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1. Which Is the biggest of these-

Our

National Debt dr pounds, number of inches in garth's circumference, 'distance in gards to the moon?

2. A collection of Flossen makes an

Glossary. silver Haing, diamond tiara. pair of gum- boots, varnish?

3. One

married a Philip, anotiser re-

jected im

Mary I...

Victoria?

queens

these

Elizabeth, Anne,

ARABIA,

RICA

4. This

colony

(shaded)

which Italy wants haris, is--

Somaliland,

Eritren?

A. What is an-

Abyasinta,

Age ape, ayak, ha-ha?

the

Can you plek ont tallest of these heavyweight champions-

James J. Corbett, Mar Baer, Primo Cartera, Jess Willard, Cone Tunney?

.. The chairman of the B.B.C. K

Lord Juman, Earl of Claren- don, Lord Simon of Wuthern- shawe. Sir Allan Pinecll?

Which one of these plays was not founded on fact—

Exprac Aram Todd, the Barber of Fleet Street; Maria Marten anzst the

Red Barn?

9. Which of

Prime

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1948.

£200,000 DAVID Still GetTS 1s. A DAY

Harrow schoolboy, David Nelson, who inherits nearly £200,000 under the $400,000 will of his father, Sir Amos Nelson, the Lancashire cotton

mag- nate, will not, "for the time being," got a riso in his Is. a day pocket money. David does not get his for-

tune until he is 23.

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NEW ESTIMATE OF CheSNAPSHOT GUILD

THE EARTH'S

AGE

The earth is about 3,350,- for lend imotopes found in ores 000,000 years old, one eminent of the Tertiary period. British scientist believes.

"We may assume," he wrote,

The estimate is in startling that all of it "now present in contrast to Archbishop John the free from the lead isotope" Ussher's 17th century guess of and that all of it "now present | 5,961 years but far below the in,the common granite rocks of | Jukes theory in 1869 that the the continental crust has been

| chalk erosion in the' country of generated from Uranium 235,"

Kent took 30,000,000,000 years alone.

By comparlog Tertiary isotopes with those in the granite rocks of today, Prof. Holmes arrives at an Prof. Arthur Holmes. Regius estimate of from 2,000,000,000 10 professor of Geology und 5,400,000,000 yearn as the age of the Mineralogy in the University of earth-presumably the Ume at which Edinburgh and a specialist in it began to harden from the gaseous application of radio-activity to atje.

geology, made the "probable CONSERVATIVE MINIMUM estimate" of 3,350,000,000 years in a resume of theories en the age of the earth in the efentific monthly, Endeavour.

But he linen nima for # closer estimate by. using some "better established" tintes of radioactive

minerals compiled by Prof. A. 9. Nie and other specialists in the field, He based it on study of Some of the dates, for example, set radio-activity in lead, taking as the

#C of

uraninite found in commen denominator the Manitoba at 1.905,000,000 years, estimates of 25,000,000 years which, Prof. Holmes, sald, "Includes still recognisable ronglomerates con- Taining pebbles of pre-existing quartzites which must therefore be well over 2,000,000,000 years old.

"Since the earth must be older still, this pure can

be regarded as a conservative minimum age."

THESE MEN WILL LIVE

UNDER ARCTIC SEAS

By W. A. CRUMLEY

led

It

SIXTY-ONE PI by Fanburgh will be his first

The

Jward, rats, for there will be exas

crew tank in thousands

bacon at every breakfast.

Hayling Island, Hants, are to Sweeney

live for a month or more on end under Aretic waters in tem- peratures down to ten idegrees below freezing.

ԿԻ five luisters Kince 1933 had most years in that office-m Earl Haldwin, Mr J. R. Aine- Donati.

Mr N. Chamberlain,

Mr Churchill, Bir Attlee?

10.

An awtchar is a- Beverage. Russian sheepdog. invalid carriage?

A

ARCTIC MAY

YIELD OIL

forecast that oli may be dis- envered in the Arctic region has been made by a geologist at the Univer, sity of Wyoming.

who

The geologist is Ray Thompson, spent last summer doing of exploration in the frozen ninth, and who is just completed a report to the US Navy on his work.

His bellef is backed by the fart that appropriations have been made to Gnance oil exploration in Alaska

until 1950.

The

poprite. Davis, to see

sant what

Lentent sistemarize

A

life is like in low temperatures. naval doctor will keep the record.

**** **{i]] Average mea”-- will mail from the Clyde by a speret new-jook submarine.

The

route in Ambush.

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And they will submerge in waters tver before penetrated by sub- Furious.

They are walling for special clothes, musical films, and a set of Ihan recordings--for much of the course will be outside the range of radio.

The men are the

hortial crew the eight-month-old Ambuil, except that six are National Service men and may have to be replaced,

The youngest to go will be 10-

Clampmet

oľ

and

More cooking fat will be used for ench man each day than na English housewife gets for a week. There will be cod liver oil, fruit julees. and a 7lb. tin of boiled sweets for Citch IT!(

The crew fear nothing except boredom. The "life and soul" will be a cockney

signaller, leading furre Sherrington -"Proper Harry Champion, he is."

