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THE HONGKONG TE LEgraph, Wednesday, JANUARY 11, 1039.

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HONGKONG HOTEL

GARAGE

Days are

-Direction of MGON

The Earth is Getting late.. longer... Sun-spots are upsetting Radio..

It may be

Driest

The Period

for Years

BSERVATIONS made the

the

is departing from its cal- culated course. At present time it. is farther

past 18

Last year was

at Greenwich have months may be shown that the Moon a result of this. the driest year in Hongkong for 40 years.

Though it seems that sun- spots do have. some effects on weather-

Stubbs Road...Phone: 27778-9.from its position, according to the theory of gravitation, than it has been at any time since 1680.

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 January 11, 1939

When Is a War?

steered clear of the ticklish GREAT BRITAIN, thus far, has international problem created by the hostilities between China and Japan. Neither China nor Japan will admit that a war is in progress and there has been tically, this pretence has not no normal declaration. Diploms only suited Japan and China but also, apparently, the Western

Powers,

The blame for this apparently erratic behaviour is to be put on our own Earth.

the

as indicated, for Instance, by the in variations

Direction of EARTH'S Rotation,

←TIDAL

BULGE

This drawing

shows how the

Moon exerts its pull on the tides,

which, in turn, by their friction on the ocean beda act as a. bruke slowing down

the

Earth's rotation.

The Earth provides us with our standard of time: the day, If the length of the day changes the widths of because the Earth does not turn the annual rings round on its axis at a constant of trees [shown rate, the Moon will be ina in cross sections slightly different place in the heavens from that in which we of the trunks appearing, to which swarms with jelly-fish of men where they should fish to expect to find it.

Other bodies, such

all kinds.

obtain good catches. coincide with the number of sun- the spots-those effects are largely

other Guide to Fishermen 1819 Over Again? complicated factors that continue found to be in positions that are

WHEN the Gulf Stream is MANY people are anxious to know whether sun-spots will Sun, Mercury or Venus are also conecaled by the many

Bun- strong, catches of these fish It is not fair to blame

poor. The most valuable afford any guide to the weather slightly different from their cal- to make the weather. culated ones, but as the motions

concerned food-fish prefer the cold stream to be expected this year. There astronomer or meteoro- with wireless communication coming from the North, which is no

the sun for is rich in the phosphates that logist who could predict with any this year's. can justly blame some of the troubles that they provide nourishment for the ani- confidence what

malcules on which the fish feed. weather will be. are experiencing.

meteorological Not enough is yet known about

Hongkong's They may be receiving short

slower than that of the Moon those organisations of these bodies in the sky are spots for our dry weather. But are their errors are not so grent. Friction of Tides

Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. person took cut a writ of Habeas millions of years, until at length More Sun-Spots

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Mutiny ON THE BOUNTY"

know no fiercar rebellion than that which smouldered white hot in the heart of this "gentleman" sant to common sailors school. •••

„"CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS" olfared no greater battles of character...no grandar adventuras... than this hearty-story drama of men in the making!

MICKEY FREDDIE

BARTHOLOMEW ROONEY

STARTS TO-MORROW

Lord

Jeff

CHARLES COBURN HERBERT MUNDIN GALE SONDERGAARD

A SAM WO00 Production A Metro Goldwyn o úlayer Pictura Pinduced by FRANK DAVIS

KING'S

re-

in

the Gulf

In the detention in Hongkong of a number of Chinese soldiers astronomer can use either

the Earth, the Moon, the wave wireless messages quite these changes

n fow Stream to say whether or not records do not go further back interned in Kowloon City until, Sun, Mercury or Venus, as a normally when, within

are being studied by the develop land, a hundred years ago, the presumably, the termination of hostilitics, the Hongkong Gov-clock; and the last four of these seconds, the messages will fade they are due to sun-spots; they than the Seventies. But in Eng- ment commission on fishery mat- rainfall in the first five months of the year was double the nor- ernment appears to have set agree in showing that the Earth away entirely.

It has been established precedent which can quite con-is a bad timekeeper,

It is easy to see why the day cently that these fadings syn ters.

It would indeed be fortunate mal, and one of the driest sum- ceivably have unforeseen re-

should gradually get longer. chronise exactly with intensely

catablished that mers on record followed, with a total rainfall from the middle of sults.

If China and Japan are not at The friction of tidal waters on hol eruptions on the sun. Such if it could be "war" in the official sense of the the beds of the oceans acts as a eruptions usually occur in the sun-spots do influence these May to the end of August of less

rotation of the neighbourhood of sun-spots and changes, because we can predict than 1 in.

with fair accuracy how nume-

Whether this year in Hong- word, by what authority are the brake on the

rous sun-sopts are going to be. prisoners detained? And what Earth, and gradually slows it are frequent when the spots are

numerous and rare when they It would then become possible kong will follow a similar course- would be the Government's posi-down.

also to predict the course of the it is impossible to say. No pre- tion if any Chinese or other This process will go on for are few.

