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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 9, 1940.

| MAGAZINE PAGET

The story of Rudolph Diesel's engine and the

mystery of his disappearance.

DR. Rudelph Diesel was cros- sing the English Channel on the night of September 20, 1013. He was going to London to attend 1 meeting manufacturers, and to confer with the British Admiralty,

It was ten

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

did not [D-

pear.

of

THE

watch

They found his nichtshirt on his pillow, still folded, and his carefully hung on his bag.

Over a week later, a Dutch boat pulled a body aboard. It was bat- after tered beyond recognition, and removing the contents of the pockets," they dropped it overboard. Later a

FORGOTTEN

INVENTOR

coin purse, a poc- ketknife, and A spectacle cusc were identified os Dr. Diesel's.

But with inter- national tension al fever heat, and diesel-powered submarines strain- Ing at the Icash, melodramatio stories quickly arose,

It was rumoured that he had been published over-

He was never seen again. His BUT Krupp agreed to finance board by German secret agents. disappearance became an inter- the invention, 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. marine told how "the traitor Diesel

These

met the end he deserved." Diesel had been killed by the

We see 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 secrets to the British.

watching an upright, pumplike in Eugen Diesel's blography of his The mystery, unsolved, the contrivance with a slowly revol- father, so far neglected by English

ving flywheel. No engine like translators.

gradually forgotten, and

Mas

Behind the facade of Rudolph

average man to-day has never this has ever been seen before. Diesel's confident manner, his big heard of elthor the story or the The outlandish thing needs outside house in Munich, and his position of engineer.

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

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

last, eyes blazing with excitement, he All properly was heavily mort-

GRIN AND BEAR

IT By Lichty

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PERRES SALON

H. LL I POL ORMAI SUM KYNSTNÄ

Yet Rudolph Diesel was one of pulls a lever and the vaporized fuel gaged; he faced bankruptcy, to him "No one understands the problems of a woman of 29 lika Pierre- the greatest of inventors.

spurts into the imprisoned, flery-hot n Intolerable disgrace.

ha's understood mina perfectly for 11 years!" His name has become a com- air. mon noun; diesel liners furrow

There is a blust like 2 cannon

the seven sens, diesel trucks shot, und chunks of metal bombard

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

the roum. Durely missed by death,

planes criss.

cross the skies, diesel tractors

plow our fields.

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of triumph.

“That's what I wanted to know!"

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

He toiled four more years on

BORN in 1868, 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- mechanic.

horsepower "dieselmotor" that With a quick, inventive mind, he amazed them with its efficiency,

Now Diesel's prophecy has dashed through tho Augsburg

true. The volume of diesel borse-

come

Trade Schools, and won a scholar power Installed in 1937 was 20 times ship at the Munich Technical the lotal of five years before. Diesel

Curtains

for the Black-Out

By Gloria

Institute. When he had finished power drives the streamlined trains; MANY PEOPLE have there, at the age of 20, he had last year, 125 diesel buses begon been managing with more broken every academle record, and service on the streets of Chicago and the astounded faculty met him in New York,

a body and shook hands with him.

Two things more important than,

at Munich. He listened to a lec-

that looked like a popgun.

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is that it uses the cruder

that happened to Rudolph Diesel THE diesel engine's advantage 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 pioneer in artificial But the Augsburg genius thought refrigeration. He discussed the of this. His engine will run on steam engine and pointed out that almost anything. At the start, It the best then in use wasted 90 Diesel tried powdered coal. 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, preserved Diesel scribbled: "Me-hall, cottonseed oil and peanut Tor 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 bo utilized... don't recommend it. Doesn't it follow that the utiliza Tragedy was only a few months tion of steam, or any kind of so- away when Dr. Diesel returned home between, is false in principle? after lils American visit in 1912.

Two friends crossed the Channel The possibility suggests itself of putting the energy to work direct with him on the night of his disap-

pearance.

Oite was Georges Carels, ly. But how can this be done?" head of the diesel factory at Ghent.

The popgun-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 compres- below, Diesel left the others as they sion of a plunger, Ignites a bit of passed his cabin. A moment later, he tapped Carels door, shook good-night. It seemed a lie un

heartily, and wished him

combustible material.

hand his This gave Diesel a hint as to

how he could “put energy to work 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 kopt mounting.

Ho know that the more you compress air, the hotter it be comes. (Put your lund on a bicycle pump in action and you get the iden).

Now why not bulld an engine in which the platon pulls In nothing but pure air in its loading stroke, and then drives back toward the cylin- der heed, compressing the air to about one sixteenth of its former

necessary.

on

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

for less temporary black-out curtains during Hongkong's periodical blackouts. It would be much better to pro- 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 treated in an interesting manner.

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

been put up quite cheaply, and was painted the same colour as the walls.

