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THE PYRAMIDS. AS ZANE GREY'S L'ATE

SUNDIALS.

AN EXTRAORDINARY THEORY.

SCHOONER.

WILL POINCARE

RETIRE?

TRANSPORTATION SEGRAVE-THE BOY.

IN CHINA:

IN TROUBLE IN THE PACIFIC.

HEALTH AND HOME REASONS.

HONOLULU ENGINEERS

INTERESTED,

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RADICALS ALSO MAKING THINGS UNEASY,

expected to do, and that the family fortune has suffered by this patric

PETER PAN OF THE WHEEL.

Henry O'Neal de. Hane Segravė

ESTABLISHING A CALENDAR, FIRST. MATE'S STORY.

SEEKING TO RAISE A LOAN, is thirty-three years old, the son of Mr. Charles Begrave, an Irish LONDON (U.P.).—An extraordi. HONOLULU (U.P.). - Two

HONOLULU (UP.).-The Engineer. man, and eadet of the old nary, but apparently well-founded washed overboard and a broken Paris (UP). Poincare ising Association of Hawaii is in baronisk family of Segrave, of theory that the solution of the rudder were only details in the showing growing signs of anxiety favour of the granting of a loan which Lord Mowbray and Stourton mystery of the Pyramids will show misfortunes of the three masted to retire from active" politics, and,

from the United States of in the head,There was a barony of that they were built as sundials, schooner Marechal Foch which was if this comes to pass, there will $100,000,000 for the improvement Segrave centuries ago. may be tested this year by Mr. M. towed into Honolulu by the Japan-be, but one reason, viz., the family

of transportation in China The

He left Sandhurst at the age of B. Cotsworth, Director of the Inter.} ese freighter Victoria Maru.

budget.

association adopted a resolution to seventeen,, was wounded in France. Madame Poincare is ac- that effect which has been forward. year later, and became a major national Fixed Calendar League. First Hate Louis Tapeto, one of tively campaigning in the Poincare ed to President Herbert Hoover. in the Air Force at the age of nine

Mr. Cotsworth, who has devoted those washed overboard, described 40 years of research to the evolu the accident which befelf, him in home for her husband to retire and tion and unification of "the calen

broken English and French. resume his law practice. She con- is understood to first such action take up motor racing, and asked Adoption of the resolution, which feta After the war he decided to dar, has written to the Egyptian

The seaman Tela and I went tends that he has served his coun- coming from engineering bodies in Mr. Louis Costalen, of the Sun-

the United States, followed the Government asking permission to out to reef the jib," he said.

beam Company, to give him a job. sulting engineer who recently was Costalen refused. He said he was appointed advisor to the Ministry always being pestered by young of Railways of China. men who thought they could break

Dr. Waddell stressed the efforta of the present National Govern ment to bring order out of chaos in China; the danger of famine and the need of transportation scilities to relieve it; the advan tage of employing the recently de- mobilized soldiers of China in public works for the development of the country; the advantages to Madame Poincare makes no secret the United States in gaining in hand Opel-it nearly cleaned-him either of her fears for her husband's creased good-will in China; the health. She insists that despite his enormous economic possibilities of out of funda-and won mough with robust appearance, he is greatly the country, and the need of engiit to cause Mr. Contalen, to think tired by his leverish activity. Heneers to develop them; the present is st his office every morning before unsatisfactory state of railroads his clarks arrive and when he starts there and the inability of the coun home late in the evening, he carries try to finance its own development under his arm a portfolio loaded at present. with homework.

erect on the top of the Great wire ladder runs alongside the jib cry as much as one man can be visit here of J. A. L. Waddell, con. Pyramid a model of its original boom, fast at one end and hooked apex. If this request is granted at the other. This ladder gave way he will proceed at once to Egypt and we fell into the sea... We were and conduct an exhaustive series not afraid-no sharks. of experimente.

His arst step after reconstructing a model of the apex will be to level off the" "shadow floor" on the north side of the Great Pyrs mid so that the movements of the Fyramid's shadow may be traced

with mathematical exactness.

A Practical Race, The generally accepted theory that the Egyptians built their series of stupendous pyramids merely as royal graves will not hold," declar- ed Mr. Cotsworth in an interview. 'No other race in history was so eminently practical as the Egypt ians.

"But the water was cold." It

the second time I have fallen over beard. The third time-

Tapoto gave an expressive shrug to his shoulders.

they had difficulty in putting out a "The ses was running high and

boat. But they found us. It took them two hours."

Christmas Island.

tir devotion.

