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HONGKONG:
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SINGAPORE, PENANG and BELAWAN-DELĮ DIRECT.
14th August, 1924.
1st Class Fare to Singapore-3100.
This vessel offers excellent saloon accommodation
All lower berths English cuisine..
Doctor carried. Wireless telegraph,
NEW ERA IN WORLD INTERCOURSE.
MARCONI PREDICTS A REVOLUTION.
DISTANCE AND SPEED
SOLVED.
PROBLEMS
FREEMASONRY.
Lord Ravensworth, as Provincial Grand Mark Master of Durham, presided on June uth, at Connaught Rooms, at the fifty- eventh anniversary festival of the Mark Benevolent Fund.
A revolution in wireless telegraphy was predicted by Mr. Marceni recently in lesture at the Royal Society of Arts. He is convinced than by means of the short-wave. directional method "high speed services can now be maintained e
1924
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In proposing Success to the Mark Benevolent Fund." the chairman said the fund was instituted in 1860, and was divi- ded into three branches, benevolent, educational, and annuity. The fond, gave mmediate relief to necessitous cases, STRAITS & CALCUTTA. while at the present time six
sixteen boys ad eleven girls were being educated and TIENTSIN
HAIPHONG và Harv fourteen males and twenty females were
SHANGHAI VIA. SWATOW... "the funt had provided for 198
КОБЕ SANDAKAN evildren and 1eressitous Mark Masons und widows, at an
MANILA expeniliture of
ELIFEONG Y HOTROW £65.000.
STRAITS & CALCUTTA
with the most distant parts of the Flubeving annual grants, Since its M-1
during a considerable mumber of Aged hours every day.
The effect of such 4 change must be as important as was the change from slow to fast transmission by land wires It will, in Mr. Marconi's opinion, be of great value to Famp're vonmunications, and will substantially reduce telegraphic
rates
TWA GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS.
Thesday. Tuesday,
5th Aug., Noom. 5th Aug 5 pm,
Wednesday, 6th Aug,10
POKSANO ... Wednesday, th Aug., p.m.
YUENSANG Saturday
CHEONGSHING" Saturday,
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Major T. G. L. Lamley-Smith, Grani Secretary, in announcing, the resnit of Satishl, stated that Land CALCUTTA LINE-This Line now affords regular sailings to Calcotia, Fonsag
a collection of £1.757 14 5d. at the 9,323 18. 3d. at the hands of 100 stew- hands of 135 stewards; Durham sent ads and other provinces and districts
verseas
Singapore; returning from Caloutta steamers proceed via Straite and Hongkong to Japan, occasionally calling at Shanghai,
All steamers have excellent passenger accommodation,
fitted with Wireless and carry a fully qualified Surgeon.
approximately every three days between Canton and
Mr. Marconi's beliefs are based on ****,310 0s, with 301 steun SHANGHAI LINE Shanghai, sometimes calling at Swatow Through tickets can
two rerut achievements with the method
grund fotal of the festival was p
by which short wireless waves are protection of $10.637 6. . which is over £319 more than any previous festival of the Mark Benevolent Fund..
jected in a beat in our direction only, instead of being allowed to spread all around.
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Intellig ble speech was, for the first time tratsmittel from Foldhu to Syd- THE PARTING OF THE WAYS. ney on May 20th. Perfect 3orse transmissions were also made on several days between 5 and 9 p.m., Greenwich tade atul between 8.30 und 5.30 am.
Between Jan 12th, and June 14th very strong signals, were received for over ten hours each day Buenos
from tres
Poldha, although the arrangements were far from perfect. It is believed that with the new system. an Argent neesation will, handle, insa hours double the tradie now handled in twenty heges, with the present super
power station.
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[BY MARGARET GASTON, What has become of that friend of yours whom I used to meet before I went away asked the middle-aged kinsman home from America,
The girl he questioned Eesitated for mcntent. then snd: "We're not great; friends any longer. We didn't quarrel. As we
„older one friendship inst petered
I see. You were good companions for part of the journey,
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For part of the journey: There are "All these results," said Mr. Marconi, people whom we do not take with us all of which have greatly execeded the way. We like them, admire them, are my expectations, convince me that by sincerely glad of them. De phase of our means of this system economical and experience blends with theirs, or their etheiat low
in a happy white lave be whim and curs can power stations established which will maintain direct high speed services with the most distant Adventures or enthusiasms are shared. parts of the globe luring a engs decable But, there coses a time when we arrive. number of 6xed hours per day.
at a crossroads and they turn as instine. tively to the east as we turn to the west There may or there may not be he of conscious farewell, but it is farewell. We shall not meet them again on our journey. ·
I am further of the opinion that by means of these comparatively small stations a fur greater number of words per twenty-four hours could be transmit- ted between England, India and her dis tant Dominions than would be possible by means of the previously planned pew erful and expensive station.
