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Secret Listening-In Experiments.
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ing for upwards of 600 years After two weeks of szeret, Governor-General of Indo-China.
attention The family passoss records alsxperimenting, 21.0), ste.redt called special' their forbears who were bora,in broadcasting an American the Increasing deky and it bred, and died there during that station's prograntus to its regularity of telegraphic com period.
subscribers just before midnight musicstion with France. In or
state der to remedy this POLITICS AND SMILES. · a few works aga The lighter side of politics, is
affairs, the establishment of a gaily emphasised in the Bitti
Further details of the achieve great wireless station at Saigor der, which contains a parady afment were given to a Home paper was decided upon. The work of Mr. Rudyard Kipling's Just. S by Capt. A.G.P. West, the construction was, however, inter- It has now Story." "The Catsquith that B.B.C.'s Assistant Chief Engineerrupted by the war. Walked Alone," and Mr. Yog Capt. West, who was assisted in Been completed.
experiments by Mr. E Hama speaks. of Mr. Ramsay his MacDonald as "a very darkist. Bridges-Webb and Mr. B. Honri. quadrupet," and opines thaaid they were carried out in a perhapsly we binst all do social: small stone hurt Biggin Hill and give our cashes to poorist. Aerodrome, on the North Downs but unmeritorious persons by of Kent, which had been leat by
the Air Ministry. Act of Parliament."
FACTS THAT SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
The new station will coräs munitats with the wireless station of Bordeaux, a distance of 10,000 kilometros (6,250 miles, passing over the Himalayas. It is not only to be psed for communica- tion with France, but is to become the centre of a network of stations on French as well as foreign terri- tory. While it will be worked on a commercial basis, it will assure a propaganda service which, the Tempa says, will contribute to the strengthening and extension of French influence in the Far East.
WIRELESS IN CHINA.
The serial used war of the eage
variety on a sixty-foot pole. The apparatus was a six high frequency, one detector, and two low frequency valve set, The experiments," added Cap lain West, will give rise to con siderable thought among experts, inasimuch as the power of the K.D.KA Station (East Pittsburg) is considerably less than that of
Signor Cesare Poms (Italian any of the BBC. statings. The 100 metre wave length used was Consul, rotired), Piazzo 34, Biella, the lowest on which speech has writes to the Times that its Fek- yet been received in this country.ing correspondent in his articles on Wireless in China does not do to Italy. He says Captain West said there were justice
wireless in China heavy atmospheries which carried Tho first interference to some of the was established in 1903 specches, but by careful tuning the Italian Corps of Occupa- for com- most of these "X's" were eliminat-tion in Tientsin
ed.
by
To get fine adjustment it munication with men-of-war in was necessary to put a hand Taku Bay, and inaugurated in near the reactance, the capacity the presence of Yuan Shi-kai of the band having some effect on then Viceroy of Chi-li. I well'} the tuning.
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Captain West stated that the officers, and more so the Japanese. experiment was the beginning of when I translated into English a two-ways communication. be- the explanations given by the It tween American" and Ecglish alian naval officers who had been broadcasting. "We kept cur instrumental in establishing it. Italian naval whereabouts a secret as long as After that
we could, so that oscillation officer, Grasso by name, was lent would not join the atmospherical by the Italian Government to the trouble and make. nur efforts Chinese Government for the worthless," he went on.
intallations which the Chinose
The first item of the Pittsburg intended to make for themselves, programme which came through and I leave it there because was an organ recital, "A Song at about. that time I left the Twilight," followed by the over-country. ture from.Oberoni" Then came.
In reply to this, Caption G. "Pierrette, by Chaminade, and Duncan, R.N., says Signor Cesare next an address to Boy Scoute. Poma is incorrect in claiming There was a stand-by for three
that the first installation' of minutes, and the programme re- opened with a piano solo. The wireless in China was in 1903. reception was then much more and the credit due to his country distinct..
and compatriots. After the Taku Forts were taken in June, 1900, FRENCH COLONIAL SCHEME
the British Admiralty sent out Direct wireless communication a wireless installation, which between France and Indo Chine was erected on the North-West was inaugurated last month. We Fort at the entrance of the Peiho noted at the time that the station River, and was used for the at Saigon had got in touch with purposes of communication British Paris. Until recently, the in-between the fort, the ternational cables which serve naval vessels, and Chefoo, The Indo-China have been in foreign single mast used for the aerial hands, and for the purpose of wire was erected in August or communication with her colony September, 1900, but how long in the Far East France has been the wireless service lasted be dependent on other nations. M. could not say, as the forts were
dismantled Sarraut, the present French eventually Colonial Minister when he was partially demolished,
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