In fact, Poincare instead of earning nearly one million francs a year as a lawyer, is paid 130,000 francs annually as President of the Council. He also draws pay as a Senator, but the two salaries spends. together give him far less than he

Faverish Activity.

The Marechal Foch used to be long to Zane Grey, writer of romances of the desert and sea. She was called the "Fisherman" then. Grey sold the vessel to an American company that operated ber for a year or so, running be "Consider the facts of the cases: tween Tahiti and Los Angeles. An- The welfare and prosperity of the other sale found her under the nation depended on increasing the French flag. She sailed from Tahiti production of grain and other food for Christmas Island, picking up supplies, not only for themselves copra cargo and passengers, She but for export to neighbouring carried a crew of 14 and six pas countries. It was the exact know sengers bound for San Francisco, ledge of the seasons, acquired as I The vessel was nearing the believe, by the priests with the aid Hawaiiana when the storm broke tions problem is solved. of the pyramids, that first enabled the Egyptians to produce two crops

a year instead of one.

"More perfect pyramids later erected produced such accuracy that the Egyptians were enabled to obtain three crops of durab, their most important grain. A delay of even a few days in sowing seed for such important third crops brought had harvests, which in turn endan gered their national life and pros perity."

which resulted in the mishap to Tapoto and Tafa. On the follow ing day Captain Emile Brisson, a very youthful Frenchman, noticed the ship was not obeying her helm, He investigated and found the rud der post was broken.

During the past two mantho, M. Poincare has appeared on the verge of resigning a number of times. He has been dissuaded with difficulty, once heeding the urgent requests of President Doumergue, who urged him to carry on until the repara

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There is also a political reason for M. Poincare's wish to resign with his cabinet. He' was obliged, during the last crisis, to reorganize his cabinet by leaving outside the two principal groups which declin- ed to akow their members to accept For four days the crew the portfolios, the Radicals and the schooner worked hard to rig a Socialista. "gouvernail de fortune " or jury. jury rudder. It was composed of heavy spars, lashed together. The rudder was dropped into the sER According to Mr. Cotsworth the behind, floating like a raft in tow. earliest pyramids were built experi- Ropes leading to the ship enabled mentally to measure" the sun- the to be swung to port or shadow cast at noon. It would starboard. This crude rudder was thus have been possible to found the thing upon which Captain Bris a calendar based on the days of son pinned his hopes for reaching the shortest and longest shadows. port.

Detailed Calculations.

Later when the pyramids were built higher and with truer slopes the priests were able to work out calculations in great detail and to develop a system of geometry, sur veying, astronomy and complete systeins of time, weights and mea- surements.

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But the most important use of the prramids," continued Mr. Cats worth," was to develop the secret calendar which preserved for them a monopoly of accurate knowledge as to the recurrence of the seasons. In a country which had no ready method of reckoning time, and yet whose livelihood depended upon the agricultural output, it was only natural that the carte who were able to keep a monopoly on in formation as to exactly the right dates for sowing so as to produce the maximum number of crops, should be able to exercise an all- powerful influence.

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"These high priests acquired in time the knowledge that the year was 212 of a day longer than 365

Shortly after the rudder was rigged, however, the Marechal Foch was becalmed. The schooner had auxiliary engines, but only enough fuel and oil to carry her 300 miles. Captain Brisson took his position and discovered he was 700 miles from Honolulu,

records and only succeeded in breaking their necks.

Justify Yourself."

own expense in your own car,"

Go and justify yourself at your ..

said. "Then come back."..

Segrave did. He bought a second-

again

Since then he has never looked back and all the world knows why-

But it is not Segrare the motorist that I remember most. It is Segrave the man, the schoolboy with the irrepressible joy in life, the schoolboy who hates cats and hunts them with an airgun in his garden

A Langtby Resolution. The resolution adopted by the Hawaii association was as follows: "Whereas, the attention of the Engineering Association of Hawaii has been called to the fact that there exists a critical problem in the affairs of the great Chinese in a dressing gown and slippers be- nation, resulting in famine and fore breakinab pestilence among large numbers of its people, and

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The man who wants to break the

of

solution of this problem has a deje always seasick in a yacht and "Whereas, it is patent that the world's motor-boat record, but who finite engineering phase; and hates the sea. He cannot even swim.

