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HOME VIA SIBERIA. tremes-the Kremlin and Lenin's STARS AND ATOMS. from a radio-netive substance across

tomb-but above all the misery of Moscow was a very beautiful

DESCRIPTION OF TRIP, BY A clear sky.

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OPINION OF THE SEAMEN'S UNION.

REPLY TO ULTIMATUM

London, Nov. 9.

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wator which are photographable. tier came another change of

In the same indirect way it is pos- | trains early next morning, and we IMMENSITY OF THE UNIVERSE able to demonstrate an electron, a reached Warsaw that evening. A

unft charge of negative

Our barbers. are : stay of two hours brought a very

or, tricity,

2.8 others would Professor. J. Arthar Thomson

experts in Bobbing, writes

"John

It, a particle

The standing committee of the Shingling and Way- put in

London'a

The annual conference of the I have just completed this jour-welcome bath and an excellent

a charge of negative electricity. National Union of Seamen unani-Japanese Amalgamated Street||ing. ney of some 12,000 miles by rail, dinner, and we visited the gravel

Weekly";-- and would set down some of the of the 'unknown soldler, digni

One of the most striking books But when we go on to explain that mously approved to-day of the Exe- Unions met at its office recent- when the question of varied impressions received day fied and impressive, especially at of the year Is Professor 3. an atom of oxygen has eight elec-cutive's reply to the T.U.C.'s ulti- ly

with its everburning

submitting a demand for com- by day in the 'course of a very night

The reply states that T.U.C. Is a pensation for damage caused by wonderful journey.

brazler. The apparent prosperity Eddington's "Star, and Atoms" trons circulating around a heavy matum.

Oxford, 1927), nucleus, as the eight planets of our Our party of four, two French, of Warsaw seemed to us a vivid (Clarendon Press,

not only for its picturesque revela solar system circulate around the tainted body" and declares that the occupation by Nationalist one German, and myself the contrast to Moscow of the night tion of some of the recent advances central sun, we are half-way into the Union is only seeking to protect troops of vacant houses in Dah

of physics, but as a study to scion the region of working scientific readers, en alle miners and their Woo, Ka. off Kiangwan Rond, UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS only British subject--left Shung- before.

German Railway Good. hai al 6a.m. on October 4, and 1

The Union, states the reply, will Chapel, owned by Japanese, was The next morning brought the tific method. It illustrates what

Nearer The Atom. arrived at Victoria punctually at

continue its polley until it has. the brought up for discussion, writes 4.30 p.m. exactly 16 days 10 German frontier, and our excel- a master can do in making difficult

Professor Eddington gives the Basurance of Congress that the the Shanghai "Mainichi." lent German friend left us at subjects clear. The central idea is

In all five houses beween the hours later.

This portion of the to show how modern knowledge of man in the street a useful scale moderates will have the full protec- There had been some trepida-Berlin.

and the Rokusan Garden, all own-{ lon." tion as to whether the U.S.S.R. journey stands out as a type of atoms and radiation has led to when he points out that man's body tion of Congress.-"Times of Cer-Tien Tung An Railway Station ed by Japanese, have been occupi Consulate in Shanghai would con- real efficiency in railway organ- interesting developments in astron is nearly midway between the atom sent to allow me to cross Russia-isation-great comfort and punc-omy; and, reciprocally, how the and the star, slightly nearer the

stars and former. "About 10 to

(Earlier messages stated:-Lon-ed by Chinese troops belonging to a telegram to Moscow however tuality to the minute at every study of matter in

The country was apebula has helped the progress of power of atoms build up his body: don, August 1-Extraordinary en- the 21st Nationalist Army, which thusiasm was evidenced at the has its headquarters in the secured the necessary permission station.

"Our thought about 10- to the 28th power of Special Conference of the National Russian Church and the Door of in seven days: the other coun-dream of beauty in the autumn atomic physics.

of Seamen, Prolonged Hope. tries, China, Japan, Poland. Ger- sunshine and everyone looked fluctuates continually from the ex-human bodies constitute enough Union

to the excessively material to build a star."

cheers greeted the passing, by an Chinese troops have been in oc- many and Belgium, offered no prosperous and happy, I could not ressively great

Somewhere else we remember overwhelming majority, of a vote of capation of the premises until DODWELL & CO. LTD -objection, though the Chinese help pondering on the difference small, from the star to the atom,

reading that a million earths would confidence in the President, Mr. recently, and now the buildings appeared to think they ought to that ten years has brought about, and back to the star."

