1946-11-29 — Page 3

MALAYA TIN

INDUSTRY · RESUMES

By George Weller

There is one farmer Japanese flect which America's far-ranging B-29's failed to sink.

Regulations For Foreign Owners Of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29,. 1946.

British Government BOY OF SIX TOO SMART

Shanghai Land To Spend £20,000,000 FOR SCHOOL

The Shanghal Municipal Govern- inent has promulgated regulations governing the registration of land owned by foreigners.

According to the regulatlona, u foreign applicant must first secure 11/0 a paper from the consul of

overnment in Shangbai, cerifying 40 that his ownership of land has To-day, British tin companies are is the actual possessor of the land. been legally acquired and that he grateful that the heavies, Malaya, bypassed the 1,200 to 5,000-

when such a certificate ton ships floating on Malaya's inkes

For these ships were actually float- ing dredges and the fact Uiey were

15

raiding Paned, can he proceed to take up

accessary registration

procedure

with the Bureau of Land Admin-

On Rocket Research

"Although rocket experiment abroad is being watched with interest, scientific investigation into its possibilities has given no indication that jet propulsion would be à serl- ous competitor to the internal combustion engine, and the propeller of the aeroplane. In the circumstances, there could be no justification for spending either time or money on rocket experimentations." The Air Ministry said thin

band of engineers who were trying to raise funds for a re-

By Patricia Clary

Except for

spectacles,

Hollywood

+

1

hila thick-lensed

Andy Oberta of North looks like uny other

little boy of six.

The fact that hy

has the mind of a child twice his age and can give adult experts poin ters on chess is something his mother can attribute only to alphabet soup. "We hnd no idea how anart ho covering the essential engineering was," Mrs. Margaret Obertu whis

Д space-vessel | perod as Andy pitied his chess skill. aimed at an exploratory voyage to against a dozen, Los Angeles chicas the moon and, of course, providing experts at once. for the return of the three occupants. Not only was this the fest thorough

spared has enabled the Briülah tin strution together with the original only a dozen years ago to a small requirements for

industry to climb onto its feet.

These ponderous floating dredges can rightly be called a Japanese fleet. Malaya's disintegra- In the days of tion Ipoh was full of British "cap- tins" proud that they had scuttled their in dredges rather than lat them be captured by the Japanese.

But the Japanese were prepared for this Scapa dowy technique.

Brought Own Dredges

documents of land ownership,

The regulations stipulate that the "pplication forms should be filled in Chinese.

The applicant should secure an- other paper from his consul in Shanghai to certify the correctness of his statement if he has lost the

necessary documents establishing the

lawful possession of land.

The Imperial army came equipped French Communist

with pontoons and divers. The odd, scattered fleet with its inng decks and

superstructures, which! Vanished into the tin filled lakes, ruse

peculiar

ngala. Like buttered galleons they rade the waves with Japanese skip-

and

But their crews. pern

machinery never fully recovered.

The Japanese were forced to rely for in on the Chinese "open carl' mines, which have always produced about one-third

Party's Policies

Paris, Nov. 28. The French Communist Party to- day sought to orient Its aims toward those of the Suelists rejecting the theory of a dictatorship of the pro-

the of Malayn's tin. lotarint-as Then the Chinese started deliberate slowdown methods and the Japanese Jost hert.

British Return

parliamentary

struggle for control of the govern- ment moved into its critical stages.

search..

To-day, after the V-weapons aml the Jet-planca, we can judge for ourselves the value of this statement.

In fact, rockets make news

these days.

The Government recently An-

planning

oxirn-terrestrial

blton

ilight,

the but

"I started to scold him ouce for picking the letters out of his alpha- soup and putting them on the bot table. Then I saw he had spelled out 'Chicago, Illihols.' That was

when he was 18 months old."

After that, she said, they could not keep him from learning.

In a session lasting from yesterday morning until the carly hours of this Communist Central Ipah is once

moving to morning the ngaln

resolution becoming the For East's in Committee adopted 2 ward capital. About 200 of the 400 British formally demanding the French and foreign mining executives premiership for the Party's General- Rice Secretary Maurice Thorez, and heard originally there have returned. is scarce and high, due to Slam's Thorez himself point the way toward fallure to remit its shore under the sociallsm "by other ronds than that been launched under conditions of altered the picture. They had con- hasn't missed by more

taken by Soviet Russia."

investigation ever to be made of technicians produced a complete de- sign for a manned cellular space rocket and actually constructed o number of Instruments necessary to prove the design. Untly

