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ITALY

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH':'

June 7, 1939,

TAKES

WAR INVENTION

FROM BRITAIN

Experts Want Rich Men

To Aid Scientists'

BRITAIN has casually permitted to pass into Italian

hands an invention which would have been of enorm- ous value to her in time of war. This is an apparatus sen- sitive to infra-red rays, and capable of spotting aero- planes in cloud or fog at any height and at any speed.

Swift locution of hostile aircraft is vitally important in any plan of national defence.

Yet because Britain has no central organisation capable of handling new inventions, n present has been made, to a potential future enemy, of a device which might well substantially have reduced air raid risks in the British Isles.

After casual and unsatisfactory tests by British authorities, the apparatus was inspected, by Italian military experts-in this country.

A large sum of money changed hands and the inventor-the American born son of British parents-was persuaded to take up residence in Italy,

will be a scientific war," one retired officer. "Yet we

EMPIRE

NEWS

PRESS CONTROL IN SOUTH AFRICA

Rater

CAPE TOWN.

Some surprise was caused by the announcement of Gen. Hertzog, the Prime Minister, In the Assembly

recently that no legislation dealing with segregation of races would be introduced this session.

Gen. Hertzog, however, apparent- ly Intends to go ahead this session with his bills for the control of the Press. It is announced that the Prime Minister will shortly call a conference of editors of the princi-

pal newspapers to discuss his mea-

sures.

Of paramount interest to the Press is the proposal to vest disciplinary control in some body of similar status and function to the prohibits heads of State, both in the Union

The experiences of the inven- it comes tor make it clear that there is a no body or bodies working for have not a single physicist of repute insulting and slanderous attacks on

attached to the army.

the Services which can adequ- "The Furist countries have brand abroad. ately handle scientific discover-haved more ics of this type. COLD SHOULDERED

is claimed for the apparatus that it is sensitive to any object pass= ing through its field, whatever clouds or fog intervene. It can be used on ships for detecting the presence and position of other vessels below the horizon.

The Air Force, of course, is al- rendy using aeroplane delectors of extreme sensitiveness. These DTC based

intelligently. In Ger- many

there is a scientific committee CYPRUS of physicists and technical officers which does nothing else but strange for the development of new military) inventions.

CYPRUS CALLS FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT

NICOSIA.

"I have tried to get rich men, is- cluding Lord! Nuffield, to put up a

The retiring Governor. Sir Her- fundl and endow an Independent

a publie leave- organisation to take up all mill-bert Palmer, after

Konak-square, Nicoslit, and commercial inventiors taking Lary

the cruiser Penclape which would be useful to Britain embarked in

en route for Eng- and develop them on behalf of the for Alexandria

land. Services,

"It should be an independent or

He received many public messages "on the use of the photo-elec-| gunisation. It should work for not farewell, alt emphasising the de- trie cell.

person's gain.

stre of Cyprus for self-government. But this any

reason for culd

Memoranda were received

from The "BRAINS TRUST" NEED shouldering. a new invention?

"So far, I have not been success-towns with very many signatures, Italians also had aeroplane detectors

in Italy the inventor, including present town councillors, but they nevertheless, thought it ful. But well worth while to take up a new Count Elia, whose submarine mines asking the the Governor's help in brought him in £3,000,000 in royal-the reinstitution of municipal elec

"His wonderful Juboratories and entirely devoted to de- Inventions for the ser-

by

The

as

"windravest concern was expressed; ties, endowed such an organisation, tions,

staff are

and naval experts, They serted that whatever in- ventur's claim is or is not substan-veloping tiated, Britain is lugging behind uther vices, Powers in scientific preparation for

Wni*.

Fundamental research is neglected In all spheres of national service. SCIENTIFIC WAR

of

The Colonial Secretary, Mr. H. B. Wright, will administer the Govern- ment until the arrival of the new Governor Mr. W. D. Baltershill, in The autumn.

Nazis Call Doctors And Linguists

In front of the 08-foot statue of Washington, dominating the World's Fair Mall, Denys Wortman, New York cartoonist in- personating Washington, took the 150-year-old onth. Governor Lehman dedicated the statue.

Present Position At Shanghai And Amoy

LONDON.

