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SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1928,

OUR BERLIN LETTER, MAN-MADE LIGHTNING.

BERLIN AN INTERNATIONAL MOCK THUNDERSTORM IN A

CENTRE.

* Berlin, June 27.

ROOM,

Fierce ribbons of lightning were Tourist traffic has become aj made to order" at the National most important factor in the Physical Laboratory, Teddington economic life of all civillaed recently by the new. million-volt states. Realising this fact, the plant. Berlin High School of Commerce Nearly 2,000 scientists and edu- recently started a special course cationists invited to the annual on this subject. The moment is a visitation were received by Sir suitable one as the main tourist Ernest Rutherford und Sir Richard senson has just commenced and Glazebrook The demonstrations the students, besides attending the of the potentialities of the enorm lectures, have various opportuni-ous electrical plant was one of ties of studying the matter in the many wonders which the visi- practical way. They are taken to tors were shown. see the municipal institutions, the The Hghtning was made in the big hotels and department stores, recently constructed high voltage the leading newspaper concerns, building. Wherd equipment id e the muscums and the exhibitions. ing installed for the production of These are just the places chiefly very high voltages for the testing visited by strangers and foreign-of insulators and insulating ma ers, who are to be seen in the Ger-terial.

man metropolis 'in ever-increasin Snarka measuring 14ft. have numbers. Last month, no fewer been made with the million-volt than 150,000 stayed here; and it is plant, malaya computed that during the summer, 100,000 visitors will arrive from the United States alone..

Cinema, Sports and Politics.

The demonstration, under the direction of Dr. Rayner, was high- ly spectacular.

Thunderbolt

First the building was darken-

Perhaps the most internationaled and the visitors were shut off things at the present day are the behind a cordon. Then the cur- cinema, sports and politics. The rent was switched on and, 40ft. first is a typical representative of overhead, to the accompaniment of art, and plays the part of mediator.deafening roar, streams of blue between one country and another light became visible.

without needing any interpreter la The noise increased as a wavy make itself understand. The see-ribbon faintly made fts, appear Ond Is the representative of Innce, and then, with a crash like physical culture, that up-to-date a "thunderbolt," the ribbon of topic to which no much wise at-lightning leapt across the space tention has been paid since the overhead and disappeared with n war in almost all countries. The wailing soundi. third, though appealing less to the general public and often hall despised is a most essential means of promoting general progress and of adjusting international rela- tionships; in any case, it cannot be ignored, no matter what our wishes ray bo

Another interesting demonstra- |tion was shown in the aerody

namies department. It is called

The Whirling Art." |

This arm is a 60ft, steel "fromo which revolved in a circular build- in at the rate of 60ft. per second by a 20-h.p. motor.

Now all these three subjects

In the frame Is a model aero- have been represented recently by plane, and as the arm revolves the prominent foreign visitors In Ber movements of the neroplane arc lin. The cinema world sent here registered to determine its stabili Lilian Gish who came to negotiately. This experiment shows what' a contract with Germany's leading happens to the aeroplane when in theatre expert, Max Reinhardt;stalled flight.

and, as the Berliner in very fond To avoid danger visitors watch- of hearing news about his visitors, the great whirling arm through especially when they are out glass partitions In an adjoining standing foreigners, he was-chamber.

delighted by the newspaper

artlelea on this famous American film actress,

Another very interesting visitor and were made honorary members was Selim Sirry Bey, the father of the Association for the E of the modern sporting movement ploration of the Arctic Regions. in Turkey and the Chief Inspector These two explorera, who were of Turkish School Gymnasties; accompanied by 13 German air- he was lately seen here in Berlin craft' in their flight from Copen- studying the German methods of hagen to Berlin, are not likely to

forget the welcome as they des physical training.

cended into the Tempelhof Aero- drome, Berlin felt possibly that, in this way, it could best express ta thanks for the brilliant recep tion accorded to the "Bremen" armen in America, Twenty-Five Years "Telefunken."

Besides these representatives of art and physical culture, we have ad an opportunity of welcoming A rare interpreter of those most delicate and impalpable topics, mental culture and international politics.

Lecture on France.

The Telefunken Company re- cently celebrated its 25th anniver Professor Andre Siegfried of seems a very short space of time, sary, ́A "quarter" of `a 'century the Sorbonne lectured to a large and distinguished nudience in the has been made in radio matters and yet what'énormous' progtess High School for Polities. Professince the Telefunken was founded! Aor Siegfried, whose writings on Twenty-five years ago, wireless. America and the British Empire are so well-known, addressed his telegraphy was in its infancy; & henrere in Berlin on the origin of few weeks ago Berlin conversed orally with Buenos Ayres 10,000 the French political tendencies

kilometers why! (30 and the organic structure of the French state.

An International Centenary.

Berlin has also just seen the production of another technical marvel. Herr Fritz von "Opel this well-known owner of a big motor- International scientific co-opera-car factory, tested the other day tion was shown during the cen- his rocket-car on the racing road | Lánarý" "of the German Geo-between Berlin and Potsdam. ́An graphical Society. A large num-soon as the last of the fusces ber of savants and explorers burnt, the vast crowd' was al- gathered from all parts of the tonished to see the ear shoot world to attend the first interna-allently off at an initial speed of ilonal geographicat congress held 800 km. per hour. What will the since the War. Among the lec-noxt step be? May we expect the turers was Sir Douglas Mawson, rocket aeroplane? If so, will it the famous Australian explorer of rush through the stratosphere? the Antarctic regions!

Or are we to be content, for. the

Professor de in Ronciere of present, with postal rockets bo- Paris tendered the congratulations tween continent and continent? of the doyen of geographical no- cietjes; while Sir Maurice de An Up-to-Date Public Park. Bunson was present as the repre- The German metropolis ents un- sentative of Great Britain. The ceasingly into the forests and participation of these gentlemen fields with which it is surrounded. and of a goodly nûmber of Ameri- Its vast sea of bricks and mortar. can geographers as well as mem-asphalt and paving-stones threaten bers of almost every outstanding year by 'year to 'swallow up some geographical society in the world Tent unusual distinction to the centenary celebrations of the Ger- man society.

fresh beauty spot in its delightful environa of lake, river and wood- land. Consequently. the city fathers pursue the prudent policy At the ceremonial meeting, of reserving, hore, and thero a which was graced by the presence large natural ventilator through of représentatives of German off-which the millions of the city may cial bodies and of the diplomatic breathe the fresh air of the woode corps, various honours were con; and Helds. Ono auch ventilator, ferred; Sir Douglas Mawson and called the Jungfernheide, lles be Professor Supper of Wurzburg tween the manufacturing suburbs cach received the Society's gold of Spandau and Sienenstadt. This medal the former In recogni-public park, laid out on absolutely tien of his Antarctic explorations modern principles, provides oppor- and the latter for his labours in tunities for rowing and bathing: connexion with the volcanges of it possesses tennis courts, foot Central America.

ball felda and an open-air theatre; while, Plotzenseo, n lake in the Immediate neighbourhood, has a A similar honour was conferred fine strand which, with its thou upon Sir G. Willins, the Austra-sands of summer bathers, presents Han, and Mr. Elelson, the Norwe- quite the appearance of a minia- gian, who arrived in Berlin shortlyure watering-place. With the after the Geographic Conference. completion of this beautiful park In tommemoration of their won and strand, the such maligned derful North Pole flight, they were north end of Berlin has acquired awarded the thedal named after an altogether different complexion. Karl Ritte the German geographer, Günther Gericke,

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