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ALLEGED CRUELTY AT SEA.

BRITISH PROTESTS AGAINST U. S. DECISION,

FROM THE POLAR SEAS.

DISCOVERY, BRINGS HOME A STRANGE CARGO,

"PRICKLY. PETER."

HUSBAND'S APPEA

REFUSED.

A GENERAL AS FATHER IN-LAWS.

"This is only coercion. becz happen to have a father-in- who is a General," said an ap

The Foreign Office, the Daily BEYOND RANGE OF EAR. News says, is stated to be "very sur- prised" at the action of the New One of the most suggestive York grand jury in refusing to in- After cruising for two years in cant in the Vacation Court, i papers on experimental physics dict Captain Crowley for the Polar seas the famous Antarctic don, before Mr. Justice Mac that has appeared for some time is cruelties alleged to have been ship Discovery crept into

Fai- non. practised published in the current number of

on Licut. Frederick mouth Harbour yesterday morn- His Lordship had just m of darkness absolute 120 decrees in ma the Philosophical Magazine. The Thomas when acting as steward on ing under cover authors are Professor R. W. Wood board his ship.

(says the Daily Chronicle corres-monial suits, when the respond and. Mr. A. T. Loomis.

The short reports of the propondent.)

in the case of White (other The experimenters have dis this country certainly seem to leave Itary barque in which Scott made said his Lordship had given ceedings which have far reached The gallant three-master aux front of the solicitors table

Ellison) White appeared covered (writes a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian) that many things unexplained. Why his first Antarctic expedition In ultra-sounds have remarkable and

was not Lieut. Thomas himself 1901-4, and in which Shackleton

permission to intervene. unexpected properties. An ultra-summoned to attend? Was any later served as third officer, now air-haired young man, had

Mr. White, the respondent sound bears the same relation to hu effort made to get his case fairly lies at anchor of St. Marves. ordinary sound that ultra-violet presented? What steps are taken

the Judge at a previous hear light bears to ordinary violet light. to check the story told by the cap- She is loaded with many strange that he had come all the way f Just as ultra-violet rays have tain?

creatures from the depth of the South Africa to defend the shorter wave-length than the violet)

Even assuming that there is sub-Antarctic sens,

some of

them and had had no notice of w rays we see, ultra-sounds have a stance in his explanation, is it hold new. to zoology.

eventually took place. abandoning this unfortunate man. home by Commander Stenhouse,

Mr. T. J. O'Connor, M.P., t "we hear."

a

shorter wavelength than the sounds to be 悲 sufficient reason for The Discovery has been brought he appeared for the wife in

An ordinary sound can be math after the treatment he had received,who was associated with Shackl£}

in a hospital in

(as in a telephone) to vibrate, the Dutch East Indies? vibrations being communicated to

day,

case.

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right to see you in chambers

Mr. White (to the Judge)- It is stated that the evidence in

to frozen seas.

gave me permission to interve Since that time I have approac the surrounding air, which trans-possession of Sir Austen Chamber- This stout-timbered craft is the King's Proctor. He wants mits them as waves of sound. If lain confifets entirely with the find- moored within sight of that other evidence, but as that takes 15 d the vibrations are at the rate of ing of the jury. Presumably it sea aristocraft, the Swift, and the I will ask you to strike this. 40,000 per second, they will cause does, or the Foreign Office would beautiful Cutty Sark, now at her out for a time. You gave me audible sounds, but if the rate of scarcely have taken the strong line last anchorage. vibration is over 40,000 (some place it has. The case cannot be left the average "upper limit as low as] where it is, for the British Govern- 25,000 per second), the human ear ment can scarcely allow itself, with will be unable to hear the result- out protest, to be simply ruled out ing ultra-sounds.

of court by a New York grand To produce an ultra-sound a plate jury. has to be caused to vibrate with a Router's Washington representa frequency of over 40,000 per tives learns that the United States

This can be achieved very Department of Justice is request nently by exploiting an interestinging the United States District property of certain substance (in Attorney of New York to forward particular. quartz) consisting of all the details. of the case to Wash- odd-shaped crystals.

second.

ington, with the idea possibly of in com-stituting a second grand jury.

When these crystals are pressed electric charges develop on different parts, probably due to the uneven stress set up in the odd- shaped crystal structure; and, con- versely, when suitably electrically charged, they shrink or expand.

