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THE OUTLOOK IN THE NORTH.
we
ER
1939.
DAY BY DAY
AND
Chinese politics we have to take ac-je count of so many conflicting factors and diverse personalities that noth- ing can be taken for granted. The great task now lying im-
THE "HIGHEST CALLING mediately before the National Gov-ELECTION IS TO DO WITHOUT OFIUM; ernment is the big campaign which AND LIVE THROUGH ALL OUR PAIN is to be undertaken against the WITH CONSCIOUS. CLEAR-EYED EN-
DURANCE-George Eliot. "Reds." Very many provinces are in a state of lawlessness owing to the depredations of bandit gangs, but it must be remembered that the 'trouble-makers are not all pro
fessional bandits: a great many of them are soldiers who were not
The P. and O. 8.5. Macedonia, from Shanghai, is due here on Fri day at 6 am.
The Ben Line 8.8. Benmohr, from Home ports via. Singapore, is due here to-morrow.
The P. and O. s.s. Kashgar, from Hongkong, arrived at London on 2nd November at 11a.m.
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SIR LEONARD HILL, on
IRON MEN DOWN UNDER.
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HUNDRED feet deep in the] For every 33ft
a diver goes
sea, the light is like that of. a down in the sea, an extra atmas- moonlit night; 200ft. deep, phere that is, 15 of air pres like starlight; 300ft. deep divers sure has to be forced down to say it is too dark to see one's hands, him so as to balance the water Fish carrying their own laraps, pressure and ventilate his dress. little organs of luminescence, live At 100ft deep, then, the divor a mile or more deep, where the breathes air at four times the pressure of the water is equal to normal pressure and in time would na much. twenty or thirty thousand pound dissolve four times to the square inch. The circulation nitrogen in his body fluid and fat. of the blood goes on in the deli. At 200ft. seven times, at 300ft cate capillary network of their ten times, and so on.
The diver, if he works in com- gills, and all other functions of their The s.s: Rawalplad will arrive bodies proceed undisturbed under pressed air long enough, becomes at 4 o'clock to-morrow afternoon this enormous pressure, for it is surcharged with gas just like a and not at 10 a.m. as previously equally distributed.
battle of aoda water, and if he notified.
We live at the bottom of a sea comes up too quickly to the sur- the gas effervesces in his of air, and the air presses on every square inch of the surface of our blood just as soda water effor bodies with a weight of about 151b. The bubbles of gas set free in the . When a bottle is opened. But as this weight is equally dis-blood if sufficient, in amount may Ittributed through the fluids of the to body, it makes no difference to us heart with froth and so kill the top the circulation by filling the we feel nothing of it and can only liver; if too little it may cause tell when the barometer rises or mischief in the nervous system. falls by looking at it. Things Happen.
resulting in paralysis, or it pro- luces severe pains called "beads," But the pressure of the air must The remedy for "benda" is to put be equal on all parts, otherwise the diver in compressed air again nd make the bubbles of gas chings happen,
solution. shrink up and go into With mouth and nose shut and and then decompress him slowly. allowing time for the circulating
rounded up in the civil war. They are terrorising an extensive area covering many hundreds of square miles, so that the punitive expedí- tion which the Government contem- plates is in reality another big war, which may take many months to Obviously, bring to a conclusion.
An overturned fuhing junk ha Nanking will wish to feel sure of been reported to be in Lat. 22 the loyalty of Mukden before em-66 N and Long. 116" 34 by barking on this big venture. The the master of the ss. Anhui.
is considered to be dangerous moment calls for statesmanship;
navigation. and we can only hope that it will be displayed both by Marshal Chiang and General Chang.
Liberals and Labour.
