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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH, 1926

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RAILWAY TRAVELLING IN BRAZIL.

WHY A TRAIN WAS THREE . DAYS LATE.

A writer in a London paper describing lis "Impressions of South America"

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In- present circumstances it takes six daya, but much depends on the number of times the train goes off the line. A train has been na many as three days late, bat on that occasion the Japanese engine-driver was found to have taken moro" pings" (native spirit) then was good for him. There are no signals on the Matto Grosso line, and the rails are not ballasted also it is seldom that the communication.cord works to notify the driver when a rear coach has gone adrift. We were unfortunate in only being derail

The railway journey from the Bolivian border to the Brazilian coast in some respects resembles the journey across Siberia, except that the climates differ. Led once.

A NOVEL WHALING EXPEDITION. BRITISH VESSELS HOUND FOR

·SOUTHERN SEAS.

Captain Scott's old ship, the Discovery, which left England several months ago, is now in the South Atlantic, and last month a artiller vessel, specially built for the work to be undertaken, sailed from Hull to join the Discovery in oceanographical investigations in the Southern Atlantic and Antartic Oceana. The main purpose of the expedition is to investigate the habits and migrations of Antarctic whales in connection with the whaling industry of South Georgia and the South Shetlands, and though the expedition is under the control of the Colonial Office, the entire cost will be paid by the people of the Falkland Islands, mainly emigrants from Scotland, whose prosperity depends largely on the successful operation of the whale fishing industry of the more southerly islands included in their colony.

Both vessels are equipped with special acts and trawls, one of the latter, a midwater trawl, having three 250 ft.-long otter boards and a mouth area of 1,500 square feet. Their trawl will be used to catch large cephalopods, such as octopuses and cuttle-6sh, and other pelagic animals, and in addition the expedition has with it dredges specially designed for dredging

AIR MAIL TRAFFIC- INCREASE DURING 1975.

The Postmaster-General communicated to the Fress last month the following particulars of outgoing British air qail trafic during 1923:

There has been an increase in the total weight of letter mail during the year, and the total weight despatched by air bas how risen to 15,320lb. The inercase has been most marked in the mats to Paris and to Morocco and Algeria, which have increased by 19 par cent. and 23 per cent, respectively. By the latter service

500lb. of letters was despatched during 1 the year. One of the heaviest of the let tor mails is that for unoccupied Germany. (Hanover, Berlin, and Hamburg). This increased by over 10 per cent.. and the mails for. Belgium, and for Denmark, Norway, and Sweden also showed in crease. Considerable use was made of the air services established in Continental countries to supplement the service afford- ed by Imperial Airways where necessary and new letter air mails were instituted to the East Baltic countries and Russin, the latter of these attracting as much as 380, of letters in the four months of 1993 during which it was in operation. This service has occasionally been used in the inward direction for mails from the East brought by, the Trans-Siberian Railway: the course of post from Shanghai to Loa don has thus been reduced to about fifteen days. Facilities for using the New York- San Francisco air mail service were also made available in May last; but hitherto little use has been made of the service. The Cairo-Bagdad service has worked As it is very important to gain accurate with marked regularity. It continues to information as to the migratory hahits a considerable volume of mails in of whales, concerning which little ispite of the competition of the trans- known, efforts will be made to mark desert motor service between Hain and

Bagdad. whales in the water, so that should any thus marked be captured afterwards their migrations in the interval may be ascertained. For this purpose a special harpoon gua, has been constructed, by means of which cast-iron, silver-plated pias, nearly three inches long, will be fired at the whales. A disc is attached services to the head of the pin, which will not 13.600lb., non-express 10,2001, Holland penetrate the bodies of the whales and 13,200lb.. Germany, including the Rhine the pin itself is not long enough to Army, 13,000lb. penetrate below the blubber, so that the animals will feel no pain. Details con- cerning when and where the mark was affixed to a whale will be contained on the disc, and every whaling station throughout the world has been cir- cularised by the Colonial Office asking for the return of discs, together with certain information, for which a substan- tial reward will be paid.

the sea-bottom."

