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"CITY LIGHTS."

TRIUMPH FOR CHARLIE

CHAPLIN.

Films worthy of recommendn tlon usually drop into one of three entegories those which simply must be seen, those which are worthy of a visit and those which are above the average. The least said about the remainder the better, an a rule.

Or

CLOSING STAGES OF

MUKDER TRIAL.

(Continued from Page 1.)

evidence was unworthy of accep tance.

Mr. Jenkin said he would show there was such a degree of doubt in the Crown evidence that the jury could not, be fully satisfied that the crime had been brought home to prisoner.

No Mative,

Inability to visit the premises

Crown

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1931.

THE LOST CITY OF

AJJUL.

SIR FLINDERS PETRIE'S DISCOVERIES.

NEW EXPERIMENT.

BRINGING DEAD LANGUAGE TO LIFE.

A dead language came to life re- cently in a lighted room before the Students of Egyptian archaeology Greek class at the University of were kept deeply interested for an Pittsburgh, when Prof. 11. S hour and a half when Sir Flinders Scribner, head of the Greek De Petrie, the eminent Egyptologist,partment, spoke the famous Greek gave a lecture on "The City of the word "Eureka" into a new device Shepherd Kings," at University Cul-

the Westinghouse Re- developed in lege, London,

search Laboratories.

The lecture was a summarised description of the work already done by Sir Flinders and the students of the British School of Archaeology in their efforts to explore the lost city of Ajjui, Palestine, and was II- lustrated by slides.

As the word "Eureka" entered the device, eurious lines very much like an animated movie wriggled from left to right across a screen about the size of a large plate.

"City Lights," Charlie Chaplin's latest effort, the result of his resistance to the development of)

The absence of motive-and the talking-pleture, most assured there was, admittedly, none in the the strongest ly comes into the first category present ense-was

has been said that only Chaplin presumption of " matt's inno-

These lines showed the "high" and "low" spots of the professor's could make a silent film to-day cence, and when it was remember

voice. They made it possible for and make the audience like iled that prisoner went all his It might be said with more truth ordinary business after the affair,

"The excavations we have carried observers to distinguish the "pure" that Chaplin's artistry triumphs until enally arrested, that conduct out in South Palestine so far," said from the compound notes or tones which are heard by the human car. different sense: he and the absence of motive should Sir Flinders, "have now brought us in quite a

kellent enrry the day,

Words of doesn't make une

to the actual site of Ajjul, the home

other languages-in- icture: he holds the attention

of the Hykros, or Shepherd Kings.cluding French, German, Spanish, completely that one doesn't realise

L Bet For themselves whether It is twenty times larger than Troy, and English-were spoken into the care exactly what type of

with witnesses could.

and lies on the anelent international device, and other curious Hines the screen. For picture is being shown.

various shades of lighting, rond between Palestine und Egypt. wriggled across The film starts with a delightful actually see what they claimed. I was strongly fortified originally, the first time a "moving talkie" of voice was shown in a burlesque on the "alkien

and was erbarrassing to the defence, and with its ramparts and defences a human

lighted room before a large number As it was a proceeds rapidly from incident (?) but he did not lay the blame at entered a wide area.

anti- inevitable incident, the

any particular plage. tu deating key city in those days, its harbours of persons. This device makes in just climax coming

at the with the stories of eye-witnessPA, must have played an important part "moving talkies" of all sounds, as un well as those of the human voice. right moment, until the eminent; counsel snid confusion was

between Asia

When a stone is dropped in a pond, Jy suitable ending. There are solutely rife. How could they

this device enables one to see the touches of nathos. but 14-

That

"sound waves" which the splash lesque rules the roost, and the pick out certain parts of

erentes just as the rye sees the net result is Charlie at his best. invidence and say those parts raust They could certainly be true?

water waves. it enables engineers the boxing ring, he keeps one hold-

to examine the high and low in one's sides, and his activities at. in fact, rouviet a person on a

capital urge, on evidence ad a city scavenger must be seen that kind.

levels of various sounds, and thus, u be appreciatedi.

take their first major step in re-

tremendonk theving the

strai Cherri, Virginla

which city noises are said to im- Chaplin's discoveries, plays apposite

human pose • UDOR him most charmingly as the bind

system. girl. The supporting little of a show,

one

Patt

of

get

An extremely interesting Patte lone Weekly introduces this fenture lilm.