Groups

"A week after that he'nstourkled With the coming of World War II, us by naming every President the

went into nunced it will spend 20 million the Society

voluntary nation has over had. I don't know wen pounds in building and equipping quidation as many of the group's where ho found out," she said. "A rocket research stations. At the technicians held key positions in few days Inter he recited the al- "Britain Can Make It" exhibition, a Industry. The Manchester and Sur-phabet backward." model

space 21

Elementary schools refused to enroll groups continued to work in of an atom-powered ship "capable of flying to and from close accord, and merged in 1844. him, she said, because he was "tou in amart." One school took him for a the moun" is attracting the keenest For the first time, rocket Interest

national Associn- Interest, Dr Апапой French Britain possessed n

day, then sent him home when he told membership similar tion. The group's

rose the teacher he had learned all about engineer,

its personnel spherical craft"

which

will utilise rapidly and although its cosmic rays. Dr Rosentiel, French worked largely in Government estab- that "kid stuff" when he was three. The University of California at lishments developing war rockets unvy specialist on submarine

training and other weapons, any spare time Los Angeles

school for blems, thinks it possible for men to

children accepted him live for weelts in a pressurized they had was utilised in furthering advanced

but before he could Ine of research started before the

enter it was rocket on the surface of the moon.

the war, 1045 saw the

complete closed because the university need- And a scientist has just told

the

unification of all groups

anded the buildings for college students. British Inter-Planetary Society that so

He has the Intelligence quotient the first missile to be guided to the societies, into a limited company, the

British Inter-Planetary Society of "about a 6th grader," his mother moon should be ready by 1050.

Ltd., with a technical membership | said. Brian Slow Off The Mark of several hundred.

"He does fractions in his head. However, In the middle thirties,

With more

time available for and lately has practised measuring whereas in Germany a vast military study, its first job was to investigate the distance from the floor to the

had already

to what extent the atomic bomb hnd ceiling of room with his eye. He research great

tliere was general cluded that the problems to be over-

Ver inches yet Britain

the about scepticism

come before the atom is satisfactorily rocket.

"He loves to make model planes and that possible applications of the Charnessed are enormous Few people thought of it as anything atomic reaction will obviously not planes that are printed on cereal Mand he saves all the pictures of

severul more than a Brework. Seamen, of be available for

decades.

packages. The other night he they are course, know of its value for obtain Consequently,

on going distressed

with

wrote a stern letter to a cereal com- the original research. They

were int communication with

are also interested in the develop-Papy complaining that they vessels, bul beyond that there was

ment of sounding rockets and two using too many pictures of one type little regard for the rocket as

of plane which he explained was engine of propulsion.

such designs have already been Inferior to some others." Invented by the Chinese not long completed. There is much yet to be He is as easy to handle as any The Bidault Cavinel and govern- after the Birth of Christ, the rocket discovered of conditions in the upper other child, she said, except when ment was scheduled to present its had undergone no very great can

he asks "Why?" With a genius in Assembly this by the 20th century. Then, between

the family a mother has to be on her resignation to the afternoon shortly after the session 1903 and 1912 four scientists in the

toes. United Presa. is called to order. The president of United States, France, Rumania and the Assembly will then begin nego-Hussin, working individually tiations toward formation of a new

without knowledge of the others, set government-United Press.

reparations plan.

Skilled native labour is getting 50

to

obtain

The renewed Communist attempt to 80 per cent, and unskilled 80 to

Socialist collaboration, 130 per cent more salary though liv- which is indispensable to its plan for ing standards are still unalisfactory.taking over the reins of the French But the General Trades' Union, em- bodying Chinese, Malayan and In-Government, came on the eve of the

meeting Arst

the National dan racial clements, has retrained Assembly of the Fourth Republic as

while from violent demonstrations

voted awaiting

overnmental solution of called for in the constitution

on October 13. the rice shortage.

JAP ARMY STOCKS

China Gives Tungsten And Mercury to Soviets.

ALLEGED PRESSURE MADE

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THE GERMAN PRISONER PROBLEM

(Continued from Page 2)

programine had

an

and

atmosphere, and the rocket is the only means of penetrating into these regions.

