1925-06-29 — Page 3

MONDAY, JUNE

STRIKE ITEMS

Shanghal, Jane 27 Fifty representatiives of the students' unions throughout the countryside met at Chapel on June 26 and passed resolutions which, inter alia, urged the Canton Go

vernment to send troops to occupy Shameen."

Eighty per cent of the shops opened to-day, the closed ones apparently having been made bankrupt through the strike.

The situation was very quiet this morning but the shipping position had not improved. The strike is causing heavy losses to the customs revenue as well as hit- ting British and Japanese food supplies are running short.

A message from Amoy states that student demonstrations in the| International Settlement are ma- king he situation more acute. The Chinese Naval Authorities at present conrol he Settlement, but up to the present they have proved inefficient.

A British sloop and Japanese and American destroyers have arrived in Amoy.

Advices from Hoihow state that the foreign women and children have evacuate the port.

A message from Ningop states that the Russian and Japanese customs employees have left for Shanghai,

29, 1925.

MOTOR ACCIDENT

A Chinese owned car dropped down an embankment a distance of thirty feet on Saturday after noon and the driver was thrown head first and received Injuries which resulted in his death in hospital last night.

The car turned somersault and landed with its wheels in the air:

THE CHINA MAIL.

ODDS AND ENDS

Drift in the Ether.

After

GIVE YOUR ENGINE

CHANCE.

Start the Season Well Prepared.

mer

and

Professor Miller dealt a blow at the Einstein theory in an addrese

The engine is a most important before the National Academy of Sciences at Washington. repeating for four years the unit when you undertake the Michaelson-Marley experiments "spring clean" of your motor- and the cylinder or The accident occurred at Sas-on which Einstein greatly relied. cycle, soon Road as the car was being Professor Miller concludes that cylinders should most certainly be driven down the drive of "Holm there actually is an ether drift: lifted and all traces of carbon re- ville" where the driver is said to Repeating the experimenta in the moved from both piston and have been visiting a friend.

same place he got the same re-cylinder. This can bat be done. blunt rewdriver, sults, but when moved from by gently, chipping with a ham- Cleveland to Mount Wilson he finishing off very htly with found consistently. a positive re sult of a drift of about ten

The piston rings, host fragile kilometres a second. He sug-parts, should be gently taken gests, therefore, that the ether "lag" increases with altitude, and from their groove, and the that the value of the Michelson-grooves thoroughly cined Any

with new ones. Morley experiments as evidence worn rings should for the Einstein theory dis- appears. "Daily News." Meteors and Comels.

During the past few weeks no fewer than three new comets have been discovered.

these, Of

WEEK TO WEEK

read to Tonton,-

•

emery paper.

replaced

Both big and littlend bearings should be tested. Thare should: be no appreciable ipjand down play, though--a-slith sideways movement does not beter. If up found in and down movement

bearing, cylinderi either should not be repla until re pairs, have been card out, and this is a garage job.

NOTICE.

EMERGENCY DISPOSAL

OF NIGHT SOIL.

In the event of a strike of night- soil coolies the following informa ion as to disposal of nightsoil when water closets are not avail- able is issued to the Public..

(1) In private gardens aight- soil can be disposed of by burying at a depth of two feet. Care should be taken to avoid polluting a catch- ment area and to avoid the lines of rainstorm acours. (2) Sewer manholes at conve- nient positions throughout the Colony will be opened from 5-30 to.7-30 a.m. each. day for the reception of night soil. Such manholes have been marked with red paint. No manholes will be opened on the Peak.

(3) Nightsoll may be dumped over sea walla except in Causeway Bay and the Har- bour of Refuge:

(4) In Happy Valley, owing to the absence of suitable man- holes, nightsoil should Be bu- ried. With regard to areas available for the purpose en- quiry should be made at the Eastern District Sanitary Of- fice, Wanchai, Telephone No. Central 8218.

There are roses blooming on my balcony-twenty-four hours from London; and at the foot of the hill, beyond the ureate of palmis on to which it faces, almond and puch blossom glow in arsy midst, against a background of clives and dark atender eypresses, writes Comet Reid is now too far south Ethel E. Man in the London to be observed in this country. Evening News, From this big As it is still approaching both the room, with its two French windows earth and the sun its brightness

Before replacing he cylinder and its sunny balcony, I can see.

may be expected to increase, and valley of blossom and cypresses for southern observers. besides my avenue of palms and any it should be an interesting object it is as well to examie the bore:

Comet this should be smooh and bril imosa trees in full bloxan, and the Orkisz is now

a circumpolar liantly polished, any way defective object, and therefore is visible scored it points to

"Thi

Any person wishing for fur- It is gudgeon pin or houng. throughout the night. Pyery half hour an absurd sort situated to the south of the should have immedida attention, ther information should apply to the nearest Sanitary Department of train contes clanging in froi constellation Cepheus. and is or serious damage wil result.

