1935-10-10 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, OCTOBER

SECRET DEATH RAY

CAN WIPE OUT THE WORLD

Terrifying Future

A new British ray, which may have the effect of stopping all future war, has been perfected by an eminent English scientist, who has handed his secret' to the Cabinet.

"War must become as dead as dodo," the discoverer says, "be- cause the ray, which I have called 'Z' ray, is capable of such terrifying powers of wholesale destruction that to employ it to the full might| have the effect of exterminating| humanity."

He declares that the ray will--| Transmit deadly poisons such as hydrocyanic acid gas through the atmosphere;

Wipe out a city upon which it is directed by reproducing stratospheric conditions in the air so that the occupants suffocate;

Bring down acroplanes and stop motor-car engines;

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Broadcast malignant bacteria of deadly diseases over wide areas;

Wreak wholesale destruction upon the craps. and food supplies of any nation.

The scientist in whose brain this new and terrible secret was evolved developed his discovery in a lonely country laboratory during the past three years, and gave full details to the Govern- ment only a few days ago.

England Ahead Of Italy He granted a London news- paper an interview on condition that nothing was published that would reveal his identity, and solely because he believes that Britain having in her possession such a deadly weapon may be useful to British diplomacy in the desire to 'maintain peace.

THEN AND NOW

An exhibition that Musolini forget: The caption on this photograph, taken from the November 17, 1934 issus of the Illustrated London Newa vesdi "Bringing home to the new generation the realities of the Great War: A tronch in a spacin! ozhibition in Roma. The exhibition illustrated by means of this photograph is designed not only to how the new generation what the Great War mennt, but to bring home to them the even more horrible nature of any future wars.".

The Herring is Maid's

Moonstruck

THE herring is a moonstruck

fish. This fuct is known to fisherfolk on the East Const, who look for the full moon to give them their biggest catchen, but it in a phenomenon for which science has not yet any explanation.

The point

tationed on, of the by Mr. W. C. Higson, Lowestoft Marine Laboratory, to members of the Zoology Section of the British Association Con- ference in Lonilan last month..

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Screams Save Norma Talmadge

Hollywood, Sept. 15.

A man carrying a box knocked at the door of screen-star Norma Talmadge's apartment in Bever- ly Hills to-day. Her maid, Matilda Skirk, answered the door.

man:

He has been working the revolutionary theory that light have actually produced such I have brought some flowers is a substance containing all the conditions in my own labora-for Miss Talmadge," said the But Matilda did not un- essential minerals, and that tory." by transmitting radio-active Other experiments at the hitch the safety chain from the

correct Professor's country laboratory door. wavelengths such a poison as have successfully proved the hydrocyanic acid gas, for in- «z» rays paralysing effect upon stance, could be generated in

any petrol-driven motor,

emanations

the air.

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the

He has produced and con- trolled, not only the deadly "Z" Ray, but what is more import- ant, an adequate defence against it,

"That,"-he-sald-is-what-I. want the whole world to know- and for this reason. I am con- vinced that the principle of the Marconi Ray which has recently been secretly tested in Italy is the same as mine.

Using a comparatively, weak transmitter he has stopped a motor car at a range of 500 yards, and forced aeroplancs to descend with useless engines. With a more powerful trans- mitter the area of the ray's activities could be indefinitely extended.

The man jammed an auto- matic against the maid's heart., "Hands up! Say nothing," he said.

Matilda opened her lips and screamed. Norma came out of her bedroom and at sight of the man also started to scream. "The manTMfted, leaving behind- the box of "flowers"-empty.

The police believe the man'. "Enemy bombing planes would never be able to get within miles hoped to kidnap Miss Talmadge. of London, or the coast, for that-Renter. matter," added the Professor. "It

"But England is one step la possible not only to make the Before he died he promised the ahead of Italy. There is a de engine useless but to explode the

that, he remained fence against Marconi's ray-potrol in the tank of on aeroplane, scientist ample financial backing

down in on, condition and the Cabinet has that secret bringing the machine

anonymous In his work, and placed in its possession.

flames.'

any results at the sole disposal of the British Government,

Financial Backing

"A deadly poison such as prussle acid gas enn easily be

Since that time the. Professor transmitted over any selected The Professor stumbled upon area by means of my ray. It the line of research which has led has worked unceasingly at his ex- would actually be generated in to the discovery of this now ray periments, until, within the last has begun to the air. An entire city could be nearly three years ago, when he few months, he wiped out in a few minutes. found that human ailments were achieve results with such stagger- wave-ing possibilities that he has decid- "Another deadly and equally susceptible

ed to make them public in the in- terrible form of attack would be lengths.

teresta of humanity and world the reproduction of strato- spherle conditions

over an

enemy city. As you know, men cannot live in the rarefied air of the stratosphere, so the oc- cupants of the city would die. I

to

varying

He was urged forward to greater efforts by a wealthy pence. patron who has since died. Pursue your investigations", his patron said, "for there are still greater possibilities in this."

POTOMAC BAPTISM

a religious Washington House of About thrus hundred of negros children and adults, belonging to Prayer, ware recently baptized by a negro priest in the Potomac River, Thousands lined the river during the ceremony. The picture shows a baby getting his baptismal ducking.

