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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
MARCH 27, 1940.
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Test your TASTE
HERE are three simple texts planned to pass a few minutes in measuring your good taste.
Begin with these menus below. One of them is nearly perfect, the other has several care- lessly chosen items. Which of the two do you think shows the better appreciation of food-and WHY?
MENU:
Grape Fruit
Fresh Pea Soup
Filet or gele Bonna Fer
Roast-Aylesbury Duckling Frosh Pean
Mashed Potatoes
Water Ice with Elices
of Fresh Orange
MENU Grape. Fruit
Consomme
Pillet of Sole Bonne Femmo
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Roast Aylesbury Duckling
*ach Peas
New Potatoes
Peach Kelba
Now these rooms: One is in good taste, the Which do you other has errors in furnishing. think is the better of the two-and WHY?
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Two concerts next: Which one would you choose? One of them has been selected with the greater discrimination. Which one is it-und WHY?
CONCERT A.
1. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1
20
Two Song
Ave Maria
Serenade
CONCERT B.
Marriage of Figaro Mozart
-2-Two-Songs.
}. Overture.
Liszt
.Schubert Schubert
3. Intermezzo. Midsummer
4.
Night's Dream ..Atendelssohn Overture, Morrlage of Figaro
5. Song. Serenade
Mozart ..Strauss
Serenade
Ah, fora e lui
Schubert .....Verdi
3. Ballet Music from La Boutique
Fantasque
Rossbil
INTERVAL
4. Symphony: Pathetique
Tschaikowsky
If you're not sure, look at the foot of columns four and five..
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MARVELS
MODERN
THE first torpedo consisted of an explosive charge on the end of a long pole.
This pole was carried by a launch so that it stuck out over the bows like a long bow. sprit, and a torpedo attack -consisted of creeping up to the enemy ship, thrusting the charge on the end of the pole against her side, and firing it.
That method was only used once in action, and then the way also attacking launch destroyed, which was hardly surprising.
It is for cry from that prim!-- tive weapon to the modern self- capable of propelled torpedo, rushing at its target at nearly Afty miles an hour, and travelling for many miles on an nccurate course and at a set depth below the surface of the sea,
Yet the self-propelled torpedo which has been Is a weapon developed comparatively recently.
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield, the British Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence. witnessed, when he was a young officer serving in H.MS. War-
the spite,
first self-propelled torpedo attack on a heavy allp In history.
nir.
That was during the Chilean Revolution, when the battleship Blanca Encalada was sunk by lor- pedo attack from torpedo gunboats. The first self-propelled torpedoes were driven by compressed They were known as "cold" for- pedoes. They worked fairly well, except that their speed tolled oft as the pressure of the compressed air became reduced, and they left a very marked track of air bub- bles.
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OF THE TORPEDO
forms of super-heated steam mixed with the gases of combus. tion. It is this mixture which drives the engine.
The engine of a modern torpedo is a marvel. It is a four-cylinder radial engine which fits into the twenty-one inch diameter of the torpedo's hull and takes up only about-nine-inches-of-ils--length. This little engine develops some three hundred horse-power, and is one of the most efficient power- units in the world. It is water- cooled by the sea, and it needs cooling for If a torpedo were run hot out of the water the engine would be reduced to a mass of molten metal in n very short time.
The engine drives, through gear- Ing, two propellors which revolve in opposite directions. If there were only one propellor Its grip on the water would tend to make the streamlined torpedo revolve while the propellor itself remained still.
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THE depth below the surface át which a torpedo will run is regu- lated by horizontal rudders on the tall, which are operated by n com- bination of a hydrostatic valve and a pendulum weight. The weight takes charge if the nose of the tor- down, while the pedo goes up or down, valve is victuated by the sea pres- sure according to the depth pt which the torpedo is set to run. The direction of the torpedo is controlled by vertical rudders operated by a highly emcient Kyroscope run by compressed air.
The explosive charge of a tor- pedo is, of course, carried in the head, and it is fired when a for pedo hits Its target by means of o "pistol" which is onto the nose of the torpedo. This "pistol" con- tains the detonator and firing mechanism. It is provided with steel "whiskers" which stand out almost to the diameter of the tor pede, so that if the torpedo strikes- a glancing blow on its target, one, at least, of these "whiskers" is cer- tain to be struck and the torpedo fred. The actual weight of ex- plosive in the head of a torpedo ja
but secret,
experience has shown the power of these under- water weapons.
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The modern torpedo is an ex- piece of ceedingly complicated mechanism, and every part has to be accurate, not only as for micrometer measurements are con-. cerned, but also us
as regards weight. This is because a torpedo is very delicate. For efficient running a
virtually torpedo must have tendency either to font ar to sink, so that its weight is a matter of nice calculation. Even the exact amounts of air, water, fuel and the rest of the things with which it is charged have to be carefully cal- culated so that the resulting weight Is right.
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It is not surprising that a highly complicated and delicate mechanism like a torpedo should be expensive. If you wanted to buy a modern forpedo and were able to do so you would not see much change out of £2,000,
Test Your Taste
Menu "A" In badly assorted. Pea Soup and Roast Duck are both heavy, rich dishes and should not be combined. Peas occur twice,
vegetable. in the soup and as o Mashed potatoes are wrong with the duckling.
"" is better. In fact, Menu there is nothing wrong with it until the sweet, which is too rich to fol- low the duck. If only the hostess who arranged this menu had ended her dinner with the Ice In Menu "A" It would have been a perfectly balanced meal.
THESE disadvantages were over come by the development of what Is known as the "heater" torpedo, Compressed air still plays an im portant part in the propulsion of thene torpedoes, and the "air vessel" in which the
Compress air contained forms the part of the hull of the modern torpedo. The compressed air, how-2 ever, no longer drives the torpedo. The air mixes with oll fuel and is burnt in the inside of a "genera- of the tor". Down the outsido "generator" runs water.
So high is the temperature of the "generator" that the air, oli and water avhich go in at one end come out at the other in the
In the grouping of "A" there. is a confusion of motives. The naturalistic designs on the rug clash with the formal modernistic Ince of the furniture. The flowers are out of place for the same Terron.
The drop antique handles on the tall-bay conflict with the rounded modern handles on the dressing table.
In "B" there is one formal motive observed consistently throughout so as to make un hurmorilous whole. there are no The rug is plain, flowers. The tallboy handles have also been made to match those on the dresser.
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The first Programme, Concert "A" Is just a jumble of items, each one good in itself but strung together without pattern. There no piéce substantial enough to build the items around. Also they are too monotonously alike. The two Schubert songs are atmilar, and there are two serenades, while the final item leaves a sense of incom- pleteness.
Concert "B" builds up the atten- tion of the audience itern by item to the climax. Then; when their faculties have been fully roused, comes a break to give them a rest before the big item of the even- ing, which sends them home with something to think over and discuss.
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