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INDIANS WANT NEW-TYPE EJECTOR
PROTECTION FOR
COTTON MILLS
Bombay, Apr. 21.
A possible reduction in the import duty an certain varieties of British textiles was discussed here today by prominent Indian mill owners and Mr H. V. Riengar, Secretary to the Ministry of receive the Directors' Commerce and Industry. Report and the Statement of Accounts, to declare a dividend and to transact the ardinary business of the Society.
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By Order of the Board.
L. B. STONE,
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Hongkong, 6th Apr., 1958.
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The reduction had been suggested by a delega- tion from the British textile industry which visited India earlier this month. It is understood that while the Indian mill owners today were not hostile to such a reduction, they demanded there should be sufficient safeguards for the Indian industry.
They said the market should tax on the cotton industry's pro- not "be allowed to be flooded ducts but stick "Not that that with superior Lancashire cloth would relieve Lancashire of all which might prove disastrous its troubles which lie mainly in ta Indian cloth of fine and the export markets and are superfine quality.
partly due to the industry's failure as a whole to modernisë itself."-Reuter
DIFFICULTY ALREADY
They pointed out that already there was difficulty In Anding outlets for these varletics fa the Indian markets.
The mill owners also demand- od that the reduction should be limited tu certain värieties of cloth not produced in India.
The Lancashire delegatiety
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when they were here that they did not want to come Notice to Shareholders into confict with the,, Indian
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is hereby given have added that they had found that an EXTRAORDINARY tai varieties which GENERAL MEETING of the ported into India would not
affect the home industry. Shareholders of the Society
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reduction in the import duty on Kong,
specialised fabrics-whch as pre- sent ranges from 80 to
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The independent newspaper | Hindustan Times said today the Indian Government would be committing an unforgivéabl> under if it yielded to British "pressure to reduce duties on British textiles.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 22 By Air Formosa, U.3.4.; Canadá, & p.m. By Surface Thailand. 2 p.m. Miseño. 2 p.m.
SATURDAY, APRIL 23 By Air
Japan, a..... Malaya, Ingorgaja, Australia. New Zealand. Ceyion, 8 am
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um.
Peter Ustinov, the famous
author-actor, and his wife, Radio Hongkong
formerly Suzanne Cloutier, with their baby daughter, Pavla, watch children scramble for coins scattered in front of the couple by the godparents as they left the church after the chrisfening of their
daughter. The ceremony took place at St Paul de Vence, in France Central Press Photo
SEAT
WILL SAVE
NATO LIVES
Problems Set By
'Heat Barrier"
The
Amsterdam, Apr. 21.
Jet fighters of the Royal Netherlands Air Force will shortly be equipped with a new-type ejector seat which automatically opens the para chute at a safe height.
This is one of the results of research among · North Atlantic Treaty countries on the many medical problems of flying at great heights and at supersonic speeds.
Holland's contribution to this conceivable that after such a research is largely in the hands fall anyone would be able to of a specialist medical team at go through the various mave- Soesterberg. the country's ments needed to open his main military airbase. Heading parachute and free himself from this team is Dr M. F. Lay, who his ejector seat-even supposing has outlined in a talk some of he had left the aircraft unhurt. the important but little known Thus, the new type of ejec- work involved
tor seat will have a barometric automatically
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being who has device which
and releases
No human baled out at high altitude can opens the parachute at the right. stand the violent shock of 3, height parachute opening at, say, 40,- straps. 000 feet, Dr Lay sald. The air
D
the seat
of
Discussing the speed is so this and the resistance to modern jet flying, Dr Lay said
sound barrier fall so slight that the sudden that the
now arresting, force even assuming presents neither technical nor
Parachute were not medical problems. that the
to ripped shreds would
"HEAT BARRIER” be more than the human
The body could survive.
TEX-
SAFE HEIGHT For this
alone, therefore. the pilot must allow himself to fall hindered unill he reaches a "safe" height=say 20,000 feet at which the denser atmosphere substantially slows his fall,
"heat barrier"--the problem ol air friction
against the skin of a fast- moving plane-is being tackled. He expects it to be completely overcome.
