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Referring to the severe drought in Hongkong (now happily broken by rainfall), when Air Force pilots, acting in consultation with the Ob. servatory, dropped powdered knollu on the clouds, in the hope of per- suading them to shed rain, with most mengre results, the Meteoro- logien Correspondent of the Oz server says:
This should not be surprising, in view of the scanty measure of suc cess that has attended similar ex-
periments in the past. From the earliest times man has sought in vain to master the elements; rain- making was among the feals essayed by primitive magicians, whose usual practice was to mutter incantations from mountain-tops; at a later stage explosives were often employed with the object of "shattering the clouds;" and finally, the resources of modern chemistry and aviation have been called into play,
SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1929.
MUZZLING PRESS.
CHIANG KAI-SHEK AND U.S. CORRESPONDENT,`
Peking, July 10,
Nowspaper men in this country, whatever their nationality, must toe the line or get out. Freedom of the press is a basic principle of the Kuomintang but since the party's as the ruling accession to power force In China a year ago It has been pushed very much into the background.
Until recently the restrictions imposed, by the Nanking govern- ment had been confined more or less to Chinese language papers and to foreign owned journals published in the treaty porte. The former are compelled to submit page proofs to the local "public safety bureau" for censorship be fore publication and any news un- favourable to the government is rigidly
blue-pencilled. Papers which criticise the Nanking regime are closed down as soon as the
government gets to hear about it. Two foreign papers-the American North China Star at Tientsin and the Shanghai North China Daily
China, have been banned from the mails during the past six months.
concern
It is only within quite recent years that the basic physical facts of rainfall formation have become well understood. Meteorologists are now agreed that thermo-dynami-News, leading British organ' in cal cooling, brought about by the vertical movements of air masses, can alone produce the necessary condensation of water vapour,
Foreign correspondents here, Nature operates to this end through who have watched with the medium of a vast and extremely Nanking's attempt to muzzle the complex bent engine, in which the nation's press, now are taking a circulating fluid is the atmosphere, more personal interest in the ques- with its moisture drawn from the tion as a result of the Chinese gov ocean, and the furnace is the sun, ernment's action in demanding the Her processes are conducted on so deportation of. Hallett Abend. gigantic 11. senle that mau's Peking correspondent of the New mightiest efforts scem by compari-York Times, on the ground that he son pay in the extreme, To bring down the trifling amount of one hundredth of an inch of rain over an area of one hundred square miles, a body of air containing 650,000 tons of water vapour hus to be raised from the earth's sur Thre.
Spraying of Liquid Air.
has been guilty of "criminally fabricating" news about Chinn,
In a strongly worded note to the American Minister here, Mr. John Van A. MacMurray, the Chinese Foreign Minister, Dr. C. T. Wang, declares that his government is de termined to take appropriate ac tion against those newspapers and correspondents in China whose The methods adopted by would libellons or seditious publications Įbe rain-makers appear, in most intend either to engender distrust in [stances, to ignore the fundamental the mind of the Chinese people or cause ol the precipitation of unjustly estrange foreign opinion moisture from the atmosphere from China." Dr. Wang alleges Since the Great War, which, for all that, Mr. Abend has abused this its unparalleled expenditure of ex-country's hospitality and, in view plosives, is not known to have alter- of his "repeated libellous and ԿԱՂ The course vf Nature's seditious writings," the Foreign phenomena one whit; efforts to Minister is constrained to request turn clouds of water by sheer con- That he be deported. cussion have been almost abandon- ed. M. Angat, head of the French | Meteorological Service, showed that in the most favourable circum- stances possible it would need the detonation of 21,750 tons melinite to produce a xingle millimetre of rain over a square mile.
of
An Ambitious Wife.
