RADIO. LICENCES:
REGULATIONS NOW ISSUED..
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NO CAUSE FOR ANXIETY The Government Gazette con- tains lengthy regulations under Some interesting opinions on the the Wireless Telegraphy Ordin ance, it being stated that the grant military operations in Central of every licence under the regula China were recently expressed by tions shall be discretionary, and General Yang Yu-ting, Chief of every licence granted under these staff to Marshal Chang Tso-lin and regulations may be called at any time upon such notice by the re- Director-General of the Mukden apective licensing authority as he Arsonal. He stated: may think fit, without compensa- tion and without the return of any part of the licence fee.
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The following fees are to be charged payable in advance:- For a ship station lleonco, for oach year commencing on the 1st January or for part of such year, in respect of each ship to which the licence ap- plies,
$25
For a receiving station licence, for each year commencing on the date of the licence,.....$5 For the transfer of a receiving
station to a new address, ..$ 1 If it is desired to continue to maintain the station or to retain
possession of the apparatus after the date of expiration of this licence, a fresh licence must be taken out not later than the date of such expiration. Henry penalties Pare provided by the Ordinance for maintaining a wireless station or possessing the apparatus without a valid current licence.
If it is desired to transfer the station to another address than that specified in this licence, it is the necessary first to obtain permission of the Postmaster Gen- eral and to pay the prescribed fee of $1.
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The licence may be cancelled by the Postmaster General at any time, either by notice in writing "addressed to the licensee at the ad
dress specified in the licence, or by a general notice in the Government Gazette, or in such other way as ho may think fit. Any contraven- tion of any of the conditions speci- fed in the licence may cause can- cellation of the licence.
REBUFF FOR TOMSKY.
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T.U.C. ENDORSE COUNCIL'S ACTION.
London, Sept. 10. The Trade Union Congress has overwhelmingly endorsed the Council's reply to M. Tomsky's telegram-Reuter.
"CLEAN" NEWSPAPERS IN US.
STORY OF VANDERBILT COLLAPSE.
vincial
The recent failure of three pro- American newspapers the Illustrated Daily Herold of San
Francisco, the Illustrated Daily
News of Los Angeles, and the flustrated Daily Tab of Miami, Florida reveals an interesting
story of the rise and fall of an unconventional young editor who "As the strength and equipment failed in his efforts to establish a of the Kuomintang troops in Ho "clean" chain of newspapers in nam are weaker than the Kuomin-every large town between the At thun in the North-West, the situa-lantic and Pacific Ocean, says tion in Central Yangtaze admits no the Washington correspondent of pessimism in spite of the initial the London Observer. Piquancy reverses 'suffered by the Northernis added to the story by the fact troops at Yochow,"
that the hero of it, Cornelius Van- General Yang expressed his be-derbilt, junr., is one of the wealth- lief that Marshals Wa Pel-fu and fest young men of America in his Sun Chuan-fang are capable of own right, besides being heir to dealing successfully with the Kuo- the millions of his father." mintang: but in case of need, in At the beginning of the war the pursuance of the Chang-Wu young Vanderbilt, still in his co-operation agreement Fengtien teens, had not finished the educa will render all possible assistance tion already begun with private in arms and funds. Furthermore, tutors and private schools. Against: If the actual aid of the Fengtien the wishes of his family, he "join- army be required by Marshal Wu,ed the American Army as a private Mukden will not hesitate to des-end saw service in France. When patch those crack regiments, which the war was over his family ex- resently captured Nankow and pected him to go to Yale Univer Kuyuan, to Hankow for the subjecsity to finish his education. But tion of the Cantones, The Fun-this did not fit in with the plans
tlen leader therefore, see no cause of the young woman. for anxiety or alarm."
NEW MOORINGS.
WARNING TO SHIPPING.
The Harbour Master issues the following notice:
as
Shipping is hereby warned that from the 10th September, 1926,
the 1st November, 1926, experimental moorings will be
to
Instead le
joined the stuff of the New York. Herald for,, eight months, then migrated to the more august Times for some
more months, and later on went to Washington as a political correspondent,
While he was in Washington he started the "C.V. Newspapers Ser- vice," being aided in this work by his wife. Apparently he made a xood jab of this newspaper ser- vice. But he wished to fly higher; and once again he turned a deaf ear to the advice of older and
aid in the following positions wiser heads. Although he had (1) 14 Cables N. 84 W. from had but a few months' training
Green Island Light House.
(2) 8% Cables S. 86 E. from Hakkoktau (South of Eye mun, Pass).
(3) 6 Cables N. 82 E from the Northern Extremity of Table Island (Port Shelter). (4) 10% Cables S. 01 W. from Big Boulder near Gruff Head in Tolo Channel. These moorings will be marked with small spar buoys painted red. Ships are warned to give these positions as wide a berth as possible observing that these marks may be removed or stolen by sampans, etc.
