TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1929.
SZERELMEY
STONE LIQUID
The Reliable Remedy for Damp - Walls
and
Stone
Decay
THE EXTERIOR OF THE
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PENINSULA HOTEL
was Entirely Coated with this liquid
`IT PREVENTS PENETRATION BY DRIVING RAIN
Stocks. Carried.
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PHOTO SUPPLIES
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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 recasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plast, and altho.)
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36 37
38
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HORIZONTAL
1-Money lender at
illegal rates
.B-Aver
11-Transaction
12-Check
'13-Pronoun
16-Decorator 17-Possessive pronoun
18-Thick, black liquid 20-Clooked
21-Relative (short)
22-A number
24-Choose
26-Death
27-Gople 28-Upon 29-Accomplish 30-Fondle 34-Lays out
+88-Kind of appla
39-Golf alatant
-40-Anger
41-Tempte
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) VERTICAL (Cont.) 43-8orry 44-Parent
46-Government preto
tion (plural)
47-Musical note
48-Satisfy
49-Abound 51-Stored away 62-8lumbers
VERTICAL
1-Joined
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S-Tap
14-Story
18-Printer's unit
17-Rodent (pl.) 18-Regret
21-Part of a minuto : 23-Climbing plants
|26-Loaded
80-Mladomaendrs.
31-A gentle breeza 12-Quiet
|33-Declared as a metter
offack
84-Odors
38-An art medium
4-Raise the spirits of 38-Watch face
B-Bo'sofrowful
6-8 top
7-Sower'.
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10-Appointments to
maet
87-Type of automobila
42-Musloaf nota
45-Animal foot 40-Perceive.
|48-Thus
50-Myself
Copyright. The International Syndicats.
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES
Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. Tidae 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.
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrouïa tasus aloko with a new cross-word puzzle. »N
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
SCHNEIDER TROPHY
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THE CHINA MAIL,
RADIO TOPICS
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. jon 365 and 40 metres:-
5-7 p.m.-Programme of H.M.V. & Victor Records by courtesy of Messrs. Moutriė.
"La Traviats Potpourr!-Part 1 & 2" (Verdi)..Marek Weber and His
Orchestra. "Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 14"
(Liszt) ........Mark Hambourg. "Five O'clock Girl"-Selection
(Ruby), "Love Lies"-Selection,
New Mayfair Orchestra. "Dear Little Cafe" ("Bitter Sweat"-
Coward), "I'll see you again",
Peggy Wood and George Metaxa. "Madam Butterfly"--Selection
(Puccini),
Now Light Symphony Orchestra. "Pilgrim's Song of Hope (Baptista), "Liebestraum" (A Dream of Love),
(Liszt)..Henry Gordon Thunder. "Carmen-Selection-Part 1 to 4"
(Bizet)..Creatore and His Band. "I like my old home town"
(Louder),
IN TOUCH WITH EVERY | AMERICAN AERIAL
WHERE!
WONDERFUL SYSTEM OF WIRES AND WIRELESS
THE SHORT WAVE SERVICE
numerous
Can Eliminate All Interference
INTERESTING DETAILS
A certain type of aerial is recoly- ing a good deal of American pub- From London there runs a noticity, and is having, we under- work of telegraph wires, understand, a ready sale. The instru- oceans and across continents, allment is a ring of pure solid coppe", over the world. There are also 14 inches in diameter, and is screw-
telegraph services
to ed to the top of a pole which may be attached to a chimney or other suitable position. We are told that It can be mounted in many different ways, and while receiving signals from all directions, eliminates and overcomes interference from other aerials!
towns in every continent.
Many of these cable and wireless services are operated in the great building in Newgate Street, London, which is known as the Central. Tele graph Office. In the case of those Which are operated by cable and Wireless companies, much of the Nearly two years ago, writes traffic has to pass through the C.T.O. "Ultimax,” Wo gave measure- on the way out, so to speak.
ment figures of 2 similar
of Within the building a large-num-type
collector
çonstructed ber of highly tralifed operators sit of wires in cage *formation. before wonderful instrumenta, never The height of the cage was 30 feet allowing their attention to wander from the ground, including the for n moment. They deal with down lend. The signal strength something like 150,000 "wires" given was 24.5, using an arbitrary every day; and many telegrams are figure. With the down lead discon- received on one line and sent off to nected it was found that a strength their destination by another, so in. of 18 was produced and the aerial volving two separate transactions.
collector alone gave only just over More than 1,100 instruments are 6, so that it will be seen that the i In use, and the amount of wire signal strength on the vertical down actually Inside the building totals lead alone was almost three times many miles.
greater than that given by the col- lector itself, This outit costs nearly £2 109. Od.
