1939-04-14 — Page 2

Friday;

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 14, 1939.

SOME DAY YOUR CAR MAY BE RUNNING ON COAL DUST

New Engine Ready For Trial

SOME DAY you may be running your car on coal. Yes, motorist, on coal-not on petrol or gas obtained from coal, but on coal itself, introduced into the cylinder in the form of a fine dust and mixed with compressed air so as to form an explosive mixture.

Experiments on the use of coal-dust in. Diesel engines have been proceeding for a long time, but they are now entering the practical stage.

Dr. Hans Wahl, a German engineer atruction and operation had reduced who is one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, told the Internal Combustion Engine Group of the Institution of Mechanical En- gineers at Swansen recently of the surces which has attended these experiments.

WHAT EVERY-MINER KNOWS

He said that after several decades of development the coal-dust engine. can be regarded as "ripe for trial in Rervice."

New British Aircraft Carrier

London.

TREAT Britain's air power at

sea is considerably augment- ed with the commissioning for service of the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Ark Royal. Carrying a full complement of airplanes," she is likely to join ships of the home fleet on the spring cruise which begins this month.

war planes the Arst squadron of She will carry among her sixty "hell dive" bombers ever put into the bombers is thus for a secret, but service by Britain, The speed of the rate of wear of the cylinder lin- they are understood to be more than ing and piston rings to a fraction of eighty miles per hour faster what it formerly was,' and had brought erosion and burning at the the famous American "hell diver exhaust valve, and carbonisation and

The

new ship, grossing 22,000 crosion of the injection nozzles, within tons, le nearly 800 feet long over all,

and ber flight deck reasonable limits.

towers some seventy feet above the water line, The dimeuit question of the chok-Much of her equipment is

secret and brought near to a final solution after the practical tests it will undergo as ing of the dust valves had also been awaits trini in service conditions:

extensive experiments.

soon as the ship reis to sea will pro value as a fighting unit. vide

mensure of the new carrier's The Ark Royal is the first British warship to be designed exclusively an aircraft. carrier. Her fult complement for sea-going duty will comprise some 1.800 men and about It is well known to every

140-

ofcers. Hangar space is pro- miner

vided below decks for sixty modern. that a mixture of coal dust and mir

པ

It was possible to say, sald Dr. war planes. The n of Rear be highly explosive. Some of the worst explosions underground Wahl, with typleni scientifle caution, Admirni G. C. Royle. Senior Fleet the outstanding operational Air Arm officer, fics ut the mast→ have been caused by such mixtures.

difficulties of the coal-dust engine head. Scientists have been trying to harness this explosive property of had been so far overcome as to en- From a mile away the Ark Royal cool-air mixtures to engineering pur-sure the possibility of further im- dominates poses and now they seem on the provements to give good performance Destroyers, cruisers and even the point of succeeding.

Ila eficiency and advantages, as well as

as the limits of its field of appli- cation and the extent to which it was likely to be able to compete with other forms of prime mover, could be fairly clearly forecast.

muy

ITS FIRST USE

Cylinder lubrication had already been brought within the average usuni in all engines na regarda quantity of Jubricant supplied, while the pro- blem of sludge removal, a matter of special importance in the coat-dust engine, had been solved in simple manner.

that

in continuous service.

USE OF GAS PRODUCERS

very

Portsmouth

St

B 2263

n 2030.

Grub.

R 2199.

R 2156.

I Hate Vice.

R 2130.

R 2100,

O Stri

RONALD FRANKAU. (The Ace of Humourists) on PARLOPHONE RECORDS

R 2307. Marriage. Will Not Take Place.

I Don't Like Her Circle of Friends,

Good Morning Mr. Barlow.

I'd. Give Everything I've Got.

Muale.

'R 2239. Faust De-Bunked.

Don't Tell My Mother,

It's Getting Harder To Discover.

And So To Bed,

You Make My Wheels Go Round.

I'd Rather Be A Savage,

I Couldn't Make To The Girl of To-day.

Navy and The Army & The Pilcc, Have A Little Pity Qa fler.

- 2003. I'm Terribly. Terribly British.

Chinese Nights.

etc., elc., etc.

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY Marina House, 19. Queen's Road C. Tal. 24648.

12EREK

เก

Strike of 2,200 employees 13 hotels for a closed shop re- cently stagnated Washington, D. C., and caused embarrassment to many officials who lived in hotels but who healtated to cross the picket lines. Here is Senator Carter Glass of Virginia cross- ing at the Mayflower.

