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THE HONGKONG ~ TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

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ADRIFT

BRITISH PROFESSOR'S THEORY

The ground beneath, pou is drift- ing as you read this. It hus been drifting ever since the earth was formed to a rhythm that takes 150 million years to complete,

The movement is silent, irresisli- blo and perpetual. Only ita rcetis volcanoch, carthquakes, climatic conditions affect your life.

Dr. W. W. Waters of the Imperial College, London, writ ing in Science, discusses this carth movement and opposes the theory the earth is shrink- ing and some day will be a dried-up crust lashed by scaring winds and acorched by blazing heat,

Hongkong, long before then will be joined to the Chinese mainland

"There is the fact that the vigour| of mountain building, of volconoca and other manifestations of unrest has shown no sign of senility or lack of energy," he wrote.

"The Earth 1a a lady of a cer- tain age, but she has contrived to preserve her youth and energy an woll as her beauty."

Highlights of Dr. Waters' dis- sertation on form, drift and rhythm of the continents includ- ed:

1. The earth to-day is recover- ing from the greatest period of mountain building And the greatest retreat of its ocean it has ever experienced.

2. Water again will rise over present continents because of the tremendous heat towards the cen- tro of the earth which has liquified

HAVENS IN CONCESSIONS

Scenes such as there that occurred in Shanghal in 1932 may again become commonplace in Chinese citina where non-combatants can flee to the protection of international settlements.

LATEST FISH STORY What

FROM AUSTRALIA

IT RAINED JELLYFISH

The latest "fish-from-the- sky" story comes from Mel- baurne, Australia.

Residents. at Frankston, a scanide suburb, were mystified to ace tens of thousands of tiny jellyfish desecnding during a rdinatorut.

The fish measured about half an inch in length and about one-eighth to one-quarter of an inch in width. Some were -atriped, says Austral Newa.

When the sun shone again the masses of deposited jelly- fish dried up into brown limpa. The waterspout explanation in the only one so far offered

Millions

the rock and created an unfirm For A

base through which the continents must sink.

3. New land will be created when the molten rock solidifies- and pushes the continents above up through the water.

4. The new land-resting on shrunken substratum - will wrinkle like a withered apple and cause gigantic barren mountain ranges.

D. The cycle-running from solidification to liquidification ac companied by crustal fonalon back to solidification-will last about 150,000,000 years,

6. Similarly between Chinese and Australian Coastlines" coasts bordering the Pacific lead to a theory that formerly they were linked together in one pinia.

7. The mountain ring from Kamchatka and Japan to the East Indies, Eastern Australia and Now Zealand is "ablaze with volcanoes and creeping with earthquakes," testifying it has been formed recently and still is unfinished.

8. The earth crust of the

since Rocky Mountains

their formation has been crushed and shortened 29 miles, the Himalayas 62, the Alps 76 and the Appala- ehlans 200.

more

9. Despite effect of mountain

evolution, ranges upon Important was the growth of "mere unconquerable" grass which changed bodily features, bones, horns, teeth, claws, speed, strength and brain.--United Press.

MUSSOLINI, 1911

Speech Against War

and

"Because

I am an Italian and bo- ! cause I love the land in which was born, and whoan language I speak, therefore in ry capacity ne a good Italian citizen I on the basis of economical geographical facts, my opinion that this enterprise was calculated to injure Bravely the interests of the which are bound up nation, indianolubly the interests of the

pralstariat... was Signor Musso-

The

fini (ut yet It Duce), and he was defending himself when sentenced in 1911 to five months' imprison- ment for exhorting the people to do'all that they could to impedo the expedition to Tripoll.

SALESMAN SAM

Vanderbilt

EXPLORER'S COMING OF AGE

New York, Nov. 12.

lost

The public is guessing as to the precise sum Mr. George Van.... derbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who his life in the sinking of the Lusitania in May, 1916, received on renching the age of 21 this week. Its curiosity has not been satisfied by the family lawyers, who refuse to discuss the mat-

ter.

Friends. however, ridicule re- ports that the young man, who Parsons married Miss Lucille

early this month, received ne much as £4,000,000. Under the will George and his elder brother Alfred shared their father's calate and were to receive their share in four equal parts, on reaching the ages of 21, 25, 30 and 35.