The air parcel service continues to carry' substantially greater volume of mails than the letter service. The total weight of the parcel air mails on the whole of the Continental services in operation was 50,000lh., apportioned among the several 115 follows: Paris, express

MR."" PUSSYFOOT" JOHNSON.

MISGIVINGS ABOUT PROHIBITION.

Mr. "Pussy loot' Johnson, the foremost" missionary in the cause of Prohibition, admitted on his arrival at New York re- cently that he has some misgivings as The Discorery carries a number of to the virtues of America's Frohibition hydrologists and zoologists, but is con- Law. He wishes it distinctly understood, sidered too slow to mark the whales, and says the New York correspondent of the this work will be undertaken mainly by Daily Telegraph, that he still maintains the smaller auxiliary vessel built on the the right of society to protect itself from Humber: All the southern whaling the liquor interests and safeguard cer- grounds and harbours will be visited tain members of the social body, but and surveyed during the southern sum during his crusades abroad he has been mer, and the biological investigations impressed by the flood of criticism of will be carried out in specially equipped Prohibition. He is by no means convert- laboratorics on the Discovery. A Jarora-ed, but admits that Prohibition certainly tory has also been constructed on South has "not worked out in the way it was Georgia, where whales captured in the expected to do. He goes so far as to adjacent waters will be examined by com-concede a man's right to drink, if he petent zoologists,

SEA SICKNESS ENDED. THE FASTEST MOTOR BOAT IN THE WORLD.

An exhibit which will be regarded with the most hopeful interest by those with a dread of sea sickness is one of the fex tures of the British Shipping, Engineering and Machinery, Exhibition, at Olympia.

This is the gyroscope stabilizer, an extraordinary contrivance which main tains the equilibrium of the ship in the fiercest of gales. The apparatas has already been supplied to the Japanese, Italian, and American Governments, and is now being tested by the British Ad- miralty. Two well-known millionaires have it installed on their yachts, so that they can play deck games in the roughest of weather. A working model is on view at the exhibition.

pleases, and even that some drinkers are good citizens. Mr. Johnson acknowledges some doubts whether the American Law has not done as much.or more barra than good, and confesses that there might be some truth in the assertions that there is nearly as much drinking of spirits as ever. I Americans are convinced that Prohibition is bad, Mr. Johnson declared, they should repeal the law. His admis- sions are a real blow to the Anti-Saloon- League, whose members have planned a great banquet next Saturday in honour of their returned pilgrim. So far there is no intimation that the dinner will be cancelled.

The world is not organised or prepar- ed for a much higher level of intelligence: than it has already got.-Mr. J. F.-Duff.

Would Shakespeare have refused to if he had known that write "Hamlet

on his death the bulk of the profits would have gone to the community instead of to his friends or descendants Jr. C. Another exhibit likely to prove of im. Masterman. mense popular interest is the Firth stay brite stand, which shows what can be done with the new metal that is pro- phesied to replace nickel silver in the home. To demonstrate its rutless pro- perties the stand includes an office built entirely of firth staybrite, down the sides of which pours a ceaseless stream of

water.

This metal can be used for cooking utensils or ornamental pieces for the table, and is claimed to be as durable as battleship plates.

A British motorboat, the Bulldug, which is going to America immediately after the exhibition to compete in races, It has a is on view in the new hall. speed of 40 knots an hour, and has al ready earned the reputation of being the fastest motor-boat is the world.

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One of the wonders of the exhibition is an oil purifier which spins at the rate of 17,000 revolutions a minute without any injury to its bearings. Near by is to be seen deep-sea diving apparatus which is of peculiar interest at the present moment.

A wonderful range of exhibits extends from a minutely fine copper tubing, with an inner circumference only just large enough to admit a strand of human hair to a Thornycroft criser, or, to mention another extreme, 300-borse-power marine engine, which stands on a specially con structed bed of 50 tons of concrete.

It seems ironical that we should have to advertise the fact that within the Empire there are possibilities which the great mass of our people have never dreamed ofMr. J. II. Thomas, M.P.

The whole Empire is almost entirely dependent on foreign countries for cat- ton, coffee, and tobacco; it is vital, therefore, that the development of these three-products should be pushed and encouraged on British soil throughout, the world. Mr, Ormaby Gore, "M.P.

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