THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY,. : FEBRUARY
22,
1937.
SOCIALITE
SCOFFS AT
A PRINCE
MISS
New York, Feb. 10.1
ȚISS KAY ROSS MACCULLOCH, pret- ty American society girl, is not going to marry handsome thirty-four-year-old Prince Halim of Egypt, cousin of King Farouk, whether his family are for or against the match.
She was frankly amazed when she was informed in New York to-day that Prince Halim had agreed with the royal family of Egypt to ronounce his romance with her.
mo
"I am simply furlous," she said. "I would certainly never marry any one but an
The residence of the Duke of Wind- sor, the Austrian castle Enzesfeld,
Anglo-Saxon, and I couldn't Imagine living in which he is tenanting until June
Egypt.
"I simply cannot for the life of understand how all this has
happened.
"I met the prince in Paris in October. There I saw quite a lot of him; just because he knows a lot of people I know and he was often around with them.
NEVER IN LOVE
"But I was certainly never in love with him or gave any thought to him as anything but a casual quaintance.
uc-
"I saw very litle of him in Lon- don because he was so persistent. I ran into him in one or two hotels, but. I told him I didn't want lo go out with him.
"I am very interested in an English boy.
"I have heard several times from the prince since, but I have just Ignored his letters."
British Test For Secret Ray
Air Ministry Will Try Out Invention for "Paralys- ing" Airplanes
London, Feb. 10.
Secret demonstration of a ray that paralyses petrol and oil engines for several hours is to be given to mem- bers of the Scientific and Research Department of the Air Ministry.
re-
The Invention, perfected by a thirty-six-year-old Londoner, sembles a powerful searchlight on a swivel tripod. Main components in-
clude infra-red rays and d secret ray
1 and where hig sister, the Princess Royal, recently visited him.
ATLANTIC SERVICE BY AIR NEXT JANUARY
From A Special Correspondent
Washington, February 10. THE Transatlantic aeroplane service between Britain and the United States will begin in January 1938 under arrange- ments now being completed between Imperial Airways and Pan-Ameriçan Air- ways in co-operation with the two Govern- ments.
On the Neusiedler Lake in Austrin two new types of motor-sledges were recently tried out, One typ, looks. like a plane without wings and the other looks like a motor-car without
This will enable passengers and mails to mova regularly once a week each way at the beginning of the service, which will be ex- tended as equipment and demand increase.
Preparations are also being wheels. The latter has its motor in made for a United States air-ive higher speed.
the rear and a propeller is used to chip bid for passengers and light freight.
Foggy Dartmoor
Hardest of All
Jails for Escape
Landon, Feb. 10.
"Convict escapes from Darkmoor." That was the newspaper placard on the London street one day recently. "Dartmoor convict recaptured," followed next morning. To most people in this country, not only of the underworld, the word Dartmoor conjures up only the great convint prison set upon the Moor in South Devon; a place, except for a short Summer, of sudden fors and rain and show and bitter cold; of grey granite and
of rey quarries; of working parties prisoners outside the walls under the eyes of armed warders; of Civil Guards, carbines in crook of arm, sinnding here and there on vantage points. A place of damp and deadly gloom from which no men may escape for long.
FREE FIVE HOURS
The prisoner of this week who "escaped" had his liberty but a short Ave hours., Slipping away from his gang in a sudden fog such as T com- mon on the Moor, he was defented by the fog. For five hours he wan- dered in circles, only to surrender when the fog litted and be taken back exhausted to the place whence
he came.
is curious that escapes from other jails never give to the towns- man the thrill which on escape from Dartmoor gives. No man yet has really escaped from "the Moor," or, at least, only one. He wa
never
heard of again. Probably he per- ished in a maraes.
FOR WAR PRISONERS
Wag
funtastic
granite
into weathered shapes loom up against the sky. Hunger, terror, cold, collapse. The search parties find him; then he goes back through the great grim granite gateway with its inscription of 1812
"Parcere Subjectis" -- Spare the vanquished. They don't-on Dart- moor..
But the Cockney enjoys the story in London.
The Government will ask Con- gress for ample appropriation to cover dirigible subsidies until this class of service becomes profitable.
Negotiations as to details fol- lowing experimental flights are practically concluded, and Fal- timere, selected as the American terminal, has been advised to complete the enlargement of is airport by the end of this year nt a cost of nearly £600,000.
JIGSAW PUZZLES FOR THE DUKE
Cleveland, Feb. 10. When the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Waitis Simpson, finally reunited, they may spend some happy hours over one of the. myriad-pieced gsaw puzzles which
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THE JOYOUS FRAGRANCE
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in all climates in Greys cigarettes by
the special airtight tin container.
SOLE AGENTS
Obtainable from
TABAQUERIA FILIPINA
ZORIC
for
The success of the American Mrs. John Paul Jones, of Chagrin MODERN
Trans-Pacific service and British trial flights over the Atlantic are responsible for fixing de- finitely the time when a regular service, may be expected.