Judging from the excerpts from
Abend'e despatches quoted in the note, personalities are involved more than politics. It is known
of the Nanking generalissima, was that Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife
deeply offended by this passage in Instead, modern experiments an article which the New York chiely directed to the supplement Times published last December: ing of nuclei available for the con
densation of water Vapour from "Saong Mei - Bing,
General
air by the admixture of highly-Chiang's wife, is blamed for the lonised gases, electrified sand, or general's present hunger for certain chemiens, Spraying of power, and so universal is the habit liquid air at the clond level has also of placing the blame for the pre- |been tried, with a view to tower sent trend of events at her door ing the temperature there well that even in the bazaars of Peking unler saturation point. There are it is a commonplace when grievances meteorologists who believe that are discussed to end the discussion. when clouds are nearly, but not with what has almost become a quite, ready to condense their proverb; If Mei-ling were at the moisture info rain the process may bottom of the Yangize then China be urged forward by the applien- | would suffer less. So evident is tion of suitable chemical or it that Chiang Kai-shek and his | electrient stimulus, and this is pre-ambitious wife are aiming at the sumably the view held by the attainment of supreme power that authorities at Hongkong. Obser- all of their adherents ure vatory. The apparent success that cynically referred to by the Chinese has beensionally attended similar as the royal family' and the one- experiments elsewhere does not time hero of the revolution, erat- fall outside the range of coiuridence, while 'George Washington | however, and in England efforts tó | 'China,' is even more unpopular than cause showers by such means dur. |the despots he ousted from power.“ ing the great drought of 1921 failed completely.
now
of
clean sweep is the only remedy for such intolerable conditions." The note says that Chung has cato- gorically denied this statement in a telegram expressing complete con- fidence in the national government.
Another article credited to Abend quotes Marshal Chung Hkuch- No Effect from Krakatan, lang, the young governor of the Manchurian provinces, as declaring No unheaval yet produced by that the nation has been betrayed human agency can be ranked in the by the present Nanking leaders same category as Nature's con-whom he has said to have termed vulsions. When we consider that "rotten to the core," and that a even the greatest volcanic eruptions, such as those of Asama, in 1783, and of Krakaton, just a century later, had apparently no more ro- cognisable effect on rainfall than had the Great War, though they were audible several thousand milea away, out for months filed the whole world's atmosphere with dust particles well suited to net
uclei for condensation, we are led 19 doubt whether man has ever, of his own volition, called forth one drop of water from the skies.
Kaolin,
!
That Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek is determined to ostracise the New York Times man was shown
last week during the visit here of a party of American newspaper men who are touring the Far East under the auspices of the Carnegie foundation. Along with other foreign correspondents Abend had been invited to various official en- The languid, princely ladies and tertainments arranged in honour of gentlemen one finds In Eastern the visitors and a number of Chinese paintings and embroideries ap- officials had accepted invitations to parently engaged in gazing into a cocktail party at his home, emptiness, are, we are told by ex-Chiang Kai-shek, who had arrived perts, really enjoying the delicate in Peking for a military conference, pleasure of watching the clouds. got to hear about it and gave
This employment, suys an Even- orders at once that Abend was not ing Standard writer, is being re-to be admitted to any of the official vived in the Hongkong district with functions, nor were Chinese of- Home modern amplifications, Thecials to attend his cocktail party. shortage of water is en acute that In point of fact the American airplanes have been sent up to drop Minister, lacks authority to deport powdered kaolin on the clouds in any American citizen from this the hope of producing rain. It is country and it is expected that he [disappointing that the results will refer the Chinese Government are but meagre. A little control to the United States court for China' of the weather would be of so much in caac it wishes to carry the greater use to us than most of our matter further. Meanwhile Abend modern Inventions.
is being denied the use of the tele- graphs and the New York Times may have to choose between with- drawing him from China and trans.
Kaolin is a fine white clay used In making porcelain, and, occasional ly, paper, It derives its name from
the Chinese Kao-ling, which is the forring him to Shanghai, where the name of hills near Kingtih-chin in cable facilities still remain in fore- Chiang-hel.
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