THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1935,
RAY SECRET GUARDED Royal Beauty High-Speed Life Does Not
Foreign Bid For British Ray Secret
INVENTOR WAITS FOR GOVERNMENT TO DECIDE'
AN
N INVENTOR, proud of his British parentage, sits in his St. James's-street flat guarding an invention of great importance in air war- fare and wondering if he will have to accept an offer he has had from a foreign; government for the purchase of the apparatus.
The inventor is Commander Paul H. Macneil.
His invention is a detector which by means of an infra-red ray can detect enemy aircraft and fix the position of aircraft at any height through fog, Amoke screens, or the darkness of night-
He claims that anti-aircraft guns can be fitted with the ap- paratus and synchronised so that when an enemy airplane crosses the infra-red beam the gun ku- tomatically fires.
He explained how a ring of the anti-aircraft detectors could be placed around London.
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The War Office and the Ale Ministry have been in communica-| tion with him since last September. but have not yet made a decision.
Mnenell Commander
has Hot heard a word. from them for fortnight.
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"At the request of the War Office," he said, "I went down in February to Biggin Hill for a test, They put me la an Army tent in i detect to feld, and asked me hidden objects through hedges and fences at ranges from 1,000 to 2,300 yards. I did 90. I found later that the hidden objects were plumbers' blow-lamps in action.
"They asked me to detect air- planes through the tent roof at various heights and distance. I did no. I even detected the pre- Hence of a man who, unknown to me, was approaching the tent across the field,
"Since then I have written scores of letters in nuswer to both the War Office and the Alr Ministry.
""To-day I am still not able to leave this delicate apparatus for a moment."
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"The offer from the foreign Government came yesterday Officials from its embassy visited me and asked me to prepare draft of the terms of my offer of salo..
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"I am supposed to be drafting: those terms now.
"I do not want to leave this country, neither do I want the in- vention to leave.
"I have an eye on an ideal site: for a laboratory for fog research on the Isle of Wight where for is plentiful and shipping and air transport routes are everywhere. Several Oxford University under- graduates who are keen scientific men, want to work with me down there.
"I Want It Settled"
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I have no animosity against the Government departments,' I sim-! ply want the matter settled soon as possible. I made them a financial proposal two months ago. "If things go on na they Are much longer I shall have to enter- tain the offer of the foreign country."
Commander Macneil was born in Chicago of British parents whoj never became American citizens.) He entered Britain with an Amer can passport.
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"My great uncle," he told me, "was Lord Lister the surgeon,"
Commander Mnoncil's Invention is operated by the presence hoat. The Infra-red ray detects the heat and records its detection by means of the flash of Jamp.
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Princess Elizabeth (left) and Princess Margaret Rose at Clamis Castle, Scotland, where a birthday party for Princess Margaret Rose was given by Lady Strathmore last month, Princess Margaret Rose is five years old. The two young Princess are staying in Scotland with their grandmother, bo- fore going on to Birkhall this month to join the Duke and Duckess of York,
The Pressa-Knob Clerk That
Answers 50 Questions
THE Robot Information Clerk has made its appearance in British
post offices.
The machine answers about fifty questions by the pressing of a knob.
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The inquirer finds his question on the chart, presses the knob indicated, and from the well of the machine a card rises into the glass partitioned top. The answer to his question is on the card.
The mueline is designed to answer those questions which are asked a hundred times a day in all busy post offices,.
If the experiment is successful, machines may be installed in all busy post offices.
In
the Swin
One more dive into the Pacifo at Del Monte, and Ginger Rogert, on a belated honeymoon with her husband, Low Ayres, relarna to
work in Hollywood atulion.
Pay In H.K. Summer
£10 for "Mental- Anguish" of Cow
That Lost Tail
Pitsfield (Mass.), Sept. 1. The "mental anguish" of a cow who lost her tail has been the means of enriching her master by £10.
A farmer here proved to the satisfaction of a magis- trate that his best cow, since her tail had been bitten off up to the stump by a neigh- bour's dogs, had been unable to switch away the flies that iwarmed round ber and had been so upset that her yield
of milk had suffered.
So the farmer, Mr. Clar- ence North, of Richmond, was awarded £10 in com. pensation-Renter.
The fight against the keeborgs in the Arctic Sea has became more sharp since the British have begun to use the explosive thermit, which developa a host of 2,000 degrees and melts the icebergs. Hitherto the destruction of icebergs has been undertaken as shown in the picture above by gunfire from an International ice patrol ship.
Jilted By King So Father
W
Led Albanian Revolt
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GRIEVANCE
THEN King Zog of Albania reached the throne seven years ago he jilted the girl to whom he was engaged. Said a monarch could not marry a commoner.
Her father grievance.
