1932-06-28 — Page 7

TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1932.

CROWN DISCLOSES

A NAME.

Alleged Murderer of Fung.

RING OF CHAUFFEURS.

A sonsational disclosure was made by Mr. R. E. Lindsell (Public Pro- secutor) in the Central Police Court

THE CHINA MAILA

The Secret Of The DISTRESS WARRANT THE FLYING OF THE

Atom

"Central Problem Of Physics"

SEQUEL.

Landlord and Tenant

In Court

QUESTION OF TENDER.

yesterday afternoon, when the trial PROGRESS OF RECENT RESEARCH opened hearing of a case in which of Cheng Kwok-yau (20), who la charged with the instigation of the murder of George Fung on the night of March 24 last, in Village Road, was resumed.

THE DISCOVERIES AT CAMBRIDGE.

ATLANTIC.

Miss Earhart's Feat and After.

THE DO-X IN COMPARISON

After Misa Earhart's courageous, Sitting in Summary Jurisdiction and almost fabulously lucky, fight in the Supreme Court, yesterday across the Atlantic, nothing more in a single-engined, land aeroplane afternoon, Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, of this kind remains to be done. No more laurels are to be won, Wong Wal-tong, of

and the epoch of desperate adven 7, Poplar ture in Atlantic flying ought now to Street, Shamshuipo, applied to have come to an end. The coincidence a distress warrant fasued against of the Atlantic crossing by the big him by his landlord, Wong Goon, German flying boat, the Do-X, sheds "The electrical nature of matter that these protons could not have

streng, but not new, light on the is now so well established as to be been due to any hydrogen or hydro-

discharged, and a declaration that problems of Atlantic flying. The Crown Prosecutor detalled a a commonplace-everyone knows gen containing impurity, so that he would not be liable for any costs In this the wind has always play- statement which alleged a murder that material things are made of the conclusion was reached that or expenses incurred by the land-ed a leading part, and if the pre- conspiracy by a ring of motor car atoms, and that the atoms in their they were

produced from the lord except for the rent."

vailing wind in these latitudes à turn consist of positive and nega- nuclei of the atoms concerned-a

were east to west an Englishwoman drivers, of which the principal lative electricity in equal balancing clear case, in fact, of the trans-

The applicant was represented might have forestalled Miss Ear stated to be Lau, the accused's quantity. The tiny negative elec mutation of elements hoped for by by Mr. Peter H. Sin, while Mr. hart. But an east-to-west crossing, chauffeur, and of which another trons may be regarded as whirling the alchemists of old. member is Chiu Yung-sham, a in planetary

E. S. G.. Brooks was for the land- except by a big, well-found flying orbits round the

Pose's Theory.

boat, would be all but impossible. ford. chauffeur in the employ of Mir. A. central nucleus whose electric Of special import in the theory

and, in any case, it would teachi Goeke, of Bisney Villas, arrested in charge determines their number which is rapidly growing up is the.

The applicant's case was based on no useful lesson. the city last week and since held on and arrangement," writes Prof. R. discovery made by a German phy-tender, and Mr. Sin said that he

"There is only one thing felt to a charge of the possession of a Whiddington, F. R. S. in the aicist-Pose-that the power of would show that the rent

do." said a well-known aeroplane revolver and three rounds of am- Observer.

disintegrating does not just intendered before the distress war-flight, "and that is to fly the Atlan- designer, apropos of Miss Earhart's munition.

A certain amount is known about (crease with the speed of the It was further alleged that the the outer parts of atoms, since a-particle, but has a

definite rant WAB Issued and also tie upside-down!" which shows how third member is Wong Nam-belang, with the outermost electrons optimum value or values, below and after the issue of the warrant, near to absurdity are aeroplane arrested in Shanghai, and whose chemical affinity and light emission above which the efficiency of shat- but before the seizure or im

feats which have no practical or extradition to Hong Kong is being are associated, and X-ray pheno- tering diminishes. To draw on the

technical value. awaited, on a charge of being the mena are linked with the innermost motor-car analogy again--this time pounding of his goods and chattels Miss Earhart, who has won all actual murderer of Fung.

a low-priced car-there is an en- Mr. Brooks contended that he hearts by her quietness, and the On the application of Mr. By ring light. X-rays or fast gine speed which produces had no case to answer, but Hismitting that her achievement has approval of the scientific by ad- Lindaell, his Worship (Mr. Wynne-moving electrons at an atom, it is "drum" in the body work perhaps Lordship ruled against him, and "added nothing, to aviation," is per- Jones) amended the churge standing therefore possible to evoko respon--but above and below this speed. against the accused to read "to sive messages in terms of radiation the drum is not appreciable, and after Mr. E. P. E. Lang, Registrar haps too modest: after all, she counsel, command and procure a or even efected planetary electrons the good driver passes through this of the Supreme Court was called has drawn the eyes of the millions certain man to do or commit a cer- on which can be based arguments critical speed as quickly as he may, to speak as to the practice adopted to the fact that motor, aeroplane, ns to the external electron COR- The good experimenter within the case of distress warrants, figuration. A The Crime,

word about the a-rays, on the other hand, in dis- there was lengthy argument, fol energy of the projectiles necessary intagrating, shattering, transmut-lowing which His Lordship re Mr. Lindsell, in his opening, to stimulate an atom to these ing (or whatever word appeals), served judgment.'.' which supplemented the main one various responses: the more deep will rather choose and dwell on given before his Worship at the seated a planetary electron, the this critical speed. And now for opening of the hearing last month, mere energy is required to disturb the most recent advances.

tain felony.

