WHAT BRUTES ATOMS ARE!
MURDER HEARD BY 'PHONE.
M. PAINLEVE'S LIVELY TALK.
M. Painleve, the French War Minister, spent a recent day in London.
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company which will be floated next of many more, for, M.
week with an authorised capital. Painleve is politician and man of science, War Minister and man of
of £1,000,000, all of which will be issued. vit.
runner
In the evening he lectured on "The Absolute and the Relatives," and as some sample of the type of lecture he gave it may be stated that one point from it was upon the "cientilic demonstration of transcendental subjectivism." "But in the afternoon at the French Embassy, discussing his experi- ences at Cambridge, how he made science live!
He immediately telephoned to the owner of an ironmonger's shop, about 100 yards from his client's factory at High Lands, New Jersey. The Ironmonger rushed to. the factory. It was luncheon hour and all the employees were out,
The capital of the present com- Brigadier-General A. C. Critchley, pany is only £5,000 in 1s. shares. à director, explained that each 1s. shore would be exchanged for, roughly, £7 108. in cash- and ten 18. share in the new company. This block of 18. shares is not to be dealt in for twelve months.
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The new company's capital will consist of 800.000 8 per cent, participating preferred ordinary
INDIA LIMITED. shares of £1 each, entitled to 25 THE MERCANTILE BANK OF per cent. of any additional distri bused profits, and £200,000 in de A neighbour recognised the ferred shares of is, each, which dwarf ns the dead man's brother-in-will be entitled to the balance of law who a few days ago accused distributed profit.
Of the £800,000 ordinary shares Subscribed Caplial vi Mr. Meisterknecht of being a biga- mist. The police have arrested in the new company, 2600,000 is to Mrs Meisterknecht on suspicion of be underwritten by the present. being privy to the murder, but they have no trace, of the whereabouts of her dwarf brother.
He paid no attention to a dwarf- like man in a blue suit who, run- ning past him, sprang into a motor- ear, and drove away. Inside the factory the Ironmonger, found Mr. Meisterknecht, with the telephone receiver, clutched in his hand, dead on the floor. One bullet had per- "Yes," he said. "I was delight-forated the brain and five other ed and charmed by my reception bullets had entered the body. at Cambridge. And what laboru- tories! I declared to Sir Ernest. Without boasting Rutherford: on your behalf, as it were, I must say what wonderful laboratories and what wonderful work you are doing here. They are pursumg the atom, disintergrating it, truc ing down the individual atom with what a relentlessness! This work
The murdered man posed as a on the disintegration of the atom is the most remarkable scientific former officer of the United States activity of our time; it surpasses Navy, but it is believed that during even the miracles of wireless. The the war he was a submarine com- disintegration of the atom. when mander in the. German Navy. He it comes, will be the greatest rehad recently perfected an Invention volution the world has ever known' for measuring petro! used by
And then a charcteristic ap-motar-cars.
il character preciation: "What
the atom! How they knock ench other about! How they elbow and
An explosion in the engine-room shove and brutalise each other! What Iarbarians the atoms are! of the motorship Fortuna, belang At Cambridge Sir Ernest Ruthering to Rio y Olabarrieta, while that ford and his brilliant assistants vessel was at anchor in the port of in the science schools are working Cuvo, Cuyo island, on December 11. in close collaboration with the resulted in the death of Dioscoro young French school, each dealing Oquindo, an oller. The victim died with the alom after its own' three days after the accident. He fashion. You have idea, was a native of Ibajay, Capiz. Ac though, how splendid and fas-cording to a report which has been
the
is. What made to the bureau of customs, the work cinating
a accident totally wrecked one of the gathering interest! What
pressure cylinders, of the boat. The rumatic pursuit!"
Fortuna had to be towed to Manila M. Painleve has seen Mr. Bald-by the Don Juan, and bath arrived "win, the Premier, and Sir Laming last Saturday night.
the British Worthington-Evans,
no
War Minister, "and Mr.
Lloyd
George, but they are visits from a scientific friend, not from a War Minister,
At Cambridge he asked that the son of Herr Stresemann (the Ger man Foreign Minister), who is up there, should be a guest at a break- fast in his honour, and through him sent greetings to his father.
A memory he carries away from Cambridge with very great plea- sure is that on Wednesday night,
$150
he "was working late in his rooms
in Trinity, there came
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knock at his door and, lo and be- hoki! an invitation to an under- graduate breakfast for the morrow, His engagements prevented his accepting it, but he went straight up and spent an hour in company with the inviting undergraduates in their rooms,
Mr. A. Fonseca, residing at St. Francis Hotel, Queen's Road Cen- tral, made a report to the police yesterday to the effect that between 8.30 and 8.40 a.m., whilst he was in the bathroom, some person stole from a suitcase in his room, No. 313, a sum of $150.
The Health Bulletin of Eastern Ports for the week ended Saturday last, issued by the Principal Civil Medical Officer, contains the follow- ing cases the figures in paren- thesis indicating deaths: Pingue, Alexandria 3, Basscin (1); Ran- Koon (8); Cholera, Calcutta (43), Rangocn (1). Tuticorin (2), Pon- dicherry 3 (1), Singapore. 2 (2), Bangkok 1 (1): 'Small-pox, Aden 1, Bombay (1), Calcutta 7 (2), Madras 2, Rangoon G (2), Tuli- .corin 2, Belawan-Deli 2 (2), Ku- ching 3, Saigon 1, Mukden 1.
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