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SHANGHAI.
IMPRESSION OF MALAYA
VISITOR.
BUSY AND PROSPEROUS.
where it is cool at oneo Iteelf.
TOPICS
young ladies, and very skilfully do they do it. Over a thousand people are. wont to gather at the Sunday afternoon dances at the Hotel Majestic, and tables are at a premium.
own
PORTABLE SETS.
BRITISH MAKERS'
BID.
CONCEALED AERIAL.
This is not, strictly speaking, the time of the year at which to dis- cuss portable sets. But listeners will always be attracted by the set which is properly described as self- contained with no visible aerial,
Like a Garrison Town. Though the cables tell of troops So I went to Shanghai. Though being withdrawn, Shanghai has I yield to no one in my admira- still very much the appearance of a tion of the Malayan climate, it has garrison town. British soldiers and to be admitted that this land of American Marines abound, and the people of Shanghai are very grate- perpetual summer displays a ten-ful for their presence. If the pseu- and batteries and loud-speaker con- dency to pall after many months do-politicians who, for their of continuous residence, and, it ends, shout so loudly that it was cealed in a neat cabinet. Such u unnecessary to despatch the De-set can be moved from room to local leave is obtainable, a place fence Force had taken the trouble to room without much inconvenience, suggests make a few inquiries on the spot, and the latest types have simplified they would always supposing that tuning to the last degree. British are concentrating they are truthful-have had a dif-manufacturers Shanghal in January and Feb-ferent story to tell. "The Defence on the portable set, and having ruary exactly fills the bill. It is only Force saved us,”
any the people gained a reputation for quality of eight days away, and it is very of Shanghai of all classes, and it reproduction have a considerable market overseas. It is therefore accessible. Snow fell on the day is easy to understand how very I arrived and the temperature was real was the danger of less than a not surprising that this type of re- below freezing point for the week year ago, when the Settlement and ceiving apparatus will be a feature the French Concession might have of the wireless section at the Bri- that followed, so in the matter of been overrun by hordes of undistish Industries Fair next month. being cold the city met all specifica2 | ciplined Chinese troops.
With so many obvious advantages
tions. To those who can three or four weeks from their work and who would like to feel the tang of an English winter I cordially re- commend the change.
spare
The Far-Famed "Night Life." In an article on Shanghai the
The fundamental feature of the frame portable is the concealed
Though conditions are better and it might well be asked why every- the danger from Communistic ele-body does not at once possess him- ments is ant so evident as it was, self of a portable set. There are the need for protection still exists. several factors that operate against
their universal adoption. There is always a feeling of un- easiness, that sense of dwelling in the neighbourhood of a volcano which may erupt at any moment, aerial. This picks up such a min- ute fraction of energy from the But it is realised that Britain can-
transmitting station that the num hai for all time, though troops will certainly be there for the next two or three years, and it is admitted that the Settlement must see to its own protection to the utmost tent possible.
theme which at once suggests itself not maintain a big force in Shangber of valves used must be multi-i
is its far-famed "night life"-a sub ject on which Shanghaflanders are at present feeling rather sore. The reason is that, owing to the various wars in which China specialises, a number of London newspaper cor- respondents have established them- selves on the Shanghai. front, and to add variety to their despatches have painted this same night life
in lurid colours. There is a same- ness about Chinese war news, not to mention the ever-present risk of confusing the names of towns with the names of generals, and these night life pen pictures always make more interesting reading.
Was
as +1
ex-
For this reason the Municipal Council has embarked on a cam- paign of rigorous economy, and a searching eye is being turned things which some people describe
on
plied, thus adding to the expense, though very similar results could be obtained with an outside aerial and fewer valves. Again, one de- finition of a portable set is "a met which requires a' porter to carry it." In other words even the lat- est types are still relatively heavy, chiefly by reason of the fact that
they must have
an accumulator
and high tension batteries tucked away inside somewhere. the
Rs luxuries. These include the fine Symphony Orchestra which Council maintains and which in- evitably costs a very considerable sum.
"The Orchestra must not go," say the people who appreciate good music, but then quite a large number of people are not musical.
The Trade Position.
RADIO HINTS.
TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1928.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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151
52
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HORIZONTAL 1-The Juice of plants +Likely
7-To play on a
stringed Instru ment carelessly 9-Dark
11-To stutter .13-The main paint
15-Consume 10-A shoemakera Implement 18-16 able to 19-A mandatory
pracapt 2D-Contracted for the
abrvices of
21-To alip 22-Preposition 24-A bird
26-The (Spanish) 27-Part of the body 30-Part of the body 32-To cold
-A ballot
33-A
34-To mend a stocking 38-The top of the head 18-Pronoun
99-To prohibit 41-Nickname for
"mother""
THE IMPERNATIONAL SYNDICATI
VENTICAL (Cont.) 13-Soared through the
air 14-Finish
HORIZONTAL (cont.) 8-To make casy 44-Maritime
45-Auslat
47-To tako stitches
.out of 49-Allow $1-River (Sp.) 62-Grumbled 68-Exasperated.
68-A foghorn 50-A numeral 60-An alkali 61-To marry
VERTICAL
1-Depot
2-Part of the body 3-A slipper
4-Off
To pot
6-carted about
7-Bogin
-Point of the
&-Pronoun
compass (abbr) 10-Treco
11-Take stitcher in 12-To Invade with
violence
17-A covering 23-A neck-place 25-The devil
20-A period of tim 29-Relation
80-To jump on one foot 31-A loosely woven
mosh 34-To strip by force
undulation 06-AD 37-Came out
38-Filament growth in
the skin (pl.) 39-Without hair 140-To give a grading
42-Foraign
43--A unit of energy 46-A sċed-capsule 48-To run away 50-A gang 53-Aakew 54-Preñx. 55-A province of
In
Canada (abbr.)
57-A braad sirest
(bur,
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES
Start out by filling the words of which you feel reasonably sura, -There will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
(Tree solutim of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
wind the fiex with tinfoil strip, so as to cover it completely on the outside with a metal covering. This metallic covering may be kept in place by winding a bare copper Battery lends going to a receiv-wire over it (the direction of the er should be diaconnected at the winding of the wire being opposite battery end first. If this is not to that of the metal tape; for ex- done, should the bare ends of the ample, if one is a right-handed leads touch. the battery will be wind, the other should be a left- short-circuited.
handed wind) and then connecting this wire securely to earth. In most cases it will be found that this earthed shield completely cuts out the A.C. hum.
WATER SUPPLY.
Nevertheless I know of one parti- cular set which makes Ingenious use of the principle of directional reception. The ordinary super- heterodyne has a revolving frame aerial' for this purpose. This Thus the correspondents have let
portable act, with a concealed their typewriters run away with
frame inside, itself revolves them, depicting Shanghai as a place
As to trade, the impression con-
on a small turn-table. Add- which out-Parises Paris and makes veyed is that things are much bet-ed to this there are accessible ter- the West End of London seem ter, but there is a long way to gominals enabling an outside earth quaintly provincial. The impression before they become what they once and aerial to be attached to obtain conveyed is that the average Shang- were. It remains a very hazardous the maximum efficiency from the hai man never thinks of going to business to send goods inland, for valves used. if deemed worth while bed before 5 a.m. and deserts his the gentle art of banditry and by the ownerDaily Telegraph" wife in favour of fair ladies from plunder as practised by various
correspondent. Harbin. The truth is, of course."war lords" is quite a profitable in-' that the night for Shanghai is dustry, and that staple government just that of any large, cosmopolitan for which British politicians' so city, and the sensation-seeking cor- constantly pray is still no more respondents are as wide of the than a pious hope. Whether there mark
over again be any sort of a 45 was the gentleman who will
"united China" 18 described staid Singapore
exceedingly doubtful. A separate North and "cesspool of iniquity,”
South for all time appears to be Cabaret Business Depressed. much more likely, and many people Actually the cabaret business of do not hesitate to say that the When constructing high fre Shanghai is going through a period British Government would have quency transformers with tightly of considerable depression. In most done well to have recognized the coupled windings, it is a good plan places there were mary more pro- Nationalists.
