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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
STEEL INVENTOR
October 2, 1940,
Honoured Over World Thumbs up from down under
LONDON, Oct, ·1 (Réuter).
death is announced of Sir Robert Hadfeld, the world-famous melai lurgist, and inventor of manganese steel,
pent in Research"
“A, Hndfield, the great. steel expert, was born in November, 1059, at Sheffield where his father was a cteelmaster He entered the business and devoted himself to research. Spending long days and oven nights In his laboratory, he investigated hitherto unexplored ussibilities of Improving steel.
in due course 'ho oncame head of Hodhelds, Ltd., when emplos 7000 men, and of the Hecla and Fast Herin Works, Sheffield, and director of many other companies, including the Mond Nickel Co.
In his researches he was assisted by a staff of secretaries, who field masses of information on the many questions in which he was interested. Nocturnal Ideat
It is said that he had a bell beildo
his bed and, if an idea occurred to him in the night, he summoned a secretary and had it taken down at
oner
His invention of manguniese siecl In 1803, for which he received the Bessemer Medal, has been described As the greatest of modern times. He estimated that every year rust des- troys tron and steel worth £500,000,- 000 and it was to eliminate This wasle that he began to add other substances to iron, the result being A material that withstands corrosion far better. Manganese steel is very Firung and hard und extremely ductile. It is used for rock-crushing machinery, railway points and wheels, and antes, for burglars blow-pipes cannot sofien it rapidly.
During the
World War manganese steel helmets saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Hadfield also invented low hystere← als aicei, silicon steel and many other | special alloy steels. In May, 1820, be announced that he had devised new steel alloy that would allow gus Turbines and turbo-compressors la
run at the enormous speed of 53,000) revolutions a minute ut a working temperature of 1,700 degs, Fahr
Foreign Honours
His improvements in metallurpeal prietairs were also very numerous and bus inventors were recognised by the conferment of a list of hon orary degrees and distinctions, both
3d forenin Krughted
1908, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1985 and mude baronet in 1917 He was awarded pracliendly every medal of importance by steel and betaBurg.end societies at home and abroad, teluding the John Fritz Mead. Amerien's highest
prize
The High Commissioner of New Zealand, Mr. W J. Jordan, greeting naval men from his home country at a British dockyard. They were in fine form as la seen in the lop picture.
NAZI SHOT
BY OWN PLANE
Over England
LONDON, Oct. 1 (Router).— One of the strangest incidents of the present air war occurred over England on Monday when a German fighter was brought! down by another German fighter in the same squadron.
A Group Captain of the R.A.F. was ying along at 12,000 feet when he test 18 Nazi bombers with a fighter imeort above Surrey. He attacked buntura head-on, turning them teerat He turned his attention to the atters it found three of thein attacking another Hurricane which dived out of their reach.
The German fighters were strung
J:1 J
One after the British plane
pond as the British Group Captain was at to dive in them, the Arst Nazi fighter burst into flames.
Li
Sportvatty the pat of the second Gren war fighter
excited that
Fuct to win his own leader! the bonell diet not Inst fong The BAF filcap Cupatiin shot him down,
KING GRATEFUL JAPANESE NAVAL
Colonies' War Effort
REVIEW
TOKYO, Oct. 1 (Reuter). --A naval review"
com-
LONDON, (kt. 1 (Reuter). The King expressed deep satisfaction with the colles war effort, of which His "grand Majesty was given a full account memorating the 2600th anniver- when he visited the Colonial Once, aury of the founding of the to-day,
Japanese Empire will be held off
Hla Majesty, whn was wearmg the
In 1928 he was elected a foreign pssocute of the US National Alfer of Admiral of the Fleet, was Yokohama on October 11. demy of Sciences, it very rare honotu met by Lord Lloyd, Secretary for the announces the Navy Minister. Be was skers a member of the Ameri-Colonies
can Iron and Steel Institute and ani
meer of the Legion of lioncar Haddleli wrote book "Metallurgy and Hs Influence on Moxtern Pro-
1112 ዞኖት
And nearly 200 technical
His wife ANDEN
a dughter of Col S M Wicker shavin l Alleghany, Pennsylvania During the war they
DIRE THE anidostained
hospitat at Wimereux
Vichy Accuses Cot; Seizes Property
VICHY, Det
(Reuter).The
property of M. Piere Cot, former A.r Minister, situated in the reglun of Chumbery in Savoy, is reported here to-day to have been confiscated,
A warrant has been issued for the Griest of M. Cot, who is in the Untied States He reported to be among the principal accused to be brought before the special court set up by the Vichy Government to establish' res- ponsibility for the collapse of France,
S'pore Golf
Title Won By Mrs. H. W. R. Williams
PRIVATE Information xiates that Mies. I, W. R. Willams (wife of} Major Wiliams), fately of Hongkong, won the final of the Singapore] Ladies' Golf Champlonshin held re- cently at the Bukit Tima Old Course, by 5 and 3.
Her score for the 18 holes was 81!
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The vast occupied an hour
Aussie Aviators Relieving R. A. F. Units
Rear-Admirał Kamuzawa, Director Jet Naved Publicity, stated: "Circum- istances have doubled the important "responsibilities of the Imperial Navy. ¡The notion in lacing on unprecedented emergency na it embarks upon con- struction of a new order in East Asia Cas well as in Europe in eu-peration
with Germany and Italy **
POLES' GOOD SCORE
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MELBOURNE, OU 1 (Router) Annuuseing that a number at Aus- teallan air force squairons are going to Malaya, The Prime Minister, Mr HG Menzies, said that Australian LONDON, Oel units would not add to the present of the Polish squadrons at present strength of the slabon but would engaged in the Battle of Britain hos 109 German
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