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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1912.
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The possibility of operating been continued since October last, several wireless telegraphy sta whenever the Japanese forces; tions to receive or transmit mes. consisting of police and Aiyuenges at the same time, without have met with the savage Shin-interfering with one another, and ohiku tribe. The savages have of increasing the rapidity of already killed 300 of the invading transmission, is the chief point in OFFICES TO LET-First Class force, and as they are gradually the invention of M. J. Bethenod, central accommodation, light and being driven back to their fast-the French engineer, whose sys-airy, on First, Becond and Third Floor, nesses in the hills the fighting betem of sparkless wireless tele- in orbelding being erected for Mesars. comes severor. Day and night graphy has been a subject of WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & 00., the Japanese troops have been much comment recently.
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Following General Nogi's Example.
A dispatel from Kofu says that Yoshinobu Kurechi, 77 years old, in Nishikatsura-murn, Minami- Taura-gun, Yamanashi Prefec- ture, committed suicide, by out ting his abdomen at his bed-room on December 3. A lotter that ho had written just before he killed himself was found near by, and contained the following passage. *I will follow the example set by the late General Count Nogi," It
Mr. Bethened, who is engineer in-chief of the Societe Francaise Radio Electrique, explained the difference between his process and the old method of wireless telegraphy.
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M. Bethenod, originated with TO LET LARGE substantially bulle Major Ferrie, chief of the wire- Godown situated on water front, less department of the French East Point. For further particulare applyTALIAN GENTLEMAN. quires army, who, in 1904, asked various Property Office, Jardine, Matheson & scientists to study the new system, Hongkong, 18th Ang,, 1912. the concequences of which he already foresaw. Since that time the problem has been the subject of much research in America, Germany and France,
"In ordinary wireless tele-
is said that some time ago the old graphy Hertzian waves are pro-
man attempted to kill himself induced by provoking electric
"Japan Times."
P. M. 5. Chinese and New Year.
PHOSPHORUS STARVA-
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How it Causes Norvous Disorders.
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"Sanatogen has a markedly restorative effect on the nervous system."
Another medical journal states; "No preparation offers such op portunity for phosphorus assimi-
Similar quotations might be multiplied almost indefinitely.
the same way in the compound oscillatione in antennae. The That phosphorus is an ablation na Sanatogen. No prepara- of the Aoyama Imperial Funeral electric energy in movement dis-solutely necessary food for the tion has been attested and Pavilion, but was discovered places the particles of the ether health of the nervous system most investigated so persistently and
which it touches, and the wave people know. What they do not so exhaustively." sweeps from atom to atom in the know is that it is equally necess same way as liquid and sound ary for the health of the blood, a The Chinese shopkeepers of waves. When the Bertzian wave foot insisted upon by Sir William Kuala Lumpur have come to a meets another antenna it sets up Gowers, one of the greatest physi- nervous sufferers that Sanatogen' These, however, must convince different decision to the Singapore olcotric oscillations which can be cians living. Chinese in the question of adopt regiatored by very delicate ap- ing the English calendar. They paratus.
It is, therefore, casy to under-power over nervous disorders is stand that when, from any cause, confidently to effect a complete so great that it may be relied on held a mooting last week and rẻ- The inconveniences of the anyone is unable to obtain his restoration to health. This is the solved to follow the lead given by present system of wireless tele- full supply of phosphorus from case even if the nervous disorder the Chinese Republican Govern-graphy are well known. In the bis daily food, his nervous system has extended to the limit of ment in adopting the European first place, it is impossible to will be affected, and he will suffer neuraathenis, the most dreaded calendar. On one point, however, transmit absolutely uniform greatly. The symptoms due to and disquieting of such condi- a compromise was effected for this
waves of various lengths this lack of phosphorus, or phos-tions. year only. The custom among Furthermore, the receivers have phorus starvation, are exceedingly Chinese is that all accounts to be tuned to a cortain wave varied, and affect different people physician to the Pankow Park On this subject, Dr. Blitz, the should be settled by the Chinese length in order to avoid inter- in different ways. Now Year, but to do so hefure ference by waves sent out by
Deutsche Medizinal Zeitung," Sanatorium, Berlin, writes in the the English now your would be other stations. As each trane treacherous memory, depression one of the leading German medi- giving too short notice. Settling mitting station sends out waves of spirits, great lassitude, concal journals: "I have treated day has thereforo been fixed for of different lengths, however, stant fatigue, etc. February 6, the English equival- confusion frequently arises-a ent of Chinese New Year. Next confusion rendered all the more year, presumably, the settling serious by the fact that the wave day will fall at the English New lengths at presont in use are
Year.
