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Fresh Flowers, Fruit
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ab
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10, ICE HOUSE STREET
REMOVED TO
74, QUEEN'S ROAD C.
DER A. WING & CO. (1923), LTD.
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AND MOTORS
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DE BEAUTE
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Hong Kong.
lex House STREET
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WITH INTEGRIT
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LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
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TEL O. 4567 (6 LINES).
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Tak Cheong
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50, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL PHONE: CENT. 1317
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E 1422
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Qualified Opticians 53, Queen's Road G.
Tel. 0.2232
J. Vollmann & Cu
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Alexandre Bldg..
Chater Road.
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T. C. 1080
1930.
THE OVERCROWDED ETHER.
DR. ROBINSON'S INVENTION
THE CLAIMS FOR THE
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HANKOW MAYOR AND FOREIGNERS.
CHINA'S RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS.
Mayor Liu Wen Tao, of the Special Administrative Department,
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
The ever-growing popularity of from Changsha by special traîn last wireless entertainment is bringing week. General Ho Ying Ching. into being more and more trans. Inspector-General of Military Train- mitting stations, with the resulting and concurrently Director of the that the comparatively narrow por-
Provisional Headquarters of the tion of the radio spectrum allocated Commander-in-Chief, has also re- to these activities ja definitely over.
The Mayor, last week acted as crowded. It is a fact that in many the host at a large dinner-party portions of the British Isles good given to the leading foreign repre- quality reception is impossible sentatives in Hankow.
The dinner, which was given in owing to interference from power the Russian Club, was attended by ful Continental transmitters work." about 150 guests, among whom were ing on frequencies not lar.removed representatives of the foreign Con- A LARGE QUANTITY OF
sular Services and Navics, from that of the local, station,
Protection of Foreigners.
th
COMMANCING AT 2.30 P.B.
AT THEIR SALES ROOM,
'DULDILL STREET,
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
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"FURNITURE
Comprising
writers, Iron Safe, Glass Cabinet, Teak Desks, Glass Cabinets, Typ-
The declared policy of the B.B.C,
In his speech, the Mayor com- provides for the erection of a small mented on the unstable conditions number of very powerful transmit which had threatened the safety of ters, each working on two frequen-ast three months. He pointed out the foreign concessions during the cies. By this means they hope to that the first duty of the Chinesa Tapestry Covered Armchairs, Couches. provide at least two programmes, Government was to protect the life Pistos, Granaphones and Records, free from interference, for
and property of their foreigner Carpets, Ruge, Electric Heaters (220 thing over 90 per cent. of the guests and suggested that the and 110 Volta), Porcelain Ware, Brass population of the area for which Foreign Powers should co-operate Ornaments, Pictures, etc., etc.
with China in the extradition of they are responsible..
political criminals. To protect such people and give them sanctuary so that they could return to China or plot against the Government could, he said, only continue to upset the
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Teak Extension Dining Tables, Teak and Cane Sea: Chairs, Side boards, Ware, Cooking Utensils, Teak Round Dincer Waggons, Glass Tables, Ice Chests, etc., etc.
Dr. James Robinson claims that it is possible with his apparatus to receive good quality wireless tele- hony, without interference from other stations, in a much morej crowded state of the ether than country. that which
Concluding his speech the Mayor Teak and Iron Bedsteads with at present obtains," Though precise technical details of said, "I am a patriot and lover of Mattresses, Single and Double Ward. the "Stenoda" are not yet availy country and no one wishes to see robes with Bavelled Mirrors, Drossing able, it is now possible to examine returned to her, but I see that the Washstands, Toilet Crockery, Cham
more the rights lost by my country Tables, Chests of Drawers. Linen, this claim and see how it is likely only right way to obtain this is to bor Stands, etc., etc. to affect the ordinary listener.
fulfil our obligations."
Mr.
Anierican Consul-General, made an Frank P. Lockhart, the appropriate reply on behalf of the guests.
SIBERIAN MAILS AGAIN BROKEN.
"and
tl
A QUANTITY OF NICE BLACKWOOD.FURNITURE
Including
Cabinets, Chairs, Flower Stands,
The Elementary Facts. Let us Arst re-state the element. ary facts, as they are known, and the accepted theory of transmission and reception. The transmitting station puts out energy alternating at a high frequency. In the case of London this
ia vibrating at 849 times & eccond. This carrier wave," sharply tuned and occupies little space in the ether. Superimposed on the earrier wave are the sound frequencies, "which vibrate at rates varying between 2 and something plexing as it is annoying. English over 6,000 times a second. These Siberia and Japan last week wil mail that arrived in Shanghai vid. Found frequencies cause the carrier wave to spread out, so that instead of being sharply tuned it has bands ench side of it occupying 6 kilo eycles, on 6,000 vibrations.
as it is called, is very TWO LETTERS FOUND TO BE Joss Table, Tex Poys, etc., etc.
TAMPERED WITH.
With a regularity that is as per
und
"One Herring Hall Marvin Safe..
found to have been tampered with; ON View from THURSDAY, the the fourth time this year..
6th FEBRUARY, 1930.
Maru, and there were $78 bags in This mail came by the Siberia.
all. These were from all European CATALOGUES will be issued. countries, including, of course, Great
Britain.
