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THE DAWN OF THE UNIVERSE

A STRANGE STELLAR ACCIDENT

HOW THE PLANETS ARE THOUGHT

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BY REV. D. MACDONALD S. J.

THE FIGHTING SERVICES

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stance of the gun itself leaving it smaller and lighter than before

LONDON, April 25. and perhaps glad to have this The Air Council, has been re- lengthy and unpleasant surgical viewing the question of specialist operation successfully completed. engineer officers. The policy of You know that the earth and the promoting men who have practical moon exert 11 mutual attraction experience of engineering is to be upon one another. This attraction extended. keeps the moon moving round and round about the earth instead of flying off into space. Upon the earth the most obvious effects of this pull or attraction of the moon is the formation of the tides in the

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We are now in that part of our flight down the river of time when the Earth was about to be but yet was not. We have entered into the

of heavenly bodies, group

the group of stars which stud the heavens at night, our own system of stars and amongst that group we notice that there is going to be at one place as it were a very ser- ious accident. We watch, as pas sers-by watch a street accident, but with even more interest than they. We were scared & little while ago, when we saw that an ac cident was going to happen and we did'at know how grievous it might be nor what might be its terrible consequences. We felt we were helpless to prevent it and give under the pull of the moon way, is, the ever-increasing number W. R LOXLEY & CO.

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unheard in stillness of the universe. We fore saw that a great catastrophe of enormous magnitude, a very rare thing in starry space was about to take place unless some mighty ferce could come in to prevent it or unless the mighty force were already there and could avert the calamity in the nick of time. But no, it seemed to become more and more inevitable.

oceans.

The Fides.

The dry land bring somewhat rigid doesn't alow any appreciable

but the water being more mobile does got pulled noticeably out to wards the moon so that for ine-

The proposal is that in future about 60 per cent, of vacancies for officer engineer posts will be filled, from general duties branches. and the majority of the remainder by a new class of officer promoted from warrant rank to that of Flying Officer.

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of officers and aircraftmen who are mastering foreign languages. The latest lists from the Air Ministry tanice. when the moon is opposite reveal successes not only in French, PALLADIUM Hong Kong, the waters of the German nd Spanish, but in such SAFETY RAZOR

Tush towards complicated tongues as Arabic, surrounding -ocean

Syriac and Japanese. Hong Kong and heap up round Malay, this locality producing here what Awards up to £30 go with a pass is called a high tide. As the moon in Syriac. round the earth the travels on high tide follows it and as the water is heaped up into something | BİG ORDERS FOR NAVAL like a huge wave crest, 1 the cir A Vast Collision Avoided,

cumference of the earth in length ARMOUR that follows the moon, so after the There Was 3 atar peacefully waves comes a depression or low plodding its way on its appointed tide for now there is a rush of the course, going, with crowd water of this locality to follow round and round in their enormous after the moon leaving less water wheel-like motion. Lo! in the dis here and so low tide is the conse tance loomed up another star a quence. If the moon were much greater one making straight as it nearer the high tides would be seemed for the lesser and peaceful much higher and the low tides much At last we were glad to see lower. This enormous double wave that there was likelihood of col-would travel round, the earth under lision being avoided but what the attraction or influence of the would happen we wondered. Now moon. Even high hills near the sen we see it before our very eyes the would be covered by water at high big star has come close to

the tide and many a hay or harbour smaller one but not close enough would be empty of water at low 'to collide with it or smash it up tide... and get injured itself in the pro-

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The current Navy Estimates.pro- vide for an expenditure of £390,000 on this material. In 1000 the bill for armour was only £88,000

The placing of these orders is probably responsible for the rum- our circulating in the dockyard towns that heavily armoured ves- els corresponding to the German pocket battleships are about to be built for the Navy.

It is conceivable that if the moon were sufficiently near this tidal story. Not only are we barred by There is no foundation for this The stars are gaseous and as the ware would become really mountain Treaty restrictions from beginning big star comes to within a certain high as high as the Himalayas, and work on any capital ship before distance of the smaller, the smal even so high as to be pulled right 1933, hut, it is certain that the Ad- ler one shows uneasiness wisps of off the surface of the earth alto-miralty would in no circumstances Tumorous gas issue from its side gether thus leaving the oceans emp attempt to copy the German design, like flames leaping out towards lier and forming a new but com-which is regarded as unsuited to the big intruder: Soon these wisps paratively small heavenly body if of gas become a pointed peak of it didn's really imprightout to British requirements. gas like some groat mountain peak the moon and be taken in there on wowing into the sky

if the moon itself didn't suffer most.

Gigantic Gas Column. But what I want to point out is that just as the moon has a tidal effect on the earth so did that big

THE BOYCOTT, AND RUMOUR ED RED ACTIVITIES.

HANKOW, May 1, Reports recently to hand state that Ho Lung, the notorious "Red" has once again established himself with his forces in the Hung Hu (Red Lake) district near Kienli. So far, however, there does not seem to be any material threat to this centrs.

