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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 22, 1940.
By
Walt Disney
Death Of Eton How Britain Beat The STOCK MARKET
Character
Ironed Toppers For
60 Years
ETON "Selornon," the man who for nearly 60 years ironed the top- hats of Elon boys, died recently aged
By.
His real name was John Thomas Harris, and he was one of the most
Arm
of hatters in
Magnetic Mine
THE secret of how Britain beat the magnetic mine can now be revealed.
Equipped with special, apparatus, British ships can famous of Eton characters. He was sail in safety over magnetic mines-and the device was made possible through the discoveries of a German scientist.
employed by High-street.
Ho was nicknamed "Solomon": more than 50 years ago.
Mr. Harris was at work only twe days ago, preparing hundreds of huts
for the new term.
In 1920 his portrait by Mr. E. Hall Neale was hung at the Royal Academy.
Called the "de-Gaussing apparatus" it consists of a cable round the hull of the ship at upper deck level. A special form of current passes through it and neutralises the ship's magnetic attraction.
Evory Ship to Have It "It will not be long before every ship will be sultably doc- fored."
The term "de-Gaussing" refers to Karl Friedrich Gauss, the German sclentisi, who mathematician and died in 1955. He devoted 25 years of his life to magnetic and electrical
vessels are already using it.
The Queen Elizabeth was equipped There is not a boy who has been at with it for her Atlantic voyage, and in the last half-century who has it was disclosed recently that bun- Eton not visited Mr. Harris scores of dreds of warships and merchant times. He alone could restore hata used as balls for passage football, or transformed into concertinas by being sat upon. They were quickly "lushed
Up." HA process, by the hat wizard.
or
The device can be fitted in three
four days. its coat is relatively small, and Etoninns call the naval experts belleve it to be com- pietely successfa), The Dulce of Gloucester, the King
Current Reversed of the Belgians, Viscount Halifax,
An electrical expert says: "The de- and Mr. Anthony Eden alt availed themselves of his services. The Caussing apparatus was invented by British electrical engineer now Duke once said that Solomon had a
with the Admiralty. saved him many n punishment.
The only time the boys trouble "All ships, as they come into port, about their lappers," Mr. Harris once are being tigd with it. We can said, "in on the Fourth of June and truthfully say that no British ship so when they go to Lord's for the Har- protected has been sunk by a mag-
netle mine. row match."
After last year's match, when there was something of a rag and hundreds of toppers were bashed in, Solomon "Jushed up" over 300.
Mr. Harris's father and grand- father were Eton hatters. He him self could have retired years ago but hats were his pride, and he would not go.
"The principle on which the device is based is quite simple. By passing! electric. current through the wires muguette attraction
British
researches, and system of unlis based on length, mass and time named after hin.
REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Omelai Summary issued Saturday says:
Market was very quiet, with negligible turnover recorded.
Mayors
11.20, Banka 31,005 Bank of E. Axia 813 JL.IC. Fire Ins, $500 ILK. Steamboats $1 Docks XIX. $19,40 Pravidents 4.33 Lands 6303
Electrics 05
Telephones (Old) $20.05 Telephones (New) $10.20 1K. Ropes
315
Dairy Arms $21.9 Watsons $9.35 Wa. Powell si Entertainments $0.00
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Sellera
1.K. Banks $1,515 Ducks Cum. Ris. 122
Hafez
Union Inn, $500 Douglases $120 1.K. Mines & cela, Telephones (016) $287/20 Telephones (New) $10.10
FIRE AT TAIKOKTSUI
Gasmask Factory Gutted
In Outbreak
occurred
Gauss organised a German Magne- tie Union so that magnetic observa-
Fire last night gutted the premises tions were taken at a fixed time at various places in Europe. The union of the Yip Sing Gasmask Factory. about 8 o'clock, and appliances from worked for eight years and their re-Talkekisui., The outbreak
the Mongkok Fire Station were bent sults were published in memoirs,
to the scene. Good work was done In checking the flames which were under control within an hour.
The factory was fortunately built on open ground, and no other build-
nearby were inga
affected. The fumes of burnt rubber were lilck in the vicinity of the blaze.
ITALIAN CONSULATE During the absence from the Co- 10 the North lony of Signor G. P. de Melito, Con- Hongkong, Pole is reversed to the South Pole, sul-General for Italy at
"If the Germans decided to make Signor Gulseppe Ros, Italian Consul mines with South Pole attraction we in Canton, will be in temporary
of the Italian General, could counternet them by switching charge of the current.
Consulate-
The cause of the outbreak has not yet been ascertained.
U.B.Beer
LIGHT OR DARK
M
FRESH WHITE-BUTTON
MUSHROOMS
$225
per lb.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
Public-spiritedness is the subject of this gay cartoon from the Paris paper "L'Œuvre." "What luck!" says the crashed motorist. With this scrap tron they can make at least three machine-puns."
BEAT DAD AT POKER!
A 13-YEAR-OLD boy, remanded at Doncaster recently on a charge of stealing a Christmas stocking, was said to have won 358. playing cards with his father and aunts.
It was stated that the boy won the money at brag, pontoon, and six-card poker.
A detective said the father admitted these facts.
GERMANS TRAPPED IN. JUNGLE
DAR-ES-SALAAM.
TWO Germans who escop- ed from internment here to day were recaptured within 15 hours.
One of them was Ernst Troost, aged 66, leader of the Tangan- yika Nazi Bund.
His companion, nged 23, was also a prominent Nazi,
They had been interned at an istund camp; and it is believed that they escaped in a boat at midnight.
Their capture, at a point 15 miles south of Dar-es-Salaam, indicates that they were making for Portuguese East Africa.
To reach this neutral territory they would have had to trek through 250
The boy's home conditions were deplorable, the polico added. miles of wild country.
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