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Pored by Arlene Whelan for Lots Leeds.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1947.
They Offered Him £1,000 For Saving Thousands Of Lives
A man whose invention saved the lives of thousands of Allied soldiers in World War II has been offered £1,000 as payment for it by the British Government. The invention is the flail tank used to clear minefields in North Africa, Italy, and France.
The inventor Major F. Dutoits, of South Africa.
CLOUD RADAR Major Dutoit's counsel called
TO ENSURE ·
SAFE FLYING
the offer a joke; and placed the case before the Royal Commis- sion on awards to inventors.
He ask for £56,000.
He also charged the Commission with trying to scare off hiventors by making the cost of establishing their claims prohibitive.
Flying from the airfield of Obangi, near Singapore, the headquarters of Air Command, Far East, has become safer ILH The Commission sits at a long the result of the establishment table in an undistinguished London
DUMBBELLS
FAZGISTERED Usi THESE ARE THE HOURS, THESE ARE THE MINUTES, |AND THESE
ARE THE SECONDS!
PATENT OFFICE B-BUT WHERE ARE THE JIFFIES?
Fish Pudding
Was What
He Wanted
of up Air Ministry Experimen- room, where the Strand's traffic Seated in a Sydney hotel, a
tal Station on the hills over. looking the aerodrome.
The station is manned by, some 30 men of the RAF, including radar operatora who take turns In keep Ing constant watch in a radar van to plot the rainstorms and thunder storms over a wide arcă- The in- formation obtained' is possed to [way! A húrsh, shari, "tight" voler Air Command, Far East, Meteorolo- Irritates your listeners and they re-gical Station, which in turn informs act unfavourably toward you and the pliots of all aircraft in the affected zone the weather conditions your subject.
they can expect to encounter.
A noc speaking voice is a social and a business assel! YOUR VOICE!
A good speaking volce reflects n Poisea AIKI Convincing pirsun! These exercises will aid your voice control by rettering the laut mus- cica and giving you better head carriage.
1. Lie on your back on a couch or bed. Drop the head back over the
dge, let it hang down. fufly luxed. Now, s-1-0-w-l-y, raise the head until it is level with the bed. Raise and lower slowly, five times. later ten tinica.
2. Sit or stand. Tip your head back and gaze at the ceiling. Open the mouth, w-l-d-e, then chow slow the mouth. Do this five times; Inter. ten times.
Most people think that the volve comes cutirely from the throat. Or course. vocal cords are important, Just as the strings of a violin sure important. But what, would the vio in sound like without its sounding board? Your body is your sounding board and a tense body results in tense, shrill voice.
Stand before
your mirror and speak a few lines of some remem bered noem. Do you see signs of tension? Release then. Try a few mental pictures. Think of culm lovely flowers, relaxi
out. Thinlt of your voice as coming you talk? Instead, keep blowing it from deep within you,
from the very depths of your body.
the
rumble penetrates,
spectacled, scholarly looking
A group of engineers, soldiers,) Norwegian was thinking wist- businessmen, and lawyers.. It has a fully of fish pudding. lough job ahead of it.
After the first World War It took a similar commission 17 years to do a similar Job.
That commission heard 186 appli- cations, and dismissed all but 44 of them.
from £23 in £100,000.
On these it made awards ranging The total came to £1,500,000.
Very Rovere and dangerous storms are experienced in the area, parti- cularly now in the monsoon period. but by means of what is known as "cloud radar" these can be detected over a radius of 00 or 70 Thunderstorm clouds from which rain is failing give 'strong redec- | World War' 11.
miles.
Bigger And Botter That commission finished its Job in 1937--Just in time to leave the decks clear for the bigger, better, and more destructive inventions of
And the more he thought of it the farther away it seemet.
The reason: Although his wife was as good a maker of fish pudding as there was in Norway, she could not make it without a stove, and before you could have a stove you needed a house or flat.
And flats were difficult to obtain. even for Lars Jorstad, first Nor- wegian Minister to Australia.
Jorstad Joined the Norwegian Foreign Once as a legal adviser in 1920, beenme secretary of his country's delegation to the League of Nations in Geneva.
In the twenties he was attached to tion of shor
short-wave radio waves. which appear on the radar screen as have been received by the present and Paris, later was appointed de- So far about 50 prepared claims the Norwegian Embassles in London irregular
these patches. From
of the International arc kept under commission, of which it has heard outy registrar observation, the radar threa without announcing Any Court In The Hague, Holland.
which
ly. Pull up the lower jaw, closing wayou hold your breath whlic operators can tail where the storms awards.
you
Dose your forehead wrinkle when apenk? Are your brows knitted, is your face tense? Do you bite your twist your mouth? Do you do lips, pubile speaking? Many women, do socat on elvic and club maitern. When you speak do you clinch your hands? Do you say. "E" "I mean" "When I mean" -and never seem to get to the point? Do you hang onto a chair, fiddle with your handker chief?
