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WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY,
Act 1919, modified to suit the special circumstances of the China Consti LOCAL COMMUNICATION.
closures to this letter were copy of a letter from the Foreign Offse forwarded The following account of deliberation by the Secretary of State for the Colonies,
made by the Chamber of Commerce during referring to a recommendation by 1894 on the subject of Wireless Tale. Aval Court at Shangbai which g
into the loss of the 5.8. Bylin graphy appears in the Annual Report that the 5tting of wireless telegraph in. stallations to sea-going British ships re Just published:
at Shanghai sho
should be made eem. Much consideration has been given pulsory. The Secretary of State added during 1924 to the question of wireless that as simultaneous legislative action at communication. It was noted in the Shanghai and Hongkong was suggested Chairman's address at the last annual he requested the Colonial Government to meeting that Cape D'Aguilar was then consider the matter in consultation with communicating with Canton. His Majesty's Minister at Peking. Chow Wan and
is seriously reduced by various hindrances
such as slowness of delivery at the other end, and the fact can only be received during that messages
veness of this sy "tow, but the
This
Latter
In referring this matter to the Cham bet, the Colonial Government enclosed Minute of a conference held at Shang hai on the 24th April, 1924, at which weig
the hours has the Post Office in Hong present:Sir Skinner Turner, Jadge of kong is
His Majesty's Supreme Court for China; Enet
ofte Mr. J. H. Kemp, .c. Attorney General, causes considerable delays at the end of Mongkong; Mr. S. Burton, His Majesty's the week and the Committee has suggest- ad to the Government that, in view of Consul-Kieneral and Registrar of Ship traffic, ping, Shanghai; Mr. W. G. Sheppard, at the extent of ship to shore" arrangements should be made whereby Mesars. Jardine, Matheson and Company messages can be received and delivered in Limited and Mr. T H. R. Shaw, of Hongkong, at least, at any time during Messrs. Butterfeld and Swirt. the twenty-four hours.
Mesars, Sheppard and Shaw stated that Early in the year the Governme Indo-China Steam Navigation Com warded.
to the Chamber as inteny the China Navigation Com memorandum by bir. L. H. King, the aus were already preparing to install Government Electrical Engineer in charge wireless on their coastal steamers plying of wireless, on some local and general air routes where large numbers of pas considerations concerning wireless Lele engers were carried and had established graphy. Under date wen Janusc
1994, at Hongkong a school for training
Chi esc British subjects as operators. King emphasized the Mr. Punculties of
of wireless in Hongkong on ference was due to the correspolulence
account of
prevalent pospherics which are very which has passed between the
al round the world Master and the Hongkong Chamber of at this latitude from April until Septem-Commerce in 1991 on the subject of the bur. Another difficulty is jamming by adoption st
the Merchant ships of war and by other stations. Mr. Shipping (Wireless. Telegraphy) Act
1819 Kilg continued:-
and Mesars. Sheppard and Shaw stated out of Shanghai and other China ports that in regard to coasting reascla running
A poius that appears to ated defining are the various classes of stations their views were in agreement with ose it is evident that confusion exists in many minds. Stations may be classed expressed by the Hongkong Chamber. briety ucder the following heuls:-(1)| in a letter to the Government dated 7th Coast Stations. (2) (nland Stations. (3) September, 101, the Chamber urged that Medium Power Stations. (4) High the proposed legislation should not Power Stations.
penalise British shipping; r should By these terms are meant:-
not be so onerous as to cause foreign (1) Coast Station.A station which is British shipping at a disadvantage com- shipping to avoid Hongkong, or to plaze primarily designed for communication pared with foreign vessels entering the with ships as see, and is represented in Ports also that the employment of this Colong by D'Aguilar.
Asiatic operators and watchers should be
(9) luland Station.- station who permitted even though the Asiatics might primary function is to communicate with not be British subjects. other, fand stations; these stations are] They objected to the adoption of the designed with ranges of from 30 railes to provisions of the 1919 Act for the follow 300 It is an inland type that is reing reasons:- quired to cover communications to Can- ton, etc.
(3) Medium Power Station.A station built to work with another in- termediate station, or, to act as a feeder station to a High Power Station and usually given a certain 1,000/2,000 miles rauge.. This station is represented in this Colony by Stonecutters. Such station would rangu Manila," Shanghai and Singapore. for commercial trafic.
(4) High Power Station-A Station primarily built for direct communication between distant Celonies and their home This type, for successfal
Governmeires: large amount of
(1) The classification of ships on the basin of the nature of the voyage for the purpose of determining the type of apparatus and number of operators to be carried was not suited to the peculiar cor.ditions prevailing on the Chica Coast.
(2) The expense involved in the employ. ment of white operators would be prohibitive and the introduction of such men would be demoralizing to the crews, as it would be impossible to find sufficient work for the operators to do.
