THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
1935.
WINE AND
THOU
Man Conquered The World By Using
His Greatest Gift
The vintage is now in full swing in Yugo-Slavia and the big and suc- culent bunch prosented above by the | Yugoslavian girl ``certainly makos your mouth water.
New Flying Boats For Empire
Air Routes
LUXURIOUS
HOTELS.
WILL SPEED OVER
THE WORLD.
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS have placed an order with Messrs. Short Bros., Ltd., of Rochester, for a fleet of new flying boats for use on the main Empire air lines.
These new marine aircraft will be considerably larger, fas. ter, and more luxurious than any alrcraft at present in service on the air routes of Imperial Air- ways, and, `in fact, they will be in advance of any similar craft in the world. The placing of this order represents an essen- tial feature of the development scheme now in progress for the carriage of first-class mails in bulk to and from distant parts of the Empire.
An innovation in so far as Im- perial Airways' marine aircraft aro concerned is the fact that these --aircraft-will-be-of-the-unbraced.
THE GREATEST WONDER OF THE UNIVERSE
32 Lbs Of Brain
To Every 12 Stone
Of Flesh
20-Ton Diplodocus Had Only Five Ounces
PROF. W. W. Watts, the eminent geologist, in his presidential address to the British Asso- ciation at Norwich, declared the most wonderful thing in the world to be the brain of man.
"Of all the wonders of the universe of which we have present knowledge, from the electron to the atom, from the virus and the bacillus to the oak and the elephant, from the tiniest meteor to the most magnificent nebula, surely there is nothing to surpass the brain of man," he said.
Prof. Watts referred to new knowledge of those strange great reptiles and mammals of mesozoic times. The Diplodocus, 80ft. in length and 20 tons in weight, had a brain about the size of a large hen's egg-"a quarter of an ounce to control each ton of body and limb.
"We begin to understand why they lost their lord-
ship of creation," was Dr. Watts's conclusion,
A 12-stone man of the present day had about 31⁄2lb of brain, an amount not far short of cwt per ton.
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In Praise of
The Potato
"To establish the potato on a plane of high dietary dignity," Dr. H. K. Archbold has compiled a booklet which has been ismed by the British Potato Marketing Board,
A number of people have lived on potatoes, supplemented only fat and salt, he says,
by
for perioa up to 20 days. Recently one lived for four years on a diet consisting potatoes and milk."
chiefly
On the "rezed question of slim- ming" the booklet stulos "there can be little doubt that, in spite of popular opinion to the cen trary, the
constitutes the ideal carbohydrate.""
According to one authority, in' fact, it "may well be retained in even a rigorous reducing diet" provided that such things pe sweets and pastries and excessive bread were "bunished.
Experts Go To Russia For
high-wing monoplane type with Art Treasures
wing-tip floats. All previous
marine aircraft on the Empire
routes have been of biplane con- APPEAL TO SOVIET struction. The span is 114ft, and the ovor-all length 88ft, the height on a beaching chassis being ..29% feet.
Some of the striking passages
in Professor Watts's address were:
Of the age of the earth:: "Here is a lady of a certain age, but she contrived to preserve her: youth and energy, as well as her beauty."
Man, the world's most remark-
TAKE-OFF FROM TRAIN
The
They can launch aeroplanes from almost any place now. picture from Leuchars, Scotland shows a British pilot, being in- atructed in catapult take-off from a railway truck. The instruc tion is being carried, out at No flying school of the Royal
Air Force.
British Judge Refuses
To Restrain Film Star
able parasite, will sigh with re-"TReated as cHATTEL” BY EMPLOYERS Hef. There are still some thou-
sands of millions of years to
come in the long acons of time. MR. Justice Greaves-Lord refused last week to an order restraining Miss Frances giving a conception of the Day, the stage and film actress, from acting for
Geology and biology unite in
strange changes before history
make
began lost continents and for anybody but Gaumont-British Picture Corpora- ests under the sea, Ice-bound
lands now turned into the tion, Ltd.
Tropics, great slow-moving pre- historic monsters.