The inconsistency to be detect-
The forthcoming wedding announced of Mr. Aubony Tayler Kay; of Messrs. Smith, Bell and Co. Ltd., Manila, to Mias Dorothy Florence Jeffs, of Muirhank, Ed miston Avenue, Prestwick.
ed in Liberal criticism of the Gov- tory Prayer by His Excellency goes down 60 feet or more, where lood to bring the excess of gas
over,
rom the tissues to the lungs and
Enclosing a frog in a chamber with glass windows I have watch-
To-day at 5 p.m. after a Dedica lungs full of air, the naked diver the pressure on his body is thrice that of the atmosphere, i.c, 45lb. then give it off quietly. to the square inch, but equally dis- tributed. He stays a minute or two to gather shell or sponge, then signals, and is pulled to the top by a Tope before the air in his lungs is used up.
Mgr. C. Constantini, Apostolje Delegate to China, the Foundation Stone of La Salle College will be laid by His Excellency the Go: ernor. Parents, Old Boy's Friends are cordially invited.
And
the bubbles form in the blood- vessels in the transparent web of is foot and seen them disappear on recompression.
Where
out B
Heavily weighted as he is, to of the British Navy went success- overcome the buoyancy of the air fully to a depth of 300ft. A depth in his dress, the diver, by adjust-jof even 400ft. may soon be reach- ing the amount of air in his dress, led by divers wearing the ordinary The November number of the makes himself light enough to diving dress, which allows eficient St. John's Review, just to hand.move easily about on the bottom work to be done. contains an interesting article or too much air would of course float the subject of the lui-tsai ikim up. China, by Prof. L. Forster, telling.
ernment's lack of zeal in tackling the unemployment problem and the Liberal refusal to subscribe to a vote of censure on that issue, In- dicates the wide margin of safety afforded Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's
Last week's health return shows
By deep breathing for a minute 193 Administration for
some time to
important submarine five cases of typhoid with three or two to wash carbonic acid out works are being carried come. Fiscal policy looms larger deaths. one being an imported of his body, and by filling his lungs special steel chamber is provided than unemployment these days and case; one fatal case of cerebro-with oxygen, a naked diver can stay for the recompression of divers
one death from down four or even five minutes. unforeseen developments spinal fever, unless
who become affected with "bends." The diver fitted with helmet and cause a crisis, the way to Liberal-influenza and one non-fatal case!
Rules for decompression have Yesterday's retumwater-tight dress and supplied with heen laid down by which all dan- Conservative collaboration is hope of diphtherin. lessly blocked. If we correctly in-save two further cases of typhold air by pipe and pump can go down ver is avoided. In the old days to, and stay long at, greater depths of ignorance the diver went down because the pressure of the water lowly and came up quickly. Just In foreign and Chinese circles terpret the signs, the industrial and one of diphtheria.
His many friends in tennis and outside is exactly balanced by that the wrong plan, and resulting ac- alike, the greatest interest is being storm. and with it the moral value manifested in the contemplated of the cry for Protection, will have other sports eireles will learn with of the air forced inside his dress: cidents limited work to shallow.
been weathered before Mr. Lloyd regret of the sudden illness which he is in a bath of air which is well depths. conference between Marshal Chiang
George ventures to encompass the has befallen Mr. C. A. I.. Rumjaho, ventilated and equally presses upon Kui-shek and General Chang Heuch defeat of a Free Trade government, the well-known tennis player. He all parts of him. The amount of Three Hundred Feet Down.
is now a patient at the Goverumentair in the dress is exactly controlled Recently the depths considered lang, for it is realised that the The recent cross-talk be reen the Civil Hospital, and may be prevent by inlet and outlet valves fitted to safe for diving have been almost the semi- the helmet which the diver adjusts. doubled. Last summer two divers future peace of China may very Prime Minister and the Liberal ed from competing in well depend on the result of the de- leader may be regarded as so much finals of the Mixed Doubles Chan.. liberations. Ever since the Man-eye-wash." It does not, at least, pionship of the Colony. churians stepped in and virtually alter Liberal opinion that the exist- brought an end to the recent civiling Government must be supported in office until the tariff storm blows war, Nanking has shown every dis
Of course, steel observation while Mr. MacDonald's ac-
chambers, with men inside position to display friendliness to ceptance of "get on or get out" as
wearing an oxygen breath- wards Mukden. It may therefore Labour's motto for the future, does of the work being done in Yan-Tricks on Novices.
