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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1935

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Mr. Dennis Bradley, who died suddenly, at the age of 56, had varled career,

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SIXTY YEARS FROM TO-DAY?

WHAT WILL BE FUTURE

SOURCES OF POWER?

WIND

AND SUN IN PLACE OF

COAL AND OIL

(By A. P. Luscombe Whyte)

ly below the Savile How standard TT is hard not to look back a little They built modern windvanes, tapped a new reservoir of unce with scientifically s vin Arma

only three generations ago, the his-similar to airplane wings, band-

tomers...

SPIRIT. WARNING

his time and attention.

|ed with his dead sister.

He began as a free-lance journ|torian of 1993 may write, when the pointed them away from the wind alist, became an actor, and worked world was still aquandering its The results, obtained by indepen for some months as a comedian in fuel resources as recklessly and dent experimenters in England, and a nigger minstrel show.

with as little regard for the future Germany, were remarkable. The He was also proud of the fact nu a gambler squanders his' capital, new vanes started generating power that he wrote and produced the first Wo.have harnessed the inexhaus- in an almost unnoticeable wind of one-act play to be put on in a West tible energy of the sun and the three `m.p.h., compared, with the 10 End music hall.

earth. Our great sun-driven;øles- or 12 m.p.h. breeze- demanded" by " tric power houses in the Sahara their predecessors. They gave jand American deserts have brought four times the power. One irrigation and fertility to what was machine, with wings no larger than Some 12 years ago Mr.. Bradles became a spiritualist. Since then once barren, scorched waste-land the propeller of a moderate sized psychical research occupied most of and provided a huge surplus of airplane, tested in. England, gave electrical power. We use the a' steady 14 h.p., on enough to light He was a curious mixture of lavish force of the winds, through a small village.

But the necessity of storing the scepticism and credulity. In his our batteries of windvanes, to two books And After" and "The supply 90 per cent. of the power of electric power obtained in heavy To us, and expensive accumulators prohi Wisdom of the Gods" he described our homes and factories. methods by which he claimed to therefore, the efforts of those few bited the expansion of the wind- have unmasked certain fraudulent far-seeing men who in the 60 years vane at that time, and in 1934, when up to 1936 carried out the spade the light, cheap accumulator, had | mediums.

At the same time, he believed work in the conquest of natural yet to be found, progress had that he had actually heard the Power must seem a little pitiful. almost ceased.

Yet these men, brought about aj But the years 1933-34 marked voice of Confucius speaking at a seance and that he habitually talk-world revolution fur greater than growing interest in sun-power. A that "industrial revolution" of the scientist calculated that on a clear

day the sun poured out a stream He also claimed that a spirit early 19th century. warning revealed to him that he Birth Of The Sun-Motor

of 6,000 horse-power on to every acre of the earth's hurface. Ha The China Mail years work is now nearing the was being robbed in his business, The foundations of

our present illustrated the prodigality of the Northern end of the line.

and enabled him to put matters sun-motors were laid by that first sun by stating that the Sahara But an even more puzzling right.

real sun-motor built in 1874 by the received daily as much energy as› Hong Kong, Friday, „February 16, 1936, complication is that in a nomad

French scientist Mouchot, It was was present in a 20 years output or pastoral society boundaries Your Daily Smile! la crude affair, with an efficiency of British cell mihes. are highly disapproved of. Only

of perhaps one per cent of the one thing really matters, -

Novel Sun-Motors According to a gossip-writer many ideal. The heat of the sun WAR grazing. Everyone considers well-known society, women intend to collected and concentrated by

At the same time came.news;Of : Italy's quarrel with Abyssinia that he has the right to move his throw big parties in the near fu- "beheaded" cone, rather like the new sun-motors in all parts of the is so much on the lines of inci- flocks and herds to any place ture. This wrestling craze seems old-fashioned, lampshade, silvered world. Soviet engineers bulit up. dents that used to happen in the where they can find their sustento be spreading. nineteenth century, before boun-ance, and in time of drought to daries were surveyed, and re- any well that is reported to be Playing Cards gularly patrolled by mounted full of water. A district which A good deal depends upon a good the narrow end into a beam of into transmit the sun's heat to cook- police whose adventures have has been neglected as useless for deal provided materials for endless Years may suddenly become a novels of adventure, that the Prize worth fighting for, and questions it suggests have little under the circumstances no ac

"What does the modern or nothing to do with the rights count is taken of anything so ask for in her divorce sult?" of the dispute. Speculation is substantial as a line which looks queries a reader. Custody of the confined to the queries why it as good as any other line on the has been given so much publicity,map.

