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They meet-3000 of them-by radio.
Honours for the greatest regular The Post Office stations for attendance at weekly club meet-point to-point communications ings. of all oranizations in the with the Continent of Europe are world, may safely be awarded to situated at Northolt (Middlesex) a new group of Girl Guides in Caister (Norfolk) and. Stone-, America.
baren Kincardineshire), whence services are in operation to Ber- in, Rome, Amsterdam. and It is a new idea, originated by Budapest. In addition, an Army Lagra P. Holland, scout director station at Aldershot has direct at Pittsburg. who began giving communication with the bead- out her instructions for such a quarters of the Rhine Army of troop" through broadcasting Cologne. The wireless apparatus station KDKA at East Pittsburg. is placed ཏཱཾ་ the provincial:
Today the largest single troopstations named because they are af Girl Guides is to be found, not the most favourable positions for in the largest city, but scattered the transmission and recaption of] throughout the country, wherever wireless waves, but the apparatus the ethereal waves of KDKA itsall in each case is oporated strike. It consists especially of from the Central Telegraph girls tucked away in the isolated Office through an ordinary land regions of the country, wherewire.
there are never enough within It is interesting to note that hiking distance to form a troop. while the rate. for telegraphic New these girls assemble everywireless transmission (2. per Monday evening at their radioword) to places on the Continent sets and begin their meetings. by is the same as for land wire and listening in on the customary cable transmission a difference in signals, the allegiance to the flag favour of wireless occurs when: and the other routine of troop greater distances are involved. meetings. Instead of personal in- For example, while the Exsterni structions from a local scout Cable Company charge a cable) leader, these girls listed in on the rate to Egypt of ls, a word, instructions "broadcast from the P. C. wireless to Cairo KDKA. !
costs only 93. a word, and there is a sirailar saving of about BOURNEMOUTH'S RIVAL. There is considerable anxiety Red Sea ports. It would be [34. in the shilling on messages to
in Bournemouth over the state- ment made at the Town Council too much to prophesy the eventual cable in that broadcasting is seriously long-distance telegraphy, but for
supersession of the diminishing the attendances at the performances of the Municip-tinental countries wireless tele- messages to the Bearer Con- al Orchestra. It is stated that graphy is already a most valuable audiences often number less than one hundred, that the orchestra is being wasted, and that there has Ibeen.
a drop of £1,700 in the revenue in three months.
facility for the business world, particularly for firms in large actres of industry like Man- chester. Birmingham. Glasgow, Cardiff, Newcastle, Liverpool, Leeds, &c., which hare direct telegraphic connexion with Lon don, as the transit time of tele grams between these towns and Lordon does not usually exceed 15 or 20 minutes from the time of handing in at the public counter. A MANCHESTER INSTALLATION.
to the case of Manchester, an experimental-installation bas just dew type of
Sir Dan Godfrey, the conductor. admitted in an interview that wireless is keeping people from the Winter Gardens, and he su gested that a remedy lies in the direction of co-operation with the British Broadcasting Company.
At present the performances of the Municipal Orchestra are not permitted to be broadcast.
It is perhaps unfortunate," said been made of a
Sir Dan, that, so far, overtures Baudot instrument, replacing the from the Broadcasting Companyfast-speed Wheatstone. automatic
to the Town Council in the mat-apparatus. The Baudot is a me
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ter of co-operation have not been chanical printing telegraph ap- THE HUMAN ZOO favourably received for I believe paratus, and on one line between there would be advantages not Manchester and London ir gan only from the advertisement
signal four messages in each Bournemouth would get, but in direction simultaneously. An in- direct assistance to the Winter genious mechanism interrupts the Gardens finances."
Sir Dan's idea is that if the electric current in four rhythms or cadences, and the signalling is He brought the action, claim the customer's account; but from ing damages for alleged slander, some other source, as from the Municipal Orchestra's perform-ractly timed into one or other of ances were broadcast revenue these cadences. In the new type The credit of a customer de would accrue to the gardens to of Baudot instrument the sending]
apparatus is operated from type- and for £108 10s. for consequent pended very largely upon the make up for the losses through loss of employment and commis- strict observance of confidence, people not attending.
A little while ago Sir Dan de writer key-board by a typist, who and that confidence was not con- A bank is entitled to give infor.sion. mation about a customer's affairs! The trial, before Mr. Justice Ened to the information derived clared himself opposed to broad-need not oven be a practical tele- a perforated paper slip, which only under one or more of the Asory, resulted in a verdict for from the customer or his account casting. "I have not changed my graphist. The typewriter delivers transmits the automatically Lord Justice Atkin said a bank view," he added, "but as. in the following circumstances:--
case of Sir Hugh Allen and other Compulsion of law,
Mr. Tournier appealed success- bound their servants to secrecy authorities new circumstances signals at the steady rate of 40 Where there is a duty to the fully on the ground of misdirec-and communicated this fact on have arisen which call for changed words per minute, while the key- pass books. He was satisfied that tactics." He believes that if the vary his speed. In the old type board operator, within limits, can public to disclose.
if they were asked if they were highest class of music is broad- Baudot instrument the transmit hesitation they would say. "Yes." It was inconceivable that when
Where the disclosure is made by the express or implied consent!
of the castomer.
the bank.
tion.
LAW OF THE MATTER.
Lord Justice Bankes said that under an obligation, withoutcast a taste for the actual perter had five ivory keys to operate }
at the present day it might be This was the opinion expressed asserted that the duty of silence
a customer closed his account, in the Court of Appeal recently on the bank was a legal one by Lord Justice Bankes.
arising out of contract. It was the bank was at liberty to disclose He was giving the view of the not possible to frame any exhaus any particular transaction. Court why a new trial should be tive definition of it. "held of the action brought by Mr.
Union Bank of England.
formances will be created to the
in exact synchronisin with the ultimate benefit of music.
cadences of the current-interrupt- POST OFFICE EXPERIMENT. ing device. In both types the As part of the contemplated signals on receipt are automatic Imperial wireless chain, two ally converted into the printed high-power stations were in-block lettering on message forma,
In the
He thought it did not ceass NEW SANCTUARY FOR BIRDS. Edwin Frederick Tournier against from the moment the customer
An appeal is being made to stalled by the Post Office for now increasingly familiar to the the National Provincial and closed his account. The con- lovers of birds to raise a sum of point-to-point working between public in large towns.
fidential relationship was not money. sufficient to buy the Farne Oxford and Cairo. The Oxford case of messages intended for telegrams wireless transmission abroad the Mr. Tournier alleged that Mr. confined to the actual state of a Islands, off the north-east coast station broadcasts J. G. Fennell, acting manager of customer's account, but extended of Northumberland, with the view signalled in the Morse code, and Paudot typescript is passed for frequently been ward at once to the wireless room the Moorgate-street branch of the to information derived from the of preserving them as a bird these have bank, made a statement to his account itself.
Banctuary, and so avoiding the picked up by receivers as far off as (Mr. Tournier's) employers which A more vital question was possibility of their falling into the Australia. At night the Oxford resulted in him losing his post as whether it extended to informa- hands of some speculative person station also communicates with a commercial traveller and sales-tion in reference to the customer who might exploit them to the ships within a range of some
12,500 miles, and his affairs, derived, not from ruin of the bird life there,
man.
at the Central Telegraph Office, and the waves are controlled from there, although actually produced at Oxford, Caister Northolt, or Stonehaven, as the case may be.]
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