1941-05-03 — Page 8

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 3, 1941.

SCIENCE NOTES

vent the ball slipping and to in- crease control and accuracy,

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A scientist at the University

photographing disease viruses, invisible under optical micro- scopes, with an electric micro-

A moulded rubber automobile north than the trees have over of Pennsylvania has succeeded in seat has been developed to been planted before. eliminate vibration and road shock.

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With a new sound reproduction method, 12 sound tracks can now A New York inventor's new be recorded on a special film, a exercising device can be used as 150-foot roll of which occupies a a dumb bell or Indinn club.

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Because of the leather short- running time of six hours. .age in Germany, most shoes now

Motor-cycles

The Hungarian leather indus- manufactured or repaired in the with sidecars try is experimenting with the country are being equipped with that are completely enclosed are use of leather scrap and waste soles made of rubber or substi being used as taxicabs in Shang in the manufacture of leather tutes of other qualities. 'hal

board and artificial leather.

A new paint, containing an A Missourian has invented a A sliding sleeve that moves abrasive, has been manufactured knife, hinged at one end to over the electric bulb and for use on floors and stairways base, to cut slices of bread, toast its socket converts a new flash- to prevent feet allpping. or sandwiches into four equal light into a long-range spotlight portions.

ör a diffused light torch,

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PRESENT-DAY DESERT WARFARE

This picture shows how desert warfare

of to-day is · fought. The тел ara members of the Australian Imperial Forces at battle manoeuvres in the Western Desert. Tanks in open order, with sup-

porting, infantry well spread out, make them a difficult target for aircraft.

This is how they attacked the Italian strong- holda in Libya and forced Mussolini's minions to surrender in tens of thousands.

CURRENT COMMENT.... By Scrutineer

costly

The Prime Minister's recent the production of war imaterial, world by her art and her selence and severe castigation of Mussolini, leaving the people with the bare has left succeeding generations In the bull frog of the Pontine accessities of life. This is certainly Europe her greatest debtors,

not a propitious moment for Jupan Marahes as he has been called, to launch upon a new and was richly deserved. Indeed, it adverture. is very difficult to find language in which to express the deep An acid bath patented by a re-contempt all right thinking sident of Glens Falls, New York, The Japanese have succeeded

An inventor has lined the hole permanently colours stainless people feel for his conduct. in producing Para rubber from for a bowler's thumb in a new steel in.hues ranging from light trees raised in Formosa, farther bowling ball with rubber to pre- gold to dark brown.

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"This is

all wrong!

But- H.B.'s all right!”

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Berlin sets out deliberately enslave the world, and to lower the status of ita civilised inhabitants. It is only TOKYO ANNOYED

necessary to read the speeches of Dr Ley and Dr Goebbels, and to see Hitler's idea of promoting an un- what is being done in Poland and in derstanding then between Japan and Czecho-Slovakia to realise the nature Russia so that Japan would be free of German oppression. The It is not the resentment and to act on behalf of the Axis powers, physical torture and suffering, accom-

may not work out that way. Ger- destroy the

panied as they are by the nitempt to anger of enemies against

many has annoyed Tokyo by not re- is in contrast with the mission of

culture of these countries successful but brutal world gang- cognising the Wang Ching-wel gov- Athens, whose ideals of life and ster, but rather the feeling of ernment, and by not doing so she achievements in culture won accep- something deeper than hate. It proves that she still regards Chiang tance throughout the world because

Kal-shek as the ultimate victor in of their obvious excellence is a loathing for a depraved and, this struggle.

and superiority. It is sacrilege for the despicable character, who has

Swastika, the symbol of tyranny, to Japan, who is free' now to choose be flying over the Acropolls, the home brought so much evil by his her own course, may strive to ob- of rational thought and democratle treachery upon states that were tain a decision in China before she government.. so much superior to his own. embarks on her ambitions and

hazardous scheme in the south. DRIVE FOR OIL The grandeur of the Greek Nearly four years of arduous fighting character in its sturdy and reso- dictated peace, but only much loss for territory. It is generally agreed has not so far brought victory or a merely a matter of conquest or lust Hitler's drive to the cast is not lute defence of its liberty exalts of life and the crushing burden of that the root cause of the thrust is the human race as much as the a heavy national debt. On the other the oil fields, in spite of the fact that evil actions of Mussolini debase hand, in spite of her sufferings, China Rumania is now entirely in German it. Never were two nations so tinue her resistance,

shows a firm determination to con- hands, and produces six million tons strangly contrasted-on the one hand honour, on the other dis- honour. Here in Greece there is nobility, courage and restraint, while in Italy there is nothing but concelt, boastfulness and cowardice. Never have traitors gained so much materially, or the victims won 80 much spiritual honour. Evil_is_tem while it brings no spectacular vic

Even so, however, this campaign, porarily triumphant, but the torles, does not involve the nation in sympathy and goodwill of the grave disasters. Whereas the south world goes out to the defeated.

ward move, chiefly in the interests of Germany, is fraught with much WHITHER JAPAN ?

perll.

