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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1946.

U.S. Advertisers British Honours Worldwide Attempts To

Scramble For For The Siamese

"Time" In Television

(By Samuel Bennett)

Resisters

When Siam, under Japanese "force majeure" declared war on Britain in January, 1942, a little band of Siamese diplomata and students at. British universitics were offered safe-conduct back to their own country. They with thanks and,

America's big advertisers are scrambling for a foothold in the declined

still infant United States tele- instead, joined the Pioneer vision broadcasts.

Corps, in which they spent what Scores of ninnufacturers and must have been depressing retail chaina aru signing contracts months peeling potatoes in some 10 spooner commercial television bleak camp in the English Mid- programmes, although at prenen there ure probably no more than lands, 7,500 television receivers in American with 50,000,000 homes, compared radlo receiving wets.

The "boom" In advertising by tele- vision was attributed in trade circles to the fact that set manufacturer who have been beating the drums for their product over since the war's end but falied to produce because

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their ambition to help Hiberating their country. ALLM not They were in due course sent out forgotten by the Army authorities. to India, trained as parachutists and in jungle warfare and given British commissions,

Finally. they were dropped by of reconversion and inbour difficulties, parachute or innded by submarines now seem rendy to hit the market in their own country where, behind with receivers within the next few the Japanese lines, they contacted the months,

locul resistance forces and prepared A survey of the principal manu-landing grounds for supplies and the facturers 14 disclosed that most of dropping of British officers, with them plan to be in fult production whom they formed the famous Force by Christmas, with some expecting to have sets in their dealers' atores for immediate delivery next month Ten million people throughout the United States are waiting, money in land, for the first see-and-hear sets

to

rell off the production lines, according to an independent aurs maste by one of America's leading television et manufacturers. O

·7,500,000 of the prospective owners, the survey showed, live in urban

Krung.

"Time" Already Booked

Advertisers who have fooked

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But for the sudden collapse of pan, they would have played tal part in the projected invasion of Malaya. As it was, some of their comrades were caught and killed and all of them were in peril right up to the end. The sequel to ticis ad- venture has appeared in the drab pages of the Lordon Gazette.

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To

Harness Cosmic Rays

Hundred Billion Times As

Powerful As Atom Bomb

SCIENTISTS in many countries are bending their

efforts to understand and harness a force 100 billion times as powerful as the atom bomb. The cause of their search is the Cosmic Ray, made up of electrically charged particles which are probably part of a chain reaction set off by an atomic explo- United sion in a distant part of the universe, says Press.

In recent weeks, United States Army planes have been high in the air from Greenland to Peru, studying the power of cosmic rays. Experiments also are going on now near Boston, conducted by experts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Whether or not the rays can be mastered is the question now cup

g the minds of some of the world's most brilliant scientists

British Industry's Switch From War To Peace

The steady progress made by Britain in reconverting her highly-mobilised industry from war to peace production is ro- flected in the upward trend of both the volume and value of British exports.

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Indeed so quickly has reconversion gone ahead that it has entalied progressive adjustment of the supplies of the raw materials of manufacture. A recent official survey shows that ahere are adequate supplies of the raw materials for steel and textiles, nnul

of rubber; but timber, bane metals, and materials for the paint and plastic industries are among the chief shortages,

In the case of steel and lead, a soniewhat niore rigid control of exports has been found necessary, World supplies of lead are short. while to the pressing needs of steel in the home market have to be added the Khortages of supplies from abroad. Owing to recent strikes in the United States, substantial tonnages expected from that country cannot now be delivered to Britain.

The Krent bulk of Britain's stee! exports are for railways and other enterprises on whose continuous

operation Britain's supplies of raw materials foodstuffs largely depend. Thus, practically all British tinplate: exports go to food-producing countries for canning

food

to be shipped to the United Kingdom.

Lend exports from Bellain have to be limited, in order that haste recon- structions at home can be adequately supplied.

and

but

Up in the highest reaches of, have been detected in mines 1,000 the stratosphere where they are feet below the earth's surface.

Deep Penetration born, the rays have a potential

The strength of the mesons can far beyond best be shown by the following com- destructive force that of the bomb which wiped parison: sunlight can penetrate glass out Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and thin materials; X'inys can pent- However, they are rendered trate wood but no metals; gumina can rays-radioations from radiun---can harmless to humans by disinte-be enclosed in three inches of lead; gration and the distance travel- man can be protected from radio- led by the time they strike the activity by 10 feet of concrete;

to cosmic rays have been known earth's surface.

penetrate 75 feet of lead.

