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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1936.
World's Fastest Warships
Loneliest
60 M.P.H. FIGHTING VESSELS Briton
BELONG TO FRANCE
The world's warships are getting faster. All the new battleships building for France, Italy, and Germany, it is dia- closed in the 1935 edition of "Jane's Fighting Ships," published in London last month, are to move at 30 knots or more.
This is an increase of five knots on the British Queen Elizabeths, hitherto the fastest battleships in the world, and only a very little less than the best speed of the battle-cruiser Hood.
The highest speed attained by any warship in any navy is credited by "Jane" to the French "torpedo droppers" or VTB
boats.
They are said to cover between 52 and 55 knots-nearly fifty-nine miles an hour-and to be able to fire two torpedoes while going at that speed---
The German Navy is also developing torpedo droppers, but their speed is only admitted to be “up to 40 knots."
The highest speed recorded for a destroyer is the 45.25 knots of the French Terrible.
DID LIFE ON
EARTH ORIGINATE ON OTHER PLANETS?
Scientists Discover Proof
Washington, Dec. 30.
New evidence which may show that life exists on
In The World
IS ON A VISIT TO
HIS HOMELAND MAN who publishes the first and only newspaper in the Tibetan language has arrived in London.
He produces 50 copies on an old- fashioned cyclostyle, but the "cir culation" is in hundreds of thou- Bands.
The paper is sent to the chlof Iamas the only people who can rand-They chila_pow-wow of several villages, and read it aloud to the inhabitants.
The only European subscribers are the British Museum and the German State Museum,
The editor and publisher is the Rev. Walter Asboe, Moravian mis- Fitnary on leave from his station -the village of Kylang, 10,500ft. high on thu rainless Tibetan plateaus.
The only communication with the rest of the world is by a pass 183,-'. 500ft, high, which is anowed under for five months in the year,
They have made only 146
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VOLGA SONG.
Phil Green &
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WHENEVER I THINK.
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self has made only two in 14 years.
"It Is painfully 'alow work," he vald. "but in 80 the
GILMAN & CO., LTD. Tel. 30986 of planets has been presented by Fred C. Meier of the Moravialis have been in Tibet social
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U.S. Department of Agriculture.
conditions have enormously im- proved."
PARISH AS BIG AS WALES Mr. Asboo's parish is the size of
each season, his wife looking after | the station while he is gone,
This possibility was seen when Meier found that tiny spores of plant diseases carried upward nearly 14 miles by the stratosphere balloon Explorer II were able to live Wales. He tours 500 miles on foot under conditions which would kill man instantly.
Scientists have debated whether spores infinitesi mally small organisms could be swept through the universe from one planet to another. Meier's findings definitely show th it spores can live in the rarified air, the freezing temperatures and the lethal ultra-violet sunlight of the stratosphere 14 miles above the earth.
If they can live under these conditions, experts logically nked If they can not live under the only lightly more severe conditions of ethereal, spaco which exist a hun- dred or a thousand miles outward rom the earth. None can know for certain until some gadget is found to penetrate that distancs.
Origin Of Man? Meier's findings are the latest apon which solentists may speca- late about this problem.
Fow would expect to find beings that exactly resembled man but if planets were supplied with spores the typos of evolution might be almost infinite and therefore some might repent the same process as these.on our own earth.
tubes' ends were plugged with cellulose yarn wilch cooped in the spores but permitted the air and changing pressure of the atmes.) phero to effect the tubes and the apores they contained,
Types of spores carried included common bread mold, A type of strawberry rot, black mold, ont smut, and stripe rust of grains. All were carefully scaled before they left the laboratory and none escaped on the trip, Melor said.
Some of the types were "descen- donts" of similar spores carried into the stratosphere on previous stratosphere lights.
Meier also
has worked with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh in his apore research during his fight to Europe over the northern route several years ago.-United Press.
His two children were born there, brought into the world by himself.