Beǹl-Beri and Science.
comparatively short.'
Among them aro sleeplessness,
All nervous suffers should write
ing this paper.
Sanatogen can be obtained of all Chemists.
more than five hundred neuros- Everyone who suffers from thenia patients with Sanatogen nervous symptoms may assume in the course of the last eight that he has phosphorus starvation years. Its effect was so striking to a greater or less degree. He that I never had to resort to any may, still suffer in this way al other nutritive preparation. Only on exceptional occasions though he is taking his usual analogen may be regarded as a With regard to the now well have wave lengths of more than diet, the reason being that his specific in neurasthenis." established theory which attri-4,000 metres been obtained. In digestive organs, being weakon- butes beri bori to nourishment practice it has been noticed that ed, cannot extract the phosphorus without delay to Messrs A. Wal- with polished rice, a writer in it is impossible to receive well if from his food as they used to do. fing & Co., 6, Kinkiang Road, the Internationalen Monatschrift there is another station in opera- Under these circumstances, what Shanghai, for a copy of a most makes the interesting announce. tion close by. In order to avoid he needs isfood rich in phosphorus interesting booklet. The Art ment that Funk has, by a close these inconveniences, which are in such a form that it can be of Living," by the distinguished examination of the rice shell, dis-noted even when the stations are easily absorbed. It is, however, physician, Dr. Andrew Wilson. It covered a very small amount of ave or six hundred kilometres essential that the phosphorus will be sent, free, to all mention- new substance which seems to apart, efforts have been made to must be chemically combined have healing proporties in re-synchronize the waves to deter- with some food material, for the gard to this malady. It has mined lengths. But despite the digestive organs cannot use been shown that very small improvements introduced, per-phosphorus in its crude form. quantities of it have a direct- fection has not been reached.
In this connection that disting ly healing effect on birds that Producing Sparkless Telegraphy, uished medical author, Dr. C. W. through nourishment with the "Sparkless wireless telegraphy Salesby, writes: "It is a curious. polished rice were suffering from is produced by an apparatus fitted fact that though phosphorus by this nervous mindy. The or directly to the antennae and pro- itself is of no food value to the A dispatch from Sapporo says amination of the brain of bird ducing uniform oscillations. By body, yet, when it is combined that a Baddhist priest in that victims of beri hori has shown a causing an alternating current to with other elements, it is a valu- city, was arrested by the police clear loss of nitrogen and phosp-raverse a wire of a certain length, able food, and in, indeed, absolute on the 9th inst. on a serious oharge. It is alleged that the Hortzian waves are set up. They necessary for life." horas. Funk therefore came to the conclusion that nourishment higher the frequency of the cur- How to Cure Nervous Disorders, priest attempted to poison a wo- with shelle.I rice resulted in the rent, the longer the wire must be In discussing the best food for man, but was discovered and dostruction of the fatty substance in order to omit Hertzian waves, supplying this posphortis, he caught by the police, and con- of the brain. The discovery of for each electric cecillation must states: "It has been proved by fessed. Nothing more has been such a substance as that referred have had time to cause the anten-a large number of scientific ex to raises the question whether ae to vibrate from end to end periments that very nearly the similar substances may not be before & second oscillation takes whole (93 per cent.) of the phos
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present in the different kinds of place. As each oscillation takes phorus added to the diet in the Melton Mowbray, Pork Pies, Beef, corn that aro in general use in place at a speed of 300,000 form of Sanatogen is absorbed. Matton, Game, Voal and Ham pies, European lands,
kilometres a second, one oscil- Many other doctore have writ-Ball Hot Pics always on hand 25 lation a second gives a wave ten in similar terms of Sanatogen's cents Esch. Japanese Aviator Wrecked. length of 300,000 kilometres, value. The Medical Times states: ALEXANDRA CAFE CO,. Mr. Tatsunosuke Tsuzuki, an while inversely 300,000 oscil aviator of the Tsuzuki. hydro-lations a second give a wave aeroplane, had a hard experi-length of a kilometre. ence recently off Tsukishima, "In order to facilitate the use says the Japan Times," Mr. of sparkless wireless telegraphy Teuzaki has been experimenting some inventors have constructed
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