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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1919.
Photo: Underwood and Underwood.
The Prince of Wales, during his tour of Canada, presenting to Mrs. McDonald the Military Medal won by her son who was
killed in action at Cambrai. ·
Cardinal Mercier (left) and Archbishop Hayes of
New York (right).
King George inspecting the Guard of Honour at Balmoral Catle. Scotland. where the Royal Family has been spending a few weeks.
Photo shows President Masaryk of Czecho-Slovakis presenting to a regiment of the Republic, a set of regimental colours sent by countrymen abroad. The representative of the donors, Mr. Votja Benes, stands to right with hat removed. President Masaryk, to left, is returning thanks for the gift.
BREVITIES.
A man in Greenwich, Coun., shot at a crow. Resulta man half a mile away was wounded in eleven places.
In Japan individuals own only
WIRELESS, SIGNPOSTS.
ANOTHER AID TO AVIATION.
can get that distance with a small apparatus it is obvious that the time is not very far distant when the range will be immensely increased.
"We have already communicat- ed with our stations in America
Wireless signposts for aircraft from Carnarvon. Foreign Govern- are foreshadowed as an important part of the organisation necessary for successful commercial avia- tion, writes a Daily Chronicle re- presentative.
ments are evincing great interest in the wireless telephone and in continuous wave telegraphy. China has ordered several sets of telephones, and others are be- Signor Marconi's discovery that ing provided to Italy for use. wireless waves can be focussed on warships. There is a tremend- into a beam. which may be lous demand, for the things we directed to any point of the com- have already done, and there will pass without spreading, readers be an enormous demand for the possible this novel method of sky-things we hope to do. shortly. piloting. Either a Morse code Our signal can be continuously trans- mitted, or by the use of a gramo phone, the actual name of a town can be reproduced thousands of feet in the air.
research staff is busily engaged in making the first set of new appliances.
Anything that can be done by! the ordinary wire telephone can be achieved by wireless, and much else besides, There would. for example, be no difficulty in telephoning to trains by wireless.
There would be no risk of even the amateur pilot losing himself, should he be unequipped with
"It would be possible for pas- direction-finding apparatus, for sooner or later he would pass Plymouth express to send and sengers on the Great Western through a signpost beam and learn exactly over which town his receive messages. There could be wireless stations at Reading, machine was flying. The standard Westbury and Taunton, and the type of direction-finder has now apparatus for receiving would be been modified into a compact and simply a frame on the side of one simple apparatus, which is certain of the coaches. to figure largely in aviation of the future.
7.
A disastrafus fire at Pittsburg, in a wheat warehouse, destroyed thousands
of tons of grain, representing about a billion loaves of bread.
WILD BEASTS AT HOME,
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Reproductions of photographs can also be wirelessed from any the surface of the ground and in wireless telephony are probable lit ought to be possible for anyone wild animals has a different fas-small birds, 15) Tibetan birds, postponed to a later day.
"Far-reaching developments distance, and in a few years' time products, all mineral deposits be-now that attention can be devoted in London to ring up any part of cination for different people. It with a gross or two of minabs and
thoroughly to the subject," the the world. Daily Chronicle representative
י,
Southend
steamship allotted for these exceptional There with a large cargo of strange traffic by each train.' beasts and birds. There were were no casualties on the way, A TIGER-CUB FOR £175. four baby elephants, two adult and the "railway officials were tigers, a black leopard, a attentive and obliging"-possibly A, correspondent writes to the Himalaya bear, an ape from in their relief at finding that the Times:-
Japan, 120 monkeys. 22 pythons arrival of the four elephants, the The catalogue of a dealer in ("exceptionally large"), 1,300 three tigers, and the panther was
ing government property.