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Was

and course-keeping are equal to almost any demands.

flying boat indicates the right way The voyage of the 12-engined

to approach the problem of ocean- flying. But the Do-X is really an adventure in design, and has never alproved equal to carrying a tenth of

whether her type will ever become

set out the elaborate methed in it, still more to eject it from its The first due to Messrs. Cocks the suggestion that this is which the murder was planned, en atom. This energy can be measur- roft and Walton-marks a great definite case of atomic disintegra- the amount of useful load which tailing a vigilant watch over George ed or calculated in many cases, and step forward in technique with im- tion by protons accompanied by would justify her cost. She has Fung, and the special hiring of a is for our present purpose con-mediate interesting experimental the conversion of mass into energy. crossed the Atlantic twice, and on room almost overlooking Village veniently expressed in terms of a results, and which is full of future At present, the conversion pus-these occasions has carried no load Road, the scene of the crime.

unit termed the "electron volt" promise.

sible is only minute, to begin with other than fuel, and no passengera Mr. Lindsell continued:-"About This is the energy possessed by a They have set up a special high-only one in a thousand million of other than crew. She has bad no. 7.15 p.m. on March 24, the night free electron which initially at rest voltage apparatus giving up to the bombarding protons score the rough seas for take-off or landing: of the crime, Sze arrived at No. 17 is allowed, to move freely from the about half a million volte, and have kind of atomic hit required, and and one may reasonably doubt Man Chung Fong and found Lau negative to the positive pole of an used it to speed up protons made when that hit is made the amount there. He procured a public motor electric cell, giving a potential directly from hydrogen in a special of mass converted is only the sound proposition. She has driver who will be called to give evi-difference of one volt (The electric vacuum tube.

minute difference in masses refer thrown strong light on some tech- dence, proceeded to Sani Kwong cell provided in a pocket torch

Lithium Atoms..

red to a few lines.ago,

nical considerations, although her Road, to its junction with Village gives about this potential.)

In this way a controllable and Cambridge Experiment.

partial failure was long ago Lore Road, arriving there something An energy of a few electron volts very dense hall of fast-moving Here is a second interesting extold by the present writer and by after 8 o'clock. He turned the or so is sufficient to stimulate some protons was directed towards a periment reported from Cam-others. publie car round there and sat in it, of the outer electrons in atoms to target (lithium was used), and the bridge:---

Great Britain unquestionably has looking straight down the road to emit light-ten to twenty clectron results observed and compared with

Dr. Chadwick, experimenting the best flying boats, but although wards the Valley. He saw both volts will perhaps eject such on those previously got by bombarding with very penetrating radiation it would be possible on them to fly Wong and the Cantonese

gunman' electron, but for the inner (X-ray) with the less controllable a-rays. produced when a particles struck the North Atlantic from west to Ah Kun, walking to and fro, and electrons much higher energies are The interesting point is, that beryllium, was following up with east, not one of them could, on one passing one another outside No. wanted-the sort of potentials de- whereas a-ray bombardment of characteristic care the observa. load of fuel, cross the Atlantic In 14. Occasionally these two came veloned at the sparking plugs of certain elements produces protons, tions of Madame Curie Joliot and the opposite direction except in up to the car in which he was scat-motor-car engines would at least the bombardment by protons of M. Joliot that this radiation ejected Weather conditions which are ex- ed. "About 8 o'clock, Ah To be necessary to energine the im-lithium produces a-rays! Further, protons of high speed from tremely rare. arrived at No. 17 Man Chong Fong pacting electrons-many thousands these a-rays are far more energetic, hydrogen-containing matter.

Refuelling At Sea and on instructions from Ah Lau ́of volts.

speedier, than could possibly be Chadwick found that when this Yet it is to the flying boat we remained at the backyard gate.

