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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

It's A Million To One You Will

Make A Million

IF YOU GET THE IDEA THIS column is worth £6,000,200 to

you..

Yesterday the "Telegraph" passed on ten" ideas for making a million pounds, as suggested by an American millionaire.

Here are six more ideas, A million pounds is a modest, estimate of the value of each one of them. Tknow, because they were given to mé by laboratories, scientific and industrial, which know what industry wants and Ja willing to pay.

Industry Awaits You

Each one of these ideas is a "heart cry" from some industry. Answer any one of them and you can sit pretty until the time comes for your home town to build a statue in memory. £6,000,000 worth of ideas read on:--

(1) A nón-cerrosive steel. There arej 1,200,090,000 tons bi use in the work, Seventy-five per cent, of H1! required to be protected from cov.¦ rosion before it rinn be used anet! white in 125004, In Beltain one that costs £2798 000,000 a year.

(2) Milk from grass, without the Intermediate dairy stage. Yes

don't laugh, eliminate the cow. Selentists alrendy working that. You'd better hurty,

For

The first of three similar shi

B, fast tregnters of 20 knots, which are to be put into rvice on the Far East-North Europe run, calling at ongkong, and doing the round trip in two months, our hoto shows the mv. She Kinugasa Maru, which arrived in part recently. was inspected by scores of invited guests during the early evening.

MYSTERY WARBOATS

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TORPEDO-LAUNCHING, 50-FOOT "CRASH" BOAT

CAPABLE OF 50 MILES PER HOUR TOP SPEED

Stamford, Conn., July 21.

A 50-foot silver and red "crash" boat, which in the next, war Selentists already may launch torpedoes against enemy battleships and outrace any another fighting craft on the seas, swept over the Stamford Harbour

(3) A magnesium alloy as strong pa

aluralatur working oli this the Such aliny will be one-third lighter recently in final tests. than aluminium. Revolutionte nir- plane manufacture.,

The trim, powerful craft, ¡skim the waves and carry the spray

under the hull at the stern end. which develops 1,200 horsepower 44) Recovering printing ink from

used paper. There's inilliams in with its four sterling Dolphin this. Separation of the ink would

may become Uncle improve the value of the used engines,

Sam's newest fighting arm with paper as well.

its top speed of 50 miles per hour Yes, it's an old, old problem: the and amazing maneuvrability, older It gets, the more valuable its Designed for peace time rescue solution. Sneezing and snuffling costs British industry £36,000,000 work, the crash bont reportedly

45) Certain common cold preventive,

a year. There'd be plenty for you, can be turned into a small arsen- al capable of slipping up Un (6) Perennial wheat. Scientists are

after his too. They want wheat battleships in the dark and des. which comes up ngain next year troying them without losing any without ploughing and re-sowing| fresh seeds,

of its four-mon crew.

Six idens. Industry save they're -worth a million euch. Take them. Its outstanding characteristic is the

For nothing. Feel any richer?

grooved bottom which enables it to

With a crew of four the boat will carry a two ton torpedo on each side. No artillery, machine guns or armour plate will weight down the craft. with an effective range of 300 miles battleships and retenser in swarts the crush boats may be carried on like an air squadron to torpedo an

pedos, the boat would speed out of enemy feet. After releasing its tor- reach of enemy guns in a few minutes.

The boat is $0 feet long, 13 feet wide, and 10 feet deep. It has t derrick on the bow to keep a plane afloat, side platforma close to the water for rescuers and a large for- ward compurtanent containing alx medical supplies and stretchers, space for a first aid crew.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1936,

TSAL EXNIGIITUR

PROSPER RALSTON'S OPAL EXHIBITION

Mr. Prosper Ralston, the well-known dealer in opals has come to Hongkong to establish a gem-cutting plant and to display his valuable collection which includes some very fine specimens of Australian black opal, for one of which Mr. Ralston recently refused $12,000. Mr. Ralston will demonstrate the art of cutting opal here as he has done in all the important stores in the world and there will be opals on sale at prices ranging from $3 to $1,000.

The Finest Opal Collection in

World.

the

HALF A Million DOLLARS worth be of cut and uncut opals are to exhibited personally by

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at

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