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TOTAL
FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1928,
young Dutch inventor now claims to have solved. Incidentally, we are apt to forget that electrical
stations without the aid of wires
ley.
DAY BY DAY.
TRUTH IS THE CRY OF ALL, BUT means of signalling between THE GAME OF A FEW.—Bishop Berko-
have been in use for over sixty
yours, although, of course, in the three Chinese cases of small-pox,
Yesterday's health return shows
early days they were of very limited application. We have ad-
PRETTY CATHEDRAL WEDDING.
MR. G. S. RODGER--MISS GLADYS RAMSAY,
The B. I, as, Shirafa in to leave vanced very far since those times, Amoy to morrow and is due here on Sinclair Rodger. Both bride and
Sunday..
especially in the development of the "beam" system and in ràdio
Officor s.s. Taishan.
The Very Idea!
Teacher How is it, Tommy, that your essay on "The Dog". exactly the same as your brother'st Tommy-We've only got one dog, teticher,
At the Union Church, Kennedy Road, this afternoon, the marriage was solemnised of Miss Gladys
which should have contained Mary Ramsay and Mr. Georgo
The arrival of a registered parcel bridegroom are well-known in the £5,000 worth of Jewels-empty and Mr. R. M. de Sala has been ap-Colony, the former being the with the appearance of having telephony. If Mr. Van Druton's Pointed to ss. Kinshan, while Mr. daughter of Mr. J. M. Ramsay, beon prised open, caused consider
Stewart has gone from Chief M.IN.A., Superintendent Ship ablo alarm in the office of a London contribution to electrical science Officer 5.8. Kinshan to Chief builder at the Kowloon Dock, and insurance broker. Polico and is all that he asserts, then another
Mrs. Ramsay, and the bridegroom postal authorities were sont for in the son of Mr. John Rodger, an endeavour to trace the history. big step forward has been regia-
formerly of the China Sugar Re- of the parcel, which had boon de- tered.
finery who is now, resident at spatched from Paris. According to the inventor, this
Crieff, and of the late Mrs. Rodger. Miss Ramsay, who was given now system. knows no limits of
away by her father, wore a taste distanco excopt in so far as these-]***
ful French model of ivory goorg The .8. Ying Chow, arrivingette and silver lace, heavily bead- aro laid down by the present power of transmitting stations, for the from coast ports, reports 240 tonsod and trimmed with orange blos
of over-carried cargo from Amoy, som and white heather, with 'veil Further clucidation came in a NO PERIODIC REFILLING apparatus is used in conjunction owing to there being a cargo- of Honiton laco. She carried a message from the Customs authori
with ordinary radio and can be coolie strike at that port.
sheaf of Easter lilies.
ties: Wo have to inform you applled to any receiving or trans-
The bridesmaid, 'Miss Doris that we opened a box addressed to It is advertised that the offices mitting sets. We can only pre- and stations of the Chinese Mari-Puncheon, wore a dress of apple you from Paris and found, it
green georgette frilled with un-empty. that it works somewhat time Customs for Kowloon and even hem-line, with beige hat and along the lines of a distortion of District will be closed to public shoes to match. She carried a
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The mail from Home, dated Lon- don March 1st, via Suez, arriving by s.s. Morca, yesterday, consisted of 556 bags. These were dis- tributed during the day.
A solution to the mystery was not found until the principal of tho firm wired to Paris, and received the following reply: "Sorry, we sent box empty; forgot to put in jewels.
Willesden woman: I want to bouquet of pale pink roses. sound-waves,
summon my husband for threats, 30 that those
Miss Margaret Bell, who also Magistrate: What are they? equipped with the special appara- The s.s. Sui An was taken off
Woman: He threatens to commit tus for correction can pick up the the Macao run this morning and attended the bride as flower-girlman: Hot
was dressed in white embroidered docked at Kowloon for bottom-organdie, with pink underslip, Thames Court, to a Scotsman: Mr. Cairns, magistrato at the messages. That, howevor, Is cleaning. She will be undocked sheer speculation on our part, nl-to-morrow and resume service on She carried a basket of pink roses. Oh, yes, fivepence. Mr. Cairns: i and trimmed with forget-me-nots. Have you any money? Scotsman: though it has long been thought Sunday. that it was in this direction "that
The interport football match be- the solving of the secrecy pro tween the Hongkong and Malayan blom was likely to be attained. Chinese is advertised to take place on Sunday, April 1, 1928, at 4.30 It is possible, of course, that
p.m. on the Hongkong Football othora oro also working from this Club ground.