The order was sought in the Vacation Court. An-
Gondwanaland, the vast specula-other action by the corporation against Miss Day, alleging tive continent stretching from
South Africa by Madagascar and breach of contract, was stayed in the King's Bench and India to Australia; fathoms deep
in the oceans now, yet traceable referred to arbitration.
from similarity in rock formations und fossils left behind.
Mr. Van Den Berg, K.C., for
Signs that mountain ranges once Gaumont-British, said that un- linked the British Isles with the der a contract Miss Day's exclu- continent of North America-"possive services were given to Bibliity." as Dr. Watts remarked.
"undreamt of by the Pilgrim Gaumont-British in return for Fathers," but yet confirmed by the £6.750 a year. flowers, trees, birds, animals-com-
mon to both continenta. At some Mr. Van Den Borg, said that age a land bridge:
under the contract: Miss Day was "Air roads over islands lost-given the leading female role in Ages since 'neath Occan lost the film "Jack of All Trades.”. To the non-scientist unable to
About the end of June she creat
A SOVIET warship may follow advanced geologien an or
take to England trea-ment on the "Drift and Rhythm of ed unnecessary difficulties and in-
These new air-liners will have Sures for the International the Continents," Professor Watts'stimated that unless she got her!
Exhibition of Chinese Art which opens at Burlington House on November 22,
outline of the evolution of life on
1
"justice
cannot be done by allowing her to remain a chattel."
Extreme Hardship'.
a total loaded weight of approxim-
earth had special appeal.
way in certain matters she might ately 17% tons, of which between
"Geology," he said, "has estab-absent herself from the studio. 3% and 6 tons will be available for
lished that, in spite of the physical passengers, mail and freight for
changes which we know to have
On July 3, 1935, Miss Day did normal stage flights, but they can Mr. George Eumorfopoulos, occurred the chain of life has never not attend at the studio at the pro- be given a range up to 1,500 miles the expert and collector, who is snapped in all the hundreds of per time. Although punctuality by carrying more fuel and less a member of the Exhibition millions of years through which its was the essence of film productions, lond.
Selection Committee, and Mr. history has been traced." The aircraft will be propelled by Leigh Ashton have gone to And when it came to consider she arrived between forty and FRANCES DAY four engines having variable
President forty-five minutes late. pitched propellers, but the type of Russia to try to persuade the ing animate life the
"Miss Day was directed to make engine has not yet been finally de- Soviet authorities to lend to the made it clear that he is a great
admirer of the human race. cided. The speed of these flying- Exhibition art treasures in their
Early he had said, "Within a up in order to be ready for the boats is expected to bo, not far possession.
amall fraction of the latest-neon first shot," continued Mr. Van Ven short of 200.miles-an-hour and is, An exhibition of Oriental art man, with the most primitive of Berg, "but she refused to do so, of course, dependent on the type has already opened in Leningrad implements and the most rudimen- and in the end left the studio and of engine that is ultimately fitted. to-day. It is understood that some tary culture, has succeeded in had never returned." The structure of the hull, the wing of the objects shown there may penetrating to the uttermost cor- and the tall unit, is entirely of metal and a unique feature will be the two decks in the forepart of the hull. The upper one will ac- commodate crow, mail cargo and the ship's office, and the lower one is of the full cantilever type with a single spar of box-like construc- tion, and although the structure is of metal the wing will be covered with fabric and will be fitted with flaps to give the re- quisite gliding angle.
The entire tail unit is also of the full cantilever type with single control facilities, constructed of metal but covered with fabric.
The 'crew is accommodated In the control cabin on the upper deck in the nose of the short wave and direction finding equipment. The control cabin is completely closed, fitted with a sliding roof to permit a rear view, and the most up-to-date equipment for naviga-
go to London later. Among the ners of the world and developed many valuable Chinese pieces now his Innumerable languages and in Russia are superb examples of civilisations. early silk en work from Inner Mon- golia and Chinese Turkestan.
Importance Of Class
Refused To Pay
Mr. Van Den Berg remarked that Miss Day had aworn that she at no time refused to obey any of the wishes of the corporation. or their sub-lessees.