"Whereas, our esteemed friend

Why do you want to do it," and eminent engineer, Dr. J. A. L.

then Waddell, and associates in China, have

Well, it's a new form of speed," commendable suggested hasty decision and want to be re

Now the Radicals regret their initial step in the solution of this he replied, "and I haven't tried it presented in the Government. They letter to the President of the record so far. That's the main great problem, as outlined in a yet, and the Americans hold the are making things uneasy for the United States, a copy of which is reason. Now watch me." Present cabinet, so that it will grow hereto attached, and

Magnificent Shot, weary and resign and make zoom

"Whereas this association does a w government for the

And he cocked an air pistol, aim Radical sattelites, among them pot attempt to pass upon all the ed at the envelope which I had just international features involved, hav-stuck on the door, and put a slug ing full confidence in the wisdom smack through the postage stamp of our Egineer-President to devise on it adequate safeguards for the ad. ministration of such funds as may be advanced in accordance with the recommendations contained in said

in

Herriot and Sarraut. "

EXPLORING GREENLAND.

DANISH PARTY AIDED BY letter: . -.

GOVERNMENT.

On the sixth day after breaking Copenhagen (U.P.); new ex the rudder the Victoria Mara was pedition to study what are claimed sighted.. A distress signal was dis to be the oldest volennic formations played which the Japanese vessel on the coast of Greeland and fossil

and Captain sighted,

Melichi evidences of animal life in the steamer earl'est days of the Earth's history is to start from Sabine island in June under the command of the Danish explorer Lauge Kock.g

the

Matsuzuki turned around and towed the schooner to Honolulu from the position 700 miles to the north-west.

Captain Brisson declared he thought he could safely bring the schooner into port with the jury rudder and save the heavy towing charges, but he did not wish to take chances with the lives of his passengers, including two women and three children.

The passengers were Tahitians who had been working on cocoanut plantations on Christmas Island.

days, hat they kept their know AIR-SEAPORT FOR LONDON. ledge secret because the insertion

of a leap-day into their calendar would have possibly shorn them of power,"

WOOLWICH AS SITE

. SUGGESTED.

The aim of the Fixed Calendar

"Germany last year was flying League of which Mr. Cotsworth is commercially some 45,000 miles a director is to secure the world- day against our daily average of wide adoption of an unchanging 2,000 miles," said Brig-General. P. calendar of 13 months of four weeks. C. Groves, secretary-general of each, with the one odd day of the the Air League, addressing the year to be called "Zero Day" and London Chamber of Commerce. to fall between the end of one year Our total air fleet consists of bat and the commencement of the twenty-one commercial machines, while France and Germany each have many hundreds.

next.

HYDROPHONES FOR FISHERS.

NEW USE FOR WAR APPARATUS. London (U.P.)-Apparatus, used during the world war to locate enemy submarines, is now being used to locate fish. This fact was revealed by Rear-Admiral H. P. Douglas, hydrographer of the Navy, in a speech

to the Royal Geographical Society.

Increasing numbers of ships have been fitted with echo-sounding apparatus," he said, despite the conservation of the sailor and his inclination to look askance at any new-fangled invention.

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"Now, therefore be it resolved, that this association, "after serious consideration is sincerely in sy pathy with the Waddel recom mendation in principle, and that the ples contained in the said let- ter be, and hereby is, heartily en- dorsed by this association, and

"Be it further resolved that this resolution be forwarded to the President of the United States"

From Sabine island the expedi tion will proceed southward towards Scoresby Sound studying geological MR. BALDWIN AND STEEL. conditions and gathering specimens of volcanic and fossil formations

Funds for the expedition which will last from June to October Arc being provided partly by three pro- minent members of the Danish colony in London Kroeyer Keil- berg, Valdemar Graae and H. O. Larsen-and partly by the Caris berg fund

The Danish Government has placed a ship at the free dis posal of the expedition, and with this as a parent ship, the investiga tions will be carried out with the aid of meter boots so for pe ice will also be made to penetrate the conditions permit. Special efforts Cani Hampkens Fjord and the Franz Josephs Fjord

The expedition will continue in estigations that Kook made in these areas on his last aledge ex pedition through these areas.

PRINCE'S NAME ON PULL- MAN CAR

**We are now' about to extend our Cairo-Basta service to Karachi, and connect London by services (partly by air and partly by train) with TO COMMEMORATE HISTORIC Cairo. This would be a great ad- vuneo but for the fact that we are. only adding four machines to our air flest.

"Obvious Wood,"

JOURNEY.

WHY HE REFUSED A COMMISSION,

Segrave is a magnificent." shot. Shooting is one of his favourite sports. He likes wildfowling on his native Irish bogs.best of all. Each season he shoots in Norfolk at 1 certain lordly house where they kill pheasants by the cartload, but his joy in life is to kill a right and left at snipe with one foot in the water and the other on a bog- tussock.