.
(3) The ships to be affected by the legislation are running solely in. Asiatic waters and in competition with Asiatic-owned shipping.
and in
or.
working.
pre liminary arrangement, as the initial out: lay, is so heavy that ample trane inst cosae to hand, and it must have a station equal to itself is power, organisation, and They therefore considered the modifica standing, to work with at the opposite endtions in the home procedure suggested by | of route."
the Hongkong Harbour Master and Stations of the first, second and third Chamber of Commerce as essential in the types have grown up all over the world, vent of any application of the 1919 A and their usefulness is appreciated and to British shipping on the China Coast. recognised by the authorities dealing and
particular they with arrangement of the high power tions the British
by the
urged repor Government ín tof chain, and it may be taken that local corresponding legislation by ተስፋ! traffic will be collected by stations of the Governments of Japan and China,
in o first and second type, despatched by the der to minimise the penalizing of British third type, working intermediate stations, ships in their competition with the vessels. and by the fourth typ for direct. com. of these countries, and also the removal munication with the home country. of the restriction regarding the British nationality of the Asintic operators to In criticising the Wireless Telegraphic be employed." arrangements of the Colony, certain con ditions which apply to radio-communica The last point is of importance in the tion generally are sometings overlooked, case of ships running out of Shanghai as For example, it has been freely stated Southern Chinese will not work with the that D'Aguilar cannot work
"ship at
Northern crews and a second school for 400 miles, the blame being thrown on the operators will be necessary at Shanghai Government or the staff of the station Where Chinese of British nationality are when the real cause was that the power "ot obtainable as students.
of the Ship station was not equal to Attention was also drawn to the fact that of D'Aguilar, the range of a Coast that the shore stations un Chinese ter Station being the range of its plant when ritory were few in number and of doubt-j working with a station of equal power. ful efficiency.
In further notes, Mr. King wrote that The question of the type of apparatus where landline and cable facilities to which might be held adequate under local neighbouring trade centres are insufficient conditions was not discussed at the Con- an inlund station and a medium power ference, as no technical information was station should be considered, but the available. dithculty is obtaining co-operation, with
ANTI-PIRACY TRANSMITTER.
At this time also the Government for-
the authorities at the other end of the date. 10th July, 1924, the Chamber again In replying to the Government under route"
atated its views, and pointed out that some considerable tine must still elapse before trained operators, the product of the warded for the consideration of the Chum School established by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and Messrs. Jardine, Blathe bar copies of a statement supplied by the Marconi International Communication of the Government, would be available in
zon and Co.
Lid.,
with the
the co-operation Co., with regard to an anti-piracy wireless adequate numbers to operate on vessels transmitter which the Captain Superio- to which legislation would apply.
th
Harbour Mazar Committee, therefore, hoped that legits. Engineer agreed
might be deferred until matters
tendent of
tion
The
and the value as a protec: were further advanced and there was in-
prove of
tion againяz piracy. It was pia ternational agreement upon this subject.
by the Government that the
Companies mainly interested might ac
quire a number of sets for experimental purposes in the first instance, and that,"
EXTENSION OF WIRELESS.
The Committee has also had under con-
for
if experience proved the value of the gideration the question of interference by apparatus as a protection against piracy wireless operators of various nationali- its provision might later he made comties transmitting in an irregular man- pulsory
It may be undesirable to publish a Full weather reports, and is at present con [ner; also wireless ja connection with description of the apparatus, but, stated sid briefly, it is contained in a bullet proof communication could be usefully extend
sidering the directions in which wireless steel case and will operate itself as sooned, e.g. locally, within a five hundred button is pressed, continuing to mile radius of Hongkong; between operate for a considerable period.
The
like Singapore. Chamber suggested to the Government
places hi and that a set should be purchased for and flanila,, and long
distance communication
with, perimental purposes. This has now been ampie, Australia, Aden and so on. The done and the apparatus is being tested under, ordinary working conditions, on importance fully up-to-date from a wint importance of bringing port of this
view is
fully realised, and WIRELESS ON ALL SHIPS, the Committee is rendering the Govern every assistance in its power in On the 7th June the Government wrote arriving at a solution of the many in- to the Chamber, again raising the ques- tricate problems involval—a
Bolution tion of compulsory installations on Bri-rendered the
more difficult of accomplish tish ships on the China Coast, which has ment by the fact that conditions are con occupied the attention of the Chamber tinaally changing because of the rapid from time to time since the year 1921. scientific developient of wireless tele- The Government requested the views of graphy. The fact that a wireless station the Chamber on the suggestion that steps is cply effective provilled there is a should now be taken for the introduction station of equal power and efficiency at for some scheme on the lines of the Mer- the other end has also an important chaat Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) bearing as for as China is concerned.
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