresconcé were discovered as long ago as 1833 by Sir David Brewster, who solved in sulphuric acid the solu found that when quinine is dis
tion exhibits 1 beautiful blue rays which lie beyond the violet colour under the influence of the.
Muskett, that Vincent had been on November B. 11, and 15 ton a frustrated scheme to collect end of the spectrum. eight West End costumiers or lingerie establishments. The story that he told was that he had a sister in Canada about to be married and she had deputed him to come over and buy articles for her trousseau.
At each of these establishments mannequins were dressed up to show the various garments.
"And at each of these places,"
he kept the said Mr. Muskett, staff for two or three hours en- gaged on this."
He ordered goods at theso eight places, aggregating in value £3,712-most of the bills ran into £100, £500, or £600. would return and pay, for them, He said he but he did not.
On August 15 he went to the
£1,500,000 to transform
arbour and Saugus River Into Lynn deep waterways and to erect great industrial plants on marshes near by.
£6,000,000 LINER.
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WORLD'S BIGGEST AND FASTEST FOR CUNARD.
In the matter of sensitiveness the human and the eye are in strange contrast. While the ear can hear all sounds capable of penetrating the atmosphere from the twenty-foot spund-wave of the deepest pedal note to the shrill half-inch wave of the bat's cry": the longest light-wave perceived by the eye is barely twice as long na the shortest. The secret les no, doubt in the long evolutionary process by which the eye has ac-
sunlight, which have a maximum commodated itself to the rays of
tion of the spectrum, a region energy in the yellowish-green por-
which exactly coincides with the It is to be more than 60,000 tons, maximum sensitiveness of the two years and a half to build. stance we may conclude that the Only yards on the Clyde or the Tyne planets revoling round other stars may harbour Hving beings with could build such a large vessel.
The largest of the Cunard feet eyes sensitive to the infra-red or is the Berengaria (52,226 tons), ultra-violet rays, according to the formerly the German liner Im-lower or higher temperature of
their central orb." perator.
on plans for the construction of "The Cunard Line has decided
and fastest liner, and the order the world's biggest, most luxurious,
will be placed very shortly.
tion committee had a look at Frear Park View Hotel and a room was will cost £6,000,000, and will take human eye. From this circum-
son of the Vindictive, if is pos- sible for a marine on one of the ships in port to qualify for the
team.
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Frearson in goal is someone
really worth watching, and would probably be an improvement on either of the two men who turned out yesterday. Of the backs. Palmer, though not outstanding yesterday, should be a certainty on previous form. The choice of
a partner will be difficult, ne he tween Hathaway, Marcal, and Wilkinson there is little to choose, Torry" Wilson to Skipper.
allotted to him. Vincent said that he was Dr. Vincent, of East horne, and that he had been at Shanklin, Isle giving leclures of Wight. He added that he had come to London to give lectures at St. George's Hospital. This was
"all moonshine."
Vincent asked if he could bring a typist to the lounge of the hotel
The new vessel will be consider- ably more than 1,000 feet long and will surpass in other dimen-
Extending the Range of Vision.
The exploration of the hidden
sions the White Starliner Majestic regions of the spectrum has been
in connexion with his professional (56,551 tons, and 915 feet long),
work. He was given permission formerly the German liner Bisa fascinating pursuit, not un- to use the lounge for that purposemarck, the present largest ship attended by risks. We
provided that he did not cause any in the world. inconvenience to others. There he incurred 25 129. 11d. liability for
have gradually traversed the ultra- Other details of the Cunard's violet right down to the most new vessel are not yet available, penetrating X-rays, which have a For ourselves we should like to food, wines, and so on. When the but it is stated that when they are shorter than light. We all know wave-length five hundred times see Torry Wilson in the back posi-account was presented Vincent said announced, they will be found to tion, as there are outside lefts in he would go to Cox's for, the money surpass anything in the way of the fate that has overtaken many Chen and Aldequer who could and he then vanished.
afloat.
but we can be sure that no danger probably fill the latter position is at the hotel he stole the typist's luxury and accommodation yet brave pioneers of this exploration,
watch, "a mean and despicable
The ship is expected to carry will deter scientific investigators could
act," said Mr. Muskett..He pre- between five and tended that he had no watch of his
six thousand from searching the Unknown. own, and persuaded her to lend it people.
The ultra-violet of the mercury The White Star Line is also
quite 48 well as he and he would be in a better position
to direct the eleven
as captain as a back than as an outside forward.
While he
The typing he gave her to do was about the blue light and red
1910
effect on
to him. He also borrowed two six-credited with having under con- produces a kind of snow- pences for cigarettes.."
sideration the construction of n blindness, which however, soon wears off. But it has an extra- giant liner.
