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MASON'S

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ESTABLISHED 1857.

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No. 22,163 號叁拾陸百壹仟弍萬式第

日伍廿月陸年巳己 HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1929. *#W

STATIONS

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

On and after Arzzz 3th, 1929, until further Notica (all previous Time Tables cancelled)

Xa. No,

AMA,M.

Kowloon.Dep. 6.40 8.08

Tamati Dep. 5.49

Shatin...Dep. 7.01 Таро ..Dep. 7.35

Taipo Dep.7.201

Fanling Dep. 7.30

Sheung-

shui Dep. 7.25

chen.... 7,41 8.43

UP TRAINS

No.10 50. o. 1320, 14 (No. 10 No.33+2% 19/2 0.34 No, 22 No.11 |A.M. AM. | FM. {1.X. P.X. TMJ PM PM, EM

8.30 9.15 10,00 12.10 1.15 2.81|*3.20 4,30 3,40) 7,85

Sham-

'Canton...Am.

13.05]

Buus, & Holis, only

9.25 10.09 1213 123

9.38 10.20 19.30 1,35;

9 58 10.33 12.43 148

9.58 10.37 12.47||

10.10 10.47 12,87 2,0 ---

2.59

BY ROCKËT TO THE MOON!

AN EIGHT-DAY RETURN JAUNT.

RUSSIAN PROFESSOR'S STARTLING ASSERTION.

4.38 5.49 7.43 4.50 6.00 7.55. 5.04) 8.138.08

ROUTE "CAREFULLY"" CHARTED AND

5.08 8.17 8.13 5.19 6.27 8.35"

5.23 €39 8.23

9.13 10.21 10.58 1,08 2.13 3.15 4.00) 5.99 6,388.31

9.07 10.1510.53) 1,02 2,07; 3.08)| ---

3,48

DOWN TRAINS

17.18 -

STATIONS!

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No. 5

280.16

x

A.M.

No.170.12 a 119o. 11 A.M... P.M.

No.

P.M. EX.

1.M.

8.10

3.25

Canton ...Dop.

1

7.17 8.03 10.34 11.27 11.47

5.11 10.42

7.80 9.15 10.47

Shumchun...Dep. Sheungshui.Dep. 1.35 Fraling ...Dup." Taipo Market. Dep. | 7,40 Taipo ...De. 7,44 Shalia

...Dep.

9.28 10,37 9.21 11.01

7:57 9.44 11:14 Yaumati...Dep. 8.11 9.58 11.28

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6.47 6.49 2.534.59 11.55 3.01 4.48 5.54 12.00 8.06 .50 3.53 13.11 3.17 5.00 5.88 12.16 3.23 5.04 8.13 12.30 8.34 8.17 8.28

12.423,436.99 .38

Kowloca Arr. 8.11 9.02 11.32 12.07, 12.49 34 5.35 6.44 7.22

7.07

7.14

7.49

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"TRIP" PREPARED.

日登十月柒年九廿百九仟登英

The elaborate calculations mean Moscow, July 18-A trip to the moon, ladies and gentlemen! The

approximately nothing to your cor rocket isn't quite ready. The fuel,

respondent. If he understood them tou, is still to be found. But the

he would probably be an engineer route is already carefully charted, a speed of eleven kilometres instead of a newspaperman way off to the friction of a mile, and the second, which is nearly 4,000 kilo.in Moscow. But even in his ignor time schedule is on band: Your metres an hour. Moreover, the 30ce he is thrilled by the detail iz correspondent has seen it and dis- best fuels now available are still so which that journey to Luna, to cussed the trip in great detail with heavy that a supply enough for a Mars, to Venus, is outlined. the fellow who drew it up.

trip to the moon and back would Professor Vladimir Petrovitch Vet-be quite a load. To carry it, a chinkin, aviation engineer, mathe machine' must be capable of haul-basis for such a flight is right here, matician, astronomer, meteorologist ing anywhere from hity to three! (to mention only a few of his call-hundred times its own weight, and

sor says. As soon as the machine ings and hobbies) has it all figured to-day the most that an airplane and the fuel are perfected, these can carry is three times its ownzures will gave years of work.

out.

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Four days-97 hours, to be. pre-weight. cise-to get to the moon and about| the same time to get back. Just a comfortable little vacation jaunt, with a few days left over for the wife and kids."

