TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1928.
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SIR WILLIAM BRAGG.
Faraday's work as a basis of wireless formed the subject of a short discourse broadcast by Sir William Bragg, the head of the Royal Institution.
There were, Sir William said, two fundamental elements of wireless apparatus that were particularly Faraday's creation, the inductance and the condenser, while he had laid down the principles of the electric valve, though he never lived to see one.
INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS
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Peking, Jan. 24. Despite the deadlock, between Japan, America and the
Chinese Some interesting developments in government "over
are promised this radio right in radio drama
year. Mr. R. E. Jeffrey, who China, wireless telegraphy
is is
the dramatic production filtaring inevitably in and slowly director at 2LO, stated recently spreading from опе end of the some of his ambitious plans for the year. Four plays of a type country to the other.
new to broadcasting will be per- The process follows something formed for the first time, he hopes. like the law of physics that nature They will be of a Baciological Efforts to keep character. One which he has in abhors a vacuum. Chins a vacuum as far as radio is mind is. Ibsen's "Chests," and this, concerned are failing, apparently as well as the other three plays, will be put on at a late hour in for the reason that wireless does order to meet the wishes of a large not recognise the Great Wall. There number of listeners who would not are literally thousands of un- perhaps care for the younger gen- authorised radio stations in China, cration to hear such performances. most of them in the hands of one or A second tendency to be dis- another of the national groups played to an increasing degree which have interests" in the coun- will the broadcasting try and like to know what is going plays based on a combination on,
be
film and radio methods.
of of
The owner of a wireless set, when he tuned in his apparatus by turn- ing knobs was, he said, demonstrat- ing laws that Faraday spent years of work in elaborating. Faraday's thoughts were often very far ahead, for he had an uncanny prescience, The northern government has A typical example is afford- but never let go of experiment as made a move or two recently in the ed by production called his guide.
written by Mr. Cecil direction of inaugurating regular "Pursuit," Wireless, Sir William Bragg sug-commercial radio communication Lewis. In this there is a very gested, was closely connected with the Christmas of 1821, when Fara on its own account. The Mukden vigorous action conveyed by the different day rah untairs to call his young station now accepts messages for use of a number of
transmission to foreign stations, studios and elaborate sound effects. wife to see a magnet turning round chiefly Mauen. Three other sta- Dialogue and sound will be faded above a wire that was carrying a tions are being built with the same from one studio to another in rapid current. On August 29, 1831, how purpose in mind. An official of the succession, and by this means the ever, Faraday End produced a sun-
ex effect of a thrilling chase, in which Chinese government has just Ele piece of aparatus that had been plained that China's insistence on the fugitives use a motor-car, a the pioneer of all sorts of develop the right to control all radio deve motor-boat, and an aeroplane, will racats. He had shown how a curlopment is based on her intention be achieved. There is also a senan- rent could be induced in one wire to build and operate a net work of tional motor smash at high speed. As the current rose or fell in an her own stations,
The play is one that could not be other wire placed near It.
done on the legitimate stage with the same success.
Plays For Radio.
In the old days of broadcasting Mr. Jeffrey had himself to provide other Jeffrey Farnol play for radio purposes, but lately he has been able to seek the services of well- known authors for the purpose, One of the first plays of 1028 will one by Mr. Temple Thurston called "The Burden of Women," and a little later there will be a second, written jointly by Mr. Jeffrey Farnol and Mr. Jeffrey. a radio "The Amateur Gentleman," version of the famous book. An-
be
"If anyone is to have a mone- Faraday's Notebooks
poly in the construction of radio Clark Maxwell's idea of electric stations in China," said this offi- waves in the ether, which gave him cial, "it must be considered a settle- the data from which he worked at ment of their conflicting claims the facts that wireless had render- which will satisfy this determina- ed so familiar, were due to a Friday tion on the part of the Chinese.