MUKDEN TROOPS

MOVING.

BATCH FOR PEKING

AND TIENTSIN. -

such

Nanking, Anne 29. While General Chang lianx is understood to be intending lo move Sonic

his 1roops from Manchuria

Impossibilities.

ab-

It was all very well to say that, in the main, they agreed in their

ovidence.

things they had what sworn to were impossible. was the gund of saying the wit- nesses must be believer becaúsu of something which they agreed un in the main?

The jury would have to hesitate a great deal before accepting that

de

Mr. Jenkin asked the jury to ignore the evidence of the young Joy, It had been very distaste ful to crossexamine one so young. but he had shown by his replies both to him, and to prosecuting counsel, that his evidence could nat be relied upon.

Overworked Doctor?

Referring to the medical to Peking and Tientsin, with the aim of preserving peace in Chibli, evidence, counsel said he wished Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is to make it quite clear that any apprehensive over the possibility thing he had to say concerning of a Communist outbreak in Nauk-Dr. Utley was not intended ing and has summoned Generalbe personal.

He had to review Ku Chu-tung (the officer rom his evidence, and he unhesitating- ab- manding the Second Nationalist ly said that the doctor had Divison) to act concurrently assolutely failed to established any- commander of the Garrison troops. | thing.

the

jury,

the

wern

It may have been through aver A Peking message states that General Chang Isuch-liang has work that he had not been able

sued a statement setting forth to give proper attention to

YEANDER for movins four use, but, he submitted, that was Manchurian regiments to Peking nothing to do with the Court. The them nothing undi Tientsin. He rges the doctor had told people not to belive in the rumours which warranted a moment's re

spect. They, as a now in circulation of an imminent entitled to the best possible data, and should have such data before them before they could be satis- Both Generals Chiang Kwanged on such a serious matter as

Ting-kai nai and Tai

of the they were now considering. Nineteenth Route Army kuve resigned. The latter has arrived at Kinklang and is expected at Shanghai nou, -Krusha,

revolt

North China.

certain troups in

LIBERALS AND THE GOVERNMENT.

COMMON ACTION FOR COMMON PURPOSES,

Ju the trade Africa.

"Our discoveries clearly contro- vert the popular notion that the Shepherd Kings were merely wan dering nomads living in their tents. There is evidence of centuries of settlement with brick fortresses, barbourage, and

systent weights and measures that shows estilished commerce with Egypt and other countries.

of

the

tervous

It is entirely possible to dove- tail the high and low spots of many THER to paluce, 05 approach, For instance, two tuning forks with equal wave lengths or Bure set in motion. frequencies While each produces a note which is heard by the human ear, yet both together, under certain conditions, produce a silent' note which is not heard by the human ear.

A Secret Tunnel. "Ajjul was abandoned about 2000 B.C., probably owing to malaria. Asilence. new settlement was then made at Gaza, five miles to the north. The rity gate af Ajjul stood

at the rising ¦ north-east

cobbled rond. Holew this was the order gate, with a complex of walls and trenches, overlooking a wide fosse 150 feet from edge to edge."

cortar over a

Test Purposes. Professor Scribner is using this apparatus for test purposes at the University of Pittsburgh.

Sir Flinders described the finding of a secret tunnel, extending to a distance of 600 feet, under the plain. The inner end of the tunnel, which hund evidently been an avetina The application of this device In Prof. of escape from the town, was com- schools and colleges, sald pletely washed away. One infer-Seriliner, "is not limited to reviv ence to be drawn from this was thating and showing students the cor

pronunciation of dead the city itself had also beun washed rect away. Recent digging operations languages sule as Greek, Latin, or

Sanskrit In this tunnel had been necessarily lows progress, in fact, was only about six or seven feet a day.