In 1917, two years after the will was proved, the estate was up praised at £3,350,000, exclusive of real estate property in States other than New York and of pro- perty in England. Debts due by the estate were placed at £800,000.

Escapes Estate Tax

Treasury officials in Washing- ton point out that, whatever Mr. George Vanderbilt has just re- ceived as a quarter of his share in his father's estate, he will not have to pay any inheritance tax on it. The United States had no estate tax laws until more than a year after his father's death.

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Mr. George Vanderbilt, who is descendent of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the family fortune, has made his namo familiar to the American public by exploits as an explorer..

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MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS

A strange light' which Colum- bus saw on October 11, 1492, has been a mystery ever since. Now, however, Mr. L. R. Craw. shay, of the Marine Biological Association Laboratory, Ply- mouth, essays a further solution in the intest issue of Nature.

This curious light was re- corded, as seen by Columbus and others from the poop of the Santa Maria about 10 p.m., ap parently off Watling's Island. The light was seen some dis- tance away in the darkness.

It was described as "Looking like the flame of a small-candle alter- nately raised and lowered." It seems to have gone out of sight Ingain not long after,

It is thought that the light was 35 miles or so eastward of the landfall,

"At such an estimated distance castward of Watling's," says Mr. Crawshay, "the position of the light would be well out Into the Atlantic, in some 3,000 fathoms of water, where the presence of a native canoe accounting for it, as suggested by Markham, seems in- conceivable,

"Scarcely, more credible is the. view expressed by Mackenzie (1828), who makes the landfall at Cat Island, assuming-the-light-to- have been 21 ahore light at Watling's, the island itself, how- ever, being missed by Columbus in the darkness.

of the dif-

"Murdock disposed ficulty by the extreme course of suggesting that the light was non- existent and imaginary.

Surface Displays

9 ICE HOUSE STREET HONG KONG

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

ACROSS

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1 Misses footing with a building

Implement, how careless.

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There's a soft wood in this musical instrument,

0 Discourteous.

10. Some blooming epithet.

12 This resident moy advise an

Indian Prince.

14 Cunning on the waters.

with this are a danger. 16 Bread is made by this highly

educated ruler.

19 A decoration.

22 Well-known musical composer. 23 Eastern town.

26 This ring is not getting any

sweeter.

"Against the latter surmise la the definite record, not only of the light, but in such detail and in such 28 It's a heavenly spectacle to see circumstances, as strongly to sup"

port the view that it was due to

a surface display at the time of

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on beer" (ang.). Shrewd,

nie in berli

38 A feet leader.

luminous marine annelids of the 34 One may be allowed to keep

genus odontosyllis."

In non-technical language, this mysterious Ilght seems to have been displayed by the females of the species of phosphorescent marine worms to attract the males, and Columbus probably stumbled upon nothing else but a marine love | story,

Mr. Crawshay adds that the il- luminating display of A single odontosyllia female may have separate short periods of excessive and declining brilliance, thus ac- counting for its resemblance to a candle

more of this income.

35 This breeze is usually a warm

onepe

DOWN

1 A heavenly sprite is menn. 2 Wan confession that appears to

pierce.

3 A rift.

4.A facetious eye.

6 The uniform reason for the lack

of serious crime.

7 A gentleman from here alter ed the course of our history. 8 Betraying narrative direction.

if the ship were on, 33 across

would be this receptacle,

13 The head of 23 across is often

dipped into this.

17 A famour philosopher-of-anil-

18

quity and

20 Quit

21 He might produce a few com-

panies in war-time. 21 Animal.

26 Musical instrument.

27 Epithet for that biting retort. 30 A musical instrument in swell

shape.

31 This artificially obvious at

night.

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At the Cheero Club weekly whist Sealed No. Mr. Dankensio. Prizes were presented by Mrs. Hence, while and lowered." Probably this "un-

wen by the following:--Ladies, 1st. Mr. Tribble acted as M.C. It was a accountable" light would disappear Mrs. Lawrence, 2nd. Mrm Morris, very successful evening. The next almost as soon as there was time to

Sealed No. Mrs. Ridgell. Gentlemen, whist drive will be held on Tuesday,. report it..

1st. Mr. Allan, 2nd. Mr. Modina, December 3, at 8.30p.m.

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