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MR. W. H. TAFT RETIRES,
CHIEF JUSTICESHIP FOR MR. C. E. HUGHES,
[KRUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.
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anxiety being felt for some little time.
Mr. G. E. Hughes.
New Youx, Feb. 3. Mr. Charles Evans Hughes, forter Secretary of State, has been appointed Chief Justice in succes sion to Mr. W. H. Taft.
DOMINIONS AND THE CROWN.
EMPIRE CONFERENCE
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1930.
SOBER DORSET,
BONA FIDE TRAVELLERS & THE BONA-FIDE THIRSTY.
The chairman of the Dorsetshire Quarter Sessions and Licensing Committee, Mr. J. C. Swinburen- Hanham, recently gave evidence be fore the Royal Commission Licensing.
on
RADIO INDUSTRY FLOURISHING.
BRITISH ENTERPRISE.
LONDON'S FIRST AND LAST MEN.
TWO ROMANCES OF THE DIRECTORY.
י,
Mr. Robert à Ababrelton is the
First Man in London. He has a white moustache, whimsical grey eyes, and romantic memories.
Mr. Charles Zyback is the Last He has a gray
fun, and a philosophy. moustache, eyes which twinkle with
These two are just names at the Atart and finish of the private residents' section of the Post Office
The opinion is expressed that the it was worse, and twenty years be them to broadens to their list-rolling stone with a niche in his-
SUGGESTIONS.
[TËROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Mr. Willian Howard Taft,
LONDON, February 3...
Broadcasting is now so firmly former President of the United The Conference on the operation
established in Europe that it is not States, and for the last nine yours of Dominion legislation, represent-
Questioned by the chairman (Lord surprising to learn that the radio Chief Justice of the Supreme Courting Britain, the Dominions and of the United States, has resigned India, which sat in London last Amulree), he said that there had industry is in a very flourishing state. The total number of licence been an improvement in the social from the latter post. It will be re- year, has now issued its report. soalled that he was taken saddenly The report embodies recommen. habits of the people in the seaside holders in Great Britain is rapidly
"I should say reaching the three million mark, Man in London: towns of Dorset, in Washington recently, some dations framed with the object of there is no apparent drunkenness and the British Broadcasting Cor-
"carrying into full effect the
quality status as the root principle in the country," he added. In 1993 poration, which is now a national there were 163 proceedings for institution, is developing and ex- governing the relations of members drunkenness, and 100 convictions panding every day. All the Bri- of the Common-wealth, indicating only, which did not strike one as a
tish stations are linked with tele- methods of maintaining and streng-
tion of 298,160. Twenty years ago the chief cities of Europe, enabling The First Man in London is a thening a practical system of free try large number for a popula- phone cables to each other and to Directory for 1330. co-operation."
eners, concerts from all over the tory. The Last Man in London is fore that a great deal worse. Mr. Charles Evans, Hughes, just.. power of the Crown, on the advice can remember some parts of Dorset Continent.
a hairdresser with a niche in Con- Solicitor General of the Depart of Ministers of the United King where there was
hego Hand-line" relays have unit-street. great deal of ment of Justice, will resign his post dom, te disallow Dominion legis drunkenness. I don't suppose I am hitherto only been adopted by the
The rolling stone knew he was the
1 bored him. owing to his father's appointmentation cannot any longer be exer going too far when I say that Poole various broadcasting stations, but Frst Man.
British radio Comhairdresser discovered for the first recently a was one of them. There was ik as Chief Justice, since the Solicitor cised.
The report recommenda the enac-timber merchant who devoted more
pany utilised the Post Office tele- time that the three or four nanies General represents the Government in cases before the Supreme Court.ment of legislation afirming that time to the reclamation of Poole phone line for a novel and effec after his own in the directory had
to inaugurate their vanished. It pleased him. Mr. Hughes, genr., is reaiguing the Dominion Parliaments are fully than to his business. Since then tive relay from the World Court immediately empowered to make laws having it has been a great deal better." sales campaign for the coming sea-
Mr. Taft, who is a septuagen
extra-territorial operation.
