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The first meeting of the Hongkong Local Contre of the Institution of Electrical Engineers was held at the R.A. Theatre, Victoria Barracks, on Wednesday, Decem- bar 16th, at 9.15 p.m. The audience included most of the local members of tha Institution, H.E. the Governor, H.E. Major-General F. H. Kelly, C.B., Com- madore R. H. Anstruther, C.M.G., and others,
The Chairman, Mr. W. L. Carter, with a few introductory remarks called on Col. W. Baker Brown, R., member, to deliver his lecture on Some Military
Uses of Electricity.
Col. BAKER BROWN commenced his lecture with the consideration of telephonic communications for military purposes. For permanent services, the military. authorities, he said, made all the possible use, consistent with efficiency, of civil lines and apparatus. At Home, the military telephones were used in close conjunction with those of the Post Office, the civil exchanges being supplemented by military exchanges when close secrecy had to be observed. All possible advantage was therefore taken of the skill and experience of civil operators. In telephonic work, as in all other branches, & skilled military staff was employed to consider all inven tions brought to their notice with. & view to their adoption and adaptation to the needs of the service should they be of suficient merit. Field work necessitated special features of all apparatus. All the details of a telephone, or telegraph, system had to be capable of being conveyed with advancing troops; of being dumped into a minimum number of carts, perhaps in a great hurry by quite inexperienced men, and of being erected quickly in any kind of weather with no chance of mishap or mistake. All apparatus had therefore to comply with the apparently condicting conditions to be light, strong, weather proof and fool proof Col. Baker Brown showed how these conditions had been fulfilled in the types of telephone nsed in the fold and by fighting tecops, For instance, the conductors employed vere of stranded steel and copper, the steel to give strength and the copper to give con ductivity; they were paid out from drumus as required..
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GENERAL BARNARDISTON IN TOKIO..
A WEEK OF NOTABLE FESTIVITIES.
TOXIO, December 12th
General Burnardiston, Commanding the British Forces in North China, 17ived in Tokio at 9.40 this morning, He was received by the highest military and civil officials. The arrangements made to express appreciation exceeded even those for Admiral Kato and other returning Japanese commanders.
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In conclusion, the lecturer spoke upon the use of searchlights in defence and attack. The source of light was the electric arc, and the type of lamp employed, nominally of 50,000 candle power, was shown. The light from the positive crater was collected and projected in a practically parallel beam by means of a parabolic mirror, and could be directed by traversing or elevating the projector. The finite size of the source caused a slight disporsion so that the circle of light was about 190 feet diameter at a distance of a thousand yards. For certain work these parabolic reflectors were replaced by the parabolic ellipse reflector. Vertical actions of this mirror parabolas, so that parallelism of the beam in a vertical direction was still preserved. In horizontal section the mirror was an ellipse. Horizontal rays therefore conveyed upon For distances greater than those over focus, from which point they diverged. which efficient telephonic communication
giving a fan-shaped beam capable of could be maintained, the telegraph was illuminating a considerable sweep of employed. Three types of telegraph office harbour. The lecturer demonstrated the were in use; the first was on the duplex features of this mirror with the aid of system and consisted of an office kit having an actual projector and showed how all total weight of about 1,000lba., such as the rays could be made to pass through would be used at the headquarters, the aalit only 6 inches wide. Almost second was on the simple system and complcte protection against fire could somewhat lighter the third, constituting thus be assured. The standard type of the normal held telegraph office, with a light took 120 amperes at 60 volts
buzzer instrument, had a weight of 200 Generaors capable of giving 200 amperes to 200lbs. These offices were sonsoled to
at 80 volts were provided for each light,
TOKIO, December 19th. headquarters by air lino," that is, by a but were capable of interconnection and
General Barnardiston said to Renter's telegraph wire carried overhead un parallel running in case of breakdown.. poles. The type of construction employed Field searchlights for use in attack had representative that the warmth of his re- in this part of the world was shown. been employed during the present war, but ception astonished and delighted him. THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- Bamboos were erected carrying insulatora chiefly by the enemy. The sets in use in People at Homo talked of the Anglo- | at the top, over which the line was carried, the British Army were driven by parafin Japanese Alliance, but it was only when being bound up at each fourth pole to engines and a careful drill had been one fought by the side of Japanese troops prevent slipping, the poles themselves worked out by which the light could be and saw the rejoicing of the Japanese. position and started people in the fact of that cooperation being stayed where necessary. This type hrought into of construction, which could be looked running at a very short notice did one understand how the reality of the
In proposing a vote of thanks, Mr. W. Alliance was appreciated in Japan. upon as practically permanent, Was FLATS in Humphrey's Buildings and cried out with a field service equipment L. CARTER said that the lecture that had
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·FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES at Kowloon. being moved rapidly, in which case the armaments, it had been doubly so cept during the celebration of the capture As yet no German has had the courage to
first line established was of cable laid on Electricity was by far the premier of the
BRITISH OFFICERS, DECORATER BY THE *****
MA ADOLPH GUMPEL. the ground. The cable was carried on bevy of handmaidens, surnamed Energy.