We crossed the Belgian fron.

maka in volume one sun, and fifty Havelock Wilson. The Conference have been converted into stables. Island Universes. have had a risa, though it was

Our sun and its solar system; million suns would make in volume endorsed, by a large majority, the Wooden partitions, windows, not clear which particular pre-tier that night and lay some six

many at war hours in Brussels before the final must be reckoned as large, for the one Betelgeuss-that star in Orion Executive's decision to grant a loan į tatamies, and all other furniture}} vince out of o

Miners' Non-Political, Federation have been torn up and apparent- should grant

The first portion of the journey Channel crossing from Ostend sun is 93 millions of miles away and within which he earth could swing of $10,000, free of interest, to the

which was recently formed by Mr.ly used for firewood. The Inspec Betelgeuse is much less dense than G. A. Spencer, M. P. London, Oct. tor in charge of the 5th District is very pleasant and easy-a com- and that ever-stirring sight, the its light takes about eight minutes to round in its orbit! fortable steamer from Shanghai white cliffs of Dover, brought to a stellar system of some 3,000 mil- the sun; its mass is only some 20. The General Council of the police station and the Chief of to Dairen (Dalny) with a peep an end a very memorable journey: lion stars, all belonging to the same thirty-five times the sun's; it has T.U.C. have approved of the report Police, who inspected the Rokusan

This The all-in cost from Shanghai at Tsingtao on the way.

of magnitude as our gun, the stupendous diameter of 300 of the Disputes Committee which Garden several days ago, were port of Dairen stands us a monu- was a trifle under 260, and the that is to say with diameters of a million miles. Its mean density is investigated the complaint of the surprised at the havoc wrought more than about one- Miners' Federation against the Sen-by the troops. A conservative ment of Japanese efficiency and time saved at least 14 days by any million miles or much more. Yet not much

On the Siberian

men's Union for "acting disloyally estimate placed the damage done far-sightedness, nud the town it-other route.

What a picture Professor Edding-in connection with the granting of sell has strects designed and laid train one big meal is served, these worlds are not more erowded thousandth that of air. on on a seule worthy of any capi-good food well cooked, about 31 in the heavens than eight cricket tal in Europe: there are only p.m. each day, and most people balls would be rouming the interior ton gives us of the hurly-burly of a star. Atoms in crowds rushing about fifty foreigners there, and amplified this by purchasing food of the curth, which has diameters of many thousands of Japanese; and ready cooked which can be had at about 7,900 miles. But beyond the to and fro in all directions, some at of 100 miles a second. electro-magnetic the general impression one has is all the big stations. It is advis stellar system to which our solar the rate magnificence awaiting occupancy. able to purchase some fruit at systems-the "island universes" or Ether-waves Dairen should serve its purpose Harbin, say sufficient for 7 days, apiral nebule - excessively large radiations of various kinds are also

and a thermos flask is most use and unthinkably distant." for many generations to come.

ful. Personally I was quite satis- Adequate Second Class, We had arrived at Dairen at 2 fied with a light breakfast and the p.m. ou Thursday, and we went afternoon meal, both of which I on by train the same night, still had in the restaurant car. It is under comfortably Japanese aus- necessary to travel "light" with pices to Changchun the following suit-cases only, and most of these afternoon: here we changed toought, on arriving at the Polish the Chinese Eastern, Railway, a frontier, to be registered through Russo-Chinese concern, and the to final destination or they be best rolling stock of our train was come liable for a 50 per cent. fine an archaic second-class couch of for excess weight in the compart- Russian ancestry; but it brought ment, as well as the registration us tired and foodless to Harbin charge. "Shanghai Timos." by 11 the same night. Harbin will!

spurt to the chast. A beautiful'

be a famous place some day; it is UNKNOWN SOLDIER. suffering at present from dual

hours,

in

reach us. But our sun belongs to

order

And in contrast to these immen- aities we must picture the exces- alvely minute. "A drop. of water contains several thousand. million hundred-millionth of an million million atoms. Each atom is Within the about one inch in diameter.

much smaller elec atom are the trons, pursuing orbits, like planets round the sun, in a space relatively to their size is no less roomy than the solar system."

