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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1936

The China Mail

Ninety-first Year of Publication.

SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.

Telephone 20022. London Office:

7, Garrick Street, London, WCZ

Notice To Contributors.

WHAT WORKERS Here

EAT

Report Published In

Geneva

LLO. ENQUIRY

(By HERE SPAULL) Last September the League

of

There and D Everywhere.

ROMAN REMAINS

great in-

SOME WONDERS OF THE STRATOSPHERE

RESEARCH CARRIED ON

IN BRITAIN

GUN-FIRE EXPERIMENTS

(By W. Shepherd)

All communications intended for Nations Assembly decided that a Roman remains of publication should be addressed to world-wide investigation should be teres have been found at Leica SURPRISING RESULTS GAINED BY the Editor, and be accompanied by carried out in regard to nutrition, ter, where the corporation is ex- the Writer's Name and Address with a view to attempting to solve cavating preparatory to construct- not necessarily for insertion, but the problem of poverty in the ing new baths. The site is parti as a guarantee of good faith. midst of plenty. Not only was of that on which the Roman City special committee of the League of Leicester was built, adjoining |

International the Jewry Wall but the up,

This wall, only

TWENTY teabed Chicago tion fees Corn

WENTY thousand pounds is and a few minutes later informa

to listening Labour Office was also asked

a fragment of which remains, is make investigations on its own supposed to have been built be-

It was during the Dutch War account. The 1.L.O. has now pab-tween the first and fifth centuries for a ticket to the stratosphere microphones.

with Professor Jean Piccard. lished its report under the title within a stone's throw three

And his brother, Professor of 1666 that Pepys remarked the "Workers Nutrition and Social foar beautiful tessellated Roman Auguste Piccard, is preparing for peculiar behaviour of the gun-fire

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set

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A found

Commenting on their own find-was at one time a considerable Bertha" daring the war. ings the authors of the report building here. state that two important facts are established. "First, that the con-:

sumption of protective foodstuffs G.BS. TOO OLD increases greatly with increasing

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Policy. It is the most

compre-pavements have been

heard only the distant booming was hensive survey of the subject ever space of some 120 ft. long has a 30-mile ascent in Europe to ex-in the English Channel. Though

region hitherto published and runs about been cleared next to the

Jewry plore a

"Bicin St James's Park, London, it Wall, and it is certain that there reached by the shells

was inaudible at Deal and Dover. 250 pages.

Russian scientists are still ex- Two and a half centuries later amining the data obtained in 1983, the explanation of this miracu- 72.000 feet, lous thing" was worked out. The when they reached and they hold the record for unsound waves had travelled into the had somehow one stratosphere and manned "sounding balloons.”

carried in-been reflected back again. They Mr. George Bernard Shaw said, of which last Hong Kong. Friday, July 24, 1936. income, whereas the consumption

there they were many miles high. of cereals remains stationary and when on the stage at the People's straments safely to a height of 25 were inaudible at Dover because

"I miles. that of other products declines. Theatre, Newcastle-on-Tyne:

The First Pioneers Films In Hong Kong workers families with low incomes have retired from public speaking.

To most people these three coun- evidently find the protective foods I am far too old-how old do you

afford think I am? I don't suppose I look tries-Belgium, America and Rus-made with The news cabled from Lontoo expensive and cannot don yesterday that questions them. The question of income is more than 70, but I am a good sia-constitute a sort of "eternal scientists to study the effects of had been asked in the House thus at the roat of the nutrition deal older than that, and the time triangle" of nations in the stratos the gun-fire at Shoeburyness, and Nobody else seems to be at run-practice times listeners in Nottingham. Birmingham. Bristol. of Commons as to the heavy problem. Second, an examination has come for me to retire from the phere proportion of foreign films ex- of the diets of the different income footlights. This being my last doing much about it.

And yet Britain still leads the Sheffield and Cardiff receive simul- every hibited in Hong Kong is of groups shows that .... the aver-speech in the theatre I like it to

This particular world in stratosphere exploration.taneous wireless signals interest, if only showing age diet in the lower income groups be in this one."

theatre is an amateur theatre and it is the ingenuity of British time a big gun is fired.

-Delicate microphones receive that other subjects beyond is inadequate for good health."

which he has taken a keen interest-scientists which has given to the mui-tsai in the Inadequately Nourished

world the lion's share of its know-land record the sound of the guns. opium and

and the times taken for the sound Colony come under the bene- In its summary of findings the Mr. Shaw is 80 this month.

ledge of the upper atmosphere. volent scrutiny of the Mother Report places frst the fact

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that

of Parliaments and that Hong large numbers of the working Kong, despite its distance from population, not only in impoverish- the centre of the Empire, is by jed or depressed areas but even in no means forgotten.

One

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Microphones installed

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In 1927 an arrangement

the Admiralty for

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The methods we employ to-day to travel the various distances en- Your Daily Smile!

glean information far beyond the lable mathematicians to work out SINGAPORE BASE

is to be reach of any balloon, though in the exact paths of the waves.

