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SOCIALITE

SCOFFS AT

A PRINCE

MISS

New York, Feb. 10.

ISS KAY ROSS MACCULLOCH, pret- ty American society girl, is not going to marry handsome thirty-four-year-old Prince Halim of Egypt, cousin of King Farouk, whether his family are for or against the match.

Sho was frankly amazed when she was informed in New York to-day that Prince Halim had agreed with the royal family of Egypt to renounce his romance with her.

she said.

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"I am simply furious,"

would certainly never marry any one bul an Anglo-Saxon, and I couldn't imagine living in Egypt.

"I simply cannot for the life of

understand how

happened.

"I

all this has

met the prince in Parls in October. There

saw quite a lot

of him, just because he knows a lot of people I know and he was often around with them.

NEVER IN LOVE

"But I was certainly never. In love with him or gave any thought to us anything but a casual

him

quaintance.

nc-

1 saw very little of him in Lon- don because he was so persistent. I ran into him in one or two hotels, but I told him I didn't want to go -out with him.

**I am very Interested in an English boy.

"I have heard several Umes from the prince since, but I have just Ignored his letters.".

British Test For Secret Ray

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY

The residence of the Duke of Wind- sor, the Austrian castle Enzesteld, which he is tenanting until Junc 1 and where his sister, the Princess Royal, recently visited him.

ATLANTIC SERVICE BY AIR NEXT JANUARY

From A Special Correspondent

Washington, February 10. THE Transatlantic aeroplane service between Britain and the United States will begin in January 1938 under arrange- ments now being completed between · Imperial Airways and Pan-American Air- ways in co-operation with the two Govern- ments.

Ox-

This will enable, passengers and mails to move regularly once a week each way at the beginning of the service, which will be tended as equipment and demand increase.

Preparations are also being made for a United States air- ship bid for passengers and light freight.

Dartmoor

Foggy

Hardest of All

Jails for Escape

London, Feb, 10.

"Convlet ezenpes from Dartmoor." That was the newspaper placard on the London street one day recently, "Dartmoor convict recaptured," followed next morning To most people in this country, not only or the underworld, the word Dartmoor conjures up only the great convict prison set upon the Moor in South Devon; a place, except for a short Summer, of sudden fogs and rain and snow and otter cold; of grey granite and

rey quarries; of working parties of prisoners outside the walls under the of armed warders; of Civil Guards, carbines in crook of arm, standing here and there an vantage points. A pince of damp and deadly gloom from which no men escape for long.

eyes

The

a

may

FREE FIVE HOURS

prisoner of this week who "escaped" had his liberty but short five hours. Slipping away from his gang in a sudden for such as is com- mon on the Moor, he was defeated by the fog. For five hours he wan- dered in circles, only to surrender when the fog lifted and be taken

Air Ministry Will Try Out back, exhausted to the place whence

Invention for "Paralys-

ing" Airplanes

London, Feb. 10. Secret démonstration of a ray that paralyses petrol and oll engines for several hours is to be given to mem- bers of the Scientific and Research Department of the Air Ministry.

re-

The invention, perfected by thirty-six-year-old Londoner, sembles a powerful searchlight on a swivel tripod. Main components in- clude infra-red rays and a secret ray the inventor hos discovered after five years of experimental work.

on

Recently a test was made with the ray on n ten horsepower motor car. The engine was left running while the car was stationary. The beam

trained

the bonnet of the Was

and immediately the engine car stopped.

It remained out of action for more than two hours.

Although the engine was para

It was

undamaged, and lysed, several hours later it could be -driven away.

The inventor hopes to be able to build a set that will throw a ray 15,000 to 20,000 feet to disable air- do this, more than plenes. To 500,000 volts will be necessary.

he came.

from

It is curious that escapes other jails never give to the towns- man the thrill which an escape from Dartmoor gives. No man yet has really escaped from the Moor," or, at least, only one. He was never heard of again. Probably he per- ished in a morass,

Into granke weathered

fantastic instic shapes loom up against the sky. Hunger, terror, cold, collapse. The search parties find him; then he goes back through the great grim granite gateway with its inscription of 1012

"Parcere Subjectis"-

-Spare the vanquished. They don'ton Dart-

moor,

But the Cockney enjoys the story in London.

The Government will ask Con- gress for amplé approprintion to cover dirigible subsidies until this class of service becomes profitable.

Negotiations as to details/fol- lowing experimental flights are practically concluded, and Fal timere, selected as the American terminal, has been advised to complete the enlargement of its airport by the end of this year at a cost of nearly £600,000..

22, 1937.

On the Neusiedler Lake in Austria two new types of motor-sledges were recently tried out. One type looks like a plane without wings and the other looks like a motor-car without wheels. The latter has its motor in give higher speed. the rear and a propeller is used to

JIGSAW PUZZLES

FOR THE DUKE

Cleveland, Feb. 10.

arc

When the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Simpson, finally reunited, they

some spend happy hours

ONC of the myriad-pieced ilgsaw puzzles which

may

over

THE GREYS

BILK CUT

MAJOR

VIRGINIA

PAKKER

Low

•

GREYS

THE JOYOUS FRAGRANCE

that comes from the careful blending of selected Virginia leaf is preserved

in all climates in Greys cigarettes by

CIGARETTES the special airtight tin container.