6. Time Signal and Programme Summary: 6.03, Chūdren's Ha Hour
The Wind in the Willow" by Kenneth Grahame. adapted by May Jenkins Part 11-"The Open
Rood" (BBCTS): 6.00. Popular Song Parade: 7, Set 10 your Partners; 7.30. The Crities. Father Sheridan į on "The Rivals." Brya Jones The Fair Quaker at Dell." Diana Modgett
Visn Art
on Tihe Exhibition. Dosala Ground Jon, The Flams at the Festival Centre Doris Grey on "While the Sun Shines General Comments ou
It had been calculated, Dr Lay
said, that the skin the Dress Rehearsal of “Relative
· Valies" - Chaleman; Timothy Birch;
temperature of the 1,000 miles 7.50, Weather Report: 8, Time
an hour American Convaiz Signal and World News London
XB-58 Hustler Relay); 4.09. Commentary (London.
is about 250 de- Relay or Sprehi Announcements, But Dr Lay said that apart aces
Fahrenheit. No from this it was essential that
human being could Hvo hy Professor Chao Mei-pa (Concert
Interlude: 0
2 pilot baling
say, in the cabin of such an out at, Time Paris, Apr. 21. - 3:46.
air-
Chinese Communist
Signal Music Lovers Hour Clas- 50,000 feet, should pass
as craft, in which the heat would Premier cal Requests presented by quickly as Chou, En-lai has invited the Decker (Recorded); 10,
possible through be further intensifed by the Boulevard Philippine chief delete at the date: 10.15. Letter from America by the high altitude zone of sub-compressor maintaining cabin Asian-African
Alistair Cooke
air pressure Recorded Londor zero cold and lack of oxygen Conference
Relay): 10.20 Record Roundabout: visit Peking, the Indian radio Signal. Radio Bandung, Gen Carlos Romulo, to 10.59. Weather Report; 11, Time
It takes about 80 seconds to technical aids, Newsreel (London fall without using a parachute Two answers had been God Save The Queen; 11.30. Close Resy); 11.E. Goodnight
Music frem 50,000 feet to 20,000 feet, devised: cooling equipment; and
Dr Lay said. It Down.
hardly the use of a sealed cabin, con-
taining its own "atmosphere."
Chou's Invitation
Philippines. 11 am. Indo-Chine, France, 2 p.m. Philippines, North Barney. Japan : USA, _p.m. tralia New Zealand, India, Pakia Thailand, Maleys, Indonesia, Aus-
Britain & Europe, 6 pm
Formosa, Okinawa, Korea, 4 pm. Í France-Presse.
newspaper Statesman fish Budget, said the Chancellor commenting on the recent Bri- of the Exchequer might be tan Middle East Africa. Great monitored here said today.
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In space travel-and Dr Lay said that the medicine of umodern flying was already learning much on this subject... the heat barrier would be only transitory
of the Earth's atmosphere, and with it the heat-causing friction, began to decline charply above 45,000 feet and, faded away completely jat about 75+ miles above the
group.
Spend alone need not affect human beings at all, Dr Lay said, as long as it was ready. the direction of travel perfectly straight, and the body protected against wind-stream.
"G" UNITS
But changes in speed, in direction of travel, werd dangerous in proportion to. the rate of movement. They created forces measured in "G" units corresponding to the force of gravity,
A pilot pulling out of a dive," or banking inwards on a sharp turn, undergoes a "positive G" in which the force is down- wards on his body, draining the blood into his legs and feet.
This "positive "G" is not now. regarden by doctors as So dangerous as the "negative: G” which works the opposite way, Dr Lay gave as an illustration the fact that forces of as much as 18G (positive) are created on the human body by: ejector seats Bied to American B-47 and B-52 bombers without ill effect.
The greatest height at which living creatures have survived is 38 miles, Dr Lay sald Two monkeys and some znice were taken to that altitude in an American rocket during a 17- minute flight which attained a maximum speed of 1,909 miles per hour,
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The human allitude record is 83,235 feet, more than 15 miles set in August 1953 by Colonel Marion, E. Carl of the United States Air Force in Douglas Skyrocket.
Already at this height Man is entering what are known as space equivalent. conditions”. cr the conditions of M travel.
An American research expert has laid down three frontiers at which Man, enters true space
The tearest is at 50,000 feet, where there is no oxygen in the the human atmosphere and being has to have an artificial supply.
"BOIL DEY"
The second, at 63,000 feet. marks the point at which, at a barometric pressure of anly 47 millimetres, It is no longer possible to keep the liquids in the body
from vapourising, and a person would literally “bch dry if exposed to such thin, atmosphere.
The third, at 80,000 feet, where a normal pressure cabin becomes useless since the arts. sa thin outside that a com→ pressor "can no longer do its
| work. The completely sealed cabin is then the only meatig-of survival. China Mall Special,
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