1941-03-21 — Page 9

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

WORLD OF SCIENCE

Work Done With Uranium 235 Most Exciting Last Year

FINANCE & GENERAL

Finance and Commerce

Free French War Effort

British Government To Supply Credits

There can be, little question that the work done with uranium 235 was the most exilling thing in science during 1940 states the New York Times. A tremendous noise was made by the splitting of uranium. In 1939 with the release of 200-million volts of energy -the achievement of Drs. O. H. Hahn. E. Strassman and Lisa Meitner. The more romantic popularisers of selence saw in their minds eyes coal and oil disappearing as fuels and the world's factory and house work done by throwing a little uranium 235 into LONDON, March 20 (Reuter)-

The British Government has for- water and thus generating steam. To refresh the memories of our charged it would change a protonmally agreed to provide credits for readers we might as well explain Into a neutron and a neutron into financing the Free French war that there are three forms of a proton. Moreover, It would have effort. uranium known as 334, 235 and mass about 180 times that of at. 238.

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This is one

of two agreements

AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY

CONFERENCE ·

U.S. Planes

For China

SHANGHAI. Mar: 20 teuter) — Forty American planes haye ar- The Agricultural and Forestry rived in China from the United

Conference opened in Chungking States, sccording to a Chinese

on March 12 was adjourned after Press report a seven-day session.

The numbers stand for the When the mesotron Was als-Government and General de tural colleges of the University at

It la reparted here that over, 300 Japanese troops were killed at Wuling in Hupeh Province when Japanese planes mistakenly bomb ed their an troops.

FOOD EXPORTS TO BE LICENSED

The consignment is stated-to De part or the 100 aircraft for which During the conference reports the Chinese Government asked the

were United States. on various fields of work rendered by the National Food In addition, the United States is Administration, the Foreign Trade reported to have agreed to sell China Just reached between the British Commission, the Production Pro four Flying Fortresses to

motion Commission, the agricul- and the ChingkingGovernment hopes to reorganise its air force atomic weights, (referred to hy-covered independently by Ander, Gaulle.

Califor-

Nanking, the National Central with American aid. drogen's which is one) of three son and Neddermeyer in

The second agreement deals University, and the National Che- kinds of uranium. When slownia, and by Street and Stevenson neutron strikes 235 there is an at Harvard, physicists saw in it with foreign exchange questions klang University and other or

between the British Empire andganisations, concerned, explosion. Two atoms about half Yukawa's carrier particle.

the Free French Empire. It re- as heavy as U-235 are the result. Problems arose. The mesotron

A three-year administrative pro- establishes the pre-armistice parity What The fragments of the explosion dies as soon as it is born.

ture and Forestry, and a have far more energy than the becomes of its energy? An amount between the pound and the trancect for the Ministry of Agricul original neutron, Water stops the must be disposed of comparable at 176.625,

gramme for agricultural extension Each colony can freely dispose and improvement were adopted. fragments. As a result, heat is with that of a single electron with

Half is of foreign exchange, the proceeds generated.

a hundred million voits. If every atom in a pound of supposed to go into an ordinary of exports and gold production. -235 were thus exploded steam electron and half into the my-under the control of the Council a particle re- of Defence of the French Empire: enough could be raised to drive a sterious neutrino.

will be in a position, 100-horsepower engine at full load quired in atomic bookkeeping to which

the surplus ex- for three years-on paper. At explain what becomes of energy necessary, to use least five pounds of U-235 are that cannot be accounted for change resources of one colony needed to conduct experiments on otherwise. Some work done by Dr. meet the deficit of another, a small engineering scale. A and Mrs. Montgomery of the Bar- for the Free French forces as minute quantity was isolated in tol Research Foundation suggests whole 1940, which may be a step in the that perhaps mesotrons die before right direction. ....

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Other important resolutions

LONDON, March 20 (Reuter- Passed included the holding of & national agricultural products ex- Frum April 3 practically all food- ibition, and an agricultural pro- stuffs will be subject to export ducts contest, promotion of agri-licensing control to all destina-

tiona cultural education, fixation of an estimated expenditure for the The chief exceptions will be promotion of agriculture and wines, spirits, pickles, sauces and forestry, the establishment of a chutneys.