Hongkong Telegraph.particular, angie, in which event
FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1928.
SOLVING RADIO PROBLEMS.
The brido's mother wore a suppose that is money to a Scots- French model dress of rust-red man. ⠀⠀ georgette, embroidered in black Solicitor, at Bow County Court: notorious gossip, I and white, and dotted with black Your wife is. Jet, with black and white model hat suggest? Man: What woman is
not?. to match.
Mr. W. A. Thomps performed the Did you tell your solicitor all you Barrister, at Bow County Court;
duties of "best mån."
are now telling us? Man: What The Rev. J. Kirk Macouschio has it to do with him?!!
year at the organ.
we may yet hear of further in- Inspector Moss and Inspector ventions akin to those now stand-Evans, both of whom returned to officiated, with Mr. G. E. Long- the Colony from leave yesterday ing to the credit of Mr. Van by s.s. Morea, are respectively ap- Druten.
pointed to the water Police and No. 2 Station, it is announced.
Not What it Seems.
It is reported that Mrs. Fritzie Maeyer, a native of Zurich, who was making the world trip aboard the a.s. Resolute, committed suicide whilst between Batavia and Indo- China. No details are avaliable. The deceased was only 26 years of
Following the ceremony, "a re ception was held in the Hongkong Hotel, at which many friends of both families were present.
The honeymoon is being spent at Repulse Bay, The bride's going away dress is a French model, of ceriso georgette, with shaded velvet border, and model hat. to
The happy couple are leaving for Home on the P. and O. Mantua, which sails to-morrow.
THE WEEK'S PICTURES.
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At a Chelsea inquest on Ernest Seldon Smith, aged 63, who died from hardening of the arteries, Dr. Sandiland said he was the tallest patient who had over been in and they could not get a bed long hospital. He was Gft. 7in, in height, enough for him,
The deputy-coroner, recording 4 verdict of death from natural causes, said he thought it would be a good idea if. hospitals secured a bed for such tall patients.
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Speaking at the Edinburgh Royal: High School Club dinner, Mr. Nor man J. Johnston told a story of a man, who had been asked to make his after-dinner speech as short as possible.
"I am asked to propose the toast of ----," the speaker said, "and I -- have been told that the less said about him the better!"
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A Chineso named Mok Sing, re- siding at No. 31, Wanchat Road, The unwritten dictum that you yesterday went to the No. 2 Police can never tell a woman'a age, and, Station, where he handed to the If you can, don't; carried out to officer on duty, $100 banknote, the strict letter by a benign Gov-which he explained that he picked At a moment when the rival ernment, which does not, however, up near the Wanchai Market. match. merits of wireless and cables are hesitate to reveal mere man's grey hairs to full frispection, is one of (being much discussed, the cinim by the arresting features of a little a young Dutch inventer, at present blue book, apparently uninspiring, In the Colony, that he has dis- which has come into our hands, covered a method whereby secrecy
the Hongkong Civil Service Idat for 1928. When economy has in radio telegraphic and telephonic been the watchword of Hongkong messages can be guaranteed, is of for many moons, we hesitate to age more than ordinary interest. Mr. estimate the mileage of the..red
A raid headed by Sub-Inspector BIG BATCH IN "TELEGRAPH" tape used in its compilation, but Van Druten says that not only enn much of interest has escaped the Dorling, of the Water Polico, was his apparatus' assure this, but, censor, and for the inquisitive it carried out yesterday on the s.s. what is more, as many
is a veritable gold-mine of secret Morea, and resulted in the capture as ten
There will be a big selection of Scene II-Capulet's Garden, near history. For instance, wo learn by the police of 19 automatics and
the Patent Improved Sanitary messages can bo transmitted
for the first time that in the early 2,000 rounds of ammunition. It topical local pictures in to-mor
Dustbin. row's issus of the Telegraph. simultaneously. The fact that he part of 1987 there was a brisk is learned that no arrest whs
(Noise of motor-cycle, off These will include a group of
Enter has already carried out transmis- demand for Soy at prices from made.
