THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1936.
EXTRA FOR
£19,652,700
Sixteen Additional
Warships
FIRST-LINE AIRCRAFT TO
BE INCREASED TO 1,750 SUPPLEMENTARY Estimates totalling £19,652,700
were issued last month for the Navy, Army and AirĮ Force.
The total is made up as follows:
Navy Army
£1,059,000
£6,600,000
Air Services ...£11,700,000 Royal Ordnance
Factories...£ -293,700
The strength of the Air Force is increased from 50,000 to 56,000. The present number of overSENS RA.F. units (25
Water Recedes In Caspian Sea
aquadrons, with a strength of approximately 270 first-line air- eraft) will be increased by 12 squadrons by 1939.
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Secret Plan To Pool
Colonies?
Paris, Aug. I.
is stated here that the Colonial Office in London has drafted a secret plan for pool.
of ing parts
the various Colonies in Africa, making them available to Powers who
want "a place in the sun."
While the Colonial Office has draft-
secret
ed this plan, it is underslood Ger- many hus sent to London a Long-term orders are to be given note clearly asking for a redistribu- for large numbers of air frames aration of Colonies, which the Foreign engines met other equipment 10 bring the strength of the first-line Offre lins not answered, polregaft at home,to approximately
It is added that recent events in 1,750, exclusive of the Fleet Air
Spanish Moroveo nee making English heavier provision for the idiplomats more anxious to And n bulk of the cost of this programme, peaceful solution of. African fand it is stated, will fail to be made in Mediterranean problems as they fear In a statement 'attached to the Italy and Germany may agree to take
Supplementary Eshmate, advantage of the situation. Army Arms remedying deficiencies relating to defence is estimated to cast £5/14- Catons Heures to show that the n while the speelal measures in
Machi
Aro, Moreow, Aug. 1. Soviet constructions of dans, vast increas of eutiralert areas and in- tensive use of the water of Kuma, Terek, Volga and other elvers for 1937 and 1938. irrigation threatens the destruction ĐỂ The Cosplan Sea, neeording to Prof. R. Apollov, pomminent geologist.
BRITAIN SUPPORTING
PORTUGAL?
thut
His reported from London ed lost 7,435 square infles of area connection with the Itado-Abyssinian since 1925, Apoliny urged that men- dispute Javolve # estimated ex-Crest Britain is dvitu: full support zure, de taken to disebarge into thej penditure of $1,352,000 There are to Portugal to keep her entonles, for Chspiky a portion of the waters ofį kavings which reduce the total to bidding my Power to raise a claim northern rivera and the Don, to pro-1 46,6000,000,
on them.
teet valuable feteries and . Cósplosi navigation fun future centuries.
FELL 24 INCHES IN 1925
Dyrint the Game of the last 10 year the level of the Caspian rose and fell alternatively, but in 1925 fell sharply 24 - inches below the average level, according to the geo- logist In March of this year the gea was 1.9 kuches lower than in 1926,
total decrease in area of 7;433) square miles, or equal to the suurtare! of the Bam-Bugaz gulf.
SCIENCE'S SEARCH
FOR TEMPERATURE'S "BOTTOMLESS PIT"
mitta vast and Sil
betoninst
Investigation of "the condition.
-The Desert Of
Absolute Zero
of
As a result in the guff of Baku the| Lowers of the ancient fortress off Sahar, built in the 12th Century, the Carplan barn, precipitation and which was submerged by a gendogeni yaporation shew no essential changes diburbance, now protrude from the waters In fine weather the ametent You leading to the fortress can be arem on the bottom of the gulf,
ISLAND BEING LINKED
in eunestical conditions, according to BELOW THE COLD OF Apollon.
who therefore concluded that contruction of dams, growth of Jeotion plantations in Transcaucasia. tilisation of water for irrigation on Herge scale and development of in-
tensive early sowing seeping
th
The island of Cheleken gradually snow on cultivated lands to the last in being connected with the Turk-brannte por-ihļe, was responsible,
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New York, Aug. 1.
Frances Mallida, twenty-one-year-old million-hefress to the Dodge fortune, spent 250,000 on maintenance, education, and clothing inst year, according to the latest accounting of her motor-car mingnato father's estate.
This is how she did it:- Stable and horses
Car and chauffeurs
£20,000
Clothes, shoes, fur coats, riding habits
£ 5,000
Incidentals .....
