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RADIO TOPICS

RADIO TELEPATHY.

INSTANCE OF DELAYED' IMPRESSION.

The recent radio telepathy tests carried out by Dr. V. J. Woolley, hon. secretary of the Society of Psychical Research, with the help

RADIO IN MALAYA. WIRELESS IN TURKEY

„NEGOTIATIONS FOR GOVERN-

MENT LICENCE.

LICENCE BEING CONSIDERED.

Mr. Powell Robinson has sent us report of an extraordinary gen- eral meeting of the Malaya Brond of Sir Oliver Lodge, are discussed casting Company held on June 21, in the current "Radio Times," at which a report was received from which states that 26,320 replies the company's representative with were received from all over the Bri-reference to past and present nego tiations with the Government re tish Isles, the Continent and the company's application for America, and at least one from Aus- broadcasting licence and in respect of Government Notification No. 1531 tralia.

the of 1926.

Mr. Powell Robinson who presid,

INCREASING POPULARITY.

June 9.

The popularity of wireless in Turkey is extraordinary. A year ago only a few enthusiasts possCOR- ed wireless sets, but to-day there are thousands of listeners through- c: Asiatic and European Turkey,

deaters

find and Constantinople themselves anable to cope with the demand for wireless murial.

At present there is only one wire- leez station in Turkey, that of Osmanié, 16 miles outside Constan-

receives andi tinople. Osmanié transmits, and has a wavelength of 1,200 metres; its call is "Radio

Dr. Woolley, referring Le second subject, a Japanese print of a human skull resting on grass with ed reported that the company had Stambul." On June 16, however, a two birds, reports that only four once again, and quite recently, en- new station, which has cost over people described the picture as a tered into correspondence with the £100,000, will be opened at Angora, rleture of a skull, one of whom add-Government and had received re and it is said that this station will Colonial be the most powerful in the Near ed the remarkable detail that it lies from the acting represented a skull in a garden. Secretary and from the Secretary to East. The control of wireless tele- graphy in Turkey is in the hands of Two others described it as a pic the Malavan Wireless Committee.

The Chairman pointed out that a limited company in which the ture of a skeleton.

He ints out that "Previous at- it was over four years since the first Post Office, the official Anatolian tempts at experimental telepathy application was made, but Govern- News Agency, and the Banque have shown us that when a series ment had only recently written stat d'Affaires are interested. Any one of objects is used there may be a ing that the application was under can purcase a licence by paying tendency for the impression of a consideration, although the not £114 (308.), and a heavy fine is im-

Infication, of the acceptance of the posed on persons who listen with given object to be delayed,

licence. Thef· possessing view of this it seems of interest to wireless committee's proposals, was out note that No. 3. an object, was published last September. He men- daily progmmme broadcast by the given by no less than 687 listeners ioned that at the conference held company is divided into two parts; as a skull and by 41 as a skeleton, on May 20 at the Singapore Post the first begins at 5 p.m. and con- while No. 5 was given by 148 as Ofice, the company's solicitor was tinues until 7: the second is from

also present.

8.30 to 10.30. Duru-d-han, the skull and by 46 as a skeleton.

On that occasion questions were! Turkish Conservatoire, provides

Occidental asked as to the proposal to form the Oriental and British Malaya Broadcasting Co. played by an which would acquire the rights and posed of men and women. interests of the Malaya Broadcast- ing Co., Ltd., and all questions pat to the company's representatives were duly answered.

FEWER B.B.C. STATIONS.

LORD GAINFORD ON FUTURE OF RADIO.

A list of the members of the Malaya Broadcasting Co. Ltd.. Lord Gainford, chairman of the numbering just under 50, was British Broadcasting Corporation, banded to the members of the speaking at Truro of the future of Malayan Wireless Committee pre- broadcasting said it was impossi-sent on that date. May 20.

increase the size of the

ble

to

orchestra

music

com-

Darul

Talim, another Turkish orchestra,| plays Oriental music.

The first item usually consist of Turkish music followed by Ana- tulian melodies composed by Rashid

TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional „phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

12.