Most of the experiments being conducted now are intended to aid scientists in further understanding the ray and its relation to guided missiles. Ať high altitudes the rays are not only powerful enough to de- flect the

the course of, the missiles, but have effect on the materials of

1113 which the rockets are constructed.

Once the make-up and source of the cosmic rays and their offspring, the mesons, is full known, it is be- lieved that they can be duplicated or syntheticized in a laboratory-- The ensanie rays. sa cvilian 10-step which would marit milestone search groups, the Army Air Forces along the round to harnessing nn and the Navy are comiteting ex- tensive experiments which they hope energy which would dwarf wit answer sone of the myrind question surround.ng the powerful

Science first recognised the exist

ence of the cosmic rays 10 years aga, but research on them was not With War,

that research was put aside in fav our of concentrated work 4212 ator which showed mow immediate

Their senior officer, Lt. Col. lis Serene Highness Prince Subha

appointer to be

begon until the early 1920's, Officer of the Most Excellent Order

the beginning of the World uirendy of the Bellish Empire, Capis Prem prouri and Rachit Bari, now medical grantes represent a wide wety students received the Military Cross products from motor cars, to and ten others were appointed Mem- Daup and shoes lo razor

binders of the Most Excellent Order of Many have gone over from radio, the British Empire "in recognition It is the belief among advertisers of gallant and distinguished service that by entering the television fielt in the fold." They were Chun Pra- new they will have n better chinner prit Nagara, Maj Soh Nithkay of getting the choice hours the heng. Capi Prasert Padumananada, programme later on, when the in- Capt Tos Panttimasen, Capt_Thana dustry gets into its strike.

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Pushyananda, Capt Praton Prame- "One reason we are in television kamol, Capt Aron Sorathesh, Capt now, snid on official of a leading Kris Tosayananda. Maj Puey Ung- breakfast food manufacturing coneven, phakorn, Capt Samran Varabriesha-

is brave we feel it will put us in and are mostly back at their studies The

time in England. driver's Brat on the question."

The question of time is considered

Important, since many are convinced DIED WHILE WAITING

Rial

television, unlike ruttó. will have only a few hours a day when the viewing audience will be at its. peak.

FOR PASSAGE TO GREAT BRITAIN

One big set manufacturer received! 83 orders for his £600 top-priced model on the first day he launched a sales campaign. Since his com- pany first announced the prices of its sels at a public exhibition, It has

several received

million dollars The reason is that the people in worth

advance order.Reuter.} Australia

have become frightened of conditious in Britain in mid- winter with cold weather and food and fuel rationing.

of

CHINA'S NATIONAL

ASSEMBLY

Nanking, Oct. 4.-The Communist Party, Democratic League and Young! China Party have not yet submitted lists of their delegates attending Farr

National Assembly which

promise of being controlled.

the

Now at.ention again is turned to

Force

High-Velocity Particles

The rugs are composed of high- velocity electrically charged part-

cles which, most scientists are

probably represent release of atomic energy far greater than the energy unleashed in the atom bomb. When the rays are torn, perhaps in the interior of distant stars, the entire nuclei or core of the atom is des- trayed us compared to the partial Iri the destruction accomplished atom bomb.

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energy.

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BRITISH RADIO APPARATUS FOR

NEWSPAPER ·

IN BRAZIL

BRITAIN'S

ROAD SAFETY EXPERIMENTS

The County Surveyor Britain's County of Oxfordshire has sent to Britain's Ministry of Transport the results of an ex- perimental scheme for

the reduction of road accidents at rond intersections.

The experiment was carried out at 39 simple "T"-shaped junctions

and 19 cross-1oads. The T-shaped junctions were opened out so as to Rive better vision by cutting buck hedges and walls, and at splayed or fork Junctions where the minor road did not enter the major road at right angles, the junction. Was made squiry

At the cross-roads the point of one of the minor roads was moved to the right or left of its

The securing of this order for Britain is especially creditable when It is realised that the building had of already been planned to accom- modale a competitive instaliblion.

