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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1935.

RAY SECRET GUARDED Royal Beauty High-Speed Life Does Not

Foreign Bid For British Ray Secret

INVENTOR WAITS FOR GOVERNMENT- TO DECIDE

AN INVENTOR, proud of

his British parentage, sits in his St. James's-street flat guarding an invention of great importance in air war-| fare and wondering if he will have to accept an offer he has had from a foreign government for the purchase of the apparatus.

The inventor is Commander Paul H, Macneil,

His invention is a detector. which by means of an infra-red ray can detect enemy aircraft and fix the position of aircraft at any height through fog, smoke screens, or the darkness of night.

He claims that anti-aircraft guns can be fitted with the op- paratus and synchronised so that when an enemy airplane crosses the infra-red beam the gun au- tomatically fires.

He explained how a ring of the anti-aircraft detectors could be placed around London.

Tast In A Tent

The War Office and the Air Ministry have been in communien- tion with him since last September, but have not yet made a decision, Commander Macneil has not heard a word from them for ti fortnight.

"At the request of the War Ofee," he said, "I went down in February to Biggin Hill for a test. They put me in an Army tent In u feld, and asked me to detect hidden objects through hedges and fences at ranges from 1,000 to 2,300 yards. I did so. I found later that the hidden objects were plumbers blow-lamps in action.

"They naked me to detect uir planes through the tent roof at, various heights and distance. did Be. I oven detected the pre- sence of a man who, unknown to mc, was approaching the tent: across the fleld.

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"Since then I have written scoren of letters in answer to both the War Office and tho Air Ministry.

"To-day I am still not ble to leave this delicate apparatus for a moment.”

Terms

"The offer from the foreign Government came yesterday Ocials from its embassy visited me and asked me to prepare a draft of the terms of my offer of sale.

"I am supposed to be drafting those terms now.

"I do not want to Leave this country, neither do I want the ju- vention to leave.

"I have an eye on an ideal site for a laboratory for fog research on the Isle of Wight where fog is plentiful and shipping and uir transport routes are everywhere. Sovoral Oxford University under- graduates who are keen scientific men, want to work with me down there.

"I Want It Settled"

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I have no animosity against the Government departments. I sim ply want the maiter settled soon as possible. I made them a financial proposal two months apo, "If things go on as they are 'much longer I shall have to enter- tain the offer of the foreign' country,"

Commander Macneil was born in Chicago of Britisli parents who never became American citizens. Ho entered Britain with an Amer can passport.

me,

"My great uncle," he told was Lord Lister the surgeon.”

Commander Maaneil's invention is operated by the presence of hent. The lufta-red ray detects. the heat and records its detection by, means of the flash of a red lamp.

Princess Elizabeth (left) and Princess Margaret Rose at Glamis Castle, Scotland, where a birthday party for Princess Margaret Roso was given by Lady Strathmore fast month. Princess Margaret Rose is five years old, The two young Princesses are staying in Scotland with their grandmother, be- fore going on to Birkhall this month to join the Duko and Duchess of York.

The Pressa-Knob Clerk That

Answers 50 Questions

THE Robot Information Clerk has made its appearance in British

post offices.

The machine answers about fifty questions by the pressing

of a knob.

The inquirer finds his question on the chart, presses the Inob indiented, and from the well of the machine u card rises into the glass partitioned top. The unswor to his question is on the card.

The machine is designed to answer those questions which are asked a hundred times a day in all busy post offices.

If the experiment is successful, machines may be installed in all busy post offices.

In the Swin

One more dive into the Pacifio at Del Monte, and Ginger Rogers, on a belated honeymoon with hor husband, Low Aurce, returns to work in Hollywood studios.

Pay In H.K. Summer

£10 for "Mental

Anguish" of Cow

That Lost Tail

Pitsfield (Mass.), Sept. 1. The "mental anguish. of a cow who lost her tail has been the means of enriching her master by £10.

A farmer here proved to the satisfaction of a magis- trate that his best cow, since her tail had been bitten off"} up to the stump by a neigh- bour's dogs, had been unable

to switch away the flies that swarmed round her and had been so upset that her yield of milk had suffered.

ence

So the farmer, Mr. Clar- North, of Richmond, Was awarded £10 in pensation Reuter.

com.

The fight against the iceberge in the Arctic Sea has became more sharp since the British have begun to use the explosive thermit, which develops a heat of 2,000, digrees and melts the iceberg. Hitherto the destruction of icebergs has been undertaken as shown in the picture above by gunfire from an international ice patrol ship.

Jilted By King So Father

W

Led Albanian Revolt

SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GRIEVANCE

THEN King Zog of Albania reached the throne seven years ago he jilted the girl to whom he was engaged. Said a monarch could not marry a commoner.

Her father grievance.