13

17

20

121

22.

15 6

26

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36

37 38

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40

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45

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48

HORIZONTAL

1-A watering-place 4-Astern 7-Bong for two

performers 8-Cabbage salad. 10-To scorch 11-Up above 19-Armadan 15-Spara tires 17-To become Bull 15-S. can. State

(abbr.) 10-Discharge 20-You

21-Nevertheless 23-Auditory organ

25 "The Empire Stata"

(abbr.)

26-Exclamation

29-To Intimidate 30-Canine 32-Concerning

©THE INTERNATIONAL LYNDICATE.

12.

16

25

HORIZONTAL (Cont) { VERTICAL (Cont.))

84-A gambling game

188–A'boum of light

[$7-Mituro

31-Playful 41-Exultant 43-Otherwise [44-Part of a stove

45-Loaned

47-Verse

48-Alao

49-A country hotel

VERTICAL

1-A pladge

2-Closely confined

S-During

4-Whlie

12-Suffering

18-To oook in grease

14-Rated

16-Ta piece out 16-A pig-par 22-Seir

24-Prat time

25-Away

27-A rabbit 28-A pat lamb 29-Grooked

so-Tinge 31-Carved

32-Unclosed

83-Ata

SB-A brooklet

B-Product of Ireland $8-Newspaper

6-A shred

7-Obligatione

-The early bird's

breakfast 10-Depressed

paragraph

40-A game of chance

42-A bird

46-Toward

47-3.1416

SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSSWORD PUZZLES

Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure.. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belange in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

emai and other Turkish musicians. Piano and vialin solos by local artists are also given, and there is start a movement on fool to Turkish musical broadcasting society. Western European classi broadcast wave-band in view of the Formation of Public Company. cal music invariably finds a place just requirements of other essential Leading members of the com- in the programme, while the Anato-

resident departments, the Army, War Office,munity

in Singapore, lian Agongy gives out a summary Air and commercial and marine ser- Penang, Taiping, Malacca and of the day's news. The jazz band vices. The only alternative was to Johore were shown to be members from the Yildiz Casino is tr regular reduce the number of broadcasting of the company and it was stated and popular feature, and the prices stations in Europe from 170 to 100. that members of the parent com- of the Stambul Cereals Market are: He hoped such a change would be any would undertake the forma eagerly awaited by merchants in adopted in the near future.

ion of the British Malaya Broad- the interior of Anatolia, After 10 There were 10 stations in Britain casting Co., Ltd., with an authoris- p.m. it is the turn of the principal will then deliver a long and import- working on the broadcast waved capital of not less than $500,000. European capitals, and unless at- ant speech in which he will review band. excluding Daventry. Their The company would be a public mospheric conditions are usually propossis were to decrease the num-company and shares would be issu- bad, Moscow, Berlin, Vienna, Paris the progress of Turkey since the re- volution in 1922. Arrangements ber of British transmitters using ed for pubile subscription at and Rome can be heard with great are being made to broadcast his

distinctness, the broadcast waveband, for which each.

speech throughout Turkey and also exclusive wavelengths would be With reference to the announce- Owing to the lack of railway and in Europe. As the President of the granted to Britain, in on equitable ments in the Press inviting sub-road communications In Anatolia, Republic will speak in Turkish, his, international agreement.

scriptions by a provisional board of many of the smaller towns and vil speech will be unintelligible to the The objective was to bring to lirectors of the Malaya Broadcast-lages have hitherto been virtually vast majority of Europeans, but the every listener the choice of a mini-ing Service Lid, Mr. Powell Robin isolated from the outside world. All various Turkish Embassies and mum of two contrasted programmes son said that these gentlemen were kind of musical and other entertain- Legations abroad hope to be able capable of reception on the cheap all residents of Taiping, Perak, and ment has been denied them, and the to listen to their chief. The Ghazi In they had recently formed a public only occasions on which their in- Pasha himself has done all he can est and simplest apparatus. addition that would be the long company, with objects stated the habitants were able to hear concerts to encourage the development of wave station at Daventry, giving a prospectus, but had not obtained were when they came to Constan- wireless in Turkey, and he would] total of ten transmitters altogether. a broadcasting licence from the tinople. Now this is all changed appear to have been quite as suc- It was explained by an official of Government, which was the first Far away spots like Erzerum and cessful as he has been in other and the B.B.C. that Lord Gainford was essential for a broadcasting com- Diarbekir, not to mention smaller similar modernizing" schemes. referring to what is known as the pany.

places in Eastern Turkey, And "The Times," London. regional scheme.

themselves linked up, by means of the wireless, with Constantinople and with Europe.

