THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1946.
|
Suspension Bridge To "ANNA" AT GRANTS FOR DOGS FOILED
Span River Severn
The longest suspension bridge in Europe is to be built acros the estuary of the River Severn which separates South Wales from England and flows into the Bristol Channel, reports Reuter.
The bridge, with 11 centre suspension best suited to prevailing span of 3,000 feet, is one of the conditions. first projects in long-range plans announced by the British Government earlier this year to link the industrial areas of
though equipped with reports
They are taking ng chances even much
of larger suspension bridges already builla America, including the film of the colimpse of the 2,010 foot bildge across
the Tacoma In 1040.
WAR RELICS EXHIBITION
COLONIAL
WELFARE
of a trant
JERUSALEM
GUNMEN
Britain by a.vast network of Narrows, in the State of Washington Bormann, Keltel, Dr Dietrich grants to' Bechuanaland were bell, Deputy Assistant Judge Advo-
highways, bridges und tunnels. Foundations for the bridge have already been laid, and wind tests ure now to be made on a model of the bridge preparatory to starting its construction,
When completed, at an estimated Cost
the bridge is of £7,500,000, expected to bring new life and industry to parts of South Wales which can now be reached only by circuitous routes, crossing higher renches of the river.
Out of the British experiments for the Severn Bridge-as it will be known-may come a considerably contribution to the international files on the subject of suspension.
Though neay 200 feet longer than the 1-fated Tacoma
bridge, the Severn Bridge span of 3,000 feet is far short of the world's largest- the suspension span of 4,200 feet crom the Golden Gate entrance to San Francisco harbour.
the Livestock
Perhaps the most frequent Grunts and loans made to Two Boxer logs who attacked id'e question at the Relics and the British Colonia! Empire a terrorist armed with a sub- Renlitics Exhibition, sponsored during the three months onded machine gun out to kill two by the Army Benevolent Fund, October 31, 1946, for develop senior officers of Army Head- welfare and research] quarters in Jerusalem' will soon on the John Lewis site in Oxfordment, Street. London, is "Who is totalled £1,867,555 reports the receive the Dieken medal for Anna."
Colonial Office.
gallantry, the animala' VC. One of the exhibits is Hitler's This total includes telephone
They are "Punch" and "Judy", exchango which 380,000 for agricultural develop-
ment in Jamaica and £204,701 for belonging respectively to Lt-Col. H. G. Niven and Lt-Col A. H. K. Camp- carried the names of Himmler, water development In Bechuanaland.
for the extension of the services of
cate General of the Jerusalem Mili- Goering's name appears to have
and Agricultural tary Court, been deleted-and Anna.
Department (£74,215) and the con-
These two officers and the dots iral of tretse-fly (£70,575). A loan were in the sitting room
of their of
£49,500 has been made to house in a Jerusalem quburb one Dasutoland for the improvement of night when the two doja nuddenly dashed off, apparently having been Maseru water supply.
In the Gold Coast, a grant of attracted by a slight sound outside. £31,000 has been made towards They were seen to leap at a stranger leprosy survey work and £83,334 who had erept up to the house. has been allocated as a grant to The Intruder, opened fire with a meet the payment of interest on a sub-machine gun, seriously wound- loan to be raised by the Government
"Punch" and then ran away as of Kenyn for African housing ac a general alarm was given. He was commodation in urban areas,
not captures of expended Tommy
Nine To
pecially designed wind tunnel large bridge of 1,700 feet built in 1889.hibition, the
enough to hotse a model 52 feel long.
