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INTIMATIONS.

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES.

PUBLIC AUCTION -

OF THE

STEAMSHIPS

"CHARLES HARDOUIN" AND "PAUL BEAU" { NOW LYING IN THE HARBOUR Or Fora Kova

TO BE SOLD

IN ONE LOT

OK

THURSDAY,

THE 28TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1930, Ar 3 P.M.

BY

MESSES, LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers,

#

AT THEIR

AUCTION BOOMS, " UUDDELL STREET, VICTORIA, HONG KONG,

The Ships are Passenger River Steamers built of steel formerly on the Hong Kong-Canton run.

For further Particulars and Cerdi- tions of Sale, and for Order to View, Apply to:

MEME WOO & NASH, Mortgagees' Solicitors,

4 & 6, QUEEN'S BOLD CENTRAL, Hong Kong

or to

MISES. LAMMERT BROS.,

"Auctioneers,

No. 4, DUBDELL STREET, Hong Kong.

Hong Kong, Dated the 20th of August 1930,

(9731

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INTIMATIONS.

BY ORDER OF THE VENDORS.

PUBLIC AUCTION

VERY VALUABLE WHARVES

Sitaste at or near the WESTERN BUND, CANTON and known as THE SAM KING WHARF, THE CHUNG SUN WHARF AND THE HOP TAK ON AND FOR BO WHARF

.

TO BE SOLD IN ONE LOT

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THURSDAY,

The 28 AUGUST, 1980,

At 3.30 P.M.

BY

MESSES. LAMMERT: BROS. AT THEIR

SALES ROOM, No. 4, DUDDELL STREET, VICTORIA, HONG KONG.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST » 22, 1930.

FUELS OF THE FUTURE.

ADVANCES IN SYNTHETIC

CHEMISTRY.

'BUNGLED". BATTLE.

GENERAL CRITIC OF

CHINA COAST OFFICERS" SALARIES.

GENERALS.

CONCESSION FOR LOW

DOLLAR.

We have been informed by Capt.

A remarkable attack on officers commanding the British and Aus- tralian forces at the battle of. T. Laurenson, secretary of the SUBSTITUTES for petroL.

loon branch of the Chim, Coast "Fleurbaix, near Armentiers, on A fascinating story of the bene- the Rider Lys, in 1916, was made Officers' Guild, that both Messrs. fits that chemistry may be expected in a lecture at the Parliament Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., and the China Navigation Co., Ltd.: in future years to confer upon the House, Canberra, last month, have agreed to change the basis of

Elliott, D.S.O.

H. E.

He declared that the officers were.

salaries of officers and engineers in their employ on the China Const. inefficient and that the operation. The rates are fixed at one-half was badly bungled..

at 1/6 to the dollar, and one-half

world was recently related, in an Major-General Senator interview with a representative of The Observer, by Dr. F. G. Doni-. nan, F.R.S., Professor of Chemis- try at University College, London, Dr. Herman Levinstein has been telling the Society of Chemical In- dustry that the air might in future supply synthetic fuel, and that the world's raw materials and power would ultimately be drawn "from

"air, water, soil, and aun; and Dr. Donnan was asked how far this synthetic work has already gone, and what it has actually done?

It has gone very far indeed," he said.. The bulk of chemistry for the last eighty years has been synthetic. There is nothing new in For Further Particulars and Condi- that that is to say, in making new tions of Sale, Apply to ------

Mesars. WOO & NASĖ, Vendor Solicitors,

Nos. 4 & 6, QUEEN'S BOAD Central,

Victoria, Hong Kong

or to

MESSES. LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

No. 4, DUDDELL STREET.

Victoria, Hong Kong... Hong Kong, 20th August, 1980. [9760

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According to the lecturer, the blatne was thrown on the Austra current rates, the arrangement lian, General McCoy, who had only to continue for a period of six been a short time at the front, but months, after which the position another general formulated the at-will be reconsidered, unless earlier tack without full knowledge of the examination is made necessary by an appreciation of the dollar to 1/9.

work.

"Canion Fodder."

It is understood that the com- The results of the battle were bined China Coast Officers' Guild tragically disproportionate to the cost.

"

A major, "who was the only high staff officer on the field," told him (Elliott) that he expected a holo- caust and had tried to prevent the laughter. This officer had appar ently spoken to generals who re- garded the men as mere casinon fodder.

Major-General Elliott said that.

was almost incomprehensible how after this extraordinary ad- venture any concerned retained their nctive command. General

There was some excuse, Continu- ed the lecturer, for General Me- Cay, who had only been a few days at the front, but there was no ex- cuse for Generals Haking, Munro and Butler, who should have known the facts.

"The thing that has struck people Sir Richard Haking, he asserted, most is the production of certain tried to throw all the blame on the important materials by the synthe-infantry, to hide his own faults. tic process. If you take air, water, Sir Richard formulated the at and coal, there are three funda- tack without full knowledge of the mental natural materials and they conditions. ・・ contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. Those are the main constituents of air, water and coal, and the majority of organic sub- stances, consist of them. Two very important inorganic substances are aramonia and nitric acid, and they consist of hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen. Therefore, the majority of organic substancea, together with ammonia and nitric acid, are poten- tially present in air, water, and coal taken together.