Electrons As Man's Greatest Servant
POSSIBLE SERVICES MAY EXCEED WILDEST
FLIGHTS OF IMAGINATION, SAY
GENERAL ELECTRIC EXPERTS
Schenectady, N.Y., Feb. 10, General Electric scientists working in research laboratories are "train- ing electrons to serve man." In fact, the scientists say the electron prom- Ises to be the "greatest and most powerful servant that man has."
When we were at continual war with France a place had to be found to incarcerate prisoners of war, So the great place on Dartmoor
In a statement to the United Press, they do see the characteristic yellow built for them; American prisoners the General Electric Company said colour of sodium light, and that tells of war of 1812 went there, too.
The wars came to an end. Then about training, and that
the electrons are being sublected to them the electrons speeding across the inventor has discovered after Ave
the "discipline the tube are colliding with the years of
1857 it occurred to someone to use they are being taught evidences one sodium atoms. Many of the colli- work. experimental
the place for many years empty-more-stop-in man's control over the slons between the Recently, a trat was made with the
as a convict prison. Only the worst forces
of pan's
and the sodium aeeding electrons ray on a ten horsepower motor car.
and most confined
of offender Lype
Scientists to-day have Д fairly found changes in the atoms struck, The engine was left running while
was, or is, sent there. Most of them
good idea of what an electron is, and when those atoms return to the car was stationary. The beam
are townsfnen; they get away in the trained on the bonnet of the sudden
They know that it weighs 1/1845 their normal conditon they give off fogs characteristic of the
of a hydrogen atom, that it is the golden light that is the principal car and Imm the engine Moor, and they take to
the Moor it out of action selt, not knowing, or
charged with negative electricity, evidence of the whole process." stopped. It for more than two hours.
was para angers. Miles of heathing, its and that its mass Increases as its velocity approaches that of light. Although
the engine lysed, it Wns undamaged,
andite boulders and great fors sur-
IT'S 20TH CENTURY PRODUCT several hours later it could be and small rivers.
зуда
driven away.
and huge
the runaway. Water courses run In el direc-
llons. In many paris seemingly The Inventor hopes to be able to bottomless bogs-mires"-may en build a set that will throw a ray gulf him, even us they sometimes do 15,000 to 20,000 feet to disable air- the wild ponies born and bred there. planes. To do this, more than Not a human habitation is within 500,000 volts will be necessary.. sight. Dusk falls; giant outcrops of
New Guinea Warriors. Rather Too Rough in Their Football Game
Knives, Broken Bottles and Razor Blades Among Weapons Brought Into Play-Mortality Rate Becomes Too High
of
atoms Cause
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EXAMPLE OF BEHAVIOUR
Only short distances
Falls, O., makes especially for the royal
household.
Mrs. Jones, whose business was started to bolster the family income filled a large order for Harrod's in during depression years, has just
London, a department store which serves the royal family and inem- bers of the court.
Mrs. Jones also has sent a ship- ment of puzzles to a close friend of the former king. The friend plan- ned to present them to Edward as a Christmas present,
This came friend, whose name. Mrs. Jones prefers to keep a secret, was the first to introduce King George V and Queen Mary to the American pastime of piecing the puzzles.
The fad soon "caught on" in royal circles, and the late King George and Queen Mary were Icaders in
the game. Orders tor from Harrod's.
more soon
Camc
Now, agents in many cities take
orders for Mrs. Jones puzzles.
Mrs. Jones and two young women assistants work eight hours A day in a basement shop, sawing big pletures Into small bits.
The ex-king kes large puzzles, Mrs Jones says. "He and his friends and relatives pro-
do them on week-ends. The biggest one I ever sent the king wan a map of London In 1,950 pieces. It took us more than three days to put it together before we
sent it."
To the scientists, it is explained, the procedure is a simple example The electron, admitted by mod-of electron behaviour. To the auto- ern physics and chemistry to be a mobilist who drives at night under probable ultimate constituent of all sodium lamps it may seem very atoms, is a product of 20th Century mysterious. research.
"When we have once learned the Scientists say that until the 20th behaviour of electrons," said the stale. Century, the structure of atoms was ment,then can come the training entirely a
a subject for theory and period to teach them to serve man. conjecture,
The great universe of
electrons modern research methods is just becoming known to selen- and equipment," the General Eles-tists.
have trie statement said. "It became been penetrated in this strange possible not only to theorize, but in micro-land and our brief glimpses some instances to study the interior into it have not gone far within the
cuter
boundary, atoms and the movements of
The enormous amount
of knowledge
obc still to mitless. Yet reien- scientists are going far beyond the lists know that with every forward limitations of our visible world. step, they are gaining facts that They have long forgotten the age will be invaluable in training cles- old com
trons to cominon-senɛe adage that 'seeing
work for
man together is believing.' They are seeking with the other forces of nature man knowledge
unknown has already harnessed. universe.