If the hours were to be restricted son. The occasion was the trade arian, is at present in a sanatorium
should not be at the early end of Wireless Service Co. Ltd. to the he thought that the restrictions luncheon given by the Mullard at Nashville, North Carolina. The doctors report that he is a very
have done a day's work hy the day." "A good many people leading wholesalers throughout the sick man."
o'clock, and probably a glass of beer does not come amiss," he said. Mr. Gerald France, a member of the Commission asked Mr. Swin burne-Hanham about the bona-fide traveller,
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A Former Secretary of State. Mr. Hughes, who is 08, opposed President Wilson's re-election in 1916, but was besten by narrow majority, largely on account of a mewhat hesitating War policy. It was President Harding'a Secto tary of State and held that ofice from 1920 to 1925. Two years ago
the Crown is a symbol of the free It also declares that inasmuch as
Commonwealth, a Convention should association of the members of the be framed laying down that any alteration in the law touching the succession to the Throne, or Royal style and titles, shall hereafter quire the assent of the Parliaments of all the Dominions as well as that of the United Kingdom.
DUMPING OF FOOD.
he was elected a member of the QUESTION HAS BEEN SERIOUS. Lague of Nations Permanent i Court of International, Justice.
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LY CONSIDERED.
(BAITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
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There was much to be said for him, the witness replied, as inns were originally established for his Accommodation, and he was now left out in the cold to, a large ex- i tent.
Mr. France: You don't antici. pate the possibility of the licensed victualler having to decide, per REGRY, February 3,
haps by some psychological test, In the House of Commons to-day, I what type of person would have to the Premier we asked whether become under the definition of bona- would introduce immediate legia fide traveller f lation to stop the dumping of food products in this country, below the cost of production in countries of origin, through the machinery of Government subsidies.
Mr. Taft's Career. Mr. Taft came of well known legal stock, his father having been Attorney General in President Grant's administration. Mr. Taft started as a journalist, went in for public work and becoming a lawyer was made judge of the Superip: Court of Ohio. He served as Soli eitor General under President Har rison in 1800 and eleven years later was made first civil governor of the Philippine Islands. His legál iraining proved invaluable in this port and largely to him the Philip pines owe their legal code. In 1008 Mr. Talt was elected President of the United States, and in 1919 he was re-nominated by the Republican The question, said the Premier, party, but defeated by Woodrow had been very seriously considered Wilson. He held a number of in- and the first obstacles to action of portant legal professorships" and the class suggested were the treaties was also Chairman of the Nationalrad, agreements which, would have War Labour Conference, Board, be- to be enounced. It certainly was coming Chief Justice of the Supa subject that would have to be reme Court 1921. He is now 72 carefully and thoroughly examined. years old.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald said the Government were parties to the International. Convention for the abolition of import and export prohibitions and restrictions, and netion of the kind suggested would be in opposition to this.
(Continued on nézt "Column.)
British Isles.
The
The name," said Mr. à Ahmbrel toa, is an old Scotch name, not There should, strictly speaking, be French. It means of Ababreiton.
no accent on the a
Expelled By Kruger.
Wis
"I will tell you about that," said I had gong
Oh, I know all about being the In order to permit as many fac-
Firat Man Many years ago Inr tors as possible to take part, lunranged with the directory to be left cheons were given simultaneously aut Being the First Man was in London, Manchester, Birming irritating. But I see I am back ham, Leida, Glasgow, Newcastle again now." and Bristol. Unknown, to their guests, the Mullard, Wireless Ser-
Mr. à Ababrelton liver in a vice Company, in co-operation with Pest Office engineers, installed. a modest house in Clapham, has nine-
teen letters after his name, microphone and the necessary nm- plifying equipment. in London, private secretary to Viscount Crun- where the main luncheon was to borne, M. P., now the Marquis of take place, and linked up with Salisbury, and has been reporter, the six provincial cities by tele-captain of constabulary, and native phone cable. In each of the re- [high court cfficial, and was founder maining cities loudspeaker equip of the Phonetic Shorthand Writers' ment was installed, and the lun- Association. He was niso expelled cheons were so timed that all the from South Africa by President gucata reached the coffee stage to- Krager. Mr. Swinburne-Hanham: It is gether. The chairman in London difficult to say.
rose and proposed the toast to the Mr. à Abardton. There must be some test. It is not everyone who is a King, and simultaneously his bona-fide traveller. Some are only guests all over the country rose bona-fide thirsty. (Laughter.)
with him and drank to His Ma, there. jesty's health. The speeches fol. Well, I fell ill and was dying lowed, and by means of the louds of enterie. A Boer doctor visits m peakers the provincial guests were and tells me I must become a burgh able to hear of the Company's po-en. I tell him this is impossible. licy for the new season, as outlined He leaves me alone with my en- Itterie, and I do not set eyes on him by the chairman in London, is interesting to note that the de- for four years. Understand that at signing of the amplifiers, their this time my position is that of a with London was carried out in less. long after I am told to clear out, erection, installation and test-out neutral-a privileged neutral. Not than four days before the Luncheon and driven up to the station, still took place. This is probably a Pe-
with enteric. cord in installing a relay system of such size, and reflects great credit on the engineers of the Mul. lard Company and of the General. Post Office.
