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THE HONGKONG... TELEGRAPH.......TUESDAY, JUNE -2,——1936.
99.
Queen Mary is Out of Date'
-Scientist's "Foolish" Attack
EXPERTS DENY CHARGES
AN extraordinary criticism of the liner Queen Mary, in
which the ship is described as being old-fashioned in design, too slow, and unsuitably engined has just been made in a scientific paper called Armchair Science.
The attack is made by Professor A. M. Low, the noted writer on scientific matters.
Already his opinions have aroused a storm of controversy. Leading men in the engineering and shipping world heatedly rofute Professor Low's statements.
Professor Low's arguments are thati-
Her gangways and masts are reminiscent of the oldest sail- ing ships;
She should have had internal combustion engines instead of turbines;
She should have had a speed of 50 or 60 m.p.h.
When these vlows were placial delore Cunard-White Star offl- cials they described the eritielums as "ridiculous.”
The head of a well-known Arm of marine engineers said the attack was based on misconceptions,
"The Queen Mary has berry design- ed by the leading marire architects und engineers of the day working in en-operation." be said. It is fantas tic to suggest that they have pro duced a ship which is air ady ont of date.
LOVE PUTS IN JAIL
LAST WORD IN SILL "These experts, after months of consideration, came to the conclu.T sion that turbine engines were the only practicable method of propul- sion for the liner,
"That makes funnels a neceslty otherwise passengers and crew would hey fumes.
was never any attempt
to make the Queen Mary the sort of freak vessel Professor Low den cribes, She Is the Inst weed in modern engineering and construc- tional skill.
In Professor Low's madeen liner the vessel would be entered from the stern. Trains would run inte thin along a specially constructed rond, so that passengers could drive to cabins or move along travelling gtnir- ways as if ashore,
This the ninring experts. chor. acterised og a "completely unpran- tient and ILD entirely unwanted complication."
NO REST FROM
CAMERAMEN
Colonel and Mre, Lindbergh, who hid themselves at Wimereux, The French hathing resort not far from Boulogne -Mer, were suddenly surprised by a photographer, Picture shoes the couple trying to
escape his
camera.
Fish Fight Mosquitoes
FREEING COLONY OF
MALARIA
A little fish, call gambusia affinis, is helping to free Papun, which is governed from Aus tralia, from the malaria mos- quito, says Austral News.
According to the government medical officer's report, the fish
were introduced into Papus from New Guinea, in 1983, and where-
£30,000 HOME IN LONDON
UNDER THE GROUND
round Garden
CONCRETE
OUNGE
„MARĶOS.
The bombproof and gasproof ánderground home which is to be built at a cont of £30,000 for en mnawet million- aire--an artist'ʼn sketch from information supplied by the architect.
UNDER GROUND FLATS
DON JUAN AGAIN
Warsaw, May 28.
CUPANISLAV SVIETOCHOVSKI, Communist lender, famous as the “Don Juan of Warsaw," was jalled again here 'to-day—but not for a political crime.
Some months ago Stanislav was serving a short term-in-, ♫ prison. He met n fellow Communist, Alfred Rudnitski, who praised
the wife who was waiting for his release. Stanislay was out first, went to see Annu Rudnitski, fell in love with her, Anna forgot her husband.
at his home.
To-day the husband was released, found Stanislav Itudnitski slashed at Stanislav with a knife.
Anna called
Stanislav shot and slightly wounded Rudnitski. the police and gave up her lover to them. Tonight he is in prison. She is nursing her wounded husband.
Birthday Honours Forecast
RAMSAY LIKELY TO BE O.M.
THE FIRST BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST OF KING EDWARD
TV IS NOW BEING DRAWN UP.
The list will be comparatively short, as the King is likely to (reserve the majority of the honours he wishes to bestow for his
Coronation List next year.
It is understood, however, that His Majesty will probably confer the Order of Merit on Mr. Ramsay MacDonald-one of the highest honours in the gift of the Severelyn.
Both Mr. R. B. Bennett, former Canadian Premier, and Mr. S. M. Bruce, of Australia, are likely to be raised to the peerage in recognition of their great services
to the Empire..
Sir Godfrey Collins, Secretary for Scotland, is expected to become
[# peer.
Mr. Harc-Bellha
may be knighted as a reward for his work 48 Minister of Transport, while Dr. E. L. Burgin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, and Captain II. Margesson, the" Chief Government Whip, are also being mentioned. as likely knights.
MARLENE
now
DIETRICH
COLLAPSES
Work at 138 Degs. Too Much for Her
New York, Map 28. Arizona is too hot to hali Marlene Dietrich just HOI....
the new colour film "Garden of Allah''
PRODUCTION of
China Builds First
Streamlined Train
Shanghai, May 28, CHINA'S first "streamlined" train has gone into service after a year in construction al the Woosung shops, near Shang- hal.
But its streamlining is more decorative than functional, and no effort has been made at par ticularly light-weight design or other factors allowing high speed, for the train is to be em- ployed in local service between Shanghai North Station and Nanhslang,
the Nanking line - tofal distance of 14 miles, with one station between.
There is only one train in the Far East which may really be called streamlined in any true sense, this being the express on the South Manchuria Railway. Its steam locomotive has been shielded in such fashion ።። to decrease wind resistaner, and it makes relatively high speeds, though they Iturdly compare with American nations.
in which the glamorous Ger- Queen Mary's Engines
BOMBPROOF HOMES FOR ALL
'YES'
Says Mr. Milton 'I've Had
HICCUPS
FAMILY DUG-OUTS FIVE YEARS'
(ALL CON., H. & C.)