Touching the Imagination.. "The theoretic and mathematical

perfectly worked out," the Profes-

A

Maybe the energy of radium holds So it's all idle theory. He has

a solution? Maybe a solution" will merely figured out that given the be found in the internal energy of necessary machinery and the neces the atom, which is now being in- sary fuel to obtain the required veeligated by science. All that is speed-from eleven kilometres at required is motive power in the start, tipering down to eight small package, to eliminate the kilometres thereafter, per second-impossible weights that would now the moon and certain other heaven-he necessary." ly bodies could be reached in such. a job. Indeed, he wouldn't recom-and-such a time. The professor mend it to anyone but ladies and miles good naturedly and we smile gentlemen of leisure. The very bestth him. time-table he can offer, unfortunate

A Longer Journey. The journey to Mars, Vladimir Petrovitch admits, is rather more of

But "we do not permit his smile to fool us. It is really only pro. tective coloration against the irony and incredulity of laymen. Under it is.

There is something in the dream of interplanetary flights that touches the Russian imagination. It was a Russian, Prof. Tsinkkovary, who first advanced the project, scienti Acially elaborated, of "A Rocket in Cosmic Space," back in 1903- he is still alive and still dreaming his dream. Since then there have been a dozen serious-minded men working on the idea, in Russi

Several years ago

group of mostly students, or young men, ganized a Society for Interplanet. ary Communications" in Moscow. of the literature and projects on They even arranged a this fascinating subject. They were a very optimistic group of young men, because--ae Prof. Vetchinkin few points out-they had never stopped years Give at most I should say," to calculate their suggestions in

terms of cold mathematics.

earnestness

and

warmth.

Prof. Vetchickia his spent years of his life plotting his interplanetary charts because he is convinced that

they will come true..

户

ly, calls for considerably more than three years' absence from home.

Getting to Mars, you see, is only a matter of eight months and some days. It's getting back that makes trouble. Both the earth and Mars, inconsiderately, move in orbits and not in the same direction either By the time. you reach Mars, the two planete will have travelled away from one another quite a bit and it will take you at least three years to find Mother Earth again. he declares, when flying from 50 It's all well enough abont visiting Mars but a fellow wants to get back to tell his neighbours about it. So there you are..

In Five Years Time? "It's only a matter of a

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They did not realize, for instance, to 100 kilometres above the earth's that the journey to Mare would re- surface will be no everyday affair.quire air, food and water to the You will probably be doing it your amount of six tons for every man self. After that, a few hundred on the rocket! Plus the necessary kilometres more, and you have pass-fuel, it would require a "rocket cap- The professor smiles through 'hised from the earth's envelope of air able of carrying anywhere from 500

limitlese to 3,000 times its own weight! thick graying beard as he spreads altogether, passed into

That Society is dead.. But young men still are fascinated and op the charts and calculations for your outer space. And then

timistic. The young astronomers correspondent's enlightenment on

knows?"

who

the cluttered desk at the Astro-everal young astronomers who are with enthusiasm.

He looks at the eager facts of sitting in on the interview glowed nomica Institute here. Of course

his figures are purely theoretical, listening in on the interview and

One of them, a serious young man

he says; merely a "mathematical finds encouragement in their pre-a little awkward in his movements, amusement. Some people take to fessional credulity.

drink, others to chess, he expinins; "I may not live to see it," he as for himself, he's addicted to adds, "but these young men, and

you yourself, probably will.... interplanetary time-schedules.

stumbled as he led us to the door. Still, a man may have difficulty in reaching the door and yet have no difficulty in reaching the moon,

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day. (July 31.)

H.K. Football Association Coun. cil meeting, French Bank Building, 2.30 p.m.

Water Polo:-Kowloon "B" V.R.C.B," V.R.C., 5.30 p.m..

Queen's Theatre: New Year's Eve."

World Theatre: "The Circus." Star Theatre: 13 Washington Square."

Dianer Dances: H.K. Hotel, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels,

8.30 p.m.

Tides: High: 4.29 a.m. and 8.03 p.m.;

Low: 12.02 a.m. and 10.32

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Dinner Dances H.K, Hotel, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8.30 p..

Tides High 0.14 am and 8.48 p.m.; Low: 2.09 p.m.

Saturday. (August 3.)

King Haakon VII. of Norway Born 1872.

Golf: Happy Valley Summer Meeting, Championship and Capt.'s Cup.

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Tennis: Division: South China v. H.K.C.C.

Kowloon Football Club concert, 9 p.m.

"Dancing Queen's Daughters."

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Star Theatre: Tracked by the Police.

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