Taking No Chances
The tunnel, which is now being built by engineers of the Ministry of
Who she was no one appears to know. "Anna" may not even have been a real person, but just à code word for some person or department whose identity still remains a secret, but who was apparently extremely important. There is, by the way, no indleation of Eva Braun's name on the boards which provide 200 lines. They were in all probability part of To test the wind forces which the
New York Project
the main switchboard of Hitler's bridge may have to withstand on its The George Washington Bridge H. Q. in East Prussia, exposed position on England's stormy acrosa the Hudson River in Now Opened on December 2 by Major Other development grants include West Coast, scientists of the National York City is also larger, with a spon General the Earl of Athlone, K. G.. £25,000 for the improvement and Physical Laboratory will use auf 3,500 feet. The largest suspension who was greeted by a fanture of extension of Castries water supply in Britain in still the Forth trumpets at the entrance to the Ex-in St. Lucin, £40,000 for the central show succeeda in engineering und traffic training By comparison Sydney Bridge has a presenting vividly the contrasts be-school for the African staff of the aleel arch of 1,052 feet, while the tween the "now" warfare of Italy Pests and Telegrapha Departments steel arch of Newcastle-on-Tyne and elsewhere, and the appalling of Kenya. Uganda and Tanganyika, Bridge Is 1,254 feet,
conditions of the jungle in Burma.
for the and £14,650
provision Exhibitions
include leper colonies in the Gold Coust. In on show ironical contrast, alongside a British £31.050 has been Goering's armoured car-and, in Northern Rhodesia # grant of made for red for certain VIP's locust control and in Basutoland
was unnecessary!-photostat coples
Research Grants of Hitler's Will and Testimony, his
Besearch granthe design of include £15,000 personal Standard, the Samurni zhort towards work sword made by Yasumitzu in 1420 apparatus for the application and and
surrendered to
to Lord Louts dissemination
insecticides, Mountbatten, Supreine Allied Com-similar sum for the joint secretariat
surrender
of the Colonial Medical Research mander SEAC. on the the Japanes forces by Count Councit, and £8.050 for the preli Thratical, and a long sword forged
minary reconnaissance of water in 1992, sheathed in a wooden case storage at Lake Victoria, Uganda, and worn only momentarily Fit State occasions. This aword occupied n place in the esteem of the Japanese
something akin to people
our Doomsday Beels,
Transport, will be one of the largest in Britain, and observations from
of the bridge choose the form of
the experiments will help designers bridged. Plans for this project enti armoured saloon we because it 22,000 for anti-crosion measures.
Speaking Clock
Not Affected By Current Breaks
All these bridges would be easily eclipsed if ever the Narrows at the entrance of New York Harbour were tor a record-breaking suspension span of 4,020 feet. For some years now, engineers have discarded the cantilever type for suspension in any bridge over 800 feet. Up to 10,000 feet le now considered feasible for la suspenston bridge-Router.
THINK TRIP TO
MOON POSSIBLE
IN TEN YEARS
which they
Realistle Paintings There is a remarkable collection of pictures executed by Gunner Leo Bo Hure, Blackpool Regiment, Regal Artillery, of the Malayan campaign
sears in
ان
I
ย
gun ammunition were later found in Punch who had two the garden.
wounds in the throat and had also been shot below the left eye and in the shoulder, sustained such severe injuries that he was thought to be has made a good recovery. dying, but under skilful treatment Judy. found covering Punch, and it appears whose own wounds were lighter, was
that she tried to protect him with her body when he fell.
New Cunarder
Modelled After Clipper Ships
The bows of the largest ocean construction liner now under in Britain will be designed on the lines of the famous old Clipper sailing ships, those graceful vessels which ran races nearly 100 years ago in the ten)
Among other grants are £1,000 to Bechuanaland for the development of spineless cactus, £5,500 for the constriction of a primary school in the St. Paul's district of St. Helena, 2,125 for the provision of modern apparatus at the Lighthouse, Grand Turk in the Turks and Calcas Islands, £8,000 for an experimental campaign against yaws in the Gold and three and a halt
Chást. 12.000 in connection with re- Britain is becoming "inter-Japanese prison comp.
organisation of the pineapple in planetary conscious,"
itawlings, who belongs to Black-dustry in the Malayan Union, Recent
artist pool and was a commercjał
£1,000 to Jamaica for the investigatende from China. the
there before the war, risked death tion of problems of the refrigerated with ins, some of which are hustle in storage of bananas.