All or any of these mannerism: alow tension. which tightens up your volec. And you'll never "win friends and influence people" that
GIRL FINDS
HOME AFTER
NINE YEARS
After being a homeless waif for nine years, 19-year-old Miss Chen Yee-ling was restored to her home in Shanghai recently
|
are and in which direction, they are moving.
first
success
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How can you possibly estimate the cash value of inventions like these?
The submitted claims, in addition to the dull tank, relate to the Mul- "Rain of any sort is detected on the berry harbours which ensured the screen. When radio location
of the Normandy landing, Bailey began to be used it was noticed that the
Bridge, the sticky the bout, rain areas gave smudges on
and the amphibious tank. seren; this wasnt first regarded as a nuisance, but it was turned to ad- vantage, and detection of thunder-
and ordinary storm clouds
rain clouds by this means has now be- come general in the RAF
In the United Kingdom this sup- what .known as the plemented by
combina triangulation system-a
by readings from station means of which the atmospherics of thunderstorms can be detected over
tion of
an area of 1,000 miles.
Minule Makeys through the good offices of the Chinese Paper
by GABRIELLE
Just me Minute more-to pat on your powder! Smooth it down on your contour for a smooth effect. A pale powder, topped by a deeper, more brilliant tone, "does things" for your complexion! Never powder the eyelide, but powder on your lips will give a softer look to your mouth.
SIDE GLANCES
China Society for Relief of Women and Children.
The girl was brought to the So- Follows Use
lely by another benevolent assocla-
tion for temporary accommodation,
Two days after her arrival the girl
was returned to her family.
As a young girl nine years ago
she lost her way home while play- 14
Of Pai-Hua
Ing with companions, she sali. Be- A bold experiment in Chinese
peor journalism was give her
ing illlternte
of und memory. she could not lume-¿dirpay--to-her-rescuers,
Forgot About Home
As time went on she became an Inmate of different benevoleur or- ganisations, and forgot all about her home. Recently she had a strong desire to look up her parents and return to her home. She became so restless that the rellef home at which she was staying decided to send her to the China Society,
She had a hazy memory of her home being in the vicinity of Jess- feld Village. Accompanied by the Society's staff members she located her home at 15 Tse Ching Li, Van- wangdon Rood.
Her father, who is a peddler, was overjoyed to find his daughler, after a separation of so many years. She was however hardly recognised by her three younger sisters, but they Joined in the joyful reception.
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· COFR, 1947 BY REA BERVICE, I
'By Galbraith
He cut his bunion on some brokou glass, doctor he was
showing the children what fun it is to go barefoot!!
For instance, 1,000 tanks were equipped with the flail device, at a cost of more than £1,000,000. With out them the battle' of Alamein may! not have been won.
The British Treasury's main job is to save. the British taxpayers
muncy.
Rival Arguments
And so it tries 10 argument before the commission to minimise value of ench Invention and the work
Escaped To England
When the Germans Invaded Hol- land in 1940, he escaped from The Hague in his car-his wife drove him amid shell-Ore to Hook van Holland, where he got a boat to Englund,
Jorsiad left his furniture and most of his clothes behind, but he told a Swedish friend to store them in the Peace Palace.
Last year, on his return to Europe from the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, he found his furniture and clothes Intact.
He took the furniture to Aus- tralia with him. When he gets a house or flat in Canberra, it will be installed there.
Then, off his own table, he hopes to eat fish pudding three times werk, if possible.
it
done by the inventor in developing They Had A Good
it.
The inventor naturally tries to
get all he can. The commission's 66
"Rabbit & Pork”
job is to find a reasonable com promise.
One claim before the commission launched by the Ta Kung Pao of Shanghai is for £500,000. It has been made
for inventions relating to the am when its local news-pages phibian-tank, -17-poundor self- scrapped the age-old, wen-ven propelled guns, and the K.A.F. heavy (literary Chinese) and publish-bomb trollies. ed news stories written in pai
of claims are tossed hu (vernacular Chinese). out by a preliminary investigating The change-over, long advocated committee before they get to the by progressive Chinese newspaper-commission. men, may spearhead a movement Most of these are from people whereby other leading papers here who had ideas like these: may follow suit.
Hundreds
During the recent years pailua Mounting machine-guns on top of has been used by Chinese news balloons, floating them over the
Increasinst frequency, Į enemy papers with
lines, and ring them by
Sending
up night fighter pilots with cats to spol hostile aircraft.
but the present changeover of the radi Ta Kung Pao is the first case wherein an entire department of the paper is written in the vernacular.
