1935-02-19 — Page 11

TELESCOPE TO COST £2,000,000

Search For New Alloy To Substitute Glass

(Special Air Mall Service)

London, Jan. 29. Wanted, for the exploration of the universe, a new metal alloy which must be rigid, expand only slightly when heated, and keep its shape indefinitely:

1.

This appeal was made by Dr. H. Spencer Jones, the Astronomer Royal, recently. He wants the new alloy so that astronomers can make the mirrors for still larger telescopes more cheaply and sim- ply than by the casting of cor- mous masses of glass.

Dr. Spencer Jones was lecturing

These plans had been prepared before the

of the construction 200-inch telescope

decided upon, and he did not know if they would ever be put into execution.

was

It was anomalous that astrono-

mers should have to go to all the trouble which was now necessary to cast a mass of glass weighing was caly several tons, when it required to support a thin reflect- Ing surface of silver.

Obsolete Silver

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1935.

PUBLIC HEALTH IN CANTON

CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA

Strike Attempt Fails

Capital Increased

[Special to the Hong Kong Daily

Press" (Copyright).] --

"Nanking, Feb. 11. (From Our Special Correspondent)

To extend the banking business. and banking; facilities to the Cantor; Feb. 18. - Public health in Canton was re-

public, the capital of the Central Bank of China has been raised View this morning in a weekly from $20 million to $100 million. memorial service address by DE

With the approval of the Execu- Teng Chen Tak, Municipal Com-

tiye Yuan, the Ministry of Finance He missioner of Public Health, stated that night soil carriers at additional capital of the Bank has appropriated $60 million as tempted to strike on February 7, which, together, with its original but happily the plot was unsuc-capital of $20 million and reserve

cessful

The strike was fermented by the Wung Fung Company. Dr. Teng said because that company which undertook to remove the night so from households failed to pay the franchise tax to the Municipal Even the traditional silver coat-Bureau of Health despite the fact on the past, present and future ofing can, it appears, be improved that the rate was reduced.

A fine film of aluminiumn, giant telescopes at the Imperial"; upon. College of Science and Techno-deposited under a high vacuum, could provide surface which logy, South Kensington; in connec-

tarnish, and tion with the annual exhibition of was less able to

would reflect a wider range of the Physical Society.

new 200-inch teles- light wavelengths. It could even America's

be scrubbed without

risk cope, he said, the casting of the glass mirrors for which has just damaging the surface, been completed, would provide astronomers with 2 means of probing space to greater depths than had been hitherto possible.

A Substitute for Glass

"The total cost of the construc- tion of this great "instrument," he added, "and of the housing for it is expected to be about £2,000,- 000,

“Will aštronomers be content, or will they dream of something stili | larger? I am afraid that, like

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of

"Silver in this connection." Mr. Spencer Jones said, "will shortly become obsolete. By the time the 'Aguring' of the 200-inch mirror has been completed two or three years hence, it is probable that a sufficiently large apparatus will be available to aluminize it.?”

To illustrate the extraordinary degree 01 accuracy which was necessary in the figuring of a large telescope mirror, Dr. Spencer Jones asked his audience to ima- gine the existing 100-inch mirror

CHINA TEA EXPORTS

Statistics Show Improvement

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Shanghai, Feb. 12. - According to statistics compiled by

For in-

ather

the

28

80

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CROSSWORD PUZZEL

18

16

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198

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Note:-Figures in parentheses indicate number of letters in the words required.

ACROSS

6-A hasty retreat (6). 8-Make good (8), 9-In a mean way. (8), 10-A newly married man (8). 14-Kind of stew (5). 15-An ostensible reason (7). 19.-River food (7). 23-Fruit (5),

26. Suitable action (8), 28-Complete (8)

2-It stands a hard pull, being gut"

made "of raw (anagram) (8),

30-Absorbed (6).