"Tim"the speaking clock which automatically tells the time to Britain's Lelephone subscribers--is not affected by failures of the public elec-
Unlike home; tricity supply. electric clocks, frequency flue- tuations do not make "Tim" be- references in the press to have erratically.
Although the power for the sponk-netivities of the British Inter-and torture to ing clock is supplied by the mains planetary Society coupled it to not dependent upon it, for if the her never-to-be-forgotten mains voltage drops below a certain periences of the V.2., Hitler's lovet automatic switching gear rames 3,000 mile per hour rocket bomb, into action and the necessary power have brought home to thinking is obtained from generators.
"Tim" is extremely accurate but, people in Britain the compara-
10
that the wrong tive imminence of space travel. bu certain time connot be transmitted, the
The Society itself has been in exis-
jusi
are
reveal
Observatory.
This
ex-
Stool error automatic firet unmanned projectile will reach
a
their realistic portrayal. His male- blood, crushed, stones, rials were grease and other strange substitutes, the brushes being fashioned out of human hale. makes way through
is fall
falling thickly as
the exhibits to Une section showing "now" warfare, the "now" being projected by a fon
Snow
0110
Correspondence
Barristers & Lawyers
(To the Editur, H.K. Telegraphi
great interest,
7. desire to record my considered opinion in the fullest support of observer's advocation of fusion and to record publicly a reply to cor- tain private discussions amongst my legal tre hren on the question raised by Observer's letter.
As yet unnamed, and known on the Clyde. where she is growing daily at the shipyards of John Brown & Co., ns "35", the new Cunarder will be of about 30,000 tons gross and just over 700 feet from bows to Stern.
COMING
TO
THE
new
Sister ship to the new Mauretania, the "635" will serve as an intermediate or supplementary ship In the North Atlantic trade, She will have only one funnel, and those on her bridge Landan speaking clo
clock consists tence since 1933 when it was founded from one end of the hall and creating
will have an uninterrupted view of really of two quile separate clocks, by a Liverpool physicist, Mr P.E. a realistle feeling that, it's going to
the waters ahead for her only mast each under the control of its own Cleator. Attracting, naturally, the fall steadily
for weeks, and that the
will be abaft the bridge. pendulum. These clocks by means
check younger scientists, the Society had light in tricky! A blue light behind
AI the moment the of a cireuit provide a constant check
produced before World War II a n skier, coming down a slope in full
liner Is still in the skele, on each other's timekeeping. There complete blueprint for a rocket-profit, heightens the
Outside
Sir, I read "Observer's" letter inton stage and #S she nears installation at 14 also A similar
pelled space ship.
a tent is a wounded
strapped Liverpool and the whole country-
With the experiences of wartime on a sled ready for removal, while our issue of December 12, 1946, with her launching weight of about 17,900 wide "Tim" service can be supplied
tons in the late spring or early sum- rifles are stacked under a collection
I did not write carlier as I was mer of 1947 some 2,000 workman--- cher Installation alone or research behind them, members are of twigs and bracken over which awaiting a possible response to the platers, riveters, welders and others from shared between the two,
i now working on the assumptions that he falling snow has formed "At every hour a signal is sent to all probably the first unmanned and la canopy.
very definite challenge issued by will swarm over her 60 miles of stay- Observer to the "legal lions" for a
ing In use ba workmen's platforms. clocks from an establishment at ter, pilated, projectiles to reach the four
Various clever "gadgets" are on possible justification of non-fusion. When she sails she will be a com- Abinger, near Dorking, England, moon will be rocket-propelled by show, including a padded stretcher which is
is under the control of the chemical fuel, and thint eventually for lowering wounded over
In default of even a nibble at Ob-plete township in which the inhabi Royal
cliffs, server's hat, I am now writing you fants will live at luxury level-at 23 causes nuclear physics will provide the fuel and a compact sied material which, in the matter and thank you for the knots. lampu tu light on a control board in a form that will require the min- fastened to rkl sticks, provides anus-of-your-columns, which indiente whether the clocks ulum of storage space,
Improvised sled in emergency. "correct" or have a small errer, The Society, whore membership is The contrast in pussing through A log is kept of this information and about 300-two-thirds of whom are into the next hall is very marked, the records show that it is very rare scientific men-publishes a technical the gloom and patches of eerie light Indeed for the error on any clock to quarterly Journal and holds meetings, of the jungle being supported by the exceed 7/10th second.
lectures, debates and exhibitions. our of monkeys, birds, and other When the hourly cheek signal does Belief amon“ membera is that the animal life of The Jungle..