As we are not nationally con- Before And After and what Italy intends to do about) it? A well, with its little oasis cerned in this dispute there can

Billet doux. in a dry country, is a very im-be no harm in noting how it

Bills' dus. portant thing to a traveller; but raises the whole question of that particular bit of the what is called "Imperialism," world travellers are few and far the moral doubt that has taken between, and a commercial tra- the form of questioning whether veller would be rare bird indeed.we ourselves and other Europeans for the bedouins have but little! have any right to bring under use for money, and the native our government these primitive peoples none at all. A primitive Peoples. It would be sheer hypo- African tribe is an ideal achieve-crisy for us suddenly to criticise ment of "Autarky" which is held other people when they are con up to us by so many ill-balanced fronted with the same conditions thinkers for our imitation. And that for a hundred years so often even if the money were there, and led to annexations and protector- the people had the wants of ates which to the men on the. The action of a young Chinese in technique. The "concentrator" more than 15 years. civilised men, transport without spot seemed absolutely necessary arresting a snatcher was favour- was an inverted trough over 200ft. As everyone knows, we now bru a railway makes the cost of for- and even unduly delayed; for the ably commented upon by Mr. E. I. long, silvered on the inside, and ploy both kinds of sun-motora in eign goods impossibly high. Even man on the spot is always annoy- Wynne-Jones at the Central Magis- the boller a narrow tube running the great power-houses of the the whole trade of Abyssinia, ed by the existence of a "no tracy this morning, when he sen- the length of the trough and placed Sahara and other places, and trans apart from the inevitable rifle man's land" where no writ runs; tenced Cheung Kiu, unemployed, to at its focus where the sun's heat mit the current for hundreds of and ammunition business, is on a at least if he is not, he is usually four months' hard labour for steal-was concentrated upon it. Simi- miles to industrial centres,

But very small scale, and would not of the class that stand to beneft, ing a bag, valued at $25.60, the pro-lar motors were tried out all over one problem we have not yet solved, repay the cost of mobilising a by the absence of writs. For perty of Tsui Lai-ying, a married the world, but the low efficiency It was net 70 years ago by a large force.

thousands of years Africa has woman.

of the existing steam engine and French scientist who pointed out

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An entirely new type of sun-

lon its inner surface. The widerent banks of successful, Bun- mouth of the cone was pointed at motors in Eastern Russia. A new type of generator, using heavy oit the pun, concentrating its rays at

in heat-insulated pipes as a medium tense heat which played on a small ing ovens or steam-boilers, was boiler, blackened go, as, to absorb established at Mount Wilson Obser ne much heat as possible,

vatory in California" for wife The boiler, though working at generation of power.

the low pressure of 75 lb. to the square inch. succeeded in produc motor, which turned the sun's ing enough steam to drive a half- horse-power engine. For over 20 energy straight into electricity, was years this pioneer improved his American inventor showed s motor perfected experimentally, and one apparatus, with the aid of the powered only from a plate of sen French Government, and finally sitive photo-electric cells no more built several successful aun-power than six inches square. A bank of:

such cells placed on the roof of a house and exposed to the daylight, Gradually the size of these early sun would, he claimed, store enough motors increased, through the three current to heat, light and power. hp. obtained by an English engi. the house for 24 hours. neer in Boston, United States, atļ An American Forecast the beginning of the century, to the. A further stimulus to research. 55 h.p. of a machine erected by two was given by the announcement in British experts in Egypt in 1911, 1934 by an oil expert that the avail. This latter apparatus was in-able supplies of petroleum in teresting because it started a new U.S.A. fields would last for no

