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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 1, 1989

News Snack Bar

A Robot which, walks, sits down, talks and smokes is the favourite of children at Kettering, The Ro- Lawson, a local electrical engineer. An amplifior is wired Inside the

bot is the invention of Mr. Charles

head to provide the specchi and the

robot moves its legs and arms in lifelike manner. Photo shows Mr.

Lawson giving his Robot a light

for its cigarette.

CANTEEN DARTS AT LUNCH BANNED

Because they are considered "dan- gerous, darts are banned in the can- then of a Nottingham gun factory (where a record output of anti-air- craft guns is being maintained).

At mealtimes the men threw darts as they ate. Many an enthusiast was to be seen holding a sandwichi in one hand and a dart in the other.

Recently the Appeal Court held that a workman injured by a dart at his place of employment may claim compensation from his em- ployer..

Officials promptly decided that the Treasury had best be safeguarded by a ban on the game,

Meanwhile, in the Nottingham A.R.P. depots darts continues as a hot favourite.

TUMBLER OF WATER Lot's Wife TO DRIVE LINER

There is enough energy stored in a tumblerful of water to drive the liner Queen Mary across the Atlantic-If that energy could be harnessed.

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This energy lies in the millions upon millions of hydrogen atoms contained in the water. And when scientists have learned to split those atoms it will be released. Now Dr. Francis Aston, winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1922, doyen of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, thinks that within a century we'll have done it. So he told people in Sydney, when he arrived there on a health cruise.

PRESENTED FROM COURT

The best (or worst) of wit în London police, courts:

Defendant at Tottenham: How much do I suggest I pay? Noth ing! But I'm willing to offer 158. a week.

Witness at Stratford. I offered the lady my seat. Shp thanked me and put her hat on the seat, and. stood beside me.

Woman at Ealing: I knew my husband had spent the money on the way home, Because when I held out my hand, as I usually do, he only shook it.

PUT TRUST IN BRITISH LAW

for

"Science cannot be blamed the abuses that are made of its dis- coveries," he added.

-"If you took a tumbler of water and labelled each atóm so that you would know it again, then threw it all into the Pacific and went away for a million years (while they got mixed up) how many of the marked atoms would you expect to find?

"Lots! For there are about two thousand more atoms in a glass of water than there are glasses of water. in all the water on the whole of the earth."

That gives an idea of the size of the atom

"My experiments in. 1919 on the mass of the hydrogen atom showed that there is enough energy in a tumbler of water to take the Queen When Lord Privy Seal Sir John

Mary across the Atlantic af top Anderson visited Nottingham and "I think it is a matter for pride speed." inspected A.R.P. depots he appeared that two European nations should

Dr. Aaton claimed that he could to give it his benediction by posing bring their differences to be tried compare the weights of different for a photograph while watching a by the British Admiralty Court, atoms very accurately with a mass contest,

and that a decision should be given spectrograph that he had made. "We within so short a time as two know, already that atomic energy is months." Mr. A. T. Miller, K.G., almost infinite,” he concluded. made this statement when Mr. Jus tice Buckmill found the German steamer La Plata alone to blame for a collision in fog in the Bay of Biscay by which the Greek steam- London County Council Highways ship Akti was sunk and seventeen and Finance Committees, in a joint of her crew, drowned. report recommend, the Council, that

LONDON STREET SCHEME

HITCH

it is unable, on the basis of 60 per cent, grant, to carry out in a limited

period the three major schemes LAMBETH WALK BAN ON

selected from the Bressey report on

London roads and provisionally Bath Spa Committee has lifted agreed for prior execution. The the ban on the Lambeth Walk at three schemes should be completed the famous Assembly Rooms. In within thirty years, and would cost an official statement the committée London taxpayers between $1,500,- says that the structure of the build- 000 and £2,000,000 a year.

ing. id "unaffected by the dancing."

BOBOT, IS THE CHILDREN'S FAVOURITE.

shot: Cngationed above) holding up im

dins so, gr

PAID TO WED

The Pollsh Supreme Court has ruled that a man who promised, another man about £40 to marry a certain woman need not pay his debt on the grounds that the "impropriety of the contract ren- ders it null.”

Mr. A- promised Mr. B the money if he married Mrs. X, and~ gave him a bill of exchange pay- able after the marriage,

When Mr. B, after marrying Mrs. X, presented the bay it was repudiated; und the matter was taken into the court

YOUTH CITY ŠITE

MAGNIFICENT

She's offered herself as a bride to any Japanese settler in Man chukuoand there's been such a rush of would be husbands that she's going to draw lots to find the winner. Bride-to-be is twenty- year-old Miss Kazuye Kojima, former Olympic swimmer.

INDIANS DEMAND JAPAN

BOYCOTT

A "National Independence" de- monstration, organised by the India League (and attended by 2,000 In- dians) in Trafalgar-square, urged "progressive forces in Britain to work for closer links between the peoples of Britain. India and the Colonies."・・ It also demanded the boycott of Japanese goods,

But toys made in Japan are now being shipped abroad without the tell-tale inscription “Made in Japan.” Instead they are just stamped "For- - dign.”—* Japanese manufacturers

* Crystal Palaco is "magnificent hope this dodge will enable them to site for the proposed Youth City, avolu any boycott effort."

but transport is a serious obstacle.

These were the conclusions reached

by Lord Bessbrough, Youth City

Chairman, after two "timed trips" GHOSTLY VOICES JAM there at the week-end.

L.C.C. VETERAN

PHONES

Telephone subscribers in East- leigh, Hants have recently only had to lift their receivers to over- hear conversations between sub-

sub

Mr. John Burns, member of Lon- scribers in the town and those in don's first County Council, will be more distant places. invited by the L.C.C. to take part went to the telepahone in the jubileo celebrations of the and found he wan Council in March. Programme in French Broadcast Bre cludes opening an

ter the tubi