A CONCERTINA UNIVERSE
NEW ASTRONOMER ROYAL'S VIEW
PENETRATING THE
--UNKNOWN
The Universe in alternately con- "tracting and expanding like a con-
terall
Relativity must be accepted as proved by the telescope.
The distances to which modern astronomers can ponetrate with their instruments have been mul- tipiled a hundred thousandfold within twenty years.
Atoma in the stars have been shown by photography to behave: in some cases differently from any- thing reproducible on earth.
Such are some of the cameos from the art gallery of modern astronomy, given by Dr. H..Spen cer Jones, the new Astronomer Royal, who recently arrived at Greenwich from Capo Town to take up his appointment.
"Astronomy is supplying a more concrete and accurate picture of
the Universo, than was formerly
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possible," Dr. Spencer Jones said. MODERNISING SWATOW LEAP UNDER TRAIN CONCLUDING STAGES
"That, in my opinion, is the rea
son for the increasing interest
which in being taken in astronomy
by the ordinary man.
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"He would be a bold man who partly because
It traverses tho
I would deny that its most abstruse still dangerous communist terri-
Andings may not one day be of
to
the
ESCAPING PRISONER
KILLED
While on the way
OF MOSCOW TRIAL
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the to Lewes temporarily held up, and tery, and winds among the sandy Prison, a prisoner, William Ste- faces of the British Embassy per
brightened. practical importance, but I feel unfertile tract among the hill wart Thompson, single, aged 37, sonnel perceptibly that its true value, like that of an where there are comparatively few lately living at Midhurst, Susack, Even listless MacDonald, who has Old Master in the National Gal villages and the hills afford pro-escaped at Chichester station from been in prison ever since his lery, lies in the beauty of the tection to marauders.
the policeman who was escorting arrest, appeared shaken' from his it gives
the him, jumped on to the line, and stupor. Frequent changes due to picture which world."
necessity of fording rivers, and was knocked down by a train. He lack of co-ordination between the died later in hospital. different services make what Thompson had been remanded should be a day trip still a mat- ter of four or five days about earlier in the day on the time it can be done by chair. of having attempted to A more successful rond is that suicide.
run
a charge commit
No Chance Movement. Turning to the new picture of
expanding Ag the Universe whole, Dr. Spencer Jones explain ed that what we knew definitely was that the most distant parts between Chaochowful and Kit-
A policeman escorted him from Midhurst by the 12.12 p.m. train. of the Universe were moving away yang. along which buses
in-
It has only, it was necessary to change from us with speeds which
every half hour. mud surface, and the ride is a Chichester, and while they were creased with their distances.
wet walking,
platform "I think that we must accept hair-raising experience in
up the the evidence of our instruments weather. In the spring rains it Midhurst train backed, and Thomp on this point," he said. "and con- will be impassable. Another road son jumped on to the line. clude that it is not a chance moveruns from Ket-yang to Thong- ment. But I do not agree with Sir khang and is being extended to Arthur Eddington that the momen- the district city of Fung-shun. tary glimpse which we are given
is part of a one-way movement of expansion.
WHOLE NETWORK.
A whole net-work of roads is
The constable made n
at
the
brave
effort to recapture him and nar- rowly escaped being killed.
had
went
came
Monkhouse, called to the wit- ness box at the resumption of the trial this evening, sald that he had been educated at the Univer- sity of Manchester, and came to Russla first in 1911, staying until 1918 and working on electrical plant for the Canadian Army, He then
on the second British Archangel expedition as an interpreter.
After being demobliised, Monk- house worked for the Metropoli tan-Vickers Company and to Russia where he worked for the Electrical Import. He went to England once a year in order to give information about, his work, but was on no espionage work. "My own view, which is equally
ia being planned along a line run-face offers a fill of adventure on
Ho permissible mathematically,
ot methods many that the Universe is alternately ning from Ho-thien in the Lok-such a ride. There are discom-
rulo obtaining information because it contracting and expanding, al-fung county through Ho-pho and forts other than those of the sur-
on through Thong face. The buses are as a
this well-engined, but the coach work of was his business.. Thornton gave though we happen to have caught Wukingfu
khang and Fungshun, and
same it at a moment of expansion.