The valves should be dis- Office. that elty of thrie palms and soldiers: moving in a north-easterly direc- Other centres are quiet. Advices from Tientsin stateery morning and at sun-downtion towards Cassiopeia. It is of mantled, the stems thoroughly. seventh magnitude; and cleaned, and the vale seats-and hat the chief feature of the Drasant women in striped skirts, the

n Festival Day has been the and with series in one hand and therefore readily visible in small faces well ground in. disribution of Chinese pamphlets along with a weird wading cry out to the south of Leo, is too faint they appear to his lost their | basket in the other, pass under my telescope. Comet Schain, situat springs should be renewed if in to native city captioned "Don't which, I have discovered, denotes to be easily seen. It will prob- tension. Riot stating, inter alia, the they have for sale the prickly ably remain visible to very power-

If the sparking lg has given present ill treatment of Chinese shell-fish, which at British seaside dal telescopes for two years, and a year's good running, a new one by the British is a result of the Boxer Risag; we, therefore must Puces the children calls its chief point of interest lies in should be put in th engine and be most caful this time."

Punching," And along this road, len, the carts from the violet the fact that when it makes its the used one relegatd to the too! STAMER FOR SINGAPORE,

A ter lead should A message from Peking states it as of the nearest approach to the sun next kit as a spare.

the plug and the termhals cleaned that the powers have individualistoveh blossoms that grow so well August its minimum distance be fitted from the magneto to the acknowledged, the receipt of the

will be greater than Chinese note regarding unequal that presently will este in the minimum distance of any other up and made neatid tidy.

The carburetto could be taken known comet-Scotsman."

to pieces and thoroughly cleaned and new asbestor or thick brown paper joints fitted to the flanges

."

treaties.

There is no comment made this.

A Horse Dynamometer,

A horse dynamometer has been

The

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THE TEAMSHIP

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carryin His Majesty's Mails,

in the sim-saked Provence, and

Furs of smart Parisiennes and perch, onrhaps, for a few brief hours, upon some are white shoulder. Nune go along this road, dark figures in built at the University of SaskatH. Vernon Hut in the People.will be ispatched from this port the vivid sunlight, and priesta, and chewan, in Saskatoon, by Profes always one sees the blue-grey of sor E. A. Hardy, who was for the poilu, afoot and of horse-merly with the Ames University back,

The in the State of Iowa. dynamometer is constructed from

Shanghai, Junė 27. The French police have been in formed that the communists will! attempt to urge the international municipal Chinese police to muti- Dy. The Authorities have full confidence in their loyalty.

There were.

numerous stone throwings during the de

sengers by tramear wore stoned.

DAN PE

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a motor truck, which can travel under its own power, but is made

DID YOU KNOW?—

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at Nooton THURSDAY, the 2nd July, 195, taking cargo for the above pits.

Parcels be received at the

fice untham on the davent vious to sailing. The contents and value of all packages must be de-

Silk a Valuable Cargo for Italy, Free and London (under The bouses that faces my balcony green

That the abilty of many car arrangemit) will be conveyed by white, with bright shutters; a good background for to represent an ordinary waggon.to start in second gear as easily this steater proceeding to Bom- the pains and the poster-blue sky. The team is hitched to a tongue,is cars used to start in "low is bay and tre transhipped to the The air is warm and drowsy with but the whipple-trees are hitched largely to improvements in on-carryin steamer for Mar- This notice disperge the crowdson-thy heat, and there hangs to a cable which pulls heavy pop-lufdies, and that too many in-seilles and London. on a numbe ref occasions. Pas- it the pungent smell of crete blocks, on which the weights the vemence of starting

tan 19 attached. the exporn Five Japanese sailors in a mo- the tables on the sunuy pavements through a hydraulic process by a

slowly through the sun, and the The releasing of these block is the clutch plates,

That when carrying one passen lor car were stoned by a crowd outside the cafes are all full-water-pump worked by the hind ger on the rear seat he or she shouldclared. which was very hostile. The po visitors, British and American, and wheel. The pulling of the trac-it on the left side directly behind

on the the driver in order to minimise to- A Chinese policeman had a bowl workgirls and men chattering and tive resistance named of red fluid flung into his face.anging together with a supreme picture of 3.100 lbs. drawn for a side sway when trying to keep the Jack of self-consciousness, and distance of 27% feet is equal to car out of the shoulder and up on He arrested his assailant, who drinking the best black coffee in the 32,360 lbs. on asphalt pavement, the crown of the road? was in turn rescued by the crowd.world, while permitting their eyes 40,343 lbs. on rock pavement, That you should always dust off The policeman has been taken to to kiss cach other over the cupe, and equal to the wonderful figure the windshield at the first sign of

British bluejaikets unloaded the only the French know how.

lice rescued them. -

hospital.

