TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1930.
RADIO TOPICS
TO-DAY'S PROGRIMME.
The following prog'imme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasing Station ZB.W. on $ wavolez
th of 855
matres:-
6.p.m.-European Programme of Victor Records.
Raymond-Overture (Thomas),
Victor Symphony Orch. Rose in the Bud (Forster),.
(1132).
One Little Dream of Love (Gordon),
I call upon thee, Jesus, (Bach), Prelude in E Flat Minor,
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THE CHINA
SEEING EVENTS AS tone blacks reproducing printed
THEY HAPPEN.
Some Possibilities of
the Future.
A considerable fluttering. In the 'elnéma, dovecotes is the result of Press announcements that certain 24).American experimenters have pot: fected, Dr are likely about to Hence Chemet-Violin So perfect, arrangements whereby television will be brought to the aid of the cinema, theatre, and enable one film to be shown in London, or even in New York, and seen in theatres all over the Philadelphia Symphony Orch. county, or possibly all over the world.
The sdent of television gards the sudden announcements of wonder in the new art with considerable amusement, and with ganisation of the commercial in- some envy of the publicity or terests concerned with the art in the United States, (wrib. Capt. E. H. Robinson in the Observer)
Auld Scotch Songs, Mary of Argyle,
(0786).
Sir Harry Lauder (1002). Sincerity-Waltz (l'ignotoni), Wedding of the Winds (Hail),
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La Vittoria Orchestra (5911) Rustle of Spring (Sinding), Narcissus (Nevín),
(20121).
Hans Barth--Piano Solo Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin),
Paul Whiteman and Itis
Orchestra (35822).
The Flutterer (Chaminade), Searf Banco (Chaminade),
Hans Barth-Piano Sole (20346). Bird Songs at Eventide (Barrie),
John McCormack (1983). The Little Silver Ring (Chaminade), Stnerato-Caprice (Vogrich),
Yolanda Merc-Piano Solo (1155). La Czarine Mazurki (Ganne),
Victor Salon Orchestra (20430), Rendez-Vous-Intermezzo (Alleter), Cradle Song (Brahms).
Alfrel Cortet Piano Solo (1271). Traumerei (Schumann), Andantino (Lemare),
Edwin H. Lemare Organ Solo (358-13).
Sylvia Ballet-Pizziesti (Dúlibes),
San Francisco Symphony Orch. Intermezzo and Valse Leste (IIGG).
Spanish Dance (Granados), Vito (Pepper),
re-
Baird demonstrated a "tele-talkle." Eleven months ago. Mr. J. L.
He pointed out at the time that when the light can pass through a transparency, as in the cinema film, the difficulties of televising are much less than when the light has to be reflected from a solid object, such as the human face.
spot of light, just as is the human The film is scanned by a moving
face in ordinary broadcast televi- sion, and it will be realised that the intervention of the scanning dise must result in some loss of The actual loss detail.
at the transmitting end, however, is not great, and, so far as that is con ed, there is no reason at all why television should not be employed to transmit suitable cinematograph
Pablo Casals Violoncello Solo films.
(1311).
Berecise (darnefeit), Procladium (Jarnefelt),
Victor Concert Orchestra (20374). Love Me Always-Waltz (Rizzi), Tanga Delle Rose (Bottero),
Victoria Orchestra (V-17),
Serenata (Tasti). Carceleras (Chapi).
Dangers of Enlargement.
transmitting
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illustrations and the transmission of television have really no rela- tion to one another, an idea of the effect of magnification on images lacking detail can be had by look- ing at a coarse-screen half-tono print through a magnifying glass, What detail was there completely vanishes when the Image Ja magnified..
Commercial Problem,
It is commonly supposed that the outstanding difficulty in applying. the televisor to cinema work is the
dieulty, of enlarging the image.
This is not so. Given reasonable detail, the image can be enlarged up to any required dimensions. Recently Mr. Baird demonstrated with complete success that when the transmitting medium is ade- quate, enormous amplification of the image can be given without any considerable loss of detail. A trouble that remains to be got over is that the movement of the scan- ning dise, which is hardly notice- able with the ordinary small televised image, becomes very apparent when the image is much enlarged.
to
MAIL.
Where They Land the Big Fellows
Patience rewarded on the Capilase River in which three prize-
winners in the continent-wide contest conducted by "Field and Stream for the heaviest stoelhoad inken with a ty in Canada and the United States, Bave been caught. The fisherman Is snapped taking one of the many five pounders in which the stream abeunde. The river Has back in the mountains of the North Shore not mo’e than ten miles from the Canadian Pacific Railway station at Van- couver, British Columbia. Up to eight-pound steelheads have bean taken in this river,
FAKE WAR DIARY OF 44 YEARS
THE PRINCE.
Attempt to Sell to Publishers.
London, July 10. An impertinent attempt to sell a
IN LEPER COLONY.
Aged Missionary's First Holiday.
New York, July 7. Brother Joseph Dutton, disciple of and successor to the famous Father Damien as missionary to the leper colony on Molokai Island, has just arrived at Honolulu for treatment of an aggravated affec- tion of the eyes.