Maternity work is one of his pas toral duties. He is teaching the Tibetans that they need not send their women alone into the table out on to the plains to bear their children.
or
HOW A HANGMAN
FACED HIS LAST HOURS
New Orleans, Dec. 20, Henry Meyer, a 78-year-old hangman, who has ended ike lives
of 38 men and one woman since 1918, Bнed to laugh at priests and ministern reading their Bibles on the scaffold.
"I'd han my own brather if he committed a crime" was one of his comments.
A few days ago he called B un undertaker and instructedl him to arrange for his funeral. Within an hour he was dend. He was given a pauper's funeral,
Before passing. Meyer drew himself up and spoke, his last words to a neighbour.
"Get me a priest," he said. United Presa.
REBUILDING OF QUETTA
WILL COST £6,000,000
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gets so many stamps. Physically a fine fellow, but not fair, and rather.
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dressing.
13 It's queer our finish lacks corn.
boration.
15 Wreathe (ansg.)."
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17 Hurdly breathe here.
At the 14 mile level, 19 parts of the atmosphere lie toward the earth with only one-twentieth outward into the void of space. Temperatures go as low as 66 de- grees below. zero, within a few degrees of the coldest natural temperature ever mude on the earth's surface. Casmie rays,
21-If he had written it alone, which bombard mankind
WORK is to begin this month on the rebuilding of Quetta, at the
which was destroyed in the earthquake of May last year,
Dickens would still be this to you rate of several times a minute,
and me (three words, 3, 6, 6). nre 200 times as numerous as at
The entire military cantonment sen tovel. Ultra-violet rays in the
The garrison of Quetta is at 23 Do they eat their own damson lying to the north and east of the present at about half its normal 27 This fellow has nearly as much
mixture? sunlight are more prevalent be-
city is to be rebuilt. Much of the strength. The other half havo cause the atmosphere has not yet existing site is to be used, but the been moved to temporary quarters 28 What a horse has, a flower docs. thinned them out and thus protect-plan provides for the new buildings in Baluchistan and Sind. Those 29 Outside the island the doctor was
to be slightly to the north-east of who remain are living in tents wrongly guided. those damaged in the earthquake.lined with mud walls and provided 32. This word appears in every
By making this alteration there with fireplaces known will be available a substantial rock liuta." foundation which is less subject to { disturbance.
ed living things on earth from death by burning.
A man would be dead miles be- fora ho reached the 11 mile level but these tiny spores were carried up to that height and camo back only slightly harmed.
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Owing to the severity of the Baluchistan winter which proverts work with concrete, no buliding is yet in hand, but site clearing is being done.
Seven types of spores were taken on the fight sponsored by the Nn- tional Geographic Society and the U. S. Army Air Corpe. Five of these verminated in the laboratory as if nothing unusual had happened. A sixth type reproduced only to a. limited extent, Tests on the earthquake commissioner, to assist."I am leaving London for India seventh type are not yet complet-the agent of the Governor-General in January and expect to travel to jed.
in Baluchistan in dealing with Quetta shortly after reaching Bom many problems connected with the bay rebuilding of the city and civilian have had some experience in area of Quetta and the resettle- general constructive work and I ment of the population.
believe that my services will be use- The appointment has also been ful in advising on town-planning made of Mr. Philip G. W. Stokes, and drainage, surveyor to the Canvey Island "It is anticipated that the task (Essex) Urban Council as civil of rebuilding the castonment and engineer. adviser for the rebuilding the civil area will take seven years of Quetta,
and will cost over £6,000,000."
CANVEY ISLAND SURVEYOR
Lieut.-Colonel C.JS, King, C.RE.,
To assist in this ʼn railway line Baluchistan, will be in charge of the rebuilding of the cantonment has been run into the city.
LEAVING IN JANUARY area, and the Government of India
Mr. Philip Stakes said: have appointed Mr. Wylle, the
MILLIONS LIVED Millions of apores were placed in tiny quartz tubes which hung out- side the metal gondola of the Explorer 11. The quartz construc- tion permitted the powerful ultra- violet raya to penetrato to the Such exposure would kill sporci many forms of life oa the earth. The
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