12
Cool, Shady Decks
to Enjoy
:
The great wide glass enclosed promenade decks of the Presi- dent Liners-with their dozens of comfortable, inviting steamer chairs. You will enjoy spending much of your time here lounging, reading and conversing with friends. The magnificent President Liners are broad of beam and exceptionally strady. All are oil burners, swift express liners.
The public rooms are luxuriously appointed and inviting.
All staterooms are outside, splendidly furnished and equipped with beds-not berts. Each mom hat hot and cold running water, abo fans, wardrobe, thermos bottles and reading lamps. Private bath and showers in connection with many rooms perfect the crivel comfort of these giant passenger liners.
The Cuisine is world famous. The deliciously prepared menus will delight you. And hey the orchestra adds mest to your dining.
The decks are spacious. The Glass-enclosed Promenade always popular. Deck spores, open air swimming pool, movies, evening danges,everything has been done to make your trip a happy one. Unexcelled anywhere--is the courcous and clicient service accorded you by the trained personnel aboard the Presidene Lincr
The ghar frequency of sailings and the liberal stopover privileges of the Dollar Steamship and American Mail Lines have made these glanc passenger lines out. scandingly popular among travelers.
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TO SAN FRANCISCO and
LOS ANGELES
The Sunshine Dalt via Honalulu Fortnightly sailings an Tuesdaya
Pres. Jefferson ... Tuva, Nov. 8th Pres. Lincoln
Pres. Madison Pres. Jackson
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Tues., Nov. 22m
Pars. Dec. 5th Tues., Der, 24
TO SEATTLE and VICTORIA' The Short, Straight Rouis to America Fortnightly sailings on Wednesdays'
Pres. McKinley We! Segalan Pres. Grant... Wed., Nov. 16th Pres. Cleveland Wed, Nov. 30th Pres. Pierce, Wed., Dec. 14th
Special Through Rates to Europe, via United States, £120, £12. Direct connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of railway lines across United States and Canada, with liberal stop-over privileges for sight-seeing.
"To EUROPE and NEW YORK ROUND THE WORLD
Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexandela, Naples, Genoa, Marseille, Boston and New York.
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Pres. Hayos
Pres. Grant ...
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TO MANILA
Oct. 31st, 6 p.♫. Nov. 8, Ga.m.
... Nov. 9th, p.m. Pres. Coveland Nov. 22nd, 6 p.m.
For Bookings, Passenger and Freight Information Apply to Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor Telephone Central 2477, 2478 and 795 Cable Address "Dollar"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1927.
CHEQUE CONTROL BY part in the broadcasting of pic-
TELEVISION.
THE LATEST ADVANCE IN RADIO.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.
Television, considered in this ense as the broadcasting of pic- tures and events to far distant
ture.
Economic Possibilities.
OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
FRACTURES TRACED BACK IN FAMILY.
THE
BLUE FUNNEL
REGULAR AND FAST PASSENGER SERVICES
FREIGHT AND
But in the subject under dia- cussion we can at present leave. aside this aspect of television. It la our object here to discuss the economical and social péssiblities which can develop in the future
BLUENESS OF EYE. by the aid of direct telephoto- fessor Dieckmann could, for ex medicine have revealed that some graphy. That the German pro-
Investigations in practical ample transmit from on board the "Westfalia" distant 2,000 sea fractures of the bones, their long people are especially subject to receiving stations, has to-day be-chart to the meteorological obser- dry sticks when submitted to any miles from the coast a weather bones particularly will crack like come a reality and will soon be so vatories in Germany by the broad-unusual strain.. popular, that no one could still casting of graphic television is: think it possible to have lived at not merely of special importaneeminent physician, a 12-year-old girl In one case described by a pro- a time when the thought of tele- as regards the development of had had 33 fractures of the bones vision was merely smiled at ns trans-oceanic trame, as likewise before reaching that age. Utopian. The American Secret the fact, that in future the police
When a study of the family his- ary of State, Mr. Hoover, Has tele- criminals from crossing the from the mother of the girl was deaf, will be in a position to prevent tory was made, it was found that phoned from New York, with tier by spreading the warrant that the white portion of her oye Washington, and not only in so with photo attached, or if that is was unusually blue, and that she doing were his words to be heard, not available, at any rate with had had two fractures.
but his picture showed quite fingerprints, by radio photo- clearly and distinctly on a sheetgraphy far and wide. Of the atretched out in
the receiving greatest importance is the ne-
The grandmother and the great- station so that his partners in the curate identification of contracts conversation.could observe the ex of signatures and money orders. grandmother on the mother's sido pression of his features during The negotiation of the
contents were also deaf and had the blus every phase of the interview,,
of contracts and the consent to sclera in the eye. Three brothers political or social agreements by and two sisters also had the bluc-
LIVERPOOL SERVICE And in Germany at the present cable is certainly still a frequent ness of the eyes; and three of the moment there are
TITAN" five had suffered with many frac negotiations usage in international inter-
tures of the bones. taking place between the Tost course. Still the necessity may master General and the Nationa! arise that it might be imperativescribed as well as of many others
Investigation of the cases Broadcasting Company with the to immediately affix the ebject of adding telephotography signatures of
several shows that this condition runs in the partners on families and is transmitted by the
ocean. For affected
those parents. Only
Back To Ancestors.
