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DENSE fog delayed Charlie Chaplin's visit to Hongkong on Thursday by twelve hours. Yesterday shipping was entirely crippled by another dense blanket.
Observatory officials believe that fog will be replaced by mist and drizzle as the anti-cyclone over China becomes more permanent.
SOME of us have already been EVERY time, however, that half-choked, half-poisoned by one occurs here, I say to
fog. I could recite to you some myself: "Why don't we blow it really horrible figures concern-
away?
ing what fog costs, and what
it does to us-for example, that A small natural breeze springs We are fully equipped for any thousands of work-hours are up and lo! the fog, is gone.
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The
Thongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, MAR. 14, 1936.
THE CRISIS
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lost with every. fog, that a Surely we-who
ly at & minute-can fog costs $1.000.000 a day, and several miles how in a fog lasting 24 hours create a wind! Why doesn't the we each breathe in 34lb. of dirt: Government hoist a big fan on and so on.
a lorry and drive it through the streets and blast the hideous s say, an aerodrome-400 yards of the weather ahead, and tele- wide, having a cross wind-drift phone wires are busy between But, after all, we are not as blanket to perdition?
of two or three miles an hour shipowners' office or the Royalt unlucky as London where it is recorded (although it seems in- With this brilliant idea in my and embracing the atmosphere Observatory. credible) that in 1782 a fog head I have been consulting up to a height of 100 feet, you started that endured for two scientists and meteorologists, would have to deal with 50.000 |years-n pale blue fog on which You would be astonished how tons of air an hour.
rain had no effect and that last- little they think of it. ed day and night.
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ship's work оп # sort of shuttle plan, especially coasters, I am not, I find. the first TF, therefore, remembering this Perhaps on this shuttle plan person who has thought of dis- I
weight, you wanted to blow there may be a ship discharging persing fog. Sir Oliver Lodge the fog out of Hongkong you in Hongkong, another loading in NOTES OF THE DAY think it was) experimented would require(here my scient. Shanghai or Swatow or Amoy or
by shooting electricity into the ist took a pencil and paper and Hanoi, and a third at sea. air from tall masts. The ad- presently announced the figures) disturbs the balance of such mirable intention was to cause engines of 2.037,500 horse- schemes and means overtime at The problem of reducing the fog particles to unite and fall,
power. (Not to be outdone 1 wharf after the fog lifts. number of road arcistents, inevit- and full a good many did-some did a little research of my ally associated with the growing sixty yards was cleared,
In this way the clogged shuttle own and discovered that such a popularity of motor transport, con-
ROAD SAFETY
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issues have to be in Britnin, but the experiment is genius wrote to Dr. J. S. Owens fog-a cross between elastic and HOULD it be that a welcome.
breeze scatters the fog, Gye- moon Passage soon becomes a scene of particular activity.
Ships which have ben anchor- ed off Waglan press forward and steady procession enters and leavca the harbour.
A week has now passed since Germany's dramatic stroke in re-militarising the Rhineland zope threw Europe into a state of anxiety. In the sense that no actual clash has followed tinues to engage traffic authorities. Somebody else bombarded for quantity of horse-power is. 160 interferes with the due arrival this turn in events, the situation in all parts of the world. All man with air cannon, another brain- times the Empress of Britain's of expected supplies of fruit. vegetables, or daily: produce, or can be regarded as better than ner of devices have been tried. wave was to seniter electrically, engine power.)
delays stuff for transhipment. a flying might have been expected, ul. ranging from educative methods to charged sand from
In face of this weight of though it is still apparent that mechuufen resteletions
speed of vehicles. This latter plan aeroplane, a fourth method was evidence, and having regard to it holds grim possibilities.
to heat the fog. Yet another the unconquerable resilience of Momentous
has never been seriously considered, decided within the next few being tried in some centres in the suggesting that water wheels a boomerang I hereby abandon days, and there will be a univer-United States, where motorists should be installed in sewers as my scheme for fans on lorries. sal hope that nothing will occur who have been guilty of excessive motive power for driving suctioni
What, then, can we do? to disturb the peace of Europe. for dangerons driving several times plant which would draw the fog
What is fog? The German stand for the re-have had mechanical governors through trap doors into The covery of complete sovereignty attached to the engines of their underworld. I like that plan Fog, I am given to understand, over her own territory is quite fears so that a speed of more than very much.
is as natural as rain. Fog, that is, which is 'white-the sort of understandable, but the neces- forty miles an hour becomes im-
It may truly be said that at Fog lacks discipline. That, it fog you have on the sea or in such times as these the stretch Isity for sudden denunciation of possible. Only on such conditions!
are offenders licences being renew appears, is one the Locarno Pact has still to be ed. At Home, the re-introduction troubles; you blow it away and of conflicting temperatures and wharves or buoys is the most of the main the countryside. It is a matter of water from Waglan to the established. Sir Austen Cham-f speed limits in certain areas ia berlain, who negotiated that proving effective in reducing the it comes back again.
condensation and creation of shipping-crowded five miles in treaty, has declared that Hitler inll of fatalities. One of the chief: Some time
the Mas- vapour and lack of wind to dis- the whole world. himself described Germany's difficulties encountered in this con-sachusetts Institute of Tech- perse it. There is little signing of the document as a section is the actual proof of ex- contribution to the appeasement cessive speed, but various sugges-nology sprayed calcium chloride nothing to be done about it.
