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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1938.

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The World Goes Round

On This

This Invention

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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.

Look in both groups for a

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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- Leresting results.

It would not seem untrue to Any that the invention of the F-- WAORD pneumatic tyre, which this year celebrates its jubilee, brought into existence an entirely new form of social organisation. Yet, the in fact, the principle of modern tyre had been evolved,

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it Kingsville, Carnarvon Rond.

and ME E. Hadley will take gure of St Andrew's Church, Kowloon, on Monday, June 27 not in 1888, but 43 years carlier. The misfortune of the first in- Ventor, a Scotsman named Thom- son, was that he had the right idea at the wrong moment; Dunlop's luck that he introduced it (not knowing of the pre- invention) when the world was

The

Hongkong Telegraph. waiting for it.

THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1930

WHAT SENSE IN CENSORSHIP?

From time to time in the past

been criticism has

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 picture in this showing of a

Colony us in the recent case of the March of Time's. "Inside

of

яon

WAA

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) Industrialism; 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 ao im- portant a milestone in the history of daily affairs.

THE first result of the invention was to lift Nazi Germany." The banning up eveling 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 Hora it

passed without life to a tempo which has ever question. What appears to have since gained pace.

There is historical irony in heppened is that, for some rea-

still obscure, the German the fact that whereas the in- Consulate General was consuited ventor's sole intention was to 45 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, that the March of Time would 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 other way English women. grading or in any offensive. There can surely be they rode through the gate to nothing in such a film to hide.emancipation,

MORE subtle in another effect, the application

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 of the period, designed a machine the Censors said no. They did for women, he could only get allow it to show for one per- a model to pose on it for illustra- formance 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.

By 1897, 50 cosy, 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 cycled in the parks, at- terest and to deprive the public tended fashionable schools to of intimate, and Burely 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 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.

un

country,

upon the future of affairs of Europe, is senseless.

With the cult of women's

cycling

came inevitably their

By STANLEY BARON

dress reform. Lady Harberton,

form wearing the curious

of knickerbocker called the bloomer, Wats refused admission to the public rooms of a Surrey hotel while engaged on a cycling tour. She fought the proprietors and law courts. But lost in the her cause was won; and could never be put back.

Speed. The thirst for it grew unquenchably.

It would have waited many 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.

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ALARMING QUAKES CONTINUE

London Financial District Shaken

London, Junie 15.

Earthquakes are still rocking the

them-world.

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, and have continued in practically mechanical road carriage had on skids. It was the Volsins,overy part of the world. 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 saw and pedalling gear five that successful flight, if by auc- cyclists behind. It was adver- cess was meant also some degree

at their ease.

*

for

are still

Further tremors created uneasiness

in London to-day, when the whole of the financial district was rocked.—

United Press,

tised as "intended for potentates of safety, must depend on the Since the major earthquake In of the East, who can hire black use of wheels. It was one thing the Chinu Sca 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, el from Japan, the Near

Belglum. Volennic used, and

oclivity as heavier motors were

been pronounced In New made improved landing vital. They introduced the use of cycle Guinea, the Philippine Islands and Japan, while minor shocks have been wheels, the pneumatic tyres of felt in practically every part of the IN England the petrol which would take the strain of world, including Australia, New Zea-

engine came.

The contact without transmitting land, Mexico, California and through-

out Europe. mechanical principles of the shock enough to cause a buckle.

Over 300 carthquakes were re- Those first airplane tyres were bicycle, popularised and in many

year but corded in Hongkong last cases accelerated by the air-tyre about two inches in diameter. their epicentres were so far distant 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 vice for the new

They are of electrically-conduc- graphs at the Royal Observatory. vehicle.

The differential axle of the tive rubber, discharging static tricycle became the live axle of electricity accumulated during thousandth of a the car; the Ackerman steering flight in of the tandem tricycle was second as the machine touches borrowed and became univerani; ground. the variable gear; the adjustable ball and roller bearing: the steel tube; the free-wheel clutch with these gifts from the bicy- cle the automobile was born.

Such is the end to which a middle-aged unknown "vet.," no engineer, was in reality bowling his rubber-tyred hoop, in an Irish yard, 50 years ago.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

4.15

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By Lichty

"Yep-jou'll And makein! your first hundred in the hardesti"

scismo-

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

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

Two Italian militia-man tried to disarm the Abyssinian and all three were injured in the struggle, one of the militia-mensustaining serious cuta.

militiaman Another

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

PRICELESS RELICS

DESTROYED

Bucharest, June 15, The Army Museum in Bucharest destroyed on was almost entirely 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.