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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 18; 1088,

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URING the next two

months the road- using population of the British Isles may be expected to increase at the approximate average rate of sixty thousand weekly.

By the end of June there will be, at a conservative estimate, some half million people who will be tasting the freedom of the roads for the first time. Divided and classified, they will swell the ranks of cyclists to certainly not less than ten and a half millions and of motorists to over 1,800,000.

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ANNOUNCEMENT

The wedding of Mr G. W. Giffen and Miss E. E. Hadley will take place at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, on Monday, June 27 at 4:30 pm. Invitations Are

not being sent but all friends are cordially invited to the cerenouy and to the reception afterwards at Kingsville, Carnarvon Road,

The

may be exercised to find one; probably it will be only the tyres. they ride. But study that single factor and you will get some in- teresting results.

It would not seem untrue to say that the invention of the pneumatic tyre, which this year celebrates its jubilee, brought into existence an entirely new form of social organisation. Yet, in fact, the principle of the modern tyre had been evolved, not in 1888, but 48 years earlier. The misfortune of the first in- ventor, a Scotsman named Thom- son, was that he had the right iden at the wrong moment: Dunlop's luck that he introduced it (not knowing of the pre-

Hongkong Telegraph. invention) when the world was

THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1938.

WHAT SENSE IN

CENSORSHIP?

From time to time in the past criticism has been levelled against Hongkong's cinema cen- sors for one thing and another But never before, so far as the public is aware, has there been an instance of such apparently unreasonable prevention of the showing of a picture in this Colony as in the recent case of the March of Time's "Inside

of

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it,

The Victorian industrial ex- pansion, with its call for the maximum. transport mobility; the growth of interest in coun- try travel, in itself a product of (though at the same time a reaction from) industrialiam; and the development of the first of the new road vehicles, the bicycle these were the condi- tions, almost · more than the man, which produced the modern tyre; which make 1888 80 im- portant a milestone in the history of daily affairs.

THE first result of the invention was to lift Nazi Germany." The banning up cycling from the realm of this educational film is all an interesting but arduous pas- time to that of a national neces- the more remarkable in that

sity; its second, and easily the after its first view by the cen-more significant, was to whip up sors it was passed without life to a tempo which has ever question. What appears to have since gained pace. happened is that, for some rea- There is historical irony in

still obscure, the German the fact that whereas the in- Consulate-General was consulted ventor's sole intention was to to its reactions concerning utilise increased resilience to the picture, and was given an give the world a greater degree opportunity to view the film. of comfort, the world's imme- It was as a result of the German diate reaction was to use it for Consulate-General's request that speed. the Chief Censor, the Hon. Mr.

On race track and road the King, Commissioner of Police, new tyre swept the old aside. Instructed the two theatres con-

Speed the world loved it, cerned to show the film without went crazy for it. Of all the the accompanying comment-in fantastic industrial and financial other words, as a silent picture, booms, few have paralleled that without captions or explana- which attended the cycling craze tions. Why was this? Because in the nineties. the German Consulate-General

In a year the membership of

considered the comment offen- the Cyclists' Touring Club sive? That must be the pre-swung up from 16,000 to 34,- sumption. And yet the picture000; in five years to 60,000. was shown in England and was banned in the United States because it was pro-Nazi! It is highly improbable, moreover,

MORE subtle in another that the March of Time would

effect, the application have been given facilities for of the new tyre, with its enor- filming anything in Germanymous facilitation of the exercise which could be construed as de- of cycling, closed an era for grading or in any other way English women. On bicycles offensive. There can surely be they rode through the gate to nothing in such a film to hide.emancipation,

It is therefore beyond compre- In 1887, a year before the in- hension why it should not have vention of the pneumatic, when been shown at least without the Albone, a famous bicycle maker running comment supplied.. But the Censors said no. They did of the period, designed a machine allow it to show for one per- for women, he could only get formance

a model to pose on it for illustra- at the Queen's Theatre, and all day at the Al- tion by promising that her fea- hambra. This discrepancy, also, tures would be completely altered is not explained. The trent in reproduction, so that her ment of the whole matter in-reputation might be saved. dicates a lamentable confusion

By 1897, so easy, gentle and and unreasonableness. It is all acceptable a pastime had cycling too seldom that cinema pro- become that more than a quarter grammes in Hongkong contain of its practitioners were women. anything of really topical in- They cycled in the parks, at- terest and to deprive the public tended fashionable schools to of an intimate, and surely learn the proper cycling style.