In the seamen's mess they will make rugs and loys. The engine- room artideers have started to make working models of oil and steam engines,

Engine-Room

AMBUSH MEN Arrowed: The youngest to go, 19-year-old Anthony Stewart,

Said Pettman,

Artificer of Gillingham, Kent: "When we first heard of this job, every man said: I am not going on that one. Now there isn't a m who would give up his berth."

Why? Leadinu: Seaman D. puts an end to monotony. We feel Anscombe, of Westerham, Kent, again that we have something worth explained: "We are riad to fo. It while to do.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

for its

con-

Prot. Holmes admit that his equations have given him over 200 solutions to the age of the earth but that there is a "marked centration" of solutions at about 2,300,000,000 to 3,400,000,000 years. His equations therefore, he said, "favour the hope that an estimate of 3,350,000,000 years for the age of the

to be earth is unlikely seriously wrong."

SODIUM STUDY Prof. Holmes also discusses esti- mates by Jolly in 1898 that the oceans, based on study of the time It takes dissolved sodium to ac- cumulate. are from 10,000,000 to 90,000,000 years old,

Using the same method, Prof. Holmes points out that the correct figure would be closer to 250,000,000 years, but since sodium study is a "hopelessly vari- able" method, the age of the oceans

may be anything from 2,000,000,000

10 4,000,000,000 years old.

"The most that can be said," he comments, "is that its present rending (sodium accumulation) is not inconsistent with an oceanle age of few thousands of millions af vorg "United Press.

PHOTOS BY FLOOD LIGHT

Indoor pictures are easy if you uns flood type lamps, two of which were used to make this shot.

For most interior work two SEVERAL weeks ago we went

into the matter of indoor or three flood type lamps are pictures at night with flash recommended. In photograph- bulbs. At the time we barely ing a room, such bulbs should mentioned flood lamps, an ternative method.

al be arranged fairly close to the So today camera. By using a cheese- let's look at this type of light- cloth diffuser-far enough ing.

from the bulbs to prevent

In the first place, it should be scorching-even illumination is understood that flood lamps are secured. Beware of hard

of two general types--those shadows from chair or table similar in shape to an ordinary legs, of reflections from highly household bulb, which re- polished furniture or mirrors, quires a reflector; and the flat, and of spotty lighting which wide bulbs containing built-in brightens one part of the scene reflectors. Most bulbs of these but leaves another in shadow. types fit any ordinary socket and several of them may be used at once on a circuit, with out overloading it.

As for portraiture by flood light, there are several lighting combinations which achieve" good results. The simplest of these is to place one lamp just to one side of the camera and about four feet from your sub-.

The second lamp should Juct.

While picture taking with flood type lamps requires more effort than shooting with flash, lamps of this type are well suit ed for use in making interior he placed about three feet from pictures or informal portraits the subject but on the opposite indoors. An extension cord or side of the camera and far two and lamp sockets equipped enough from it so that the with clamps such as thone used light strikes the subject at an on inexpensive headboard bed angle of 45 degrees. Both lights permit the photographer lamps should be raised a foot chair or two above the level of the to fasten his lamps to a back and to place them in any camera. position or at any level.

"Winter Sports"

BI KEMP STARRETT

John van Guilder.

VINES

THE REAL VINTER SPORTS: THE LADS WIO CATCH THE TJO EVERY MORNING ALL WINTER LONG... AND THEIR.

WHO GET THEM UP IN TIME FOR IT.

BOXEOLDER.

REFRIGERATOR.

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OUR IDEA OF ENJOYING WINTER SPORTS IS TO SIT HOME BY THE FIRE AND DEAD ABOUT THEM.

"TRY THIS ORANGE JUICE

STOKING UP ON ANTI-FREEZE FOR THE COLD TRIP

HOME.

"THIS LOVIMENT!" B-R-R·R:

Ledger Syndicate

ANOTHER WINTER SPORT IS CUSSING OUT THE JAINOR OR THE COAL DEALERS, OR THE OIL INTERESTS OR ANYBODY ELSE THAT SEEMS TO BE IMPLICATED.

"AREN'T YOU CONG TO FIFT TROSE

·ÁCHES 2. DO.

YOU KNOW WHAT COAL COSTE HOWS IF YOU HADN'T

•LET THE FIRE DIE OUT.

PLOWING UP TO TIE MAIL BOK TOR

·SOME EXHILARATING NEWS.

THEN THERE'S THE CHIEF INDOOR WINTER. SPORT.... BATTLING POPS COLD AND POPS. RESISTENCE TO MEDICATIONS...WITH EVERYBODY AS JOLLY AS A RUSSIAN AT A UN SESSION.

"THAT ELATING SPORT, SHOVELING OUT THE CINDERS THAT, AS COAL, COST YOU *1709 ATON...

AND TRYING TO FIND A PLACE TO BUT THER OR THAT OTHER SHOVEL-SPORT, DIGGING THE CAR LOOSE FROM A SHOW Delft.