Above is shown Sergine P. Grace with Miss Catherine Maria Shaugh- nessy, whose voice was recorded on the new sound devies us they Hestened to numbers being repeated from lond speakers while fr. Grace diala them. In the new device the subscriber marely dials thy number and that number is called to central as the sound film automatically repeats the number through a loud speaker.
"I'm looking fra Bonnie Lass to
love me" (Lauder),
Sir Harry Lauder. "Ballet Egyptien Suite-Part 1 to 4
(Luigini)... Concert Orchestra.. "The Desert Song"-Vocal Gems
(Romberg),
pass
Four kinds of message through the C.T.0.-telegrams, phonograms, and radiograms.
The Short Wave Unit Again Another announcement in large | letters tells us the New 1920 Short Wave Converter is a compact fac |tory-built receivor equipped with special short-wave coils, and that it is an amazing instrument which now makes it possible to reach all round the world. It gets stations regular receivers cannot get no change of wiring is required, and it is a thrill to plug it into the detec- tor circuit and instantly be in an other world. It is complete, ready to operate, and no apparatus is in sight except the neat, golden-brown metal cabinet with "Crackio" finish.
The Speaker Filter-
For the same amount we are, in vited to send for a speaker filter which is "guaranteed to relieve the speaker windings. of the D.C. plate current and gives it a chance to operate at its best."- This is attach- ed in a second, which seems an im- provement on the previous instru- ment! It is, of course, Impossible to say from a perusal of the ad- vertisement what is the exact ar rangement, but while we are on the subject of. Alters it will not be in- opportune to give detafla of an out- put filter we once used without the usual stopping condenser.
A low Impedance power valve The Morse Code
was used, actually just a little over There are three great Instrument 2,000 ohms and, as we were unable rooms, each with hundreds of opera
to get hold of a farge fred con- "The Blue Mazurka"-Vocal Gems
(Lebar)Light Opera Company, the principal provincial towne, ma-
tors. In one, where the lines go to denser, the speaker was connected in parallel with 20 henry "Trovatore Selection-Part I & 27
(Verdi) •******
Creatore's Band. chines of the piano and typewriter the choke was about 600 ohma and choke. The D.C. resistance of "Caprice Viennois" (Kreisler), kinds are mainly used. In another, that of the speaker was 2,000 ohms. "Humoresque" (Dvorak-Kreisler), where the lines to towns in the
Fritz Kreisler. South of England and to offices in ledge will see that the speaker, Those with a little technical know- "Cavalleria Rusticana-Intermezzo"
(Mascagni),
London are worked, telegrams are being of a relatively low impedance, "Tales of Hoffman-Barcarolle"
dealt with mainly by the dot and will take about 90 per cent. of the (Offenbach),
dash, system known as the Morse A.C. current, but its high resistance code.
In a third room are the cable and choke will only allow a little of the In comparison with that of the wireless services to continental D.O, current to pass, that is, appro towns, the Beam vireless services toximately about 5 milllamps. This the Dominions and the line to will be quite satisfactory for the the super wireless station at Rugby signals from which can be received in any part of the world, 2:
Victor Concert Orchestra, 7.48-p.m.-Weather Report.
9 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 10.30 p.m.-Close Down.
The Child Who Mopes.
Depression and lassitude in the very young are invariably a sign of derangement of health Uaual ly the seat of the trouble is Those who listened to the School-ranged digestion and constipation the stomach or Intestines. De der Trophy Race broadcast In
are quite sufficient cause to make September may be Interested to know that relays were sent out in alling. Dimcult testhing is an a child low-spirited and generally the language of the country by the
other. various broadcasting stations in Italy, France, and Germy 58W, The skilled phy the short wave transmitter at vised Baby's Own Chelmsford, also broadcast the com- many ye
mentary, to the world As it was treatment
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The real title of the Beam, by the way, a Short Wave Directional Transmission which simply means that the message, instead of being broadcast, is sent out in one direc- tion like a beam of light. P /-In addition to the Bean Services to Australia, India, Canada, and South Africa, there is a wireless ser vice to Nairobi in the Kenya Colony and another for massages to Halifax, Nova Scotia. —
- Heru also are the two Imperial cables, Nova Scoffa, which form Part of the All-Feu cable route to
Austrails. One of them is an ex- German cables
The Messages, To Ships
Should you wish to sand a més, sage to a ship on the high seas, the matter; and to ensure that every CTO. will willingly attend to the message is safely received it is ro posted after twalys hours. The man
safting before the insti
CTO is actua
The vario
in the
majority of speakers providing the characteristics are known together with those of the power valve, so that the proper choke may be em ployed.
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