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HONGKONG THE

WROTE THE FIRST

Century Old Faraday Secret Out

ALMOST

half

a century before the first halting experiments in radio communication, Michael Faraday, most famous and successful of all the early experimenters with electricity, wrote-and scaled-the first chapter of what we now call wireless.

The letter, written and deposited in 1832] with the Royal Society, has now been un- sealed.

The dozen Fellows of the Royal Society who opened the letter rend with astonishment Fara- day's opinion that magnetic and electric forces: were communicable as waves of vibrations,

Faraday took the course of sealing his be lief because he found that he could not produce proof, and he realised that without proof his theories might have been discredited at the time,

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"It gave us a great thrill to open Faraday's letter, for we had no idea what it contained." Sir} William Bragg, president of the Royal Society, Į said to the News Chronicle.

IDEA LAY DORMANT

"The letter is well preserved and easily legible. It shows that Faraday was then entertaining the iden that the 'diffusion' of magnetic and electric forces was comparable with the spread of waves on water or in air, and had indeed a vibratory character.

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY $24. -1938.

CHAPTER

BELLE OF N.E. AFRICA. This brunatio of

** the Dinkà tribe knows how to roll those cyes in

real western fashion.

"Perhaps because of the preoccupations which hindered the development of the

iden, and because of the difficul-

ties of experiment, it was not The Duke Now Ranks- until 1846 that he made public. reference to the idea.

"Even then, chance played the chief part in it, for he was deputising at a Royal Institution lecture, and hnd some time in hand after com- pleting the lecture-so he spoke af! his thoughts on ray vibratious,"

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tions' had been simmering so long.“

a

FOURTH MAN IN THE LAND

THE Duke of Windsor now ranks in social precedence as the King's youngest brother, the fourth man in the land.

massacre by one of the Earl

OF

RADIO

"ONE MORE FLIGHT, THEN I RETIRE"

-SAYS JIM MOLLISON

Jim Mollison, now planning|

the last record bid of his career he hopes to smash the Scott, and Black. 71-hour record to Australia-kas not flown for a

year.

He has not been up since December 1930 when, attempting the England- Cape record with the Frenchman Molinler, he was forced down 200 10lles from Capetown,

Even his pilot's ilcence hus expired. For £1,550 he has bought the tiny, lipped-winged mew Gull single- seater which won this year's King's Cup at 233 ma.h. In it he hopes to be off within a month on what he calls "my last trip-one blg effort before retiring."

He is calling his plane Southern Cloud.

DARTMOOR

MUTINEERS GET

REMISSIONS

定成立

A Tokyo nowspaper office dis-

SENTENCES. CUT BY plays, besides the Japanese flag,

A QUARTER

ONE IMMEDIATE RELEASE

From A Special Correspondent.

Each of the men concerned in

the German and Italian colours, symbolising the three-power' al- liance.

Cannon-Ball

Zazel Dies

Zazel, circus star uf the

the Dartmoor Prison mutiny or''seventies, "the rage of the January, 1932, who is still in London season" when she was prison is to have a quarter of shot from a cannon, has died in- his sentence remitted. This an- nouncement was made by the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, in the House of Commons

yesterday.

I understand that five men are

London.

This humorous little white haired

widow-her husband was Dr. George Starr, who gave up medicine to join the management side of Barnum's--- was the first woman "cannon ball," distinction of which site was

still serving sentences imposed for enormously proud in her old age.

their part in the mutiny.

One will be released immediately, while the others will leave prison between the spring of next year and the spring of 1942.

One of the men had 10-year sentence, three eight-year terms, and the ath six years.

Sir Samuel Hoare announced that he had reached his decision after con-

"These thoughts were afterwards published. And it was that publica-{ tion whith led Maxwell to put Fara- day's experimental results mathematien! form, and finally to The Duchess, who would peer who muy sell one of his tities. frame the electromagnetle theory, of light.

If he sells normally have been the lie is Earl of Arundel because he

owns Arundel Castle. "Until we opened Faraday's letter eighth woman in the land as the castle he sells the title, too.

Buried among the 900,000 facts there had been no indication that wife of the King's "young-claimed to be in this six-inch-thick Furaday's thoughts on 'ray vibra- est" brother, is actually book are bloodthirsty stories like the

Other letters of long-dead selen-ranked as the last of the Perth's ancestors who collected 186ferring with the Judge who tried the people called Murray and burned men. This was Mr. Justice Finley. tists, deposited with the Royal So-twenty-nine duchesses.