Three new developments have just discourse that Faraday had to give at the Royal Institution on the spur been announced, which indicate Chinese officials, both of the moment. The lecturer of that the the evening was overcome by shy-north and south, have already start- ness, and suddenly left the Institu-ed their programme. About $15,000 tion. Faraday had to take his was spent on the station at Hang- place, and poured out under the in- chow, the capital of Chekiang pro- fluence of the occasion thoughta vince. An announcement just is which he had long had in mind, but sued in Shanghai says that mas had not licked into shape.
sages at commercial rates will be accepted.
The North-eastern Wireless Ad-other Jeffery Farnol play for radio "Woman's ministration in Manchuria has just purposes is entitled started the transmission of com- Bird" is also booked for wireless Renson." Maeterlinck's "Blue merchal messages from Harbin to Germany. There is no
présentation. provision
It was Faraday who found the quarry and hewed out the stones, and it
was Clark Maxwell who shaped them with his mathematics. It was as a result of their work that the construction of the elec- trical science and the electrical in- dustry of to-day was built up.
In the course of his wireless talk Sir William Bragg announced that the managers of the Royal Institu tion had arranged for the transcrip- tion of Faraday'a notebooks with a view of their possible publication in the near future,
THE MOTHER'S FRIEND IN TIMES OF TROUBLE.
is
thus far for the transmission of Another development which Mr.
hopes to advance press but its possible value in this Jeffrey respect has been lowered by the in connection with the рго- danger of censorship...
vision of a theatre for wireless
He stated that An important development help playe.
the ing to overcome the isolation of idea has been taken up in America a national broadcasting Hankow and adjacent areas is the and in. completion of a short wave ending building for New York, an actual and receiving station in Hankow. theatre seating quite a large audi Little cost is involved in stations ence la to be included. Plays from of this kind and arrangements can this theatre would 'be broadcast to readily be entered into for the the invisible wireless audience, transmission of messages with while the actors would also have other stations at Shanghai and the stimulating effect of a visible Hong Kong. At these latter points audience and the atmosphere of the the message can be transformed to theatre. For the purposes of Brl- cables, the chief advantage being tish broadcasting he thought that that transmission from Hankow be- the acquisition of some outside hall comés more certain and much would assist the production of wire- cheaper. The Hankow station nn- less plays. nounced with considerable naivete: that commerce messages would be accepted at one half the telegraph
rate.
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Resta 6-Warble
8-What is a Persian
fairy!
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HORIZONTAL (Lens.)
42-What to a barren
hill called la England 1
43-What is a Moorish
tabor?
11-Beautiful malden in 48-What are the frat
Bulwer'e "Lat Days of Pompal|" 12-Like an opst 14-Takes Into the
slomach 18-Stripes 17-Ta exutertze 18-A Hebrew high
priest and judge 19-A tran 21-What is the Grack
Long E!
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'country of Europe
(abbr.) 24-Questioning 25-An 28-Unte
20-At ault of (abbr.) 30-What was the
extreme northern city of Palestine? 33-By tradition 85-A number 36-Bean from India 87-What is a bird's beak called,
32-What in the Greak
lotter T
and secand battian. of Manassa, of tho Civil War, often cxiled?
47-What is the dye
Indigo?
or more nations in common 11-Acting instantly 13-What is the cred
of the dhists of £ and S. E. India? 18-Conformable to a
pattern
19-YCL 20-Dislorted
48-What German rear- 21–Bail
admiral was
defeated and aunk
by the British off the Falkland falando, 10147 49–On whose account
was the Trojan War faught? 60-Inhabitants of in anolent country, new H. W. Persia
VERTICAL 1-What be the sun-
dried brick of Maxico! 2-Stingy 3-Snake-itke fish
Prefix. Thrice 5-What is a tooth
projecting from the surface of a wheel7 E-Once (Scot.)
40-What is the skin of 7-To withhold
whale ?
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22-Who is the Greak
goddess of
malicious mischief? 27-Pertaining to the
forehead
28-Pubile noticea
(abbr.)
