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HOW HITLER WON IRON CROSS
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1937.
He Is The Ruler Of 200,000
GOLF
HOLDER TIES FOR
NAVY TITLE
Ulyat's Vital Missed Putt At 18th Hole
People.
AND HE WANTS LESSONS IN TENNIS
AND GOLF
H. H. AI-Sultan Abu Bakar Rayatu'd din al-Mu'ad'dam Shah, K.C.M.G.-Sültan of Pa- hang. Now in London for the Sub.-L. A. R. Moore, taking his Coronation. rose slowly from his first appearance in the event, and armchair, shook hands and bland- Rev. E S. Ulyat, holder and sevenly waved me to take a seat, writes times winner of the title, tied at a special correspondent. 158 in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Championship recently over 36 holes on the East and West courses of the Wentworth Club. They will replay for the title on a date to be arranged.
In the morning, on the more difficult West course, Moore had a score of 82, taking three putts on each of five greens, but he return- ed 14 on the East course. Ulyat took 77 for the East course and 79 on the West.
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Ulyat needed a 3 at the last hole to win the championship. He was on the green in two fine shots, and, only two yards away from the pin, but failed to hole the putt. Thoughout Ulyat's putting WG3 erratic. but he played splendidly in other departments, and only once bunkered during the two rounds.
Moore had a bad patch in the middle of his second round. After going well
over the ninth green with his second shot, he took three putts for a 6 and he had a 5 at the short 10th, where he took two to clear a bunker.
"
His alde de camp, Tengku Muhammad, quietly closed the door and for an hour we sat talk- Ing.
The Sultan is ruler of 200,000 people and 14.000 square miles of territory; for Pahang is the largest of the Federated Malay States. He is thirty-three, pleasant-and great sportsman.
&
He
He is imperturbable,, too. conducted this Interview, although unable to speak a word of English, with ease and dignity. Tengku Muhammad acted as interpreter. HE LIKES GOOD CLOTHES The Sultan has taken a suite of tooms in a West End hotel for himself and his staff.
He likes good European clothes. He had on a well-cut brown suit, brown shoes and a very neat line in fancy brown socka H's gold wrist watch was a very expensive
one:
I had heard something about a kris which is to be presented to the King by his Highness on behalf of the State.
"It is of pure gold," said Tengku Muhammad. Interpreting. "It is being worked upon by a native
Radioactivity's Second Life
NEW ELEMENTS FOR OLD
When Professor Ferm! lately re- vealed the existence of new radio- active elements more massive than uranium, it was as if an astrono- mer, had found new planets beyond Pluto. T then urarium had been the coping-stone of the Table of the Ninety-two Elements. with nothing beyond it.
workman and will arrive in a few days."
"And a gift for the queen?" I asked.
Tengzu Muhammad consulted the Sultan. "No, the kris is in- tended for both the King and the Queen," said he. "That is the cus- tom."
.
I asked what the Sultan's plans were. The alde-de-camp consulted him again.
HIS PRIVATE GOLF COURSE "His Highness will stay in Lon- don until the end of May. He will pay a visit to Scotland and will afterwards tour the continent...
"He intends to play tennis, polo and golf. He has himself a private polo grounds a private golf course and a very large stable. Polo la his favourite sports. He will try to improve his tennis and golf by taking lessons while he is here."
"All the Rulers of the Federated Malay States are presenting an address to the King.. The Sultan is the first of them to arrive in London.
"I thought that I would like to get a picture of the Sultan's life in Malays.
"FIL
**There are political matters, religious matters and customs," said Tengku Muhammad. Highness visits the whole State once a year. He travels by car and train-and by river and by sea.
"His palace is 200 miles from the capital."
away
GERMAN RACING CAR TRIUMPH
Tripoli, May 9.
German racing cars achieved a great triumph in the Grand Prix of Tripoll by gaining the first 8 radium's explosions. The atome places. Hermann Lang on a Mer- cedes-Benz won in the record
the Tripalis Rosemeyer Ernst von Delius third. Giuseppe
was
Farina on Alfa Romeo came in ninth.-
transmuted. "
The new alchemy found practi-speed on tioners all over the world, secking Bernd and Anding in the atom new mis- sile, for its destruction. Very shortly another branch of trans- mutation arose, for it was shown Transocean News Service. that hardly any element was a fixed immutable thing...