The dificulty about Sir Arthur will connect at Ho-pho with roads the most primitive: hard seats, him information for the Eddington's view is that it does running in the Ng-fa district and doors made of oil tins, looses reason, Reuter not allow as long a time-scale as the Moi-yen river, and Li-fu and windows: they are often crowd- Special.
On the ever-Pha-Neu on the other and at Wu-jed, to the limit and the pas astronomers want. increasing expansion theory the kingfu with roads to Kit-yang and sengora packed like sardines in a Universe is doubling its size every Mien-fu. The Chinese are invetor- tin. But Chinese passengers arc increase always ready to accommodate an- 1,800 million years, which even in ate travellers and the opening of a cheerful and friendly crowd and terms of the history of the earth is highways will vastly
their mobility. These roads are other, even with a burden or two quite a short period.
built under the auspices of the of baggage to jam up against their district officials and the work la knees. One seldom comes across largely one by the villages through British aloofness or surliness er which they pass, although special outraged dignity. They have how- funds must be found for the brid-ever a tendency to bus-sickness, and gee. There will have also to be to sit with fumes, petrol in the bus some solution of the surfacing and jolt violently sick each side is question, and the pressure of pub trying experience. lic opinion and of the bus com- panies will probably largely con- tribute to solve this. The whole
Age of the Earth.
"Geologists have calculated from rocks that the age of the earth is in the neighbourhood of 3,000 million years. In other
words,
the present lifetime of the earth would have seen a more than four- fold expansion of the which would give it
Universe, an unduly
prominent position in the larger district is not far from the sen time-scale.
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ILLEGAL ACT
"DEBASEMENT OF MEDICAL ART"
FEE-SPLITTING AN
Vast quantities of cement must
The British Medical Associa- As one walks through the conditions under "What this contraction or ex-coast and from there and from have been imported up-country cently described to member for pansion means," Dr. Spencer Jones/hili quarries it should not be dim-[through Swatow In the last year the Royal Photographie Society
tion has taken strong action, to added, "Is that the distances be cult to get a sufficient supply of or two.
He said that one of their worst emphasise to its members. the tween the component parts of the stone, and to transport it by lorry, the country one comes time and expedition worked..
consultants and general practi Universe are continually altering On these public roads much of the again upon a new market built
tioners. as if the galaxies were specks on expense of upkeep can be got from where the old three day market a balloon which is being regularly monopolies granted to bus-com-used to meet. Its form is pretty dangers was the blizzard which evils of "fee-spliting" between panies. These companies use a uniform-one long street lined might last for a week, the wind
times The Association points out in a blown up and deflated."
The fuller picture of the Uni-variety of vehicles. It is inter-with shops of two-storeys on each velocity sometimes measuring 130
ferro-concrete framework, and the stones flew up from the ground leading article in its official or- verse which we now had, Dr. Spen-esting to see that the 'keap to the side. The shops are built with a miles an hour. At such
left rule is observed.
top-storeys are built out over the and whirled past them with the gan, the "British Medical Journal," thus speed of a rifle bullet, and heavy that the practice, being an Illegal cer Jones explained, was largely
pillared side-walks, which
the baggage was carried bodily away. secret commission, Is "a threat due to the greator penetrating
make shaded arcades. In power of modern Instruments.
Another type of road is being large market towns and cities a
The Meteorological Stations in alike to the honour of the pro- Twenty years ago," he said, "we could only photograph up to 10,-made up-country, around Moi-yen. most extraordinary change is tak-
They are being in England told them before they left fession and to the pubiis interest.". It is added: "No one can doubt 000 light-years (a light-year equals There the ronds themselves are ing place. about six million million miles), being built by private companies many cases completely rebuilt. that Greenland was the place for
and propared for cold but calm wea-ment of the art of medicine. We although we could concelve gres- to whom concessions have best The superficial impression is anti-cyclones, so that they went that it is a first step to a debase-
great prosperity ter distances, whereas now we can granted, and these companies have that of
sion is unable to rid itself of this. photograph up to about 1,000 mil- the right of running their own progress. It is said however to be thor. They were not prepared for refuse to belleve that the profes-
bug services. In the Swatow- a mistaken Impression. Much of gales..