In the House of Commons recently Mr. R. A. Butler, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs made a fairly lengthy statement with regard to the present situation in the

International Settlements at Shanghai and Amoy:-

Mr. A. Henderson asked the Prime numbering 42, supplied, by each Minister whether he has any state-nationality have been landed from ment to make on the situation in the United States, British and French the with- International Settlements at Shang-warships, and they will be with- hai and Amoy following the recent drawn pari passu with demands of the Japanese authorities drawal of Japanese. for an increased share in the control

Mr. Henderson! Can the right hon. of both settlements; and whether any Gentleman say whether the' demands reply to such demands has been sent of the Japanese Government for an

to the Japanese dovernment by any increased measure of control of the

of the Treaty Powers?

Sir John Anderson's appointment of a "Drains Trust" of eight leading selentisis to consider A.R.P, might be a step in the right direction--it the "Brinns Trust" is used, and does not remain a body that exists only on paper.

the conference Development of inventions for the

Meanwhile, fighting services 13 largely left to executives of the building Unions armament firms, for whom business has given the "Brains Trust" a cat ledge of foreign languages | considerations come before national by approving a scheme to deal with

"The war we are preparing for, it/escue work demolition of damaged have been requested to report | Gentleman say whether these de-:

immediately to their nearest re-mands have been refused? cruiting station.

service.

How Soviet Foresees War

"IN the hour of Fascist ag- gression, the Soviet Union, loyal to its obligations, will not abandon the democracies."

,

These are the words of a book un a future war published for mass clrculation by the military pub- ishing house In Moscow,

The book contains in imaginative necount of a German attack on France and the Soviet Union,

in which "Pravda" describes three-column review

35 "very realistic and approximating to the truth."

Germany Is described as attacking

buildings and the rehabilitation of the civilian population in time of

war.

All the technical resorces of the building industry will be at the dis- posal of the nation.

Watch Found Haystack

In

International, Settlements, has been

Mr. Butter: As the reply is a very accepted or rejected? full one, I will, with the hon. and

Mr. Butler: We are awaiting a learned Member's permission, cireu- further reply from the Japanege ALL Germans with a know-inte it in the Official Report.

Government. Mr. Henderson: Can the right hon.

Selected candidates will be passed Ins interpreters; others will be as- sisted in special training courses to act as broadcasting announcers and journalists in war time.

---À-number-of-Jewish-doctors-who qualifications by the Nazis have also recently been called to Army head- quarters in Vienna and told to hold themselves ready headquarters

Corvallis, Moni. Oscar Kranick didn't find a needle And ប in a haystack, but he did

in one watch that had been lost eight months ago. The watch was themselves ready ready to tick at the first winding.

doctors.

to act as army and told In Vienna

to act us army

£20,000-a-Year Budge May Retire at 24

DONALD BUDGE, world's No. 1 tennis player,' will

make £20,000 in 14 months.

Soon after he arrived in England recently to appear as Minsk, Smolenske and Klev with the object of seizing the Ukraine. professional at Wembley, Budge received a cheque for £5,000.

In the battle that follows the attack, the book describes the Red Air

"Nothing has been

a

settled yet,"

Mr. Butler: In the ease of Amay, as the hon. and learned Gentleman will see from the statement which I circulating, parties of men,

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Mui Tsai In Hongkong

Loridon.

Following is the reply:

The Japanese Government recently put forward suggestions for a revision of the land regulations in the Inter- in the constitution of the Chinese national Settlement at Shanghai end courts there. In reply His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo has made clear to the Japanese Government that, while His

Government Majesty's would be ready in consultation with the other interested Powers to take part in negotiations regarding any reviston needed, conditions in the Shanghai area are so far

from

normal that negotiations can not be initiated ot present with any prospect of success, and

and that the question appears

A question was asked in the House to them to be one which should await of Commons recently regarding the the development of more stable con- sale of boys and girls in Hongkongditions; the same observations and Malaya:......

with equal force to the administration

applied

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The standards of Czecho-Slovakia and Albania were there (the seizures not having been recognised by the British Government), but no diplo- mats stood beneath them.

Germany's emblem. floated in the breeze among the Dags.of the big and countries Britain, America.

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