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The Rays of the Sun

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The China Mail.

November 19, 1920, Tamperature 69

ESTABLISHED

JEYES

(by Rayal Apputatavots THE BEST DISINFECTANT.

Barometer 29.90

Rainiali 001 th

1848 Hamudity 95.

五拜禮 號九十月一十年十二百九十一英

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1920.

November 19, 1919, Tomperature 76

日十初月十申庚 华九國華

BUSINESS NOTICES

THE DOLLAR.

OIL FUEL

NOT FROM MARS.

DANGER IN HARBOUK.

MYSTERIOUS TICKINGS.

No. 18,112.

Its high standard of quality has made, and maintains, its great reputation.

WATSON'S

E

WHISKY

is the same to-day as 40 years ago--mellow with good old age fine bouquet and favour.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. TELEPHONE. 616.

DRAGON MOTOR CAR GO.

(THE ECZORRAX GARICE).

Motor Cars for Sale and Eire.

Garages at

24. Des Vear Road

26 Nathan Road, Kaxloon.

Tels. 452 & 3550.

AND

THE MOTOR UNION INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. THE UNITED BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

FIRE, MARINE, LIFE and MOTOR ACCIDENT. For Rates and Particulars sppply to the General Ageats

UNION TRADING CO, Prince's Buiding.

BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE

(A FRENCH BANK)

Capital Paid-up and Surplus

Fes. 105,000,000.00

The organisation of the Bank enables it to open ACCOUNTS CURRENT ACCOUNTS, SAVING

and to accept FIXED DEPOSITS in local currency and ANY FOREIGN CURRENCY.

These accounts and deposits may be converted AT ANY TIME without ANY CHARGE in ANE OTHER CURRENCY,

Apply for terms and particulars

BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE, (BONGKONG BRANCH) Queen's Building, 5, Chater Road.

BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE

FRENCH GOVERNMENT LOAN 6% 1920.

NOMINAL VALUE: PRICE OF ISSUE:

100 Francs. 100 Francs.

Interest parable twice a year on 16th June, and 16th December. First instalment due on 16th June, 1921.

The Subscriptions will be received by the BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE from TO-DAY® up to the 25th November, 1820, free of commission and telegram charges and the most favourable rates of exchange will be quoted for the payments made in local or any other currency.

For fall details and particulars apply to the

TAILORS

BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE,

STOCK DEPARTMENT, Queen's Buildings, 6, Chater Road,

Hongkong.

Dios Bres

TAILORS

ALEXANDRA BUILDING, HONGKONG. TEL. No, 2843.

Today's closing rate 3/9 Today's opening rate 3/91

THIEF'S EXPENSIVE

TASTES.

CHAMPAGNE STOLEN,

KOWLOON OFFICERS' MESS BURCLED

A POSSIBLE WAY OUT.

A FAIRY TALE EXPOSED. "

The distinguished French scient- Many years ago in 1747 to bel exact the good Mrs. Glasse published ist, Charles Nordman pokes a good Ideal of kindly fun at certain her excellent cookery book. As far professors who recently made such as its contents are concerned it is, of an elaborate effort to be sociable course, considered to be hopelessly in a conversational way with the Martians. In a recent article in the out of date by every housewife of Retve des deur Mondes, he explains to-day, and therefore we presume in a few luminous pages the entire Lieut. II. J.Mortimer, of the R.G.A. that it is never read. But it contains undulatory theory as applied to light, Officers Mess, Kowloon, reported to some good horse-sense, and we should heat and electricity, and gives the the police that about 12.30 p., on strongly recommend many of our opinion, amounting in his own mind November 16, a thief broke into the British harbour authorities to turn to absolute conviction, that the my- wice room and stole 12 bottles of up the recipe for jagged hare, and to sterious tickings which Mr. Marconi champagne valued at $72. About 4 note that the first operation is to reported as having been heard st various wireless stations were Hett- pm, on the 17th the room was again (catch your hare.