when aiming at producing two fessional dancing partners than But superficially at any rate windings of equal inductance to visitors, and jazz bands blared Shanghai is a very busy and pros-use cotton covered twin bell wire, their melodies to thinly-peopled perous place. Huge blocks of flats such as is generally used in wir floors. Very different the continue to spring up, and are ing house circuits. Honeycomb scene of hotel ten dances, where fully occupied as soon as they are lattice colls can quickly be made them-ready. Property is at a premium, up with this wire. The ends are Shanghai residents betake selves in large numbers and get re- every available fach of space is easily identified as the two wires
Btreets are markably good value for money, occupied, and the
are given distinctive markings. In return for the admission charge thronged with traffic. Singapore's Although the wire is somewhat CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER of one dollar-a cheaper dollar than so-called traffic problem is child's thick, the turns will hold securely the Singapore variety-they not play compared with that of Shang- together if impregnated with wax, Before commencing the wiring only have the privilege of dancing hai, with its narrow streets, and it on a magnificent floor to a first is amazing how order is maintain-up of a receiver, the constructor stam rate band, but they are actually ed in thoroughfares where two will find it beneficial to show some
It trolley buses abreast completely fill consideration as to which connec-Tytam Tak given a very substantial tea. has been said that the one bever- the road. In comparison Singa- tions should be made first. In the age which is not consumed at a pore is a town of huge open spaces more complicated sets there are al- Singapore tea dance is that which and broad boulevards. And Singa. ways a number of connections to pore, is thrice blessed in the mat be made which prove difficult and gives its name to the function.
ter of its staple currency, which troublesome. A moment's study of Chinese and Dancing.
knows nothing of the mysteries of the wiring diagram, and of the set- Very striking to the Singapore "large" money and "small" and an with all components in position, Tytam... visitor is the fact that considerably avalanche of copper coins as change will reveal which connections are Tytam Byewash. liable to give more trouble than Tytam Intermediate more than half the patrons of out of a twenty-cent piece.
Tytam Tuk Wong-Not Chung Still Shanghal is a most inter- others. "THE CHINA MAIL" General Shanghai hotel dances are Chinese.
Pokfulum Printers.
For that matter the same thing is esting elty to visit. Living would true in the British Crown Colony of appear to be cheaper than in Singa- Hong Kong, and the change from pore, though, as invariably hap the customary scene in our local pens, the salary of the mon in the hotels at once impresses the Singa-street is less than that of his In cases where wires carrying
Chinese
men, Singapore confrere. A dollar a alternating current have to be porean. very smart in their doubled-breasted worth less than that of Malaya, but passed in close proximity to the coats and trousers of "Oxford" goes farther, and flats and lighting set, and where A.C. hum is con roominess, tread the latest mensure are reasonable, as Eastern prices sequently experienced, a simply with trim and dainty Chinese go."Straits Timea."
way to overcome the trouble is to
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Level and Storage of water Reservoirs am March 1, 1928:-
WORKS' LEVEL.
YESTERDAY'S - SOLUTION,
BARTER SEASO RAWN SECEDE A OTNOSE DOLORE
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TRI CME SELENE AVTOTERS WET:+W LUSTEN GEN909
Full Supply in all Rider Main Dis- tricts during February with the excep- |tion of the district west of Garden-road where an intermittent supply was in given from 3rd to 28th February, 1927. Intermittent supply in all Rider Main Districts during February, 1928.
KOWLOON WATER WORKS
LEVEL
1027 1928 .14' 9"B 11' 10"B
1927 1928 Tytam Byewash...28" 2′′B 26" "B Kowloon Reservoir. 15' 7"B & 10′′B Tytam Intermediate 20 48 27 11"E Shek Lai Ful-Reser
26 103 88' 6"B voir Wong Noi Chung..19' 1" 20' 4"B Reception Reservoir
"20" 4'B 20' 7"B Pokfulum
Nota: B. denotes "Below Overflow": A denotes "Above Overflow."]
Storage in millions and ecimals of gallone.
1027 271.21
99.52
865,00
10' 2" 2 "B $' 4" O' 8"B Btorage in millions and decimal of gallon.
1927 1828
206.78 Kowloon Reservoir... 210.5 Shek Lai Pui Reservoir 68.14 100.68
24.55
81.95 Reception Reservoir 1928
201.70
297.74 404.85
.29 72.87
Total Consumption of water in Kowloon 660.02 in millions and décimals of gallone dur
0.62 ing the month of February.
23.25
Consumption
1927 04.04
1028
84.59
10.66 23.80 Total..... 1,270.08 1,047.75 Estimated population 158,980 164.020 Consumption of water in the City Consumption per head and Hill District in millions and de-
per day Full Supply in all districts during cimals of gallons during the month of
February 1027 and 1928, February.,
UP SOME ICE WATER-RIGHT
AWAY
1927 1928 191.88 204,54
16,6
Tha: Government Analyst's reports show that the quality of the water le Consumption Estimated, population 409,840 419.600 satisfactory.
Total rainfall to February 28, 1927, consumption per head
4.66, February 29, 1928, 5.45. per day
16.7
16:8
YOUR
ICE
WATER
SIR.
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