Governor for Hupeh is retiring General Hsia Tao Yin, Provincial and a former Mayor of Shanghai is named as his successor. During his term of office, General Hsia has been very popular, and his retire- ment is received with much regret. Despite the proclamation by the

the

There is a simple explanation for Generalissimo in regard to the sup the new armour contracts. A fair pression of the anti-Japanese boy- ly large programme of cruiser con- cott, and the drastic action be is struction is now in hand, and al-reported to have taken in some in- though these ships-of 7,000 and stances, threatening letters are still 3.200 tony respectively are not being received by some of

"armoured" in the accepted mean- dealers and compradores who are Japanese. There is, therefore, still a little uneasiness and many, still staying in the "country."

big one comes still more near the star that nearly, collided with the ing of the word, they are fitted with supposed to have dealings, with the

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built for the British Navy were the services and also holds the Iraq The last heavily armoured ships He received the O.B.E. for War Nelson and Rodney, completed in General Service Medal for opera- tons of armour. In the Hood, com- he has been in Thanet Group Capt. about 10,000tions in Kurdistan in 1003. Since missioned thirteen years ago, no Smith has taken a keen interest in

than 14.000 tons of armour are civil aviation. fitted, representing one-third of the total displacement.

As the intruding star comes near this pointed peak of gaseous mat- ter becomes more "pointed and tal ler, reaching and reaching out as if to fend off the enemy. As the

peak like mass of gas becomes a big cotamn of gas rushing out-

sun exert a tidal action and to such ainderate amount of armour- wards towards the big star. The an extent that it drew off by its plating on the sides, decks, and gun big star passes by but still, the gas attraction a large part of the sun's turrets. They therefore present a is being drawn out from the side substance and then passed on teav-contrast to certain foreign cruisers, of the star and after a time the ing that separated part to look which have phenomenal speeds but column drawn out seems to have after itself. Now we see it after practically no protection. the shape of a huge cigar, with the wandering star has just passed, one end resting, as it were, on the that big cigar shaped column of atar from which it came forth and Easeous matter being unstable un the other end pointing to the other able to hold itself together in that great star that had passed so near. shape just begin to breal up into

was no collision, yet the fragments; these fragments the maller of the two stars you might taking a globular shape as drops of imagine had a terrible time of itwater do. The fragments at and during those disastrous days, and near the middle of the cigar art will never be the same again for big massive balls of gas or partial- it has lost weight irrevocably and ly of gas and partially liquid, those Unfortunately the latest con- for ever. The agony of expectation fragments towards the ends of the tracts, welcome though they be, was nothing to the wrenching cigar, are smaller in proportion, will do little to ease the situation bgony of the reality. The passing What we see now at this stage is in the armour-plate industry, Atar has just by the terrife force this set of fragments each globular of its attraction drawn out from in shape revolving round the suu the side of the mall ́ons a great ench one in its own truck and these fonsa of the substance into a big are what are called the planets. R.A.F FAR EAST cigar shaped mass which is destin They are called planets because they ed not to be recovered again.. are seen by us to move about in the nered to the upward suction of a

The phenomenon might be com- due to their motion round the

sun. Whereas the other stars do not Groups Captain Sydney W. Smith, column of water from the ocean seem to us to move relatively to one O.B.E., Commanding the Royal Air in a water spout, though the water another and are therefore alled Force Station at Manston, Thanet, epout is infinitesimal, compared fixed stars. Now these planeri has been appointed to the Far East with enormous column of fluid seemed to us to have been thus Command at Singapore, and will matter dragged out by the passing drawn out from the san making the probably leave for his new post at star. The smaller star we see now sur smaller and lighter, but whethe end of the summer. to be our sun and the big one we ther we saw clearly and rightly or know not what vagrant star. But not we cannot guarantee to state let us see how it could be that positively, but we seemed to see it while no actual collision took place happen thus and we record what there was this enormous tearing we seemed to see. out of a portion of the very sub-

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LONDON, April 24. After being refitted at Devonport Dockyard at a cost of nearly £374,000, H.M.S. Eagle, Britain's largest aircraft-carrier, left Ply mouth last night for Portsmouth.

There she will embark aireraft be .fore sailing for the Far, East on April 28. She will call at Gibral- tar, Malta, Port Said, Aden, Colombo and Singapore before reaching Hong Kong, where she will take over the duties of aircraft- carrier on the Chins station from H.M.S. Hermes, which will return to Devonport to be refitted. DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF

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Former Hong Kong Resident, War. In. 1020 he was posted to the command of a squadron in Egypt Mr. A. E. Cocks, O.B.E, who and two years later flew with the relinquished the post of Deputy quadron to Iraq, when it was Director of Naval Stores, Admir transferred to that country. On realty, on Thursday last, has been turning to England in 1924 he went thanked by the Lords Commission on a two years course to the Staffers of the Admiralty for his services

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Portsmouth, Sheerness Chatham, and Devonport. During trious Admiralty service he was in charge of the important division of the | Department which deals with fuel The accelerated northbound air

for the Fleet An interesting coin- lown is to be accelerated, and the mail, after leaving Khartoum, will

cidence in his errear was that he was responsible for the closing IN MAKOHURIA —–— from day to 10 in each direcWadi Halla and will fly through leave the Nile and fly to Alexan down of his department, at Halifax

time taken by the journey reduced, cease to make a night stop at FUFAX STATION CHANGURUNG HOW (Mukdes for The hanges will come late in one day to Assuan. The fight dria. The crossing of the Mediter-

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For leaving London, sext Wednesday, from Assuan right through to 960 miles between Alexandria and for the closing down of the store BYOJUN (Port Bozantonu SVATION HOSHIGAUBA!-- Arthur) saat wad, with the authward service Alexandria,, instead of Cairo, out Brindisi being down in one day

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