£ 4,000
£ 1,400
£ 2,000
£ 1,000
£
Travel, rails, steamer fares
Four months' schooling
Dog kennels...
New kennels and kenndi mald
Entertainment
Swimming pool
Upkeep of maner house
£5,000
1,600
£ 2.000
£ 1,000
£5,000
Feed for her horses costs £14 a day, She usually buys thirty frocks at a time, all original models,
French Air Secrets
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Given
Paris, Aug. 1. M. PIERRE COT, the Minister
To Soviet
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engines, and light aeroplanes to all
these clust
Until 17 the boys will 'undergo a "perfecting course" In which they will study air navigation, the sending of radio messages, and the construc
for Air in the new French Socialist Government, to-day an nounced further details of his sweeping plan for making alm of gliders in factories. (French children air-minded.
SECRET "GIVEN AWAY"
155
As already announced, all child-
M. Henri de Kerillis, a Nationalist ren from 9 to 14 are to be given
announced! that he preliminary air instruction
al duty,
tends to ask M. Cot why be Schoula: Hoys from 14 to 17 are given orders for the handing over to have training in gliding; and Soviet Russia of full plans concern- youths from 18 to 21 are to being "the Alea type of machine-gun trained in aircraft engineeringt. turrel, and especialty an Dirt Now it is explained that the in- in so designed that it is capable of structiet for the fet entegory will ring through the hub of the aero- include visits to alrernft factories and pine propeller." Herrelpoines, the carrying out of exercises with models, and special fina air currents and aero- dyanden.
A 14. the pupils will be entitled to join etahs for popular)sing avia. tion, to be formed all over tise country, The subscription will be as small as possible, and suffelent
only воз meintaln the social fr of the club, The Gavernment WHE gliders, lives fitted with
His motton adds: "These wea- pons are of the greatest Importance and are unequalled in the world. is the interests of the nation that they should be kent secret."
It
Writing in a recent issues of the Echo de Paris, M. de Kerilis syst "My question refers to a letter of M. ordinary Cot in which he gives orders to the ‚¦henckmarters of the French Air Force with regard to this marvel of French Invention,
supply small
"I realise that M. Col will reply was to me that we are virtually, against Germany, the military allies of the
During the Low Temperature Exhibition f. the Science Museum, Professor F. A. Lindle I would be easier when the gas mann exhibited quid helium empressed. There is greater order
in the smaller voline.
Ruslan Government and that we are gas frozen to 260 deg., C, bélow- Then there is hest, another vari therefore anxious to allow them to The cold of ice, ur only 4 de nhle, The nums fly into wilder dis-profit by our discoveries. grees above the Absolute Zero order as the heat of the gas increases, of temperature, beyond which is nothing further.
At a fallowing belure Professor F. Simon-with-apparatus_brought by his fellow workers, Mr. E. L. Pickard and Mr. A. II. Cooke, from the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford, got down to within one degree of that extremity of cold.
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a South Kensington lecture room was thus produced a tempora- ture lower than hay existing in outer space. Above the frozen gas was a vacuum more complete than any in which an atom floats between the sinrs.
ILT
Arc
and the gas expands. There are now! "I only say that we should not hund two variables in the conflict of order over the most important secrets of and disorder. But it is a law of heal our national defence to Russia. and onerry that, in any collection of we certam that a diplomátic revolu foregs, shut up from outside inter-tion will not entirely reverse the ference, like the god-atoms-in-a-closet-situation-as-it-stands at present?" container, there is a certain total sum of order, which, can never in- crease by itself.
Consequently, if we alter front out, side the order due to the volume, we interfere with the heat balance. What we gain on the swings we lose j on the roundabouts.
