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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasionai phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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HORIZONTAL 1-Disintegrating
-Kentucky ploneer 10-Covered with ivy 12-idols
14-Memorandumt
16-Jun
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‚'20-State of houtlilty
22-Blast on a hom 24-New supply
26-Uncovered
*26-Take possession of
by force
28-Musical abbreviation
©THE INTERNATIONAL SÝNDICATE
| HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 147-Plunge foremost
Into water 48-Plunder 49-Secures by lettera
patent
B1-Extreme radical
|32-Fiat-bottomed boat
55-Carry (colloquisi)
ss-Mount up
VERTICAL (Cont.) 20-Watch
21-Compromtud
23-Ftun 'down in drops 25-Boasted 127-Prola
|29–That which has
under it several species
55-Pertaining to Rusela 81-Fruit of a tree
15-Protective cloth for
an Infant 35-Hatred 36-Young horse
57~Those who shuttle
VERTICAL
1-Tooth of a wheel 2-Apartment
meaning simekuning! 8-Beneath 29-Harass
80-Pertaining to the
middle
39-One who beats up game for hunters 38-Becoming rumpled 34-Old fashioned
- plyos of jewelry .57-Haim (pl.)
*40-Images 41-000ch 45-Ratities
44-Egyptian river
46-Domiciles
18-Hiding place 10-Fairles 4-Original expounder 41-Deepest part of
wall of mesmeri sana.
an ancestor
Elephants, tuosic
-in direct line fram' | 42–Pertaining to the
teeth 48-The swan of eternity In Hindu mythology |48–Mercantile
'establishment 149-Drive by pressure.
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
TESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
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THE CHINA MAIL,
RADIO TOPICS
MOURNFUL CRY
THE PELICAN AT THE FEAST -་
This is what happened beside the lake at St. James' Park, in Lon- don. An army of experts 'equip ped with a microphone, a telephone and some fish, went there to re- cord "the mournful cries of sea- gulla" for a wireless play, and after two Icy hours were reduced to uttering mournful cries them Belves.
The seagulls declined to be gull- ed. They circled aloofly round in the sky, above the lake, and aneer- ed scornfully..
IN NORWAY .....
ONLY HALF THE LISTENERS
LICENSED
Palo, Jan. 2.
"THE "LISTENER
PROTEST AGAINST.
B.B.C.
The protest that has begun The broadcasting company in against the B.B.C.'s entering into Norway has asked the help of the competition with the weakly re- police to put an end to the "thief-views by publishing the "Listen- listeners" but the results are not er" will be carried on in the House encouraging. In the whole of Nor- of Commons when it meéta, says a way there are 62,832 licensed. He- Home paper of Jan. 7. Sir Arthur toners-in, but the books of the Holbrook, the member for Basing- company show that 27,000 listen atoke, intends to put a series of ers-in, did not renew their licences questions to the Pastmaster Gen- during 1928. It is also estimated eral, who has twice refused to re- that the number of those who did ceive a deputation from the News- Association. not take out a licence la well over paper. Proprietors' 20,000.
Sir Arthur Holbrook sympathises
Not so, however, did the pell At the end of the year the num-, with the view that the B.B.C. is eans, the ruddy sheldrakes, the ber of "thief-listeners," was about taking an unfair advantage of its cormorants, the pigeons, the spar-¡50,000, or nearly the same number, provileged position in running a to the rows, and the other birds at the as the licensed. The work of trac-weekly which, according
descriptions, roughly air. They just looked at each ing them is very difficult, owing to advance other with gleaming eyes, exclaim the geographical conditions, often covers the same ground ed "Fish, by all the poweral" and with miles between each house, of the weeklies, with the important, made heartily for the feast, utter-and with wide, mountains and difference that the "Listener" will ing cries that weren't in the least woods between each village-"Ob- be free from party politics. mournful.
The experts ground their teeth frightfully. All they wanted was gulls-lots of gulls. You see, the sounds were travelling from the microphone along the 'phone wires to the Columbia Gramophone Com- pany's studios in Petty France, where they were being made into a gramophone record in readiness for that thrilling part of Mr. Compton Mackenzie's wireless ver- alon of "Carnival"-the part that begins with a shot in the darkness on the Cornish cliffs, and goes
on:
throat.
the experts camouflaged the micro- phone with rushes and threw whit- ing and filleted plaice to the four winds of heaven.
server."
BEAM SYSTEM
SOUTH AFRICA STILL OUT OF IT
as some
The growing movement against this B.B.C. enterprise has found fresh support during the week-end from the publishing house of Dent, who are proposing to bring out their weekly Everyman again about the same date as the first the "Listener." appearance of Capetown, Jan. 9.
Messrs, Dent regard the B.B.CJ8 The South African Wireless step as an invasion of legitimate Company has not yet succeeded in
competitive publishing. obtaining a licence to work theft is replied that the paper will be Beam system: notwithstanding that concerned "almost entirely" with it has been efficiently operating for
personalities, subjects, and matter
Director of Radio
To this
a year and a half between Britain connected with the microphone, and other Dominions. The late
and will not compete with the more Labour Minister for Posts (Mr.
general journals. Maurice Jenny, you're hurt! Madeley), sought to Insert irritat
The discussion is rather in the Jenny: Something funny's hap-ing clauses which the company re air, as the public can only infer pened. Oh! Oh! It's burning my jected and now the new Minister from the rather vague declarations throat. My throat. .... my hesitates to reverse that policy of the B.B.C. what the scope of the thus delaying the initiation of new paper will be. It is un- (Silence and the mournful cry Beam services with other derstood that it will be made up of gulla).
