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Under the Distinguished Patronage of H.E. The Governor Sir Mark Young, G.C.M.C.

IN AID OF BRITISH FLOOD RELIEF FUND J. ARTHUR RANK'S

"A Matter Of

Life and Death

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IN NEW CHROMATIC, TECHNICOLOR The first Royal Command Performance film in the history of Motion Pictures

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DAVID NIVEN ROGER LIVESEY RAYMOND MASSEY KIM HUNTER Why was "A Matter of Life & Death" chosen as the first motion picture to have a Royal Command Performance, a distinction no other film can claim? Because it is an extra- ordinary Alm, "advanced" in every phase of production. It is evocative of all the fine things that can be achieved by the, magic of creative elements. It contains pootie dialogue which takes it up to Heaven yet down to earth in its universal appeal. It presents something entirely new in chromatic" technicolor. It has unsurpassed seting and a story that may be rightly claimed as different.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1947.

ALTERNATIVE TO COAL

HE lessons of recent weeks Arc that Britain will be faced with a lingering economic death if she does not quickly reorganise the produc- tion and utilisation of her re- sources of energy.

Coal is vital. The National Coal Board has hoisted its flags at the pithenda and is busy furnishing Its castles and man- slons; meanwhile, the output per "hend in British mines re- mains among the lowest in the world.

Coal means the labour, limbs, lungs and lives of men-we cannot afford to waste it.

In the opinion of many authorities, the coal resources of these islands, at their present rate of exploitation. may not Inst for another hundred years.

Some of the older coalfields, parts of South Wales and Durham, the Forest of Dean, and many more, will be exhausted bing before the turn of the century. Some are exhausted already.

The new fields, under the sea that washes the coast of Cumberland, un- der the Firth of Forth, in the Mid- 'lands. In Kent, can never replace the great wealth we have already used and lost.

Pause to think

IF the Government means to plan

It must parise for some construc- tive thinking.

COAL is of unique strategle and economic importance to Britain and will long remain 6. ~ prime source of entry.

OIL, and other Imported fuels, are important enough. Their use in place of coal (to which the Govern iment has recently committed itself on an unprecedented scale) will only help to make the balancing of our import-export budget more in- tolerably difficult than ever.

WATER POWER. The sun stores up energy in high places in the form of water ready to return to the s from which it was evaporated.

this

Surprises (moon)

are being planned for

London's Sea Zoo

N the desk of Mr H. F. Vinall, the Zoo aquarium supervisor, I saw a long and imposing list.

By

JAMES FORRESTER

By directing its fall through tur- bines, electrical energy can be pro- duced. The resources of Scotland are being developed, but these are n mere drop, a very costly drop in the ocent of our energy needs.

any

The harnessing of the tides must not and cannot be ignored in long-term policy, although It may be found that the best use of tidal Intermittent its power, owing to nature, is to convert it into heat for the district heating schemes of cities like Newport and Bristol.

ATOM FISSION. Whatever Its possibilities and cost, It is most signi-. least that the Americans are pusa- ing ahead with their plans for more power stations fired with coul, inore hydro-electric stations, more and more efficient gasworks.

They ought to know,

Source of power

ERWICK Wewcastin

EGERSUND

Where the power cable might run

history..

Britain, Varoughout

her has triumphed in the moments of her greatest adversity by becoming suddenly conscious of her island position and by recognising that the sea is not a barrier between her and other nations, as others have thought, bul a link that she herself under- standa and has understood As 110 other nation has done except per-

THERE exists one other major pos- haps Norway.

sibility.

Three hundred miles away, neress the North Sea, lie some of the most abundant sources of uhharnessed water power in the world, tumbling eternally down to the sea from the snowfields of Norway's mountain

backbone,

The Norwegians already generate more power per head than any other country in the world; the population of Norway is small and unlikely to grow beyond, at the most. three

million people.

Now it happens also that Norway has recently published as a White- paper a budget of her power re- sources, and of her known and est!- mated consumption of

electrical

energy.

This budget shows that, allowing for all anticipated expansion, 50 per cent of Norway's known wealth of water-power will not be wanted for Norwegian consumers or for Norwe- glan export to other Scandinavian countries, and will therefore continue to tumble down to the sea unused.

Norway, like us, needs exports; We have the means

her Government has already sanc- toned the bullding of an overhead Une

for transmission of electric power to Sweden, whence the power will be carried by cable under the Sound to Denniork. which has neither coal nor water-power.

Sweden has been supplying Den- mark by such cable for many years.