IRON CROSS WANTED. drums and paid out faster than the troops In time of peace the name Electricity was
TOKIO, December 14th.
Commenting on the letter, the New York General Barnardiston and his Staff. could march; occasionally the horses on synonymous with all the wonderful the cable waggon could be allowed to development that had taken place in the
The above letter was written by a gallop. Telegraphic communication was last half century of our civilisation. He visited the military schools and arsenal, Times says: maintained along this line during the liked to think and hope that in our time where a reception was given by the process of laying. A horseman, following it would not become a direct agent of Minister of War and the Chief of the German who has the courage to write the hooked the cable to the side of the road destruction. While it was useful to the General Staff. In the evening a dinner truth, and, what is most commendable, 30 that. it should not be damaged by gun, the torpedo and the mine, it was was held at the British Embassy, the sign his name to it, without attempting to following vehicles. As rapidly as possible, not absolutely essential to them,
attempts to change public opinion and this line was superseded by air line and could not forget the wonderful assistance Buests including the Foreign Minister hide anonymously, so hundredspring to The Emperor has decorated General coerce the newspapers in New York, which 70. 5, MORRISON HILI, Immediate communication, as permanent as necessary it rendered to the surgeons. The age of and numerous bigh military officials.ellow-countrymen are doing, in their electricity was beginning to pale when Hertz, Lodge and Marconi shattered the Barnardiston with the second, Major without fear or favour are printing the For reconnoitring and for communica prosaic with the wireless belegraph. In Pringle with the fourth, and Captain war news as they receive it from their
of tion with cavalry, these servion were
peace we had seen it come to the aid supplemented by wireless. The design of the sinking Titanie. In war, we had pie Moore with the ifta class of the Order correspondents abroad, a suitable type for easy conveyance had tured the scene on H.M.8. Sydney when of the Rising Sun. The audience at 11.30
One given some scope for ingenuity.
the message from the Cocon was being A Was followed by a luncheon, always associated wireless with large drowned by the quenched spark of the cumbersome masts and antenna that Emden-the interference that spelt the
uit be impossible in the field. An latter's doom. The members of the Insti
tution were very grateful to Col. Baker efficient apparatus was, however, in nac The mast was telescopic and the antenna Brown for having made the inaugural of the umbrella type. The dynamo for meeting of the Centre such a success.
Mr. E. T. WILLIAMS BOOOonded the supplying the power was driven by a Ball petrol engine. There were light and resolution. In a few words he referred heavy types of installation which could to the unique position the Colony held be conveyed to the scene of operations by in being the first in the Far East to
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The lecturer then explained the system Engineering Institution. By its aid, the of using all the above with an army in Hongkong Chinese, being trained at its
University, would be able to become so-called representatives of my people who the beginning of the atrocious war now the field. The establishment and main United with the British Institution have been befogging the issue with all being waged in Europe. tainence of these communications involved It could form, & permanent bond and kinds of bigoted rot
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AN OUTSPOKEN GERMAN. THE CRIMES OF THE WALL CLIQUE,
EXPLANATIONS TO POSTERITY.
The following letter appears in the
New York, October 21st. New York Times:
I have waited in vain till now for a real German to speak to the world. There have been a great number of missiven from
The time has come for the truth to out a considerable number of skilled men and could be productive of nothing but good. operators..
The resolution was carried with and out it will. I am a German by Thus the telegraph office at
Col Baker Brown briefly birth, have lived many years in the acclamation. general headquarters required, the services
Fatherland, and know the spirit of the of 7 officers and 80-90 men, while 75
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German people. The great majority of vere with the
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Col. Baker Brown then dealt with the During a chargo in Belgium, says a ELABRATOON V. APCAR & Co. Hongkong, 10th December, 191411440 application of electricity to the firing of report, Highlanders encountered wire ism. The war party does not represent mines. The detonator consisted of a fine ontangents under a heavy fire. The them. It represents only a large number wire 0014 inch diameter and a 4 inch check was apparently fatal, but Ghurkhas of fat politicians and military supply con- long embedded in guncotton and placed wriggled through the wire, kurkis in hand, tractora. The present way was made in a cap of fulminato of mercury. This and disappeared in the trenches shenting in Germany" by the Kaiser, aided by the We Gormans who have thought deeply detonator was placed in a primer of dry their battle cries. After a tumult of war party. who have guncotton which exploded the main carnage, the Germans fed into their own about the European holocaust know and
A few prisoners were charge of wet guncotton. The instant of entanglements.
at the crimes committed in the name of explosion was determined by the fusing taken, all of whom were paralysed with feel that we are in the wrong. We chudder
the German people by the war clique. of the wire by a current supplied from terror.
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Had the countrymen of Mr. Gunipel adopted the same tactics at the beginning. of the European war, there would be less antipathy to the German cause on the part of the newspapers and the fair-minded American public.
If Kaiser Wilhelm happens to have an Iron Cross lying around loose that is not working he should give it to Mr. Gumpel, who has shown more tact and diplomacy than all the von Bernsdorfs, Ridders, and others who have failed miserably in their attempts to change public opinion in the United States as to where the fault lies for
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