Constructed of Scrap equipment comes into operation at the earth's satellite within 10 years There a “Japanese" iles umpaled on
The suggestion has been made that ence and corrects the error. Should and the first human voyage to be bombon
shoots
befor
British in lieu of fusion and us an apparent the error exceed 1/6th second the made within 30 years.
monchinegun emplaccaient. several cure-all for the anomalous ratio of clock is putomatically withorawn The moon, however, is no longer oldicra wade through a waterway fees to the claim in a Civil case, from
service-which is continued regarded as the chief goal but merely covered by the automatic rifles of the Summary Jurisdiction of the from the stand-by clock--und both as a "stepping stone" to the planets their comrades from the edge of the Supreme Court should be raised from the error has been corrected and its themselves. If this is to be achieved all tangle of the jungle, and a life- its
present cause eliminated.
unhampered by narrow nationalistic
ike native squats on the Fround $5,000.00, the Lundon
arca during Interests, the Society believes, inter-
under the interrogation of a couple The suggestion is obviously a sop recent four weeks' period aver tional co-operation will be essential. of Britons, on patrol.
la public opinion, because I canno! 2,000,000 calls were made to "Tim". For this reason the Socioly is prxious
colleltor may be Perhaps in some ways the exhibi- understand why and since 1930, when the service to mako contact with similar Jon is even more noteworthy from allowed to advocate a $5,000 claim, commenced, over 184,000,000 have groups in all parts of the world with a e fact that the cost of the entire but not a $10,000 or higher claim. been recorded.
view to the exchange of information. Jungle display was a merc 205. Further, as in complete agree- I was constructed by the Ordnancement with Observer that ir a ellent Display Services Tanity and they do in doors of engaging the services sorts of "scraps" materials for of n barrister only without going helt work-hession, canvas fabric through a solicitor (involving the material used in road construction, duplication of fees)
he should be paper, glus, etc.
permit ed to do so.
Neither is the suggestion la any way an answer to the more impor- sant point raised by Observer un re- gards criminal cases, whereby, if the prewar system prevails, a solicitor inny defend an accused at the Police Courts but if the same accused is committed to trial at the Sessions, Counsel must be engaged.
I
SIDE GLANCES
1900 BY HEA DERVICE, ING T. BLATÓ
By Galbraith
10-15
心
"Our new neighbors have some new, expensive lungs, George I can't wait to tell her how sinart we have been not to buy at the high prices!"
All of the tall bamboo trees are tuffed with sweepings of the bar- ack room floors and elgarelle ends, Ed even a milk bottle is known to
Je inside onel
Yet the vegetation, huge leaves, amboo poles, all strike one es com- letely nature.
Coming back through the exhibits rio Ands not far from the death mask of Iliminler (which surely oes ilma Ervice) a collection ni Items from the home of Victor Lutze, datter of the Swan Trojba, sand which have been loaned to the ex- ion. One or these is one of the books of the 1930 Olymple Games Gold Medallist Winners, autographed
'tituer," setQNGOIE Sunner Benfield.
توله
2
10
́AMERICAN CRUDE
OIL OUTPUT.
Its
Washington, Dec. 17.
In a tentative prediction prior to annual - forecast ́in. Décember,
he United States Bureau of Mines estimates American crude oil output
limit of $1,000.00
KING'S
SHOWING
TO-DAY
KINGS>
At 2.30, 5.10.
7.15 & 9.15 p.m.
..ROMANCE
THE WORLD'S GREATEST LOVE SONGS..... THAT THRILLS.. SPECTACLE THAT ENCHANTS...