V. H.

Successful harnessing or duplica- Shipping companies that once had

tion of these rays would mean, in waiting lists of 8,000 names, now the filing it hard to fill all the En-part, that many atoms other than those of the rare uranium could be

The contract covers the supply of sinashed. gland-bound liners.

is

one 20 kW. medium-wave air-cooled known that experiments

broadcasting transmitter, which con cosmic rays are under way Russia taider the leadership of Dr be adapted to work on 10 kW. when V. Veksler, in Denmark under the required; two 25 kW. short-wave Aidance of Dr Niels Arly, and equipment-including microphones, transmillers: studio broadcasting The other day passages were Sweden under Dr Oscar Klen, avadable for 300 British-bound tra- France, England and Canada are also control desks, recording apparatus, veter, but the companies had to seri--known to be conducting such ex. ele-and frequency mediated Y. He though 1,000 paties before they periments, and Austria, Germany links.

and Japan were working on it dur-the studios in Recife and the trana- could obtain the required number,

a high-quality radio link between Many declared they did not wanting the war

In this country, the Air Forces are mitters, which are to be installed arrive in England until next to

20 kilometres away in open some the list and with the National Geographic Society their names

bd Research departments of various scheduled to meet here on November ted while waiting for passages. 12. Altogether 2,850 delegates from

This reluctance to travel has ensed universities. Only recently, a B-29 all parte of the country will attend, what threatened to become a difficult Bight from Greenland as fur south as Peru measured the intensities of The Navy cancelled the Of this number the political parties situation.

the rays at various heights, from salling from Sydney will be represented by 700 delegates civilian while the remaining 1,350 delegates October of the liner Largs Bay 5,000 fect to 35,000 feet above sea will represent various provinces and the liner was required to repatriate level.

area. It is known that the earth's atmos- eitles. The 700 rents for political prisoners of war held in Australia.

phere acts

protective wall When mustallation is complete, the parties will be distributed as follows: The 470 civilian passengers who were

against which the rays sinash and New Jornal do Commercio Kuomintang 220, Communist Party booked by the Largs Bay, however.sintegrate into by-products known will not only have wireless equip 190, Democratic League 120, Young have been distributed

as mezons or mesotrons. These meso- ment of the very latest type, but the Chine Party 100 and Non-Partisans Dominion Monarch and the Stirling

trons continue their path, usually transmitters will have a specially 70.-Central News,

Castle-Reuter.

blend with the merging with hydrogen atoms, and designed front to

decoration scheme, imparting il streamlined modern appearance to the interior of the building.

The

SIDE GLANCES

original I position.

This scheme, which cost £30,000. before was carried out some years the war. Accident figures were in- vestigated for four years preceding the alterations, and were 10 have been observed for four consecutive the outbreak of wor interrupted this years following the alterations, but process. Three years' observation unly-were-completed prior to. 1930..

to the Details have now been sent Ministry of Transport in connection with their drive for greater road safety,

that discovery Important

An

number of elderly people learling the research, in co-operation country. The aerial systems in emerged from the experiment was

aboard

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a single square-section must radiator that no accidents were produced by

metres high for the medium-wave

to the minor road (road traffic in broadcasts, and six lowers mounting vehicles turning left fram the major

Britain travels on the left hand side Economic Commission For dipoles and reflectors for the short- wave transmissions, arranged in a

Europe to Be Pressed manner to give the best possible of the road). Turning right to enter. results over the whole of the service the minor road accounted far 51 per cent. of accidents, and turning right on emerging from the minor road for

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DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRIC POWER

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The County Surveyor of Oxford- hire has been asked to prepare suggestions boset on his experiments for the Ministry.

NOTED GERMAN MUSICIAN

· Tokyo, Oct. &_ (UP)-A wartime vle:im of the Nazis, German Professor Klaus Fringsheim, brother-in-law or for

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CHINA WAR - MESSAGES

Lake Success, New York, Oct. 5.- Britain and the United States will probably press strongly at the coming General Assembly for an economic commission for Europe, it

was learn- ed authoritatively here to-day.

All efforts to achieve this through the Economic and Social Council have so far failed. In the opinion of most of the 18 delegates on the council as well as UN economic experts, the council's three weeks' session ended early yesterday morning with very little achieved to substantiate the mandate given to it in the charter. 'homas Mann and Musical Director

Consideration of the European econo- in Japan for 16 years, suila

mie commission was shelved until California on October.16.

the Council meets again next Friday. Since the beginning of 1946, In 1937, the Nazi Embassy

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Bussia's Request Britain's Central Electricity Tokyo, working through the Japanese education authorities, ousted Pring-

New York, Oct. The Russian de New York, Oct. 5 (UP)-Gen- Board has authorised an in-shelm from the Tokyo Academy of legation spokesman said here to-day cralissline Chiang Kai-shek's war- tenure crease in the generating Music, together with other antl-Nazi that the Soviet Government has asked timo messages from the start of the Pringsholm that tho United Nations Assembly l'anti-Jupanese resistance in 1937 will Mos informed observers believed capacity of various stations by teachers, after which

spent 18 months as adviser to the

shall take up the question of the pro- be published on October 10, the 35th That Stansgsite would be judged as: 1,029,000 Kilowatts..