500,000 Vibrations a Sécond.

if the opposite sides of a plate of quartz are given positive and negative electric charge the plate will be distorted. If the charges are suddenly reversed to negative and positive, the plate will be dis- torted in the opposite direction. If the reversion is repeated rapidly, the plate is made to vibrate. The rate of vibration depends directly on the rapidity of the alternations in the electric charges.

than one-hundredth of an inch in diameter. If the end of the thread is held between finger and thumb,

Many changes have been made regard to the custody of my c in the ship ainee Scott's

access to my child.. cabins having been turned into

Mr. O'Connor-I have ev laboratories, and store-rooms for reason to think that the proc scientific apparatus used

to of your Lordship's Court is plumb the ocean's depths.

danger of being abused." Thi a case of nullity of marriag spirit many curious specimens of bigamy, and the suit was insti I was .shown, preserved in not dissolution on the ground crustacea lowest forms of animal life.

whale food, and the ed in November 1926. Respo ent has made repeated applicati during the course of the suit" leave to defend, and they have been refused.

There is the fantastically- shaped Antarctic crab of many Jegs, and something like a horse.

His Lardship (to respondent shoe with many prortuding points. You have not even intervened.

le has been affectionately named

Mr. White-I have been to "Prickly Peter," and prickly certainly looks a regular Jonah have been put in the defended 1 he King's Proctor. This case sho

the vibration causes a burn, due to for any whale. the minute but terrifically rapid

Many of the objects, said poundings of the glass on the skin.

:

In one case bright red spots similar Stanley Kemn. director of to blood-blisters developed, which search, we have been unable did not disappear for weeks, sug. Identify, and some of them gesting that blood-vessels deep in doubtedly are new to zoology. the skin had been disrupted.

Fish Quickly Killed.

I came from South Africa to Dr.fend it, but they never gave re-notice. This is only coerc to because I happen to have a fath un-in-law who is a General.

His Lordship made the dec absolute..

of

This study of the-swurms erustaces and other ocean life which attracts whales from one. A pine chip is burned and bored part to another is likely to afford

Her investigations on behalf and caused to emit sparks, as if it valuable evidence on the migrathe Falkland Islands Governm aro.controlled by a Colonial Of were in contact with a red-hot wire. tory habit of the herds.. If a glass plate it held against the

Committee, on which are Polygamous Whales. presented the British Museum, thread, a hole is bored through it, and minute particles of glass

Admiralty, the Royal Three cadets-British boys graphical Society, and the Min G powder and globules of fused glass Bentley. O'Conner, and Pearce, try of Agriculture and Fisher are flung aside.

These experiments suggest that boys, have returned so tall and told me, is to find out someth who will be envied by all other Our whole object, Dr. Ke quartz plate is connected to such a the ultra-sound waves may be used strong that their people will hard-about whales, the ultimate it

Now alternating electric charges can be produced by duftable electri- cal machinery with a frequency as high as 700,000 per second. If the

machine, it can be thrown into an

It WEN

intense state of vibration of frefor the production of concentrated ly know them. quency up to 500,000 per second; but exceedingly intense vibrations, at higher frequencies the quartz is possibly for surgical purposes. Cadet Captain John Bentley, Hlable to be shaken into fragments.

found that living who was but 15 when he sailed These vibrations cause "sound" organism having cells were killed was the youngest boy ever to sail waves in solids, liquids, and gases owing to disruption, the waves set to the Antarctic, in contact with the plate, but the ting up contrary forees in any body

being to prevent them being terminated.

Purely scientific, the work 1 one of the glamour and exc ment of previous Antarctic peditions. We have merely de

reaulting "sounds" are utterly be- which is substantially larger than Dr. Kemp laughed when the a good deal of hard work und yond the range of the human car. the wave-length. On the other question of polygamous whales very rough conditions.

Ultra-sound waves were used for hand, bacteria were unaffected, was raised.

Dr. Kemp referred to the wo

We now know, he said, that of the auxiliary research a

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the detection of submarines during their small size enabling them to the war. Beams of waves of fre-vibrate as a whole and thus escape herds of one sex often move from William Scoresby, now in a he quency about 40,000 were directed distorting forces.

one place to another, and it is, port, which had been mark through the water towards sub

Fish exposed to the waves are therefore, hardly likely that the whales by shooting them' marines, the hulls of which reflect quickly killed, a fact first discover- male would recognise only the ailver darts with identity diska ad the beam as an echo. The times ed during the war with the sub-wife of the past season,

The Discovery will reach t that the echo took to reach certain marine detector waves. Mice are The Discovery visited the depen-Thames on October 1, and 1 places enabled the position of the much less sensitive. Their death dencies of the Falklanda-South collection and data will be sift submarine to be calculated. appears to be due to a rise in in- Georgiu, South Orkneys, and in London.

The ultra-sound waves "can be ternal temperature caused by the South Shetlands. Her farthest Later she and the Willi transmitted through glass threads absorption of the waves in the body-point was 65' degrees south in the Scoresby leave again for a yard or more in length and less material.

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