THIS DRAWING, by Mr Smith, shows: 1-Cabin para- chute, Z-Cabin, 3--Rocket parachuto 4-Fuel tanks, 5-~ V2 engine.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1946.
Mr. Smith may float in space,
190 miles up
LANS for the world's first
PL
passenger rocket-n pro- jectile which could take a man to a height of 190 miles, the to distance from London Liverpool, and bring him down safely-have just been com- pleted. The altitude record so far-made in a balloon-is un- der 14 miles.
two technicians Designed by of the British Interplanetary Society, Mr R. A. Smith and Mr if. E. Rosa,
Government for consideration as an immediate posibility.
By
Chapman Pincher.
which protects the cabin from friction, will also heat of alr jettisoned.
The
the
COMMENT
By "Candidus"
THE
of
UIE Anthony Brooke' episode has
sel into motion, a train thought which is somewhat disquiet- Ind, striking, as it does, at one of the most jealously guarded ideals of democracy, ns Britons understandi the term. Freedom of expression and opinion is the foundation upon which British government is cainb- lished.
It must, of course, be emphasised A series of let motors fitted in the that the right of free expression circumference will spin the cabin cannot include those whose subver- calculated to when a button is pressed. The coin sive activities are
established law nnd ning or centrifugal force" produced undermine will act like a weak artificial gravity, order.
The pilot will have seven minutes In which to,carry out the tests. By the end of that time he will be falling so fast that the feeling of weight will be restored..
A parachute fitted to the top of be the cabin and filled by compressed afr will then gradually reduce his
The pilot's cabin, parachute.
ccasea
In the case of Brooke, however, there can be no doubt concerning his loyalty to the Crown and Empire, and yet he was naked to "give an assurance in writing that he would refrain from making a statement orally or in writing, or indulging in any activity relative to the status of Sarawak or the question of the ces stou."
it is remembered that, for THEN
a century, this relatively un- known little country has happily cur- PORT-HOLES are included in the ried on under British rule introduced enbin design. But the sunlight by a private individual; has been sue
above 100 at heights strong that anti-glare screens will ston have to be fitted..
the plans are to be offered to the bucket body will descend on at speed.
carrying on alone, will eventually The Climax reach a
a height of 190 miles. Once the rocket motor thrusting, the pilot will experience po "weightless conditions." He will not press down on his sent, hut tend to float helplessly in his cabin.
cigaret
the anoke If he smokes
11. K At the climax of the fight it should will go wherever he will not rise or fall, A glass of
be possible to see places 2,600 miles Admitting that the time may have If launched over London he arrived when the country should be This is what he thinks will hap-water released in the air will stay upari.
there. If the pilot pulls the glass will have in his range of vision lec-placed under oficial British adminis
The Launching
is Micha
IF the design is accepted, Mr Smith, years old and married, will offer to pilot the pocket.
Jen
Using modified V2 motor
and
Bicu
miles is to cessfully,rookes, by a succes-
of
one naturally supposes
that the people and their
other, understood cach ruiers un trust joying mutual
respect,
and
en-
launched verlkally, the rocket wILE the water will
take on a land, the Pripet Marshes in Russia,tration, always assuming that It. ts Bie |
the ground alowly, its speed irave controlled by the pilot sitting in a pressurised, insulated cabin.
shape and float
ball.
who
the
the Atlas Mountains of Africa and wish of the majority, it surely would the Azores.
have been a wise and statesmanlike Is no doubt that the pilot!
who thoroughly understand a "space sickness" worse Instead of a blue sky above he will gesture to seek the advice of those will Fet
and whose advice would un- The engine is designed to run for than anything experienced in air or see a dazzlingly white sun shining in
be valued by the subjects two minutes. It will cut out at asen travel. He will relay his reac-je-black space.
The cabin is planned to settle on height of about 44 miles, with the tions to earth by radio,
It is not a question of the severance rocket spinning
As the pilot could probably stand on even keel fitted with a melal kri and moving
few bullt like a concertina to take the of British rule; rather is it a question no-gravity conditions for a nearly 4,700 m.p.h.