.

Consider, too, that many ex-. plosives, ie., those used in mining, as well as those used as propellants in guns, and for detonation in shells, are prepared from organic substances containing carbon, nydrogen, "and oxygen, by means of nitric acid:"and that ammonia and nitric acid in a combined form yield important fertilizing material for plart life. Hence one may say that a vast variety of substances of the greatest importance in humen civilisation can be obtained from air, water, and coal.

Sugar from the Afr. "Here are some of the things that are known and practised in chemistry to-day: From air, steam, and cool, or coke, there can be pre- pared" by well-known methods, water gas, which is a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. From this can be prepared hydro- gen gas in great quantities and purity, and this again can be readily combined with the nitrogen of the air to form ammonia. "Fur thermore, the ammonia can be oxidised by air to nitric acid..

"From water gas there can also be prepared, by equally well-known methods, methanol (methyl alco hol); and by the oxidation of methanol formaldehyde can be obtained.

By the chemical condensation of for maldehyde, effected by the netion of alkalige, or by ultra-violet light, considerable quantities of the lower sugars can be prepared-for example, glucose. A proportion of these sugars is not utilisable by the animal organism, but a certain pro-

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"That is to say, we could eat it?"

"Yes; and hence we can see & glimmering "of the possibility of making sugars which can be eaten and assiatilated from air, water and coke.

Motor Fuels,

Major-General Elliott has been a senator for the State of Victoria in the Commonwealth Senate since 1920. He became major-general in 1917.

Mentioned in despatches seven times, he became major-general in 1917. He was again wounded in France,

Strategic Importance of Synthesis.

"Will this be of use, Dr. Den nan was asked, "to the present generation ?”

All these various methods of preparing liquid fuels from coal have," he explained, to compete at the present time with the vast resources which the world still possesses of mineral oil. It is, therefore, difficult to forecast when the manufacture of fuel oils direct ly from coal will become a formid. able competitor of the petroleum nil industry, since it is not easy c say how soon the existing and still. undiscovered supplies of petroleum oil will begin to run short..

"Nevertheless, from the political and strategic standpoint, it is of the highest importance for Grent Britain to know that it is perfectly feasible at the present time to manufacture from English coa! petrol and fuel oil, so that in case of danger or attack these essential substances would not require to be imported."

Could they be manufactured in suficient quantities for our needs in such an emergency!".

Buccess.

"Yes. A powerful end important chemical company in England is already engaged on this problem and has obtained great There is no doubt that this com- pany could, if required, prepare gigantic quantities of petrol"and" fuel oil from British coal.”

The World Sans Doal Sann Oil.

" And what of the more distant future?"

In that rather distant fature, when the world will no longer possess any more coal or off, the question may arise how to maru- facture fuel and motor bils without using organic carbon then no. longer present,, owing to the ex- haustion of the coal and oil sup plies of the earth.

One must not forget that the

Methane, a compound of car bön-and hydrogén, can be prepared from water gas, or it may be obtain.. od by reduction of carbon mono- xide, produced by the high tem- perature. burning of coke or charmain quantities of carbon existing i coal:

originally in the primeval atmos- phere of this planet are not to be found in coal or oil, but occur chemically, combined with lime and magnesia in the vast mountain ranges of limestone and dolomite, togetehr with the chalk.

From this gas methane, obtain ed in sither of these ways, it is quite possible to prepare acetylene and benzene and other hydrocar bon. Here, then, wa have one possible method of making motor fuels which could be used instead of petról

"Another method which has been suggested is to work directly from water gas and prepare therefrom a mixture of hydro carbons, alcohols, and other organic compounds. This mixture might also be used as a substitute for petrol."

"From these materials, existing on the surface of the earth in vast quantities, it would be quite easy, hy means of heat (derived from the energy of water power) to pro- duce carbon dioxide. The energy of the water power would also give us electricity, from which, by elec trolya's, hydrogen can be easily obtained.

"Another method, which has been already worked out in Ger

"From the carbon dioxide and many and England, in the action of hydrogen thus produced it would hydrogen under pressure on coal, be quite feasible to mamifacture

HETEUS the tour if very here of the motor ze met wir that i converted into a ligid mixture of the world might then require The predictable method oils, from which, by means of dis. only, offer tillation and cracking *: (deoom would be the utilization of natural position by heat), accompanied, or artificial photo-synthetic pro- perhons, by a further combination

OCSBCE. with hydrogen, large quantities of "Such considerations, of course, valuable oils can be obtained- | em only apply to i period- several

as all althorities agree, the road and all will be entirely exhausted."

11. Ice House Street. ntrol, lubricating oil, lamp oil, and thousand years from now when,

fuel oil,”

(Continued on next Column.)

and Marine Engineers' Guild of

China accepted the offer, which he into effect as from July 1.

01

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$23.00

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