They had a fine team of dogs, danger. But any weakening of the ilon light-yente.
Chaochowfu plain there are prac the building represents the savings
the which were fed for the most part bond between the public and the Greatest Need.
tleally no hills, and the roads are
other on pommican. Sometimes their general practitioner will haston Settlements and "The greatest need of astron-built up from the paddy fields of those who have been in
nt nothing interests by other means." omy, at the moment," he proceed-A road running from Tahlung-Straits ed, is for several large reflecting khou, a riverside port, to, Mol-yen places in the south and who in the daily ration ran short. In that the day when the public will seek,
utonsils in
A Regarding the payment of, ex- telescopes in the Southern Homis runs up a ridge of hills in a series present bad times are cutting their event the dogs' voracious appeti- and rightly nook, protection of its
of hair-pin bends, and the hill has losses there, taking advantage of tes, would stop
the Nine-Bend the favourable exchange and bring-(Saucepans and other phere, so that complementary observations in boen christened
other eight, the is no satisfactory use to which to pair of field glasses, and the wood Coesive fees by consultants the on bends, the Northern and Southern skies. Hill, for on one-side it has nine tng their money home. Here there which food had been cooked,
did not come amies, but they pro-elstance at operations-which, it At the moment there is not a
forred the seal skin harness with was pointed out, had the single large reflecting telescope in Devil's Elbow repeated seventeen put it, so it is being largely invest-of the eledge they were drawing general practitioners for their as- which they were fitted. When the effect as fee-splitting the Associa South Africa, although the new times. A wet day, and a mud sur-led in property.
party were resting, clothing-in- tion suggests that the situation Harvard 60-inch telescope
deed, everything had to be hang- would be met if the general prac-
direct charge to the patient. ng out of the reach of their dos-titioner were himself to make a tructive appetites.
Wo can make
at
Bloemfontein will be working in DAY BY DAY 'N EWS IN BRIEF
about a month's time.
THE BUREST WAY TO EXCEL IN
When the party wore making their way across the treacherous.
to
Bame
Admitted to the Government Civil "Some people may regret that It should bo left to an American institution to provide the first CONVERSATION IS TO LISTEN MUCH, Hospital yesterday was a Chineza
fee and snow-bound country to os- Fortunately they just escaped hav- large Instrument for South Africa, SPEAK LITTLE, AND, SAY NOTHING woman who had attempted suicide by and anyone who is keen on the THAT YOU MAY BE BORRY FOR- taking. belladonna,
Rochefoucauld.
four The Salon des Modes, whose branch tablish their meteorological sta-ing to resort to that expedient.
Mr. Courtauld gave an entertain- advance of astronomy could not
store at Hankow Road, Kowloon, was tion their best spoed was do better than help to All the want.
An argument as to whose turn it burgled recently, when $8,000 worth miles a day, falling to two milea "Several telescopes are wanted to do the necessary work, and by was to draw water from a street of goods was stolen, reports having a day. At that rate of progressing account of hunting seats for to find their station because it had large 1. mean anything from 60 fountain in Shaukiwan, led to a again received further unwelcome it was worked out that it would food and fishing for trout, and how Chinese woman appearing before Mr. attentions, but that fortunately, on take them 157 days to reach their on the occasion it was difficult completely buried in snow. inches in diameter up-wards."
At one time rations were rut-been compia ime, he said, when Wilson, in California, has a re-Jared-below the left eye. Defendant force open the door. Mr. Murkovitch, flector 100 inches across, while a was fined $6, and ordered to pay the manager, made the discovery ning out, and it was feared they the people at home "got a little Also bound when he returned to the shop this would have to use their dogs for fussed about the success of the Instrument in as amonds. She was
food and man-handle the ledges: expedition. further 200-inch
morning.. under construction in America. 'over,
The largest instrument at Mount Schofield this morning on a charge of this occasion, the robbers did not pro- destination
assault. The complainant was in-gres further than an attempt to
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