Laws of Impact.

anticipated from the known speed radiation, bombarded the light must look for regular services, al- The gate gives out into that

But still greater energies are of the protons; the numerical fact elements, their nuclei were flung though these will' almost certainly scavenging lane to which I have re needed to disturb in any way the emerging from the experiments out at high speed just as in the depend upon refuelling at sen, or ferred and in which the gun was nucleus-that comparatively mas-being that pretons of energy about case of hydrogen the proto of the carrying capacity of the air- in the air, for otherwise too much subsequently found.

sive, central body with its positive a hundred thousand electron volts (hydrogen nuclei) were ejected. "As we know, at 8.30 or just

striking lithium llberate a-particles Calculations from the observed craft would be used up by fuel. Lai Ming-fay charge. before, Fung and

of energy about eight million elec- speeds of the ejected nuclei show. The American proposal for float emerged from No. 24 Sam Kwong Energies running to millions of tron voits. What is the explana-ed that the previous view of the ing island aircraft stations was Road. At that time, we are told, electron volts are required, and it tion?. It is yet too early to be radiation. as being of a wave nature dropped in an almost universal beth Ah Wong and Ah Kun were has been found convenient to use certain, but the suggestion already was untenable and that all the pb economy jettisoning of big enter opposite the car, and Wong im--as first Rutherford did in 1911 put forward is starkly simple and servations could be fitted together prises, but some less costly scheme mediately set out in pursuit of-a-particles, which

apon- straightforward. Here it is. The coherently by supposing it to con-may be practicable. Sze, in the public car, taneously ejected from certain lithium atom is about seven times sist of neutrons that is, close Least expensive, perhaps, would followed him down the road about radio-active substances during more massive than the proton, the combinations of protons and elece a seasonal utilisation of the

their natural disintegration.

a-particle (which is the same as a trons.

Azores, or of Iceland and Green Seven thousand times more mas-helium atom divested of its outer. sive than the electron, and posses-electrons) is four times as massive, would result in a projectile of mass

Such a close fusion of opposites land, as calling places.

The faults of the Do-X are avold- "When the couple reached Vick sing energy of many million elec-The following equation suggests the same as a proton, but with very able, and there is being built a Yam Street, Sze saw a flash fol-tron volts, these a-particles are itself:

great penetrating power conferred British flying boat of about the by the lowed by a report and heard the practically unaffected

Ore lithium atom 1 proton on it by the absence of electric same weight, fewer engines, yet girl scream, but did not see what through which they may pars, and planetary electrons of an atom

two a-particles. charge. (A proton can be regard more aggregate power, which will happened to any of the trio or the although carrying a positive chargehe arithmatic is convincing electron closely linked to the capacity proportionate to that of +1 = 2 x 4ed as a hydrogen atom with the have a useful or military load Cantonese gunman. He then drove down the street, past the Yeung We are able to approach very close to

the similarly charged nucleus and But there is another point re nucleus instead of whirling in British flying boats which have dur Nursing Home and turned back into sometimes even to penetrate it and quiring further calculation about some far-flung orbit).

ing the past few years demonstrat Sam Kwong Road. By that time to score a direct hit.

The equation representing the ed their fine qualities in many ain- crowd had collected at the Junction target. (the nucleus) is only a-particles which, as already men- production of a neutron from, say, gle and formation warld cruises, of...Yick Yam Street. He then millionth of a millionth of a centi- tioned, is far in excess of what Boron by a particle disintegration This new boat, is a war air- drove to Village Road down to Shing metre across, and the projectile could be expected from that of the is of the same kind as the one craft; but a commercial flying boat Wo Road to the bottom.

(the a-particle) about the anme

protons..

already given for helium produc of the game weight and power was "Meanwhile in the backyard ofį.

being built until last January,

hit in apparent, yet such hits were

that the above equation 71 of lithium, opened the backyard gate, and in

|Air Ministry countermanded the came Wong followed closely by the observed with various kinds of is only roughly true-there

order, although it did not save perny on the contract price, and minute merely averted the incurring

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operational expenses. part for the Despite the demands of economy, the emitted the flying boat

eksentially “sound

Fung:

70 or 80 yards behind.

The Shooting.

are

the source of energy of thesa Since the

No. 17 Man Chung Fong, Ab Lau Bize, the minute chance of a direct It is found on closer examination tion by the proton disintegration when, for reasons of economy, the

atomic targets many years ago.

is, in fact, a very small disappear-

Cantonese gunman, Ab Kun. In

It was soon found that there wars ance of mass when this process of order to get to the rear cubicle two kinds of impact the first in disintegration takes place, they had to open the door of the which the directions and speeds of

Energy and MasSH,

kitchen, and Ah To will say that the particles after impact obeyed But energy and masă are inter when Wong opened the kitchen door similar laws to those applicable in changeable according to a certain he took a felt hat be was wearing the other, but more generally play law of equivalence, so that when and threw it into a bucket of water ed game of billiards the second mass disappears. It must reappear

in the kitchen,The two of them characterised by the unexpected then went into the cubicle and then appearance of particles far faster out through the front door: Ah Kan than could be predicted from the took a tram and drove straight ordinary rules of the game. away Bo far the Police had got This second type of impact been able

specially important Det xamination showed that these fast

les-faster than

Chin

where as energy in this

case the

Borona-particle

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