The broadcasting authorities of Great Britain and the Continent have many times met in friendly consultation to try to arrange the
A Euspicious Bag. allocation of their transmitters to Following the usual custom, says such carrier frequencies ns will not the North-China Daily News, postal result in mutual interference, be officials went on board to take de cause, if transmitters separated in livery. In view of the three pre- the ether, as to their carrier waves, vious CASE of tampering, special by only 10 kilocycles, are working attention was given to each bag, at the same time, their sideband and in due course one was fourd frequencies are bound to interfere, that looked suspicious. As on the Originally separation. of 10 kilo previoua Decasions, the postal cycles was fixed upon as the also officials And officers from the lute minimum, which could be allow 1 steamer were present when the bag ed; but this separation has now was opened. Thaice was another been reduced to 8 kilocycles in bag with registered matter from many instances, and a great num- Glasgow, that was despatched on her of stations separated widely in December 30, 1999. The string of
nace have been forced to occupy this bag had been cut. the same, or very closely adjacent, earrier frequencies.
Reception.
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A real danger to the welfare of Two Covers Meddled With.
society may lie in the progress Investigation showed that two registered letters for Shanghai had which medical science is making in With regard to reception the ac.been tempered with. As on former eliminating diacase and prolonging cepted theory is that for really occasions, the local postal author life, is the opinion of Dr. Burton high-class reproduction of music the ities notified London and Tokyo of D. Myers, president of the Associa selectivity of the apparatus must be what had occurred. No reply to the such that the tuning spreads over notifications which were sent on the tion of Medical Colleges, speaking at least ten kilocycles. If it does three previous instances of tamper at a dinner of the association held
ing have been received. not the fringe, or some bigger por
at the Pennsylvania Hotel, New tion, of the side bands is cut off have been communicated with, and
The addresseen of the two letters York. and the higher musical frequencies. asked to see what has actually been on which depend the character of the human voice and very many instrumenta, are attenuated, and the result is a very boomy and un pleasant noise.
abstracted.
of vibration.
The "Lis."
sible menace of medical progress lay Dr. Myers declared that the pos in the resulting increase of popula tion, which might breed famine, The population of the world at the present rate, he said, doubles every the United States has been shown sixty years and the population of
by the Census Bureau to have doubled every thirty-three years.
We must thus sait between the that it is used to govern the fre- It is for this reason Scylla of interference and the queney of the carrier of some trang Charybdis of side band cutting." mitters. The new London transmitter has shown that very fine quality can be
*** Standing Room Only, obtained over a very wide area with With regard to Dr. Robinson's
Dr. Myers, using only the world little or no interference and with claim that he can receive broad rate of increase to figure his totals, comparatively simple apparatus. cast telephony, without aide-band continued:- Provided that listeners will be con- attenuation or distortion, when his
"Assume the present population tent with two or three alternative apparatus is sharply tuned to the of the United States to be programmes it would seem that the carrier frequency, it is poesible that 120,000,000, then in three successive B.B.C. is on the right path. Un he has made a very important con- sixty years this country alone fortunately, many listeners like to tribution to our knowledge of the should have 240,000,000, 480,000,000, boast of the number of stations they behaviour of tuned circuits. If his 000,000,000, and in. 240 years can receive, despite the fact that claims are correct, it will be pos. 1,020,000,000, a figure materially in from the musical point of view, aible, when all difficulties have excess of the present population of reception from Continental stations been overcome, and when all listen the earth. is not worth worrying with..
ers are provided with his appara "That means that in about one- Dr. James Robinson departe alto tus, to work something like 800 half the time that has elapsed since gether from accepted theories of transmitting stations between 200 Columbus discovered America the reception in that he makes his tum and 600 metres, without regard to warning, standing room" only, ing so sharp that he claims to be power output. At present about might be a reality, able to receive a given transmis 150 stations are jostling and crowd. Dr. Myera pointed to an eighteen. sion absolutely free from interfering one another in the European whites since 1800, the growth of the fold increase of English-speaking
ence caused by other stations work ether.
BRUNSWICK HOUSE superheterodyne amplifier. Details definite frequency is an expensive seven years na examples of expan
BRUNSWICK PANATROPES
AND
RECORDS
17, ICE HOUSE STREET TEL. C. '403S
ing as closely as 100 cycles to it, Unfortunately there are many population of India by 50,000,000 in He uses, I believe, a quartz crystal | "ifs" to be considered. The cutting forty years and the doubling of the resonator in association with sof quartz crystals to resonate on a population in Porto Rico in thirty- have not been disclosed, but the operation. About £s would be the aion. The death rate in this coun- use of a quartz cecillator would east of crystals to resonate on three try in the last sixteen years was so seem to confine the apparatus to carrier freanencies. It may be reduced that there were two births the reception of one wave-length, seen, when full detaila are publish- to one death, unless a battery of crystals is pro-ed, that Dr. Robinson has overcome. We may abolish war, throttle vided each to resonate at a definite most of the difficulties. Until de pestilence and for a time we may frequency. In that case one is tails are fully published, it would muzzie famine, but if the present tempted to ask what will happen seem that the majority of listeners rate of population increase main- if the transmitting station, to be ean" obtain all that they desire in tains long enough it seems on in- received wanders even a little from lees complicated and expensive cacapable conclusion that famine its alloted frequency. A quartz ways by the use of standard ap-will again be a world-wide menace. oscillator cannot be tuned, nor will paratus, provided they confine their Dr. Myers urged a correlated it depart from its natural frequency reception to stations within reason-scientific study to consider trends
(Continued on next Column.)
able range.
and work out a remedy.