We are reminded of the book by zian waves projected from the sun.. entered and six more bottles were stolen. Yesterday morning, about 9 the action of the harbour authorities. That they did not emanate from o'clock when be checked the stock in of Southampton, who have recently any terrestrial wireless stations was the wine room, three other bottles of passed a series of regulations to established by the fact that the champagne were discovered missing. prevent oil of any sort finding its moments of their reception did not He has no fue as to the identity of way into the waters under, their con- correspond with the carefully re the thief.

trol to the very grave danger of shipping at large. Some of the clauses are wise ecough, to prevent oit fuel being shipped at night when it is impossible to control the opera tion and to ensure that the pipes and hoses are in good condition. It is with the clause which very properly imposes a hundred pound fine for the offence of pumping oil fuel into the harbour that we have some sort of a quarrel, says the Journal of Commerce

A WOMAN'S CLUB.

MAN'S IMPRESSIONS.

HATS AND HIGH POLITICS.

was as

The fine is quite right and proper, the trouble is that it will do very little good. Anybody who has had

corded moments of emission from any station within wireless range of the instruments by which they were received. This raised the question: Did they come from electric reser- voirs within our terrestrial atmos phere? This was answered in the negative because the minutely mea sured intensities of the mysterious signals were the same at points of reception thousands of miles apart.

Now, on the other hand, there is not a recorded instance of Hertzian waves of atmospheric origin having a range as extensive as those must have had which were received at the

travelling

with wares identical with that of

were

thrown of

I have just returned, says Peter Gainess in the Sunday Chronicie, from lanching with young niece Nancy at her club, an invitation accepted not the job of enforcing this sort of re- widely separated Marconi stations, without protest on my part that shegulation could have explained to the and on the other hand it is established should dine with me at some restau authorities the difficulties of the job that waves whether Hertzian, lamin- rant where a dinner worth eating of catching the right man. By the ous or sanorous, diminish in intensity would be assured.

To my surprise, Nancy's club time it is discovered in the morning, in a proportion equal to the square ail that has been pumped out soon of the distance from the point of proved to be not a teashop, cream after nightfall will have floated right lemanation. puff and chatter kind of place, but away from the guity ship and pro- With every known possibility of thas eliminated dignified, spacious building in

bably fetched up insome quiet corner terrestrial origin district hitherto regarded as a pre of the dock, offering damning evidence there only retained the inevitable serve for clabs frequented by the against some vessel which has had conclusion that the strange Marconi highly exclusive man about town. absolutely nothing to do with it. The signals came either from the sun or Its marble-pillare hall

task of detecting the offender red-one of the planets or from inter impressive as that of any club in handed is practically za impossible stellar space

Over twenty years ago M. Nord- Piccadilly and Pall Mall, as business one, the chances are all on his being like with its nuiformed porter and able to escape undetected valess one mann put forward the theory that

electric quiet, efficient pages, and its lounge of his men gives hit away- as comfortable in a gentlemanly way,

Talking of the morality of the velocity with its huge leather-covered arm-effence is wasting time, if a man does light waves chairs and sofas, its newspapers and not realise the danger of the practice from the inconceivably violent cyclo- ashtrays within easy reach.

to himself and his neighbours through nie turmoil of the sun's surface just A tape machine ticked intermit the medium of his own commonsense, as they are thrown off in localised tently in one corner, while several women, gathered round it, watched be is unlikely to be any better for eagerly for the results of the after having it carefully explained to him. noon racing. One, busy with calcula-Therefore the only useful thing to tions in a notebook, perched on the do is to consider why it is done and club fender with her feet up; another how best to remove the reasons. made excersions to the telephones and came back with whispered tips. She had won £20 already that after noon she confided to Nancy with an entire lack of excitement.

The gamblers occasioned no com- ment among the members coming for it. But how to get rid of it is Bat the development of wireless The telegraphy, with the greatly enhanced the members were young girls stupidly careless man thinks no more delicacy of instruments now in use, (Youngsters can't afford," was about the matter but simply pumps has changed all that. So M. Nord Nancy's succinct explanation of this it out at the first opportunity. mann remains fully convinced that fact), but the majority were youngish Happily be usually carries his careless- the mysterious Marconi signals were and all were smartly dressed and

ness to a point at which he neglects the electric sun waves, which his attractive.