Chinese Maritime Customs, Chinese te exported during 1934 reached a value of $36,098,549,

888,512 over 1933. representing an increase of $1- This sign of revival in

the tea export' trade. may be ascribed to the serious funds "of $20 million, miake a efforts of the National Govern- grand total of $100 million. This ment, and various local authori- increase, of capital is intended to ties and groups of individuals provide the public with

better which interest themselves in service and to help various trades the promotion of the tea indus- and

industries now passing try during recent years, through a thin time,

stance, only last summer for the Preparations for the establish- purpose of developing the Keemun ment of the Szechuan Branch of tea industry alone, the sum of Without this source of income, the Central Bank of "China at $35,000 · had been. pledged by Commissioner Tenz said that Chungking having been, complet- Chinese bankers, the National there was

no money for "public ed it will be formally inaugurat- | Economic Council, and health improvement especially re-ed on the 15th of this month, bodies. It will be remembered too lating to the betterment of public Permits. (Hu Chao) for the trans-among many things, that efforts toilets. The contract to carry on portation of silver bars of thehad B150 been made by

Mint this work is now assigned to the Central

up-river, as National Government in improv- Tai Sun Company, he continued, funds of the Branch Bank, have ing the methods of growing and and what was once a serious" been

obtained by the Central preparation, and in providing menace to public health was now Bank from the Ministry of cheaper and quicker transporta-

Finance. Mr. Tang Halao-Potion facilities. removed.

been appointed Manager while an increase of nearly the Szechuan Branch two million dollars in tea exports

been Halao-Po has

appointed during this general business de- Manager of the Szechuan Branch pression is something encouraging Central Bank of China. and worth noting, yet when one of the With the financial assistance of views the downward trend of tea this Branch Bank the better de- exports during the last few years velopment of business enterprises 51 million dollars in 1991, 98 in the province is expected:

million in 1932, and 34 million in China United Press (by Mail). 1933-this increase of two million dollars in exports is far from re-

by China during the last few years in the world's tea markets, Con- stant efforts all along the ling are still necessary for promotion Oxford University, who last year and improvement. What is more, had three boats built for the Boat It hits feared that exports of tea Race, have this year ordered two wi'l drop as a result of the These will be built by Sims Bros., creased tarfi levied by certain countries. The Bureau of For sign Trade; however, is taking

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Commissioner Teng then dwelt has on the examination of -1.060 Chi-of nese doctors yesterday. The ques- tions were set on the spot, after study of the medical books by the board of examiners. The examina. tion papers are to be graded and

returned: in one week..

For the benefit of women, com- missioner Teng said that two pub- tollets for women will be con→

Oliver Twist, they will always ask at present the world's largest structed, one in Wing Hon Road RAISING FUNDS covering muth of the ground lost

for more."

Plans for A

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"magnifled' to '250,000 times its real 300-inch telescope size. were, Mr. Spencer Jones added, It would then, he said, be large already in existence at Mount konangir to cover the whole or Wilson Observatory in America | England and Wales with a bit to The combined weight of all the moving parts provided for in the draft design was. 1,600 tons.

spare. Yet its surface would have to be accurate at every point to within three-quarters of an inch.

THE ADRIATIC'S | ICHANG NOTES

FINAL VOYAGE

Last Of A Gallant Company

The departure, of the. liner Adriatic from Liverpool to Japan, where she is to be scrapped, after 27 years' service on the North At- lantic. will not only mark the passing of a proud liner, but also the severance of one of the last links in a generation of ships which made the Western Ocean crossing when emigration was th full flood

For, commissioned in 1907, the Adriatic belonged essentially to that age in the history of the Atlantic Ferry when week by week thousands of emigrants from all parts of Europe thronged to Liver- pool and Southampton to embark

Anti-Opium Campaign

(From Our Own Correspondent)

February 1

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We are enjoying a good old fashioned Chinese New Years Day: shops closed, and quiet streets carpeted with exploded cracker papers. We certainly did not enjoy the unending volleys or fire crackers that disturbed our sleep through the night.