At another point of their excava tions they went down through threo storeys of buildings and found rooms full of debris. The walls. 8 ft. high, and the doorways aro still intact, and it was possible to walk through them as at Pompeii. Altogether, eighty of these cham- hers were excavated.

"It is expected to be helpful in teaching the correct pronunciation of English, French, Spanish, and Italian, With a photograph of a correctly pronounced word before him, the beginner is able to see just how far and in what way his pro- nunciation is wrong. Students should be able to learn to speak a language in nearly half the time if they can see their mistakes and correct them accordingly." A Lost Ornament.

The apparatus consists essential- "Among the ornaments Awly of an ordinary microphone such radio broadcasting, the replice of a bird in graduated the new cathode ray oscilloscope de- found," added Sir Flinders, "wasas, is used in gold work, with spread wingsanveloped by Mr. Osbon, and some latt- Fornanurat which had evidently boen

teries. The whole sel-up can be packed in two large suitenses, lost by some Indy of 2000 B.C. in the broad street of Ajjul. We also The question might be raised 45 | found a Hyksos spoon, the only une to why Dr. Uttley, as the only of its kind stil in existence. medient man to give evitle:sve, " all the tombs we have visited should not have his evidence we found human beings, horses, and phonograph taken

being 'indisputable. asses buried together. ;4 The reason no other medical nun. "Among the skeletons of horses Bad been called was that he would were those of the type known as not be able to forfn my opinion | the 'great horse,' which was special- from Dr. Uttley's data and notes.ly imported by the Hykson for rid-

Mr. Sumeraet Filzroy: That is ing. admitted.

his

Possible Confusion.

When he was asked for Sir Herbert Samuel speaking at Darwen, Lancashire, on a recent notes, continued Mr. Jenkin, he Saturday, denied rumours that he merely relied on his recollection. was leaving the Liberal parts to which, in such a case, was most When a man was an dangerous. take a Cabinet post. "There has never been any such intention in likely that his memory

as Dr. Uttley, it was quit: would my mind," he declared.

become dim. and there was the Discussing the Liberal policy of danger, unless he had the fullest co-operation with the Government,

notes, that he would confuse it

Sir Herbert said the Government with other cases. It was caren- had done nothing to make co-opera- tin that he took the fullest not tion impossible. Over a large field;

possible.

It was not pleasant having to

of politics the two progressivo parties had common purposes. They criticise a brother profesional were free to purave those purposes man, but he would remind them by common action.

¡ist countries on the Continent. Becoming ever more imminent was

the issue of the House of Lords,

lungs

These horses had been buried most carefully. Also in the torabs were stane jars for the dead, bronze daggers, a rapier, and a qunatity of flat-bottomed pottery of a shape en- tirely non-Egyptian.

"There is still work for the next

fifty years at Ajjul, but financial support is urgently required."

LOOPING THE LOOP AT 1,000 FT.

LOW FLYING CASES DISMISSED,

The heart of this new instrument is the cathode ray tube of the oscilloscope. It resembles a funnel about the size of an old fashioned

horn-speaker. The larke end of the tube, about the size of a dinner plate, fills a round open- ing on the front panel of the case. This is the screen upon which the moving talkies strut their stuff.

In the neck of the funnel is nn "electron gun" that shoots a narrow beam of electrons toward the large ead, or screen. These electrons strike the inside surface with a very high velocity due to the in- Hluence of high voltage impressed on a coating of silver on the inside

surface of the tapered part of the

tube. The bombardment of any small spot on the inside surface by 1 Harrow high speed beam of electrons causes the spot to glow on the outside with a bright green light.

The bright apot is caused to move about on the screen by de- flpeting the beam of electrons as it emerges from the "muzzle of the kun.' This is done by placing two pairs of magnetic colls at right angles on the neck of the tube near the "muzzle".

