THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPII, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1933.
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PADGETT.—At the War Memorial
1938. Violet
Winifred
more
They can reach planes at
to the head of the rocket. was called the fire arrow.
It
The Greeks were the first to use the rocket in Europe. It is found there in the seventh century. We do not, however,.. hear of the use of the rocket in other parts of Europe until
the fifteenth century.
Thero is an account of the
any height . . travel at French using the rocket in tho
700 m.p.h... be steered from the ground by radio
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by LORD FORBES
siege of Point Audemer, which was defended by the English. The city was stormed by the French following the big fire that had been started by the incendiary rockets.
ROCKETS were used throughout the Middle Ages to frighten horses during a cavalry charge.
some things in our defence which other people had not; there were some good things in our defence, and he was
MODERN rocket of high speaking with even
loaded with power, restraint than he might use. liquid, can finish its journey at "The ingenuity of men speeds in excess of 700 miles of science has not left us per hour. This velocity would enable the rocket to pierce the wholly defenceless on the thickest, and toughest of pro- sea, under the sea, and in tective armouring. No warning the air," he added.
would be given of the approach Many are asking what are the of a rocket, for it would be for anti-aircraft work will not ment of Copenhagen by Admiral new inventions for defence travelling faster than sound.
have to carry a big load of Nelson- against air attack that Sir
I cannot answer that question,
mark
An Englishman called Con- greve invented a rocket with a tín body and a steel tip at the
noso.
This was part of the munition equipment used at the bombard-
Al
corps
English rocket Thomas Inskip was referring to. IT is as yet difficult to explosives. A small charge will
be sufficient to destroy a plane. fought at Leipzig-and Waterloo. The long-range rocket similar In the last war the rocket was to that invented in Germany in may be applied at any time to illuminating the enemy front for the purpose of
But there is every reason to a bombardment of foreign cities. and for no other purpose.
a target with Nursing Home, on August 21, for I know not. I can, however, accuracy, due to the irregularity gustu tell you about the new weapon of the combustion of the gun (nee May) dearly beloved wife of defence against air attack powder. of George Thomas Padgett that is being developed in other Funeral service to-day, at 6.30 p.m., in the Colonial Cemetery
countries. Chapel.
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believe that the powder used in
The rocket, like many in- ventions that suddenly spring
use
PROPHESY that before
It is the rocket. A projectile rockets will be perfected so that into prominence, has been used which carries its own motive it will explode as reliably as in a primitive form from time the rocket will become
many years have passed
in
our
SOONER or later a reply
power in the form of gases shells.
immemorial.
principal weapon. of defence ejected from its tail. The There is a new development
The story is told in the Biblo against air attack. technicians of Germany, France that counteracts the unreliability
I believe that it will be so and America are developing the of the rocket gunpowder, It is of the use of this device with a rocket as a replacement for anti- the steering of war rockets by singular motive power. It is the successful in destroying enemy tale of the outrageous conduct bombers that the use of planes aircraft guns. Whether develop radio,
military purposes may ment along these lines is going When this is fully developed of the Philistines who deprived for
The on in this country I know not. it will be possible for a rocket, Samson of his wife and gave possibly be abandoned.
And the leader rocket may easily become what ANOTHER ROAD Abroad many believe that the once it has been fired at a plane, her to another.
anti- to be redirected on its course and of the Jews devised a rocket of the depth charge has been to rocket will replace both TO SECURITY nircraft guns and even heavy steered until it finally strikes its fire, fastened to two engines in the submarine.
the form of foxes. These ho artillery.
objective. The prospect of
A long-range war rocket has directed against the crops of his closer
is found to every chal- economic, and consequently poll-
THE rocket has many ad- been developed Germany enemies, and for the first time
a lenge. An invention produces can travel 180 miles in history the rocket had vantages over anti-air- which tical, front by Grent Britain.
counter-inventions. Now it is artillery. First of all the loaded with 501b, of explosives, complete success.
The Chinese also made use of obvious that we must develop a France and the United States mechanism which is required to It is aimed by radio and can be
the rocket as an engine of war defence to air attack. [continues to draw the attention launch it is extremely light and fired with accuracy.
and called it the "Hidden Spirit." If such a defence is delayed of the French press and excite not costly to build. Therefore,
THE rocket is best suited The rocket took a long time to for a very long time all the war comment from all sections of while a gun of large calibre is
for use against enemy reach Europe. It came via Asia, experience of history is denied. people. And it is true that the not easily moved from place to
rocket was used For through the ages defence ground for such a sowing of place, the rocket can be moved bombers, for the height at which where the
be fired is practically extensively as an engine of war, has always been many, many seeds of co-operation has seldom greatest of ease.
to any emplacement with the it can
limitless. The rockets required In Asia an arrow was fastened times stronger than attack. been better prepared. The three
Long-range guns cannot be Le governments have worked in moved because of the concrete perfect harmony in the financial emplacements that are required field since their recent agree for them. These are needed to ment
resist the terrific recoil that for mutual preserva- tion of the values of their is fired. A rocket, however big takes place when a heavy shell currencies, and they have it may be, has no recoil what- induced other, smaller nations to Boever, and will not require'al collaborate in the protection of heavy launching mechanism. the whole financial structure-
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The Falling Birth-Rates
ip
his
Doomed?
