1935-04-22 — Page 3

MAKING RAIN FOR SAHARA

FRENCH INVENTOR'S AMAZING CLAIM.

PRINCIPLES EXPLAINED

Paris.

Visitors to the Paris. Exposition

THE... · HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1935.

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CAPT. GEORGE MATHEWS RETIRES TO ENGLAND

Leung Kung, unemployed, was sentenced to six months' hard; labour by Mr. W. Seliofeld, at the i

Tre left by the 8.4. Corfu on Central Magistency on Saturday, Saturday, a popular personality in on a charge of having enatched n the person of Captain George F. bandbag, valued at. $5 and con- Matthews, who has retired after a strenuous career on, the taining $18, from the person of long and Yuen Sau-chan, married woman, China Const.: at Queen's Road West, near the He first went to ken in 1995 at the and reeved bis np. Shing Theatre on Friday night, nge of sixteen, Detective Sergeant Kinner said prenticeship in the Shaw Savile & of 1937 should not be surprised to that about 9.60 p.at, the complain- Albion Co.'s wool slippere, Centling sce prominently displayed in the grounds placards readings "Raint was walking westwards along between London and New Walang served under the to-day: 1 um. to Can. Fine en Road West, when defend-porte: having ant came up

from behind and Captain Tiomans Howling in the ful) rigged ship Invercargill, then. wenther. 6am, to 1 am."

knatched the handbag, breaking toned by inst Lubbock his look the strap. The complainant raised "Colonial Clippers." an alarm and gave chase for about |

WHB Sir-j Capt. Matthews served in several 300 yards. Defendant rested by passers-by in Eastern ships of the Shaw Save & Albion Street. The bag was found tucked Co. during his apprenticesh, and on the enmpletion of the "Indentures." away in his girdle,

having oblained his Second Mnte's Sergeant Kinnear said that bag certificate at London, he joined the anatching had been very prevalent service of the Indo-China Steam In the West Point district recent- | Navigation Co. in May 1900, and Dubus claims a few other virely. and this was the fourth enrame out to Hongkong.

Hernard J. Dubon has proposed to the directors of the Exposition that they assure fine weather by erecting for the exposition the first of his artifical cyclones, by which it will be possible to regulate The weather as easily as one turns on a water-faucet.

tues for his inventions that it will in eight days, and the third Whilst serving this company in

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make the Sahara blossom as the arrest. roke: that it can provide an in- xhaustible source of electricity; that it can protect Parls against air attacks; that, supposing it fails

Less chimerieal is the use of the to keep airplanes away from the machine to create an artificial eity, it can rid it of the gas fumes thunderstorm of Auch intensity of any bombs they may drop. He that attacking airplanes could not sees it as an instrument for pro- penetrate it. If the storm should viding gentle and regular ralus for fail, and gas bombs, should be drop- crops, but it might also come ped. Dubost naya smaller ver handy to stop potential revolutions sion of his fungel GO feet high, by drowning them out with a with hirphones propellers at the top cloud barat more effective against to suck the air up, could be mount

malcontents than the more ordined on a truck, and a few of them ary fire hose,

All of this sounds extremely far fetched, but it la getting serious consideration from the miniatrles of Labour and of Public Works, and tlu Academy of Colonial Sciencen is looking into it. With the customary caution of nende- mies, this one, through ita per- petani sretary. Paul Hourdari, limits itself to anying that opinions on the eficacy of the vention must wait until experiment has shown whether Taboo' 20,000-foot cyclone will reprodure in nature the effects his 10 foot cyclone has demonstrated in the laboratory.

THE MACHINE

The machine which' Dubos 'de- sires the exposition committee to build would be a reinforced con- erete funnel, in the characteristic shape of the cyclone cloud or the water spent-n long narrow rylin- der ending at the top in the gulden branching out of the funnel mouth. To put it simply, what he proposer to do น to create within this arti ficial cyclone-cloud shape the move- ment of air currents that causes the cyclone in nature, pumping the atmosphere dry of its suspended moisture when it is wanted, anti thes assuring fine weather in the intermediate periods.