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But happily this rarely happens. There!
And in this parting there is involved no disloyalty, no failure on either side. The failure would have been for either to Another particular advantage of this capitulate and turn his face in a direction for him beld no true fulfilment Wa system should not be overlooked. As dis- must complete our own journeys, even if tant staticus situated only within
we have to finish them alone. certain angle or sector of the beam, are
th's coulition brings are friends who pass, but enabled to receive
are also aheuta comparative privacy, ar serey friends who remain. Sometimes, in the
with ahy of communication, anon, and
purely superficial diversions of the way. rádic
of them. But other system of
we may seem to lose sight th's may prove to be of the greatest value whenever we think deeply or live deeply in war time. besides considerably increas we know that they are there. From the ing the number cstations it will be pos-beginning their road was destined to be sible to work, by reducing, the possibili- | our road. Up and down br.ways we may tes of mutual interference between them. dodge each other, but the inevitable re- The comparative economy in capital turn to the highway finds us again in cost of these stations, the small amount company. of electrical power which need be em- ploved, with the capability of working at very high speeds, should make it possible to bring about a substantial re- iluetion in telegraphic rates. The import- ance of this to the Empire, must be obvious."
Mr. Marconi gaye interesting details of his latest experiments. In those car- ried out between Poldhu and the yacht Elettra he observed:
Some of our friends are for part of the journey and some of them go to the very end-Daily Mail.
VISITORS TO M.Ps.
6,000 A WEEK IN THE HOUER Between 5.000 and Gorg visitors, oth from bome and overseas, now apply beekly to mechers to view the Houses of Parliament--a total far greater than anything previously known.
That the day ranges proved to reliable and not inconsiderable.
That the night ranges were mich greater than any ong-anticipated..
That intervening land and large por- rtions of continents do not present any serious obstacle to the propagation of these waves."
In this connection disappointment hav ing been expressed by guests when told they cannot he taken to hear a "debate in the House of Commons as in the Lords, Mr. McEnter, Labour MP. for Walthamstow W., is to ask the First Commissioner of Works for use of part He proved that the wireles beam of the members' little-used galleries for always seeks darkness to travel through, the purpose.
DARKNESS PREFERRED.
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and chooses the path of least sunglight, ever though the distance is longer. tests between Australia and Poldhu.he
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were in shadow the signals followed a route across them. a distance of more than twelve thousand miles. When dark- ness covered Asia and the East the waves followed the darkness over a route of nine thousand miles..
In an, interview with a lily Express representative after the lecture, Mr. Marconi expressed his convictions in no uncertain manner.
We are on the eve of even greater discoveries in the realm of wireless tele- graphy." he said. The results obtained and announced will probably be epoch- making in the sphere of wireless
AMERICANS' VIEW OF EUROPE,
At the League of Nations, Union con- ference at Wembley na Jurse 20th Mrs. Forbes Robert you Hale spoke on Ame- rien and the League." She said that the people of the United States had never really voted against für League of Nations. In their endeavour to art rid of President Wilson the Republican lenders used the League as a whip, hut they did not dare to ojow the ideas of the League The mat in the street in Aterien, said Mrs. Hale. " is fed up with Europe. He still likes France, be he is told to do so, but he is Ketting a litle anxious about her. He does not love England, but she is the only country he will respect, because she pays her debts."
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The Italians and Spaniards, she said,. were classed as Dagoes," Hungarians! "Wops." And Scandinaviana Square-heads," This summed up the average American views on Earope. "Re- ferring to the methods of publicity car- ried out in the United States in aid of the Lengus, she said that na soon as the average man realised the value of the League as fully is the intellectual classes did the Senate would decide to join it.
MANILA
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LINEA
weekly service in maintained with Manila by vessels with good passenger accommodation, sailings from both porta every Saturday at 11 am. HAIPHONG LINE-Sailings approximately weekly for passengers and cargo, calling ut
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LINK-Fortnightly sailings to and from Sandakan by two 5,000 tan L.A. HINSANG" and e.s. "MAUSANG," both teamais steamers,
Cargo taken en having excellent passenger accommodation. through Bills of Lading for Kadat, Jesselton, Labuan, Tawao and Lahad Datu
LINEA regular service is ran from March to November between Hof
kong and Tientsin. occasionally calling at Weihaiwei and Chefco. LINE-A weekly service is provided between Hongkong and Bangkok vin
Swatow by five steamers fitted with up-to-date jassenger accom modation.
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