The mutiny took place on Jan. 24, ciety for the same reason that Fara-

The greatest reshuffle in the them in a church.

1932. The trial of 31 prisoners day had, have also been opened.

charged with riotous assembly and forder of social precedence this)

destroying public buildings began at was no century was caused by Edward

at Princetown at a special nssize stipulated date for opening. The VIIIs abdication. Hundreds of

the end of April, 1932. Royal Society recently discussed

Two other prisoners were charged peers, baronets and knights have Submarines to Help Establish their sealed belongings and decided slid up or down the social scale.

with attacking warders.

After a fortnight's trini, which that the time had come to release The new order appears in the latest

cost more than £3,000, the jury their secrets.

issue of Burke's 3,122-page "Peer- For the establishment of a Trans- found 23 prisoners guilty. Five were polar air line between Russia and recommended to leniency. The age 7 TITLES die

North America, the Soviet may gregate of the sentences passet by Eighteen peerages have been build

10 special submarines co- Mr. Justice Finley was 10 years created since the King came to the operate with neroplanes, ice-eight months. The terms imposed Throne, bringing the total of newbreakers, and huge amphibian tanks, were: peerages this century of 400.

it was announced at Moscow, says Penal servitude. Imprisonment.

Years. Exchange.

The submarines would be capable

In Faraday's case there

GIRL SENT BY POST

London, Jan, 1.

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A. O. Crane, an exhibitor stamp exhibition here, found he was too busy to take his 10-year-old daughter, Patricia, out to luncheon- so he posted her to her aunt's house at ilford. The human parcel cost 6/3 to send, and was delivered by n 15-year-old messenger-United Press. f'ress.

age."

Seven peerages became extinct in

1937. Six of them were new cren-

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tions. They included Lord Snowden, of travelling long distances under 12 Lord Kylsant, and Lord Rutherford. the leefelds in the Polar basin, 10 The order of precedence shows breaking through to the surface at that

the peers and fixed points along the air route. to above all Ministers of the Crown comes the set up a series of emergency acro- son of a Presbyterian minister-dromes and landing fields. The sub- Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop|marines will probably also be used of Canterbury,

for the selentine observations to be The Duke of Norfolk is the only carried out in the Polar regions.

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seven 4......... two The terms were additional to those the men were serving at the time of the mutiny.

One man was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm to a warder two days before the mutiny. He was sentenced to 12 years' penal servitude and, I understand, is not affected by the remissions now an- nounced.

were

PREVIOUS REDUCTIONS Thirteen of the mutinoera later refused leave to appeal by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

The then Home Secretary, Sir Herbert-now Viscount--Samuel, an- nounced that the sentences of 27 men at Dartmoor had been reduced by various amounts owing to their "meritorious behaviour" during the mutiny. One wan serving n life sentence.

Several men who thus earned re- mission of nentence were later ar-

rested and imprisoned for fresh offences,

Mr. Jumen Maxion, M.P. for Bridgeton, Glasgow, who asked the quentlan, in reply to which Sir Samuel Hoare made his announce ment yesterday, raised the matter of the reduction of the sentence Inst year,

A letter signed by a number of well-known

Mr. Maxton, Sir James Purves-Stewart,

people, including and the Counters of Oxford and Asquith, Auggested that an amnesly should-be granted to the men at the Coronation,

Sir John Simon, the then Home Sceretury, stated in the House in November inat year that n' number of the men who had received extra sentence had already been released. There were still 12 in prison, whom six would be released In tho ordinary course during 1937.

of

It was in 1877 that she was shot sixty feet into the air at the old Aquarium in Westminster, where the Central Hall now stands. the Central

Another of her famous acts was to jump from a tight-rope. She went to America, and while doing this act in New Mexico she fell and in- wns in her jured her back, She twenties then.

She could not act again, but she never lost her interest in the circus business,

Her husband was at the Crystal Palace for many years. Recently her body was taken to West Norwood Crematorium,

the Palace grounds.

Some however, hnd not then even begun to serve the additional sen- tences. In those circumstances he did not feel justified in taking any Immediate netion, but he had come to`the conclusion that it would be right to take up the nation ugalty-

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