The application of, the televisor cinematograph entertainment within the next year or so would seem to be a matter for commer- cial rather than scientific explora tion. In Germany a very consider- able amount of attention has been given to the possibilities, from a scientific point of view. In this country Mr. Baird regards the whole thing as an elementary ap book, which pretends to be "The preach to the real difficulties of War Diary of, H.R.H. the Prince of television. If the cinematograph Wales," is being made in this coun trade can show that the coat of try and in America. installing and keeping in order highly corrected land-lines will be worth while in view of their gl-York recently received a letter ready intensively organised distri- offering the manuscript of this sup-left Molokai since he went there. bution service of films, or if it is posed possible to allocate wireless trans-signed by a man who has written war diary. The letter was mitting bands of at least twenty kilocycles width, then it is possible several biographies, and stated, "I that we may eventually have the am to edit the war diary of the "tele-talkle" in place of the ordin Prince of Wales."
Publishers in London and New
A summary of what the diary contained was set out:—
The "Tele-Talkie." The wedding of the televisor and the cinema would make possible The personal experiences of the the very rapid distribution of Prince in France with the British visual news items. My own feel- ing is that television proper will
troops; his private conversations eventually develop to such a state with Earl Haig, Marshal Foch, and that visual news items, stage General Pershing, and his opinions plays, and such-like will be avail on many of the able to vast audiences, at the time
war phases the
The greatest loss of detail is ex-ary cinematograph entertainment. perienced ส the medium. If it is transmitted by wireless the image suffera con siderably by the fact that for Amolita Galli-Curei Soprano broad band of modulation and the complete detail it requires a very (1167). King Cotton-March,
ordinary broadcast transmitting Oficer of the Day-March (Hall), band is but nine kilocycles wide. Arthur Pryor's Band ((19895). If the image is transmitted by 8 p.m.-Chinese Relay from Ko land-line over any considerable Shing Theatre.
defects in the land-line, already so distance, then it suffers from the
well known to wireless listeners who live in districts where the local transmitter is supplied by land-line from London or some other distant centre. Loss of de- tail is not of great importance so long as the received image is small; but immediately any at- tempt is made to enlarge the image the lack of detail is horribly ap parent. Though the making of half-
9 p.m.-Weather Report and Local Time.
Relay continued.
11 p.m.-Close down.
ILLEGAL STATIONS.
FRAUDULENT TRAFFIC IN MESSAGES.
Paris, July 25. Specialists attached to the wire- less detective department at police headquarters here have discovered three secret wireless stations
which have been for some months in competition with the authorised services.
One is at Halluin, in the Nord Department, another at Metz, and the third in Paris.
The first clue picked up by the police experts was a message, on
they are being performed, and that German submarine campaign, the the proper field for the film in con- cinking of the Lusitania, and the junction with television will be in execution of Nurse Cavell, the broadcasting of lectures, to schools by professors of note, and)
No Records Released.
There was an all-important addi-
to act, in much the same way a8tion to the letter to the effect that the gramophone is now employed the Prince of Wales would read by broadcasting, as a All-up to give and pass the manuscript before it special Items. Any attempt to wed was handed to the publishers. the televisor and the cinema would be a great mistake in view of the very rapid progress that is being
made in real television,
the editor of the diary to the pub- The Inferences in the letter from fishers were:-
That the diary was authorised by the Prince of Wales;
The editor had access to private
THE CASE OF MAJOR Adam, had since acted on the false papers of the Prince; and
OF
W. A. ADAM.
COMPULSORILY RETIRED.”
Major W. A. Adam, formerl officer of the 5th (Royal I Lancers, who alleges that through conspiracy he was, some years ago, compulsorily retired, and later be-
information
.
He is eighty-seven years of age, and this is the first time he has
forty-four years ago. He declares that if the Honolulu doctors can cure, him he will return to his
lepers by aeroplane.
It was in 1886 that Brother Joseph Dutton heard of Father, Damien's great work for the lepers of the South Sea Islands. It fired him. with such enthusiasm that he journeyed to San Francisco at once, sailed for Honolulu, and on) to Molokai, where he found Father: Damien and offered his services.
A Pension Refused. The great missionary accepted him on the spot, and from that day Brother Joseph never left the island until the trouble with his eyes compelled his present journey -and his one anxiety now is to get well as quickly as possible and re- turn to the work he loves.
Father Damien died a few years) after his arrival in Molokai, and since that time Brother Joseph has become the most widely known and best loved man on the island.
One of the first tasks which he set himself was the construction of a home for orphaned boys and for the hopeless cases among the adult lepers. For years he seldom left this building.
A few years ago the legislature of Hawaii proposed to pass a Bill granting him a life pension of 810 a month but at his own urgent re- quest the Bill was withdrawn.
You May Try Other Things But Eventually Give Baby These.
women.