Magnetic Field.

The

Described in court as one of that when he asked the doctor Britain's most famous acrobatic In the forefront of politics was เร organ WIN not congested, airmen, Kenneth George Murray, the strenuous effort that was being whether it was regarded as nor of Brooklands nervárome, Byllect, made to establish a general tariff mal, he replied "Yes," and that and Grussenor-terengs. Edinburgi, and so to bring this country on to when he further questioned, him

him was

semmoned at Woking for the same footing at the Protection he said that when an organ was acrobatic flying over the populous flows

Through one pair of these coils a current generated by a special vacuum tube, oscillator mal he citer put a tick against district of Byfleet and also for or left it blank. He then gave flying at such a low altitude an to

-oscilloscope case. of the "In these circumstances the evidence that he found the heart, cause unnecessary danger to per located in the lower compartment

property. policy of co-operation has been and brain congested, yet sons and

Mr. A. D. Dodaon (charman of magnetic field produced by this cur- showed his notes to the he approved by the Liberal Shadow Court, they found that against the Byfleet Parish Council) said that rent causes the bright spot to move back and forth across the screen. Cabinet, endorsed by the opinion heart, he had put a tick, and Murray looped the loop over his of Lord Grey, approved at meet-ngainst the brain WAS a blank. house at a height of between 500 The motion from left to right is

linear-that ings of the Liberal Parliamentary He put it to them that it was im- fect and 1,000 feet. Party and of the Liberal-Gandiasible to recept such evidence. Mr. F. Bowls (defending) sub- velocity-and the return from right mitted that Murray approached to left is at about fifty times the

forward velocity. the aerodrome In a proper way

This whole cycle, in a typical and at right angles to the direc Government was condemned by tion of the wind. Murray was a case, lasts only one-thirtieth of a airman and had been second and is repeated time after lust, 150 sents.

that the path of the bright the electors at the polls. They famous

thno We are not dis-chosen to represent Britain at an posed to connive at their return." International Air Exhibition in spot appears as a bright, atraight, horizontal line across the face of Germany.

tube: the cathode ray

Now, if alternating current re-

dates' Association, and has been supported at the recont confer.. ence of the National Liberal Federation by a majority of per- hops 30 to 1.

"We can co-operate and yet be Independent. Our right is un- trammelled to propose any change

be to place ourselves

The case is proceeding.

nt

constant

in Government Bills or if need The Liberal Party would not be Mr. Murray said that everything in oppoel-deterred from its course by Jeers he did in this case was quite safe tion.

or taunts in the House of Com-

the microphong Aent through the aerodromo, "We understand quite clearly mons or by accusations and the in- to ensure a good landing at the eulting from a voice wave striking what was the mandato conferred sinuations of secret bargains.

view, and These would not influence them this vr expert evidence supported second pair of colle, the magnotic the magistrates, field produced by it will cause the upon us by the 5,000,000 voters who supported us at the Inat in the slightest degree, for they holding that there was no unnees straight line to bend Itself into the

olection, and we are resolved to knew that the insinuations rested sary dangor, dismissed both sum-exact shape of the Alternating current. full The late Conservative on no foundation.

Other

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Miss Isabel Pestonji.

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10.30 pm. Close Down.

WATER LEVELS.

DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH

AND EAST RIVERS.

The following table, issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission, shows in English feet the water levels on the West River, North River and East River on the dates named:

Juno June 21 28 West River at Shlubing 27.0 80.6 North River at Samshui 18.0 North River et Tsingyuen 10.0 20.0 East River at Sheklung 11.4

The highest levels recorded are: -Shlubing, 41 feet; Tsingyuen, 29.2

Samahul, 27.8 feet; Shicklung, 11.5 feet.

feet;

The lowest levels on record are minus 5 foot at Samehul and minus 2.7 feet at Sheklung.

Thus, the shape of any alternat- ing ourront or voltage can easily bo studied by connecting the current or voltage to tho, proper terminals of the oscilloscope panel.

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