1932-01-05 — Page 7

TUESDAY, NUARY -1032

"WE ARE SHRINKING INTO NOTHING”

Universe Swelling Up Like A Bubble.

MIDGET ACTORS.

He sees na gradually shrinking; atoms, animals, planets. even the galaxies, all share the same con- traction; only intergalactic space remain the same. The earth spirals round the sun in un decreasing orbit. . . .

ever

the next.

to say!

"Sir James

From the Distant Ages.

A PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION.

Prize Winners at the University.

FOREIGN-ENTRANTS.

The following is the list of prize winners in the University Amateur Photographic Club's an- nual exhibition, which closes on Saturday:-

PRIZE WINNERS.

.. A soft and pensive grace A cast of thought, upon her

face"

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POLICE RESERVE. Orders for the Current

How Week

AGRICULTURAL-SHOW,

Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D., C Wolfe. C.M.G. Inspector-General of Police, are as under:---

Chinese Company.

AFTER YEARS OF LIFE TOGETHER.

After Fair and Stormy Weather.

NOW STRANGERS!

庭

**This is rather dreadful,” re- Strength. Constable 839 Tso marked Mr. Justice Bateson in Huk-on has been taken on the the Divorce Court when told by strength of the Chinese Company counsel that a wife wanted as from January 4.

Judicial separation from her hus- band, to whom she had been married for 52 years.

New Territories Agriculturt] Show-Members of the Chinese Company "detalled, for duty at the Agricultural Show on Saturday and Sunday will report on both

to

Tiffin and tea for

The petitioner, Mrs. Elizabeth Margaret McCormick, who gave her address as West Parade, { Boxhill-on-Sea, alleged cruelty: by her husband, William Abra- ham McCormick.

Mr. McCormick defended the petition and denied the alleged cruelty.

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Sir Arthur Eddington, the dis, the farthest limits surveyed by our tinguished scientist, in his pre- telescopes space le dotted with sidential address to the Physical So- numerous islanda-the spiral Landscape (Open Competition). ciety at the Imperial College of nebule. Each island is a galaxy! Advanced Class:-1st, Back Science and Technology,. South of stare, and they are so far apart Street in Rouen (Fred. P. Peel); days as follows:- Kensington, drew a remarkable pic that light takes about a million 2nd, Iey Shore' (L, H. Longwell);; First shift men will draw arms, ture of the end of all things so far years to cross from one island to 3rd, Early Morning Edmund B. cape (if required) and railway na we worldings are concerned.

(Lucas).

ticket at the Central Police Station

Ile envisaged n Comic Being

The most striking thing of all," Beginners' Class-1at, Beach at 9.15 a.m. sharp, and will board "whose body is composed of inter- declared Sir Arthur, "is that these Carven (Kwok Kung-kan); 2nd, the 10.16 am, train at Kowloon, galactic spaces and wells as they galaxics of stars are going away Reflections (Hon. Dr. R. H. Kote-returning from Sheung Shui by

Mr. and Mrs. McCormick are awell" gazing down on the world from us and receding at such a rale wall); 3rd. The Boatman (Hon. the 2.42 p.m. train.

both 75 years of age. They were and ita universe through a few that an observer of nebule will Dr. R. H. Kotewall).

Second shift men will draw married in 1879 at Stoke New-

thousand million years.

have to double the aperture of his Portraiture (Open Competition), arms, cape (if required) and rail, ington. There are seven children This according to Sir Arthur, is telescope every 1,300,000,000 years Advanced Class-1st, Mehelli way ticket at the Central Police living. The marriage was happy what he will see:

merely to keep up with their reJ. N. Unwalla, F.R.S.A., A.R.P.S.;|Station at 12.30 p.m. sharp, and until about eight years ago cession."

2nd.

will board the 1.18 p.m. train at when, Mrs. McCormick alleged, There is, therefore, apparently no

Kowloon, returning from Sheung her husband's attitude changed, need for astronomers to place im-

Shui by the 6.17 p.m. train. Dress and he threatened her with mediate orders for new telescopes.

