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THE HONGKONG TELEgraph, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1930.
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When Is a War?
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The Driest Period
for Years
BSERVATIONS made the
the
past
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at Greenwich have months may be shown that the Moon a result of this. Last year was is departing from its cal-
the driest year At culated course.
in Hongkong present time it is farther
for 40 years. from its position, according
Though it to the theory of gravitation, seems that sun- than it has been at any time spots do have since 1680.
The blame for this apparently erratic behaviour is to be put on our own Earth.
some effects on
weather- the
ng indicated, for instance, by the variations in the widths of
The Earth provides us with our standard of time: the day. If the length of the day changes because the Earth does not turn the annual rings round on its axis at a constant of trees (shown rate, the Moon.will be in a in cross sections slightly different place in the
Direction of EARTH'S,
Rotation
G-TIDAL BULGE
Thats drawing shows how the
Micon exerts is pull on the tides, which, in turn, bu their friction on the
ocean beds act as a brake slowing down the Earth's rotation..
Let's all join in the Chorus-With Tommy Handley and His Pals (REAT BRITAIN, thus far, has heavens from that in which we of the trunks] appearing to which swarms with jelly-fish of men where they should fish to
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Folk Dance. Draper's Maggot; The Hole in the Wall
Here Comes the Band.
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March Medley-H. M. Coldstream Guards
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Deep River: Go Down,
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Moses-Fats Waller on the Organ
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Medley-New Mayfair Orchestra
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Puszta; Tho Wind has told me a story-R. Foort-Organ BD595
Woodcutters' Song-Comedy Harmonists B8814
She was, she was, she was: Just for fun-Max Miller
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B8802 China Doll Parado; Dainty Debutante-Two Pianos BD527
When you dream about Hawaii-G. Fitzgerald
steered clear of the ticklish
expect to find it.
Other bodies, such 129
coincide with the number of sun- all kinds. the spots-those effects are largely international problem created Sun, Mercury or Venus are also concealed by
Powers.
influence these
obtain good catches. 1819 Over Again? the many other Guide to Fishermen by the hostilities between China found to be in positions that are complicated factors that continue
VHEN the Gulf Stream is MANY people are anxious to know whether sun-spots will sun- strong, catches of these fish and Japan. Neither China nor
It is not fair to blame
most valuable afford any guide to the weather Japan will admit that a war is slightly different from their cal to make the weather.
poor. The concerned food-fish prefer the cold stream to be expected this year. There in progress and there has been culated ones, but as the motions no normal declaration. Diplom- of these bodies in the sky are spots for our dry weather. But are
wireless communication coming from the North, which is no astronomer or meteoro- with tically, this pretence has not slower than that of, the Moon those organisations
the sun for is rich in the phosphates that logist who could predict with any this year's only suited Japan and China but their errors are not, so great.
can justly blame also, apparently, the Western Friction of Tides
some of the troubles that they provide nourishment for the ani- confidence what'
malcules on which the fish feed.
weather will be. are-experiencing.
Not enough is yet known about
Hongkong's meteorological the They may be receiving abort
Gulf In the detention in Hongkong THE astronomer can use either of a number of Chinese soldiers, the Earth, the Moon, the wave wireless messages quite these changes in
a few Stream to say whether or not records do not go further back interned in Kowloon City until Sun, Mercury or Venus, as a normally when, within
land, a hundred years ago, the presumably, the termination of lock; and the last four of these seconds, the messages will fade they are due to sun-spots; they than the Seventies. But in Eng- are being studied by the develop rainfall in the first five months hostilities, the Hongkong Gov-
of the year was double the nor ernment appears to have set agree in showing that the Earth away entirely.
It has been established re- ment commission on fishery mat- is a bad timekeeper.
tera. precedent which can quite con-
It is easy to see why the day cently that these fadings syn-
It would indeed be fortunate mal, and one of the driest sum- mers on record followed, with a ceivably have unforeseen re-
should gradually get longer. chronise exactly with intensely sults.
If China and Japan are not at The friction of tidal waters on hot eruptions on the sun. Such if it could be established that total rainfall from the middle of
occur in the un-spots do
than 1in. "war" in the official sense of the the beds of the oceans acts as a eruptions usually
with fair accuracy how nume-
Whether this year in Hong- word, by what authority are the brake on the rotation of the neighbourhood of sun-spots and changes, because we can predict May to the end of August of less prisoners detained? And what Earth and gradually slows it are frequent when the spots are rous sun-sopts are going to be.
nunterous and rare when they It would then become possible kong will follow a similar course- would be the Government's posi- down. tion if any Chinese or other: This process will go on for are few.
also to predict the course of the it is impossible to say. No pre- Gulf Stream and to advise fisher- cedent has been established, Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. person look out a writ of Habeas millions of years, until at length More Sun-Spots
Corpus, demanding the release the Earth will always turn the of one or more of the internces? same face to the Moon, just as AS sun-spots will become still the Moon already always turns more numerous for the next though Blockade
the same face to the Earth, two years, it looks as THE DANGER in the visit to The day will then be equal to there is going to be considerable interruption in the reception of Rome this week of the 17 of our present days.