And when they cycled out of authorised glimpse of what is going on in that remarkable the parks they entered a new country, Germany, whose age. It is not untrue to say policies and practices are bound that Victorianism died when the to have a tremendous influence modern tyro was born. upon the future of affairs of With the cult of women's Europe, is senseless..

cycling come inevitably their

By STANLEY BARON

dress reform. Lady Harberton,

form wearing the curious

of knickerbocker called the bloomer, was refused admission to the public rooms of a Surrey hotel while engaged on a cycling tour. She fought the proprietors and law

But courts. lost in the her cause was won; and could never be put back.

Speed.

The thirst for it

grew unquenchably.

many

It would have waited years without them.

While the new road vehicles spread over the land, Lilienthal above. With experimented dangling body he flew his first glider, landing on his feet.

ALARMING QUAKES CONTINUE

London Financial District Shaken

London, June 15. Earthquakes are still rocking the world.

them THE Wrights,

selves cycle engineers, The series of tremors which com- followed with machines which menced with a major shock in the In 1885 the idea of a partially were motor-powered but landed China Sea, 300 miles from Hongkong, mechanical road carriage had on skids. It was the Voisins, every part of the world,

and have continued in practically taken the odd form of a body first commercial airplane manu- being folt in Europe.

are still

like a hansom cab, with saddles facturera in the world, who saw Further tremors created uneasiness- and pedalling gear for five that successful flight, if by suc-in London to-day, when the whole cyclists behind. It was adver- cess was meant also some degree of the financial district was rocked.-- tised us "intended for potentates of safety, must depend on the United Press. Since the of the East, who can hire black use of wheels. It was one thing

major earthquake In the China Sea was recorded, servants to pedal them along to fly but another thing to land, major shocks have been report- while the owners, or nabobs, sit yet constantly increasing weight,ed from Japan, the Near East as heavier. motora were used, and Belgium. Volcanic activity made improved landing vital has

pronounced They introduced the use of cycle Japan, while minor shocks have been Guinea, the Philippine Islands and wheels, the pneumatic tyres of felt in practically every part of the IN England the petrol which would take the strain of world, Including Austraila, New Zea- engine came. The contact without transmitting land, Mexico, California and through- mechanical principles of the shock enough to cause a buckle. out Europe, bicycle, popularised and in many cases accelerated by the air-tyre invention, were pressed into ser- vice for the new and faster vehicle.

at their ease..

been

in

New

Those first airplane tyres were Over 300 earthquakes were re- year but about two inches in diameter.corded in Hongkong last

their epicentres were so far distant The tyres of the modern liner or they were so light that they were are nearly two feet through. felt only by the sensitive Beismo- They are of electrically-conduc-graphs at the Royal Observatory. The differential axle of the tive rubber, discharging static tricycle became the live axle of electricity accumulated during the car; the Ackerman steering flight in 3 thousandth of a of the tandem tricycle was second as the machine touches borrowed and became universal; ground. the variable gear; the adjustable Such is the end to which a ball and roller bearing; the steel middle-aged unknown "vet.," no tube; the free-wheel clutch engineer, was in reality bowling with these gifts from the bicy- his rubber-tyred hoop, in an cle the automobile was born. Irish yard, 50 years ago.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

H-16

By Lichty

"Yep-you'll find makin' your first hundred to the hardest?"

Abyssinian Draws Sword On Italians

Severely Wounds Two Before Being Shot

Rome, June 15. Five persons, including un Abys- sinian, were injured in an incident In Addis Ababa yesteday.

An Abyssinian knelt before the Lion of Judah and was apparently praying when an Italian officer spoke to him.

The Abyssinian jumped to his. fcet and, drawing his sword, struck the officer, who was seriously injured. The Abyssinian then struck a passer- by, also injuring him.

Two Italian militia-men tried to disarm the Abyssinian and all three, were injured in the struggle, one of the militia-men sustaining Berious cuts.

Another militiaman shot the Abyssinian. They were all taken to hospital, where the Italian officer, one of the militiamen and the Abys- allan are in a serious condition.- Reuter Special,

PRICELESS RELICS

DESTROYED

Bucharest,' June 15, The Army Museum in Bucharest was almost entirely destroyed on Wodnesday morning by a fire which was caused by the carelessness of some 'workomen.

As a result, priceless historical ob- jects have been lost-Trans-Ocean,