You can dispel it in a room of Europe; he has gone further tiens have been put forward with into the fog and cleared a path by stating that, so far from a view to overcoming this handican. 2,000ft wide-r-a-few minutes or on an aerodrome, provided you One of these is the fitting of a--an experiment which sounds as are willing to spend enough being a "dictated peace," it was a treaty the proposals for which graph to the dashboard of the car, though it would be of immense money in doing so. (Heating on.
People who let off crackers similar to those used for barometrle value in temporarily clearing aerodrome, it has been computed dancing parties should remember emanated from Germany, and purposes, which would provide aerodromes or harbours-though not, however, by me-would that the Christmas variety that the provisions for the tell-tale record of the seeds attain-how long the fog look itself off take a four-sided apparatus and much more suitable. observance of the demilitariseded during the course, of a day for I don't know. But what of 400 tons of coal an hour.)
were contained in the Somewhat similar is an invention longkong and its vast expanse original German offer. Justi- which would repeat, in larger
zone
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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
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Reference at a local Company meeting to the relatively small benefits secured by Hongkong under the Empire Preference Scheme sug- gests that some of our competitors are being given too much rope.
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One thing about a taxi drive, you do get a run for your money.
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Our sympathy goes out to the Travel Association in its task,
So vessels stay at their fication for denunciation of the figures, the speedometer readings, of harbour?
Lloyd George is going to Aus- anchorages in fog, and go do trala. Doubtless he'll take in pact is now claimed on the these being displayed outside the
Air, I am informed, is very ships at the wharves. Ships interpreter with him. ground that the Franco-Soviet car, both front and rear. The iden Treaty is
A let go their anchors and take no infringement at the back of this plan is that slippery and very heavy.
police and other observers could cube of air ten yards wide risks. If they have wireless, thereof. But two points have tell at a glance the speed at which weighs a ton. On a space-let they are able to learn something to be kept in mind in this con-
a car is proceeding, and there is the¦ ———— nection. The first is that further factor that the driver hita- re-occupation of the Rhineland self, conscious that others would preceded the actual ratification know the exact speed at which he of the Franco-Soviet agreement; is travelling, would naturally be the second is that Belgium is cautious his driving. Another not affected by this agreement, evidence of the increasing tendency yet Germany has re-militarised to restrict the berties of reckless also that section of the zone drivers is forthcoming from Turker. where applicants for licences must contiguous to the Belgian
now not only submit to
very frontier. Aside from these thorough medical examination, in considerations, a vital matter of which particular attention is paid principle appears to be involved, to their eyesight, hearing and nerve namely, the sanctity of treaties reflexes, but even their blood pres- freely negotiated. It is thissure is tested. One of the points point which has raised the ques-specially stressed is that motorists tion of the value of any fresh must have good "side vision"-that understanding which Germany | is, they must be able quickly to may in future conclude with detect moving objects on the road other nations. All these. is on both sides of their cars. All these efforts have as their aim the BUCS, however, recede into
elimination of the reckless type of the background at. the driver or of others who, by reason moment in view of theof physical defects, are likely to immediate question of what prove a danger both to themselves action, if any, the Locarno and other road-users. So far, all! Powers and members of the that could be wished has not been; League may feel called upon to attained, but by degrees the public take in dealing with the situa-Is being given increased protection, tion. Frankly, it is difficult to see and as time goes on the cumulative at the moment the slightest rea-results must of necessity be very
considerable. son why there need be war. Neither is it easy to perceive the need of the employment of |
as the
sanctions against Germany. On people. Germany has invaded the latter point, it may be no-one's territory; she has in- argued that inasmuch
flicted actual Injury on no-one, League imposed sanctions on Admittedly, there were other Italy in consequence of defiance and better methods open to her, of treaties, no other logical step methode which would not have is possible so far as Germany is lung Europe into the state of concerned. But the two cases turmoil which is now so ap- are in no senso.analagous. Italy parent. But statesmanship will not only broke a treaty she badly fail if it does not succeed
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. waged, an aggressive War on in proventing the present crisis
Ethiopia, and in the process has from developing into a disaster slain thousands of innocent of the first magnitudo.
Tho depression certainly left its mark on these guys. They
never used to waste time lookin' for a lost ball."
daring the cold spell, of seeking to convince visitors that Hongkong' really is the Riviera of the Orient.
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According to a gossip-writer, a
well-known actress found a husband
Well, that'
on the golf course,
where most of them can be found, anyhow.
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Ofice tenants in New York skyscrapers don't find this t striko very elevating.
If you promise to meat the wife at Then 1.30, always be thero at 4. you'll only have a quarter of an hour to walt
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We are indebted to several Peak flappers for demonstrating what a water-wave is. Briefly, all that is necessary Is a hatloss rush to the Peak tram on a wet and foggy morning
Hey Presto!
Water Wave!
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We should like to remind a locat
mulligatawny expert that soup, liko children, should be seen and not heard!