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Are You Sure?

Answers on Page 10

1. In the US, July 4 In celebrated as lie anniversary. of-

Boston Tea Party, adopiton by Congress of the Declaration of Independence, abolition of slavery, Lincoln's birthday? ·

2. If you were a student of potamology you would learn

about-

Greetin

Tankards, rivers, urns, archoclogy, pcteen?

3. Wich organisations' mollees are these-

"Blood and Fire," "Be Pre- pared," "Fight the Good Fight"

4. What is the name of this

Stale? Ita capital is the clue.

FRANCE

5. You would expect to find

a popping crease on a cricket Beld--

In line with the stumps, on square-leg's trousers, four feet

in front of either wicket, at a hatch in the pavillon?

6. In which waters is the

Gulf of St Vincent

e, Australian, West

7. These three famous men had the same name-

Wellington's right-hand man of Waterloo; Inventor of the pemy postage; preacher. and hymn-writer?

8. Ata parlamentary elec- ilon would you be wasting your time if you canvassed

Peers, aliens, lunatles, con- victs?

D. Which of these creatures Is blind-

Owl, mole, bat?

10. If a Red Indian handed you a calumet you would-

Smoke it, hang it

vour neck, drop

drink it.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1947.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Her seat in the park

A fine photographic study made on a clear summer's day in London.

Geologists Engaged In

TASK FORCE. RC P

By A Special Correspondent ONDON.-The Royal Col- lege of Physicians has es- tablished a task force to attack a disease from which 800,000 people are likely to suffer in Great Britain alone, a disease of youth about which little is knows. The disease is rheumatic fever.

It is not istif infectious, but it Secina

ofien to follow very

the presice of certain germs in the threat and nose which are very commonly found and passed from

:

Twenty doctors with Lord, Moran at the head are working to establish the tactics and strategy needed to defeat this peace-time enemy. And, as so often, it is quite certain thut they

unless the cannot succeed general public know what to do to

help.

Affects The Heart Rheumatic fever is quite different from chranic rheumatiim, for it is a disense of childhood and not of -nduits, and. unlike ordinary rheumatism, it is dangerous because It affects the heart.

Greatest Mineral Hunt

What are the minerals which are Urantum la being sought so avidly?

Water

more common bismuth, silver, mercury or and it is about 1,000 ilmes prevalent than gold.

The Brilishi

gave

mineral

one child to another.

That, indeed, is one of the chief problems of this task force, to find out the connection between these

common

infectious germa and the Ezrious rheumatic fever, and devise ways of preventing ano thing do- veloping into the other.

Once a

child has got rheumatle fever the problem is to limit the amount of damage to the heart, and this is largely a question of expert nursing,

.

the child's

Good Housing And Food No particular kind of child get theumatic fever, but it is commonest where there is overcrowding and bad feeling, and where defences are wenkest,

There is nothing specini ubout that. We all know by this time that health depends on good housing and good food.

Tried to steal crown jewels

IN 1671, during the reign of Charles II, an adventurer called Colonal Blood attempted to seize the crown, globe and eccptre in the Tower of London. Thomas Blood, former licut- enant in Cromwell's army, had turned Government spy.' He had already been mixed up in several plots, including one to seize Dublin Castle and kill the

First let us explode a common error. Many children have growing Lord Lieutenant, gans," a sort of dull ache between

Joints. These should

not worry the parent, as they have nothing to do with rheumatic fever.

But a child looks pale and

if a

loses

weight without Reeming really

It

il

FOR his attempt on the crown jewels, Blood had four ac- complices. First Blood visited enough to go to bed; and if this child the Tower accompanied by complain's of pains in the joints and woman posing as his wife. perhaps limps slightly; and if all

While looking at the jewels America's obvious strategy is key- this is accompanied by the child thari

transcenden-Betting tired more rapidly than seems she feigned illness. With packfuls of fanciful gad-

She was lodine ed to projecting this

arena reasonable, then the child should be taken into the house of Ed. gets that would amaze last cen-

Uranium comes from pitchblende

more tally-important

task of utmost diflculty. Air trans-examined by a doctor, tury's prospectors, geologists and the yellow mineral, carnotite,

port is the only reliable means of may be nothing, but it may be wards, the 80-year-old deputy is the very earliest stage of, rheumatic keeper, and this served, as an today are engaged in the usually found in sandstone. It was

physicist, M. L. communication. River transport greatest mineral hunt since the first found in 1789. It is white and

can be worked. It is very hard, Oliphant, on a recont tour of Aus- Impossible eight and a half month fever, and then much may depend on introduction. Blond soon be-

before the California gold rush.of 1849.

came friendly with the old man. ater tralia, sald the known deposits of of the year; there are no railroads; immedinte treatment but not so hard

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supply the entire northwest territories are heart gets strained. current power

Finally he suggested that a nephew On every continent, not excluding will tarnish it; it can be burned and, uranium were enough to

needs for 100 years, apongy with a bottomless "muskez" most important, it is radioactive.