Another good Iden 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 be treated as one window, which will make the blacking-out more effective.

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

QUESTION AND

ANSWER

UESSING-GAME for an for the German people by Pro-

Idle quartor of an hour. Here are extracts from the speeches of three

men who have swayed the world. Who are they? Who said which? And when?

(1) "What we possess to-day is of no importance. One thing is definite, that Germany be vic- torious."

volume, and, he computed, heating (2) "My whole life has been the air to 1000 Fahrenheit? At that nothing but one long struggle for point inject a drop of oil into the my people, for its restoration and

for Germany." cynder. The hot air will mite the its combustion will drive and the piston down. There would be no complicated ignition system.

(3) "The war-like spirit still lives in the German people, that Many men would have gone into powerful spirit which attacks the the machine shop at that point and enemy wherever it finds them, progceded by trial and error, but regardless of the cost,"

that was not Diesel's way. Every

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my

thing about that engine, down to (4) "You, my troops, are

guarantee that I can dictate peace to my enemies."

the last bolt, had to be figured qut and put down on paper. He was 36, and had been trans- ferred to Linde's office in Berlin before he had his manuscript rea

ready for the printer. Ho had already taken out patents. In January, 1859, the work was published. "Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor" a alender

ler pamphlet, but it belongs on that small shelf of books which have

changed the world. Diesel knew that not more than a acore of men on earth would grasp Its significance, and was prepared for coldness and ridiculo. He got both. Scoften called it a "paper engine," for it existed only in a book.

(8) "In a just cause, I am ready to force myself to be cruel."

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

(7) "We all want, and I want especially that the German propio shail become the freest in the world."

(8) "God'a 'goodness 'will' gulde the German people through bottle 'o victory to the goal appointed

vidence."

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(9) "I am wrongly judged if my

•love of peace and my patience are mistaken for weakness or 'cowardice."

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even

(10) "We only wish that God Almighty, who has blessed our arms; will enlighten other nations."

(11) "If 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 majorfiles...but by blood and iron,"

You have noticed (1 take

11) that these quotations all come from leaders of the German people. They are Hitler, the Kaiser and Bismarck. The speeches rango from 1863-1940.

Who sald which?

don't think, if I hadn't looked them up myself, I could have dia- tinguished between Wilhelm and Hitler. Thero's the same brag, the same enlistment of the Almighty's name in both of them.

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If you've finished guessing, here aro the answers:

two The first

quotations Iter (September, 1939). Nos. 3. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 are the Kalser (1914- 1915). Then Hitler again, Nos. 9, 10 and 11.

The last is Bismarck (1803), seven years before. Uin Franco- Prussian war..

Hitler-as Seen by His Maid

By MONICA DICKENS

EVEN dictators have Servant Trouble, Hitler's biggest head- nche 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: 28, 6d.). ·

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

saya,

There arc cellars, she "where are enacted horrors only the exceeded in

concentration camps." A Hitler's private cinema, "Elms

indescribable tortures at prison-camps, or strip- tense acts by his latest stage favourite, are reeled off for tho Fuhrer's bestial enjoyment."

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 hii the ground broken, shattered mass of flesh. It was the village priest

to

"And that was the most pleasant afternoon's driving I've ever done," sold Goebbels afterwards.

Pauline acted as personal maid to both Unity Mitford and Renate Muller

visits during their Berchtesgaden

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

She also learned of the exis- tence ex of

"Mein a sequel to

entitled Kampf," provisionally "How Did It," to be published. after the

conquest of Nazi Europe. It seta down the names Gauicitors in the conquered ter-

tho ritories, and

namco of highly-placed Nazis who are on the Fuclirer's black lat.

Ono wonders, en passant, what Chamberlain thought

this

of

..

Palace-cum-Concentration

Camp-

cum-Parisian Cabaret.

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

of a girl in possession of so much knowledge.

I wish she had told of how she fled Berchtesgaden and, eventually, the Reich, with more of the detail her sensational she applies to description of life chez Adolf.

Spotting The Rank

ENGINEER REAR-ADMIRAL

Unless he should become Engincor-in-Chief of the Floot, this is the highest rank which an engineer officer in the Prior Royal Navy can attain.

to their being given this title early in the present century, Engincor Rear-Admirals ware known as Chlof Inspectors of

which Machinery,

actually gives a somewhat clearor ex- planation of their duties.

There werd ten on the active list of the Royal Navy when war began, mostly em- ployed cithar as managers of the anginooring departments of dockyards or as engincor- ing specialists on the staffs of Commander-in-Chief, though was Deputy-Engincor-in- Chiof.

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On the rotirad list at the samo date there were 137 Engineer Rear-Admirals. · Ai with, the list of exécutivo flag officers, only a limited number of officon climb so high-in Fank.

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