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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1936.
THE UBIQUITOUS
BOBBY
World Of Science
THUMP OF FLY'S FOOT SETS OFF EXPLOSIVE
St. Louis, Jan. 30.
AN explosivo so sensitive that it explodes by the weight of a com- mon house fly alighting on it was described by Prof. R. W. Wood, Johns Hopkins University, in on address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
It is Iodide of nitrogen, susceptible of detonation by the gentlest of force, blowing flics to atoms, and raising at least the facetious possiblity of explosive flypaper. In fact, Prof. Wood suggested ho might sprinkle some along the fence around home; to bedevil night- prowling cats.
dropped into the coal by a miner,
he said::
al
The main purpose of the profes- sor's address, however, was to outline the optical and physical
effects of high explosives." He emphasized that "too much pub licity cannot be given to
the disastrous effects produced delonators," the percussion rapaty of a rifle bullet, and greater
by
"These detonators project copper pellet with a velocity of G,000 feet per second, (a mile is 5,200 feet), three times the veloci-
than the velocity of the shella which were fired on Pavis from a pro-distance of 75 miles during the
world war?"
used to touch off dynamite. "Citing the oxample of sawar | minent Baltimoro woman killed a At a recent Skating Competition in year ago when she opened a house- Eugland this unusual sight was seen furnace door to see if the coal was as policemen smoothed the lee before burning properly, only to be the race. It is not stated what rize struck by the copper casement of skates were supplied to the Babbles. Į such a percussion cap carelessly
Wolves Of The Air
BRITISH
WARPLANES
TO "HUNT" IN PACKS "AIR duelling," in which two pilots fight it out with twin machine-guns as weapons, is over, the Air Ministry believe. So they have placed contracts for new type fighter squadrons for the expanding Royal Air Force. These squadrons will be faster than anything yet imagined in air
chances of clean skies near Oren-
burg-United Press.
The copper fragment which killed the Baltimore woman was Ho fine as to defy immediate identification. Prof. Wood said. He conducted experiments, and from deduction determined that It was a portion of a percussion cap. A blacksmith on Long Island, he said, recently pound. ed one on his anvil with n heavy hammer. The explosion threw the hammer through the roof of his shop, and nearly broke his arm.--United Press.
Rope More Cruel Than
fighting units, and they will have and dives in the new high-speed Chair
fire power three and four times heavier than any provions unita.
Are
to bel Battleship tactics employed in alr warfare. Fighters will hunt in massed formations, truating to overwhelming weight of fire to disable enemy aircraft in one salve instead of indulging in long-drawn-out single, combats.
It has been found pilots cannot stand the strain of sudden turns
Stop Watch On The Sun
Washington, Jan. 30.
The National Geographic
fighters. They "black out" in sleep turns at 300 m.p.h.
of
Machine guns firing at the rate more than 1,000 rounds a minute are being introduced by the R.A.F.
Production will soon begin In England of a new acro engine incorporating A quick shell- firing gun shooting explosive shells at the rate of hundreds a minute through the spinning propeller kub. Effective range of this gun is 2,000 yards In- stead of the 300 yards marided by the present fighters" machine guns.,
com-
The Ministry have also placed contracts amounting to hundreds of thousands of pounds for new British controllable pitch pro- pellers--nerini "gearboxes”—to be fitted to the new squadrons,
Society has announced that it will China To India
spend thousands of dollars to hold a stop watch on the sun for "2% minutes next June to "ace" if the solar system is running on Lime.
A joint expedition with George- town University will travel half- way around the world to Oren- burg. U.S.S.R., to study a total eclipse of the sun on June 19.
Photographs will give scientista
BRITISH
-Canada's Hangman
Hamilton, Ont, Jan, 28, Hangman Arthur Ellis, Cana- cic'a. "busiest ezecutioner, is opposed to the gallows as a mean of carrying out capital punish- scat,
Ellis views were revented "in a letter received by Sheriff J. W. Lawrason in which Ellie com mended the sherif on his stand in favour the loctric chair or lethal gas chamber as a means of execution in Conada.
Sheriff Lawrason proposed at ameoting of Ontario sheriffs in Toronto recently that the scnf- fold should be replaced by more humane methods of execution.
Ellie, who has officiated at about 600 exocutious, supported the proposal-United Prees,
DIPLOMAT
ON LONG OVERLAND TREK
New Delhi, Jan. 25.
Sir Eric Teichmann, the Chinese counsellor of the British Embassy in Peiping, arrived to-day
Just
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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
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1 Goes after a bird, to keep it. 3 The Freemason who is an expert
(hyphen, 4, 0).
10 Are Basque materials necessary for a Moorish ornament? They дес.
11 Why be sullen in a horse-drawn
vehicle?