The Italian" physicists' expert- ments showed that even uranium It could hardly be said to pos-. could be made to give birth to ele-sess of freehold of its own, but ments lying beyond it. It is the had within itself. other elements, latest development of the science leaseholders, which were like it. of radioactivity which was estau-but were different in their atomic lished by Madame Curie's discovery structure. They were its isotropes. of radium, and to which, forty One element has as many as four- years after, her daughter, Madame teen. Curle Jollot, has given a new direction.
Still, the old radium theory 'heid the field. Elements and their 190- Forty years ago the foundations tropes could be prised apart. New of the elements seemed to be radioactive elements sprang from rocking. Madame Curle had dis- the old, but it was all in the closed one which was not un-course of nature. Then, three changing. but whose whole life years ago, the scene changed. was one of change. It would last thousands of years, but in the end its life would close, and radium, as radium, would cease to be, its life force all expended in giving out energy.
While Madame Curie Joliot and her husband were following up some experimental bombardments of boron and alumialum, they ob- served that after they had ceased fire the atoms bombarded con- tinued to shoot off some of their more elusive particles.
MADAME CURIE'S RESEARCH Other elements were shown to be like it, and when towards the "In the moment of the discovery end of her own life Madame Curie the new radioactivity was born. wrote the history of radioactivity The elements bombarded had been It had been shown that no ele-stirred to a foreign radioactivity. ment was invulnerable to change. That property was no longer an The dream of the alchemists that one element might be changed into another was true,
.even
exclusive natural propensity. It could be artificially implanted.
FORTY NEW ELEMENTS
The old idea of an unalterable The whole structure of fact and rate of decay went by the board; theory about the stom was built and soon all the world was again about her single discovery, but busy in improving on it. Every when she might have sort of missile at every rate of thought to write "Finis" to the velocity was hurled at the ele- The Germany army archives, re-volume of her lifework, the bulld-ments, and the last two years cently formally opened in Berlin, Ing was being scrapped, and its have been marked by the shifting contain the recommendation of parts employed to raise another of the attack from the lighter Lance-Corporal Adolf Hitler for edince. The strangest thing about elements to the heavier ones. the Iron Cross of the first class, this the newer radioactivity; is made by his commanding officer, that the architect should be As a result forty new elements Col. Von Godin, of the. 16th Madame Curie's own daughter.
have been brought to light. They Bavarian Infantry Regiment, and One of the canons of the older are all radioactive varieties of the dated 31st July, 1918.
taneous, radioactivity was that it was spon-original elements, iron, man-
unalterable by any ganese, bismuth, zinc, etc., from. agency that could be brought to which they are got out, though bear on it. Radium and the other that expression may give a wrong naturally elements like thorium, actinium, ortion of the new method is that radioactive Impression, because the founda- all engagements in which he has uranium, would decay in their own the neutron adds something to the
This is now published for the Arst time, and reads:
"Bince the regiment's departure for the front. Hitler has been with it and has behaved excellently in
taken part.
occurring
for
"Both in trench and in opening elements each with its own example, slowed down the neu-
itime, giving rise to further decay-element it aasafi. Fermi, warfare. he was exemplary, in coolness and pluck as a runner, could hasten or delay the schedule. uranium so that they should join prescribed time-table. Nothing trous with which he bombarded and was always ready to volunteer to convey messages in most dim-
up more effectively in a sort of cult situations under the greatest
peaceful penetration. New instru- ments are being devised, in some danger to ure.
way resembling lenses, to concen- trate the missiles
What was to be would be.
As enquiry was enlarged it be came evident that most of an the elements resembled the con- spicuously radioactive ones. in
"After the severing of all com- munications in difcu't engage- ments it was due to Hitler's inde-breaking down, but their clocks fatigable and self-sacrificing ac-
were set to unalterable time inter- tivities that important messages
vals :
were got through, despite all Madame Curie had lighted a candle, still burning, to show dark "Hitler received the Iron Cross places never before explored in the
obstacles,
The lives of the new elements. though real, are generally brief. The longest lived last only a few days, some, have a llre measured only in seconds, Use has been found for one 'of them as a radium
of the second class for bravery in atom. A new lae of enquiry substitute. But their real value is on opened when (Lord) Rutherford that of giving birth to a new idea Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the battle of Wytschath
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