Are Atomy Real?

which

or

rushing about' in all directions, and aome of them eventually leak out cage of atoms and through the start off on a long journey through space. We see the star.

union. It is understood that the the damage to the five houses is assistance to a non-political miner's to the Garden at $12,000, whilst Committee have recommended that estimated at $10,000.

It is understood that a petition the Seamen's Union be gied th

days in which to disclaim their in-was drafted at the meeting, and tention to support a non-political was submitted to The Japanese union, otherwise steps will be taken Consulate General in the me to sever the connection of the Sea of Mr. Hayashi, the Chairman of men's Union with the T.U.C.] the Association. I includes a Mr. Havelock Wilson's Comment. demand for payment of com- [An earlier message stated:pensation for the damage done, London, Oct. 28. Unfortunately and the immediate evacuation of But there is "a third population: the T.U.C, has not displayed much the houses, to join in the dance" namely, courage. They are rather like a multitudes of free electrons which lot of tame rabbits practically They dis- are broken off in the star's furnace apologizing for living.

crowd. Persuasion goes a long MEDICAL CONGRESS. by the battering of the particles by cover that the seamen are a rough one another, and more especially, by the collision of the other-waves av with them, but force will be (X-rays) with atoms. The breaking lock Wilson, replying to the T.U.C. away of electrons from atoms is call ultimatum. ed ionization, and all the atoms in- side a star have been thus mutilated and should therefore be called ions. But they are continually re-capturing electrons that have broken away into temporary freedom; and so the bustle continues. It is stupendous, but a primrose by the river's brim is much more significant.

For the purposes of chemical description It used to be the fashion to picture an atom of carbon, for! instance, as little particle with four prominences or arms which require cd, in any state that lasts, to be united to other prominences or arms of equal clutching power. In pure in diamonds or in carbon, as

one another. In a

molecule of marsh gas (CH4) the carbon atom was pictured as having each of its hands clutched by a one-handed atom of hydrogen.

control and impoverished Rus- MEMENTOES PLACED ON TOP sians, but as a distributing centre!

OF GRAVE. for northern Manchuria it has a

London, Nov. 7. tremendous future. Here we stayed two days, and left in a The surprising statement publish comfortable-C.É.R._train which led in the Sunday newspapers that brought us to the Russian from the Tonth of the Unknown Warrior-graphite,the four-handed carbon

in Westminster Abbey was recently atoms clutch tier at Manchouli in just under 24 opened and a number of valuable The trans-Siberian trains de-mementoes were deposited in it, has

led to close Investigations. part twice a week, and this was

It seems that what has happened where we expected to meet the is that the tomb was sealed in real test of. efficiency, I had de- November, 1920, and a permanent

unveiled cided to travel second-class all slab of marble was through, and I found the com-1921, when some stones at the head partments, two berths in each, were removed and various articles, were entirely adequate, the only enclosed in a small casket, were .point requiring courage to cor- placed on top of the grave.

An Abbey official says that the bat, for the morning sluice and shave, being the rather murky grave has not been interfered with since then and the authorities have lavatories; praiseworthy efforts were made to keep these places no intention of interfering with it.

Many of the souvenirs still left on clean, but

well, one got the tomb by the relatives of the accustomed to it.

fallen are now collected and stored, but the tributes nowadays are An Interesting Trip. The journey through Siberia chiefly flowers, he added. Timos and Russia was of surprising in- of Ceylon." terest. Never have I seen more magnificent agricultural

country, and the beauty of

HOPE FOR LEPERS.

YEARS.

In carbon dioxide (CO2) the CURE FOR A MILLION IN 10 hands of the carbon atom are clutched in pairs by two two-

New York City, Nov. 22. handed atoms of oxygen. Now this

William Danner, general secre. was a convenient notation, but no one supposed that the carbon atom tary of the American Missions to had anything like four hands which Lepers, returned to-day from a clutch in chemical combination, world tour during which he visit The hands were simply conveniunt ed a large number of leper mis- Actions not real, yet with some sions.