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Cause Unknown,
dc-
develops as these people become The deafness which generally
older is due to a change in the ear of which the cause has not yet been discovered.
to the loudspeaking broadcasting either side of the and thus to convert wireless into this reason just lately the draft children with the blueness, of the a speaking radio film. Techni- of a contract was projected from eye are subject to the brittle-bones. cally it is quite possible, the film Berlin to New York by television The blueness résults from a special pictures which have been taken broadcasting and signed there by transparency of this coat of the are by means of specially con- the contracting party, whereupon eye that permits a blue structure structed apparatus split up into it was broadcasted back again behind to shine through. picture points of greater or losser with the signature attached like- Intensity and transformed into wise by television, so that Berlin electric power, then reglated by was within a few hours in posses- the sender and transformed back sion of an authentic and binding again into the receiving station copy of the signed agreement. as light power. As here first and foremost the broadcasting of pie- In the same way, especially in tures of actual happenings is con-North America, where it is often
It is important to know that 70 templated. one will, whilst the question of enormous distances, laud speakers transmits the ap- one has instituted this manner of per cent of the persons with this propriate
accompanying words, guarding against fraud in the peculiar blueness of the white be able to be present at recep-identification of cheques. That portion of the eye sulfer frequent- tions, inaugural ceremonies, na- this can only be done where it isy with multiple fractures. The tional festivals, flying
competi-a question of large amounts is broken bones usually heal rapidly, tions etc. without taking the trou-evident because of the expense but tend to fracture easily after ble of going a step
healing. of the with which it is combined. If out house.
one could until now merely con- vince oneself of the genuineness To make such a magnificent of a cheque by telegraphic en-
The annual report of the Board. arrangement possible hundredsquiry and confirmation, a mea of Control of Lunacy and Mental of learned men and inventors, sure which in spite of extra dis- Deficiency, shows that the number advancing step by step, had to patch took several days,-now-a- of notified insane persons in Britain to this one days an exact graphie copy of the on January 1 this year was 136,626, matter. A great step forward presented cheque will be broad- This was an increase of 2,743 on was taken by the Berlin professor casted to the issuer, who will be the preceding year, while the aver Dr. Korn, who with the aid of his in a
position by verifying his age annual increase in the last five teleautographic system, construct signature to express his wish that years was 2.582. The percentage ed in 1927, was able to broadcast the sum denoted on
devote their minds
оп
"
Pres. Lincoln... Nov. 14th, 5 pm. Pres. Polk
the cheque of the sexes was 43.9 miles," 56.1 a graphic picture to the greatest may be paid out. Nov. 22nd, a.m.
As the pre- females. The total expenditure of distance in such perfection, thatparation of the document for the the county and borough mental henceforth one could speak of a broadcasting positive solving of the problem. only takes
of telephotography hospitals during the year ended two hours and the March 31, 1926, was £7,585,393. These possibilities were then broadcasting itself to the greatest There is no evidence to show that extended and developed
to-distances only a few minutes, the insanity is increasing. wards a wireless television, es- sum in question is paid out pecially by a number of German the same day, and so it is obvious scholars, amongst when special that the expense of the transac mention must be made of engineer tion only represents a fraction of J. Michael Schirmer in Berlin, the loss of interest which the re- and above all of physicist Dr. fceiver of the money would be! Karolus in Leipzig, the latter hay-liable to lose by the delay. Of ing lifted the problem of tele-course such cheque identifications vision out of the sphere of theore- will only be necessary where it tient deliberation by the discovery is a question of great distances, of the Karolus colls, which are like in the United States of North named after him, for it is these America or from Europe for cells that will play an important oversen traffic.
Dollar Steamship Line
and
American Mail Line
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MOJI & KOBE
SHANGHAI, MOJI & KOBE
TO TIENTSIN
TO CANTON
TO STRAITS & CALCUTTA
TO SANDAKAN
Namsang
Sailings.
Sun, 30th Oct at Wed, 2nd Nov at Sun. 6th Nov at Wed, 9th Nov at Tues. 22nd Nov at
Satur. 29th Oct at
7 a.m.
7 a.m.
7a.m.
7 a.m. 7a.m.
7 a.m.
5 pm. 7 a.m. 3 p.m.
Chipshing Fri. 4th Nov at Kwongsang Satur. 29th Oct at Kutsang Thurs. 1st Dec at Kumsang
Thurs. 10th Nov at 3 p.m. Mausang Fri. 28th Oct at
3 p.m. Hinsang Tues, 15th Nov at
3 p.m.
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2nd November, 20th November,
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"AENEAS" **CALORAS"
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24th Nov. 18th Dec.
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1st Nov. 30th Nov.
27th Dec.
25th Jan.
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When you go home-go by Canadian Pacific
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Only 9 days across Pacific from Japan!
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F
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AST travel time with cool comfort and variety of route will be in- valuable to you or the numbers of your family on the return trip. home. Empresses of the Pacific are largest and fastest. Canadian Paci fic is the shortest rail route across Canada... through North America's 50 Switzerlands in One." And, from Montreal or Quebec, the Empreseca of the Atlantic and Cabin Class Ships sail one third the way to Europe on the sheltered St. Lawrence... with
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..
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ather servicer
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE...
AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE
via Buen Canz!
6th November.
A+
vis Suez Canal
Ko
via Suez Canal
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20th November. 29th December.
...... From Hongkong
Loading for Mauritius, Delagoa Bay, Durban, East London, Algon Bay (Port Elizabeth), Mossel Bay and
Capetown. Through Bill of Lading issued to Beirs, Quiliconins, Ibo, Port Amelia, Mozambique, Chinde, Inhambane,
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AND
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..
15th November.
13th December.
Sailings for Genoa, R’dam, Aʼdam, Hamburg & Bremen.
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M.V. "FORRESBANK”
via Suez Canal
Loading about, 8th November 24th November 18th Doot nber
MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA
S.S. "TINHOW"
164
AMERICAN & OBIENTAL LINE
27th November. ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE 10th November-
8.S. GEMMA
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All steamers have a limited accommodation.for passengers. -For Freight, Passage and further particulars please apply to
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