Thousands of government troops have passed up river, and 700 more left here this morning, but whether they can get up as far as Wansten is questionable 1s the river is dangerously low, the water mark at Chunking being at Zero and at Ichang seven in- ches below zero. Passengers for both up and down river are de-

1 stately liners bound for thetained, through. lack of water, United States and Canada,

the companies not daring to rise the journey.

Keen Competition

Those were indeed times of keen competition, with the race for Atlantic supremacy fiercely con- teated by the rival shipping lmes engaged in this trafic, and a

striking example of this is afford ed by the many westbound sailings which took place during May, 1907

--the month in which the Adria- tic made her maiden voyage from Liverpool.

According to a sailing schedule compiled at that time, no fewer than 30 liners crossed to the United' States during that month, and of this great fleet, 12 had proudly claimed the Blue Riband of the Atlantic at one time or another.

Ocean Greyhounds

Of these former greyhounds." there sailed from Liverpool those lovely White Star sister-ships Teutonic and Majestic, of whom it bas been said that their times of arrival and departure were more reliable than those, of railway trains; the Cunard filers Umbria, Etruria, Campania, and Lucania- the two latter still held by many, shiplovers to be the most grace- ful steamers ever to leave the Mersey.

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and, another in Sup Luk Po. This is a sort of trial, and if this scheme turns out to be a success more such places will be constructed. The official Agured that Canton has 1,300,000 people of which about one half are women.

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COMMUNISTS IN

- YUNNAN

Gain Control Of Towns

(From Our Special Correspondent)

Canton, Feb. 18.

FOR RAILWAY

Nanking-Pinghsiang

Section To Start

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily

of the

Press" (Copyright).1

Hangchow, Feb. 9. The railways authorities have decided to start the construction Nanchang-Pingstang section of the Cheklang-Kiangsu Railway on the coming Indepen- dence Day, October 10. All the preparations for the preliminary survey having been completed, Mr. Mou Chia-Yuan, Associate Director of the Rallway, left for Shanghai yesterday to consult with Shanghai bankers regarding. the raising of funds for this pur- pose.

According to the estimates, the Nanchang-Finghalang section, which will be about 800 kilometers

Communist occupation of Sui Kong, Chen Hung and Wai Shun, in North-eastern Yunnan has been. confirmed, although it is reported that General Lung Yun, Chairman of the Szechuen Provincial Govin

to drive out the Reds, "" ernment, la sending two brigades

About 30,000 Reds are now in North-eastern Yunnan. Yen Tsin an important town in Northern Yunnan, is still in the hands of the will take place to-day of provincial troops. A big battle

morrow between the 'Red maraud ers and the Yunnan forces, who are expected to reach North- eastern Yunnan to-day.

:to-

It was

reported several times that Chut Chow on the Yangtze Generul Liu · Hsiang means to

River in Szechuen had been taken humiliate. oplum smokers. has ordered that the

by the Communists, "but this re- aptum dens must not be larger port is not confirmed. Chut Chow than one foot in height and two is very close to Lu Chow." feet in width, so that habitues Canton Daily Sun stated to-day

that Nan Tien Pa, thirty-fivés. | must enter on all fours The rule

7500

The

General Houch Yoh, command-

lengib, would cost about $80,000,000 in construction.

In the meanwhile, however, the General Survey Corps för pre- liminary inspection along the ex- tension line, have been, organized. It is expected that, the survey. work will be completed before. -October-

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TO PREVENT FLOODS

Special Training For Workers

Press" (Copyright):]

Kaifeng. Feb. 8th.

ing officer of Nanking troops fr After the inspection trip of the Kwelrang. in reply to the tele-League experts the Hydraulic

the

for women smokers is more dras-miles from Lu Chow, has been in [Special to the "Hong Kong Daily tic. Any woman found, smoking, the hands of the Communists. in an opium den is to be shot on the spot and the owner of the om den is to pay all funeral

gram of Kwelchow residents in Engineering Bureau of expenses,

But why not prevent all this by Canton, stated that he is sending National Economic Council has stopping the growing of the poi-a crack detachment to Southern promised to remit a sum of

