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LONDON NEWS BY LETTER

NO INTEREST IN ELECTIONS

AMAZING APATHY

London, Sept. 20.

The amazing indifference of Londoners to the administration of their city in one of a thousand

THRILL FOR STAR-GAZER

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1934.

HUGE TELESCOPE TESTED

SUCCESS ASSURED BY EXPERIMENT

Corning, N.Y., Oct. 9. Convinced of the feasibility facts emphasised among the wealth of constructing cyclopean eyes vlew outor of Information in "London Statla-through which to tics, 1932-33, which is the thirty-planets of the universe, a group of seventh such volume published by insa scientists have completed the LC.C. Though London local plans to build a now mirror for authorities are responsible for the gigantic telescope to be placed on

disbursement of yearly

about a mountain top in California,

Pouring of the liquid glans into £65,000,000,000, the LCC. account- ing for about £39,000,000, the vot-n new heat-realating mold is being ing at the last four County Council done now. Proof of the prac elections shows that not 36 por ticability of the scheme was ob cent. of London's millions bothered tained from a "preview" of a 201-

go to the poll. The rapid inch glass mirror, which growth of London's traffic problem poured last March and allowed to is clearly shown.

buslost slowly cool in an annealing oven point is Hyde Park, where a count at the Corning Glass Works. The taken by the police on July 11 mirror was almost twice as large. last year showed that 81,857 as any now existing for telescopic vehicles' passed between 8 a.m. and use,

to

Ita

8 p.m. The corresponding figure

was

The proview. witnessed by

in 1904 was 29,286. Passenger scientists, showed definitely that traffle in Greater London

was a success and

has the experre," made of specially

reached the enormous figuro of the huge

had turned out perfect in quality.

3,890 million journeys (947 million prepared boro-silicate compound. rallway, 1,038 million tramway, and 1,905 million omnibus), equal to 472 journeys per year per head of population.

Omelala of the Corning Glass Works decided, however, to cast n new eye, because in the first pour- Ing metal

centres of Moveral ceramic cores in the immense mold became loose from the tremendous heat and floated to the surface.

Dour

BACK TO THE LAND

TO FARMS

cords parachute

were

ክክ

Ave

"The keeper at once went in, and

Sweeping the strests dry in Tokyo after a deluge which followed last month's disastrous typhoon

top of the landing ground near Leatherhead. When he landed on His hopes were.dashed, for where lions' cage we rushed to the spot he actually landed was in Chess- and saw the lions attempting to Ington Zoo, which adjoins his reach him through the top of the bara. It was not a pleasant sight, ⚫objective.

The lions had not been fed for but we could do nothing until the FRENCH-CANADIAN the morning, and immediately keeper, Hana Brick, arrived

Mr. Turner landed on their cage the scene.

"It was fortunate for the man on FIRST WASH IN YEARS.

DEPRESSION CURE they jumped upwards and endea-

voured to grab him through the top that the keeper was near; ns bare.

Visitors in the Zoo were ja matter of fact it was his day off, Tower Bridge has had a wash

WOMEN URGED

powerless to help, as Mr. Turner and he was dressing to go to Lon-' this week the first in her forty

Although the metal cores were affect the years of active service. During

tould not be reached, and ho don for the day. Another the past few months workmen hava removed, and did not

could not get to a place of safety minutes and ho, would have been even on his way. No one else would been busy with brush and wat, quality of the mirror, according

M. Camillen Houdo, the French-without exposing himself

dara enter the cage. Some lines on her face, too, have to the preview, it was decided to

more to the lions. a new reflector because of

Canadian Mayor of Montreal, has

HIR evolved a five-year plan for the been repointed, giving her a tolle! at a price of £3,000. This is not the extensive grinding which an "all in" tollet, however, ani would be necessary to provide in-social and economic reconstruction of the Dominion. The plan in- does not include her steelwork, dentation needed to hold 'the

cludes a back-to-the-land move. scale, which is painted every seven years, mirror in place of the telescope. form the indentations

ment

national A her More fortunate, though, is

Dominion-wide adoption of Old. lifting machinery. The boilers

Age Pensions, a tax of 5 per cent. are overhauled every six months.

all incomes over $1,200, to the and the pumping machinery every

create a fund from which two weeks. She does not have a

Government would pay 50 per cent. holiday on these days, though,

of labour costs to property owners because abe has a duplicate of all

rebullding or repairing their hold. machinery necessary for raising

the elimination of ings. hor 2,000-ton arms, Her six 141.

workers, and their replacement hy draw bolts (invisible fingers which

men, a Federal minimum wage and hold her arms stendy for traffle)

maximum hour legislation, and however, are greased and refresh-

curb on the "Onancial buceancers" ed with tallow at 2 .. ench

by a law which would make direc- morning.

tors in each corporation civilly and criminally responsible for the acts of the company.

ANTI-SUICIDE PITS.

Under-

Twelve

London's of ground Rallway Stations are now fitted with "anti-suicide" plts, and by early next year it is hoped that of the Bakertoo. every atation

Plecadilly, and Morden Edgware lines will be similarly equipped. The Central London line was Atted with a smaller trough, designed for a particular type of rolling stock, some years ago. The construction-of-these- pits between the rails is an attempt to deter people from committing suicide by hurling themselves In front of the trains. The pits run the entire length of the platforms, and are 18 inches deep and two to three feet wide. A man falling on a track, if he is not hit by the train before he reaches the ralis, should be able to lie in safety beneath the wheels without danger of being crushed or electrocuted. An additional advantage of these new pits is that in case of aut ac- cident or deliberate fall, the body can quickly be removed without serious delay.