U.S. ADMIRAL'S DEATH,
[RELTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.)
New Yonx. February 3. A message from Newport, Rhode land, reports the death of Rear Admiral William Lauriston Howard, who retired from service in 1910.
The Government, said the Pre mies, had come to the conclusion that the first place for rising the question was at Geneva.
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The following technical descrip tion will be of interest to our re- adcre:-
The main amplifier and microp- hone were installed in Franti's Restaurant, Londen, and connected by the G.P.O trunk lines to the six provincial cities, where further amplifiers were used to build up the speech currents to a value suffi. ciently larga to operate speakers.
The London equipment consisted of a three stage microphone am- plifier and six special output
the
out to exploit a new mineral. This fell through, but the mineral is still
"I was not spy, but I over- declaration of war heard the against the British Empire. I was banished to Delagen Bay, where I met the British Consul. You may have heard the nume-Roger Case, ment!
Later I saw General Smuts and
General Botha. I was assured that I would be needed at the Union of States, but nothing came of it. I came to England.
The war broke out. I was cap- tain of special constabulary, and Lord Rhondda asked me to join the Whitechapel Military Service Tribunal. My present house at Clapham later became my office for Government work.
"I was told to carry on for two stages. Mullard P.M. Valves years after the Armistice. I had to (P.M. . X. P.M. 8D., and P.M. pay girl clerks out of my own 256) transformer coupled, were us- pocket. I asked for compensation, ed in the microphone amplifier, the was nine years ago.
and Was promised it. output of which was fed to the
That
back into the Post Office 'Directory.
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I am still Frids of six Mullard D.F.A. 9 waiting."
And then this very charming old Valves, forming the output stages. gentleman shook hands and walked Each of these output valves fed a G.P.O. trunk line to every city through a choke and transformer.
The Last Man in London. hurried the choke heing used to avoid forward the silk and scented sur saturation of the transformer pri-roundings of one of the most famous mary. Standard Mullard "Perma-hairdressing establishments in Eng-
Were used land.
core" transformers
throughout for intervalve coupling. A Swiss with a sense of humour At each of the provincial centres A further amplifier was installed. Man in London.
is Mr. Charles Zyback, the Last consisting of a Mullard P.M. 8D
Zyback-yes?"
"So! You say there are no more valve, transformer foupled to a Zyback" be inughed. "You no D.F.A. 9, the output from which and Zyback in England, and very was choke fed to two Mullard type little abroad! I am The Zyback!" "H" Pure Music Speakers in He chuckled. "But I have three paralled. To prevent overloading sons. and perhaps soon, next gen. eight volume controls were used in eration maybe, there is more the first amplifier; one across the secondary of the microphone trans- former, one BCTORg the secondary of the first intervalve transformer, and one across the primary of each output transformer. The ampli fiers used between the trunk lines and the speakers had one volume control, across the secondary of the intervalve transformer.
RIGID FASCIST PARTY DISCIPLINE.
WARNING TO DOUBTERS.
Last month the Grand Fascist Council adopted the revised con- stitution of the Füscist party in
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Suddenly Mr. Zyback darted. across to two women. Sixteen years looking at the back of women's heads have made an artist of Mr. Zyback. His hande flew over the counter glass while he talked softly of waves and singes, silently sug gesting the wonder of his tonga. The women fixed an appointment and departed smiling.
Oh so busy," said Mr. Zyback "sometimes twenty heads a day. How this hair business has grown! They will never go back to long hair again!"
Then stream of clients entered, and with a busy little from Mr. Charles Zyback took Monsicur Robert back into the Post Office Directory.
toto, with an order-in-council bid while the ranks of the party aro ding all Fascists who do not feel definitely closed to new-comerE, able to accept in full and without The latest seemingly liberal an- reservation the rigid discipline of nouncement is, however, intended -the party to resign within one as a warning for those Fascists. week." Such dissidents may, how whose disagreement with the party's ever, continue to take part in the discipline will cause their expulsion, party's subsidiary organisatious, but unless they resign. It is unlikely. in the party, as in the militia, there that any but a few well-known must be the spirit off front-line figures will take advantage of troops ready for every sacrifice." Signor Mussolini's invitation, as in The object of the party statute most cases members who resigned has been to strengthen the central would te open to suspicion, and authority and harden discipline, their professional position endanger-
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