HE. the Governor and officials of Romeo. He festa at soars that
Romeo). sions in the Dutch East Indies, during the year 16 Ordinances $23.60 to $24.50 per cask, while
Returning to the Colony after the Kwang Wah Hospital, taken on and that the Government there has were passed. It is bracketed that being banished for life last year, a the occasion of H. E's visit this offered him 226,000 guilders for five of these were Amendments Chinese who appeared before Mr. weck; snapshots of the opening of the new Macao-Shekki Road, the patent rights, would appear to and, of course, the apology will be R. E. Lindsell this morning was showing the Governors of Hong accopted. The wealth of geniuses sentenced to twelve months hard kong and Macao; interesting pic- dispose of any question regarding is disclosed by the number of men labour and twenty strokes. The tures of the Fanling Hunt's re- the genuineness of his claim. receiving £1,000 a year and over, man's record showed that he had cent visit to Chincan territory
photographes taken at the baseball Seemingly, the inventor made pnwhile, those who earn their $60 three previous convictions.
per month are also graded by a
match between the U.S.S. Pittsburg Among passengers arriving by and the Filipino Baseball Club; a British brief perusal. Most of us have Consul-General at Batavia. In the been brought up to believe that 5.8. Moren from Home yesterday, portrait of Mr. Van Druten, the discovery, with a view to getting the days of Methuselah passed was Mr. J. Lamb, M.I.M.C.C., who young Dutch inventor of secret long ago, yet we find in contradic-is taking over the post of local wireless; a grouph of Royal it taken up by the British Govern- tion that Dr, Wharry, one-time Assistant Supervisor for the Mar-Yard engincera; Wah Yan ment, but because of lack of what Superintendent of the Civil Hos- cont. Company. He WAB accom- Collego pupils giving a Kym- Mr. Van Druten considered auf-pital, still draws a pension though panied by Mrs. Lamb and will pro-nastic display; and other pic-
he retired over forty years ago. able period.
bably remain here for a consider-tures relating to the Boy cient assurances, the matter has Anyone who feels bored may take
Scouts Inspection at Headquarters not been taken further. Now he the unusual measure of purchasing. The as. Wing On returned to Kowloon, and a photograph of House, the China Exhibition "at is on his way to Cavite, where he a copy of this edition in safe as harbour at 7.30 laat night, bring Marino Fraser, of HIM.S. Tamar, hopes to convince the Unitedsurance that it will rouse him from ing down the cargo of the strand-who is to meet "Whitey" Roberts ed Sanning. The Wing On did of the U. S. S. Black Hawk, in the not ground, as was at first thought main event at to-morrow's boxing might be the case, but there was tournament. a certain amount of difficulty in transferring the cargo and this, with the fog in the Delta, delayed
effort to interest the
States naval authorities of the value of his invention.
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EXCHANGE RATES.
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her.
Of more than special interest also will be a historic photograph of the Hongkong Interport cricket team which left hore for Shanghai on 1892 aboard the Bokhara, all
6.6.
never tore his trousers On the broken glass that crowns
a garden wall.
Jullet appears at window above,
and lights a cigarette.) .But struth! What light has
broken yonder window?
It is the sun-but no, it's
Juliet's pyjamas...
They're force enough to make
the moon go green,
And none, but fools do wear
them. Cast them off-
But not here, of course, in front
of all this crowd..
Sho speaks, but she says nothing.
How like a woman.
Jullet, Oh, Romeo, Romeo, where-
.fore art thou Romeo?
Romeo. My godfathers and god-
mothers worked it on me When I was too young to argue. Juliet,
Oh, it's you, is it? There'll be trouble if they catch
you,
Especially as you've trodden on
the flower beds.
Did you want anything?
Well, I like that.
dels Don't answer: You missed your stroke, because
our stance was wrong.
-I suppose you mean you are in
love with me.
