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TIME TABLE.

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STATIONS LING & No.12 No.11 No.14 No. 10 XG35 No. 10 NG,S)

& M. JAM, NOON! FM) FM). FMJ PM, TX) 1.3, 2.M.

Kowloon. Dep., 8.40; 8.05 8.30 9.09 2,15,10,00/12,10 1.75). £.35) 1,33 2,45) 4,80) 3,40) 7.36

Yeamati. Dep. 6.49

Bhatin... Dep.

Taipo Dog, 7.15

Taipe

Karket. Dep. 7.20!

Fanling. Dep. 7.30

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Sham.

4,396,48 7,4

9.95 10.08 12.18 1,20

9.$810,20 14.30 1,35)

9 63 10.83 12.43 1,48 -

2.41, 9.83- 3.06

| 4.50 6.00) 7.56

5.04) 6.12 8.09-

5,18 6.97 8.23

2.105,088.17 8,18

59 10.87 19.41,39 — [13.1010.47 12.57 203-520-

shui Dep. 7,35 9.07 9.45 10.15 10.52 1,02 2,07

3.25 3.34 5.236.8 8.97

FROM BERLIN TO SUMATRA TO STUDY ECLIPSE.

WEEKS OF TOIL WHICH MAY STAND FOR NOUGHT,

TESTING EINSTEIN'S THEORT OF RELATIVITY,

PROFESSOR'S WIFE WITH THE PARTY.

BERLIN (U.P.).-Fears of pains. shan Arr. 7,41 8.43 9.13 9.5 10.21 10.38 1.08 3.13 3.85 3.31 9.30 6.42 6.386,83 taking preparations, an ocean voy.

Canton...AT-

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age from Europe to the Far East, across wild then days of travel country to a remote native village in the mountains of Sumatra, and "No, 3 No.11 No.7 No.6 No.5 No.17 No.10 No.113.5 10.1 finally several more wecks of diff

cult, exacting, scientific labour-all for the purpose of observing a solar eclipse which will last caly five

STATIONS

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A. A.M. LX.

Clanton ...Bip.

Bheangehad

718 9.05 10.01 7.23 8.19

790 8.16

Taipo Market Dep. 7,40 8.26 Tripo

...Dep, 7,44 8.31 10.34

Bhatin Dep 7,57 8.44

Yazmati...Dep, 8.11 8.58

Bhumahan... Dep.

Paling

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A.M.A.M. A.X. r.X. P.M. P.M. P.X PL. | FA

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8.10

1.26

10.3:11:27 11.49 8 08 4.38 5.47 6.18 640 6.50 minutes. 10.48 11.588,15 44o 1.64 | 6.25 10.47- 13.00 3.30 4.50 5.58 10,5712.11 831 5.00 6.08 11.01 11.34 11.26

12.16 3.86 5.04813 12.30 8,49 5.176.28 - 13.45401 | 6,296.38

Kowloon A, 8.17 8.02 11.00 11.3212 67 12 407 6,35 5.44

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visible. For those five minutes we Friend of Einstein. Prof. Freundlich, long an intimate must have all our equipment ready, our photo- friend of Prof. Einstein, has under our telescopes - and taken this mission, not as a cham-graphic apparatus.”

Asked what she planned to do pion or opponent of the latter's theory, but solely as a scientist while the men of the party were who hopes to test by scientific busy, Mrs. Freundlich replied that methods an hypothesis advanced by we shall rent a native hut and & fellow scientist. While it is pre-hire a cook and a servant, and I sumed that he would be pleased to shall manage this household. Aside be able to demonstrate the sound- from that I shall take movies of This is the task which is engaging es of Einstein's views, Freund the natural wonders and people of the attention and time of Prof. Elich himself has refused to discuss the vicinity Findlay Freundlich, astronomer of this side of his investigation. the Kaiser Wilhelm Research In- Ever since the comparative failure 7.39stitute of Potsdam Fis prelimin- of his attempts to photograph & ary preparations. completed, Freund. similar eclipse on January 14, 1926, lich left. Berlin in February at the the Potsdam astronomer has been head of an expedition of six per preparing for this next pheno sons, one of whom was his wife. menon. In 1920 the stars near the did not register distinctly His goal was the village of Takin-s geun, in the mountains of Sumatra, enough on the photographic plates the most favourable spot on the earth from which the next obscura tion of the sun-scheduled to take place on May can be seen in its totality.