Signs Of Trouble

of his (who did not exist) Association or swamp, which makes highway

should the frozen Antarctle and the con-

Thorium is the most common of An Atomic Scientists

The task "sub-continent" of Green- the "rare earths," and

force dealing with marry the old man's daughter. is Yound on booklet said: "No method of produc- construction a virtual impossibility. gealed

rheumatic fever points out that us land, 20th century rock hunters are

OTHER FINDS continent, but usually not in ing fissionable material without use alling

He fixed a day for a visit by the of uranium is known or is in sight

way to fight it is early secking the. greatest lodes of

quantities. It was used of

Long-known deposits of uranium, the only Time--deposits of uronium, thorium, commonly to make gas mantles for at present." But Oliphant predict- most of them in non-workabic con-diagnosis there must be full under- nephew and arrived on horseback not with his four companions, one of carnatite, and other radioactive ores lamps. The United States recently cd that by the time uranium

centrations, received new attention standing of those symptoms, the possession of which alone will prohibited the

probably In-

.by mantles out, other elements, export of

doctors, but by school whom Impersonated the young man. became cnly when atomic bomb facts

All of them were armed with sword- assure a nation's place in the sun made of thorium. It is white, very cluding nitrogen, would be used.

known. Other Ands were reported authorities and parents.

Already

in some parts of Britain canes, daggers and pistols. heavy, will burn in the open air,

of almost immediately. The largest known deposit

in special measures are being taken to A uranium deposit was found Not only the wilderness, but also and can be dissolved in some aclds. uranlum is in the Belgian Congo, an cornwall and another.in Bohemia. watch out for signs of trouble, with

with enormously rich African Asla It is found most commonly

colony

that fewer children in common mineral in which lies in the Dark Continent One finde was reported from the in-the recult for monazite, a

Carro those places are being handicapped comparable to the terlor of British position Lye all-important ores. The major India and Australia.

and But the best weapon is parental Carnotite, named after the French stomach in a man. Its navel opens tile was located in Portugal advantage the

knowledge radioactivity scar-

and foresight. old-time

gold physicist who discovered it, is used on the west coast between French Australia, cher has over the

will Uranium in paying quantities was alone extracted Equatorial Africa and Portuguese as an ore. From it is hunter is that he does not have to

found fever from pull down rheumatic or was locked inside-the Tower West Africa, neither of which con- nald officially to have been

present position of death. from heurt see the ore to know that the mineral uranium.

tains comparable richez, Geologists near Las Heras, San Luis State, Ar- chief cause of is present.

THE RUSH

cathmate the Congo holds 60 to 70 gentina, and the Argentine Govern- disease for people under 40. 2,000 From aeroplanes flying at

at of ment of President Juan Peron

Perhaps the most important point.

another man called' atomic percent of the world's supply shaped the carth The peculiarly, feet or higher

Lord Moran's committee Parrot seized the jewels but the old uranium.

once began angling for Axis nuclear which

who have inan's son forced his way in and "Gelger counters,' mechanical cloud had scarcely risen over

or

radioactivity,

The second richest site is at Great scientists to go to that South Ameri-makes is that children. blistered ruins of Hiroshirna

had rheumatic fever need something roused the sentinels. After a flerċe devices which record

uranium Bear Lake, In the wild northwest can Republic.

In this day

Other deposits of either uranium more done for them than a mere fight Blad was caught. can tell whether beneath the inno- the rush for the world's

not an uncommon territories of Canada, ceni-appearing surface below there began. It is

of of trans-polar strategy, Great Bear or thorium are found in greater of oure. uranium or its price- mineral. The uranium content will be

After it comes rehabilitation. It less causing. With Geiger counters the earth's crust is about 0004 per Lake is in an uncomfortable posi- lesser richness in Sweden, Norway,

Germany, France, Belgium, Italy is no use saving à man from death be possible to cent by weight, which does not sound, tlon, for it would, find itself in.

unless you go on and fit him into oceans much, until one realises that the potential combat zone in an initial and European, and Asiatic Russla.

(Continued on Page 10) lbe pattern of social life. weight of the crust is considerable. irans-Arctic assault.

for the foreseeable future.

round and run,

ACIKLONORANTARUUNALITAMENTRE

FISH AND CHIPS

IN BED

Australian war-bride Sonia. Adel- SOR, 26, was granted a divorce in San Francisco from Morris Adelson, warehouse worker, on the grounds that he nie, among other things, potato chips and salmon in bed.

the settled areas of Europe, and America are being probed

above

Mrs Adeiron told the court shelt may eventually would return to Australia after the prospect the floors of the birth of her expected baby.

themselves.

the when

in a

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

Gulana.

its

That

While pretending to wait for his wife, Blood asked Ewards to show his friends the jewels. When the

custom-the old man was gagged and bound and benten nearly to death.

Blood and

But Blood, who had some power over the King: obtained a pardon for himself and his gang, and even- tually was given a pénsion.

"Cooling-Off Period"

By KEMP STARRETT

SOHETOLKS ARE CONVINCED THAT THE WAY TO FREEP COOL IS

"TO SIT OUT IN A A BOAT...IN THE BOILING

CUA.

A QUICK TRIP TO THE · ∙COUNTRY IS A CURE WAY TO COOL OFF.....

THINK.

THEY

SOME JIST USE THE POWER OF. SUGGESTION, REMEMBERING LAST

GINTERX STOYS.

BESSY

OTHERS HOLD THAT THE MORE YOU CAN KOLD OF ICE CREAM AND COLD. DRINKS THE COOLER. YOU'LL STAY....... LIKE AN ICE-BOX.

Ledger Syndicate

— ITS HARD TO KEEP COOL VIEN YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO SEAD CARDS READING *WE'RE SLELKING UNDER FOUR, BLANKETC... · EVERY NIGHT. DON'T YOU WISH YOU WERE HERES

AND A LOT OF FOLKS THINK THE WAY TO COOL OFF IS TO FLOCK TO THE BALL PARK. AND GET HOT HEADED AT THE UMPIRE.

SHORTS ARE COOL...IF YOU CAN STAND THE MOCKING LAUGHTER OF THE GALS

*2:13.