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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 9, 1940.

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The story of Rudolph Diesel's engine and the

mystery of his disappearance.

DR. Rudolph Diesel was cros

sing the English Channel

of

on the night of September 29, 1913. He was going to London to attend meeting manufacturers, and to confer with the British Admiralty.

4

It was ten

by the ship's boll when he- said good- night to his friends and went to his state room. The next morning h.c

did not op-

pear,

THE

They found his nightshirt on his 'his watch pillow, all folded, and carefully hung on his bag.

Over a weeic later, a Dutch boat, pulled a body aboard. It was bat- tered beyond recognition, and after removing the contents of the pockets, they dropped it overboard. Later o coin pure, a poc- ketknife, and spectacle CAEC were identified as Dr. Diesel's.

FORGOTTEN

INVENTOR

But with inter national tension'nt fever heat, 'and Miesel-powered' submarines strain- ing at the least, melodramatio stories quickly arosc.

It was rumoured What he had been published over-

marine told how "the troftor Diesel met the end he deserved." Theso

He was never seen again. Hie BUT Krupp agreed to finance board by German secret agents.

the invention, disappearance became an inter-

and in In a newspaper article a man who, national sensation. When the war August, 1893, Diesel's first said he had served on a German sub- broke out there was a rumour that motor was ready for a test, Diesel had, baen killed by the We seo the Inventor in an stories are still printed now and then. Germans to keep him from giving Augsburg machine shop, anxiously The truth was revealed recently technical secreta to the British. watching an upright, pumpliko in Eugen Diesel's blography of his The mystery, unsolyod, was contrivance with, a slowly revol father, so far neglected by English

forgotten, and the gradually

translators. ving flywheel. No engine like average man today has never this has ever been seen before. Diesel's con@dent manner, his big Behind the facade of Rudolph heard of either the story or the The outlandish thing seeds outside house in Munich, and his position of engineer.

"There is no adequate account of power to push the piston up, and world renown, he was at the end of

down. Diesel waits impatiently. At his rope. his life in English,

Yot Rudolph Diesel was one of the greatest of inventors.

His name has become a com- mon noun; dicsel liners furrow

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

02

SALON

eyes with excitement, All property mort- pulls a lever and the vaporized fuel gaged; ho feed was heavily or "No one understands the problems of a woman of 29 like Pierre-- spurts into the imprisoned, flery-hot an intolerable disgrace,-

ho's understood mina perfectly for 11 years!"

sir.

There is a blust like a cannon the seven seas, diesel trucks shot, and chunks of metal bombard

rumble along the highways, Diesel leaps to his feet with a shout diesel-powered planes criss-

the room. Barely missed by death,

cross the akles, diesel tractors plow our fields.

*

Augsburg

of triumph.

**That's what I wanted to know!"

he cries. "It proves. I'm on the right track!"

He tolled four more years on

BORN in 1858, of a line of Ger- that track. Then one day the man artisans, young Rudolph world's most famous engineers was trained by his father as a flocked to Augsburg to see a 20- horsepower "dieselmotor" that mechanic.

With a quick, inventive mind, he amazed them with its efficiency.

Now Diesel's prophecy has come dashed through the

true. The volume of diesel horse- Trade Schools, and won a scholar power installed in 1997 was 20 times ship at the Munich Technical the total of five years before. Diesel Institute. When he had finished power drives the streamlined trains; there, at the age of 20, ho had last year, 125 diesel buses began broken every academic record, and service on the streets of Chicago and the astounded faculty met him in New York.

a body and shook handa with him.

Two things,moro important than

at Munich. He listened to a lee- is that it uses the cruder

that, looked like a pòpgun,

Curtains for the Black-Out By Gloria

MANY PEOPLE have been managing with more or less temporary black-out curtains during Hongkong's periodical blackouts. It

vide a more attractive and permanent arrangement.