Im apparatus and brea siég æt pressurs. he assumed that if the two leaders not mean that the Government will manfu, where private enterprise A trick played on a novice is to ordinary atmosphere meet and are unable to adjust their not hang on as long as possible in has started a home for slave girls.pump air down so as to distend his may be lowered to far greater As he depths-even a mile if suitable viewpoints, the fault will not lie at the belief that trade will improve The publication also contains an. dress and float him up.
"Armisticetide Supplement," anrises and the pressure of the ear could be devised. With the the door of the National Govern and the unemployment figures article on a Christian Monastery water becomes less, his dress be-eid of thick glass windows and an down. The attitude is not entirely for Buddhist Monks, at Shatin, and comes ballooned out and finally are ligh, the man inside might ment. Rather, however, do
a negative one, We are not at all an excellent half tone of the wed rigid with air, so that he cannot be able to observe and photograph entertain the hope that the con-sure that nothing big will happen on ding group of the Rev. L. N. Wat-end arm or leg and flouts helpless
(Continued on Page 7.) on the surface. ference will result in a consolida the Labour side before another ap-kins and Miss Hazel Somerville tion of the understanding between peal is made to the electorate. Mukden and Nanking and thus open Vigorous handling is essential if up the prospect of a considerable the Labour Party is to recover the period of freedom from internal heavy loss of prestige suffered dur-1
ing its eighteen months of strife.
office. It must be agreed on At the moment, the Manchurians
all hands that circumstances have every reason to be satisfied have been against them. The with the change in events which Government cannot be blamed has placed them in control of Pek- for the fact that the coming winter ing and Tientsin and also given will be the blackest from an unem- them considerable influence in ployment view in history, any more than they are responsible for Shantung. The Nanking leaders,
the technical rationalisation and so far as their official utterances
scientific education of industry show, are prepared to accept the which has changed the distribution position, but it seems that the of labour and the standard of life. Young General and his advisers The Premier indeed claims that it want representation in the Govern- is not the Government, on trial, but ment councils, and reports say that Capitalism. What is needed, he Marshal Chiang has decided to re- saya, is not protection for pro- perty but co-operative organisation commend the allotment of several for the protection of human life. posts at the forthcoming Plenaty The Labour Movement has social Session of the Kuomintang. These security for the working classes as concessions would appear to be its primary objective, but we cannot based on a desire to preserve peace, conceive a lasting belief in doles as and the probabilities are that the a means to this end. We note that positions offered will be those of several of the proposals listed in the Liberal booklet on employment are Vice-Ministers in various Depart
to be taken up by the Government ments, the type of post which was during the present session of Par- offered to the Kuominchun just liament, including a restoration of prior to the recent civil war. The the late Jesse Collings' "three acres comments on the situation by the and a cow" policy. The emergency North China Daily News, whilst requires something far more sub hopeful of the success of the con- ference, hint at the possibility that it may not be easy for the two Passengers' returning by the P. leaders.to reach a complete under- and O. liner Rawalpindi, due here to-morrow afternoon, include Mr. standing when it is remarked that and Mrs. H. F. Bonje, Col. and Mrs. unless the National Government L. G. Bird and 'Miss Bird, Mr. and comprehends the principles on which Mrs. W. H. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Blake, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. F. Chang Hsuch-liang proposes to Bellamy, Mr. and Mrs. S. Hamer, work in North China, its efforts to Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, Mrs. Hegarty, deals with the Communist menace Mrs. and Miss. Hodgson, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ling, Mrs. P. Lauder, must of necessity be restricted. Mr. R. A. C. North, Mrs. Eldon Kot- Strictly speaking, of course, there ter, Mrs. P. W. Ramsay, Mrs. F. Az should be no occasion for any doubt, Redmond, Mra, and Miss Stubbings, Mr. and Mrs. J. Tully, Mr. and Mrs. since Mukden has officially pledged G. E. Taylor, and Mrs. E. D. C. its allegiance to Nanking, but in Wolfe.
stantial.
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