Compressed air will then blow the seconds only, the cabin is designed shock of landing. Should it fall ac- of what is the best and most popular can turn on gravity at cidentally in the sen it will float, and manner in which to continue British pressure cabin away from the main so that be
a marker, beacon signal its position. rule in the light of present day con- body of rocket. The nose fairing, will.
dillons and requirements.
At
HOW I SANE
KEEP
By James Cameron
ONE
NE of the things that help to keep me moderately calm and serene such an mumnouncement as this, in an evening piper:-
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You can now 11/ Talking Cigarette Bar, in plastic, for 27s. 6d. When you open the lid it saya, "Ilave
cigaretie?"
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After that nobody need to be told that we live in u streamlined age.
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rub it in by AM not going to
I saying this is a crazy world. would say, however, that the one way to keep truly sane right now is to look bedlam straight in the eye any: What fortunate and generallun is this that may buy have- n-cigarette boxes but nothing to put in them; that for the first time for six years is given the opportunity to buy any number of ingenious and expensive electrical gadgets at the same time as it is exhorted to save electricity.
LISTEN to this:
A friend of mine
POCKET CARTOON
"What is steak?"
ANSWERS
Ajay
(Questions an Page 4)
If the people themselves are ap- their future under to the prehensive os
plan they do not understand, it would surely be wise to wean them from their uncertainty by diplomatic and acceptable conditions. It is in this respect that one wonders why the Brooke regime was not invited la advise and possibly undertale diatory role.
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COME months ago, the Labour Government showed algns that it was not satisfied with the British press, and there was same talk of a established to Commission being delve into the control and ownership In it- eerlain newspapers. Thal selt was a dangerous suggestion, and the Labour Party has only itself to Blame
the man-in-he-street, be- came suspicious that something in the naltre of muzzling was afoot. Would Labour Party organs be included in the Investigations?
Fortunately, Hongkong
in common
with many other British spheres of infl
quence, cares lile for polities. 11 doesn't matter what creed or party holds the reins so long as Brillsh ideals are upheld, but any form of muzzling the individual or the press inust be opposed tooth and nall.
We look to the British Government
I should say that was an excel- lent Example of the honest, straightforward, debonair imbecility that makes life to-day an affair of Euch enchanting surprises. One can not buy cigarettes, but one can buy,
Many a better man than I has talking cigarette box. Nobody with any regard for his responsibilities found that the true equation of life- enn afford to go around with an is in paradox. This is its Number emply cigarette box that does not One Run. If one goes about looking talk. When opened it must say-one for sense to-day you eventually end
If you 1. At the start of a game it should as represented by the Colonial Office to do all in its power to foster friend- supposes with an Ironic laugh up chewing the wallpaper.
Rre prepared to skim around the not weigh more than 16 ounces orly relations and to make every effort "Have a cigarette!"
lunatic fringe, among the talking less than 14, 2. (a) Yes, we have no to understand and mee: the lawful cigare te boxes and utility chambonanns; (b) Let's all go down the and reasonable wishes of every race
the thing
within the Empire. pagne ice-buckets, then
Strand. 3. One which has never won; wi The becomes very nearly good fun.
Anthony Brooke episode may a race other than a private sweep- well become a cause celebre, The Istake. 4A 'Moscow news agency:"5.~fact that those who sought to restrict has, Stick labels on a trunk with it. 6. the movements of a British subject on internal political just bought # car-a
new (a) a whirlpool; (b) a grass that seemingly car, very up to date and glossy and grows on the seashore and binds rounds have apparently realised the good. He got delivery of it.
blunder and climbed down, Is beside Il cost Gand; (c) tool for separating the point. There is no evidence to him £550.
that Brooke's presence He sold his old one just before. strands of rope in splicing; (d) n show It was six years old, very bashed West African stork. 7. Hilaire Belloc amongst a people he knows so well and used-up. I asked him what hes. Because formerly hunting parties would have caused dissension; on the got for it, and he said £760.