-Blue uniform, cap with white table knife and stabbed her in particularly as Sir Arthur went on J. N. Unwalla, F.R.S.A.. A.R.P.S.: cover, belt (without frog), whistle the arm with a fountain pen.

Brd, Peeping Tom P. A. Dragon." and truncheon. All those in pos- Mr. McCormick denied this. Joans delights in Beginners' 'Class:-1st, Com-session of Badge shall carry same. Mr. and Mrs. McCormick sep-

will only be issued Our years will then decrease in telling us that we have billions of panions in Adversity (Hon. Dr.Jus arms

arated in the present year. geometrical progressions in the years before us in which to And out R. H. Kotewall); 2nd, Cyril (Hon. I trained men.

Mr, T. Bucknill said that Mr. scule of cosmic time. Owing to the all that can be found out about nur Dr. R. H. Kotewall); 3rd, Portrait the first and second shift men res McCormick was Plymouth property of geometrical progres-universe, I suggest, however, that (Chan Koon-pak).

bectively will be provided at Brother, and he was understood sions an infinite number of years there is urgency an regards the Genre (Open Competition). Sheung Shui,

to have religious scruples about Advanced Class: 1st K168 Training Course (Part II)-separation. w add up to a finitecosmical time. spiral nebulae; if we leave it tou

On this date stars, planets, and late there will be

none left to Divine (J. N. Unwalla, F.R.S.A., All recruits will attend at the "It is ridiculous and rather atoms are doomed to disappear. ... examine."

A.R.P.S.); 2nd, Children's Corner Chinese Company's Headquarters dreadful that elderly people like (Chow Chengelam, B.A.); 3rd. to-day at 5.80 p.m. for instruction. this cannot settle As the scenes proceed the actors

their differ- are growing smaller and the action "Are we on safe grounds," he Solo Moderne (Dr. Max Thorak. Training Course (Part 1)All ences without coming to Court,"

recruits of the When the last asked, "in identifying the observed F.R.P.S.).

Chinese Company said Mr. Justice Bateson, who growing quicker,

Reginners' Clasa 1st, Little will attend Central Police Station granted the decree asked for. act opens the curtain rises on recession of the spiral nebula with

Husband a Tyrani,, midget actors rushing through their the expansion effect predicted by Mother (H. C. Goh); 2nd, The for Squad Drill on Thursday at

Mrs. McCormick was now. a parts ut frantic speed.

theory...I have recently obtain Trio (Tay Gen-tin); 3rd, Gather-16.30 p.m.

N.CO.'s Class-All N:C:0.% will frail old lady, said his Lordship, ed a result which I think clears ng Firewood (Chan Koon-pak).

Still Life (Open Competition). attend the Chinese Company's and her husband was obviously Advanced Class:-1st. Still Life Headquarters on Friday at 4 pm, a man of considerable vigour, One last microscopic blur of to be no doubt that the observed intense agitation.

motions are genuine and are due to (C. W. Clarke); 2nd, Twine (C. W. for instruction under Mr. Paterson, not only in his speech, but in his the cosmical expansion.

Clarke); 3rd, Specs (Edouard C. ¡P.P.T.S...

actions. As he grew older he Indian Company,' Kapp), "The circumference of the world

got more violent in his methods. Beginners' is expanding, and light is like a falme. Choong Yin-weng); 2nd, members who have not passed slightest doubt that the wife Class: 1st, Sieves Training Course (Part II)-Al! He (the Judge) had not the runner on an expanding track with Flower Study (Mme. Choong Yin- Part II: of Training Course should was frightened of her husband

weng).

attend at the Chinese Company's and he seemed to have got more "The waves of light now reach- Landscape Members' Competition, Headquarters, 17, Queen's Road and more frightening as he got

Advanced Class:-1st, The Twi-Central on Thursday. ing our eyes," Sir Arthur de light Deepens (F. A. Dragon);

Flying Squad.