Dominions. The differences of chiefly from the matter of the And here were the gulls refus-opinion concern land charges, go "talks," which are often of high ing to do their stuff. Simply soaring to arbitration, etc.
literary, acientific, and personal Ing over disdainfully, even though
Interest. The BB.C. bases its de- fence chiefly upon the fact that the Hadow Committee recommend- ed- the Issue of an, educational journal, but there is a strong sus- picion among the opponents that the scope will be much wider than the word "aducational" justifies, and that in that case it is unfair to subject the ordinary weeklies, many of which have a hard strug- gle.to exist, to the competition of a powerful subsidised and semi- official organisation, A clash be- tween the B.B.C. and the news paper and publishing interests has been threatened for a long time The only surprising thing is that It has been so long delayed,
George at the Feast
You should have seen the ex- perts' faces when the pelicans, led by their venerable chief, George, swam over from their island and waddled ashore and got to work on the fish! The pelicans slid the stuff down their huge beaks and through their throats, with joyful wrigglings of the neck.
One of the experts even went so far as to shake a frozen fist at them.
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But the pelicans lingered on. And so did the ruddy sheldrakes, the cormorants, the pigeons, the sparrows, and the other uninvited guests.
It was only out of jealousy that a few of the gulls swooped down after a couple of hours and snatch- ed up a morsel or two with hoarse Bounds of rebuke. The experts barked abrupt. Instructions over the wire to the distant studios
IN
ULTRA-SHORT WAVES
Berlin, Jan. 8.
It is announced that Professor Esau, of Jena, without using an aerial, has succeeded in sending ultra-short waves possessing pecu- liar properties, a distance of 250 miles. The transmitting, set is contained in a cigar box, and can be used for medical purposes. Small animals are killed instantly,
when that happened, and flatten- Mr. Herbert Hoover, Jr., son of ed themselves behind a tree-trunk, the President-elect of the United but the gulls soared' away.
States, will soon become the director Well, the studios got something of radio communiostions of a large according to the "Thurlinger Zel or other in that way. But you air express line, according to recent mustn't be surprised when you announcements. listen in to that two-hour play, If. Instead of the mournful cries of gulls on the Cornish cliffs, you
BRITAIN CALLING
hear the mournful cries of cormor- British Broadcasting has entered ants, pigeons, sparrows, ruddy upon its seventh year of activity. sheldrakes and pelicans sounding, One cannot but be amazed at the through the night.
£300 'PHONE SPEECH
fram
tung," and bacilli are annihilated.
Is Your Baby Gaining Weight?
at
How Backward Babies Are Helped rapid progress it has made since
By Baby's Own Tablets Its introduction in 1022, when the
infant fails When an
to steadily programmes consisted of rather hackneyed and uninspiring "musi gain weight the cause usually is mal- A twelve-minute speech which cal Items," provided for three-and-nutrition, the digestive organs are not cost £25 per minute was sucress-a-half hours each evening. In the doing their work properly,
broadcast fully
Ottawa, early days there were fewer than Canada, to Cardin.
aixty thousand registered lsteners The speech was in connection throughout Grez Britain; to-day with Canada Day at the Empire the number has swollen to two Exhibition at Cardiff, and was million and a half, while British made by the Hon. James Malcolm, programmes sent out, from the Canadian Minister of Trade and high-power station at Daventry Commerce.
are heard by many millions of en- thusiasts on, the Continent. It is calculated that there are fifty mil lion wireless receiving sets in use throughout the world, and many of
In stich cases-
whero the stomach bowels are fault-all that is necessary, usual- ly, to set matters right is the ad- ministration of a fow doses of Baby's Own Tablets, the plea- sant-tasting medi cine especially designed for the use of babies and little children. Guaranteed
First the message was telephon. ed from Parilament Buildings, Ot- tawa, to New York. It was. ralay ed from Rocky Point wireless sta- tion, whence it was received at these are powerful enough to tune Cuper, Fifeshire, and was then re- in to Great Britain when import solutely pure and harmless, these layed by land wire to the GPO ant broadcasts are on the ether. Tablets are just the right remedy for London. There it was amplified These figures are sufficient refuta infantile indigestion, vomiting, 'wind, for the last lap of its four thou-, tion of the pessimists' prophecy constipation and colic. They quickly sand mile journey to Cardiff. The that the public would soon tire of check diarrhoes, reduce fever, relieve croup and colds, expel worms, allay reception was perfect...
their new toy. On the contrary, the pains of teething almost as if by the "toy" is fast becoming an ́es-magic, quit the nerves and promote sential public service, and as such, health-giving, reatful" sleep.
Your chemist sella Baby's Own") must be prepared, as the years Tablets, or post free 60 cents the vial, bring an ever widening radius of from Dr. Williams, Medicine Co., 80, action and an increasing volume Klangse Road, Shanghal. of broadcast material, to face cri ticism, which is bound to become more and more articulate.
LONG DISTANCE RADIO
London, Jan. 28. HONG KONG HEIGHTS San Francisco The Examiner says that one of its radio an For the information of visitors nouncers conducted a wireless con the following Hat of some of the versation lasting 22 minutes with highest points on the Island and an aeroplane attached to Com Mainland is published:
mander Byrd's Antarctic expedi tion while the machine was flying, off the Bay of Whales, 9,000 miles distant.
Island
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Signal Station
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Mountain Lodge
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The Estie
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Peak Hotel
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dent, who has picked
broadcast from New York.
The plotures are fairly clear.
The responsibility of those, who try to cater for the manifold diver"} sity of fasté among over two mil-
on lateners is no enviable and their task will. dificult as their
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