Hardly had the consignment The gigantic wall which the
must fill collectors whose purses shamans, which, if the war had reached headquarters, when the Dutch are building across the Zuyder Zee will be 18 miles long
was informed at Marconi House. "There is none of the distor are not full with a despairing still been going on, might have following pithy telegram came
envy. To the interested but been ignorantly mistaken for new from Glasgow:"Send
on 20 and 230 feet wide at sea level.
tion of speech on the wireless ignorant outsider it presents a food substitutes.
monkeys, chaque posted"; and the Ice cream scdà parlors, intro-
During the war the demand phone that is associated with the wide field for speculation. First The sole difference between for
As the steamer could not be monkeys left for Scotland 30. duced in England and Scotland by black and green tea is one of principally for sircraft.
wireless telephones was ordinary apparatus and there is he wonders what this or that immediately barthed at Tilbury, minutes afterwards. It would Americans, are proving popular preparation; both kinds can be over 50 per cent. of our technical wire telephone on to the wireless. may be like; next be marvels clear all stock possible overside." difficulties in moving monkeys Well no difficulty in getting from the creature, so strangely naraed, the boid dealer "determined to seem that there are fewer The title Admiral comes made from the leaves of the same staff held commissiors in the It is only a matter of relays. from the Arabic, "Amir al bahr."
[plant.
where on earth they all get to; He does not go into details of the about the country than a ruler of the sea.
Services, and all were employed Cocoanut oil is used extensively
"Fog or haze has no effect on and finally perhaps he grows a methods adopted, but merely says whose only experience of the kind that on
Find of Alaska is considering the raisin India as a mange cure for dogs. Now they are nearly all back,munication can thus be kept up more apparently ferocious should delivery of 23 cases, and that would suppose.
work the wireless telephone. and com-little alarmed lest some of the that he charted a tug and took is with an obstreperous dog or cat ing of reindeer and musk ox to
The cap Marshal Foch wore at and, while we are not neglecting with ships when visual signalling get nowhere but "gang loose."
The smallest of increase the meat supply.
the first battle of the Marne is the aircraft side, we are able to would be impossible.
"this proved a very expen-the elephants was bought at the There is a London dealer who sive undertaking.' One gathers docks. "One tiger went to Man- on sale in England for £100.
Japan supplies America with go into the general aspect of the
*In mountainous matter much more fully.
districts, issues not only a catalogue but a that the real trouble began chester, another to Halifax, and a across rivers, or to islands it forms magazine, in which he relates at Tilbury pier, where the loading third is going to Copenhagen." the buttons that once were in-
"With a 3-kilowatt apparatus an officient and
economical among other strange matter, bow was a 'serious problem." The By the same steamer travelled 90 degrees is maintained in Es-Ported from Germany. kimo snow huts.
A high authority on religion in we are able to get range of 1.000 means of communication, for he lifts his terrific consignments goods were sent to Fenchurch-four giant tortoises from the England says only one person miles. Further development is there is no cost of installing and from ship to train. One learns street station in three trains, for Seychelles, two of which have Beasts of prey and poisonous in 20,000
reads the serpents cause the death of 20,-
Bible merely a question of time. If we maintaining lines of cables.
certain space could be 'been welcomed at the "Zoo," intelligently. 000 persons annually in India.
A mad turtle cannot stay un- der water more than an hour or
Last year 1,000,000 acres of woods in England were felled for
war purpos96.
A temperature between 80 and
two without drowning.
Peru has the highest railway in the world, with lines that
climb to 15,865 feet.
In the part of Russia controlled
by the Bolsheviks, school children can dismiss teachers they do noti lika.
Periscopes énabled spectators to view the recent parades to Paris, over the heads of those in front of the.
The largest wheat farm in the world in 200,000 acres in area and lies part in Montana and the rest in Wyoming.
More than 151,000 tons of crude peat were produced in the United States last year, exce is the best previous year by aho. 56 per cent.
Half the cultivated land f Egypt is owned by 29,000 person: with an average of 130 acrAB PL the other half by 1,400,000 sona o rning 2 acres each,
DOINGS OF THE DUFFS.
GREAT SCOTT!
RELEN AND THE
| FAMILY PARE COMING
HOME, THIS EVENING
AND THE HOUSE IS
A FRIGHT!
that last month. there arrived only a
Pansy Always Delivers in the Pinches-
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"THAT TRAIN GET'S IN HERE AT SEVEN O'CLOCK AUD I'LL HAVE TO GO SOME TO GET THINGS_STRAIGHTENED UP........... AFTER, LAST HIGHT!.
BY ALLMAN,
PANSY IS JEST LIKE MARY. PICKFORD BL DE MOVIES ALMIAYS ON HAND AL-DE NICK OF TIME - HOME "TONIGHT! | BAHAMAK
OH, PANSY, ARE YOU BACK? HELEN IS COMING
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