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as a repórter and correspondent, D 1524 he decided to becomea, publisher That was just three years ago. of newspapers on a grand scale.
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He began operations in Los Angeles. He formed a publishing D 1372 corporation, and the name of "Van- derbilt worked like magie. In a very short time 5,000,000-dols, hnd D 1533 been deposited by subscribers to the stock, and the citizens of the D 1454 film city anxiously awaited the first issue of "Los Angeles's first and only clean newspaper." appeared on September 3, 1923, his mother's birthday. Its circulation was 130.000, but later on it reach- ed the figure of 212,000. In De cember, 1923, he founded his Sun Frantisce paper, with an initial circulation of 100,000. At the height of the building boom in Florida, he founded Kis Miami- paper, which was a great success, muking money from the first day. But, in spite of the success which attended his ventures at the be ginning, the three papers have now
ONLY FOUR DISSENTIENTS.
Rugby, Sept. 10. The Trades Union Congress, with only four.dissentients, to-day endorsed the crushing reply of the 'General Council to a message of
The Government Gazette con- M. Tomsky, the Russian trade tains the following notification: union leader, describing his at-
The public is hereby warned of tack on Mr. J. H. Thomas, and the danger incurred from interferone bankrupt other trade union leaders as inence with electric light, fan, heat- tolerable interference-British Wireless.
DAUGHERTY TRIAL.
STORY OF CHAMPAGNE DINNER.
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Several reasons have been "put First g, cooking or transformer bell forward for the failure.
come the conditions under which circuits whilst the pressure is on.
Salaries A fatal shock may be received if the papers were run."
were much too high; inexperienced this warning is ignored..
Any repairs or alterations to people were paid $50 a week for wiring should be carried out by an doing work worth half the salary. experienced electrical contractor The Los Angeles paper foundered or other duly qualified person who on the rock of bad tactics. must make the circuit concerned Vanderbilt was foolish enough to dead before commencing work.
incur the displeasure of the big- gest business men of the city by attacking a charity scheme orga- nised by them and the community,
YOKOHAMA SPECIE
BANK.
Mr.
New York, Sept. 10. In the Daugherty trial to-day. it was stated that Daugherty sug-i gested giving King the inter- mediary, something for aiding in securing the reimbursement for the sale of the Metals Company, and later, at King's request, he gave him a cheque for $50,000 nt a champagne dinner in New York attended by Miller, King and Smith. The lastnamed," who was now deceased, was an associate of Daugherty. Miller then handed Merton cheques for $7,000,000, and Merton on the same occasion, ordered $391,000 worth of Liberty Bonts to be delivered to a local Government bondbroker. The
It was resolved to pay a dividendly transplanted cabbages must be contends that the $50,000 cheque of 12% pa. (absorbing Yea noticing that some of their leaves and these Bonds constitute a bribe 6,000,000) for the half-year ended are turning purple in the pre shared by Daugherty and Miller, the 30th June, 1926, to add to the sent heat says. a Home paper. for approving the return of $7, Reserve Fund Yen 3,00,000, and to This is
matter of ·Buto- 000,000
Merton-Reuter's | carry to
forward the sum of Yen matic self-defence on the part of American Service.
5,962,108.08 to the next account.
the leaves, and corresponds with Our own tanning in Burshine. The actual colouring-matter pro- "Although he had a fractured The LN.E.R. announce that a duced in the leaves by the utra- collarbone, George Herbert Turn-special motor garage, with inspec-violet rays of the sun, is antho- or, 30, a Hull Atter, swam 30 tion pit, has been opened at Par-cyan, a body which has the feet to safety when knocked Into keston Quay to deal with the wonderful property of turning. the Albert Dock by a falling rush American tourists to the blue in alkaline solution and red plank.
But there was another and far, more important reason why the newspapers could not succeed. Mi. Vanderbilt from the very first A HALF-YEAR'S PROFITS. went in for "clean" journalism. That is to say, his papers did not The local office of the Yokohama contain news of crime, scandal, Specie Bank is in receipt of a cable- and other unsavoury matters. Only gram from its Head Office to the constructive news was to be found. effect that at the Sard half-yearly in the columns. Such papers ordinary general meeting of the stood no chance against competi shareholdera, held at the Head tors not accepting the same rule office of the Bank at Yokohama on of self-denial with respect to per the 10th inst., the report showed sonal photographs, divorce, death, a net profit of Yen 14,962,168.08, and scandal: including Yen 5,805,990.91 carried over from last account.
Members of the "Fol-de-Rols". concert party, at Southend, lost jowollery and clothes worth hun- dreds of pounds as the result of thieves visiting their dressing
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