MAJOR DRAPKIN & CO. LONDON

SOLE AGENTS

Obtainable from

TABAQUERIA FILIPINA

ZORIC

for

The success of the American Mrs. John Paul Jones, of Chagrin MODERN

Trans-Pacific service and British trial flights over the Atiantic arm responsible for fixing de finitely the time when a regular service may be expected.

Electrons As Man's Greatest Servant

POSSIBLE SERVICES MAY EXCEED WILDEST

FLIGHTS OF IMAGINATION, SAY GENERAL ELECTRIC EXPERTS

Schenectady, N.Y., Feb. 10.

General Electric scientists working in research laboratories are "train- Ing electrons to serve man. In fact, the scientists say the electron prom- ises to be the greatest and most powerful servant that man has."

FOR WAR PRISONERS When we were at continual wor with France a place had to be found to incarcerate prisoners of war. So the great place on Dartmoor WAS

In a statement to the United Press, they do see the characteristic yellow bulit for them; American prisoners the General Electric Company said colour of sodium light, and that tella of war of 1812 went there, too. The the electrons are being subjected to them the electrons speeding across

to an end. Then about training, and that the "discipline the tube are colliding with 1857 it occurred to someone to use they are being taught evidences one sodium atoms. Many of the colli- the place for many years empty-more step in

wars came

the

Falls, O., makes especially for the

yal household. royal

Mrs. Jones, whose business was started to bolster the family income during filled a large order for Harrod's in

depression years,

us just

London, a department store which serves royal family and mem- bers of the court.

Mrs. Jones also has sent a slip- ment of puzzles to a close friend of the former king. The friend plon- ned to present them to Edward as a Christmas present.

This same friend, whose name Mrs. Jones prefers to keep a secret, was the first to introduce King George V and Queen Mary to the Americon pastime of plecing- the puzzles,

The fad soon "caught on" in royal circles, and the late King George and Queen Mary were leaders In the game, Orders for more soon came from Harrod's.

Now, agents in many cities take orders for Mrs. Jones' puzzles.

Mrs. Jones and two young women assistants

work eight hours a

☐ day in a basement shop, sawing big pictures into small bits.

The ex-king likes large puzzles, Mrs. Jones Bays. "He and -bis and the-sodium atoms-cause-pro-friends-and-relativea-do-them-on-- Scientists

have fairly found changes in the atoms struck, week-ends. The biggest one I ever dea of what an electron is, and when those atoms return to sent the king was a map of London They know that it weighs 1/1845 their normal condition they give off In 1,950 pieces. It took us more

the golden light that is the principal

than evidence of the whole process."

three days to put it together before we sent it."

as a convict prison. Only the worst forces of nature

control over the slons between the speeding electron

and me

most confined type of offender was, or is, sent there. Most of them are townsmen; they get away in the sudden

round the runaway.

good

and that its mass increases on its

velocity approaches that of light.

fogs characteristic of the of a hydrogen atom, that it is Moor, and they take to the Moor it- charged with negative electricity, self, not knowing, or despising, fis dangers. Miles of heather and huge

ak granite boulders and great tors Fur

Water courses and small rivers run in a diree- tions. In

parts seemingly bottomless bors "mires"-may en- gull him, even as they sometimes do the wild ponies born and bred there, Not a human habitation is within sight. Dusk falls; giant outcrops of

many

New Guinea

Guinea Warriors

Rather Too Rough in Their Football Game

EXAMPLE OF BEHAVIOUR

To the scientists, it is explained,

IT'S 20TH CENTURY PRODUCT the procedure is a simple Example The electron, admitted by mod-of electron behaviour. To the auto- ern physics and chemistry to be a moblist who drives at night under probable ultimate constituent of all sodium lamps it may seem very atoms, is a product of 20th Century mysterious, research.

electrons.

10

"Wo

always put the puzzles to- gether before we send them out," Mrs. Jones said, "to be sure a plece husn't been lost and that all fit per- fectly,

Queen Mary and the late King George used to do the jubilee puzzles I made. Once Harrod's sent me an order especially for the king, but set-

price 1 considered too low..

"When we have unce learned the Scientists say that until the 20th behaviour of electrons," said the state-

colled back I wouldn't make Century, the structure of atoms was ment, then can come the training entirely a subject for

them for so lille. Then they wired theory and period to teach them to serve man.

"The conjecture.

great universe

back that I should suit myself about electrons of is Just "With

becoming

the price but to hurry known to selen-

with the and cu modern research methods

short

order. equipment," the General Electists. Only

distances have

"I understand," trie statement said, "It becam been penetrated in this

she continued, strange possible not only to theorize, but in

"it was the custom of the king and micro-land and our brief glimpses

queen to work the puzzles them- some instances to study the interior into it have not gone for within the

selves frst, and then pass them on of atoms and the movements of outer boundary. The enormous

to members of their family."- amount of knowledge still to be

United Press. "Experimentations with electrons, grasped seems limitless. Yet selen- scientists are going far beyond the lists know that with every forward limitations of our visible world. step, they are gaining facts that They have long forgotten the age- will be invaluable in training elec- old common-sense adage that seeing trong to work for man together is believing. They are seeking with the other forces of nature man

unknown has already harnessed. universe.