Britain justly The results are surprising. When A Basic English School the most advanced industrial coun-established in Singapore

This, we this matter also

the a gigantic curve upwards till it Honourable Member tries, are inadequately nourished suppose, will be the English of the claims to be the pioneer country. the sound leaves the gun, it takes

The first men ever to enter

about 7 suggested a special registration Such malnourishment and under- Singapore Base.

stratosphere were Coxwell and reaches a height while nourishment are not the result:

miles. This part of the ascent tax foreign films,

on

Glaisher, in 1862 dislocations another proposed a compulsory merely of temporary

depression. "There is a fairly steady output of

These two Englishmen reached takes 35 seconds, and the year,"

open tells us all the changes of tempera” exhibition of 20 per cent. of due to an industrial

imaginative literature every has

car-and suffered tare encountered. British films at each perform-though a depression usually

says a famous publisher. He is prob-a height of 7 miles in an ance; but the Secretary for the an aggravating infiverce"

ably thinking of seedsmen's cata-wickerwork

agonies for their temerity. The For the next 18 miles the ex- up in a Colonies, Mr. Ormsby Gore, The interim report of the Lea-logues.

reduced pressure caused the blood-ploring ware travels stated that, though he was gue's committee on nutrition is ex-

vessels of their ears and noses to straight line, proving--without fully alive to the consideration pected to be published early next

An increase is noted in the number burst, and they became blind. They the expense of sending up

to. recognise prompting the questions, he did month

of people who claim hot think that, for economic

themselves in works of fiction. And had no oxygen, and the tempera-mometers that the temperature

ture was 100 degrees F. below remains steady for this distance. even perhaps in.autobiographies?

At a total height of about 25 miles, it dips earthwards again, á strange fact which betrays a sud-

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reasons, the present was the AUNT KILLED BY

moment for imposing further restrictions on film enterpries in Hong Kong.

There are doubtless many in the Colony who, for the sake of the British film industry, would like to see something done to ensure the showing of a greater proportion of British pictures; but the question is at

NEPHEW

Verdict Of Murder And Suicide

COUPLE FOUND DEAD

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PERHAPS

ANSWER

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It was the end of the scene and the heroine was starving. "Give me

bread she cried.

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zero-yet they lived to tell the itale!

ther-

Gun-Fire Sound-waves Nowadays we do things differ-den rise in the temperature of the What causes this sudden rise of And the curtain came down with ajently. Let other nations go up Injair at that height.

expensive balloons-we send up Iroll

We temperature? the reports of explosions.

Belt Of Ozone SET BACK

take advantage of a discovery made

180. Quite recently Professor Dob- . "What does it mean to the man-by Samuel Pepys 300 years

effect) shout at the son, of Oxford, was able to show facturer when a radio outât is return-and (in on ed because of uncompleted pay-

(Continued on Page 13.)

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difficult one and the reply made! At the inquest last month

der, with a charge of guncotton; i by the Secretary for the Mrs. Harriett Ease Street. aged ments?" asks a writer. Just another stratosphere. "Hullo!" we then-by means of the spectroscope that Colonies seems to be the only 69, of Park View-crescent, Newt back. one possible at present. It Southgate, and

Frank Edward

re-

will be noted that he stated Wainwright, aged 40, her nephew, that the nature of his reply was of the Star and Garter Home. dictated by economic reasons; Richmond. Surrey, the jury and there is no doubt that turned a verdict that Mrs. Street either of the forms of dis-was murdered by Wainwright, who crimination suggested would took his own life while of unsound have a deleterious effect on the mind. business of the local exhibitors, The couple were found dead in who are

already faced with a gastilled room at Park View difficulties such as do not exist crescent. at Home.

The patrons of the Unrivalled for Ginslings, cinemas are, in the

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Dr. Temple Grey stated that the local woman was rendered unconscions

her du main, by a dose of hyoscine, and Chinese, the greater part throat and wrists were cut. She........ of whom do not under-was then apparently carried down so stand English and to whom, stairs and her head put in therefore, the majority

of gas oven. the pictures skowni

Leave To Visit unintelligible. To attract these Lt-Col Edward Gowlland, who people spectacle, "effects" and is in charge of the Star and Gar- (to a less extent) music are ter Home, said Wainwright had necessary a form of screen been suffering from sleepy sick- entertainment in which the mess and was recently given: 14 American studios excel. These days leave to visit his aunt, and "musicals," with bevies of to clear up tegal matters after the beauties, clever dancing and recent death of his uncle. catchy music, also, it must be He went back to the home confessed, appeal to a very Jme 17 and asked for a further! large proportion of the British ertension. This was granted. He and other English-speaking was also gives a supply of hyoscine, patrons; but at the same times drug which he had been allowed. there is a large potential andi-

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ence, which must be catered here, with, the almost certain for, for other less frothy types result of driving people away of entertainment. Hence the from the cinemas.. result that pictures which, in The real remedy seems to be England or America, run for for British studios, to produce months at the same theatre, more and better pictures and to have exhausted their possibili see that only the best are sent

That they have made ( ties of drawing in three or four to us. HONG KONG days here.

big strides forward during the The insistence upon a 20 per last few years is undoubted, de cent, showing of British pic-is shown by such splendid tures in all programmes is examples as Rome Express,"

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The introduction of this system Viland at Home resulted chiefly in the comedies, which have delighted production of an enormous audiences in Hong Kong. But quantity of pictures of appal British producers and distri lingly bad quality, produced butors must not send such pic merely to fill quota require tures, as a recent "historical which shall be name- henta and these are the pic drama, tures that would doubtless be less, than which a worse adver- unloaded upon the Colony, iftisement for British films could the quote system were imposed not be found

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