AT THE SHANGHAI RACES,
Two snapshots taken at the recent Shanghai Race Meeting,
DEVELOPMENTS IN WIRELESS.
Fewer "Piracies
Nowaday.
THE TURKISH
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HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH FRIDAY NOVELIBER
SECRETS.
Their Different Types
It has been sald that laws are made to be broken, but a 100 general acceptance of that view may lead to embarrassment. The ladies, if nobody else, could say that secrets are made to be broken. and they are certainly held cheap ly often enough, by either sex. Nevertheless there are a number! of secrets which Are kept with wonderful success. A great many crafts and trades and not taw professions
are sustained by secrecy. The conjurer, or the more grandiose modern product the illusionist. relies to a tremendous extent on his confreres not giving the game away, and it is imaginable that] those who divulge tricks such as, for instance, "sawing though a
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in their profession. to say the least of it. In times when the principles of Machiavelli were [employed there was little need to wonder at secrecy, but one never hears of a person being, murdered for the sake of keeping the composition or manufacture of a patent medicine a mystery.
Novelists weare violent tales| around inventors of new weapons, and no doubt such institutions as the Admiralty must be numbered among those who can keep secrets if need be. A source of mystery to the general public is the cult of the Freemasons. Books which, in vulgar parlance, giveaway the whole show, are plentiful but somehow or other 110- body believes these "exposures," though they can give no reason for nat doing so. Commercial secrecy has been given some publicity lately, owing to test: cases connected with the banking business, but it is not a very real quantity. Political secrets are many. One well kept one is the Precise nature of the ultimate intentions of the Indian extre- mists for the wire-pullers
Powers of The President.
A. Constantinople message says When the wireless "pirate the prinicipal points in Mustapha was recently assured that he Keral Pasha's proposals accept include men of brains and are would be forgiven his unlicensed ed by the People's Party are as activities if he would but repent follows: The form of Govern- not all esses enough to think that this repentance to take the ment of the Turkish State shall they will make headway and come form of acquiring a 15s, licence be a Republic, the official language to final victory by the methods he began to disclose himself in Turkish, and the religion Islam. which they advocate openly, amazing numbers, says a writer The President of the Republic Again there is the secret covered, in a Home paper.
Lp to date shall be elected by Deputies and by the whole of that matter some 160,000 interim licences the ruandate shall us for four which is labelled confidential." have been taken out, and possibly years. The President, who is There is one way of Feeping that that 5gure does not exhaust the eligible for re-election. ehall be close, and that is to let every whole of the users of wireless the chief of the State, entitled to rani digest it to his heart's con- sets. But at least it indicates to preside over meetings of the tent, by which time he will be what extent the new hobby of Council of Minister and National convinced it is the most perfunc- listening in, to say nothing of Assembly. He shall nominate tory of routine, rubbish and un- the experimental side. has the President of the Council of worthy of being retailed.
But developed. The movement has Commissars who will select their the most humordus and, when now definitely passed the stage own colleagues. The President Senuine, most rare secret is the when it was merely a novelty. shall submit the list of Comracing stable whisper-Runyon
Those who in the early stages missars for the approval of the Times. came into it expecting too much Assembly,
have either been weeded out or
have developed real enthusiasm,
and the net result is that wireless, programmes
Still further im-
"a comprehensive if not an exact proved. They had already begus| term, bas definitely established to improve if only because the, itself. It is, after all something broadcasting side of the business more than hobby or even a became alive to the scientific amusement, and it has that they hed yet far to go, for no ine with any their clients. It was 3 busi- knowledge of it will dispute the mess proposition, and they applied statement that wireless is yet themselves to it as such. only in its infancy.
also something more
SIR A. PEARSON'S FIRST WIFE.
fact Dispute Over Annuity On please Dissolution of Marriage.
References to the first marriage
It is of the late Sir C. Artbur than a Pearson were made during the
Sir Arthur first married Miss
To this definite settlement on a business proposition. The listener-hearing of a summons before Mr. higher plane than that of a mere in, rangit, say, over the whole Justice novelty there have been contribut of the British stations, takes the Divison recently.
Russell in Chancery ory causes in the way of technical one with the programme that; advance and of improved most appeals to him. In one Bennett, the marriage being broadcasting programmes. Te sense it does not matter to him dissolved in 1897, Sir Arthur chnical advance relates to aerials which particular station it is: it then agreeing to to constructional details gener-icosts him no more, but it seta up annuity not exceeding £2,000.
Frant her ally, and they have gone so far a healthy competition among all that the use of an installation is these stations, which is reflected Sarah Durandeau, of the Villa The first wife, now Mme. Isabel | now possible with dry cells. The in the quality of the broadcasted Aida, Nice, applied to have it! delicate details that relate to, matter.
ascertained bow the annuity is! transmission have undergone The experience of the trade also to be paid. improvement with the rest, so goes to show that the movement) that it is now possible to hear is not only established, but grow-Durandeau, said the deed of Mr. P. M. Walters, for Mme. messages from Americe. All that ing healthily. In regard to some covenant provided that she should apparently is necessary for this items there is difficulty in keeping receive a purpose is a stout spirit that will up a stock, and emerging from £2,000 a year, "which shall be sum pot exceeding keep one up until the small hours this is the interesting fact that equal to one-fifth of the income of the morning, at which time one many people to-day prefer to which the petitioner (Sir Arthur) can tune in for the United build, or at least nasemble, their shall have derived during the States. All this means added own installations. And what is preceding year from the shares interest, the listener-in can rove wanted is not the freak installa he holds in C. Arthur Pearson, not merely OVER the British tion. There are small outfits which Limited." stations, but over those of the are toys, rightly regarded. It is Continent as well. He gets a possible, for example, to get one Lady
Mr. C. A. Bennett, K.C., for. wider choice of progamme.
Pearson, said Mme. small enough to be carried in the Durandeau was only entitled to He also gets better program-waistcoat pocket, and,, by it a fifth of the income from the mes. It is perhaps too much talsignals can be received. The shares in the year preceeding | say that the various broadcasting general demand, however, is for Sir Arthur's death-£867. stations have got over their ex-installations, or for the units that Mr. Justice Russell asked if perimental period. but it is at make an installation, that can be she would be prepared to accept least certain that they have ataken more seriously. and the a definite sum as her annuity.| much better Idee to-day that demand is a steady one. It will say £1,000. some months ago of what become wider and healthier the listeners in want.
The summons was adjourned More because of the developments for communication with Mme. over, now that the "pirates "which are linking the motor Durandeau, who have
is now in согда in, Or at least vehicle with wireless. Motor France. the big bulk of them, the coaches are being equipped with
financial side of the business is installations,
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cars,
better established, and the quality and at the motor-cycle show this]
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FAKE PLATINUM. of the programme can now be week there are to be seen examples
"Hundreds of people are wear- better related to it. There is not of small but efficient sets for ing ornaments which they think. the feeling, too, that outsiders, carrying round on the machine. are platinum, but which that is, unlicensed owners of in- Wayside concerts and other items really made of 'white gold, an stallations, are getting the broad-are evidently to be a feature of almost worthless alloy," said a casting concerts for nothing. motoring picnic runs in the future. jewellery expert to the Wood-
IMPROVED PROGRAMMES, This will contribute to the grow green magistrate What has happened of late un-ing use of wireless; it should add
recently. “White gold,” added a second der the provisions of the new something to the pleasures of expert, is made of gold, nickel licence will doubtless bring about motoring.
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