12 Shelley's tragedy.
13 Unfair treatment, this (hyphen,
3. 5).
15 They know where to draw the
line.
17 Pass (rev.)..-—-— ---------
19 Myself, as a king would say.
21 Famous German Field-Murshad. 22 In T. T. race (anag.).
24 It blossomrus in spring.
27 What the schoolboy loves to do.
Nonsense!
23 No, they don't dig for fruit here.
What a game! (hyphen, 6, 3).
29 Dented cins are good enough to
give a child,
DOWN
a clue on whether the solar aystem at Gilgit on the last stage on his adventurous 30 Happy with a boy. is running on schedule. Theso
which he left
pictures will be taken in accurate overland journey from Peiping, time calibrations and will show about the middle of September. whether predictions of the eclipse.
are correct.
ALHAMBRA eclipse in Jane will be the first with two motor-trucks and only
COMING SOON !
ON
MUTINY BOUNTY
SEETİNG CHARLES BIOLARK
LAUGHTON GABLE
with FRANCHOTTONE
MEEBERT MERSİN - ROBIŲ KEILLAN OBSLEY KINAIR - BUXALD CRISP
MEYLE DRITARE
the
Hia route was in Hami, The Avro X, which will be the For years astronomers calculat-Urumchi (capital of Sinking, first civil aircraft to be used on ed the movement of the sun, moon, where important discussions were the Gilgit route, will fly along the
Yenki, Karakorum Indus to und planets with accuracy, The conducted),
the shoulder of the Nangaparbat peak, in only opportunities they have for Mountains into Kashmir. checking predictions is when two bodies pass each other. The total Sir Eric's journey, undertaken Himalayas.
Chinese and Mongol servants, will be completed by airplane. The Headquarters will be catab- Government of India is sending an llshed at Orenburg, 775 miles Avro X, the Viceroy's first air southeast of Moscow and north plane, from Rawalpindi to fly him of the Caspian Sea on the to Delhi, where he is expected to Steppes west of the Ural Mean-arrive in a week's time. taina which divide Europe and
Midwinter Snow Asia."
since February 1934.
to
Sir Eric, while in Delhi, will
his visit write a report on Urumchi, dealing with recent de- velopments in the Sinklang Pro- vince, and particularly with the extent of the Russian influence which has considerably hit British Indian trade there.
1 Court president, · Here's your
chance.
2 Atom.
4 Settles, yet goes away leaving a
small account behind.
& They may sing Heigh, sing Ho,
they certainly sing bigk."
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7 This wire was never used before the introduction of electricity, & Fish: very light, apparently,
OPIUM SUPPRESSION
CHIANG ORDERS RECISTRA- TION OF SMOKERS
17
25
It would seem that this dog's kees are curiously placed.
11 The presence of the writer would a fall in valuo: thin in deeply to be regretted.
cause
10 Sect rum and gin in thene
dainties.
18 Happy malapropism, for
20. Flabby.
An
21 As this number is to 20 and 23. 23 This identifier one of Scott's
deans,
old
25 Strangly attached to an
icket-like me.
26 Employed, but harily in a job.
Yesterday's Bolation. ELLYFISH TE A SI NETE AFES COM PEL ULOSSAIERRETE
A VONATEK CEDIN 1 GNITIF 1 V.ON@TH H HDINER ROBUST WEED IHBK, LINDE HARDESTOALLEON
0 IEM PA FIMENAH G LITTE IM AB EA PEDA DILUIST STREET STRING I PROT O MIMINE FAIRPLAY MENACETUS IGEN I
INGHENFLEDGLIN☎
It is pointed out that in order to carry through the opium-suppression | scheme within a period of six years, the registration of oplom-smokers within this year is needed.
A set of regulations governing the Nanking, Feb. 10. arrest of opium-amokors, after the Marshal Chiang Kai-shek in a conclusion of registration, was pass- circular telegram sont to all provined at the recent National Opium- The pur- cial and municipal governments in suppression Conference.
His is also likely to refer to the Both Soviet Russia and Japan. Whereas the last stage of the visa restrictions to which Indian Invited scientific expeditions to journey would take three weeks, traders are subject, a matter on
the country to-day orders that the pose of these regulations is to swoop study the eclipse in their lands, as the country south of Gilgit, which the Government of India is but the joint expedition chose the st. an altitude of 14,000ft., is already, engaged in negotiations registration of opium-smokers should out all oplum-smokers as outlined in Chinese authorities.bo, rigidly enforced without regard the opium suppression scheme- U.S.S.R. bedarse a survey of past covered with midwinter snow, the with the
to any special circumstatices. " weather records indicated greater flying time is only a few hours.
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