Hitherto, most of the feature stories
articles special Chinese newspapers have been written in pal-hua, with most straight news storica presented "newspaper style" wen-ven
the
and
Tight Copy
in
new
lee Plane Carriors Some of these "Inventory" put in
chuims for £20,000.
"intention" for which no One claim will be made was a proposal of carriers to construct aircraft solid fec-2,000ft, long-to house 200 be used to Spitfires cach, and to breuk Hitler's U-boat campaign.
Chinese cditors, secking style in their language to present concise, colourful and simple
JCVA stories, have thus far been unsuccess-1. A model weighing 1,000 tons was ful in developing a suitable new actually tested in Canada before the style. They feel that while the idea was dropped, pai-na is a simpler ond more
pliable style. It is often too wordy
The wartime inventors won't have
and does not easily make fur "tight an easy time getting their work
cupy."
mel
Сп the other hand, wen-yen,
its stereotyped phrases
deemed not suitable, in the limited range of its expressions
vocabularies, for writing news stories
on present day occurrences
CHESS PROBLEM
By Y. 8. NILSSON
„Black, 10 pieces..
免
1:24
White, 7 pieces.
White to play and mate in three,
Solution to - verterday's problem:
,
1, Q-98, anu; 2. Kt (ch, or dü ch), mates..
recognised and rewarded.
Coster John Lucas, of Cam- berwell, stopped serving his tomatoes.
He leaned on his barrow near Charing Cross station, and turned en a tornado of rhyming slang which made visiting American Almelor open her mouth Eleanor Parker wide in astonishment.
Said John: "Fancy you coming found for a rabbit and pork (talk) with us blokes.
"I wish I could take you round to one of our battle cruisers (boozers) for a quiet pen ink (drink) in the Johnnie Horner (corner).
Then you'd hear proper Cockney talk, all ce and natural.”
Lucas
told Eleanor he liked her retty "Jem Mace" (face), her neat ille "I suppose"
Barne! Fair" (chat), her blonde
with her ut for lat" (hat) on the He added that she looked just right
back of her "loat of bread" (head), and he offered to take her for cup of "Rosy Lee" (tea);
All Elcanor could gay in reply was "Gect"
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ADVERTISERS
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Remember
August 15
Indian Students give at least 48 hours notice. LIBERATION
Study In China akception of urgent notices) will
on
DAY
No advertisements (with tho
¡be accepted between 12.30 noon,
Saturdays and 9 8.m. Felping. Ten Indian students sent Mondays.› First they must have their title accepted by the Government depart by the Indian Government to study ment which used their idea, then in China are now being taken care of The co-operation of contract endless forms, and hire counsel to the National University of Pelting by mitting. copy not fator. than 2
All in by a special committee formed make endless applications,
by advertisers is requested by sub and make a special plead their case,
order of the Ministry of Education. The commission sits in a room on take a year's course in basle Chinese date of publication:
They will beginning this autumn p.m. on the day preceding the point of donating the top floor of Somerset House the Peiping Chinese Language which houses, the Inland Revenue College. Department.
After completion of this course, Thus, when the inventor eventual- they will enter National University ly achieves his reward; he can re- of Peking College of Fine. Aris, and Hlect, as he walks downstairs, that the National Central. University in it won't be long before 'the' inland.) Nk nking. The chief subjects of
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H.K. TELEGRAPH.
revenue in the horrid form of the study will be Chinese fine arts WIVES ATTITUDE
-Income Tax Commissioner, takes | Chinėto philosophy, Sino-Indian most of it bucle pgain.
relationship and Ginology.
Rupert and the Young Imp-43 ·
Rupert does as he is told. Ar the heavy little door clangs shut behind him he pushes through the thick. leaves until he gets his head clear and, to his astonishment, finds that he is in the middle of one of the bushes at the foot of a rock on Nut wood Common. Near him are his friends Podgy and Bill"Hullo. Rupert, we've come back to see it that young Imp will appear again. phonic Bill, 'But do grell us," what on earth are you doing in than bush "
ALL-RIGHTE AKSERVED
TO ACK-ACK
London.Jealous wives are blamed
for the small number of men offering as recruits to a London, anti-aircraft regiment,
Twice as many A.T.S. girls an men 'have, volunteered to serve inj this regiment.
One of the olcers questioned nald: "There's a certain amount of riistrust among wives
"It is based upon a rumour that had wide currency during the war
"That rumour, about mixed nati aircraft balleries applied in only a few instances, -
something to the
Hongkong War Memorial
Fund
"But it. is firmly established us gospel in the minds of some wives,
Perhaps you can hardly blame them."