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very extraordinary person and pre- sence which drew the eyes of all

NO-DAY the artificial silk in-manufacture and to buy its entire is repeatedly pro-

men upon him." "

dustry is one of the strongest output-in exchange for the Drey His wife wAR

fus patents: also a famous in Great Britain. It creates. & jected from the beauty. She was commemorated by practically indispensable commo- The War Aftermath Ben Jonson in a series of poems dity. It is backed by a capital Cone- and

called Eupheme. must be

approaching 100 million pounds. But the Dreyins brothers were Digby was an amateur physician It employs, directly and indirect-business men. They knew the caught again.

and chemiet. His enemies declared|ly, 500,000 workers.

war would not last for ever, and that he had killed his wife by giv- The story of the new industry belleved that their product had ing her a poisonous powder to is largely that of its two greatest valuable peace-time uses. With preserve her beauty,

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pillars, the £32 million firm of the aid of British finance they, Courtaulda, with its international built the plant themselves.: ramifications, and British Celan- They rushed up a $7,000,000

vilk

Swiss hotel-keepers have invented ese, Ltd., which with its allied factory in Derbyshire, and the a new device to attract visitors.

firms in the U. S. A. and Canada Production of cellulose, acetate Each new arrival is politely asked has a capital of roughly £18 mil-went on night and day, until the end of the war. They erected a lions. to step on a weighing-machine.

great plant in America and an. If at the end of a week visitors Fifty years ago when Cour other in Switzerland--both for can guess their weight exactly be-taulds were prosperous makers of war-time production. fore a second weighing, the pro-black crepe and British Celanese, Then came peace and three idle prietor offers a 10 per cent, reducunthought of, a scientifically-factories. tion of the bill,

minded French count dropped а For a while dead loss seemed in- The hotel keepers have such faith piece of cellulose film on a hot evitable. But the brothers were in the fattening powers of their stove and swore

with annoyance, tietermined to Dave this luss. chefs that few visitors succeed in He picked up the sizzling frag-They knew. of the great guessing right.

ment gingerly and swore with future of artificial surprise. From it were hanging Courtaulds had proved that. They glistening strands of a fine, silky also knew that specimen fibres thread. He sat down at his desk could be made from cellulose A coloured pastor announced to his and wrote rapidly,

acetate. But a commercial yarn For nearly congregation the following subject:

three centuries they could not make, and even it "Brethern and sisters: I'se gwine scientists had tried to reproduce they could they had no idea how to preach a powerful sermon dis mer- The personnel of the Air Force nin: l'ee gwine to define de undefin-artificially those exquisite threads to weave or knit it. Hong Kong, Monday, Nov. 12, 1934. is expanding at both ends, by the able, I'ee wine to explain de unex- which emerge by nature from But they were determined to enrolment of additional boys and plainable, and I've gwine to unscrew de the silkworm's body. They knew save the loss. They did it-in by the retention of time-expired unscrutable."

of the fortune which awaited the three years with three difficulties A Revolution In Travel officers. Sites in East Anglia For Batter or Worse

first man to do so on a commer-to surmount. It took them two to have been found to accommodate

cial scale. This French Count produce a commercial yarn, and A doctor says no man should Hilaire de Chardonnet was one of then they had to evolve machines If the report of the. Traffic new squadrons as they are form-

marry a girl who can't cook at Commissioners for 1933-4 the ed. The picture given is one of least roast beef and Yorkshire.

which could weave and knit. Then these scientists.

His discovery convulsed the they had to spend a year with 80 statistics of passengers carried balanced development, of the

İtextile world. In 1889 the first chemists · borrowed from the

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almost astronomical proportions. ly thought out in all their details. A well-known Royal Academician, commercial specimens of artificial Clavels in Switzerland. For the How important an element in the The country expects no less from who noticed a drawing of a fish by a silk were shown in France. Fin-silk would not take existing dyes, daily movement of the popula- the Air Ministry. The co-ordina- pavement artist, asked the man what anciers scrambled to back the new and they had to find a new range. process. In 1891 13 tons of yarn The result of these years of ex- tion the road has become may be tion of all the items of a general sort of a fish it was supposed to be.

"A shark,"ˇsir!" ". "But you've never seen

periment and doubt, was the forma- « judged from some comparisons programme of expansion so that

shark," were produced. While in the enlargement of the Air Force sold the R- Aca

British experts were at a with the railways.

Grettion of the British Celanese Com- shall achieve its full results at "That's true, sir," the man agreed; chary of the newfangled yarn. But pany in a post-war world which 1938 the total of passengers upon every stage of the programine is "but then, don't some of those Acade again chance helped. Queen Al- demanded silk under-clothes and the principal British railway matter for the air experts. They chars paint angels 14 was 1,101,000,000, omnibuses and

exandra then happened to be lead-intockings. The craze in 1921 for. tramcars carried 5,418,000,000, average citizen cannot handle

jumpers, ing the revolt from the Victorian knitted

esch using these technical questions, but we or nearly five times as many can rest assured that the whole gets three laughs from jokers, astrous results to the famous old another boom.

An Englishman, according to legend, fashion of black crepe, with dis- up to 111⁄2lb. of artificial silk meant Passenger receipts on the road.

matter is being properly taken when the fake is told, second, when firm of crepe-makers. Courtaulda. were £57,900,000. Those of the railways were a million and care of by those whose responsi- it is explained to him, and third, when

The bottom dropped out of the

Danger From Japan The understands it.. [bility, it is.

The Frenchman gets only the first crepe market. The directors of The experts got to work and two he never sees the point. the firm were in despair. A new evolved new uses.

