THE SUN’S HEAT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22593, 24 December 1938, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE SUN’S HEAT

The solution of the mystery of the fuel which supplies the sun with an inexhaustible supply of radiant energy is announced by Professor Hans Bethe, of Cornell University, the exiled German and a former student of the New Zealand scientist. Lord Rutherford. The element is carbon, which is burned on the earth as coal, oil, or gas. It is calculated that ten million billion tons of coal would be required to generate the heat radiated by the sun within one second. Why, then, do not the sun and the stars burn f up their substance? This is the question that Professor Bethe has attempted to answer. The Moslems and China The representative of the British United Press at Chungking says that Kweilin Moslems have circularised their co-religionists

throughout China alleging that the Japanese destroyed mosques and insulted the faith. The circular pledged whole-hearted support to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek in resisting Japan, and appeals to Moslems throughout the world to-maintain their co-religion-ists’ freedom in China.