agreed to race home from hunt, contrary, it might well be, expected to he told he never batted ani «
clarify whatever uncasiness may be It seems odd to me, but I can't naming the village church and the felt by the people of Sarawak. for the life of me imagine why, sleeple as a gulde. 9. The Anti- little more compromise, a little more Don't let these things get you Insurance League. 10. It means friendly discussion, on the part of The post-war boom is on along Tickets worth £75,000 for the play
have avoided Broadway. Every theatre on New were sold before it opened. The down. Think of the talking cigarette "Sons of Thunder and is used in the official circles would
has received unpleasantness which Great new generation of playgoers which box, and be thankful you live inn Bible (Mark, I, 17) to re er
James and John, both noisy orators. such extensive worldwide publicity. York's glittering, fabulous
Krown up since O'Neill's "retire- civilised age. White Way la Jammed, and producers ment" from Broadway in 1934, have ere frantic to find a vacant stage. walted eagerly for
The
Iceman Cometh." They are not disap- Old favourlles, new hils, stage pointed.
shows, versions of novels, musicol
AFTER DARK
on
1
Broadway
By EVELY N WEBBER
has
classics-anything is an immediate, Synge and Barry
sell-out
New Yorkers are paying their benny and taking their choice of dozens of productions featuring stage
The theme is morbld-derelict men and women taliting of their illusions while awaiting the coming of Death
as the "Iceman." But the play is hailed as completely confirming
or screen clars. Many of the shows O'Neill's repulation.
thors.
Lady Windermere
The
eyelid.
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PLYMOUTH
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ATOMIC FISSION MAY BE
MOST POTENT HEALER
Atomic fission may ultimately solve a riddle that When 6ssion takes has hitherto bälled medical science.' place, as at Bikini, independent objects surrounding the area, including the air itself, become temporarily radioactive. By mixing a minute quantity of radioactive material to our food, therefore, it can be given this quality temporarily. Thus it becomes possible for the medical observer to follow the progress of these tracer, elements as they are called, from the digestive organs, into the blood and so to their final destination in ‘bones, nerves or flesh.
were conscientious objectors during lap is too small. And why is the the splitting of the atom we
Lord President so
bravely. They must decide indivi- careless with his buttons and dups?"
dually,
which
ToVolve
the
drunkenness. DOOR Mr Morrison is in troublo were performed in London some Among revivals, J. M. Synge's 40-ONE of the few men I know who fligacy, extortion and
really live acorcien seasons ago, but there are now ones, year-old "Playboy of the Western
cort. be expelled from the Brotherhood.
The editor of the Tailor and too. Many names glittering over World" In the latest. It turns up as ligious beliefs is Lieut-General Sir such conduct a member would again. This time it is his over- WILLIAM DOBBIE="Pobole of
Cutter doesn't like it and states Broadway in 10ft. neon lights are the freshest of folk plays, with its Malta Christian who has ing- Actually thele standards go fur- pontifically, we are very disap- British, and so are many of the su-astire exhilarating after tired Broad-pired thousands by personal example ther than this, they regard as "un-pointed in Mr HERBERT MORRI
way wisecracks.
and faith. He is a Plymouth Bro-
prostable" any activity which may GON. "Show Bont" Hoca on and on, ther.
lend to templation to commit such "The overcoat is not a very plea- frequently changing its cast.
He helped me to understand why sins. Dancing comes in this cate sanit sight and obviously n Terence Rattigan's "Love in Idle-
as pressing would do it all the world Elisabeth Bergner is in.
nors," with Alfred Lunt and Lynne HILDA BROWN, cook at a Fulham gory: certain occupations, such Duchess of Malfi." Across the street Fontanne, is as successful under its hospital, preferred the sack to beint brewing or liquor-trading, would be of good. The edges of the collar Lord Moran, President of electrons
and lapels are all alive and the the Royal College of Physicians, nucleus; and Gamma rays, the waves forced to Join a trade union: why
considered unprofitable.. :- are Cecil Beaton and his gorgeous new tle of "Mistress Mine" as
filing at the neck is not good. A writing in."The Practitioner set up in the ether by the discharge
of electrons from the atom. 'selting pad costumes for Lady, was in London. Heavy advance WILLIAM CLARK, employed at a
Some Plymouth Brethren, includ-other fault in the overcoat
It is the Gamma, or hard ray, that, Windermere's Fan" Penelope Dudley nales have been reported for Barrie's London power station, stands by his
refusal, to join, even though his ing. Clark of the power station, be in the fronts-where the over- puta it in a nutshell: "Before "What Every Woman Knows," Ward la Lady Windermere.