It was difficult to say what 2nd. The Storm Approaches (P. A. Company Dianer. The dinner was the precise cause of the rup. What we Dragon).

will be held at Lane, Crawford's ture, but there was something to are now observing is the long ac-. Beginners Class:-1st, Réflec-Restaurant on Wednesday, Janu- | be said. for the cumulation of past ages."

sugges- tions (Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall); ary 13, at 8.30 p.m. Dress Blue tlon that it was concerned with 2nd. The Boatman he began his address, Sir Arthur R. H. Kotewall).

(Hon. Dr. uniform, and cap with white, cover.the marital relatione. The hus-

Sharpshooters Company. navively remarked that he hoped to Portraiture Members' Competition.

band had very strong ideas Company Drill-The monthly about his rights (as he called make "the theory pleasantly incom. Advanced Class:-1st, Peeping Company Drill will be carried out them) in that regard. The Tom (P. A. Dragon): 2nd, Joseph on Kennedy Road on Friday at trouble began after 44. years'

B.A.); 3rd, Joseph Ab Fatt No. 1 that hour outside Queen's Fiered strangely, and obviously Dress Blue uniform, cap with frightened his wife. There was later session and, no doubt, will (Chiw Cheng-lam, B.A.).

Beginners Class-Ist. Com-white cover, belt, holster, revolver an incident in 1928 when Mr. provide the basis for a satisfactory panions in Adversity (Hon. Dr. and truncheon. All members must McCormick hit his wife. settlement.

These methods, it should be re- Dr. R. H. Kotowall),

R. H. Kotewall); 2nd, Cyril (Hon. (attend.

1931 his outbursts were more (Sgd.) D. L. KING, D.S.P. (R.) numerous, and at the end of membered, have been tried with:

March his wife left him. complete success in even more diffi-'

A SWAN SONG. cult circumstances. In 1925, the

Smaller und smaller,

Faster and fuster,

and then. nothing.

Before he drew this picture of

the "final curtain" Sir Arthur had told his hearers that the "material universe is swelling up like L bubble.

"Morcoter," be said, "it is swelling up at rute which, j not alarming to the or- dinary citizen, is very dis- turbing to the theories. In the time which has elapsed since the allest terrestrial rocks ware formed

the radius of the universe has be-

come doubled,"

Every 1,300,000,000 Years.

up the situation.

There seents

the winning post receding faster than he can run.”

cleared are from the distant "are bubble broke.

It has to be mentioned that when

He went on to explain that up to prehensible."

AN APPEAL.

Britain and France and

The League.

(By Leslie R. Aldous]

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Ah Fatt No. 2 (Chow Cheng-lani, 5.15 p.m. Members will fall in at married life. The husband set- This step has the full approval of the

Genre Members' Competition. Advanced Class:-1st, Children's Corner (Chow Cheng-lam, B.A.);

Little

the Council of the League of Nissue was between Great, Britain, 2nd, A. Worker at Stone (Chow tions had other business in addition responsible for the government of Cheng-lam, B.A.): 3rd, At Play

Iraq, and Turkey, not a member of (Chow Cheng-lam, B.A.), to the Manchurian crisis. Great Britain und France, in identical the quarrel over the Mosul frontier, Mother (H. C. Goh).

the League at all. As a result of Beginners' Class-1st, notes, have asked the Council to Battle one of those awkward bound- fighting had actually broken out. Still Life Members' Competition. ary questions which, in the old days, stop hostilities, drew a provisional (P. A, Dragon).

