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MOTOR NOTES FROM SIGNS THAT TRADE

GREAT BRITAIN

"A MOBILE PROJECTOR

A new advertising appliance that resembles a massive howitzer of enormous weight has recently made its appearance in Bromley, Kent. The complete apparatus is, however, mounted on a 1-ton Den nis chassis, so that obviously the **weapon

is, in reality, very much lighter than it appears to be. Never the less its range is com parable with that of modern artil. lery in that its effects embrace a radius of many miles.

The projectile thrown from this paeudo howitzer is a beam of light, but not necessarily a plain beam of white, for the optical prin- ciples of the machine are those of the magie lantern, but magnified In conse. on a gigantic scale. quence, color-effects, designs and written messages may be shown, as well as mechanirally-operated moving subjects.

TIDE HAS TURNED

BUILDING, JUTE AND CARS

Dr. E. L. Burgin, Parliament- ary Secretary to the Board of Trade, speaking at a dinner of the Corporation of Insurance Bro- kers in London, said it was exaggeration to say that the tide of British trade had turned.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1933.

280 GUINEAS FOR THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE

TWO JARS

GOOD PRICES AT BRITISH

ART SALES

Unquestionably the sale of the late Mrs. Henry Oppenheim's varied! has much exceeded collections no anticipations. The total had reach- ed over £16,000, and to this will have to be added the amount realis- ed by the silver.

Our export are 'considerably up; compared with two months ago the he said. signs are miraculous,"

The jute mille of Dundee are un able to supply forty-inch cloth be fore the end of August. Exports of motor-cars are bounding up..

being The numbers who are taken off the unemployed register to help in the building trade revi val are very heartening...

"There are myriads of signs around this great city of ours that started on modest lines, but on the tide has turned. We have lines of definite achievement.'!

A private buyer, Mr. A. Bennett, won two fine famille-verte Ming jars at 90gns, which compares favourably with their price, 350gns in the Lord Revelstoke sale four years ago, when money "was still flowing.

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NOTES ON SOME RECENT RESEARCHES

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?comparative effects of warmth and cold. Warmth causes the tissues to expand and be suffused with blood, while cold causes the blood to be expelled through contraction of the tissues. This contraction and move. ment of the body fluids excites the rheumatic pain.

SAMARIUM

A new radioactive substance was

London, June 8. The expenditure on new building in England is about £50,000,000 a year, and the expenditure on re- pairing is about £40,000,000 a year. The systematic study of building methods and materials has in re- cent years been started by the De partment of Scientific and Indus- trial Rossarch. It appears that The same purchaser annexed also the sound builders in the past had (at 175gns.) a pair of Meissen techniques the explanation of which discovered recently by Professor figures of wood-peckers, notwith- † standing some keen foreign com-only now becoming clear. For Hovey, of Freiburg, one of Ger- instance, the old builders mixed many's Nobel Laureates, who has their mortar with powdered male-¦ been found that the element samar- petitors.

Sometimes a mere "parce" of rial frota the sort of bricks the ium disintegrates and emits atoms prints is a lucky bag. At Sotheby's mortar was used to bind. They of helium. Samarium is one of the one such in she nail collection of had found that buildings were rare earth elements, a group of the late Greek Minister J. Gen-

more durable, the bricks and mor- fifteen with remarkably similar nadius, "fetched £58.

tar lasted batter, when this was properties. One of the group is Much attention has been drawn done. If the mortar was of en- cerium, which confers on gas man- lately to that series of excellent tirely different composition from ties their familiar property of giv on a clear night, it is claimed the message is 'n 12-inch glass di sporting prints known as Orme's the stones or bricks they knew the ing white light at comparatively collection of British Field Sports building might soon decay. The low temperatures. Professor He- invisible, is sufficient substitute, magazine, thus enabling changes to after the designs of S. Howitt. Mr. explanation of this is given by movesy has examined several speci "of samarium salts, one of the quality of one given recently to appreciated that two dissimilar which was given to him by the The image, therefore, which is be made without switching off the Maggs paid food for a set of dem physical chemistry, for it is vers

the antion.

substances in contact will probably late Baron Wolsbach, the inventor focussed at an altitude of several lamp.

