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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1933.

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Why do shirts burst? Why do An expedition under the auspices white cloths come back from the of the British Museum has left laundry yellow? Why did your London in an effort to trace a umbrella break out in white spots? lost civilisation which is believed The problem of what happens to have existed for name hundreds to the things you buy, orce you of years in Northern Irak begin to use them, is interesting 4,000 years ago. science now for the first time. In a unique laboratory perched on the roof of a famous West End store these are Lome of the activi- ties of scientists at the moment:

Burating bits of shirt. Shrinking socks in the wash. Making gravy stains glow phos- phorescent blue.

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The expedition will be the direction of Mr. M. E. Mal- lowan, who asslated Dr. Campbell Thompson in last year's excava- tions at Nineveh. Mr. Maljowan's wife, Mins Agatha Christie, the novelist, is accompanying the ex- pedition.

Sir Edgar Bonham-Cartor, Chair- man of the Executive Committee Seeing what "sunlight" can do of the British Sschool of Archwo to "colour-fast" fabrics on a foggylogy in Irak, stated to a Press re- afternoon.

presentative that the expeditios "However good a store may be," is to excavate a prehistoric site at the head of the laboratory told Arpachiyah, near Nineveh, where a Press representative "it gets it is hoped to find evidence of a complaints occasionally about the lost civilisation which existed be one article in 10,000 that did not fore the rise of Ur. live up to its name. Formerly the Dr. Campbell Thompson's work salcaman's only reply to the in- last year revealed relies of a pro- dignant purchaser would be, I historic people who were skilled don't understand how it happened.' in the making of decorative pat- Now we and one or two other tery. Similar pottery had been stores that are starting labora- found among the mounds near tories can ask for the article back Instead, and scientifically discover whether the article really had a flaw. Look at this, for instance." He produced a pair of socks marked "Unshrinkable." One would fit a boy of ton, the other would be too small for a newly- born child. "I shrank that amall one myself, just by washing It in soap and hot water. Obviously, the socks had no right to be sold ns unshrinkable at all."

Arpachlyah.

UPSIDE-DOWN, FLYING

ITALIAN AVIATOR BEATS RECORD

Rome, Jan. 15. Sunday morning golfers on the Rome Inks were to-day nstonished to see an Italian avia Sonking the Waterproof

tor persistently careering around overhead flying upside down. Strange Instruments lay around Peasants enjoying their Sunday the laboratory. One, he explain- festivities in the taverna adjacent ed, was for dropping 20 drops a to the golf course also noticed minute on the same spot on a piece the phenomenon-some of them, no little per- of waterproof cloth. "If the third it is said, with drop soaks through, the cloth turbation. They were relieved to would be useless. But if it stayed learn later in the day, however, dry till the fourth or fifth drop, it that what they saw was in ac would be satisfactory. Actually, cordance with facts. one famous brand will stand 70." Nearby stood the rack on which hundreds of pieces of cloth torn to ribbons, while a dial marks the pressure at which they split. "We have found," the scientist ex-

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Frenchman. Captain Colacicchi flew up-side-down for 42% minutes the previous

--almost double French record.

it splits on this machine at a much burn all the wool, or all the cotton higher figure."

away, to see what stays behind.

But the mercury are lamp la

"We Furst bits of shirts and so

on, too." He clamped a patch of even more useful, for it does two cloth over an orifice, then pumped things at once-blazca all day at 2,500 candle-power on "fast-co- thick glycerine up through the orifice. The cloth swelled up liko loured" cloths to see whether sun- balloon, and suddenly burst, light fades them after all, and turns invisible animal stains a! Jadfeating the fatal pressure on a

the phosphorescent blue with gauge. "Anything that bursts at

ultra-violet rays it ends through under 10lb. per square inch ia uncicas."

a screen. The microscope show what These rays, and the appropriate different cloths are really made of, chemicals, help to explain who and sometimes, by adding the ap-made the mysterious blotches and

clothes propriate acid, the investigators spots that

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