Empress of Canada. If no coolies.

are available they will unload the

P. ann O. Mantua which is due on

SHIPPING POSITION

With the aid of large numbers of coolies placed at their disposal the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock are carrying on very much as usual. The coolies are escorted by armed guards.

It is not anticipated that diffi- culty will be encountered in the unloading and loading of the B. s.. Katori Maru'which is to arrive today from the Straits.

a

The defection of launch-men led to temporary hold-up but Europeans and a number of Chi- nese volunteers are manning them and maintaining sufficient service, Enquiries at the Taikoo Dock elicited the cheery response "quite unaffected, work.. going on as usual."

Owner (to Chauffeur): "You are discharged on the spot!"-

Buen, Humor, Madrid.

main so that the windshield wiper of 323,400 lbs. on rails. In addition to being a splendid will not have in abrasive with attraction, it is of such education which to scratch the glass?

al value that the Agriculture Department is able to prove which type of horse pulls the best, and hereafter will start breeding for that purpose. Authorities have

stated that the horse dynamo- meter has proven as important to the horse industry as the Babcock cream tester is to the dairy. Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

A NUTSHELL DEFINITION.

Have we reached finality in carburettors? Almost it seems

so, says "Carbon" in Motor Cycling, for it is long since any- thing new o revolutionary appeared on our Horizon. Looking In a letter which appeared in back one can remember legions of "Nature" of April 18, Professor instruments which arrived with Michelson and Dr. Gale describe much heralded claims as to m.ph. the results of a crucial experi- and m.p.gespecially m.p.g. ment on the generalised theory of Where are they how? Most of relativity. According to Newton them perished 1 their cradle; a motion of rotation differed some went on for a time and then from a motion of translation in became orphans the hands of that the latter could be defined their owners and none has suc- only by reference to some point ceeded in shaking the supremacy Besumed to be fixed in space of the makes that grew up with whilst a rotation was absolute, the movement. and the behaviour of Foucault's

Fortunately, the pioneer firms

In

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NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the Hongkong Stock Exchange is closed from this date and the June Settlement has been postponed, until Tuesday, July 7th, 1925.

By Order of the Committee,

A. NISSIM, Secretary, Hongkong, June 22, 1925.

NOTICE

HONGKONG STOCK

EXCHANGE.

By permission of His Excell- ency he Governor, the Hongkong Stock Exchange postponed their pendulum was accordingly under- consistently kept themselves Settlement for June 23rd, to Tues stood as demonstrating the ab- abreast with the times, and their day, July 7th,1925. "Bart" Bartholomew, consider-solute rotation of the earth. ed one of the premier cue artists the doctrine of generalised re-products to-day are wonderful For Hongkong Stock Exchange,

examples of efficiency combined. The whole of the launch crews in the Philippines to-day, has been lativity, rotations are considered with simplicity but there are of Jardine, Matheson's and

matched with M. Jenks, whose to be as purely relative as liner critics who contend that the best Butterfeld and Swire have been admirers claim is every bit equal velocities, and the results of of them is scientifically crude.EMONGRAS affected but an efficient service to Bart. if not better, in mani- Foucault's experiment, were

I believe it was Professor Low

is being maintained by Euro-pulating the iveries, in a 1,000 otherwise interpreted. Accord who likeped a modern carburetter peans. No further ships of these point pol match. The match willing to the doctrine, moreover, it to a bucket of petrol poured out companies have been "cleared" be played in a series of five blocks would be as impossible to detect a at one end of a room and a match this week-end.

of 200 points each, both players rotation relatively to the other, as starting from scratch. The first the famous Michelson-Morley ex-applied at the other. block of the series will be played periment showed that it was to

ADMIRAL LINE-

PRESIDENT JEFFERSON..

Owing to the strike conditions

the President Jefferson sailing

at the Elks Club, the second at the detect a translation through the ether. It is this doctrine of the relativity of rotations which has

University Club, the third at the Elks Club, the fourth at the University Club and the last at the option of the players.

Shaw was Right.

H. BIRKETT Chairman. Hongkong, June 22, 1925.

NOTICE

Subscribers of the China Mail not receiving their paper every evening owing to the uncertain delivery as the result of the strike

now been submitted to test by Henry Ford was once showing are invited to notify this office Professor Michelson and Dr. George Bernard Shaw, the great their paper from the street new

if they would prefer to purchase Gale, and they find that it be flat-playwright, over, his extensive boys direct and have the amount ly contradicted by experiment. The rotational drift through factory Finally they stopped to credited to their account. the ether does exist and the agree- Permit a long. Hae of lizzies"" to

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