Royal Fine Arts Department in

sence of foreign troops in the terri-anniversary of the founding of the the most acceptable choice from the

inter

the tories of non-enemy countries. founded Bangkok. He IL has been evident for some.

Chinese Republic, under the title Indian viewpoint and that his re-

The delegation released the text of "Collected. Wartime Messages thut the demand

Symphony Chamber Tokyo

0 letter addressed sigmalion from the cabinet was de- months

to the UNO Chiang Kai-shek, 1037-45" by an chestra. In Britain Is once .more

After the war, the professor was Secretary-General, Mr Trygvie Lle. American publishing firm for the

the conveying the request and stated Chinese. Government. appointed Musical Director of Ernie Pyla Theatre in Tokyo and that later a reply said it was agreed conducted the first Japanese pre- to place the item on the agenda of rentation of his own scoring of the assembly, due to mt on October

The Mikado' He has conducted 23-Rauter.

GO concerts for occupation over

Hokkaido. troops as far north

London. Oct.

(UP) Lord Stansgate former Ministry of State for Air was seen to-day as the most probable successor to Lord Wavell.

Vicer

of India, whose terminates in 1948.

for

signed to fuelitate his availability richtyDuring the first seven

"Errant' Atom" In

of

is

TRAIN STRIKES MINE

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FOREIGNERS IN TOKYO

of

There will be two volumes of the most comprehensive collection o both oral and written speeches, num bering 160, of which half had never before appeared in English,

for viceregal appointment which would be announced in the near fu- months of this year, the total of units generated by nuthorised enterprises ture.

Was 23,244 millions, as against 21,705 It was recalled that Lord Stansg-million units for the corresponding

Benn nte as Sir Wedgewood

was period of 1945. The increase of 1,459 the Secretary of State for India un-million units is equal to 8.7 per cent. or Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Again, the July output of 2,704 Kovernnicht.

million units was nearly 9 per cent. above the level of July, 1945.

TOKYO SEX CRIMES Great things are expected from a new development of hydro-electric

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (UP)—SCAP. has Tokyo, Oct. 0-The Japanese power.in Scotland. The North

that there are Pelping, Oct. 6 (UP)—A Nationa-estimated

36,000 palice report that the detained sex Cyclotron on Fire Scotland Hydro-Electrie, Board

living now list armoured car, moking on inspec- foreign nationals

In fiend, Yoshlo Kodaira, who has al- now engaged on a power scheme near Pitlochry, for which the Government on tour yesterday along the Pelping Tokya, of whom only 559 aro Sovlet ready confessed to 10 rape-murders, already given a guarantee of Mukden rail line, was derailed near citizens, but 300 of them are attached has admitted the raping of eight

guarantee wh

which may Khanli, 30 miles south-west of the to the Russian Mission, the largest other girls.. He, however, did not An errant, atom" in the electrical be

Berkeley, Calif., Oct. 5 (UP) up to £30,000,000. As United States Marine base of Chin-i in Tokyo.

The SCAP report revealed that the strangle them to death.

The police, who are having a difi- wiring system of the 180-inch cyclo-a result, the Hydro-Electric Board wanglao, when, it ran over mines

the tracks.

majority29,000were Koreans with

year-old laundryman's many sex tron under construction in the Univ-] has been able to raise the finance | buried under, indicated that Red Formosas second at 5,800. It die cult time keeping track of the-az. ersity of California got loose to-day required from the Scottish banks at guerrillas, who have been most active closed also that nationals from every crimes, sald Kodaira shows no signs `and caused a short cireult and fire his indicates, asid Britain's Minis between Chinwahgtao and Tientsin in place on earth were represented in of remorse over his deeds, but rather- "which: damaged the big cylinder.

astounding the The blaze was extinguished in 20 ter of Fuel and Power recently, that the past week, placed the mines there. Tokyo, including Austria, Turkey, takes delight in

All trains to and from Manchuria Slam, Rumania, Annam, Ireland, hardened police by recounting his minutes but the atom smashing "there is a conviction in the com-

and sordid, exploits. cyclotron may have bed gravely munity that the scheme is going to were held up for 12 hours until ro- Norway, Mexico, Indo-Chine, India, gruesome

patrs could be completed: daruured in the electrical circuits.

Syria. Finland, Denmark and Brazil. Central News. prove muccesful."

a very low rate of interest.

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