That the final draft would be In his petition Major Adam as approved by the Prince. serts that the accusations mado The Daily Express understanda against him bave never bean in- that the publication of any manu- vestigated. He alleges that there script which purports to be a diary has been deliberate misrepresenta-kept by the Fringe during the war tion .to support those ac-years is entirely unauthorised, and usations. The facts Have is in fact a fake.. No such book has been laid before the present any basis of authority. Secretary for War, who has refused None of the records kept by the to move in the direction of having Prince have been handed over to any removing an injustice under which true to state that the manuscript an impartial inquiry, with a view to biographer, and it is altogether un- Many people learn by experi a short wavelength, from an Ameri- cause in the House of Commons he
ence and experience alone. ean, who asked his correspondent championed the cause of brother
he had suffered and was still suffer, will be read by the Prince.
Others wisely profit from the ex- to pass it on to a woman in Paris. officers, also victims in his view, of
inx.
Several publishers in Britain have perience of their fellow men and Radio detectives soon traced the War Office error, lost his sent in
From time to time questions had refused to consider this so-called
Parents of bables and station, and then by means of "ra- Parliament, has presented a peti-been asked in the House of Com-War Diary of HRH. the Prince young children, who belong to the
of Wales."
latter class, will read and ponder diogonometry" located the two tlon to Parliament requesting that mons by members of all political others. All were transmitting pri- his case should be re-opened and in-
parties, but all of them had beened to British publishers in the early 3, Drieberg's Lane, Marudana, A rather similar book was offer-what Mrs. M. C. Dickson, of No. vate messages which should have vestigated.
"allenced by systematic misrepre- summer under the title of "Ted Colombo, has written regarding been sent through the services The facts are these: The War
sentation." Major Adam asks the operated by the Ministry of Posts Office, in December, 1906, ordered. House to "decide the constitution Windsor, the Real Prince of Wales," her experience with Baby's Own and Telegrapha.
Major Adam to resign his commle question whether
Tablets. For a mother will not Government a One of the stations concerned ston. The order, it was understood, Department is to deceive the people
lightly recommend for other chil had been licensed as an exparimen- was issued Because of a letter re- and rule in England, or whether
ed her own rigid tests and con- dren anything that has not pass- tal transmitting past, but apparceived from the General Officer Parliament possesses that supre
vinced her of its safety and eff ently had functioned for some time Commanding, Aldershot (Sir John
macy which It constitutionally on a commercial basis. The own French), and "other circumstances."
claim." Morning Post.
clency. Mrs. Dickson writes: ers of the three sets are to be pro- The accused officer never saw the secuted on a charge of Refrauding letter written by Sir John.1 the State.
French. He-was first made kware of its contents In 1925 when It
read Whe
In Parliament by Lord Haldane. It SYNTHETIC RADIUM. disclosed that no specific fault was
SECRET CLAIMED BY BELGIUM
CHEMIST
alleged, and contained no suggestion that he should be ordered to resign his commission. His efficiency had never been questioned.
"Other Circumstances." The "other circumstances" in the War Office letter appeared to relato A Belgian chemist, M. Robert to a domestly matter. The story, Linssen, claims, to have discovered according to Major Adam,-was that the secret of the synthesis of radio in 1895 he became engaged to a active bodies, uranium and the widow. In the following year he different species of radium includ-broke off the engagement. On his return from South Africa in 1902 there was a rumour that he owed money to the woman referred to and that he had treated her shabbily. He had a legal document from the woman to certify that Adam does not own, and never owe me any money,
The rumour, however, reache then Lieutenant
All radio-active aphatances being compound bodies, M. Linssen states that he expects to be able to manu facture these bodies' experimental ly. If his assertion, proves true there might well be a fantastic de- Crease in the price of radium, now worth 2,200,000 francs per gramme. Belgium, it will be remembered, thanks to her Congo colony, now holds the monopoly in radium pro
Com
SIR. C. CLEMENTI.
INCIDENTS OF VISIT TO
NORTH BORNEO.:
and was refused.
American publishers are showing supported records of British distinct reluctance to accept the Royalty unless they have a definite guarantee of authentic authorship,
"I have given Baby's Own Tableta to two of my children. namely Barbara, aged four years,
FALL FROM TRAIN. and Melroy, aged two years and
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
five months, for constipation, and I found they did them a world of good. I might, mention that I had used other medicines, bafore using Baby's Own Tablets, but the re- sults were not very satisfactory," I think Baby's Own Tablets a very
effective remedy for children and have no hesitation in recom- mending them.
When Sir Cecil and Lady Clement, who have been visiting British North Borneo and Sarawak, arrived in Kuching on August 4,4 hve-year-old girl had are they were mot by the Chief Secre-markabla escape from death re.I tary and Treasurer, says the Straits cently, when she fell from an ex Times, and, after Inspecting oursion train in which she was (Sgd.) (Mrs.) M, C. Dickson. guard of honour, were taken to the travelling to Astana where they were met by parents to spends holday.
with her Baby's Own Tablets correct in-
fantile indigestion and constipa H. H. the Tuan Muda.
As the train, was travelling at tion, check diarrhoen, expel In the late afternoon a drive over 30 miles per hour at Walter worms, ellay fever, colds and round Kuching was arranged. A birk, near Blackburn, the carriage croup. They are especially In- dinner was held at which heads of door flew open, and the little girl, valuable: during teething, easing departments and prominent real who had been standing near it, the pains and thus feducing sound, dents were present.
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