FOR £200? BOMB-PROOF and gas-proof underground houses for all, casting from £200 upwards.
New York, May 20. "He! Yes, it's quite true, I've been klecuping five years to-day," said the voice over the telephone. It was the voice of Robert Milton, seventy-six-yenr old farmer, of Blue Springs, Missouri, who celebrated quinquennium of hiccuping by hiccuping some more
That is the aim of Investiga- tions being carried out by Mr. Alan Daly, an Elstree architect, who announces that he has been, commissioned to build a £30,000 wires. "Herman, that's the gu
"Ilic! hic!" came over the underground mansion beneath at the grocery store, hic! gave me Hertfordshire meadow for a mila bottle of grape soda. Said I lionaire.
should like it, but I've been hiccup- ing ever since.
1
Mr. Daly will not reveal the name of his mystery, millionaire who is going to earth, but he says the house In to have ever 20 rooms-four recep- tton rooms, four bathrooms, eight or nine bedrooms, and servants' quor
ters,
It will be 12ft. below the surface, and will have a 4ft. thick concrete
ruol
PERISCOPE VIEWS
.There will be air conditioning, and artificial smshine will stream through. artificial windows which will look put on scenie landscapes. A different landscape for each season of the year! will move into position at the touch of a switch.
The house is to be approached by tunnels. leading from the nearest rond.. On the surface over the house will be a garden with trees, lawns, and tennis courts,
An ornamental fountain is to camouflage a periscope.
HEALTHY, TOO
FORTY-TWO DOCTORS
"Yes, I've tried all the remedies. Forty-two doctors have tried to stop it, hie! Sonte of my banker friends told me to drink twelve glasses of cold salt water. I drank eleven,
and decided that the cure was worse than the ailment. It made me so sick I had to go to bed.
"My wife Elsie thought ahe would curo me by frightening me. One night she crept up behind me and pulled my hat down over my face, hict I was as scared as hell, but, hic! I
started hiccuping #gain.
""Some one else suggested lumps of sugar soaked in vinegar, hie! no good.
"Somebody prescribed drlaking mineral water from a cup covered with cloth, hle! I got worse,
"REAL MONEY"
"I offered one thousand dollars, hie! and that's trea! maney, to a
"I am now going thoroughly into doctor to prepare some kind of hic! the question of costs of underground
| building." Mr. Daly said,
I
are perfecting the formula.
medicine, but, hic! he died
"Then somebody
before
told me to put
"With mass production methods there is no reason why houses should a paper sack round my head and not be built under the ground to be breathe through it, hiel But you
ut 50 completely bombproof
couldn't Ive like that. per
"Often I cent, above the normal cost, and I
I hiccup two or three weeks hope will be possible to build sin- at a spell, and then have a respite gle bombproof rooms for the ordin-of five or six days. This is one of nry householder at about £200 each. my bad spoils. Hiel Hiel lef
"With air conditioning, ultra-violet "They told me an operation might ray sunshine, and proper damp-proof-cure me, hief but I don't care for ing, the underground house would be those surgeons' knives,
just as healthy as an ordinary coun "I guess, ble! I shall keep this up try house."
until I die, hic!"
CLIPPER BUILDER SAYS
HUGE PLANES WILL SOON GIRDLE EARTH
:
New York, June 1. With aviation now prepared to establish regular operations over the seven scas, it will be possible within a few years to reach any point on earth within two or three days of comfortable travel aboard large passenger airliners which will compare favourably in every respect with medium-sized steamships," according to Igor
ever they had been placed, they had eliminated the mesqultoman star is appearing in place | First Studied In 1929 I. Sikorsky, internationally-known designer and builder of aircraft.
Tarvae. Some were placed in a Ingoon, and a big flood carried tliem to neighbouring lagoons. In five months all the lagoons were swarming with the fish and the mosquito had theen entirely eliminated. One lagoon, of six zicres, which teemed with the larvae had been elonred in three months, and the fish had bred to countless millions
Southampton, May 31.
COMFORTABLE AS STEAMER
an
of Miss Merle Oberon-is being: held up because of it.
"The fact that we are so close ons "which would be fully suitablo The actual of selecting the to this accomplishment is not for transoceanic service." Miss Dietrich was working Queen Mary's nines began seven the result of any particular de- yesterday in the desert, where 580 in 1:29 the engineering velopment or invention," Mr. "We believed it must be A flying
and architectural stuffs Invited some of the chief scenes are large
committer of distinguished Sikorsky said in an address be heat with four to six engines, proba- being shot, when she collapsed, marine engineer: and machinery ex-fore the New York Museum of biy twin decks, with a reasonable The thermometer showed 138 parts to consult and co-operate with Science and Industry here inst speed of from 100 ild have wheel
them in the study, experimentation
hour. The ship, would have excellent She was unconscious for Ave force to be adopted for the glant ship.
and choice of the type of motivating night.
living quarters fully comparable to "It is the consequence of the accommodations aboard a small minutes.
United Prest.
series of accomplishments and steamship, comfortable stateroonis developments which cover various that. would have nice sleeping ac- phases of aircraft design, con-commodations, a large dining room struction, engines, accessories and which would be used for meals, and a160 lounge or dancing salon dur-
the evening,
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Mr. Sikorsky said his company within two or three days. Considor. ene to the remote points of the earth had done a great deal of engineeringablo traffic exiate and still more will research and that it was prepared to be created as soon as this phase of produce flying craft of from 40 to 75 transportation becomes available,”
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