Belgrade, Sept. 1. was enraged-harboured a deep
Now comes news of another widespread revolt- led by the father, Shevket Beg Verlatzi, a southern Albanian landowner and a leader of the Nationalists.
First messages which reached
the outside world from Europe's liniest kingdom stated that the assassin's bullet which killed King Zog's adjutant, General Ghilardi, was the signal for the southern province of Berat to revolt against the king.
The assassin is said to have confessed that he intended to kill the King.. He did not know that it was General Ghilardi who was riding in the King's
car.
Police advanced on Fleri, the capital of Bernt. but were
repulsed.
The army followed the police, and, according to an official report: from Albanian sources in Belgrade, succeeded in wresting Fleri from the rebels and restored (order in the town.
At least fifty of the rebels were killed and abut a dozen men on the Government side. To-night the Albanian news) agency stated that "the situation is: in hand."
-The above group picture was taken when more than 200 Chinesa students going abrend for further education were honoured at a farewell reception given by the World Students Federation and 30 other Chinese public bodies at the Shanghai City Government Centre, Klangwan. Mayor Wu Te-chad made an inspiring speech to the departing youths. Picture shows the scholars and re- presentatives of public bodies bidding them “Bon Voyagu.”—International News.
KING ZOG... a jilted girl brought revolution to his country. [51 JONESES
SAIL ON CRUISE
ALL-WELSH PASSENGER
LIST IN LINER 1 Fifty-one Joneses, 41 WII- Hamacs, 36 Davienes, and 25 Thomases were among 300 pas- Rengers on board the P.S.N.C. liner Orduen, which sailed from the Mersey one day last month with the Red Dragon flying from the maschend on the third annual all-Welsh craise to Fèance, Hol- land, Norway, and Denmark.
While on a visit to Ypres the passengers laid a wreath, made in the form of the map of Wales; on the grave of Private E. H. Evans, Rnyn! Welch Fusiliers, who was killed fortnight before the award of the Bardie Chair to him
at the National Eisteddfod at Birkenhead in 1917 WAS mnde
known.
Time: Monday morning. Scene: Any office. Charac- lers: Any two workers.
"Have a good week-end7. You look suntnerned."
"Fine. But I feel iuojul,"
THY is it?.
WH
We spend the week-end in the sun, take plenty of exercise, try to build our- selves up for another week'a work. On Monday morning we feel fit for nothing.
Recent sunny week-ends have reaped an extra corp of "Monday morning" victims.
With muzzy head and aching limbs, I renched for the telephono yesterday and asked for a doctor's number.
Medicus, young and sympathe. tic, answered.
"Blame the fine weather," said the voice.
"The unusual run of fine week-ends has made the public grab their good fortune with both hands. They overdo their. week-end exercise,
"Public amusement fe so highly organised nowadays that it is easy for you to put more strain on your system than it can stand.
"The trouble is, few people know how to relax.
High Speed Lifo
"Modern high-speed life tenda to make you nervous and highly strung. During week-ends you o all out to work off your
energy.
"By Sunday evening you have probably succeeded, and feeling tired but happy.
"On Monday morning comes the reaction. The prospect of work after so much play makes you feel all the worse. "Exercise is a grand thing, but for many people less exercise and more rest is better.
"A final tip. While the warm weather lasts, hiking may be harmful; swimming is best."
MANY CHINESE NEWSPAPERS
But Few Of Them
Attain Old Age
AN average of 23 vernacular | newspapers cater for Hong- kong's Chinese population of over 900,000, according to statis- tics compiled by the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
Few Chinese newspapers publish- ed in Hongkong, however, attain longevity.
Of the 29 Chinese newspapers, just over fifteen were in existence previous to 1934. During the year five new journals made their ap pearance. Probably as many dis- appeared.
Last year 31 books, the majority printed In Chinese, were registered] Jin Hongkong.
Five Pound Note No. 1 For Treasury
ISSUED IN 1793: BEQUEATHED IN £120,000 WILL
FIVE POUND NOTE NUM-
BER ONE is to return to the Bank of England, which issued it in 1793.
It is bequeathed to the Bank in the will of Mr. Charles Daniel Higham, F.I.A., of Avenue-road, Regent's Park, N.W., actuary, who died on July 1 last, aged 86 years, and who left £124,021. grosa, with net personalty £110, 996.
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The will states that he leaves to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England "in grateful re- membrance of many kindly courtesies during 20 years pleasant association as Actuary of the Bank Provident Society," his Ave, pound note numbered 1, and dated 15/4/1793, and the printed statement which the Bank issued on February 27, 1797, informing the proprietors and the public of its most uffluent and prosperous situation such as to preclude every doubt na to the security of its notes.
After a number of legacies he leaves the residue of the property to his wife for life, and then a number of annuities, including one of £200 to the Rev. William Henry Wheatley; and one of £200 to his chauffour, Edward Martin, if atill In his service at his death.
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