It is a fact that the Germans during the war, worked out a plan to make Berlin the centre of the vast net- work of a Continentul electricity grid, fed unceasingly by the water- falls of the Alps and Norway, and by the conifields of the Rubr.

und

later sent up to Regent's Park "with The compliments of captain crew."

generators produce what is known as alternating current, A.C., which is now almost universal-

WHAT is involved?

ly used in industry and the home, because of the many advantages that it has over other forms of energy.

When A.C. is transmitted over the (even at the very high pressures or grid, however, certain losses occur voltages used) which are negligible

To generate that number of units we need today 30,000,000 tons of cool, which is rather more than the total amount used in the power stations of Britain each year.

What would it, cost to transfer some of that chergy to Britain, assuming that Norway were willing?

Three hundred miles of cable un. der the North Sen might cost дв much as a large, power station and would carry 2,000,000,000 units across in one year.

To that must be added the expense of hydro-electric stations bulit by British engineers on Norway's soil, and to that again the elaborate equipment required to turn A.C. to D.C., and back again.

Once built, however, the cost of running would be relatively small,

In order to ensure our future well- being, we must face the necessity of heavy, capitalisation: the policy of "cheup cont" has already brought us nigh to Elsaster.

Within 20 years

WHEN could the first scheme be

ready?

POCKET CARTOON

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WAY

by Beachcomber

CREEN pigeons." styy

correspondent in a week- ly paper, "whistled, on the 'palm' trees (Mimusops Hexan- dra) laden with fruit, and Twenty years from now, perhaps, jungle-cocks uttered their chal- at the outside, when the Forest of lenging call of 'Cluck! Joy- Dean will have no coal left and parts Joyce'." of South Wales will be idle.

What will the Norwegians say?

wise

What happens at the receiving

end?

If our approach to them is

Everyone who reads this will cry and tactful, they can only welcome "Ceylon!" At once he will seem to the scheme as a new export for their smell the country of a resource they do

pungent chilt-grossep want.

not (Fopuloria Nissogunica) which choke the mouths of gorges, storm-swept in the February gales: gales so violent that the double-winged "olngys, with is soft call of "Wow! Thair-open!” is blown Hike a leaf from Its rest in the wadeon-tree (Sompatica Sum- What happens when the rivers of | pallenta). Enter nine old Giko birds, Norway freeze?

their little mosay boots slowly filling with shule The Norwegians have answered

from the overhanging that problem by building deep re-rock-burrows of the wild boogoose bottom, whence the water is drawn servoirs which never freeze at the (Klcuna Cockatorum Jigjiqueria), off; they are filled by melting snow Controversy

The power is converted Into A.C., and fed into the British grid at the British voltage and frequency.

and summer rain.

objections

about the strategic

What about the next war, what ting vital installations on foreign territory? in

become

over the short distances common Britain, but which would major factors of economic (as well as power) loss if the distances were greater than say, 200 miles.

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But A.C. can be changed, or rec- tifled, into direct current, D.C.. which can likewise be changed back juguin into A.C.

Insignificant loss

high-voltage IN theory D.C., at

pressure, can be transmitted very long distances by cable with insig- nificant loss, certainly 300 miles or

more.

Engineers and physicists of some of the leading electrical engineering countries-U.S.; Russia, Sweden, From the Plymouth Biological As-Switzerland, Germany are studying sociation will soon arrive another | high-voltage D.C. transmission with consignment of fish, many taken ¦ Immense vigour, from the deeper areas of the English Channel

This will include large conger eels, Į John Darys, starish, seabass and

The process, if it works, can make easter the development of the vast open spaces of the world; the equip- ment needed for it, if successful, wili provide the country first to perfect it with an export of great potentiuli-

sea-bream. Later, when the weather gets warmer and sub-tropical marine creatures migrate towards our south ties. coast, there will be octopods-long- It contains the names of scores of tentacled monsters, big and awesome deep-sea animals, from turtles and enough to shake the most blase king-crabs to those weird but schoolboy, beautiful polyp-like

marine стен-

tures, sea-anemones,

GREEN TURTLES.

hind, except in one field.

In all this Britain has lagged be-

Britain astonished the world with the Hais and the Hamel pipelines, by laying what was in effect a hollow cable across the sea for the trans- mission of oil to the Continent.

in

the

Britain has long been pré-eminent design, manufacture and installation of submarine, telegraph cables over distances of 3,000 miles and more.