Book of been the Week

I recently visited a small house with a large French window which had

in an interesting

that happened to Rudolph Dicaol THE diesel engine's advantage would be much better to pro- ture, and he saw a small gadget and cheaper forms of petroleum, True, the price may go up as The lecture was by Dr. Carl the diesel boom increases demand.: Linde, famous ploneer in artificial But the Augsburg genius thought refrigeration. He discussed the of this. His nngine will run on- steam engine and pointed out that almost anything. At the start,

treated wasted 90 Diesel tried powdered coal. It the best then in use percent of the energy in the coal. worked, but it scored the cylinder. In a note-book which has been Diesel also used castor oil, palm oil, fish off, cottonseed oil and peanut preserved Diesel scribbled:

"Me oil. Tar and melted asphalt have chanical theory teaches us that been used. Even buttermilk will only a part of the heat in the turn over a diesel, although engineers fuel can now be utilized.........don't recommend it..... Doesn't it follow that the utiliza Tragedy was only a few months" | "been put up quite cheaply, and was tion of steam, or any kind of go- away when Dr. Diesel returned home between, la false in principle7 after his American visit in 1912, The possibility suggests itself of Two friends crossed the Channel putting the energy to work direct with him on the night of his disap- ly. But how can this be done?" pearance. One was Georges Carcis,

head of the diesel fuctory at Ghent.

The pongun-like gadget was a The trio dined cheerfully, and then cigar lighter. The air in the strolled the deck. When they went cylinder, heated by the comprear below, Diesel left the others as they. sion of a plunger, ignites a bit of passed his cabin. A moment later, combustible material.

he tapped on Carels' door, shook This gave Diesel a hint as to his hand heartily, and wished him how he could "put energy to work good-night. It seemed a little directly."

MA

[ARRIED and settled in Paris as an agent for Professor Linde's ice-machines, Diesel worked nights on plans for the engine of his dream.

Sometimes, Mrs. Diesel found him in the morning asleep over his desk.

His pile of blueprints and pages

of figures kept mounting.

He know that the more you

compresa air, the hotter it be

蟲

comes. (Put your hand on bicycle.

In action and you

get the

Now why not build an engine in which the piston pulls in nothing but pure air in its loading strake, and then drives back toward the

gyviin.

der head, compressing the air ta about one sixteenth of its former volume, and, be computed, heating the air to 1000 Fahrenholt? At that point inject a drop of oll into the cylinder. The hot air will ignite the oll, and its combustion will drive the piston down. There would be no complicated.1milion system.

Many men would have gone into the machine shop at that point and proceeded by trial and error, bal that was.nol Diesel's way. Every- thing about that engine, down to the last bolt, had to be figured out and put down on paper.

He was 35, and had been trans-

already

un-

necessary.

"I will see you in the morning," he said, and those were his last words.

manner.

The curtains were enclosed by a plywood pelmet and side columns which prevented any danger of chinks of light. The structure, hud

£19 painted the same colour walls.

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#

the

Another good idea I am passing on is a simple alteration to a room with two windows close together..

By making a pelmet to stretch from one side to the other they can he treated as one window, which will make the bincking-out more effective.

If a mirror is hung on the wall between the windows, and the window ledge continued under- neath, a very effective design is obtained.

QUESTION AND

ANSWER

•UESSING-GAME for

an

idle quarter of an hour. Here are extracts from the speeches of three men who have swayed the world. Who aro 'they? Who said which? And when?

4). "What we possess to-day is of no Importance. One thing is that Germany be vic-

definite, torious.

(2) "My whole life has been nothing but one long struggle for my people, for its restoration and for Germany."

(3) The war-lke spirit still lives in the German people, that powerful spirit which attacks the enemy

wherever it finds them,

regardless of the cost."

..

(4) “You, my troops, are my guarantee that I can dictate peace to my enemies."

ferred to Linde's office in Berlin (B) "In a just cause, I am ready before he had his manuscript ready to force myself to be cruel.” for the printer.

Но had taken out patents, In the work was publ January, 1609,

(4) U-boats are not going to rest" until the enemy is beaten with god's help.

Theory and Construction of

of a Rational Heat Motor is a slender pamphlet, but it belongs on that small shelf oft books (7) "Xo; ill want, and I want which have changed the world. erpecially that the German people Diesel knew that not more than a shall become the freest

core of men on earth would grasp || world."

its significance, and was prepared for

coldness and ridicule. He got both.

the

\\(0) """Cof's goodness will guide

Scoffers called it a "paper engine," the German prople through battle

for It existed only in a book

for the German people by Pro- vidence."