Belgrade, Sept. 1. was enraged-harboured a deep

Now comes news of another widespread revolt- led by the father, Shevket Beg Verlatzi, a southern Albanian landowner and a leader of the Nationalists.

First messages which reached

the outside world from Europe's tiniest kingdom stated that the nasassin'a bullet which killed King Zog's adjutant, General Ghilardi, was the signal for the southern province of Bernt to revolt against the king.

The assassin is said to have confessed that he intended to kill the King. He did not know that it was General Ghilardi who was riding in the King's

car.

Police advanced on Fleri, the capital of Berat, but were | repulsed.

The army followed the police, und, according to an official report from

Albanian sources In Belgrade, succeeded in wresting Fleri from the rebels and restored order in the town.

At least fifty of the rebels were killed and abut a dozen men, on the Government side. To-night the Albanian ICAVS agency staled that "the situation is in hand."

above group picture was taken when more than 200 Chinese students going abroad for further education were honoured at a farewall reception, givan by the World Studente Federation and 30 other: Chiness publie bodies at the Shanghai: City" Government Centre, Klangwani Mayor n Wa Teichen made an inspiring spüsch to the departing youth., Piąture shows the scholars and re presentatives of publie bodies bidding them "Bon Voyage, International News,

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KING ZOG.

a jilted girl brought revolution to his country. 51 JONESES

SAIL ON CRUISE

ALL-WELSH PASSENGER

LIST IN LINER Fifty-one Joneses, 41 Wil- liamses, 36 Davlenes, and 25 Thomases were among 300 pas- Bengera on board the P.S.N.C. liner Orduco, which sailed from the Mersey one day last month with the Red Dragon flying from the masthead on the third annual all-Welsh cruise..to France, Hol- land, Norway, and Denmark.

While on a visit to Ypres the passengere laid a wreath, made in the form of the map of Wales, on the grave of Privato E. H. Evans, Royal Welch Fusillers, who was killed a fortnight, bofore the 'award of the Bardie Chair to Him

at the National Elsteddfod" at. “Birkenhead In 1917 was made known...

Time: Monday morning.

You

Scene Any office. Charac- ters: Any two workers.

"Have a good work-end? look sunburned,"

"Fine. But I feel awful."

WHY is it?

We spend the week-end in the sun, take plenty of exercise; try to build our- selves up for another weck'a work. On Monday morning we feel fit for nothing:

Recent sunny week-ends have reaped an extra corp of "Monday morning" victims.

With muzzy hend and aching limbs, I reached for the telephone yesterday and asked for a doctor's number.

Medicus, young and sympathe- tic, answered,

"Blame the fine weather," snitt the voice.

"The unusual run of fine week-ends has made the public grab their good fortune with both hands. They overdo their. week-end exercise.

"Public amusement is so highly organised nowadays that It is easy for you to put more strain on your system than it can stand.

"The trouble is, few people know how to relax.

High Speed Lifo

"Modern high-speed life tends to make you nervous and highly strung. During week-ends you go all out to work off your energy,

"By Sunday evening you have probably succeeded, and feeling tired but happy.

"On Monday morning comes the reaction. The prospect of work after so much play makes you feel all the worse. "Exercise is a grand thing, but for many people less exercise and more rest is better.

"A final up. While the warm weather lasts, hiking may be harmful; swimming is best."

MANY CHINESE NEWSPAPERS

But Few Of Them

Attain Old Age AN average of 23 vernacular

newspapers cater for Hong- kong's Chinese population of over 900,000, according to statis- ties compiled by the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.

Few Chinese newspapers publish- led in Hongkong, however, attain longevity.

Of the 23 Chinese newspapera,j just over fifteen were in existence previous to 1934. During the year five new journals made their ap- pearance, Probably as many dis- appeared.

Last year 31 books, the majority printed in Chinese, were registered in Hongkong.

Five Pound

Note No. 1 For Treasury

ISSUED IN 1793: BEQUEATHED IN £120,000 WILL

FIVE POUND NOTE NUM

BER ONE is to return to the Bank of England, which issued it in 1793.

It is bequeathed to the Bank in the will of Mr. Charles Daniel Higham, F.I.A., of Avenue-road, Regent's Park, N.W., actuary, who died on July 1 last, aged 80 years, and who left £124,021 gross, with net personalty £110,- 996.

The will states' that he leaves to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England "in "grateful re- mombrance of many Kindly courtesies during 20 years of pleasant association as Actuary of the Bank Provident Society," his five pound note numberod 1, and dated 15/4/1798, and the printed statement which the Bank" issued on February 27, 1797, Informing: the proprietors and the public of its most afluent and prosperous situation such as to preclude every doubt as to the segurity of its notes.

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After a number of legacies he leaves the residue of the property to his wife for life, and then a number of annuities, including ono of 4200 to the Rov. William Henry Wheatley, and one of £200 to his chauffeur, Edward Martin, if still In his service at his deathAsk

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