Azechuen In pursuit of the Com- $1,000,000 towards flood preven munists. These troops. will at- tion work in the three provinces tack the rear, of the Communists of Hopel, Honan and, Shanting, In Ku Lin and Chul Yung, in By an order of the Yellow River Bouthern 8zechuen

Conservancy Board, Mr. Chen Ju- Chen, Distator of the Engineer- || ing ... Bection of they Board and Homan Provincial River Affaira concurrently Director of the

Buremi has been instructed to ¿map" out the bud

estimates and the

·apport

holder of that time the might öf the German North Atlantic Inter- esta.

Memories

In the wake of these 12 crack liners there followed a company of ships which, in their day, were household names, but now are half-forgotten memories,

LONG DISTANCE FLIGHT DISAPPOINTMENT

[Special to the "Hong-Kong Daily Press" (Copyright):37

There were, those very beautiful Cunard "pretty sisters.”

Caronia and Carmania, the swagger White

As feared from the Star Oceanie the second, the radioed on Sunday American liners St. Louis aad | French long-distance Southampton then making a America, the Hamburg-Amerika | "Joseph le- Bri bold, bid for Liverpool's tram Kaizerin Augusta Victoria to be turn back when saw the departure of the yacht known in post-war years as the Africa and like clipper-bowed New York and Empress of Scotland-such popn Tand Philadelphia which, as the In-lar vessels as the Saxonia, Ivernis Bure man liners City of New York and and Car la and that

City of Paris, had held the Blue | sive apar te. Celtics Cedric, Baltio Riband-and-In the departure of and Adriatic, And, now, the

the Deutschland

der Gros

and Ea

of this

Company o leaves on her final voyage to shipbreakers yard

River Cons

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definite steps to assist productions to improve the quality of tez as well as taking other measures for export-

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DOWN

1-Present (4). 2-Sequence (5), 3.-A famous Ben (5), 4.-Fitting for face (4), 5-An airman (5). 6-Bar (5). 10-The bare skip (4),

7.-Spiral (5).

11-Fastidious (4).

12. Any special food (4)..

BOAT RACE

The Oxford Boats

of Putney, who last March con- structed them a craft in record time a few days before the race.

13.-Discussion (4)," 15.-Juvenile servant (4). 16-Young hawk (4). 17-Pitcher (4).

18,-Hardy hërolne (4), 20.-Bird (5).

21-Record run in cricket (5) 22.-Crow (5).

24-Compass (5); ' 25.-Blown out (5).

27. Schoolboy's test' (4). 26. Measure (4).

The following is the soulf lon of Saturday's puzzle

Across-1. Tintack; 5, Alter; 8, Rebates; 9, Rural; 10, 8pa; 11, Spear; 13. Yearn; 14 Presenta- tions; 17; Alert; 19, Sneer; 22, Her; 28, Twice: 24 Inroads: 25, Rogue: 20. Greeted.

Down.-1, Tares: 2 Noble 3, Actor: 4 Kiss-in-the-Ring: 5. Array; 6; Tornado; 7, Relents; 12, Ass; 14 Plaster; 15, Evening: 16, Inn: 18 Theme; 18, 8pree; 20, Enact; 21, Rased.

TENNIS AMATEURS AND FILMS

Johannesburgh, Feb. 16.. The South African Lawn Tennis Association to-day unanimously decided to support the motion of the Czechoslavakian Lawn Tennis Association to allow amateurs to make action films.-

Great

Britain had previously approved of the motion, although the United States had been op

The first of the new boats, which was delivered at Healey on Jan 14, was designed to seat & grew of the average weight of 13st. 3lb., a postwar -- record weight for posed to it.

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