"When all the electrons have com- #TE seems impossible at first pleted their course of training-that thought that the human mind can is, when scientists know all about study things cannot see, feel, them and can make them do what smell, hear or taste. The five senses we want them to do their possible that serve us so well in ordinary services to us far exceed the wildest day-to-day events Bre,
however, flights of imagination. hopelessly inadequate in receiving "Even with our present small and
The incomplete knowledge, the reason is that electrons are so tiny, sibilities for use of the electron
scem infinite." OFFER IDEA OF SIZE
experimentations with electrons, grasped seems
in an unseen,
many deaths have been caused by native football matches in the Australian territory of New Guinea that a leading chief asked a district officer to discuss the matter at a native council meeting.impressions from electrops. This officer is expected to make a startling report to the Administra ⚫tion.
The prohibition imposed by the authorities -on tribal wartore left
·warriors' without recreation. They. introduced football, but became per- turbed at the casualties.
TOO MANY PLAYERS
"Our five senses are not keen enough be aware them.
DOS-
TONG ELECTIONS thing that weighs 1/1645 of a by-trained to serve us, raid the scien
BEING PROTESTED
A match played at Rabaul begar: with the orthodox number of play-Montreal' · Chinatown · Closely Fa- ers, but after thirty minutes, and in trolled While Reply Awaited From apite of the dozen warriors who lay Injured on the field, the number had
Increased to fifty-5 of the players |
found seven
were armed with knives, seventeen
Headquarters Here
Montreal, Feb, 10.
we
SOME ALREADY TRAINED Already some electrons have been drogen atomn, in turn weighing lists, for instance: .0000000000000000000000001002 of a
obey the commands gram, is quite
and that is what tubes. Here the flow of millions Dad an electron weighs. It's too minute billions of electrons is accelerated for direct observation."
and halted thousands and even With modern instruments, it is millions of times a second. The possible now for scientists to ob-electrons manoeuvre like disciplined serve the effects of electronic activi- armies. They react unerringly to ty. From the study of the effects, the
human achsliivity.do the realm of transmit to the grids of vacuum
Complaints were filled to-day with scientists work back to the causes pot changes made. In geld-
It is also possible to
defthe certain
had broken bottles, nine had razer officials at Victoria protesting the laws of action the electrons seem to control their action with uncanny
blades, and the balance carried stone legality of recent elections held by follow, club heads, six-inch nails or short certain members of the Chee Kung hardwood sticks with sharpened Tong (Chinese Freemasons). points. That ended football In Rabaul
Six Chinese scrutineers protested MORTALITY HIGH
to headquarters in • tho British: that Columbia city
officers' wCTO However, natives who returned to elected without presence of official their home villages took the story of scrutineers appointed by the tong the game with them. The result was and without customary three days rival tribes, in which, according to notice being served. reports, the mortality rate has be Police stated a close survey of come higher even than that in the Chinatown would be maintained in old tribal wars.
anticipation of trouble.
Scientists are able to predict and
accuracy.
"And in this ordered movement," As an example, the statement pointed to the interior of a gas said the statement, "this" obedient discharge tube, such as the sodium behaviour to cur wisher, Hes the tamp, which la coming into wide use secret of radio broadcasting and radio reception and all the other on highways. "can measure the current of elec
"Scientists," said the statement, duties that vacuum tubes perform. "It is, therefore, with great hope troos Blowing inside the tube from that scientists look forward to ex- the-heated cathoda to the anode, ploration In the micro-land of They know that there are millions territory apparently will be found this space. They can, of course, see the most astounding and most im- neither: electrons nor atoms, but portant discoveries of our century."
upon millions of sodium atoma in
"We always put the puzzles to- gether before we send them out," Mrs. Jones said, "to be sure a piece hasn't been lost and that all fit per- fectly.
"Queen Mary and the late King George used to do the jubilee puzzles I made. Once Harrod's sent me an order especially for the king, but set
price I considered too low.
"I called back I wouldn'i make them for so little. Then they wired back that should suit myself about the price but to hurry with the order.
"I understand," she continued, it was the custom of the king and quern to work the puzzles them- selves first, and then pass them on to members of their family."-- United Press.
Chinese Subject Wins
American Citizenship
St. Helens, Ore., Feb, 10. C. J. Pape, who has lived here for 15 years, is probably the only Chinese subject ever to become a citizen of the United States.
Pupe, born in Germany, went to China with his parents when he was a youth. He was admitted to citizen-. ship there when he reached an accept- able age, and held a government Job. Pape remained in China for 44 years.
ENGLISHMEN RETURN FROM TIBET HEARD OF KING GEORGE V.'s DEATH LAST AUGUST
Calcutta, Jan. 30. Two English travellers, Mr. Ronald Kaulback and Mr. N. J. F. Hanbury Tracy, have reached Calcutta “after twenty months spent in Tibet. They entered that country from Northern Burma in May, 1035, and emerged at Sadiya on the Assam border tust be- fore Christmas.
Most of the time was spent in the Salween Valley, where they surveyed an area of: approximately 60,000 square miles
es and mado an entomolo gical and botanical collection for the Britiah Museum. They received: most friendly treatment from the in- habitants and lived on the food of the country. They first heard of the death of King George V. last August.
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