29-Pen for animate 30-To put on 31-To salzo auddenly 32-Changed
23-To taunt 34-What river between
Manchuria and Chosen was the scens of a Jap anesa victory, 18947 35-Rubbish
39-Forearm bone (pl) 41-What is a native of
Denmark?
42-To run very 44-A receptacle 46-Long particular
meter (akbr.)
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue' along with a' new `cross-word, puzzle.)
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Plays in such a building could be readily adapted to the dual pue pose for which they would then be required. The plays could be per The first Mukden station was formed in half lights and shadows, elaborate scenery, and built by the Germans on the basis with no
an audi- of the agreement with the Chinese. effect being still largely This was a long wave station and ble one. Loud speakers round the Reservoirs on January 1, 1928- was used chiefly of the reception of hall could faithfully reproduce the CITY AND HILL, DISTRICT WATER There is nothing more trying to Mauen broadcast and the tranemis faintest whisper on the stage, so a mother than to see her little one sion of official Chinese messages to that it could be heard equally well in pain, whilst she sits helplessly Europe and thence to America. Re- by both audiences. Orchestral by not knowing what to do to re-cently with the victory of short muste from a distant studie avall-ytam lieve its sufferings. Mothers who
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control of China' internal and ex: value for purely wireless purposes. ternal communications, will permit the present condition of radio an- archy to develop. As far as сая be learned, the Japanese are still claiming the monopoly rights called characterised the first invasion of Tytam Tuk for in the Mitauf agreements. The railroads and steamboats. There le Wong Nel Chung American position is not so clear. evidence that British and French Pokfulum A copy of the Federal Wireless companies are not inactive and are Company's contract with the Min- ready to take advantage istry of Communications, has been deadlock between Japan, America, published, but there is a report, and China at any moment the door emanating from Japanese sources, is left open. that the whole contract has never
Meanwhile, the business of com-
1927 been brought into the sunlight and munication in China by telephone, Consumption
• 244.29 271.68 examined."
telegraph, cable or wireless, re- Estimated population 407,620 417,940 points which stem further from eficient state, partly because of the
While this dispute continues, over mains in a disorganised and in- Consumption per head
per day......
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"MANILA BULLETIN."
On the occasion of its 28th an~ niversary, the "Manila Bulletin" has issued a special number run- ning 'into eighty pages.
In addition to its usual sectious on February 1, the "Bulletin" had an illustrated supplement dealing with new buildings constructed in 1927; including the American Chamber of Commerce; a commer- ciál and shipping section; an en- gineering and railway section; medical section; a city section; a public works section; market re- views, etc.
tent Supply was given from 4th to 31st December, 1926,
Full supply in all Rider Main Dis tricts during December, 1027 with tha exception of the districts West of
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KOWLOON WATER WORKS
LEVEL
Kowloon Rosorvole.. Shok Lai Pui Reser
voir
1927 1928. 7' 0"B74"B
0' 7" 1 "B Reception Reservoir.. 3' 4"B 2' "B Storage in millions and decimals
of gallons.
1927. 1028 Kowloon Reservoir 283.50 280.42 Shek Lai Pui Reser
08.40
voir .....
94.27
Storage in millions and Jelmala of gallons.
1927 1928 Tytam
278.72 285.76 Tytam Byewash
.69 38 195,00 Tytam Intermediate
105.90 1,121.75
026,98 18.59 28.80 26.82
Total
408.46 404.03 Total 1,088.01 1,448.25
Consumption. of water in Kowloon and Hill District in millions and de- ing the month of December.
Consumption of water in the City in millions and decimals of gallous dur cimals of gallons during the month of
1024 1927 December.
Consumption
74.80 88.68 1920
Estimated population 158,140 163,180
15.8
17.5 Full Supply In all districts during December, 1926 and 1027,
13.40 Reception Reservoir ... 24:55 27.24
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Total rainfall to December 31, 1928 100.78;. December 31, 1927, 107.87.
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