On one side of the turret is a

En a fever of unbridled bidding react together chemically and of the gas mantle. The discovery thousand feet, becomes visible for

a con- while the folding platform and at

the Rosenhacks paid £2,000, six crumble away. The need for re- hea nonsiderable geological | Inter many miles around, scheme is so novel in conception venient height above this is a mus-

3,000,000,000 CANDLE,

POWER

For a sheet, clouds are used, but that a stratum of vapour, normally

compels the attention,

ses had to be obtained from Ger The glide used to carry many which is placed in

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th rotatable

A souvenior of Melbourne evident. Cricket Ground as it first appeared on January 1, 1904, brought £4 10s.

and dominating in practice that it 'ter-control hy means of which the years ago, for the series of twenty search into the most suitable morest Professor Joly, of Dublin, projected can be elevated, depress-oval engravings and twenty colour-tars for the many new building macommented in 1922 on the existence Current for are-lamp of the pro, ed or rotated, manually operated ird aquatints in Simon Pure "terials being introduced to-day is of certain haloes in ancient rocks. jected is supplied by a dynamo controls being alss provided. At t housed in a special casing behind the rear of the chassis, an the driver's eab. The doors of this casing are wooden frames with wire-mesh panels to ensure free air-flow for cooling. Power is

take-off

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BRITISH MADE LENSES

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munition case" is employed for the conveyance of spares and equipment of all kinds, and on the roof is a supporting saddle to hold the bar-

rel while travelling.

A Nelson Letter,

tion of simplicity, Formerly if

gravity

These are series of spheres or cir cles centred on a point where a radioactive substance has rested in

rock. In the course of millions

the radioactive substance cause a of the surrounding

of years the particles emitted from

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A NEW SORT OF WATER Although he desires to be anony

Even water is losing its reputa mus, the oldest professional col

was conceived as a simple combina- lector in the fine art business has sent to Messrs Knight. Frank and transmitted from

Rutley's rooms, for dispersal totion of hydrogen and eygen, and darkening

the latter as simple gases. It is rock, and the groups of particles ranged from the gearbox.

marrow, a varied selection of an

now discovered that there are at of a particular speed make a halo The lamps itself takes no less than ENSURING CLEAN OIL.

iques. Perhaps the chief prize is a 150 amperes, giving a beams candle.

Realising that it is quite impos-Louis Seize bonheur du jour with least two different sorts of oxygen at a particular distance from the and two different sorts of hydro- point of emission. Joly noted that power of 430,000,000 (four hundred sible for garage or service station Sevres panels, and there are many

different sorts may be able to mate plained as due to ang known and fifty millions), but even this operators to guarantes pure and desirable pieces of Chinese, Chelsea, gen in existence, so atoms of these one sort of halo could not be ex- prodigious figure is out-classed by clean oil to their customers when Derby, and Worcester porcelain..

themselves together to produce four radioactive substance. There is the light on leaving the projector, the cans that actually put the oil.

yarieties of water. Professor C. evidence now that it is due to as it is claimed that the lens 5y, into the cars are open to dirt, dust tem raises it to between two

In the same rooms on Friday an N. Lewis has already prepared a samarium. The radionetive haloes and i and water, the Hammond Pump three thousand million candle.

and Equipment Co., of Acton, have interesting letter by Nelson is to water heavier than ordinary water, are of great importance as they power.

marketed a new oil pump, which | bs offered, dated from the Victory which freezes when surrounded by provide one of the most accurate provides complete lockable protec at sea, January 18, 100 in which melting ordinary ice, and does not methods of dating the age of the tion from dust and weather for regret is. expressed that 'h certain boil when ordinary water boils. It earth's ancient strata. It is believed that the lenses are three cans.

lieutenant had failed to receive has been found that when ordinary

ORIGIN OF SPECIES amongst the biggest in the world,

A special revolving platform on some slaves on board the Narcissus water is decomposed by electricity the heavier sort of hydrogen may Rnd it is gratifying to learn that

the pump head, inside a circular off Tunis.

