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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1932.

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert dat our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic #pellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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HORIZONTAL

1-Show to be true.

Titled 11-Flosted 12-Native of N. Luzan,

Philippine lalands

14-Near 15-Window giann 16-A drink of spirits

and water 17-Egyptian sun-ged 19-To strike gently 21-Swayed 23-Lawican orowd 24-Dry

26-Chalcest part of

saolety

27-Part for one person 28-To let again 30-Naval officer (abbr)} $1-Raprove

$2-Blood sucking fly of

Africk

84-Scarce

| HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 51-Denial 32-Flavors 54-Kilolitors (abbr) 55-Stannum (abbr) 68-Combining form,

Narrow

67-A grain (pl.) 6-Electrical Engineer

(abbr.) 50-Distort (Obs.) [62–Dresses with the

beak

84-To graza |65-Part of a flower

VERTICAL

1-River In Italy 2-Knock

3.-Vorbal

4-Law term

6-Famous tomato

swimmer

35-Ons who engages in 6-Bunset to sunrise

boot-logging

$B-Leave

33-Named

45-A scented root 44-Kitahan atonsil 46-English novelist 47-A small bied 48-Makos indistinot 50-Trinity (abbr.)

(pl.) 7-Coincide

8-State of mind 9-Unit of work 10-Act

[11-Gazaa, fixedly 13-Binga loudly 14-Aaunder 18-Abiding pixas

40 41 42

VERTICAL (Cont.) 20-A thin pieca of baked clay

22-Like a cinder 23-To lo at anchor 25-To leave a railway

train 27-A color (29-Title of former

Russian ruler (pl.) 31-Javelin 33-And other things

(Latin, abbr) 54-Period of time

· (abbr.)

138-Conquera

37-Journey to carry a

message

38-Taka booty

140-A bird

41-Magistrates of

ancient Rome

142-Hard

44-Establishes firmly 46-Armies

148-Those who foretali 149-Trap

52-Portico (Gr. Arch.) 63-Walk 66-Steamer (abbr.) [68-Ocean

61-Egypt (abbr) 83-North Latitude

(Abbr.)

(The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzzle.) will

appear in tomorrow's issus.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

Aviation, Building and Engineering,

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Great Britain's Height Record

Flying Miles Above Earth's Surface

TERRIFIC SPEED POSSIBLE

NEW SYSTEM OF FIRE FIGHTING.

In

Important Claims For Porary, and that to constituents the pressure in this chamber falls | gradually separate out in periods so that the valve is opened and "Mulsifyre" Patent. varging from several hours for water is admitted to the sprayera heavy oll to a few minutes for from a tank in which it is stored QUENCHES PETROL BLAZE.

petrol.

at pressure of 80 m to 100 19 per. The apparatus used in this square inch under compressed air. The advantage claimed for the system, which is primarily ap-Alternatively, groups of some eight Malalfyre system of fire extinction, plicable to open tanks, consists of sprayers can be connected to an which has recently been intro- the sprays, which have just been automatic control, which admité, duced by Messrs. Mather and mentioned, and the plant necessary water to the connecting pipes whon. Platt, Limited, Park Works, Now- for gonerating the pressure and the temperature rises above a pre ton Heath, Manchester, in that con-controlling the water supply. The determined limit. trary to generally accepted Ideas number of sprays used depende en

a' demonstration _ of this it enabled water alone to be used the size of the tank and the nature system which took place at the for Oghting conflagrations caused of its contents and they can be Blackwall yard of Messras); R. and by the ignition of oil, petrol and placed either close to the surface H. Green and Silley Weir, Limited, other volatile liquids. The prin of the liquid or some distance on Thursday, September 29, a large If hand operation is open tank, 12 ft square, with ciple employed is to project a above it. London-In the stratosphere, air records to the country's score, number of Quely divided sprays, adopted water is admitted to the twelve Mulsifyre sprayers above it the region more than eight miles also brings closer the time when which are formed by forcing water sprays through a quick-opening was filled, about three-quarters the layers of rarefied air at great under pressure through specially stop valve, but more effective re-full with a fuel oll having a closed above the earth reached by Mr. Cheights will be used by standard designed hozzles on to, er under, aults are obtained by placing one flash point of 209 deg, and a F. Uwins when he obtained for military and civil aircraft. It is the surface of the liquid, and thus or more sprinkler heads over the Redwood viscosity of 85 seconds at Great Britain the world's height the view of many experts that ex- temporarily, producing B non-tank and connecting them to the 100 deg. F.. This oil, having been record, flying conditions are tensive developments in the way inflammable emulsion, so that the top pressure chamber of a flooding fruited, water was first admitted