Gulf Stream and to advise fisher- cedent has been catablished, Corpus, demanding the release the Earth will always turn the of one or more of the internees? same face to the Moon, just as AS sun-spots will become still more numerous for the next the Moon already always turns Blockade

the same face to the Earth. two years, it looks as though THE DANGER in the visit to The day will then be equal to there is going to be considerable interruption in the reception of the 47 of our present days. Rome this week of

But this gradual lengthening beam wireless messages. Premier, Mr, Neville Chamber-

Can we also blame sun-spots lain, is that he may be induced of the day is not uniform: same-

He appears often to be horribly by Signor Mussolini to grant times it is accelerated, some for the changes in the course of

The cause of the Gulf Stream and other ocean and how infinitely refreshing socially misled by the idea of his own im

portance, he, erittelses things of which belligerent rights to Franco in times retarded.

No young man with all his glitter- he has had no experience, and sneers Spain-the right to stop, in the these variations is perhaps due currents?

These changes are of greating exploits can achieve the Indelnat old age as something Victorian. High Seas off England or any-to a slight expansion or contrac-

to the fishing in-able charm whch characterises the which ought to be put out of life

decently. where else, any ship which may tion of the Earth as a whole, importance

. Herring, haddock, older man. the An oscillation of the surface by dustry.

The modern youth, for all our ad- be carrying supplies to

one or two feet above and below plaice, and sole intensely dislike miration of his enterprise and his Loyalists.

The granting of belligerent its mean value would be sufli- the warm Gulf Stream water,vitalising ideas in business, is a noisy rights to Franco would not cient to account for them. necessarily end the war through

starving the Loyalists of arms One Second a Year

materials. and war

But it

would probably end the war by THE most rapid change in the length of the day occurred starving the women and chil dren in Loyalist Spain. There between 1863 and 1875, and are 3,715,000 children and over amounted to one three-hundredth 3,000,000 refugees from other part of a second a day, giving an parts of Spain in Loyalist terri- accumulated error in the courso tory. Theirs is a problem of of a year of more cruel distress on a mass scale.second.

than one

For the Loyalists there is nei- The best astronomical clocks

made are ther peace nor plenty, but war yet

almost good

A

and scarcity. Any concession enough to check this error.

to Franco will place into Insur-new form of clock, however, in gent hands the deadly weapon which the time is registered by of starvation,

Intervention

the vibrations of a crystal of quartz, is being made for the Greenwich Observatory, and this FOR TWO and a half years the should be reliable to the one- Spanish people have been thousandth part of a second per It may prove to be a defending their elected Govern-day. ment against a military re- better time-keeper than the bellles begun and supported by Earth, Totalitarian States.

The length of the day can While Britain and other de- change with considerable sud- mocratic countries have, forbiddenness. The quickest changes den the sending of arms to the have occurred about 1790, 1896, Loyalists in the name of "Non-Land 1917. These were only Intervention Italy and Ger- found by astronomical observa- many have openly sent armies, tiona. Perhaps the next sud- aeroplanes and "advisors" to General Franco, and have pub- den chango will be revealed by

our clocks, "Non- licly boasted of breaking

At the present time sun-spots Intervention."

Without their:

backing, and other disturbances on the Franco a rebellion would never sun are rapidly becoming moro have started or, at the utmost, frequent. It has been suggested would have been stillborn.- that the abnormal, weather of

Why I Prefer The Man of 40

jerealure, who has uncouth munners small, uncomfortable car much too fast because he thinks

By A Girl of 20 and drives a

youth, what a welcome antidote

this modern world of outspoken it is clever.

Is the men of 40.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Lupo 1546 By Zložied Probory Byuživala, Tos.

"Money doesn't mean happiness! Snodgrass, over there, with his two million lan't a bit happier, than Fußleigh with

•his milion.""

*

+

A three topics of conversation- ALL the young men I know have Themselves, their Clubs, and their Cars--and one qualification-they ean dance.

The youth of to-day thinks it is ainusing to be cynical, especially to- wards wornen, in whose presence he likes to show off atrociously. He does not realise his own rawness, his lack of subtlety, or the emptiness of This words.

You can see him everywhere, ut the hotels, at the Club and at parties, hands in pockets, elgarette in mouth, smiling #227 smile of complete complacency, because be really be Heves he is the salt of the earth,

The man of 40 la a very different person. He has learned to look on nature not as lu the hour of thought- less youth" but with the chastened understanding of experience.

The lesson of his own follies has. made him tolerant of other people's weaknesses. He treats women with. deference and respect, because be can. remember the days when we were really placed on a pedestal. He is. courteous and considerate, he known. how to pay compliments,

He in a charming companion be- cause he has long since outgrown talking about himself. He is witty without being vulgar. He can choose a good dinner unostentatiously, and does not bully his inferiors.

He takes an interest in Life itself, not merely its pleasures. Ele Is sympathetic, because few men reach the age of 40 without come suffering. Like new wine, youth is harsh and crude to the palate; the older man is: mature and mellow. He may have grey hair, be unable to driven car and more than 35 miles an hour, detest parties, but I feel stimulated and ante with him.

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