SCIENTIFIC CHESS
In other words if we increase the order by compressing the
Kas, the disorder due to hent will rise. If now we increase the volume disorder
Armour
And Guns In Advance
PREPARES FOR ITS NEXT 16, SHIPS
BY A NAVAL CORRESPONDENT
Estimates
Although the supplementary Naval
The artificial production of such unnatural cold and emptiness is an by letting the gas expand, then, by NAVY astonishing fact. The resources of way of compensation, the disorder science have been ransacked for many due to temperature will decrease and years to attain it; and it scents the temperature of the gas itself will strange at first sight that while it fall. By this scientific Juggling with is so easy to reach high temperatures the heat and volume of gases their it should be so hard to sink to low temperature has been forced dawn. ones. By clicking on
may seem small, more electric lower and lower, past the point where torch we can set up a temperature of nitrogen liquifies into greater order, then one of the £1,050,000 is to be 1500 deg, C. But to get down to past liquid oxygen and liquid hy spent on armour for new ships, and Absolute Zero, mathematically estab-drogen to quid and solid helium, for extensions of plant and works A further £250,000 is-carmarked bshed as 273,16 deg. C. below the fere there is a wonderfist degree of melting point of ice, is beyond us. order. We can afmost imagine each to the manufacture of armour and
END OF DISORDER
atom et like a chessman on its pro-guns What is that temperature, and per square, how defined? It is that at which But at this temperature it seemed the atoms of a gas, deprived of the as if a stop must be made because heat energy which is one with their sucli was the vegum above the liquid motions, cease to kick against the or solid
mass that there was
no
sites of the vessel contufning them further expansion of gas to juggle They fall lifeless and inert. They with. Then appeared on the scene! are at rest, their wild disorder stilled the qualities of the atoms themselves. to order. Herein lies explanation of Atoms have their own magnetic per the contrast between the production sonalities and can help to, set the of heat cold. It is easy to ercule board. any degree of disorder. It is hard to bring order out of disorder.
ATOMIC.MAGNETS.
In the ntoms of some partially A simple example may show what magnetic salts, such as potassium
Only £150,000 is actually devoted to the laying down of 10 additional warships, viz.:
Two cruisers. of about 5.000 tons (making seven cruisers in all this year).
One aircraft currier (making two in all).
One Botilla leader and eight destroyers, of about 1,400
tons (making IN of these vessels In all).
all.
Four submarines (three of the patrol type, one of a smaller de- is meant. Suppose we have black and chrome alum, are tiny magnets set sign), making eight submarines in white cheramed arranged in order on all ways in disordorly fashion. Cool the board. Shake the hourd violent down these salts by liquid 'helium and ly so that the pieces tumble here and surround them with
These ships, which are to be laid electro down in the spring, will ultimately there in, confusion. It is the easiest inagnet producing a tremendously Involve a total expenditure of over thing in the world to throw them strong magnetic field. Under its £11,000,000. into disorder. But no amount of influence the atomic magnets turn Tic shaking will throw them back into towards their rightful poles. Order comprised in the Estimate represents balance of the £1,039,000 their places. Only hand-picking will is increased.
do it. If the chessmen were 'atoms
vin
Again the law of the sum of order tion of certain ships already in hand, the cost of accelerating the construe-
now
in a gas the feat would prove utterly operates. We have artificially. Including the cruisers Liverpool and impossible.
Fortunately for the success of pro- cannot be
creased the order in a new way. It Manchester,, building on the Clyde
at the expense of the und Tyne respectively. ducing low temperatures the com- volume which does not parison between the chessmen on change. Therefore it must be at Ordering numour plate in advance their squares and the atams in a the expenso of the temperature. may also enable an earlier date to be gas is faulty. The orderliness among It falls und falls till it comes closer fixed for the completion of the two the chessmen depends only on their the hundredth of a degree to new battleships to be laid down in positions on the board: They do not absolute zora, Híero metals
January. Under the terms of the Jump up or down or fly about. Un- their character.
alter Washington Treaty they cannot be Somo no
Jonger like the chessmen of "Through the offer any resistance whatever to the begun before 1937. Looking Glass," they have no per- flow of an electric current. Some Admiralty to arm these two battle- It is the definito intention of the sonalities of their own, being moved thing happens to their neither by heat nor other quality. electrons.
spinning
ships with 14le, gups, frrespcelive In dealing with them only one vari- But if we can got no close to ab-of the armament of the new Ameri ablo is to be considered.
solute zero, why not reach it? The can and Japanese capital shups. But in a free gas, which is the answer is that at that temperature Hopes that the Naval Conference highest type of disorder, there are the order would be complete, and of of 1933-36 would agree to the CES- many variables. There is, for ex- an absoluto amal impossible perfection.sation of submarino Construction ample, the volume. If we were look-The desert about absoluto zero can having been folsided, has been ing for a particular atom in a cortain
necessary to add to the nover be crossed. But it is not an found region of a gas, we should measure empty, desert. Into this infinity, strength of British submarine flot- the amount of order there by die science will panoirate further, not llat, at present interior to those of.. cast, with which we found it. It knowing yet what it may find. 'several other Powers.
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