IN M-G-M', MICHTIEST TRIUMPH!
NELSON EDDY in 66 CHOCOLATE
SOLDIER
With RISE STEVENS FLORENCE BATES,
0.
COMING SOON:
RONALD COLMAN “KISMET " IN
NIGEL BRUCE DOROTHY GILMORE
TECHNICOLOR
99
MARLENE DIETRICH-A Motro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
ALHAMBRA
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
THE BEHIND-THE-SCENES STORY OF OUR VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC!
"This 18 the atory tur
Bent and dangers in the
Pacific, I know you will be
vs proud of them as "
Genera BeachS ARE CAMPIN
CAPTURED JAP FILM SHOWN FOR THE FIRST TIME!
Drather
They're
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
In it foot
CHEST W HEAT)
THE WAR DEPARTMENT PRESENTS
OKYO
•Froduced by ARMY PICTORIAL SERVICE SIGNAL CORPS with the population of The Army Air Parts and The United States Nave Distributed by WARNER EROS under duopies of War Arbeiben Codesalin than Piclare indus
ADDED! Academy Award Short "HITLER LIVES?"
NEXT CHANCE!
"VALLEY OF THE SUN'
LEE THEATRE
LAST 4 SHOWS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.10 & 9.15 P.M.' EDWARD G. ROBINSON
Ini.
LARCENY INC9
COMMENCING TO-MORROW"
>
COLOR!!
THOUSAND
AND ONE NIGHTS
to
RONALD
TO-DAY
TO-MORROW
I have had also a very interesting chat with a Singapore barrister anent
position in Singapore in regard to fusion and everything he told ine in regard to Singapore and the success of fusion there applies with equal If not greater force to Hongkong.
I respectfully suggest the official inking up of Observer's suggestion, both in the interests of the public and of the professions concerned.
A SOLICITOR.
SOUTH PACIFIC AIR TRANSPORT COUNCIL
Canberra, Dec. 19. Delegates from the United King dom, New Zealand. Fill, and Australia attending, the initial meeting of the
in 1947 at an average of 4,840,000 South Pacific Air Transport Coundl barrels a day,
last night elected Mr. Arthur Drako This exceeds the latest forecast field. Australian Air and Civil Avia of the record yearly average of tlon Minister. as nermanent chair, 4,744,000 barrels a day for this year, man-Absociated Press,
and compared with the average
crude, production' of 74,080.000 In per cent higher than the, prewor 1945, 4,584,000 in 1044 and 4,123,000 demand of 4,369,000 barrels, a day
In 1942
In 1941.
· Total demand for, olls. In 1947 is The Burcou expects exports to otored at 6.600,000 barrois a day, decline to an average of 416,000 bag
| which". In 'nbove, the Intest forecast rola n day, nexto year from: 425,000 | of ́6,200,000 for this year, and is:20 | barrels forecast: In 1940-Router,
COLMAN
KISMET
In TECHNICOLOR MARLENE
DIETRICH
JAMES CRAIG EDW. ARNOLD
HUGH HERDERT JOY ANN PAGE FLORENCE BATES,
-HARRY DAVENPORT:
Phil
MAJESTIC
NEW THRILLSI ́NEW TERRORI
BASIL RATHBONE
As Sherlock Holmes
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 &.9.20 P.M.
Q
NIGEL BRUCE
As Dr.Watson
im THE SCARLET CLAW "
with Kay HARDING. A Universal Picturo. NEXT CHANCE: "THE STORY OF G.I. JOE"
Nothing
could be finer
SCOTCH
he WHISKY
09 AN M-G-M PICTUREAEDA
FOR SALE
́ONE EP, silver tea-sot these plecek.: 1900 or nearest offer. Bax 101 13. Telegraph.
Well-Known Brands
at $15
per
bottle
X'mas Hampers Made Up to Suit Your Own Requirements."
Jones Wong & Co.
WINE & SPIRIT DEPT.
Phone: 56722.
242 Nathan Road, Cornor of Jordan Road.