Budapest and now chief statistical Office at Geneva, concurs with the British scientist and with Professor Richer.
TWO
TWO years ago Professor Charles
Richer. the famous French Is The White Race expert at the International Labour A long-range gun, under the the white race that they were doomed selentist, published an article warning against the sometimes alarming best conditions, cannot fire a to extinction if they did not have
But does a dwindling population shell more than ninety miles, more children. Following on prospect of inflation panic, with while a simple rocket loaded with pronouncement, other scientists have
necessarily mean tint a country is also warned us that the falling birth-
decaying? Many great Powers have the inevitable complications and gun-powder can travel with case rate will have serious consequences exaggeration, has undoubtedly the deemed such to be the case, notably harmful effects upon internal eighteen or twenty miles. Afor the race.
largest numbers of births of any Japan, who recruited husky Northern and international trade and rocket loaded with liquids such Britain's s birth-rate is exceptionally country in Europe, and little Holland Chinese coolles, wrestlers, and even bandits to console the widows of morale. Add to this antisfac-19
Germany. In shows a very healthy percentage. and low. So is it petrol, methazine,
That famous novelist, Emile Zola. those soldiers of Nippon who were Wor. slain in the Russo-Japanese tory understanding the more hydrogen can travel hundreds of America and South Africa the people
ot Anglo-Saxon origin are not warned France in no measured terms Italy, Germany, France, Hungary, multiplying. France has never had about the dangern of "race-suicide." recent close welding of British miles at high speeds.
and Russia encourage fertility by Another advantage that the proportionately heavy birthrate In our own country Sir Leonard Hill allowances in proportion to the nun- and French feeling, accomplished rocket has over the long-range since the days of Napoleon, when she sounded the same warning in a more ber of children.
and polite and scientific manner, and by the visit of Their Majesties gun and anti-aircraft guns is to France; the subsequent that the further the rocket goes "friendly conversations" of Mr. the faster it travels, while a shell Henry Morgenthau, American loses speed from the time it Treasury chief, with his opposite leaves the gun. This feature is GRIN AND BEAR IT
most important in anti-aircraft guns, where a moving target is being shot at,
numbers in Paris, and the approach to a general trade agreement on the part of Great Britain and America, and it will
be appreciated to what an extent of military alliance is in prospect, the preparation for possible or that any defensive treaty is
While it might bej broader agreements has been sought.
taken. It is impossible to do acceptable to one at least of the
parties, the third would never| more than surmise whether or tolerate any undertakings of a
not these various moves have
nature which would automatical- been carried out with a great
But the tri-party understanding in view; ly involve it in war.
more fact of their drawing) together in the realm of
but that would seem a likely ex- planation, and is not too much to expect of the practical, de-economics will be sufficient to increase their individual and mocratic governments concern-collective prestige, their power ed. All three of the great for good in a world where dis- democracies must have per-trust, and competition continue | ceived the necessity of their to create ugly episodes, dis- close co-operation in view couraging failures in cradicating| of the growing animosities of ill-will and constant threats of re- politically antagonistic regimes, course to arms. There can be no United, they must realise, they questioning of the advantages of a co-operative economic bloc with have overy right to anticipate Britian, France and America at that their strength will be its head, or of the closer friend- sufficient to meet any sort of ship and sympathy which such challenge; divided, they must scheme would cultivate among riak a fall from the high places these three great peoples, whose
ropouted pledge has been they individually occupy. It is preservation of peace and the not to be inferred that any sort defence of freedom.
tha
was exhausted by revolutions wars. Russia, even allowing for Professor Imre Ferenczi, formerly of History May Repeat Itself
By Lichty
"Pat--ask him now-while he's is a 'good mood-about a new
fur coat!"
But It is not only the old lands of Europe, fatigued by many wars and eternally harried by economic pro- blems, that are suffering most from what alarmists
sts call race suleide, but
also the white populations
of
Australia. Connda, and the United States. Lands where mixed races. prevall have a high percentage of births, notably Bruz!!.
"It h
and
has been repeatedly said that the Red Indian races of North America were dying out through lock of chil- dren. This is untrue. The red man's breed almost died out because of. imported
diseases, wors, deprivation of his hunting But the Red' Indian has recovered, and if your Navaho or Apache of to- day does not have us big a family as his grandfather, at least, his children. ore healthier and richer.
grounds.
The yellow and flock taces are noticeably fertlic, and although the colour-bar of our prejudice frowns int, mixed marriages, it is possible. that these unions will come about in increasing numbers as time goes on.. and a new race may be formed there-
by The black legions recruited by
Rome have left their stamp, all over Europe, particularly in
Southern Italy and part of Spala, and it is not. Impossible that history should repeat Itself, especially In the case of an-- other world conflagration.
A More Cheerful Note
Fronice, which really suffered terribly from decreased man-power after the 1914-18 War, employed several million labourers and skilled workmen from other countries... Many of them became naturalised,.. Because France has a supreme quality (Continued on Page 5)
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