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NO COLOURING MATTER

NO INJURIOUS INGREDIENTS

Australian Art For America:

U.S. May Reciprocate

An American art collection, might be sent to Australia under a reciprocal arrangement, said Professor Theodore Sixer, of Yale Uni- versity, when he arrived in Melbourne recently,

factory for the manufacture of New additions to the control VOLUNTEERS

farming implements, and a na-list are made in a Board of Trade PONDICHERRY: Mar. 20 (Reutional forestry station, promotion order yesterday.

Concessions under which, with The mesotron, discovered In On the other hand, there is no ter) The first batch of volunteers of animal husbandry and veteri- 1937, occupied the attention of doubt that the mesotron does ac-from French India left on Tuesday nary medicine and development of some exceptions, foodstuffs zub- Professor Sizer has come to Ans- | probably will leave Australia about

The physicists in 1940. This new par-tually exist.

first photo-night to join the Free French agricultural economy.(Central ject to export control may be ex-tralia to help select in the various April, It will be of about 80 to 100 heavier graphic evidence of that existence ticle is about

News),

licence to the States pieces for the Australian art water colours, paintings, bark, forces

Crown Colonies and protectorates collection to be exhibited through- paintings" and drawings, s than the electron and carries the; was obtained by Drs. E. J. Wiliams

provided that an import licence out Canada and the United same charge. It is important be-and G. E. Roberts of the University cause it sheds a little light on the College of Wales.

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tremendous forces that hold thei atom together.

MUCH AS ELECTRON

NEW ELEMENTS From Callfornia came the

news

that a whole new group of chemt cal elements heavier than $2, ur-

The nucleus of an atom is sup-anlum, has been discovered. It posed to be composed of neutrons was long supposed that there was and protona. These particles weigh hothing beyond 92 in the table of

as elements. about the same 1800 times

Theoretically, heavier much as the electron. Before the elements can exist. The Univer- mesotron was discovered it became sity of California announced evident that the force exerted by that it had produced elements 93. a neutron and a proton on each and 94. Thus two elements hea- other could be explained only if vier than uranium are added to the the two were constantly exchang-periodic table of elements. Ing places.

Element 93 theoretically "might

To provide the mechanism of be converted by self-destruction or exchange, the Japanese physicist, radioactive emission of a hellum Yukawa, created a hypothetical nucleus" (alpha particle) into ur- particle which acted as a carrier, anfum 235, a source of "atomic If this particle were positively [power.

H.K. & SHANGHAI HONG KONG STOCK

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HOTELS REPORT Enquiries continue an fairly

Subject to audit, the balance at broad scale.

credit of Profit and Loss Account at the December, 1940, including $335,947,20 brought forward from

the previous year, amounted to $665,810.20, which the Directors, at the forthcoming Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders to be held on Wednesday, the April 16, 1841, will recommend allocating as fol lows:-

A dividend of 25 cents per share, $298,166.75; Retiring allowance to Mr. J. H. Taggart, O.B.E, $50,000; Carry forward to 1941 Account, $317.343,45. Total, $665,810.20.

315 QUINTALS OF

WOOD OIL Szechwan wood oll sent abroad through Chungking last month reached a daily average of some 315 quintals as altogether 8.825 quintals were exported."

Although the total quantity is slightly less than the January ex- port (8,935 quintals), the dally average exceeds that of the pre- vlous month by 25 quintals.— (Central News).

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FRENCH HOPES OF AMERICAN AID

France's hopes of American aid to VICHY, March 20 (Reuter)

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The Government had a benvy

He has already been to Brisbane and is highly pleased with his selections there and with Au- stralian art generally, which, he zaid, was perhaps much more im- portant than was believed here,

AN ADVISER Professor Blzer Is the head of the terday. man battleships have crossed the faculty of art history at Yale Uni- other side of the Atlantic, are sug-versity, director of the gallery. a task and was specially concerned gesting that the Prime Minister member of the International Com-with the shortage of supplies and referred to the German battle-mittee on Art History, and an ad- įstocks.'"

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France was undergoing great difficulties and her life was threat ened with still more severe mea-.

working nors Professor Sizer wil return to sures but "we are America shortly, and the collection and producing more.”.

the meantime, technical The corporation has sent him to plans to convoy shipments of goods Australia and is financing the from the United States to Britam exhibition of the Australian collec. are already stated to be in Presi- tion in America. dent Roosevelt's hands - (Spe- ciál).

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