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THE HONGKONG.

TELEGRAPH. "TUESDAY, OCTOBER

.1935.

BLIND CAN SEE;

Science Fears Frankenstein Monster

It Has Created

MAY LOOSE ON WORLD A REIGN OF TERROR

Scientists Cannot | Solemn Statement Hold out Much By Sir Richard

Longer

Gregory

SIR Richard Gregory, F.R.S., one of Britain's great men

of science, fears that science is growing into a Frankenstein monster which soon the scientists themselves will not be able to hold.

'Other scientists agree with him. An American doctor, William Fein has been growing for some years.

bloom, claims that the blind and semi-

blind can see with his new infra-red spectacles.

Aeroplane Smuggling Is New Racket

AND IT WAS AN ENGLISHWOMAN WHO STARTED

PLANE-RUNNING

the

The fear

An attempt was made to band together leading men of science to put the monster in chains.

Two years ago the British Association formed a "brain trust" to do this. Sir Richard Grégory has had to admit that the attempt had falled.

IT'S JUST

A GAME

Not an embrace, but a Cum berland wrestling match at the recent Highland games in Seat land.

He is afraid, and other men are afraid. They think that Jeritza's First Husband

the scientist should not be able to let loose on the world a terror which could wipe out whole populations, and then allow his responsibility to end there.

"You would not give a child a packet of dangerous explo- sives," said Sir Richard. "But that is exactly what we have been doing..

"There are some of us who are beginning to be afraid of the prospects."

Norwich, Sept. 25.

forts of their work on the rest of latest smuggling "racket" and Abyssinia offers a ready "THERE are many men of society. And there are some of us who are beginning to be A little science who believe that afraid of the prospects." market for those engaged in it.

The Abyssinians are willing the laboratories of to-day are to pay big prices for modern producing a Frankenstein mon-Have you ever known of an instance Sir Richard was directly asked: machines, and the risk of get-ster for to-morrow." ting planes into the country, particularly from the south, is negligible.

The process is a simple one. Owing to the country's failure to sign the Arms Convention, armaments cannot, be exported from Britain to Abyssinia ex- cept under licence from the Foreign Office, and this has al- ways been refused.

This embargo applies to war- planes exported from this coun- try. There is, however, no ban on aircraft intended for com- mercial purposes.

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Taking advantage of this fact, a number of machines have been shipped as commer- cial planes to some neutral country. There

trusted agent proceeds to make the necessary.alterations, and in a. few hours the machines have been converted into effective bombers and fighters.

These warplanca arc then transhipped from the neutral country to Abyssinia, The terms of the embargo have been kept. and everyone is satisfied.

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Ex-R.A.F. Machines

is

As in the case of motor-cars, new types of aircraft are constant ly being brought out. There Always a plentiful supply of second-hand machines of compara- tively recent date.

where a scientist, having realised that

Those were Sir Richard Gre-a certain discovery may have barn gory's exact words in a special ful applications, has refrained from Interview given at the British Pever answered Sir Richard with Association headquarters in Kreat emphasis. "He would publish Norwich.

Ethical consideration of that kind are almost totally non-existent among scientists. To him new knowledge is the thing. A fact is a fact, and has nothing to do with good or evil.

Lust Wednesday, in a dramatic speech given before the Norwich Rotarians, Sir Richard tried to tell the public that the man with a test tube is not a man with a load of

mischief. He said that the use for good or evil of a discovery depend- ed on the community.

Chlorine, he said, was used for bleaching long before it was used as a poison gas; thermit was used for weld- ng tramway lines before somebody thought of putting it into incendiary bombs.

Can Be Blamed

Now Mustard Gas

"A few weeks ago," he went on,

saw a description in a technical Journal of some now mustard gas.

"The scientist who published that paper did not speak of his dis- covery 39 1. mustard

He gas. never even thought of it

that way. He had merely effected a re- grouping of certain compounds.

To him his achievement won mere- But in his interview Sir Richard nd-ly an interesting piece of research in mitted that scientists can be blamed, organic chemistry, and he just stated and that there is justification in the the facts.

"Tut the world has another dan- increasing uneasiness and suspicion with which the ordinary man is view-The biggest job which faces us to-

gan. ing the efforts of the laboratories.

"You would

day is to solve this old problem of the not give a * child a

responsibility of the scientist--with packet of dangerous explosires to play with," he said. "But that is regard to his discoveries and the rest exactly what we have been doing. "Scientists as a whole still think that they can get along without any sense of responsibility about the el-

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of tho community research property

"One item

applied might find work for tens of throw thousands, and another thousands out of work.