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to be of any value, and this was SUICIDE PLANS CHANGED. believed to be due to imperfections in the equipment. Since then Prof. Freundlich has rebuilt all the equip. MAN RETURNS FROM THE SEA

TO TAKE POISON, ment, strengthening the leas and improving the telescopes. This itask has occupied virtually all of

A man's visit to Brighton, ap. A Mountala Laboratory. his time for the last three years.

parently with the intention of While Prof Freunlich preserved drowning himself, and his return to Takingeun was to be reached in March and there Freundlich plan a discreet silence, Mrs. Freundlich London without his coat and waist. ned to set up a miniature satro- talked willingly and cheerfully coat, was disclosed at a Brixton nomical laboratory. For this pur- about her part in the venture just inquest on Mr. Joseph Pyke, aged HONG KONG HAMSARD NG pose he took with him two carloads before the party left for the Far seventy, a retired commercial clerk, of B. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL of teleoper, and other astro- East. She explained that she was who was found poisoned by a disfor the Session 1928.

well as not going along in a professional infectant at his home in Fernside nomical equipment, дз material with which to construct a capacity, but simply to keep Road, Balham.

room house, to look out for their food. "Cuck special camera, a

I cannot help my and an electric-generating plant. and comfort. Between the time of their arrival husband directly with his work. and May 9 the expedition are work- In Sumatra, however, there ing from early morning until late few hotels, and these few are very at night, getting the station, camera poor, so that I can best serve his and telescopes ready for the event scientific ends by keeping house for ful five minutes; weeks of toil him." which may go for nothing, if it hap pens to rain or even be only a little cloudy during those few, fleeting minutes.

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Mr. Harold Pyke, solicitor, of his father left a deed box at his Balham, said that on December 21 house labelled, "Letter inside." The letter suggested that his father

and added that if he was overcome was going to Brighton-for a swim, by aramp he would like to be buried in a certain churchyard.

Lived Alone.

"My father had been worried be cause my mother was in hospital and was incurable," said Mr. Pyke, and the letter also stated that he thought it would not be so bad to have one incurable on my hands za two. He also stated that he had transferred his two banking ac counts to my name.

"We shall reach Belawan-Deli or February 57," she continued, "then" will follow two days of railroad The main purpose of the expedi- trave The railways run only dur tion is to test one phase of the ing the day so that at night we Einstein relativity theory, namely, shall have to put up at the little that which involves the supposed hotels, called Pasanjrakan, which "of light rays. At its the Dutch Government have erect "bending apex the eclipse will completely ed especially for railway travellers, hide the sun, only the corona being After we leave the railway ter visible, It is then that the phenomiaus we still must ride for a day menor will be "sh + Should this or two by automobile before we section of the relativity thesia be reach Takingeun, & small and lore valid, the highly sensitized photo-ly mountain village near Gajoelant. I found him at my home graphic plates may be expected to den Atjeh.. register light rays issuing from stars in the neighbourhood of or hidden behind the sun, these rays reaching the earth in direct though curved lines.

Failure to register these rays will not, it has been said, disprove the Einstein theory, although, on the other Land, success will go a long way toward establishing the valid ity of that theory.

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after I had been to notify the police "There we must remain, working when I had read the letter. stianeously all the time, at least told me that he had come back for three months and perhaps as much the sake of his grandchildren, and as five months, in order to get the would never attempt such a thing

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again." eclipse. Only in Sumatra can the total eclipse be viewed. It will be dark at that time, but not so dark that one cannot read. The moon will cover the whole san. leaving

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