SNATCHER CAUGHT IN QUEEN'S ROAD

Magistrate Compliments Young Chinese

PRISON AND FLOGGING

· FOR ACCUSED ...‚'

water-pump motors in Algéria,

Progress

From the point of view of been the scene of the rise of It was stated that Man Yu-nam, the lack of a thin, heat conducting that ordinary water contained an those who are attempting to sub-civilisations up to a certain the young man in question, seaing material strong enough to stand up inexhaustible source of cheap stitute law for force in inter-stage, more interesting than was the bag snatched from the com-to high pressures was against them power, if only we could and a cheap national affairs. the incident sug-realised until lately, but all suc plainant in Queen's Road East, The War put an end to research way of separating it into its two gests some of the difficulties that curbing to the attack of less chased and caught the accused and started a squandering of elements, oxygen and hydrogen, lie in the way. The tendency is civilised people, and leaving beIn addition to the prison sen natural fuel which was later to which would provide an ideal ex- to regard a boundary as some-hind nothing but a few crumling tence, the Magistrate imposed 12 have embarrassing results; and the plosive force for combustion thing sacred: "cursed be he that ruins. The process is famillar to strokes of the birch, in default two dearth of experiment continued engines. removeth his neighbour's land-us in the recent history of the months' hard labour if the prison-during the six hectic and unthint. Perhaps that will be the next mark." But that principle can- Sudan, where the Mahdi and his er were found unfit,

[ing years. until 1924.

step in the never-ending search for: power."

WOMAN DRUG-TRAFFICKER EXECUTED IN HSUCHOW

Dwindling Oil Supplies By then the motoring age maɖo the fuel technologists worry about the world's reserves of petroleum,

not be applied to places where successor upset the Egyptian ad- there is no boundary. In the ministration and proceeded to vast areas of the African contin-Wips out whole tribes by ruthless ent boundaries are very much of massacre. Under a European an afterthought. A river is use- hand holding the reins of order ful when it can be used; but as a there are large and contented A 50-year old woman, by the name A few inventors, notably in Ger rale: a river itself the centre of ages where a few years ago of: Lee Chang-are, was executed in many (who had lost much of her the community life, and the ob there were only rocks and sand Heuchow by order of the military coal), Soviet Russia (cut off from ject is rather to fix the outside Abyssinia, of course, claims to authorities last week on a charge of world trade and seeking economic limit of the land used or claimed be a Christian country, and has trafficking in drugs. This is the self-sufficiency) and Great Britain, by those who resort to the river], had a continuous tradition dating first woman ever, executed in that again set out to capture nature's to water their cattle or irrigate back from the old Church of sky on such a charge, according to squandered energy. their land, Statesmen have Egypt; but that tradition has messages received.

been so intertwined with supersti

JA¢ ̈ärst · It was in the field of wind-power that the valuable work

therefore had to fall back option and such social institutions like the Basutos, who have a was done. Aeronautical scientists, specified meridians of latitude, ör parallels of longitude, which, of as slavery that it hardly re similar country in the South, with their newfound knowledge of se, have no meaning at all to Cognisable. It is the last con- every man has his rifle, and the aero-dynamics, realised that the who have never been to fiderable country where the old fate of stragglers, or wounded is windmill of centuries was wrong in

The Eastern boundary brutal of enslavement sur uninviting. By the way, we were principle and Thefficient.

Germ South

Independence has.

told recently that a trade agree Just as they know that it was the ment had been arranged with auction of the wind passing over Japan. One may wonder whether the top of the airplane, wing, father the recent negotiations, had, any- than the push on. the undersid ifning to do with the bosat of the which raised the aircraft, so it i FAby: nian official that his people came obvious that suction ↑ rather

well supplied with up than puch should drive the wind

"Yes, I can boast that at l one of my admirery shot klin on myacenant.”

"Indeed! I thought your band died a natural death.