"One result of research wisely applied may save human lives and another destroy them.

wrong that the

REFUSED FORTUNE scientist's

"It wibility should end!

with the announcement of his dis- covery.

Says She Is Still His Wife

Vienna, Sept. 30. OPERA star Marie Jeritza arrived at her lake- side villa at Unterach, in Upper Austria, to-day, and left at once on a mountain motor tour with her Hollywood film-producer husband, Mr. Winfield Sheehan.

Her Austrian husband, Baron Leopold Popper, declares she is still his wife; he knows nothing of any divorce.

WAR CHANGED HER NATIONALITY TWICE

Paris, Oct. 18

A barbarea, who has twice had her nationality changed by war, han celebrated her 103rd birthday in Alsace,

She is Baroness Hessau de Reinach (neo Anne de Gohr). Sho we born in 1832. Under Louis Philippe and under Napoleon III.

she was Frenchwoman.

after the Franco-Prussian Then war of 1870, Alsace became Ger- man The Baronese then was a subject of the German Emperors. The Great War gave her back her French nationality and on- abled her once again to fly the tricolour over the Chateau of Hitz- bach, near Allkirch, where she lives

The baronesa enjoys excolient health and every day goes for a walk in the park surrounding hòr ́ ́ home-Reuter.

Film Bachelors-

What has happened, Sir Richard By Mae West,

"SCARLET PIMPERNEL" was asked, to the great plans dis-

NOT BEST SELLER! For many years "The Scarlet Pimpernel" has been a great seller in the bookshops; it has made a for- A number of these are

former tune

for Baroness Orczy, tho Royal Air Force planes, supersed-authoresa, ed by later types. These machines can be purchased either as they stand or in component parts.

Among second-hand commercial aircraft now on the market Rro

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such typos as Avro Cadet, D.II. Hornet and D.H. Fox Moth. There are also Fairey Foxes with speed of 170 m.p.h. and Gipsy III. Special Moths, Gipsy Major Moths and even Rolls Bristol Fighters.

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For years it was the most popular play in the Fred Terry and Julia Neilson repertoire; it made a for- tune for them, too.

Spinster!

A friend of Mme. Jeritza said today: "Mme. Jeritza obtained what is called 'an Arkansas divorce.' Ninety days after her application she was divorced from the Barón on June 26, in Little Rock, accord- ing to Arkansas law. Оп August 12 she married Mr. Sheehan in Little Rock."

An Austrian lawyer said: "The position is mystifying. At the time of her marriage to Baron Popper Mme. Jeritza an Austrian citizen. They married according to Austrian law.

was

"Therefore the marriage could be dissolved only ac- cording to Austrian Inw. Since it was a Roman Catholic marriage a divorce valid in the eyes of the Church is impos- sible.

"In Austra, therefore, Mme. Jeritza is still lawfully the wife of Baron Popper."

Baron Popper said that he had instructed his lawyers in Vienna and in the U.S.A.

WINGS FOR SOUTH

SEA MISSIONARIES

AIRPLANES TO REACH ISLAND CANNIBALS London, Oct. 1. Flying missionaries will face the perils of the Australian Mandated Territory in North New Guinea, after the end of 1936, if the Church of England Melanesian Mission's plans are

eussed by the British Association two years ago for a "brain trust" to help the country in social and economic planning and to act as a board of censorship on discoveries?

he answered sadly. "Nothing,

MAE WEST, the "spinster," "The plans seem to have been sheived.

the pre

submits to the public the present meeting of the British Association has not

following as her estimate of any reference to any

further

the twelve most eligible bache lors in Hollywood:- Major A. G. Church who, as executive of the British Science Guild and the Association of Scientific Cesare Romero, Lyle Talbot, I realised. Workers, was concerned with the Ivan Lebedeff, Jack Oakle, "The task is the most difficult, British Association plans for a "brain Randolph Scott, Nelson Eddy, dangerous and important since the

уда trust,"

the not hopeful for

James Dunn, Gene Raymond, Solomon Islands mission," said Twelve publishers rejected future,

have now resigned from active Henry. Wilcoxon, Whitney de the home organisation of the mis- Rev. Stuart Artless, secretary of the book; and how in despair she accepted £30 for it from work within those associations," he Rham, Lee Tracy and Baby, the thirteenth-only to have efforts we made to get scientists to said. "But I can tell you this--the

Leroy ! the offer withdrawn; the firm weld themselves together into a pro. thought it was too much! fession with a corporate sense

"Eligible bachelors are hard to The plot of the book came to responsibility like lawyers, doctors, find," Mae told an interviewer, "for, if they're eligible, they don't her, Baroness Orczy said, while and others, have falled absolutely."

