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MOST BIRTHS WHEN IT IS NEAR HORIZON: SEA ANIMALS FATTER: CONTINENTS STRETCHED CIENTISTS all over the world are making astonishing discoveries about the moon.
SCIENTISTS all over the wt the gravitational pull of the moon caused
but--
N. CHINA CRISIS
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Tientsin, May 6:
Did you know that
ocean tides;
when the moon is in a KING TO
certain position whole
continents are stretched VISIT as much as sixty feet, and
That when the position SYDNEY
changes they snap back again
and are stretched for sixty
feet in the other direction?" IN 1938?
SESQUI-CENTENARY
North China is plunging to- This remarkable' fact has justļ wards a new political and military been discovered by astronomers | crisis in June, according to in Shanghai Observatory co- observers highly qualified to in operating by
means of radio terpret the present trend of with astronomers in the observa-
Sydney, N.S.W., May, 6. A suggestion that King Edward tories of Nauen in Germany and
VIII should make history by June is the month fixed by the Bordeaux in France. Japanese military authorities for completion of a new military based on the varying time lag officially advanced here.
From elaborate calculations being the first reigning monarch to visit Australia has been un- airdrome and barracks in the in the reception of time signala Tientsin suburbs. All the Jap-they conclude that the gravita-tative stage, is that the King" The proposal, as yet in a ten- nese genius for construction has tional force of the moon is keep should continue on from India, been brought into play to coming the whole land mass of where he will almost certainly Europe and Asia in a state of hold a Durbar, as his father did, movement which they describe and arrive in Sydney to take as a sort of cosmic delirium.
part in the elaborate celebrations. How for the lives of men and being arranged to mark the na- women are affected by this con- tion's sesqui-centenary in 1938. stant movement is not known,
NO LEGAL DAR but other scientists are slowlyj
enormous in. discovering the
It is emphasised that there is no
to on living constitutional bar
reigning monarch visiting hist Dominions, especially since the latter have been proclaimed to have equal status the Empire as Britain. It is also col-pointed out that it is more desirable
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June is the month when the Japan cse hope to complete the proposed military pact between Manchukuo and the "East Hopel Autonomous Government
on which negotiations
been in progress for the past month. The reported Mutual Assist ance Pact between Manchukuo and the Hopei-Chahar Political, Council, for which the Japanese are exerting strong pressure on General Sung Chek-yuan, head of the Council, f also supposed to be completed by June.
General Sung is planning to open
Buence of the moon things.
ALWAYS PLUMPER,
A Parisian physician has
zon.
Dominions, since the
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his new Customs Service in June to lected statistics to show that the now than ever for the King to visit since the only common compete with the Chinese Maritime largest number of births occur
legally, is the Fact Customs by accepting imports at when the moon is near the hori-tant in the Empire, legate is me rates from one half to one third of
that the King is head of the regular Chinese Customs duties,
Supporters of the proposal say that import tarifa
Investigators in different coun- the bar to visits by former reigning The
on Japanese imports are expreted to be parti- tries have proved that certain sea monarchs the undesirability of long cularly low.
animals, and particularly sen ur- absences from England-has been Actually, it appears, General Sung chins, are always plumper at full removed by the operation of fast and
In Britain the Ministry of! Agriculture and Fisheries has
efficient air services between Sydney, and England, via Indin.
proved that the best catches of Aerial
hopes it will not be necessary to moon, operating the competing customs and that Nanking will agree to give the Political Council all Hopel-Chahar the Tientsin customs revenues. Ilow- ever, if Nanking refuses, General Sung is prepared to establish his own customs, Wharves, godowns and administration buildings are already under construction at Tschangchow,;
ear Tientaín.
In June, the strength of the Japan- eso Army in North China is to be ingreased and also the new troops to relleve those presently stationed in Tientsin and other North China cities, will arrive.
herring may always he expected at full moon, and that record catches generally coincide with a full moon in the second week i in October,
"Flivver"
There are two possible explann-} Coming
tions of this.
The greater degree of moonlight|
the
may attract the shoals to the sur-TIN LIZZIES OF THE AIR face, or the movement of water caused by the moon may| affect the ocean currents and
In addition, Major General II. Tada,
Detroit, Mich, Apr. 30. commander of the Japanese Army in
Behind locked doors of the North China, is due to be transfer myriads of tiny ocean
cause concentrations of the Motor Car Industry's research elsewhere and be replaced by
laboratories, scientists, cb- Lieutenant-Commander. To Chinese and plants which form the food
gineers and workmen are explor. this always spells bad news, as they of herrings and ́other fish.
creatures
believe that overy time a new com At the moment research is in ing the possibilities of adapting immediately starts tNorth Chinn he progress to trace the connection the standard automobile engine weather to light aircraft, a recent survey
to make a big name for himself in between the moon and
Japan.
They point to the "North and between the moon and the disclosed. Chinn crisis which occurred last June growth of plants. Immediately after Major General
Some scientists think that the
Tada took command. Every other previous change of command has reage-long belief that moonlight is a sulted in similar situations, they cause of lunney may be capable believe-United Press.
scientific proof.
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Most active in the field of aviation experiment, the survey disclosed, is the Grahan-Paige Motor Car com pany, whose small, light but power- fully supercharged engine is believed
be better adapted to small aircraft | than the heavier orthodox motors. "We are engaged in the prelimin- ary work of adapting our stock en- gines to aircraft Robert Graham, company head, told the United Press. "Eventually, we hope to be supplying engines of this type on a commerchil basis."
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