And he collects weapons and armour. Two of my most prized possessions are & harem dagger with which the ninth Caliph of Bagdad was stabbed by his favourite wife, and a demi-suit of Cromwellian armour which Segrave gave me, His father owns one of the finest private collections of armour and weapons in Europe.

Segrave never drinks and seldom 'smokes. He is a scientist and a The Iron and Steel Trades Con-business man, and leaves nothing to federation, representing the work luck. He has no nerves and an in- mense sense of fun. Cynicism and ers, has published M. Baldwin's

Bre words whose letter, declining to appoint a reyal sophistication commission on the industry, and meaning he has never learnt and a letter from Mr. Arthur Pugh, he will never grow up... secretary of the confederation to Mr. Baldwin, asking him to recoa sider his decision.

The Prince and Begrave,

I think that, without exaggera tion, we can rank his effort to re-.. Mr. Baldwin wrote: You ask gain the world's speed record on that the Government should con land for Great Britain, as one of commission or other competent com efforts that have ever been made," sider the setting up of a royal the bravest and most sporting mittes to make a full and impartial said the Prince of Wales, discussing inquiry into the industry. The wis Major Segraves speed record at the dom of setting up a royal com-anaual dinner of the Institute of maission, a.slow process at best, must Transport, held in London. I depend on whether such a lengthy am sure all of us take of our hits inquiry is needed to supply into Major Segrave as a very brave formation not otherwise available máa and a very fine sportsman." or is a necessary preliminary to effective action.

Unnecessary Course.

In my view, a course inevitably involving such delay is unnecessary on either ground; and I would in- vite your attention to the follow- ing facta"

LONDON (UP).-A seat in a Pull

Mr. Baldwin then refers to the man car is to have the Prince of report, made by the Commitice on Wales name inscribed above it. Industry and Trade, on the fron #An obvious need is a service It was in this sent that the Prince and steel industry, and to the from Huli to Hamburg by flying pat on the last lap of his ruch derating scheme, and he recalls that Loat. This would bring Hamburg back to Buckingham Palace from if the Government are returned at within four and a half hours of East Africa to be at the bedside the general election the iron and Hall, as against twenty-six hours of his father, King George, during steel industry can apply for a sale by steamer, and, given air com bis critical illness.

guarding duty inquiry. He ex The inscription will take the form presses the opinion that munications between Liverpool and Hull, the saving in journey time be of a bronze plaque engraved as roving inquiry is unnecessary and tween Liverpool and Homburg follows: "This seat was occupied would not be helpful to the indus would be twenty-four hours. by His Royal Highness the Prince try

"Hamburg is also a terminus of the 40,000 miles of air routes which offer air mad contact with parts of Asia and Africa.

along,

of Wales from Dover to Victoria Mr. Pugh, in his reply, states (London railroad terminus) on Dec. that the confederation did not con- 11, 1926, on the last stage of his template any long drawn-out or historic journey from East Africa." roving inquiry, and observes that The actual seat is No. 6 in the the Samuel Commission produced

named Chlorian exhaustive report and well-con

Fifteen trawlers have now been fitted, and the echo sound has prov. ed of value to the fishing industry! Another most desirable air line Apart from its amistance to the would be ono by flying boat from Pullman car L. RONDON & CO., LTD., on point of view of London to Antwerp, Rotterdam. This is generally used on the sidered conclusions on the coal in navigation, it has proved of in- Amsterdam, Hamburg, and the 10.45 boat express. Since it be-dustry in the space of a few months. estimable value in finding the banks Baltig There is a suitable site for came known that it was used by the Ho suggests Mr. Baldwin's plan in- where the skipper knows that the a flying boat baze for London at Prince, the seat has been much involves delay, and that an inquiry fiebing is good'

Rajnham. Ferry, near Woolwich." demand by intending travellers. set up now would save some months,

SHANGHAI,

PROPAGANDA IN BELGRADE.

STRICTER LEGISLATION.

Belgrade (U.P.): - Propaganda on prohibited subjects is to be more strictly banned under a new govern- mental deerec inflicting penalties not only for publishing prohibited matters, but for keeping then, writing them, or showing them to any one, t

Bevere

The new ruling refers especially to matters dealing with the organi- ration of the State, or with pro- paganda for the separation of vari-

ous parts of the State.

The authorities at Buale have molized the entire available mili tary force in order to suppress the anti-Famist demonstrations plan ned by the communists in spite of the Government's order forbidding these demonstrations.