French Building Moon Shilp In Faris, Dr. AnanoЛt, and his

are more am- fellow-engineers

than three

to work to show that it was worthy bed where their moon-ship will New Weights For

and

Pharmacists

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of greater acclaim, and between them

surface after: they built almost the whole founda- land on the moan's

en- surviving the hazards of the trip on upon which the modern ception of the rocket is based. through space. Dr Anonoff has de- Others were swift to take up their clared that his space ship will use

the, no fuel, but will utilise cosmic

rays

A new system of weights to lead. In

Built "drove which will be collected during flight

BAVO pharmacists time and car manufacturer. Van Opel, himself several racing cars powered and changed into propulsion forces

was not to drive the machine in jet-ashion. headaches in computing pres- by rocket charges, but it

COMMENCING the space ship would collect criptions was disclosed to dele New York, Nov. 27.

until 1931, when the rocket was first As

of the American gates. Scripps-lloward newspapers

demonstrated as a mail-carrier, that energy, there would be no need for ap-it to develop the tremendous speed dispatch from Shanghini by William

to link PUT let us remember It was they the implications really became a that a liquid-fuel rocket would need Pharmaceutical Association con- H. Newton reported that Russia had

two

navigation.

vention meeting recently in obtained secret Japanese stockpiles

who brought havoc and misery parent. It was used

Austrian towns, Schockel and Rado- to escape the earth's

He also thinks there may be of strategie war minerals in China. to the human race; their action which Aus

Newton wrote: "Yielding to the shattered many a happy home in this gund, situated on either side of the

Hartz mountains, and their delicate utanium on the moon. That should Pittsburgh, says a United Press strongest behind-scenes diplomatic country.

by parachute start a rush by the Big Powers. A message.

Louls W. Yagle, a pharmacist who and politieni

British scientist has also given his pressure, the Chinese

Their labour is the only form of cargoes were landed

the system have

turned over to Russia huge

So efficient did this prove that even

one-yogle himself, said an age of exploration after century will be quantities of

of tungsten and mereury, out of them. My sympathies are not

went by "rocket CCL

such as man has never seen, and weight is roughly one per cent of a which had been stockpiled here by with Mr Skeffington-Lodge's Franz registered post

mall..

before, the year 2,000 most of the dram--which is an eighth of a fluid the Japanese Army during the way Schmid or Hans Braun, but with

German Research

major bodies in the solar system will ounce.

The weights range from one i in payment for a debt which Sergeant Frank Smith of the BAOR

vi to Russia claimed China owed her for or LAC Henry Brown, who is still

First to boast a Society for specine probably have been reached. It cer research was Germany. The Rus- tainly looks as if Jules Verne and 320 yngles. Each set will be accom- assistance in the curly, days of in Singapore after three years away

followed H. G. Wells will be out of date in a panled by a table of percentage China's war with Japan

from here, simply because in 1030 sians and the Americans

solutions when they are planned on the market. As so much wasted effort. A small had band of engineers, however, other Ideas, and led by PE. Clenter, founded in October 1933 the British Other Inter-Planetary

rmed

in Man- chester; Surbiton and in Scotland.

Alaskans have been warned They had to face a multitude of were there

against a form of shellfish poisoning only problems. Not

A 700 per cent salary boost was for which health authorilles said Anancial difficulties but, on going

af rocket not enough for some Japanese mem- there was no specific antidote. over the legal question

Ex-bers.

Residents were cautioned not to "The fact that China is paying Wooden grave narkers are being research, they found that the her debts to Rusala by turning over | stolen- for firewood as a result of the

plosives Act of 1875, still in force, Now they want jeeps. Encouraged cat clams or mussels during the awn- and to clean them well strategie materials, while at the same scarcity of the latter

did not permit the use of any pro by raises that hauled their salaries mer and the p-

mer months. om sou yen to 1760 yen ($118) during other seasons. time she is negotiating for loans proaching winter. The Amhi Shim- pellant other than plain gunpowder hod from the United States, by no means

-the same gunpowder that uun reporting this points out that

said, included a tingling sensa- Indicates that the Nationalist many familles managed to tide over

existed since Bacon first set down monthly a member recently proposed:

a jeep for each member, proposed; Symptoms of the poisoning, doc- ernment is inclined to favour Russia the last winter by using

its composition in 1242. charred

Research in the practical sphere for Dlet members on all trains, con- tion in the lips and tongue, jerky galt, muscular inco- against America. The Chinese po-timber from bombed areas but the

Tokyo's famous muscular lley appears to be dictated by fenr

violent vomiting, and, ruins and debris have already been

had therefore to be confined to version of one of small-scale laboratory experiments. I restaurants into a billet, and offices ordination,

finally, ascending paralysis. rather an by friendliness." - | picked clean.-Central News.

1938, they published a report at government expense.