of increasing normal working fire is rapidly extinguished. The valve in which the pressure is through the sprays by the automa strangely altered and some curious, heights are likely to take place in, answer to the objection that by maintained through a small pipe tic operation of two Quartzold bulb effects are noticeable, Mr. Uwiss, the near future.

using water in this way the value from the main supply. In the sprinklers and the fire, was hatin- (at a luncheon given in his honour

Care in Details.

of the oil is permanently impaired event of a fire and the consequent guished In about · 8-, seconds.---- at Bristol said that, at 49,976 feet,

Record breaking flights dépond is that the emulsion is only tam-opening of one or more sprinklera Engineering. which is the altitude officially rethe various parts of the seroplane, largely upon the co-operation of

corded after the readings of the, and every component, from the sealed barographs had been cor B. T. H. Magnetos to the K. L. G. rected by the National Physical parking plugs, played its part; but there is one accessory, if it Laboratory, cables, such as those

may be so called, which is of used for operating the allerons, special interest because it is essen-

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| shrunk as much as a quarter of an tially an air-cooled engine acces-

Inch and this shrinkage had to be sory; this is the Townend Ring. allowed for, before the machine "Pegasus" engine in the first place Mr. Fedden designed the Bristol

started.

to take the Townend Ring and this Another thing is the large cor- ring was fitted for the record rection for speed. The air speed breaking fight. Its object is to cause the air. which passes. the indicator in Mr. Uwins' Vickers nine radially disposed cylinders to: "Vespa" aeroplane showed only 58 flow smoothly and so to set up a miles an hour when he was at the minimum amount of drag, The top of his climb; but corrected for ring consists of a metal annulus of aerofoil shaped section fixed so atmospheric pressure and density that the inner surface is close to In a manner similar to that applied the cylinder heads. The Townend to the barograph readings, the ac Ring can be fitted to almost any air-cooled aero engine of the tual speed comes to something in radial type with advantage; but the region of 180 miles an hour. the Bristol "Pegasus," being de- It is in the reduction' in drag, and signed expressly to take it, obtains therefore in resistance to forward the most favourable results .poA- motion through the air, that oc.

The Townend Ring is also fitted curs at great heights that some to the engines of the Boulton and engineers foresee a means of ob- Paul twin-engined. day bombers taining speeds undreamt of up to of the "Sidestrand" type which are the present and the Vickers now in use in the Royal Air Force

and are the fastest twin-engined Pig's Chillings

Brains "Vespa's" fight has done

some military aircraft in the world. In thing to forward their projects. addition it is fitted to the new

Mechanical Marvels.

three-engined Boulton and Paul. Some idea of the problems be heavy bomber which was seen for the first time in public at the fore Mr. Roy Fedden, the designer Royal Air Force Display at Hen- of the Bristol "Pegasus" engine don this year. In all these cases

of apeed Pork Chop with which the Vickers "Yeapa" is appreciable increases fitted may be had from the fact are secured by the addition of the that, at 18,000 feet, the ordinary unsupercharged engine, relying

sible.

ring...

purely upon aspiration for filling NEW YORK

the cylinders with mixture, will

sive only half the power it gives

near the ground; while at 40,000) feet the power will fall off to about a seventh of what it was near the ground. The Bristo! supercharger prevents this reduction in power occurring.

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Eggs, Hen (cooking).

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Fish.

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Yellow been brought out it was adopted piece was unencumbered with Frogs by the Irish Free State and by buildings. Then the view up Garonpa Bolivia as an Army co-operation Broadway was led toward the Gudgeon aircraft. In Bolivia as an aero capola above an already mellowed Herrings drome 18,000 feet above sea level, marble facade, past a fountain and Halibut Keeping Pilot Warm batween rows of trees set in a Labros

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has been agitated

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