To put it in another way, the machine would be designed 19: gather warm air at its bottom and expel i Parefied colder weat the top that the moisture it carries would be condensed and full in the form of rain. Dubos caka- lates that with a fannel 20,000. feet high he CAN procure £1 barometric depression of four contimeters, which is enough to cause rain.

Vanes and various types of con- trol apparates would permit regu- lating exactly the rainfall in the region controlled by one of these towers.

ON THE DESERT

In the Sahara, Dubos would erect a funnel surrounded at its hase by a hot-house of a diameter of 800 yards. The hot air thus generated would pass up the tube, with it its, suspended "moisture, which even in the Sahars amounts at ground level to two grams per cubic meter, which at 600 meters becomes five

Brans Creating an artificial eyeline with a vertical speed of 40 meters per second, Dubos machine would in twelve hours bring 13,000,000,000 cubic meters of warm air into the higher atmosphere, where it would expand to mix with ten times ar much rarer colder air, throwing more than 150,000,000,000 cubic meters of air into agitation, an amount which holds in suspension more than 700,000,000 litres of water.

In operation, Dubos says, the tube would produce nt its summit small cloud, which would gradu- ally spread out until it covered all the visible horizon, after which -rain would fall, its intensity being regulatable by the speed at the artificial cyclone imprisoned with in the concreto funnel.

MATTER OF ELECTRICITY. As for the use of the tube as an electrical generating station, Dubos pointed out that one of the pheno menn connected with water-spouta is the glowing point where the clouds meet the rising column of water, produced by the discharge between the positive electricity of the clouds and the negative elec- tricity of the water. If a means can be devised for capturlig this electricity, he estimates that his artificial cyclone can produce 42,-. 000,000 francs worth of electricity par: minule, at present rates- though of course any such mam- moth production would completoly rovise the rates, and make olcc-

trical ponergy so cheap that man, "could "probably knock off working

| various vessels on their different runs the China Const, he successively passed the examinations for First Mate and Master in Hongkong; and i the outbreak of hostilities in 1914 found him in command if the .. Tai Sang, from which vessel he was Inter transferred, to command H.M.T. Pan Sarg of the same company for service in the Persian Gulf and Red Sen.

Returning from Indian waters,

appointed Capt. Matthews was command af various vessels in the company's flert, the last of which was thes Man Sang plying between Hongkong and British North Borneo running about the streets would | ports. Retiring from the rervice of quickly suck up the gas and dis-the Indo-China Steam Navigation perse it in the air.- United Press. Co, in 1942, he wis toth to leave the

The annual British Industries Fair hald at Olympia, London, is -honoured by the presence of royalty. Here Queen Mary is shown, with the Duke and Duchess of York inspecting the toy anction.

China Const immediately; and served and hope that he may be spared for in several loent vessels sailing out of many years to enjoy his retirement with his family at Exeter in Devon- Hongkong.

Of a genial personality, Captainshire, Matthews leaves behind him a host of And so after thirty-five years' ser- friends both alloat and ashore, in the vice on the China Const, another various ports in the Enst, who will ail' popular figure, will, sail the Eastern wish him a pleasant passage Home ens no more.

The Annual Inpection Parade of the Shanghai Municipal Police (Specials) brought out thousands of admiring Shanghailandars. The parade formed at the Bund foreshore opposite Peking Road, and marched eastward on Nanking Road to the Race Course, Assistant Commissioner R. G. Herbert was in command of the parade. Top left: Standing at attention prior to inspection by Deputy Commis fiorier MacDonald. Top right: "Specials" inspected by Police officials. Lower left: A Deputy Commissioner congratulates the six officers who have received madals for long service in the "Specials" Lower right Ex-Sikh cavalrymen, stride Australian charges, lead the parade.

One of the most colourful weddings celebrated in Shanghai for some thing was solemnized at the German Church, Great Western Road, when Miss Elizabeth Marion Carson Wilson and Mr. Ivor Gordon Stewart were united by the Røv, C. W. Allen in the presence of many Friends, Mrs. Stewart is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander 3. Wilson, of Trinity, Edinburgh, and only arrived in Shanghai a faw days ago. The groom, whe 'la connected with the Chartered Bank in Shangbul, is the son of the late Mr. Archibald Stewart, of Elle,.

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