Biologista long ago decided that they are of British manufacture, casing, accommodates, cans of 1

The portrait by Gerard Terborch be collected at one electrode. The The United Kingdom Optical Co and 2-pint capacity. The desired of a gentleman and his wife, which water made by combining this mere observation and discussion of Mill Hill being responsible. I can is brought under the delivery Lt. Col. E. H. Griffiths lent to the heavy hydrogen with oxygen, has would not be sufficient to elucidate though in the earlier days, while nozzle without handling-merely by Dutch exhibition at Burlington slightly different freexing and boil the great problem of the origin of species, but that experimental in- experimenting was in progress, lon- turning the platform on which it House in 1920, is to be sok at nig points, and

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vestigation was also necessary. The (Continued on next salamin) 1 stands.

Sotheby's on June 14

origin of new species could not be RAW WEATHER known convincingly until they could Everyone must have wondered be produced. Innumerable experi- why the cold damp days so common ments have bean made with heat, in England and so peculiarly un- mechanical treatment, X-rays, &c., pleasant possess their rawness. Dr. to produce new species. The agen- G. M. B. Dobson has remarked "y for producing the new species that the explanation of the un-Was zought outside the organism. pleasantness of hot damp, weather There has been some, though in- is well-known while that of cold complete, success in this line of damp wentber is not. Hot damp work. Mr. Navaahin, of MoscOW, weather is uncomfortable because has found evidence that the agency the perspiration normally exuded may be within and not without the from the body is not removed suf, organism. He argued that if such ficiently, rapidly by evaporation, an agency existed it ought to ope as the air is already saturated with rate more powerfully in old than moisture. Extremely hot weather in young plants.. One could ima which is also dry may not be un-gine that a plant twenty years old comfortable when the body has be- might have accumulated much more come, accustomed to it. Cold but of the agent than one two years. dry weather may be pleasant, while old. He has therefore been testing cold and wet weather may be un- the effect of dormancy on seeds. comfortable for the majority of He has found that certain plants people and painful for rheumatics. grown from seeds several years old Bir Leonard Hill, explains the feel exhibit a far greater variety of those grown ing of rawness as due to the high-abnormalities than

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er conductivity of heat by cold from new seeds. The popalation moist than by cold dry air. Thus from the old sends remarkably re- the cold moist air more effectively sembles, he says, that obtained by withdraws the warmth from the dosing seeds with X-rays. skin, and excites the nerve endings the seed seems to contain a mutat in it, so that they causs a tightening agent which accumulate with ing effect. He explains the effect. time and has efferts similar to X- of rawness on rheumatics by the rays.

FRENCH AIR LINES FUSIÓN

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ECONOMY AND DEFENCE

Paris The fusion of the French Air lines is now practically ac complished. The four principal

LARGEST ALTAR IN ENGLAND

AT WHITE CITY

Our Ecclesiastical Correspondent

companies-the Air Union, the writes: Oidna, the Air-Orient and Aero-

What is believed to be the largest Postale have submitted a propo-altar ever erected in England will sal to form themselves into a single be used for the solemn.celebration company, and it is receiving the

favourable attention of the Air of the Holy Eucharist at the While, Minister Here we th

City Stadium on Sunday, July 16. Details of the fusion will be The service, at which the Bishon worked out by a special committee presided over by the-Air Minister of London will be present, will It is possible, that a new line will form the culmination of the meet be created for the Trans-Sahara ings and services arranged in Lon- don by the Anglo-Catholic Con- service.

The principal motive for the fu: gress in commemoration of the cea sion is one of economy. All the tenary of the Oxford Movement. air lines are heavily subsidised by The altar is 21ft, long and the the State, which is therefore the canopy 36fts across. The candles principal sufferer if they are run are 12ft, high. In front will stand i at a loss. It s believed that s considerable saving in Cam respect will be brought about through the grouping of the lines under-a cep iral Administration p

In Badition, the fusion will en The whole has been designed by abla, civil aviation to be directly London clergyman, the Rey. W controlled by the Government-an G. de Lara Wilson, assistant purate important advantage from the of St Anselm's, Davies street, point of view of national defence @Maylair.

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