BRITISH OVERSEAS
COMMUNICATIONS.
NEW NERVE CENTRE.
HIGHER SPEEDS FOR CABLES,
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1929.
SHOPPING GUIDE
The new building for Imperial People Who Advertise
and International Communications,
Ltd., which is to fill the grent gap on the Victoria Embankment that has been made by the demolition of the offices originally occupied by the Education Department, aud re cently by the Tramways Depart ment, of the London County Coun- j eil, will be the biggest overseas telegraph office in the world. Here will be stationed the central tele. graph olice for the Merconi wire- less services, for the enlle services of the Eastern Telegraph Company and its associates,
the and for beam services st Empireradio present conducted by the. General Post Office.
Mareani House in the Strand, and Electra House, and Tower Chambers in Moorgate, now, oceu. Fied by the Eastern Telegraph Company, will be sold, and are now in the market; bus moet of the Marconi and the Eastern Telegraph Companies branch offices in Lon don and the Provinces are to be maintained as feeders to this new central telegraph office, private telegraph and telephone wires con neetting them with the Embank ment headquarters.
Speeding Up.
for
All the latest equipment facilitating cable and wireless ser vices will be installed in the new building. Speeds of communication have been constantly increasing in recent year and new types of high-speed cables now coming into operation promise, with the use of the regenerator system, still great- er acceleration in cable services. Under experimental conditions 400 words a minute have been des. patched.
The Beam services, by which 400 words a minute have, under.com- mercial conditions actually been sent, may also be expected to at, tain even greater speeds when the new multiplex apparatus, giving several communication channels on one Beam circuit, is installed.
There will be facilitic for pri vate telephone and telegraph Hines direct from banking houses, stock- brokers offices, and overrae mer- chants' offices, and other hig users of cable and wireless services to the new building; and for those who use these servicen less fre quently a large corpe of messengers will be available to go to any house or office in the London area on the receipt of a telephone call to collect messages that are intended to be sent by cahie or wireless Spacious azcommodation, is being planned also for the public, who find it convenient to and in their tele. grams over the counter. Oversea telephone services will continue for the present to be operated by the General Post Office.
In addition to being a nerve centre of Britich oversens com. munications the new building will be the administrative office of the merger company, and will hound its entire staff of several hundreds of employees, for whose use a restaur- ant and rest rooms arc contem- plated.
Calcutta-The standing Finance Committee of the Legislative As- sembly has sanctioned a grant of $2,000 ns India's contribution to the Appeal issued in England for finan- rial assistance for Sir Ronald Ross, in recognition of his services in the study and treatment of tropical dis- eases. Sir Ronald Ross was former- ly a member of the Indian Medical Service.
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LOCAL FOOTBALL.
The following games in the Hong. Kong League are down for decision to-day
Division II.
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RUGBY FOOTBALL.
TO-DAY'S GAME,
A match has been arranged for a Club A XV, against the Destroyer Flotilla to-day at 3 p.m. sharp.
Club team:-Back, S. J. H. Fox : three-quarters, C. E. Holmes, S. J: D. Law, I. A. Ross. Rev. H. V. ReKoop; half-backs, R. M. Wood, V.
Kick-off at 2.45 pm. H.A. Res. r. K.O.S.B. Res., at Sookunpoo ground. Referee: Ldg. Cook Kidd. Somerset L. Res. e. R.A.M.C.,
Chatham Rond ground, feree: Q.M.S. Sect.
INTERPORT FOOTBALL."
HONG KONG TO SEND A TEAM TO SHANGHAI,
W. Stanion; forwards, W. E. Peers, J. Sattill, J. E. Henry, D. R. Burch, R. D. Beaumont, B. P. Massey, A.
Stock, E. B. Gammell,
At the monthly Council meeting Sussex,-A verdict of "Accidental of the Hong Kong Football Asso-denth" was returned at an in- ciation hell yesterday with Mr. R.
quest at Hailsham, Sussex, On Hall presiding, a letter was read Bertram Brett, 18, of Bodie Street by the Honorary Secretary (Mr. W.
Green. Sussex, who was killed while Football Amociation inviting a team to visit that port during China New
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rabbiting with a borrowed gun. He was pulling the gun through a hedge when it went off, the charge enter
It was decided to netept the in- ing his chest. vitation and send a team of Inter- Perth. The Western Australian port players as in past years. A Airways aeroplane recently charter- committee consisting a Messrs. R.rd by the East Asiatic Comapny has Hall, R. K. Duncan, H. K. Lee, F.not found may trace of the missing Smith, G. T. May, Lieut. W. R. | Danish training ship Köbenhavn, George and Comdr. Byron was ap-, although it made a light of"1,500 pointed to go into all the necessary | miles along the coast, from Broome the to Fremantle, and from 25 to 30 arrangements and report at next Council meeting in December. | miles cut to sea.
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