The League Council was able to Advanced Class:ist, The Tryst would have been such a monace frontier line watched over by a neu- to the good understanding between tral commissioner, and then sent an Unlike other disputes which have

nations on which peace depends. impartial commission of enquiry to NOVEL PROPOSAL TO come before the League, there is pave the way to a final solution. On the legal side, advice was obtained

case. But the frontier between

no possibility of war in the present from the Permanent Court of Inter- Iraq and Syria must be fixed in the national Justice at The Hague. near future, and the two Great The British and Turkish Govern- Powers have wisely decided to re-

move all possibility of friction by placing the matter in the League's

hands.

ments endorsed the Lengue's pro- political, treaty. posed settlement in a subsequent Delimitation of

PREVENT WAR.

Statesmen As Combatants.

What Happened When It Flew Against Electric Cable.

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This history (concluded" his Lordship) shows that the old gentleman got worse instead of better and that this seriously affected the wife. It is, time When a swan flew against a low that the Court interfered to pro- Beach (New Jersey) and fell stun violence.

his possible tension cable at Point Pleasant tect her from

HINKLER DESCRIBES ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

ned

The cable short-circuited high-tension cable;

Tova towns were without elec- tricity for an hour;

The police alarm system would not work.

A wooden pole supporting the cables caught fire;

"Once Is Enough; I Will Never Do It Again."

Mr. Hinkler described his. South Atlantic flight as the most hazard- The blaze, spread to dry grassous of his career. and two fre brigades were re- quired to put it out.

I will never undertake auch an The South

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Atlantic acems to have no end," he

the frontier between Iraq and Syria against future wars

A novel suggestion for guarding' Then the swan recovered and flew adventure aynin.

has been put away. should prove a far simpler problem forward by Lord D'Abernon, who for the League.

was the first British Ambassador to

BABY HAS A RIGHT TO CRY.

Before the Great War, when both Iraq and Syria were part of the Turkish Empire, the necessity for a definite frontier line between them did not arise. In recent years they Judge Upholds Parent In Action have been administered by Great By Landlordi. ** Britain and France under the Man- P date System of the Longue Even In these circumstances, it, has not been considered urgent to Worry about a hard and fast boundary Now, however, now conditions are arising. So much progrcas ha been made, that frug in on the verse of Independence, and there is

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| Barlin, after the Great War. In and military aeroplanes.

a broadcast talk on "What. I would would be within the power of was a great feeling when I started. Do With the World," he said it was dictator, and would powerfully flying over the Amazon, and the remarked that in the Great War, diminish the destructiveness of jungle land was thrilling. The very few of those answerable for war. But Lord D'Abernon was by whole landscape looked like a allowing the outbreak of hostilno means confident that even a motionless green sen. Then, when littes suffered personally in the dictator would be able to modify the ocean have into view, and the fighting-line, and many whose, re- the passions of mankind as to land disappeared, I took a final look

thing be tried that would, tend to edit was now or never. Believe

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Crying is a normal occupation for a normal baby.

Mr. Justices Arthambaulter made sponsibility was directly involved render, war impossible. Let.every at the fading shore line, and decid-

this decision in Montreal In dis-never saw a shot fired: missing an action brought by a housing, estate company against declared Lord D'Aberton All not neglect whatever right ronder when the African const showed up." This is unjust and inexpedient," wards such a consummation, but me, I was a happy though tired man H. E.Lewis, father of the baby, for statesmen and officials responsible was less probable and loss destruc-Describing his arrival at the the cancellation of a lease on the fo the outbreak of hostilities tive and Madrid TAerodrome, the airman

good deal of tark of France giving up her mandate for Syrin in the funds that the crying of the child should be included in the first de The civilized world was menaced) near future With both these ex-1 nuisance, to neighbouring tachments sent to the front. If, 1 by economie and monetary cr

Turkish territories, self-governor States and members of tan fraagus

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Evidence was given that the child extend something of the same not sell, those who wanted com

were dictator, I should like to The countries that produced

crying was only the natural exercise manufacture of armaments, and the lightening of the burarn was in normal health, and that its obligation to those concerned in the hot buy. Lord D'Aberaon ur of a pair of healthy lungs to the more fanatical of those debtor countries by Big

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