"Some time ago we mudo an at-stay bachelors.

Baroness Orczy told a gather- ing at a London literary luncheon recently how:

of

sion."

"The territory is populated by 200,000 tribesmen, some cannibal- istic, most of whom have never ning to send three of our most seen a white man. We are plan-

experienced missionaries, who

The Intter,.of course, need little or no alteration, and, of the other craft, the majority of them can, in the space of a few hours, be con- she was waiting for a train attempt to find out how far scientists "I don't know all these men per-realise that they will be taking verted by experts into war the Temple, station-"then the were prepared to Kimit themselves sonally, mind. I judge a number their lives into their hands.", machines, particularly for pur-

reconnaissance poses of

most dreary, depressing station against work which might have and

ful potentialities to the comp them purely by their work on bombing.

This acroplane running was. started by an enterprising young Englishwoman, who began operations during the Bolivia-Paraguay war in South America.

By means of a number of alinges, she bought up all the second-hand aircraft and their component parts that were on the market.

Her problem was to find secret storage space for these aircraft, and ultimately she used the vaults of a disused church. In the Bouthern countica.

There the machines were stored until they were ready for shipment to a South American port, either as commercial aircraft or in their component parts.

In this way she was avade the embargo..

ablo to

Professor Sir Frederick

Jon the face of God's earth.

the screen, and I may be wrong "I sent it to twelve different F.R.S., suggested'n rosolution that for a good director can do a lot publishers, and not one of them members should not accept subsidies for a man. would have anything to do to engage in special research work "Romero, now-he's a typical with it, and there were rejec Into polson gases for military par-Latin lover. Ho'll do if you like tion slips all the time.

your men tall, dark and handsome. Arrogant Scientists

|Besides, he's from a, hot country.

agree,

Lucky Refusal

poses.

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Ho referred to the Immediate need of £2,000 to purchase an aero- plane, which is the only means of reaching the jungle settlement.

It is intended to nama the 'plane the Southern Cross of. the Air, following the tradition established by the mission's seven ships, all of which have been named Southern Cross.

Hugo Territory

"Then a publisher offered £30 Our members would have none of (Mr. Romero is of Spanish and I accepted it. But two weeks it. Eventually a resolution was pass- descent). later a letter came from him to say teachers should not accept subsidies Czar's army. He has

ed to the effect that university "Lebedeff used to be in the that his directors declined to for such work as this would be con

the most

"I then heard that Mr. Fred learning.

trary to the spirit and traditions of graceful manners of any mon

have over met. Ha kisses your The territory is 000 miles by Terry wanted to produce a play. "The trouble is that the average hand-but that, of course, can be 400, and it is expected that the

"We mucked up the book, and scientist is .far more arrogant Improved upon.

cost will be at least £2,000 a your sent it to Mr. Terry who agreed to!

about his work than the normal "Lylo Talbot has that charm-for the maintenance of three mis- man, and he declines to admit any ing exterior that covers a real heslonaries. (produce it.

measures which le considers a re-

"Hundreds of gold prospectors striction on the pursuit of know-man type. He'd make any woman

***a good husband-if she wanted a are gathered at Wau "waiting to ledge. "The publisher said he would "But this freedom' in research has good husband."

enter the territory," said - Mr. read the manuscript over, and grent daught to have an othie like British star. Mae said:

dangors to the world to-day, Of Henry Wilcoxon, the new Artless, and it is feared that would. then give it to his old

contact between the whites and mother to read, and if she liked it other professions. It is up to the "They tell me he's a grand guy...thoprimitiya natives may lead to he would publish it as she was a lead in this respect. It is time that

great leaders of science to give

"Lee Tracy, now. Personally, sorious consequences, The mis- judge of public opinion.

(I like Lee a lot, although they say sion alms, by Christian teaching, the man in the laboratory realised

counter demoralising "She must have liked it because how his work affects the man next a man who talks fast works slow."

influ- they took the book.

door."

Reuter.

"I sent the book away again, this time to Greening and Co.

to

encea."

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