-The American man gets one-heline had to be found quickly. It dresses, men's suits, heavy furnish Hats, shoes, won't wait for the point,

And the American girl, of course, must not compete with the ethering fabrics and curtains, overconts gets none at all, because she's heard well-established textile manu-even, were made from the new the joke before.

yarn. And on top of it all the At this critical stage in the "athletic age" arrived, and the firm's career came the first whis-public cried out for tennis dresses, perings of a revolutionary new shorts and blouses, all of artificial yarn, and the more daring of the silk..

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a half sterling more, owing to the longer average journey. is not necessary to go outside these figures to understand how seriously the railways have been! affected by the modern develon- ments of the motor-omalbis.

The number of public vehicles

A CIVILIZATION OF 4000 B.C.

Another Expedition To Go To Jericho

TRACES OF SETTLEMENT

LOCAL NEWS

BREVITIES

facturers.

The R.M.S. Empress of Russia directors saw in the new process left Yokohama and Saturday for the only salvation of Courtaulda. Vancouver. She is due back in They pleaded for a trial, and won, Hong Kong on Thursday, December but the first trial, owing to poor machinery and inexpert "experts," was a black failure. Only a pas-

on the roads tends to decline somewhat, but the total of pas sengers increases, owing in part to the greater size of omnibuses and tramcars and in part to| higher speed enabling these to cover a longer distance in the In the hope to discovering new 20. day. London is conspicuous traces of a civilization which among the great cities of the flourished in 4,000 BC and pos- The Aw Pau Hospital, the gift of sionate speech by one of the direc world for its preference for sibly with an earlier period, when Mr. Aw Boon-haw, the Tiger Balm, tors, Henry Tetley, persuaded the travelling by road. The Lon-pottery was unknown an expe- King, at Cheung Chau, will be firm to risk capital in the experi- doner makes on the average 496 dition, led by Professor J. Gars-formally opened next Wednesday ment seriously, journeys a year.

Only 128 of tang, of Liverpool, is to leave for afternoon at 8.15 o'clock, by Mra. these are made by train; the re- Jericho in December.

Borrett, wife of His Excellency the mainder by omnibus and tram Traces of human settlements G.O.C., Major General O. C. Borrett, car or coach. Paris carries half earlier than those systematically C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.B.0.

its daily passengers underground, excavated in the city and necro-

In New York the proportion is polis of Jericho between 1929 and higher still. That difference 1932 are unknown to exist at a

res

LOOKING FOR 20 MILLIONS

New Bid For Colossal Cocos Is. Treasure

Weathers The Slump That speech was largely

Another bid to find the colossal ponsible for what has turned out treasure reputed to be hidden on to be one of the fastest-growing Cocos Island, off Costa Rica. Cen- of British Industries, and one of tral America, is being planned in the few which has called with New Zealand. E

accounts for the special difficul-deep level, and may extend, it is thanks to the generosity of Sir ever-increasing figures through The hoard is said to be worth ties of London atreet traffic, and stated, even beyond the limits of Charles Marston, we are organize the doldrums of the slump between 12 and 20 million pounds. for the comparatively high pro- the outer walls. The expedition ing a fresh expedition to work Courtaulds had backed a high- Mr. D. B. McVicar, a 56-year-old portion of accidents. How the is being organized through the the lower levels. Londoner's compulsory addic generosity of Sir Charles Mars- "It Is Impossible to say what production of artificial silk from ton claims to know the secret.

priced, outsider and won. Their Scotsman, of Newtown, Welling- tion to the road is to be com- ton to operate from Christmas we shall discover. The earlier wood pulp increased steadily. The bined with safety is the problem to Easter. The staff has not yet occupation levels of Jericho have perfected yarn gradually found a Vicar's secret until the expedition The clue will remain Mr. Me- that the Ministry of Transport been completed.

not been seen thoroughly, but I has to solve.

Prof. Garstang said that recent believe they are very extensive, market. In the few years before actually lands on the island. investigations at Megiddo and and possibly go beyond the con- the war each year saw an increase. Beigan had disclosed traces of fines of the walls of the later of one or two million pounds of early settlements and civilization cities.

artificial silk manufactured, T in Palestine.

Ordered Progress In Air Strength

I previously found traces of Up till the war Courtaulds had "My own early excavations at them in a deep cutting after practically monopolised the mar The five-year plan for air de Jericho," added the professor, descending approximately 25ft. to ket with their own system. But velopment sanctioned by Parlia-"showed that deep occupation test the relative ages of the inner the war was responsible for creat- ment is well in hand, and facts levels were to be found, which and outer walls. They extended ag an entirely new process which show that systematic and proper seem to indicate a period of under the inner wall and as far was later to lead to the birth of ly based expansion 18 in effer- settlement at least as early as as the outer one, and their in British celanese,

tive progress. The Air Minis those which have lately attract dications that they dated back to The war brought an urgent de- try would indeed be false to itsjed so much attention.

period before the pottery using mand for a new type of airplane trust if it listed aquadrons of Promising Field

people.

wing "dope" to replace the exlat new machines as fast as the "I discussed the matter at that I would not be surprised per ing highly inflammable material factories could turn them out time with the Director of Anti-sonally to find contacta with the which was easily fired by enemy and then claimed that our dan-quities in Palestine, and he early Elamite civilization, and incendiary bullets. Two Swise gerous weakness in the air had agreed with me that it was any connection with Babylonia eclentists, the brothers Henri and been remedied. one would promising field of Investigation. are historically possible, The Camille Dreyfus, had been work build warships without men to We were, howeve

ted results of the work are bound to ing for some years op Just such a

to inve ions- further substance, which had. for comparison with early cellulose acetate, the British civilization and

Government learnt of their experiments. They offered to

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