Artficial respiration was advised. In United Press.

temperature dropped to 40 degrees

"Rusalo got 3,272 tons of high the Germans who are now so anxious suit. In Britain, it was considered couple of generations,

quality tungsten ore and over 50 to go back to the Fatherland did not tons of mercury.

"In the same period (between

Junuury and September, this year) America received minerals valued

stop there then.

by the Chinese Customs at US$70,- GRAVE MARKERS STOLEN small groups were

In those months, the United

000.

States sent US$7,800,000 worth of

various other types fores

and

minerals to China and Russia rent US$45.00.

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FOR FIREWOOD

Tokyo, Nov. 23.

Protection Racket In Hongkong

Details concerning the "protection" racket in Hongkong

are given in a Reuter report published recently in the

Straits Times:

The report follows:

as he toes" this can be arranged

hours.

Underworld Dislikes

A "criminal" police force ial to go that his watch i stolun from his pocket he enn visit the king succeeding in Hongkong whereof the thieves, describe the article, the official force is not Bo Buc-pay something like $10 and have cessful. That force is exten- returned to him, usually within 21 ding protection to people where the official force has failed.

Robberies and armed holdupa in Hongkong are almost everyday This system, however, though it occurrences, but much rarer are the nets the underworld's royalty more instances like that which happened the long ruri, is not favoured by - recently when П Manchester them alnce they prefer to run their businessman had his pocket picked, "business" on more clear-cut lines.

Before the unly to retrieve his pocket book less

travellers 0й1 Junks from Hongkong up, the East than 24 hours

"protner.

Pearl rivers to Canton and other. way more foolproof than any police small Inland parts of South China force could be in China since they | could And protection for their

The

rackets-in

and

war

ure operated on paradoxically honest belongings during the one night, lines are worked in several ways, which was usually spent on board.

If a Hongkongite wants protec- On payment of a small num a tion from robbers or pickpockets ou traveller could learn the exact way a permanent basis, providing ho in which to hang his clothes while knows the right man to approach, sleeping, in order to be sure they he can pay a reasonable sum of would not be touched. perhaps $80 a year to the king of But the great pity is that not the Unileves and, be assured of enough people are suficiently in the profection for a year,

confidence of the king's man to avall

On the other hand if he is pre-themselves of their intricate methods pared to take the risk and "pay.

of protection.

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Jap Diet Members SHELLFISH POISONING

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"I say you've got a broken valve spring, and don't het me drove one of these crates all through the war}"

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Takso, Nov. 20. The Social Democratic Party West of Western Market as from Secretary-General, Suehiro

The Japanese organised "American Hishio, Society of Japan" sponsored a mass midnight Saturday, November in a speech in the Diot, to-day de meeting to-day on the occasion of 50th next. This is greatly remanded the Yoshida Cabinet's re- the American Thanksgiving Day, and. gretted and only dire necesalty signation, asserting that Premier adopted a resolution thanking Gen Yosulda was not living up to the MacArthur for pasistance given to has rendered it imperative,

spirit of the new constitution.

the Japanese to enable them to bur-: vive the food cricis in the past year.

Tho Shaukiwa Route will

He pointed out that the new con remain as at present but all

stitution, which is effective on May 3-Twenty thousand representatives" Happy Valley and Causeway Bay stipulates that the premler must be of Tokyo's 50 boys and girls bigla cars will turn back at Western a Diet member. He charged the schools participated in the ceremony Market. There will be no tram Yoshida Cabinet was powerless to after which they paraded through the programme for the the city's streets, marching past cara between Kennedy Town and enforce

nation's economic recovery and Western Market. This is a tem-

bo dissolved, and subject its should porary arrangement only pend- fate to public's opinion which, he ing the arrival of spare parts asserted, will be Indicated in (especially steel tyres) from elections--United Press. Europe.

It is understood the Chinn Motor Bus Company will operate COLLABORATOR a restricted servico

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· L ̊C. F. DELLAMY,

General Manager. Hongkong, Nov. 26th, 1946,

лече

headquarters.

women Dlot members, "rc= the Social Democratic Parties, Communit addressed the meeting as well as Cabinet Minister Etsujiro Uchara. All spoke of appreciation of assis- GAOLED dance given by the United States th Japan ng a. result of which the Japanese "already have made some headway In the nation's reconstruc- tion."United Press.

Shunghal, Nov. 28. Described un Shanghai's worst "cultural collaborator," Wu Wen- can, who ran the Sin Wen Pao Court for collaborating with the during the Japanese occupation, was enemy. The Sin Wen Pao sentenced two and a half years in China's largest commercial daily prisonment by the Shungha High newspaper-Central News.