The Cunard Line holds the blue ordinary diversified riband of the Atlantic for speed different substances. In uranium with the Mauretania (30.695 tons); glass it produces a rich apple- which' in
fluorescence; a tallow the green crossed Atlantic from Daunt's Rock (off candle glows bright blue and the the Irish const) to Ambrose human body appears a faint Channel (off New York) in 4 days purple. The teeth fluoresce brilli 10 hours 41 minutes, giving an antly, but in order to do so they average speed of 26.06 knots. must be alive. False teeth re- main unilluminated. The late Sir William Crookes once startled. a brilliant assembly at the Royal Society by offering to test dia- monds then and there by means of ultra-violet rays, relying, upon,
diamond shows the characteristic butter phosphorescence. Even and margarine can be distinguish- ed by their different appearance In ultra-violet light.
U.S. STOCK MARKET.
The half back line, should be a problem. Gash and Costa bot'i have claims to the centre half light houses of France, work which position. Yesterday Gash
was must have been very distasteful to quite in his old form against her. Vincent's age was 36. tougher opposition than Costa had
Mr. Mead remanded him for a to face. Both are delightf doctor's report. players to watch, but Gash has the weight and an edge in experience. as well as having had the benefit of captaining the team before, to make it probable that he will be the more valuable player of the in a representative match. Costa's skill with the ball and delightful passing would not be wasted in a flanking position on the half line. Pote Hunt appears to have established himself in the other wing half position. Fer a buying of United Steel Corpor.. youngster he has fine ball contr1tion stock broke out in the final and all the nerve requisite for the hour of business, carrying the position. In the absence of Price, price nearly five points to 15, he looks to be the man to fill the which is the highest figure for
several weeks.
twe
gap.
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Lively Forward Line.
EXCITED OVER STEEL SHARES.
New York, Dec, 23: On the stock market, frenzied
The rise is attributed to the re- vival of rumours of a special stock distribution carly in 1928. The Increased demand for steel is u- a glut of good inside lefts. Leedoubtedly a stimulating factor.
Among the forwards there is
Wai-tong doserves the position.
Reuter'a American Service. «,
So does Coulcher. With Coulcher liable to be crocked, it might be as well to give the post to Lee,
Mr. J. R. Clynes has repudiated despite the former's well known understanding with Goldman. statements that the National Union Wright of the Northants, who of General and Municipal Workers played inside right yesterday, had "poached" members from the appeared to be more at home with Miner's Federation...
his left fact than the other, and
if there wore an accident which
deprived Shanghal of the services where he could exercise the con- of both Coulcher and Lee-trol of a captain with more ease.
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IS THE SECRET the fact that none but a real
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OUR ABSORBING NEW MYSTERY SERIAL
By the famous
which is unlikely he might be. There are plenty of good men who Katharine Tynan
useful man to All the position..could do the work on the wing As it is, his deadliness near goal as well as Wilson, though they seems to indicate him as the men are not so verantile or experience: for the inside right post. If he in class football.
docs not fill it, Sinclair, who was With so many candidates for: not playing yesterday, should positions in the team, the selec. have a chance, owing to his under-tion committee are bound net standing with Goldman, and his to please everyone interested, but play with Baxter, who looks a ee Shanghai football enthusiasts may reconcile themselves to the tainty for the right wing.
Goldman is the pivot by chole fact that, whoever is chosen, In his absence Tal and Wright Shanghal should be able to put have strong claims. On the left out p team this year which will Wilson is good enough to hold his eclipse anything previously turn- own against all comers, but in the ed out against any port. Tho opinion of the writer, he would boltalent at the selection committee's more valuable in some position disposal is suficient for that.
Instalment One of
THE MOATED
GRANGE
Will appear in our issue of
TUESDAY NEXT
The deciphering of the original writing of a palimpsest by photo, graphy was a much admired feat of the early eighties This was, however, done by simply exclud ing all but the violet rays from the negative. The great food of ultra-violet light yielded by the Cooper-Howitt mercury are has vastly extended this field of ex- ploration, and the exhibition given by Dr. Herman Goodman at a New York electrical exhibition showed some novel applications of the principle though I cannot take the alleged testing of booting whisky soriously.
The World in a New Light.
There is no doubt that every advance into the invisible regions of the spectrum will yield fresh revelations. Already' Pickering, has discovered signs of a fugitive. vegetation on the moon, and Halo has found the extraordinary mantle of calcium cloudlots which covers the gun. Mr. Baird re- venle somewhat unkindly, per haps how people appear when under Infra-red illumination. The invention of a "machine with a moral sense" is a chimera, but the best way of stamping out shams is to make their detection, easy and inevitable.E. E. Four- nier d'Albo, D.Sc, in Observer