One Jersey

And Oh,

So Very Hush, Hush!

dockyard. mighty 35,000-ton battleship Rodney appear 11iputian Dlongsida the vessel, which derivej an appearance At first coal dust would be used Other speakers told the group of of outstanding size from her flight only for stationary Diesel engines, the use of gas producers for driving deck, a flat expanse of steel extend- but there is no reason to rule out ulti-road vehicles.

ing 250 yards and stretching 100 mately the possibility of its use for

In these producers gas is made by overhangs the sides of the ship and feet from side to side. The deck road vehicles,

In any case, the development of the passing air through

runta uninterruptedly from the bows IN ADMIRALTY Orders, concerning kit which the coal-dust engine may be the best thracite or low-temperature coke or

project over the stern. news the coal industry has had for some similar solid fuel; water or long time and may prove as revolu- steam may be introduced along with to the design of other aircraft at their own expense, appears the following:

Busleally, the Ark Royal conforms newly-formed Fleet Air Arm Supplementary will supply tionary as James Watt's development the air blast, but opinions differ on

She has two carriers. the value of so doing. of the steam engine..

its ash content,

3 fre of an-

Lo

Three lifts

hangars. ahmatics to and! Dr. Wahl said the performance of)

A 31-seater single-deck omnibus from the deck. The control super- the coal-dust engine in service was has run on producer gas for over a structure rises above deck level on dependent primarily on the qualities year between Inverness und the the starboard side. Right in the of the coal dust used and particularly North, covering some 32,000 miles: fore of this deck are two ramps used the fuel consumption works out at for accelerated like-off. The de- £90 a year, which compares with tensive armament of the ship consists £253 for petrol and £130 for Diesel of 4.5-inch anti-aircraft guns dis- posed at each "corner" of the ship and arranged its double-barrel units to give a concentration of

Are. "Pompom" multiple-barrel guns give further protection.

PROBLEMS SOLVED The use of special wear-resisting steels, and various precautions In con-

oil.

She's In England To Fetch Star

MRS. AD SCHULBERG, blonde and bright-eyed, is known In Hollywood as "the woman who knows all about the stars," and is in London to straighten out the Danielle Day-- rieux mix-up.

AIR INTELLIGENCE OFFICE Located in a comprehensive con-- trol tower in in Air Intelligence Office, where check will be kept on movements of aircraft patrolling perhaps a hundred miles away.

Without their complement of air- craft the hangars appear unduly | long--just floating tunnels of steel. Fuel, off and water pipes running along

#walle" of the ship provide laid on time-hits.

services for re- From the

the

806-FLEET AIR ARM SUPPLEMENTARY PARTY—KIT (V. 1356/39.-23.3.1939.)

The list given in paragraph 9 of A.F.O. 147a/39 of kit to be provided by Men of the Fleet Air Arm Supplementary Party entered as Able Seamen is to be amended as follows:-

Add 1 Jersey.

A.F.O. 1478/89

(This Order will be reprinted for posting on Notice Boards.)

Very hush, hush, this! That's why it couldn't be given before. Stamped across the orders, in bold blue capitals, was the warning: "Not for publication or broadcasting before A.M. 25/3/39,"

Camp Derelict For 22 Years

Is Refugees' Haven

RICHBOROUGH ̈CAMP (near Sandwich).

She is an international show French producer,“ Mrs. Schulbergi agent, and the wife of producer said.

room after

of the hangars project THIS is still a mystery camp, as it was 22 years ago numerous nozzles from which, Schulberg, Mrs. Schulberg will "But I want to take her back with

in when the soldiers who were brought here secretly emergency, anti-fre liquid can be need all her knowledge and ex-me. They like her in the States.

sprayed. perience for the job that has "I don't think she exactly walked steel divide the hangar up

Curtains of fire-resisting had no idea where they were.

into brought her across the Atlantic. ut ur Hollywood. She didn't per- separate compartments,

haps know the language over there! An extensive space is set aside for Lovely Danielle Darrieux, 21- very thoroughly. years-old French star, went to Holly- "Universal sent a legat representa-carriers have gone to sea very much

Now nameless German refugees are being quarter- Spares, Hitherto, aircrufted in the same hutments-men who must keep their wood on a contract with Universal tive over, but she didn't see him. dependent on shorebased replace- identities, and whereabouts solidly built that few repairs were

"Hollywood wanted to remake my face, figure, and soul. They wanted

a new 'me.' I resisted and left."

Mrs. Schulberg

Rircraft

the

many nuts, from common knowledge in again bolts, wings, spars, radio equipment order to protect their fami-

so forth which may require the lies at home. Danielle goes on ski-tention on a long voy

BTD SO

voyage. In

Films, made pletures for six months She just didn't want to get involved.ment services for and then stamped out of the place I may go back to France to her ap back to France, saying:

In a day or two." ing In Megeve. Meanwhile

Ark Royal large store rooms are British men were trained to Hollywood, says Mrs. Schulberg, is reserved for these spares: innumer- getting perturbed about the success able steel shelves and rocks awatt kill Germans during the war. to of British films-in New York now the thousands went over point out to Danielle that the ques- there are three doing very well.

of parts needed, as Now, the sons of some of those tion of the contract remained."