fellow workers threaten to strike
knew that phosphorous was are chiolly used in Medicine, because of their selectivo netion on healthy Bad manneri
and disorganise London's Under the war, others, like Dobble, fought distinguished There a new Anita Loos play.
ground. Both non-unionists are, Ply
present in bones, brain, glands and discared cells. All the world and liver, but we could not imows of the triumpha of healing with Helen Inyes. And Leonora
Broadway first nights are still an mouth Brethren. Corbett, stars in "Park Avenue,"
follow its path. Now we can performed by these rays emitted by which exhibition of bad manners,
The Brethren rarely medalo Adherents of that faith belleva musical comedy by Nunnally Johnson continue to intuate lucers and
IVING evidence before the Royal take radioactive phosphorous, adam B.. G freedom of conscience. politics and few of them vote.
Commission on Lord and its path in the body is re- Ono development of their use in and George S. Kaufman. Basil mars. Most of the audience arrive firmly in
vealed by detecting the radia- connection with the new radioactive Cornell and late after glittering pre-theatre parties they are not forbidden by their Rathbore, Katharine
substances in the direct treatment of hold all over Manhattan. And once, creed to join unions, but a Plymouth Ralph Bellamy, in separate plays, are at the theatre they pay little atten- Brother must make his own decl-the recy. Membership in this coune similar commission in 1907, and sug-
sion on his own conduct and, guided hierarchy. to the play.
cup of radioactive phosphorous 30,000, but they believe so litlle in a food ground for future may be betrayed by his finger Moran recently, when he stated that nuoning of Noal Coward's by his conscience, do what he (or try is thought to be round about food trainings rosto have been tions from It, just as a burglar alease was pointed out blood
prints on the furniture or win- Thỏ
taken once a weak, may replace the Present Laughter attracted a bill she thinks is right.
organising that no one is really sure.
down."
application of X-rays to the spleen. lant audience. But they had the
It is not joining, the union which fest-night fever and they restricts freedom of conscience, It
Though it will not take the place usual”
The Influence of this new avenus did not like the play, Crities were is being forced to do so.
of research on the indirect treatment nt X-rays for certain work, the res bitter calling it
"Past
of disease is for the future, but much case to the medical profession of of the direct value of radioactive increased quantities of radioactive i materials is already known.
material will greatly accelerate the Three kinds of rays aro emitted by progress of medical research in radioactive material: alpha:(K)-rays, solving the secrets of the human positively charged protons or par- body. It is possible flint from being; teles: which emanate from the the greatest destructive power ever nucteria or centre an atom; Bela rays, known, atomie Asalon may become which are
the negatively charged mankind's most potent healer.
drawing crowds in.
But the most spectacular sight of the still young season are the crowds stampeding out of the Martin Deck Theatre during the one later val of Eugene O'Neill's play, The Iceman Cometh
tion
mammoth ughter" and "No"
The Note AND LAROIDEN Site;
Brooks Atkinson, called it "one o
in
Founded more than 100 years ago,
SIMON recalled that he sat on a
Home Secretaries."
There woro. three: Lord BRIDGE. MAN, ARTHUR HENDERSON and himself.
Record is likely to stand.
་་་་་་། ནས་ the Law Courts Pressor HAROLD LASKI talked about a LSEWHERE I learned about the microphone, pronouncing with a
His counsel, The play takes..four hours and Noel Coward's unworthiest efforts moral standards which the Phort" as in sick."·
VALENTINE INFORMATION culled from a 1947 ten mites. And the people seek willem Hawkins, in the New York mouth Brethren set themselves. HOLMES, got as far as microph.
Year Book by reader. DAN M. food because they have been in the World-Telegram, commented, sourly There are many things they do not with a long: "mike, theri corrected theatre since 0.30 in the afternoon, that "Coward undoubtedly wanted do. 1. Corinthians V., lints con-himself amartly, and took a lesson
And mick" I "Donths must be notified. and the final curtain does not fall to do this comedy for his depressed duct which they consider sin-cove from the professor
sonally within five days.!! unil 11 pa
country in a hurry.”
tousness, relllery or unbelief, pro-was throughout the day's hearing.
Bir
FISHER
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