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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, somo half million people who will be tasting the freedom of the roads for the first time. Divided and classifled, they will swell the ranks of cyclists to certainly not loss 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. Giften and Miss E. E. Hadley will take per at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, on Monday, June 27 at
of
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 any 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 principic of the modern tyre had been evolved, not in 1888, but 43 years earlier.. 4.30 p.m. being sent but all friends are The misfortune of the first in- eordially invited to the ceremony ventor, a Scotsman named Thom- and to the reception afterwards son, was that he had the right at Kingsville. Carnarvon Road.
iden at the wrong moment; Dunlop's luck that he introduced the pre- it (not knowing of invention) when the world was
Tavitations are
The
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Thongkong Telegraph. waiting for it.
THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1938.
WHAT SENSE IN
CENSORSHIP?
been
By STANLEY BARON
dress reform. Lady Harberton, wearing the curious form of knickerbocker called the bloomer, was
for
It would have waited many years without them.
THE Wrights,
ALARMING
QUAKES CONTINUE
them- world.
London Financial
District Shaken
United Press.
are still
The Victorian industrial ex-
While the new road vehicles pansion, with its call for the
refused admission to the spread over the land, Lilienthal above. With maximum transport mobility; the growth of interest in coun- public rooms of a Surrey hotel experimented try travel, in itself a product while engaged on a cycling tour. dangling body he flew his first of (though at the same time a She fought the proprietors and glider, landing on his feet.
But
London, June 15. reaction from) industrialism; lost in the law courts.
Earthquakes are still rocking the From time to time in the past (and the development of the first her cause was won; and could
of the new road vehicles, the never be put back. levelled criticism bas
The series of tremors which com- Bicycle these were the condi-
Speed.... The thirst for it
selves cycle engineers, against Hongkong's cinema cen-
tions, almost more than the
grew unquenchably.
followed with machines which menced with a major shock in the sors for one thing and another.man, which produced the modern
In 1886 the idea of a partially were motor-powered but landed China Sea, 300 miles from Hongkong, and have continued in practically But never before, so far as the tyre: which make 1888 so im- mechanical road carriage had on akids. It was the Voisins, every part of the world, public is aware, has there been portant a milestone in the history taken the odd form of a body first commercial airplane manu- being felt in Europe.
like a hansom cab, with saddles facturers in the world, who saAW Further tremors created uneasiness- an instance of such apparently of daily affairs.
and pedalling gear five that successful flight, if by auc-in London to-day, when the whole unreasonable prevention of the
cyclists behind. It was adver- cess was meant alao some degree of the financial district was rocked. showing of a picture in this
THE first result of the tised as "intended for potentates of safety, must depend on the
Since the major earthquake in Colony as in the recent case of
invention was to lift of the East, who can hire black use of wheels.. It was one thing
the Chiqu Sca was recorded, the March of Time's "Inside
East The bunning up cycling from the realm of servants to pedal them along to fly but another thing to land, major shocks have been report-
from Japan, the Near Nazi Germany."
used, and Belgium. Volcanic activity this educational film is all an interesting but arduous pas- while the owners, or nabobs, sit yet constantly increasing weight, ed
as heavier motors were
In New time to that of a national neces-
been pronounced the more remarkable in that gity; its second, and easily the
made improved landing vital. has
Guinea, the Philippine Islands and They introduced the use of cycle Japan, while minor shocks have been after its first view by the cen- more significant, was to whip up
wheels, the pneumatic tyres of felt in practically every part of the was passed without life to a tempo which has ever
IN England the petrol which would take the strain of world, including Australia, New Zea- question. What appears to have since gained pace.
engine came. The contact
without transmitting land, Mexico, California and through-
out Europe. happened is that, for some rea- There is historical irony in
still obscure, the German the fact that whereas the in- mechanical principles of the shock enough to cause a buckle.
Over 300 earthquakes Those first airplane tyres were Consulate-General was c. nsulted ventor's sole intention was to bicycle, popularised and in many
cases accelerated by the air-tyre about two inches in diameter. corded in Hongkong last year but their epicentres were so far distant DS to its reactions concerning utilise increased resilience to the picture, and was given an give the world a greater degree invention, were pressed into ser- The tyres of the modern liner or they were so light that they were
and faster-are nearly two feet through. felt only by the sensitive opportunity to view the film. of comfort, the world's imme- vice for the new
They are of electrically.conduc-graphs at the Royal Observatory. It was as a result of the German diate reaction was to use it for vehicle. Consulate-General's request that speed.
The differential axle of the tive rubber, discharging static the Chief Censor, the Hon. Mr.
On race track and road the tricycle became the live axle of electricity accumulated during & thousandth of a King, Commissioner of Police, new tyre swept the old aside. the car; the Ackerman steering flight in instructed the two theatres con-
Speed.. the world loved it, of the tandem tricycle was second as the machine touches cerned to show the film without went crazy for it. Of all the borrowed and became universal; ground.
Such is the end to which a the accompanying comment-in fantastic industrial and financial the variable gear; the adjustable other words, as a silent picture, booms, few have paralleled that ball and roller bearing: the steel middle-aged unknown "vet.," no without captions or explana-which attended the cycling craze tube; the free-wheel clutch engineer, was in reality bowling tions. Why was this? Because in the nineties.
with these gifts from the bicy- his rubber-tyred hoop, in an
Irish yard, 50 years ago. the German Consulate-General
cle the automobile was born.
sors
son
it
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 picture 1000; 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,
morcover,
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 Germany mous facilitation of the exercise which could be construed as de-of cycling, closed an era for On bicycles grading or in any other way English women. 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 for women, he could only got allow it to show for one per a model to pose on it for illustra-
the ut formance
Queen's Theatre, and all day at the Altion by promising that her fea- hambra. This discrepancy, also,tures would be completely altered is not explained. The treat in reproduction, so that her ment of the whole matter in-reputation might be saved.
By 1897, so easy, gentle and dicates a lamentable confusion 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 eyeled in the parks, at- tercat 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 tyre was born. upon the future of affairs of Europe, is sonsoless.
With the cult of women's cycling came inevitably their
at their ease.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
H-25
By Lichty
"Yep-you'll find makin' your first hundred is the hardest!"*
were re-
selsmo-
Abyssinian Draws Sword On Italians Severely Wounds Two Before Being Shot
Rome, June 15. Five persons, including an Abys- ainian, 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.
his
The Abyssinian jumped to feet and, drawing his sword, struck the offleer, 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 sorious the militia-men sustaining cuts.
shot
the
Another militiaman Abyssinian. They were all taken to hospital, where the Italian officer, one and the Abys- of the militiamen
sinian are in a serious condition-
Reuter Special,
PRICELESS RELICS
DESTROYED
Bucharest, June 15. The Anny Museum in Bucherest was almost entirely destroyed on Wednesday morning by a fire which was caused by the carelessness of some workmen.
As a result, priceless historical ob- Jects have been lost-Trans-Ocean.
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