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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER

28, 1937.

ANNOUNCEMENT

THE FAR EAST FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL,

LIMITED.

ENGINEERING SECTION

regret. to announce that no further enrolment can be accepted for pupils In the Engineering Section for the present term, but applications are now being received for enrolment for the term commencing 3rd January, 1938. FLYING SECTION

Enrolment is now taking place for students in the Flying Section who may commence training at any time to suit their convenience.

For prospectus apply:--

THE FAR EAST. FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL,

LIMITED.

KAI TAK AIRPORT

Hong Kong.

Phono-58612 Flying Dept.

-59282 Engineering Dept.

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FORTUNE SOVIET

TELLER SCIENTISTS

HOPE TO SPLIT ATOM

WARNED HER

Vienna, Sept. 22. RACE CAMERON DZINO, blonde, twenty-

"EVERY day science comes

nearer and nearer to solv ing the problem of harnessing atomic energy."

This was the statement made by

cight-year-old British wife an assistant of Professor K. D.

Sinelnikov, who has just been telling the Second Soviet Congress on the Nucleus about his experi- at the Ukraine Physico- with her four-year-old son Technical Institute.

of a wealthy Turkish croupier, was shot down Atomic

ments

Rudi in her Viennese apart- I visited the 'conference (writes Moscow curres- ment to-day by her hus-the Daily Herald

pendent)-150 pairs of earnest eyes band.

on fxed eagerly were

n school Dzino then turned his revolver blackboard covered with formulue to me but the against his head, killing himself quite unintelligible

listeners were so absorbed in the Dzino Newcastle-born speaker's explanations that the rustle Margaret Grace Cameron-and her of paper sounded like a bom.

Bombing, indeed, is just what the son died in hospital Ave hours later.

was tolking about-lie Vienna police sold to-night that speaker the reason for the crime was jealousy, bambing of the atom's nucleus.

FORETOLD CRIME

Instantly.

Mmc.

Six years ago Mme. Dzino was told by a fortune-teller in Berlin' that she would meet her husband under the main chandelier in a Berlin ballroom, and that six years later he would murder her,

Mme. Dzino did meet her hus band under a big chandelier in one of Berlin's chief ballrooms. Since

haunted When she had been

by the

fear that Uie second park of prophesy would come true. A week ago Mme. Dzino left her to kill husband. Dzino threatened her if she did not return. To-day she agreed to meet him on condition that he would leave Vienna for good if she wished.

STALIN SLOGAN

With Sinelnikov's assistant, I left the conference hall (with its typical quotation from Stalin about science.

banner in white letters on a red slung above the blackboard),

And this is what I was told. In Sinclaikov's institute they have of the world's most extra- one ordinary bits of apparolus-an "electron gun"-stated to be unique.

It is housed inside a huge metalt sphere standing on isolation columns which are 30 feet high. The sphere on its columns is as big as a three- storey house.

Inside is a generator supplying current of 6,000,000 volls. Through a series of metal cylin They sat at midday in a cafe in the heart of Vienna. With Mme. ders-this forms the actual "gun"- Dzino was Lice mald. All three groups of the tiny particles called electrons are tired from wolfram walked back to the Dzino's flat in anecdies incandescent under the huge

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HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The cost of maintaining the Ling Yuct Sien Creche during the second half of 1937 is estimated at $200.00 per month.

Tho donor of the Creche has given $100.00 per month towards this cost.

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Rudi greeted his mother with a happy cry. The maid then went out of the room. As she closed the door she heard shots.

Police found Mme. Dzino and her son with soren bullets In their bodies. Dzino was beside them. He had killed himself with the last bullet in his revolver.

Dzino, who was one of the chief croupiers at the Baden Casino, near, Vienna, was the son of a Turkish

colonel.

voltage.

The "gun's" muzzle directs the stream of electrons on to a very tiny portion of a screen made of the sub- stance it is desired to study.

The effect Is a bombardment of the. nucleus of the substance's -atoms.

Eventually, the study of such bombardments will enable science to release for human use the tremendous power known to be stored within the niom.

That is the goal to which this con- ference is moving.

15,000,000 GAS MASKS

READY IN BRITAIN

PLANS FOR RAPID DISTRIBUTION BRITAIN, which has already about 15,000,000 civilian gas-masks stored in regional centres, and is produc- ing more at the rate of between 500,000 and 600,000 a week, has reached the halfway mark of the great effort to afford this air-raid protection to the population.

London has 0,000,000 masks, disperse supplies swiftly to Individual in' store in depots at Enfield, The task of air-raid wardens is to Alperton, and St. Mary Cray. take as soon as possible a census of Liverpool and Manchester will their street or streets, so that accur- ate supplies of men's, women's and store 7,000,000 between them-children's musks can be delivered in

the minimum time. 5,000,000 the former and 2,000," The warden has to see that the 000 the latter and have the census is kept up to date. bulk already.

streets.

LOCAL COST

Blackburn, where the Govern-

Work is in hand for establishing ment's container factory is situated, the remainder of the 13 regional de- has given valuable help in working Pots, including those at Nottingham, out distribution plans: As the result Coventry, Bristol, Reading, Cam-of tests in that town of 120,000, IL was found that four local stores, each. bridge, Gateshead, and Galashiels, housing 30,000 masks, and about 20

distributing centres were desirable. At Cambridge storage hos begun.

Great progress has also been made with the production of the civil duty respirators, designed for first-aid others who have to workers and carry on public services.

About 1,000,000 of these, which are more complicated and more costly than the civilian type, are to be pro-motor trade, with the object of or vided.

AIR WARDENS' JOB

Other necessary safeguards, such as 'protective clothing and helmets, are rate being made at a satisfactory (saya the Daily Mall).

The co-operation of local authorl ties is essential in providing storage nd distribution centres which will

Possibly similar proportions' will apply to many other places. Ás soon as sumelent local storage centres have been set up, supplies will be moved to them in towns all over the country."

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