But this gradual lengthening beam wireless messages. Premier, Mr. Neville Chamber-
Can we also blame sun-spots lain, is that he may be induced of the day is not uniform: some.
youth, what a welcome antidote
He appears often to be horribly by Signor Mussolini to grant times it is accelerated, some for the changes in the course of this modern world of outspoken
The cause of the Gulf Stream and other occan and how Infinitely refreshing socially misled by the idea of his own im-
is the man of 10.
portance, he criticises things of which belligerent rights to Franco in times retarded.
No young man with all his glitter he has had no experience, and sneers Spain-the right to stop, in the these variations is perhaps due currents?
These changes are of great in exploits can achieve the indefinat old age as something Victorian High Scas off England or any-to a slight expansion or contrac- where else, any ship which may tion of the Earth as a whole. importance to the fishing in-able charm whch characterises the which ought to be put out of life
Herring, haddock, older man. the An oscillation of the surface by dustry.
The modern youth, for all our ad-decently. be carrying supplies to
one or two feet above and below plaice, and sole intensely dislike miration, of his enterprise and his Loyalists.
The granting of belligerent | its mean value would be suff- the warm Gulf Stream water,vitalising ideas in business, is a nolsy three topics of conversation- rights to Franco would not cient to account for them. necessarily end the war through
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· CHATER ROAD.
Mutiny ON THE BOUNTY"
know no farcer robellion than that which smouldered white hot in the heart of this "gentleman" sant to common sailors school. • •
"CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS" offered no greater battles of character...no grander adventures... than this hearty-story drama of men in the making!
MICKEY
FREDDIE
BARTHOLOMEW ROONEY
STARTS TO-MORROW
Ford
Jeff
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starving the Loyalists of arms One Second a Year and war materials. But it
would probably end the war by THE most rapid change in the length of the day occurred starving the women and chil- dren in Loyalist Spain. There between 1863 and 1875, and are 3,715,000 children and over amounted to one three-hundredth 3,000,000 refugees from other part of a second a day, giving an parts of Spain in Loyalist terri-accumulated error in the course than one tory. Theirs is a problem of of a year of more cruel distress on a mass scale. second. For the Loyalists there is nei- The best astronomical clocks ther peace nor plenty, but war yet
alinost good and scarcity. Any concession enough to check this error. A to Franco will place into Insur-new form of clock, however, in gent hands the deadly weapon which the time is registered by of starvation,
Intervention
made are
onc-
the vibrations of a crystal of quartz, is being made for the Greenwich Observatory, and this FOR TWO and a half years the should be reliable to the
Spanish people have been thousandth part of a second per It may prove to be A defending their elected Govern-day. ment against a military re- better time-keeper than the bellion begun and supported by Earth. Totalitarian States.
The length of the day can While Britain and other de-change with considerable sud- mocratic countries have forbiddenness. The quickest changes den the sendag of arms to the have occurred about 1790, 1896, Loyalists in the name of "Non-and 1917. These were only Intervention," Italy and Ger- found by astronomical observa- many have openly sent armies, tions. Perhaps the next eud- meroplanes and "advisers" to General Franco, and have pub. den change will be revealed by licly boasted of breaking "Non-our clocks. Intervention."
At the present time sun-spots.
and other disturbances on the Without their backing, Franco's rebellion would never sun are rapidly becoming more bave started or, at the utmost, frequent. It has been suggested that the abnormal weather of would have been stillborn.
Why I Prefer The Man of 40
and drives a small, uncomfortable car much too fast because he thinks
By A Girl of 20 creature, who has uncouth manners.
it is clever.
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GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty
LL the young men I know have
Themselves, their Clubs, and Cars-and one qualification-they can dance.
their
Deje, 2306 By Dulled Prebam Synthesia, Ing. "Money doesn't mean happiness! Snodgrass, over there, with his two million fen't a bit happier than Fußleigh with hle mitilion."
The youth of to-day thinks it is amusing to be cynical, especially to- wards women, in whose presence be likes to show off atrociously, lo does not realise his own rawness, his lack of subtlety, or the eruptiness of his words.
You can see him everywhere, at the hotels, ut the Club and at parties, hands in pockets, cigarette in mouth, smiling The
of Amile
complete complacency, because he really be- lieves he is the salt of the earth.
The man of 40 la a very different person. He "has learned to look on nature not as in the hour of thought- less youth" but with the chastened understanding of experience,
The lesson of his own follies has made him tolerant of other people's weaknesses. He treats women with jdeference and respect, because be enn remember the days when we were really placed on a pedestal. He is [courteous and considerate, he knows
how to pay compliments.
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He is a charming companion be- cause he has long since outgrown talking about himself. lie is witty without being vulgar. He can choose. u good dinner unostentatiously, and does not bully his inferiors.
He takes an interest in Life itself, not merely a pleasures. He fa sympathetic, because few men reach the age of 40 without some suffering. Like new wine, youlli ta harsh and crude to the palate; the older man is mature and mellow. He may have grey hair, be unable to drive a car more than 35 miles an, hour, and delest parties, but 1 stimulated and cafe with him.
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