Groups sat about discussing hats precautions against discovery, with own instruments would have record- and high politics, with equal interest, the result that in the rare event of ed had they been as delicate as those

anybody being caught and punished used in wireless transmission. Every woman was smoking and each it is usually one of this type, for deed, he can only see the amusing had obvious preferences among the

the key to the mystery was 20 many brands of cigarettes stocked in whom there is no need to feel much side of the fairy tale assumption tha:

sympathy the club, and an equally eclectic taste

attempt of Martians to talk with Terrestrians. He says:- in cocktails.

Hertzian "Before attributing signals coming incontestably from celestial space to I know not what

and going in the lounge. Few of

fields by our own atmospheric dis- turbances. In 1901 be conducted a series of experiments to establish the in the attempt, but he attributes the accuracy of this theory. He failed One of the unavoidable disadvant-failure to the inadequacy of the ages of liquid fuel is that there is instruments then available to record as they theoretically always a fair possibility of oil escaping the suns' electric impulses, greatly and finding its way into the bilges. diminished, Once it is there the seaman's desire were, by the gaseous teneity of the to be rid of it is a very natural one, outer surface of the earth's atmos and no blare can be attached to him phere.

rather a diferent matter

1:

ire

But suppose the officer in question "Everybody smokes everywhere," is a very different type, who quite was my piece's amused answer to realises the danger of oil floating on my mute question; confirmed during the waters of a port, and also quite the afternoon by my own observa realises the danger of keeping it in interplanetary conversation, to I tion in a swift tour of inspection of his own bilges what is. be to do? know not what amicable telepathic the three dining-rooms (members, That is a very easy question to ask, ally telegraphic correspondence of grests and buffet), the library, but it is very seldom easy to answer, astrai neighbours, it would have been writing-room, card-room, and admir. To take his ship outside and pump

ably equipped billiards-room, where a it out in the sideway is what should much simpler to have sought the be done, of course, but that is cause in known natural phenomena.” game of snooker was in progress.

Back in the lounge again I learn- obviously outside the regions of ed that the people there included practical politics. The owners would several women whose work had probably have something to say on brought their rames into some pro the subject, and a smart, painstaking minence. One was a famous woman officer would be looking for a job traveller, another a doctor; "two under sail or with coal-burning boilers pretty young women with heads close strongly preferred. together-in eager discussion of Irish politics were among the most admired novelists of the day.

On the other hand, he might get the master to hire a barge to come alongside and take the olly-bilge- water aboard, then hire a tug to take

¿COINAGE QUESTION,

POPULAR DEMAND.

NEW 13. COIN SUGGESTED.

The Government at home is faced So like a man's club is this new club of Nancy's, yet how different in it out to sea, and finally hire or pur with a popular demand for a new its fundamentals! A man's club is chase pumping gear to get rid of it. 1d. coin in order to meet charges a peaceful refuge, a haven in which The master might do what was ask on the underground railways, buses he can escape from society. To aed of him, and the owners might and trams. There appears to be woman a Club is a stimulus, a place approve of the expense, some of some little difficulty in misting such of activity, of fierce exchange of new them undoubtedly would, but on the a coin and as one authority writes:- A new coin with the value of ideas rather than of placid inanities other hand they might not.

As far as can be seen at the mod could not be made in bronze, or happy silence...

Nancy's avowed reasons for join-ment the remedy lies with the varias it would be too clumsy for ing a Club were these because the ons part authorities, and the trouble general use, and the question coinciding food is good; because she can there and danger will exist until every one would be of what metal it could talk to a friend without having to of them runs a hopper service by be made without it include all her family circle; and which, the barges, towed or self with the size of one of the other coins. because she can entertain a man sa propelled, run alongside all oil If made of nickel it would probably that it is impossible for him to pay. burattig ships at stated fines to clash with the sixpence whilst to have receive their bilge. Whether the olla 1d. piece made of silver would be is worth collecting or filtering, or out of the question.

The chief objection to meeting the whether it is only fit to ha pumped THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE

DE CHINE begs to inform the matter for the experts. Of demand seems to be that, once a 1

Carte, the service would mean a standard were confirmed by the

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more hallpennies, before March 1921.

precaution.

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