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Evening Star, Issue 17319, 6 April 1920, Page 6

<V T ' AUCTIONS. V; ■; “• • • • • »_• -,r‘t THRBB profitable freeholds. .-ATERSHAM .(on lire). —7-roomed House, 'good order; gas, copper, tubs, sewered; ' towlhouse, byre; i-ocre land. £SOO. F6339 ■ ' 40SLYN (Higbgate).—Choice 8 Booms, splendid condition; modem appointments; ; ’ , - valuable i-acre; unsurpassed position, £1,450. F6341 • BT. KILDA.—Comer Freehold, 50 x 100 ; 6- • roomed House; steel ceilings, gas, book's. case, wardrobes, fowlhouse; sanitary v>- ‘ drainage; tomato-house. £930. F6337 f A LEX, HARRIS AND CO., O. Auctioneers. WEDNESDAY, 14th APRIL, At 12 o’clock. ’ At the Mart, George street. SPLENDID 8-ROOMED HOUSE, 81 Filleul street (on rise), third house from London street. MO SS-P.H I L L I P S are instructed to sell by auction, Allotment 7, Block XX., containing 12 poles, frontage 33ft by a depth of 99ft, with entrance also by Cambrai place from George street, on which there could be built a motor garage. This House is faithfully built, plastered, enamel bath, porcelain pedestal bowl, hot and cold water, shower, scullery, jppper and tubs, brick side wall, gas and electric light, drained to D.8.R., Workshop, asphalt paths and yard. This is really a superior property, and worth inspection. Further particulars from MOSS-PHILLIPS.

It. Au often enough been pointed out that eni express train running. 60 miles per hour for 24- hours per day would require no less ’ than five months to reach the moon. „Thia comparison, of course, dates back to a time when, the 60-mile train was f the hist word in earthly speed. If we bring it up to date by substituting! the 150-mlle airplane we may cut to a mere 60 days the time of our. hypothetical journey through. space to our satellite. A projectile travelling at a uniform rate of one mile per second l —a speed . which Was approached cfloedy enough by the •German 70-mile gun to make It appear quite certain that it is practical' from the artillerist’s .viewpoint—would reach the.moon in ffom two and a-half to three days, according to the position of our satellite with rej fetenj® to the earth. , .