A
The annual dancing display of
of whom, with Romeo. .12.12 the pupils of Miss Daisy O'Keefe, the exception of two, lost their Lady, by yonder moon I swear 20.41 under the distinguished patronage lives when that vessel foundered. Juliet. 18:21 of His Excellency the Governor, This photograph was found by Mr. .34.605 Sir Cecil Clementi and Lady J. D. Danby amongst his father's .103% Clement, will be given at the papers when he was recently Home 24 Queen's Theatre on Wednesday on leave, and a copy of it is being 784
April 11, at 5 p.m. Part of the made to be hung in the Hongkong 2/0 proceeds will be devoted to Earl Cricket Club, pavillon, near the
Haig's Fund and the Nethersolo Bokhara Memorial Shield. .1/11 4.98 7782 Hospital.
.25.34 18.18
47.27/82
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Naturally, the inventor is not unduly communicative as to the means by which he claims to have solved a problem which has been Paris engaging the attention of radio Brussels.
Amsterdam experts for many years. Except- Berlin ... ing that he made the discovery Copenhagen
Vienna quite accidentally, whilst carrying Helsingfors out experiments on other lines, Lisbon.
Bucharest and that fils apparatus, which is Buenos Aires by no means costly, can be fitted Shanghal
Yokohama to ordinary rádio instruments, New York Mr. Van Druten Is Inclined to say Genova
Milan... very:
little. To the query as to
Stockholm how one recipient could pick up Oslo the message and another could Prague Madrid not, he replies: "That is the Athens the secret." And, of course, it is lo
Bombay that secret which he hopes to turn Hongkong to good account for himself. One Silver (spot)
Silver (forward) of the chief drawbacks of wireleas has been the lack of sdcrecy, for, [by tuning-in to the appropriatę
Mr. W. Schoßeld held an enquiry wave-length, it is easy for receive at the Kowloon Magistracy on Wed- ing sets to pick up the ordinary nesday concerning the death of a radio message. Since the time [14-year-old Chinese girl who was when wireless frat became really mocked down and fatally injured by a motor-bus at the junction of practicable, there have been Nathan Road and Ning Po Street numerous improvements effected, on March 7. Evidenco was to the but none of these have really dis-in front of the bus; and the jury effect that the girl suddenly dérted posed of the problem which this held the driver blameless..
JAPANESE WANT ARRESTS
MADE.
This morning's Harbour Ofice THE AMOY SITUATION. 18.295 reports gave 16 arrivals and 14 departures, with Japanese holding 28.08 the top return for arrivals and 3784 British the best departures. Ton-. 6.59/04 nage was fair, but British cargoes 1/5.81/32 were low, Japanese registering all ..2/04 the high cargoes under both head- 26.7/10 ings. At 9 a.m. there remained 1204 69 vesscle in harbour, of which British Wireless.
22 were British.
HOME FOOTBALL.
A HIGH-SCORING GAME.
vernacular papers states, that on A Shanghal telegram to local Wednesday, there was a big secret meeting of members of the anti- Japanese Society In Amoy. It is said that the Society will elect now officials, and adopt fresh mon- sures to deal with the Japanese in carrying out the boycott..
The Japanese authorities fo Amoy have requested the Chinese Government there to arrest two of London, Mar. 29. the ringleaders of the agitators, At Nottingham to-day, in the adding that if these loaders are feated Reading by 6 gonis to 3 themselves will take independent Second Division, the Forest de- not detained, then the Japanese
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action.
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Well, come to that, I go all Boupy when I look at you. But love, according to Havelock
Ellis,
Is just a biological phenomenon Consisting of an excitation of
the erotogenous zones. You get it cured by any psycho-
analyst.
Bomeo. You've got it all wrong, kid, I meant Holy Matrimony. Juliet. You must be dippy. Pick
the straws out of your hair, That ancient superstition's been
exploded
Long agoAN
Romeo. Honest, I mean it. And besides, if we don't like it, It simply meang a hotol bill, and alimony. VARIAN Julfet. Well, if you can stick it,
I'll try anything ones, Romeo. Oh, boy, some bird! Til:
tall the word. Julist. You need mo“. T'll give
all the papdra Interviews myself to-morrow,
Good night.
(Exount)!!