It is generally agreed that the political temperature of the Far East rises and falls with that of Europe.

"TELEGRAPH”

SATURDAY

FEATURE

a year, and in spite of

of the coal dis- llation plants at Gelsenkirchen and other places which have been so fre quently bombed by the RAF, Hitler has not got enough oll. He is most anxious, therefore, to move to where oll is to be had, especially if that can be done at British, expense in Iraq and in Iran.

America produces 200 million tons of oil per annum of 60 per cent. of the total world supply, so it is not this necessary fuel. likely that the Allies will ever lack

It is this tremendous demand for Nazi mechanised armies which brings southern Russia into the possible area of operations. The Ukraine, with its wheat lands, and Baku, with dis oll- felds, are claims which Hitler has The suggestion, which originated in already, staked in "Mein Kampf." Japan, that Mr Matsuoka should go Alexander went cast to conquer fresh to the United States at this moment, fields, but Hiller goes in the some is a recognition of this grave danger, direction for oil fields,

and means that some effort should

be made to obviate it.

The United States

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CRETE STAND

Now that 80 percent of the forces have been extricated from Greece,

But the strange feature of the past fortnight, since the Japan- overwhelmingly powerful of land and the greater part of the Aegean is

growing ese Foreign Minister, Matsuoka, and sea, and in the air, and is doing in German hands, the great problem returned, is that the situation so at accelerating speed. It is almost will be to hold Crete against para- How does not correspond with certain that an attack on the Nether- chute troops, but it is probable that that of Europe. We do not lands East Indies will mean war with the defence of that island is already

the United States, as well as with in a highly advanced state. hear, as we might have expected, Britain and the Netherlands Enst any bellicose speeches nor even indies, and that is a prospect which it is reasonable to suppose that a con- As the Greek King has gone there, suggestions of a drive to the no Japanese statesman

can lightly siderable force of Greek soldiers has south.

entertain. Such a visit then would accompanied him. be for the purpose of arranging terms It is probable that the Foreign by which Japan would have a have already been in British hands The naval base and aerodromes hand in Indo-China on condition that for six months, and though the island Minister, while

In Europe, he got out of Ching entirely, and is liable to air attack by the Germans realised that Hitler did not want resumed her peaceful industrial and it is also a stronghold from which the allies, in the ordinary sense of commercial life on equal terms will enstern Mediterranean can be con- the word. Obviously if his aim, the Allied nations.

trolled and the Germansheld in ss it undoubtedly is, is world.

check. hegemony, then an ally must be

The disorganisation of the Balkans merely a tool that Hitler uses to

THE ACROPOLIS as a base of supply for Germany, the attain his own ends. He has

smashing of the Italians in Albania, The Swastika flies over the Acro- the heavy losses suffered by the Ger- already said that he is willing polls. This is the most significant mans in their advance and the strate to sign a pact to-day and break it neident of this war. Athens gave gic importance of Crete to the Alles to-morrow if German interests can Nazism has for

U13 the European culture Which these are the fruits of the Greek the time being resistance to the Italian ultimatum be advanced thereby, and he adds it crushed.

on October 28. These ore advan- tages on which we had no special This is the climax of the campaign tenson to count six months ago. during which the Nazis have torn It is pleasant to read that the The Japanese-Soviet pact relieved down the ancient ideals of life in British forces will sull be Oghting Japan of anxiety with regard to her letters and religion and 'replaced side by side with the Greeks in Creto, Manchurian border, and if it is a them with a spurious religion of and that they will have the King genuine pact it reduces the imper- paganism, whose chief symbols are present in the island to cheer them tance of Germany to Japan, seeing the concentration camps, with all on. that the menace of Russia was the their horrors, and the Gestapo, with NIEMOELLER

is mero sentimental nonsense to act otherwise.

SWASTIKA OVER

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sole justification for an alliance all its crueltics.

In "Time" of New-York on April with Germany.

The spirit of Germany is entirely

7 we read: "Catholic, Protestant and Japan's total budget for this year, opposed to everything Athens stood Nazi officials in Berlin all issued according to "The Economist," is for Bernard Rust, the Reich: Minis denials last week that Protestantism's 21.000 million, yen while her. total in- ter of Education, said that the whole martyr, Pastor Marin Niemceller, comis is between 20,000 million to functions of all German education is gid the home of the

had turned Roman Catholic in prison. to creato a Nazi, 20,000 million per annum. The situas a

the Evangelical Church I have never received any tion in Japan is already strained and Thess herrenvolls, saya Hitler, will

word of the standard of living in very much some days have to draw upon the Lutheranism, Baldahl Cate Saldĩa high Catholic clown, us at obviously must be with resources of the whole planet in order prelate "Nelmoeller has not appiita three-fourths of the total income to apivo ita difficulties.

through any channel for Cathello' being taken by the govemment, How utterly different is the spirit oficial: "Again that question?

membership Sold a Government which utilises capital and labour for of Athens, which conquered the, again we must say nonsense."

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