POLICE WIRELESS. Scotland Yard a to have a new

The corea

H. Anderson, Swedish policeman, re- cently set a new world mark for the

discus throw, 5242 metres,

during the cooling process, which takes almost a year.

The new cores, or pylons, are so constructed as to prevent their loosening and thus,produce a per- fect mirror without grinding the required indentations, he said, Cooling

of the first disc was hastened and temperatures of the molten glass reduced from 1,800 degrees fahrenheit to 120 degrees tu permit the preview,

What we saw within the an- broadenst station, and every police neater is proof that now not only car is to be equipped with wire a 200-inch telescopic mirror is less. The site of the station 18 nasured but that even larger oues one of the highest points may be made successful from the London, on the top of Denmarklow expansion bore-silicate glass," Hill. It has not yet been an-one expert said.-United Press. nounced when work on the new transmitters is to begla. Whon

to transmit

"

the wirelons scheme is put into street level. There will be

flect the "Yard" will have at least 500 radio-equipped cars control tower at the entrance from which all parking arrange- more than double the presentments will be directed. A motor- number and it will probably not at entering will be told to follow be long before all these are able coloured light. As he goes down as well as receive the spiral shafts this light will messages. Experiments with the guide him to his place. It will

iropiane have proved highly sue-guide him out again when ressful. A police observer has returns for his car. In emergency been able to transmit messages 600 cars could be cleared in leas from the air direct to patrol cars,than half an hour. und it is likely that Scotland Yard will have its own air arm in the

near future.

UNDERGROUND PARKING.

A HANSOM PASSES.

he

Those who chanced to be going down Knightsbridge one night Inst. week saw an accident whose like

motor-ear

It is understood that plans are may never be seen again in this practically complete for a vast country a hansom-cab overturned underground car park and garage at the corner of Wilton. Place beneath Leicester-aquare. Ac-after collision with a commodation is to be provided for which was overtaking it. It look between six and seven hundred od as though the cab will never ars. The scheme will cost £150,-again be driven on the streets of 000. The plans have been ap London, and thereby reducing to proved by officials of the LC.C. three the number of cabs which and the Westminster City Council. appear at theatre-closing time in Only technical difficulties regard- the West End. There is soldom ing the acquisition of land for the an evening in which the drivers entrances and exits are holding up of these cabs do not pick the scheme. It is proposed to use several fares. Mostly they are the whole of the space under young people, who drive in them Leicester-square as well. as areas for novelty. On fine

up

summor,

In Pantos Street and Green Street, evenings they are snapped up very The total area will be one and a quickly after the theatres, but at third acres. The car park will be two or three o'clock in the morn- In two tiers. The bottom tier willing they come back to Piccadilly nearly 40ft. underground. Circus and stand in Isolated

be

There will be two high-speed lifts corners. In the winter they often for conveying motorists to the do not come out at all.

on

оп

women

·would says he Mayor Houde convince the women that the only themselves and their home for children lies on the farm, and his settlement

plan suggests that groups of 100 people suclologically alike would he taken from

the

Bame parish or ward (speaking of Quebec) and sent to a colonisation district. The men would go first, build the houses, and have 10 to 15 per- cent of the land cleared before being joined by their familles. Grants of $500 a year would be made to each family, the cost to be shared equally by the Dominion, the province, and the municipality.

SURPRISE FOR PARACHUTIST

LANDS ON LION'S CAGE

A sign of the times. Youthful football enthusiasts cautioned

against street play.

difficult to remove, and in foar lest kept the lions at a distance while the the parachutist freed himself and he should stumble nearer lions he remained perfectly still climbed down. at the highest point of the cage, where the bars were too close to gether to allow the clutching paws to penetrate.

the

"Not for a minute did the lions cease their roaring. They were probably frightened at first when the man dropped on their cage, A London parachutist had a nar-

TRAINER ENTERS CAGE. row escape from serious injury

and then they were as angry A8 Eventually Hans Brick,

have ever seen Ilons. They were recently. He jumped from an aeroplane over Surrey, landed on lions' trainer, entered the cage heard all over the countryside."

Another eye-witness said: "It top of a lions' cage, and within a and kept the beasts in a far cor few seconds a Hon and lioness nor while Mr. Turner disentangled

as he himself from his parachute and must have been a terrifying ex-1 were jumping up at him

by means of a ladder.

lions were leaping high into the sprawled across the bara above climbed down the side of the cage perience for the parachutist: The them.

A member of the Zoo staff air and dashing their paws against The parachutist was Mr. Bea H. Turner, of Clarence Avenue, said: "Several of us thought the the top of the eage. Two women New Malden, and he was hoping parachutist was missing the field could not stand the sight, and to be the first person to land by and was coming over the Zoo, and were led away to another part of

closely, the grounds." new sirways' we were watching him parachute in the

At a recent meeting of tht ex-champions in England: th sso grey-haired gantlamen competed for the title. 1

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