Addressing a meeting of Pres- correspondence to reality, for they fitted the known facts. The ques-byterian ministers to-day he told tion is often asked whether an atom them that he believes a million is an actual particle or merely a lepers will be cured within the convenient fiction, and the present- next ten years and the disease day answer is "an actual particle," stamped out within a generation. An atom is too small to be seen-- Many of the 8,000 lepers under about one hundred-millionth of an the United States flag have been inch in diameter, yet it is possible sucessfully treated with chaul- p.. to photograph the trail of a rapidly-moogra oil, Danner said.-United 6.38 "

moving hellum atom as it flashes Press.

SUNRISE AND SUNSET.

Sunrise. Sunset.

1.m.

Date.

30....6.46 "

that portion of the journey-a whole morning-where the rail- November way encircles the southern por- tion of Lake Baikal is beyond des- cription. As we got north and into Asiatic Russia, we found snow everywhere and it was in- teresting to see several sledges in! use instead of the farm carta. Judging from the peasants and people we saw at the different stations, conditions are not un- favourable and they mostly ap peared benevolent though bovine. In two places I actually saw goal posts-signs of progress indeed. At Krasnoyarsk in Siberia I came across the only other British sub- ject

the encountered during whole trip: he was a Scot who, for some unexplained reason, mis- took me for the station-master and enquired about getting back to Moscow. On hearing I was only a passenger, though a Bri- tish subject, he sheered off at once, and refusing all offers of help, he sought a friend, an en- gine driver who spoke a little The English, and disappeared. impression I got from his face and behaviour was that he is a Com mafilst export from Glasgow, and it was strange to encounter. the friendly accent in the wilds of Siberia.

Short Stay in Moscow. After a seven days' consecutive run, we arrived in Moscow some seven hours late and only just in time to be whisked off in cars to the Alexandroffskaya station for the train to the Polish frontier. That drive across Moscow was a hair-raising experience-bitterly cold in a heavily overloaded ram- shackle open car, going at 45 miles an hour along paved streets full of holes. The glimpse we had of Moscow was very depressing and I was much disappointed at not being able to see the two ex-

met by force," declared Mr. Have-

. "What we have done was not to

MALAYAN DELEGATION FOR CALCUTTA.

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profit ourselves but to benefit the miners. Our complaint is the in-

Malaya will be strongly repre- competence of one or two leaders of the Miners Federation who are a sented at the seventh Congress of danger to trades unionism, also the the Far Eastern Association attempts of the 'Reds' to capture Tropical Medicine. to be held at purposes. Personally I do not see 11. the Federation for revolutionary Calcutta between December 6 and The Straits representatives will justification for. spending £2,000 in convening a special conference. be the Hon. Dr. A. L. Hoops (Prin-: believe the delegates will follow the cipal Civil Medical Officer) and lead given. If the T.U.C. cares to Dr. W. Scharff (Government The lose our £1,000 affiliation it is their Health Officer, Singapore).

delegates from the F.M.S. will be responsibility."]

Dr. A. R. Wellington (Chief, Medi-: cal Officer, F.M.S.) and Dr. A. Nenve Kingsbury (Director of the Institute of Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur), Dr. K. D. Fitzgerald (Chief Medical Officer, Sir Malcolm Watson Johore), (representing Malaya branch of British Medical Association), and Professor Rosedale (professor in biochemistry at the King Edward VII College of Mudleine) will also attend the Congress.

BE CONTENTED.

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WHEN DREADED CROUP COMES.

Elaborate arrangements have been made for the reception of the delegates by the Government of A thing of dread, that comes in the India, and three official tours have night without warning. Just a hoarse, been planned, one through North- one through Southern metallic cough, a choking, gasping for ern India, breath, a threat of suffocation. Ohl India, and one through Bihar and the relief of knowing that there is a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Orissa. Every opportunity will be in the house. See how it clears away given to study public health and the choking phlegm, atops the hoarse research work in Calcutta and cough, and brings rest and sleep to elsewhere, and a feature of the the little sufferer. Sold everywhere. proceedings will be a lecture by

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