:
Under the terms of the contract,
Mr. Van Den Berg: They would said Mr. Van Den Berg, Gaumont-not enjoy the reputation they have "Evolution of life on the earth," British had refused to pay her if they did not direct artists In Steel-Lined Cases
he said, "has been by, no moana Mr. Eumorfopoulos was one of uniform. Geographical and clima-salary and when, on August 7. pay properly and successfully. You alx months of this year in China. even greater effects have followed days, notwithstanding what they three experts who spent the first tie influences played their part, but ment was demanded within four have all the artists in the same
position. They selected treasures from the groups of biological changes."
"Rigidly neted upon," remarked regarded as a flagrant breach of Imperial Palace at Peiping which
To illustrate this he referred to contract in walking out, they offer the judge, "it would take away all were taken to England in H.M.S.the amazing results which followed ed her the leading part in a play the personality of an artist." Suffolk. Should the co-operation of the first appearance of grasses in called "Seeing Stara." it will mean a notable addition to the Russian authorities he secured, the world.
Drastic Packing Tost
Gradually they spread over huge
*
The judge, referring to a state- ment in an affidavit that Miss Day, was directed how to make up, com- mented: "Your clients seemed to regard the artist not merely as a chattel but merely ns n mario-
nette."
Miss Day passed the letter co- the value and interest of the ex-areas of the earth's surface form-veying that offer on to her solic hibition.
erly occupied by marsh, scrub, and tors who subsequently wrote that The four Chinese experts who forest. Their disregard for tram: Miss Day regarded the contract at arrived in Britain last month will pling and grazing, the nourishmont an end as she had not been paid soon open the chests, and begin in their seeds made them an filcal her salary, the delicate task of unpacking the and plentiful source of food. on-
Delivering his judgment, Mr. treasures which they themselves Groups of sluggish animals
Apparently the only justification packed in Shanghai.
which had browsed on shrubs and for Miss Day's conduet was that Justica Greaves-Lord said:
"I have come 'to' the' conclusion {trees altered their teeth and bodies according to her affidavit it was
and habits, learnt to move exally too hot to make up and she had not that an injunction would really tional purposes.
It is intended in these boats to were sound they first carefully gave up sedentary defence, and
oro ensure that their methods and quickly to find new pastures, sufficient time to study her script work extreino hardship on Miss give a standard of passenger ac-wrapped and packed valueleas por learnt to flee from danger.
Mr. Justico Greaves-Lord, Com-Day. The issues. In the action commodation' far in advance of celain, and then flung it on the
menting on the right the plaintiff have not been disposed of, and for ground 25 feet away. That it re-bigger, stronger, speedior their Day services, remarked that he earning her living in the mean- The meat-eating animals became company claimed to sublet Migs her to be deprived of a cliance of mained intact reassured them.
prey was harder to catch. The could not imagine that it would be time would be extremely unjust to Although the main. Peiping grass fooders, with their specialis- conducive of good acting to engage her. collection, roughly valued at ed hoofs, teeth and horns, better an artist to make films and then "Certainly justice cannot be done over £10.000,000 is uninsured suited to flight than to fight, dove-fat her out like a mere chattel.by allowing her to remain as n
the British warship in which loped the herd instinct. it travelled. being a substitute
and it might As for man-his meat, drink and| "It might take a great deal of chattel, even though there may be for insurance the other loan iffe are bound up with the grasses; heart out of a person to know that questions of breach of contract to exhibits are all heavily insured, wheat, millet, the other grains, she was to be paid £100 a week by be decided." some of them, it is said, for sugar cane, rice, bamboo all "mere somebody who would lend her to The motion was dismissed with staggering, sums”,
other people to make „£200.
that of any aircraft at present in existence, and the boats will be fitted with luxurious equipment for day and night flying.
Above all the space per passen- ger and the lofty collings of the (passenger, cabins, will be"`n revela- tion and will challenge the con- fort af surface transport where. weight is of comparatively minor importanca.
unconquerable grass.,"
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