•

..

(9)'"I am wrongly judged my love of peace and my patience are mistaken for weakness or even cowardice."

•

(10) "We only with that God Almigtity, who has blessed our arms, will enlighten other nations."

(11) "I ever in history, the expression can be applied now that the Lord has struck with man, horse and waggon"."

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(12) "The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and resolutions of majorities:..but by blood and iron."

You have noticed (I take it) that these quotations all come from leaders of the German people. They are Hiller, the Kaiser and Blamards. The speeches rango from 1883-1940,

Who Bald which?

I don't think, if I hadn't looked them up myself, I could have dis tinguished between Wilhelm and Hitler. There's the same brag, the same enllatment of the Almighty's name in both of them."

If you've finished guessing, hero aro the answers!

The Arst two quotations are Hidler, (September, 1030). Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.are the Kaiser (1914– 1018). Then Killer again, No. 9, 10 and 11..

The last is Dimarck (1800), Beven years before the Franco-

wa

to victory—to the goat appointed Prussion war,

Hitler-as Seen by His Maid

By MONICA DICKENS

EVEN dictators have Servant Trouble. Hitler's biggest head- ache this week is coming to him from his ex-housemaid- Pauline Kohler, who reveals closely-guarded secrets of Berch- tesgaden, in "I Was Hitler's Maid" (John Long: 2s. 6d.).

Camp-

Those peepshows on seaside piers called "What the Butler Saw" are nothing to what Pauline saw while she dusted and awept what she described as "a miniature palace, furnished. with every luxury.. with three circles of anti-air- craft guns, every approach heavily mined..

ringed

There are cellars, she

says, "where are mucted horrors only exceeded in the concentration camps." At Hitler's private of indescribable cinema, "lms tortures at prison-camps, or strip- tease acts by his latest stage favourite, are reeled off for the Fuhrer's bestial-cujoyment.”

Pauline, at whom every member of the Nazi Party appears to have "made a pass," tells these stories of some of them:

Hitler has often to say to 'Goer- ing and Goebbels: "I won't have this continual squabbling! You behave like children."

Goebbels deliberately Hit a man who stepped in front of his car, sent him flying into the air, to hit the

ETOUDE

a broken, shattered tass of flesh. It was the village priest

"Anil that was the most pleasant afternoon's driving I've ever done,” Bald-Goebbels afterwards.

Pauline acted as personal mald 10 both Unity Mitford and Renate Muller during their visits Berchtesgaden."

to

She has acen Hitler's astronomi- cal laboratory, "which has never been photographed, and can only be entered by two people-Hiller and his astrologer, Osalutz."

She also learned of the exis- tence of a sequel to "Mein Kampt" provisionally entitled "How I Did It," to be published after the Nazi conquest of 'Europe. It sets down the names Gauleiters in the conquered ter

ΟΙ and the ritories. highly-placed Nazis who are on the Futhrer's black list.

One wonders, en passant, what Chamberlain thought of this

Palace-cum-Concentration cum-Parisian Cabaret,

Pauline, unfortunately, left just before his celebrated visit. One wonders, too, how the Gestapo, whose ruthless methods she depicts vividly, can have permitted the

of u girl in escape of

possession of so much knowledge.

10

I

Wish

she had told of how she fled Berchtesgaden and, eventually, the Reich, with more of the detail

she description of life chez Adolf.

applies to her sensational

Spotting The Rank

ENGINEER REAR-ADMIRAL

Unless he should become :| Enginoor-in-Chief of tho Flaat, this is the highest rank which an anginoor officer in the Royal Navy can attain, Prior to their being given this title early in the present century, Engineer Rear-Admirals word known as Chief Inspectors of

which Machinery,

actually gives a somewhat clearer Ox- planation of their dution.

There word ton on the active list of the Royal Navy:}| when war began, mostly om- -ployed' either as managers, of the engineering departments of dockyards or as engineer- ing specialists on the staffs of Commandor-in-Chlof,,though ono was Deputy-Engineer-in- Chiof.

On the retired list at the samo data there were 137 As Enginoor Rear-Admirals. with the list of executive flag officers, only a limited number af officers climb so high in vank.

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