"Under this scheme," the official said, "the whole country will ulti- mately be served by five, six or seven high-power stations using ten or more wavelengths, so that it will be possible for each station to send out two programmes on differ ent wavelengths. In that way we shall get the alternative grammes at which was are aiming."

RADIO DISTURBANCES,

pro-

Readers who are troubled by dis- turbances caused in their radio reception by local electric motors

take

Recommendations Adopted.

WAS

In view of the correspondence with Government, and the present

Because of their somewhat pro- negotiations with the Government hibitive coat, wireless sets are not for a broadcasting licence for

the reach of all, but yet within Malaya Mr. Powell Robinson said hotels, restaurants, cafes, chemists, that it was necessary for the barbers shops, and the like have! Mulaya Broadcasting Co., Ltd., to installed them, complete with loud steps to form the British speakers, with the result that these Malaya Broadcasting Co., Ltd., to establishments are crowded every establish broadcasting stations in night. The Anatolian, peasantry Malaya and if this meeting approvare indeed said to be exceedingly ed, an extraordinary general meet impressed by the possibilities of ing of the company would be call wireless. Many of the peasants are ed to pass a special resolution to unable to read or wrile, but They that effect.

have an ear for muele and, appre- After some discussion it

clate the material advantages agreed that the directors should which wireless may bring to them. will be glad to hear how the pro- take steps to carry out the recom- Here and there one comes across a blem was solved by a Brighton, mendations contained in the chair- fanatic who thinks that wireless is reader..

man's report, at an early date. an invention of the devil, and in He writes:

The correspondence between this connection an amusing story is going the round of Constantino- One of the Deputies, who has been foremost in popularizing the wireless, has a cook who refuses to believe that the sounds emanating! from the wireless set come from the outside world. He persists in be lieving that there is some hidden spirit inside the box, and so obsess- ed is he with this idea that he has chair-threatened to break up the whole

B.B.C. AND CRITICISM.

ple

"I am situated only a few yards Aitken and Ong Siang and the Gov- from a large garage where electric ernment relating to the application motors are in constant use. This, for a broadcasting licence was laid added to a near-by electric

sign on the table. caused so much interference that my radio reception was entirely wiped out. No matter how i alter- ed the direction of the aerial, the earth system, screened coils, &c., they made not the alightest differ- ence. As a last resource, I experi- The Earl of Clarendon, mented with different makea of man of the B.B.C., speaking at a Installation, rendering it necessary valves in the detection stage, but broadcasting dinner given by the for the Deputy to take steps never without any appreciable change, Forum Club, said it was impossible to leave his set unguarded. until discovered what may be to satisfy all tastes, but the B.B.C. The Turkish wireless company is described as the finest and most welcomed intelligent criticism. A now engaged in experimenting with sensitive detecting valve I believe body of the size of the corporation the broadcasting of speeches, as has ever been made. This was a must be organised, but they tried to the Government have realised what Mullard F.M.3, which seeins to have avoid bureaucracy.

a useful ally wireless can be to

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an uncanny ability to receive_only} Mre. Philip Snowden said the them during the coming elections.

first occasion on which those signals that are required. At B.B.C. had adopted as its matto,! The any time of the day now I can re- "Nation shall speak peace unto speech will be broadcast will be to- ceive excellent and perfectly clear nation." Broadcasting gave hun wards the end of June when the results due to this simple change gry souls that which they most Kemalist Party is holding ita Con- to a well-known British valve.”. needed.

gress in Asgora. The Ghazi Pazha

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