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It is an important list, too. Given

Foreign marine institutions are reasonable luck, most of the species contributing their quota. From the hero named will be represented alive Oceanographical Museum of Monaco in the exhibition tanks of London's

are coming Scarlet and Vestlet ane- **scawater

200" before the end of

the mones taken from the milk-soft this year. They are wanted for the

for Me waters of the Mediterranean; and marine hall—that 150-ft.

ong cor- ridor which, lined on all sides with green turtles eight of them, large from the Seychelles Islands more well-lit tanks cach representing a

Britain has perfected types 40-pounders. They are arriving in corner of the undersea world. lies a month or two and will go into the heavy power cable for use on land deep down under the loftiest crugs biggest tank in the hall-a 25ft.-long which, it only very slightly modified of the Muppin Terraces, and which, one holding 4,500 gallons.

for use under the sea, could be avail- closed since 1930, is reopening its

abic without further modification dours to the public this spring.

for the transmlasion of high-voltage D.C. from Egersund to Berwick-on- Tweed, from Tasmania to Australia, from the South Island to the North Island of New Zealand.

BLUE LOBSTER

From a Paris dealer Mr. Vinall Is obtaining a whqle tankful of sea- horses..

Many tanks are already inhabited,

Will the new "occan zoo," when thanks to the ready co-operation of open contain any, noveltica? Yes, various British marine institutions.

several. Some are being planned as There are, too, some exhibits which

surprises. I am, however, at liberty the Zoo has acquired by chance, to mention one. This will be à among them freak sky-blue lobster

"sea nursery." It will take the form which, caught recently by a Jersey of a large tank devoted exclusively Asherman, was sent over by air; to baby coastal fish. Punch, a 14b. green turtle, which

was hatched from the egg by an The Inmates, which will include Englishwoman living on Ascension the young of blennies, gables, bull- Island, in the South Atlantic, and heads, wrasse and plaice, and many which was for some time before other inshore species, are being now arrival at the Zoo kept as a accumulated at the Dove Marine "pot" and

and Judy, the baby turtle of Laboratories at Cullercoats, North the same species, which, Just before umberland. Their tank bids fair to Christmas, was washed aboard the become, the "Children's 'Zoo" of the San Roberto. when that vessel was Aquarium, ploughing her way through heavy

sens off Pernambuco, and which was

mop

It is interesting to study a and see that the grent potential water-power resources of the world are often situated at a great distance from the industries and elties that they might supply.

Often it is a narrow belt of sen, no land, that separates the two.

In other words, Britain's interest in high-voltage D.C. should be just as great as that of U.S., or Germany, or Rusaid.

In Norway there are running to waste surplus sources of energy which, if harnessed, could generate 50,000,000,000 units of electricity an-

Craven Hill ntially.

YOUR TOWEL

NANCY

All the Latest Dirt

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH)

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SAY ANYTHING

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MR. ALFRED POTETO wishes to point out that he is not the Mr Alfred Putalo referred to as the champion draughts player of Lincoln- shire. Mr Potato himself knows There are many good answers to nothing of Mr Poteio and said yester that question, but at the very worst day: "I don't know about the Poletos, coal will have been saved in Enginnd but we Potatos go back a very long In the meanwhile, coal which would | way. We can trace our descent to olherwise have been burned to Ranulf Potato Henry 11's gardener." nothing, coal which would have kept Mr Poteto said Inst night. "Poteto miners from other work.

is my name. Mr Potato may say what he pleases."

What about the possibility of Norway's neutrality In another

war?

hope we have heard the last t this nonsense.

There are many answers to that LATER: Mr. Potelo said: "Henry point, too......From her angle she's gardener is beside the point. I need only break the circuits and the never suld I was a Potato," When cable under the sea becomes a dead told of this Mr Potato said: "I I thing of lead and copper of no mill- had a name like Poteto I would not tary value whatever.

be so keen on drawing attention to it."

Design problems

AND what is the next step?

There must be a team or teams of electrical engineers and others to salve the technical design of the transmitting and receiving installa- tions.

There must be two or three field

experiments in this country, showing what can be done and what the cost will be.

This is really too

preposterous CHORTLY before midnight Mr

Poteto issued this statement: "II Mr-Potato-thinks Potelo a queer name why hasn't he changed his own name, which is not so very dissimi-

lar?" To which Mr Potato replied. "I want to change my name, I shall not consult Mr Poteto.

who There should be bitteral collaborn- might well begin by changing his tion in development with Norway. own." Next day, Mr Poteto referred

to "This Mr Potato's absurd insis Vigour, determination, bold inspi-tence on the superiority of his own ration and brains, these are the in- name to mine, on the gredients of the second Industrial Revolution that is coming.

Henry II's mythical garden 8th of

Mr Mr Potato rejoined gardener is no myth. He was the first Potato, as By co-operation between the elec-any history book will inform this so- trical Industry and the Government, called Mr Poteto." Mr Poteto replied; the transmission of electrical energy "Potelo is no more so-called, as you by high voltage DC. under the sea call it, than Potato, may become a practical possibility in our lifetime.

There the matter rests at present.

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