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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER
1936
KINGS 36-TON ATLANTIC AIR BOATS QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
at 2.30, 5.10, & 7.15 p.m. only And New 42-Seater Liners
HAILI HAILI THE GANG'S ALL HEREI........ And so is the grandest film howl of the month!
WE WENT TO COLLEGE
CHARLES BUTTERWORTH WALTER ABEL HUGH HERBERT UNA MERKEL EDITH ATWATER
Ducted by 30BEPH SANTLEY Paused by BARNY RAPE
The old grade are
back-and how ther
lat thetadros go!
Romance again campus big-Jinks
gridiron telli
550 as a great chat of
Funsters Teade the
{tangh parades
GALA PREMIERE, TO-NIGHT AT 9.30 P.M.
OPENING TO-MORROW, 12TH DEC. NORMA SHEARER -- LESLIE HOWARD in "ROMEO and JULIET"
with JOHN BARRYMORE
DAILY
AT
2:30
520
720
9.20
for Imperial Airways
From A Special Correspondent. very fair mail load will be carried IMPERIAL Airways are making as well as profitable. freight,
The Atlantic air route is to be two important developments. They are planning 36-ton flying: opened next May for experimental!
40,0001b; boats able to take passengers, mail flights with the Caledonia, and freight non-stop across the Empire flying boat.
Experimental flights are likely to Atlantic from Ireland to New- foundland on the
London Now continue through 1938 and at the end of that year the first of the 80,0001. boats will be ready.
York service.
They are having bulli twelve 240 m.p.h.. 42-seater landplanes to replace the 38-seater Hannibal class on the European and Indian
· routes.*
classes
THÉ LANDPLANES
bo
The
landplanes will new known as the "E" class. The Arst of machine the will be named the Ensign. They In both biplane policy has been abandoned. will be the fastest four-engined air- Boats and landplanes will be mono-liners in the world and will carry a
its crew of five. planes. The monoplane, with clear design, high speed, and absence Their total loaded weight will be more approximately 20 tons and a pay of rigging problems, ls the
load of from 3 to 5 tons will be economical type,
carried.
The now boats will be twice as heavy as the present series of Empire bonts nearing completion at Rochester. Each will weigh about 80,000lb, fully laden and will coat about £80,000,
Designs have been prepared; ten- ders will be put out soon,
2) PASSENGERS
The boats will require up to 8,000 horsepower to enable them to reach a speed of 200 m.ph.
About 50,000lb. of their weight
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture will be accounted for by the struc-
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From the thriller that'mede Broadway say ite prayarat
CEILING ZERO
SUN. -MON.
JAMES 625 (699)
PAT
CAGNEY O'BRIEN
and
ture, engines, instruments and At- tings. Fuel will weigh about 20,000lb. The crew will consist of two pilots, a navigater, a wireless operator, a purser
and two stewards. Their combined weight would absorb about 1,2001b.
weighing But up to 20 passengers, some 3,400lb between them, could, be taken with the same comfort now provided in the Empire boats. A
HOW THE ATOM IS SPLIT ACTION UNDER HIGH TEMPERATURES
Modern atom-splitting is carried on under conditions equivalent to a tem- perature of 7,000 degrees Centigrade, according to Professor E. N. de C. College, of University Andrade, London.
Lon
ordinary chemistry," Professor Andrade explains i
Their under-carriages will be the largest in the world, and, despite their size, will be retractable. Special tyres are to be constructed for the landing wheels.
Each passenger will have his own armchair seat and a table for news papers and books.
There will be kitchens and a bar.
A pleture of the famous Lion Yard in the old Moorish Alhambra This palace Palace near Granada. la remarkable for ila architechtural far. It has grace and beauty. So been saved from the ravages of war.
Woman With £10,000
In Her Handbag
AND £20,000 IN
CABIN TRUNKS
HER
A TINY, dark-skinned woman of 38 stood before
officials in the lounge of a liner when it docked at Til- bury.
GIANT AIR
SISTER No. 3 OFF
By An Air Correspondent
in his book, The CENTAURUS, third of New Chemistry." Just published.
Britain's giant Empire (Bell, 34. fid.), "we have often to
opply heat to effect our reactions, the flying boats, has departed temperatures attained in our labora for Mediterranean airline.
up to about
tory furnaces
3,000 degrees C
At such temperatures the particles
in
service.
.
which make up any form of matter I accompanied the experts
very rapid movement.
we do in our electrical Who flew on an experimental guns (in atom-splitting), he pro- flight in the huge plane, one of 28 cecds, "is to give the reacting atoms which will form part of Imperial a great energy of motion: in other Airways' new £2,000,000 fleet. words, we produce the same effect as a very high temperature would. What temperature would we need to produce for every atom to have the energy we get when working with a milllon volls? It comes out to about 7,000 million degrees."
We averaged a cruising speed of 165 m.p.h, on a half-hour trip across Kent. With 30 men on board Centaurus was lifted-off-the-Med- way in Just over 20 seconds. The roar of 4,000 horse-power in
An interpreter asked her the routine question for foreigners "How much money have you! Have you enough for your stay here?"
The woman replied, by opening her handbag. It bulged with English banknotes amounting to between £10,000 and £15,000. She sprung a further surprise on The officials,
She told them that in her baggage she had securities representing a
further £20,000.
And she and her twenty-year-old con came ashore. They stayed at the Savoy Hotel.