DISEASE AGE

15 to 25

Is Dangerous T. B. Span

DISEASE ALWAYS CONTRACTED IN CHILDHOOD

AFTER some years' re- search, the Health Department of New South Wales has reach- ed the conclusion that tuberculosis is contract- ed in childhood with a dormant period for the disease.

Sometimes it develops rapidly but, in many cases, the disease remains dormant until a dangerous period is reached, usually between the ages of 15 and 25, statesi Austral Neios.

The conclusion is expected to throw much light on the treat- ment and prevention of tuber- culosis.

Also in Sydney, at the Uni- versity, special attention is being given in cancer research to the possibility of finding a chemical substance, which, if injected in- to a tumour would make it more to the action of X-rays.

"Many investigators believe," said Dr. Moppett (medical biologist of the Research Com- mittee), "that when radiation cures cancer, it is due to co- operation with the body's de- fences."

10,

1935.

SCHOOL

*FOR

DOGS

4 SHOWS.

The Carmen Red Cross has are ranged its first dog school at Nurem borg.

dog The picture abows

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with its equipment in front of a tank.

The equipment includes among other things a dressing case and arcanteen.

Is the Earth Drying Up?

THE Saharu Desert is advancing,

and enormaUA areas of land the have become sterile within past 100 years in Australia, the United States and China.

This fact led Professor E. B. Stebbing, of Edinburgh, to put to the Geography Section of Nie British Association 'the

"In the earth drying questions

"Studies and

investigations dur

through the ing a recent colonics and across Wrat

the Scan

tour

said the Prufcator, "akow that during the last threo conturles the desert has advanced Rome 170 miles and now threatens Northern Nigeria and the French Niper Colony."

Science Plans Sawdust Dinners For Future Meals

CARS WILL RUN ON ROTTEN VEGETABLE SAWDUST dinners, a nation-wide hot water supply and motor- cars that run on either wood-fuel or rotten vegetables, aro some of the marvels which science will offer us in the near future.

The use of sawdust as food is due to the researches of Dr. Bergins, a famous German scientist, for the Bergin company. By an hydrolytic process, Dr. Bergina declares, 70 per cent. of wood can be transformed into sugar..

POWER BY RADIO.

NEW GUINEA NOW

A WEALTHY

COLONY

PRECIOUS METAL AIDS FORWARD MARCH

New Guinea, suvage and un- known, until Australia, under mandate, assumed its government and colonisation, is now a greater gold producer than any Australian State except Western Australia. . Figures just prepared for sub- mission to the Council of the League of Nations show that New Guinen exported £1,367,016 worth of preci- ous metal, last year.

The known native population is now 426,329, besides 30,595 in- dentured labourers. No fewer than 30,000 are engaged in planta- tion work, mining, domestic service, and in shipping and commerco administration work. Direct con-

trol has been established over 52,- 746 of a total mandated aren "of 98,000 square miles, states Austral News,

The report for the League gives detalls of native misdemeanours. Of 1,868 natives charged, 1,776 were convicted. The most cominon breach was absence from quarters nt night. Others were dancing and singing after 9 p.m., playing football in forbidden areas, secrecy, gambling, unlawfully wearing "clothing" on the upper part wife of the body, enticing a from her husband, having pornos. sion of liquor, and falling to. appear for census taking. In ad- dition 1,257 wore convicted. on criminal charges.

The waste substance left, known as lignin,, offers rich possibilities as fuel for motor vehicles.

Research into the fransformation of rotten vegetables into motor fuel is being undertaken-at-the-Bushey-- Park laboratories of the Depart mant of Scientific and Industrial Research. Experiments have been' conducted In the fermentation of grasses, straws and other vegetable: waste, and an industrial applica- tion of the process has been patent- ed.

Public Hot Water Supply All that is now needed for the new process to compete with the prevailing prices of mineral oil is the collection of vegetable matter in sufficiently large quantities.

Similar results have been obtain- ed In the production of power alcohol from the fermentation of artichokes.

A scheme for the public supply of hot water throughout England beon devised by Mr.

has

E.

| Kilburn Scott, the well-known en- |gineer, based on almilar systema already in use in Germany, the U.S.A. and Soviet Russin.

In Germany boilers of electric power stations are giving public supplies of steam and hot water. At Pittsburg public buildings, hotala, apartment houses, foundries and works receive steam from superseded power station boilers.

Power stations In Moscow and other Soviet cities supply hot water as well as electricity, and have proved highly efficient,

In England, already, power houses at Leicester and Slough supply steam to factories.

TRIED TO BURN

HER THEN

LET HER FREEZE

Edmonton (Alberta) Sept. 1. A husband whe first tried to burn his wife and then. left hor' to freeze to death, has been hang- ed at the Fort Saskatchewan Prison

Ife

was William Hawryluk, aped 45. It toas ostablished at his trial that he first poured koro sene over his wife, suiting her alight. She escaped momentarily and ran out into the mow, rolling in it to put out the flames. "Hawry- liuk then beat her unconscious and loft her to freeza to death. United Press.

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