Of British stars she remarked that to home in this floating airdrome. the occupations of peace.

standby for the fleet of aircraft soon Germans will be trained here in "1 went to see her in Megeve the men are so much better than Padded racks in the French ski-ing

one section are centre-and the women-"I don't really know ready to take seaplane foats when talked 1 over with her. She was what English women, with very nice, but she seems to be un-exceptions, lack in Alms. But they landplanes on board, which will then a few necessary. These will be fitted to der certain legal obligations to a lack something."

(Continued on Next Column.)

THE QUINTESSENCE OF PIPE ENJOYMENT

(RICHARD LLOYD & SONS

LONDON ENGLAND

TRADE.

MARK

WIR

MIXTURE PIPE TOBACCO

FOUR STRENGTHS, EXTRA-MILD, MILD, MEDIUM AND FULL. OBTAINABLE AT ALL TOBACCONISTS AND STORES.

FLOATING POPULATION

The first batch of 60 men arrived

needed.

ground, cleaning and assembling the

How Refugees are clearing the glant steam-cooking plant, scrubbing conditioning the floors inches deep in rubbish, and 45 sleepng huts. Their work is voluntary.

POCKET MONEY APPEAL The old engineering workshops will be used as classrooms for car- pentry, motor engineering and other trades.

recently. They are nearly all mar- entirely to recreation. Another is One building will be given over ried, some with several young chil- dren, and with few exceptions have being fitted as a hospital, and a third been in concentration camps,

as an out-patient depot..

By the end of March the camp One thing so far, unprovided for will hold 3,500-Its full capacity, the men is pocket money. They Population will be floating, for as arrive penniless. Mr. May hopes mea arc trained, they will be that a sympathetic pubile may emigrated, chiefly, t to Australia and "adopt" individual men and provide South America.

them with dd, or more a week.

"It will be a fucky country which gets them," Mr. J. A. May, head of

the camp, said. "Most have excep- FOOD PROBLEM

tlonal qualifications, and some are stilled in processes unknown except

In Germany."

FEW REPAIRS needed

£2,000 'a

WITH GASTRITIS

A lawyer who earned

For years, doctors wanted to year in Germany was removing rust find a food that would not Jr- from a hot-plate machine which once ritate the inflamed stomach walls kept food warm for English Tommies, of patients suffering from gas- and the headmaster of a famous technical school was digging a trench in the mud for piping.

Kitchener Comp has lain, derelict for over 20 years, but it was so

be able to fly as seaplanes while the ship la in harbour,

tritis and that at the same time would rebuild the patient's strength. 'In severe cases of gas- tritis: solid foods are out of the question, oven liquid foods are often vomited. Yet the patient. build his exhausted body. In needs quick now strength to re-

Horlicks, doctors and nurses havė found an idealfood.

The Ark Royal in the first of six new aircraft carriers-ordered for the Royal Navy. Four of these are now being

bulit,

each approximating 23,- 060 tons. All will be able to reach a speed of thirty-one knots, enabl-

White other foods are rejected, ing aircraft to take off from and Horlicks is retained by the land on the flight decks even in con- patient. And almost at once dillons of dead calm, Soon the navy strength starts to come back, will be able to take to sea in aircraft with the result that convalescence carriers some 400 frst-line aircraft,

a formidable air armada which will | Is shortened too.

Got Horlicks'

be supplemented by about 100 air- to-day from your store. in craft carried in battleships and delicious to taste.. erulara fitted with catapult launch-

ing gear.

(3)

Hanoi-Kunming-Chungking-Chengtu Line

Every Thu, & Sat. from Hanoi to Kunming Every Sun., Wed. & Fri, from Kunming to Chungking Evory Wod. & Fri. from Chungking to Chengtu and return Every Mon, Wed, & Fri, from Chungking to Kunming Evory Wed. & Fri. .... from Kunming to Hanoi Kunming-Chengtu-Sian-Lanchow

Line

Every Thu, & Sat. from Kunming to Lanchow via Changtu & Slan Every Sun. & Fri. from Lanchow to Kunming via Sian & Chengtu Lanchow-Ninshia Line

Every Fri, from kanchow to Ninshia and roturn Chungking-Kwailin-Kunming Line Chungking-Kweilin and Kweilin-Chungkong trice a week Kweilin-Kunming and Kunming-Kwoilin onco

a week EURASIA. AVIATION CORPORATION Hongkong Office.

King's Bldg., 4th Flr. Tol, 25552, 25553.

NEW WEIRD CHARACTERS IN A NEW SPINE CHILLING STORY!

RATHBONE KARLONE LUGOSI

SON OF

NEW TERRORI

NEW THRILLST

FRANKENSTEIN

ATWILL

SON

Orkanal smeenplay by Willie Cooper Produced and directed by Howland V. LAS

A ROWLAND V. LEE Production A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE

COMMENCING TO-MORROW

ALHAMBRA