ASSASSINATED
The woman with the fortune was Mme. Villamanes Gomez, sister-in- law of the late dictator of Venezuela, Juan Vicente Gomer. Her husband was assassinated in 1923.
Mme. Gomez had been staying at Las Palmas, but after the Spanish revolution she and her son decided to come to London, though they speak no English.
They brought their worldly wealth with them.
A Venezuelan oMelal in London said to-a-press representative. Since the death of the president all mem- bers of the Gomez family have ded owned Venezuela, but his properties have now all been confiscated by the Government."
This, he points out, is many times the great engines penetrated the abroad. The president practically hotter than the highest temperatures sound-proofed cabin only as a hum, believed to exist inside the hottest One could talk in ordinary tones. stors.
NEW CHEMISTRY
Professor Andrade quotes one form of atomic change, that of the com- bination of the element lithium and
hydrogen, to form the gas, bellum,
Refreshments were served on board. A smoking compartment Jay for'ard. Aft la promenade deck where passengers can stroll and "sightsee" from a row of port- holes.
which would release ten million With bunks, the most luxurious times as much energy, if carried out armchairs yet put into an airliner, on a large scale, as would the burn-grey-blue furnishings, carpets, deft ing of an equivalent weight of cool stewards, Britain has produced a
George Raft
Walks Out
"In the new chemistry," he com- magnificent machine. But some may DIDN'T LIKE PART ments, "we are so far without any feel that it takes the thrill out of
the precise knowledge of
necessary for wholesalesfying.
Hollywood, Dec. 1.
BECAUSE he objected to being It may be that we shall be
never
a dead hero while Gary able One For Atlantic to utilise atomic energy, but even if
off with the *Centaurus and 20 of her sisters will Cooper went this is so, we may take comfort from the fact that it is certain that the carry the malis next year to India in heroine, George Raft has walked heat engine would be speedily two and a half days, Capetown in out of the new Paramount film followed by the atomic bomb the four days. The existing record. by pursuit of the new chemistry is none plane to the Cape is three days six "Souls at Sea." the less desirable, if it does not seem hours, to Australia seven days. possible, so far, to turn it to destruc- One of the flying boats will not iive ends."
be used on Eastern Empire routes. Professor Andrade bellaves, how-Caledonia, standing alone on her slip- ever, that it may be possible to make way, is destined for Atlantic cross- some of the new ""artificial" radio- ing experments, for which she has „netive elements_on_n_suficient scate axira, viel tanks.....
to be medically useful. This is be
cause of their enormously great acti-
vity. "Addio-sodium," the radio-
active form of the che
chemical element MILLION MADE
of common
salt, is, for
sodium, of example, about a million times as active as radium itself. Very little of it. therefore, would be needed.
Professor Andrade's book brightly written, and provides what Is probably the clearest and most
ia
June Travis Stuart Erwin Barton, MacLane The romance of a devil-may-carn. pliot who broke a data with a git muscle in on her sweetheart's rendezvous with death A Supine Production « maissies by Warner Bros. A First National Piór
IN HIS
ADVENTURE authoritative account of the "new LATEST
TARZAN”
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SELFRIDGE'S
AFTER FARMER
BEGAN IN DEBT
Londen, Dec. 4.
of
He was cast to be featured with Gary Cooper in the Alm. The plot called for Cooper to "win the girl," while Raft died a hero's death.
But haft has refused to play such an "unsympathetle" part, After days of argument, he failed
Jo appear on the act for the shooting of the Alm yesterday,
To-day his agent announce Mr. Ran hud "Anished" Paramount.United Prest.
BRIGANDAGE
WIPED OUT:
that
with
The story of how George Baylis, of
LTALIAN STATEMENT chemistry which is yet available for Berkshire, overcame early adverses
FROM ETHIOPIA the general render. Avoiding theore to become the largest farmer tical dimeulties, he concentrates on arable land and producer of barley
Rome, Dec. 10. explaining the main facts in as in England, was told by C. S. Orwin,
The Italian Government has issued simple language as possible.. Director of the Oxford University
Agricultural Economics Research an official communique on the situa Institute, in an address at King'stion in Ethiopia,
The statement says that a punitive ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Lynn..
expedition In the Harar district has After six years of farming in been entirely successful and brigand- DONATIONS TO KING GEORGE Berkshire, Orwin said, Baylis lost age has been entirely wiped out. A
· MEMORIAL D
20,000 and in his search for some total of 20,000 rifles and 112 machine other method of farming he came guns were captured from the bri-.
at Rotham- gands-Reuter. The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank upon the experiments has received the following further sted, which proved that corn could donations to the King George V be grown with an application of Memorial Fund:
ammonia and phosphates. He made The annual dinner danco and Previously acknowledged $104,045.10 a great success of it, and eventually presentation of awards of the School Rev. and Mrs. 3. R. Higgs 114. 20.00 farmed 12,000 acrca, half of which of Accountancy and Commerces and
200.00 he owned. 1,000,00 25.00
Wilkinson B, Grist
Sing-klu
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Adama Students of St. Stephen's Girls' School & Fair- les School
$75,00
$105,206.10
the Hongkong Accountants and Except for a few working horses, Secretaries Students' Society will be Baylis dispensed with animals, and held to-morrow, from 8.30 p.m. to 2 Peninsula he obliterated villages and farm am in the Rose Room, homes in building up his great hold- Hotel. Tickets for both the dinner Mandy dance and the after dinner dance are ing
He left a fortune of £247,000 when obtainable only at the School of 'Ad- Accountancy and Commerca. he died.--United Press,
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