"When all the electrons have com- "It Brems impossible at firat pleted their course of training-that thought that the human mind can is, when scientists know all about study things it cannot see, feel, them and can make them do what smell, hear or taste. The five senses we want them to do their possible

events are. however, fights of imagination. hopelessly inadequate in receiving "Even with our present small and Impressions from electrons. The incomplete knowledge, the reason is that electrons are so tiny: sibilities for Use of the electron

seem infinite." OFFER IDEA OF SIZE

Knives, Broken Bottles and Razor Blades Among knowledge in an unseen,

Weapons Brought Into Play-Mortality

Rate Becomes Too High

So many deaths have been caused by native football matches in the day-to-day on well in ordinary services to us far exceed the wildest

Australian territory of New Guinea that a leading chief asked

a district officer to discuss the matter at a native council meeting. This officer is expected to make a startling report to the Administra- tion.

The prohibition imposed by the authorities on tribal warfare left

warriors without recreation. They TONG ELECTIONS

introduced football, but became per-

turbed at the casualties.

TOO MANY PLAYERS

BEING PROTESTED

A match played at Rabaul began with the orthodox number of play-Montreal Chinatown Closely Pa- ers, but after thirty minutes, and in trolled While Rçply Awaited From spite of the dozen warriors who lay Injured on the field, the number had

Increased to fifty-seven.

Headquarters Hero

tistory

the

pasTM

SOME ALREADY TRAINED "Our five senses are not keen enough to be aware of them. Any- Already some electrons have been thing that weighs 1/1845. of a hy trained to serve us, sald the eien-

atom. in turn weighing for instance: 0000000000000000001002 ot o

obey

commands we gram, is quite human sensitivity, and that is what tubes. Here the flow of millions and un electron

weighs. It's too minute billions of electrons is accelerated for direct observation.

mud halted thousands ond even With modern instruments. It is millions of times д second. The. 'possible now for scientists to ob-electrons, manoeuvre like disciplined serve the effects of electronic activi- armies. They react unerringly to ty From the study of the effects, the slightest changes made in Brid scientists work back to the causes. potential."

Scientists are able to predict and It is also possible to define certain laws of action the electrons seem to control their action with Uncanny follow.

accuracy,

outside the realm of trans to the grids of vacuum

Montreal, Feb. 10. Police found seven of the players

Complaints were fled to-day with were armed with knives, seventeen had broken bottles, nine bad razer offelals at Victoria protesting the blades, and the balance carried stone legality of recent elections held by club heads, six-inch nalls or short certain members of the Chee Kung hardwood sticks with sharpened Tong (Chinese Freemasons), points. That ended football In Rabaul.

Six Chinese scrutineers' protested to headquarters in the MORTALITY HIGH

British Columbia city that officers wero However, natives who returned to elected without presence of official their home villages took the story of scrutineers appointed by the tong "can measure the current of elec- the game with them. The result was and without customary three daya' a form of grudge football between notice being served. rival tribes, in which, according to reports, the mortality rate has be Police stated a close survey of Chinatown would be maintained in anticipation of 'trouble.

come higher even than that in the old tribal wars,

on

As an example, the statement "And in this ordered movement." pointed to the interior of a gas said the statement, "this obedient discharge tube, such as the sodium behaviour to our wishes, lies the lamp, which is coming into wide use secret of radio broadcasting and radio reception and all the other "Scan gald

the statement, duties that vacuum tubes perform. It is, therefore, with great hope trons flowing inside the tube from that scientists look forward to ex the heated enthode, to

in the micro-land the anode, ploration

this promising They know that there are millions electronics, for in upon millions of sodium atoms in territory apparently will be found this space. They can, of course, see the most astounding and most im- nelther dectrons nor atoms, but portant discoveries of our century,"

of

ז

Chinese Subject Wins

American Citizenship

St. Helens, Ore., Feb. 10. C. J. Pape, who has lived here for 15 years, is probably the only Chinese subject ever to become a citizen of the United States.

Pape, born in Germany, went to China with his parents when he was n youth. He was admitted to citizen- ship there when he reached an accept. able age, and held a government job. Pope remained in China for 44 years.

ENGLISHMEN RETURN FROM TIBET

HEARD OF KING GEORGE V.'s DEATH LAST AUGUST

Calcutta, Jan. 30. Two English travellers, Mr. Ronald Kaulback and Mr. N. J. F. Hanbury Tracy, have reached Calcutta after twenty months spent in Tibet. They entered that country from Northern Burma in May, 1035, and emerged at Sadlyn on the Assam border just be- fore Christmas.

Most of the time was spent in the Salween Valley, where they surveyed ari orca of approximately 50,000 square miles and made an entomolo- gical and botanical collection for the British Museum., They

received most friendly treatment from the in- habitants and lived on the food of the country. They first heard of the death of King George V. Inst August.

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