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TUESDAY, JANUARY (22,

Red Hackle

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HEPBURNPROSS

OLABOR

TANG YUK, DENTIST Successor to

the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Agullar Street.

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.

SCOTCH

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Agents:-

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RESPECTABLE MASSEURS.

MR. R. SHIMIDZU,

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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.)

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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

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surface of a roof

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used for polishing 24-Anolent Aryan raza 26-Engla 27-Swallows hurriedly ‚ 28–Printers' apprentices

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appear in to-morrow's lasus along with a new cross-word guzzle.)

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

KEY BI MAUL UND

HONG KONG HEIGHTS

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Victoria Peak

Signal Station

Mt Parkar

Mountain Lodge A

The Eyrie

Penk Hotel

Talkode

THE CHINA MAIL,

RADIO TOPICS

B.B.C. NEW. HOME

TO BE ERECTED IN CENTRE OF THE METROPOLIS

THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED

parcel arrived and the new valves were carefully unpacked. They were substituted in the super-het. I switched on and nothing happened. A glance around soon showed that the flash lamp fuse was missing from its holder between H.T. and {LT, A spare could not be found, and to save time I shorted the holder and switched on again; Still po

TO-DAY'S RADIO

BROADCAST BY G. O. W.

ON 350 METRES

量

The following programme will

The B.B.C. have issued particu- lars of the new building which is signal, and after a moment queer be broadcast to-day from the Gov- about to be erected on a central post-crackling noises came from the ernment radio station on the Peak, time the wave-length being 850 metres. tion in London. It is difficult to H.T. battery. After some

visualise the extraordinary size of spent in looking round the set theThe call sign of the station is

5.30 to 8.80 pim-Demonstration

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7.48 pm-Evening Weather, Re- port...

8 P.--Evening Programme (H.M.V, & Victor Records). Gems from "Road, Marie,” Gems from "No No Nanette,"

Victor Light Opera Company, I'm Going Back To Old Nebraska," "Sweet Susanne,"

battery was observed to have a this structure, but we can get some decided bugs, and I hastily switch-G.O.W., Indication from the fact that there ed off to investigate. Practically will be mine studios forming the all the cells had burst, and the pitch Programme. central part of the building, and one insulation on the top had large cracks. Obviously as the set has of them will be capable of accom=

been working well for some weeks modating an audience of 1,000 the new valves were suspected, and persons as well as a large orchestra. test revealed that the grid and ¦ The studios will be grouped one plate of ons specimen were touching, above the other in a vast central causing a direct short across to L.T. tower of heavy brickwork, and the Although I have come across this 'particular fault in some of the new administrative offices will be group Pentode valves, it has never before ed all round, this protecting the been experienced in connection with studios from street noises and other the ordinary 3 electrode valve. As Wide cor the battery was a super-capacity one external disturbance. ridors and brick walls will insulate the current passing must have run ino a good many volts. Large the studios from the offices, and an quantities of gas would therefore important point is that no vertical he generated with the result that steel work will be used in the central the pressure fractured the sides tower so as to eliminate any possi-and the insulated tops. The valves bility of sound interference between had gone west. the broadcasting rooms

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Maral-Never omit your fuse lamp when experimenting, for you never can tell what may happen, even with brand new valveal

Visit To "Uncle" Burroughs The description of this magni- ficent building recalls a visit I paid The Wireless Salesman to "Uncle" Arthur Burroughs Just

The charming ways of the sales. after 2LO started broadcasting, man are an endless source of won- writes "Ultimax." In those daysder and amusement. The other day

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Organ Solo. Lewis James. "Recit: Rage, I Melt, 'I Burn," "Aria:. ✪ Ruddler Thin The

Cherry,"

"Honour And Arme,”

Basso Baritone Peter Dawson,

(a) "Air De Ballet," (b) "Callirhos," "Pas Des Cymbales,”

The Band of HM. Coldstream Guard. "Little Log Cabin Of Dreams,”. "Where My Caravan Has Rested"

Tenor Lambert Murphy. "Trio in G Major," (Haydn).

Alfred Corto, T-Jacques Thibaud- Pablo Casals,

"Country Dance In G Major," "Spring Song," (Mendelssohn).

Carillon. W. E. Jordan.

Opening Chorus-They're Here!" "Chorus Of The Bells Come On!"

Symphony In C Major,”

Metropolitan Opera Chorus.

("Jupiter").

Mozart Albert Coates and the London Symphony Orchestra. "Suite Francaise," (Foulds).

The band of HM. Coldstream Guards. "Fancy Our Meeting," 1 pointed to a valve. "Is that a The Beggar," good detector?". I said. "

"Excellent, sir," he replied. "What," I asked. "is the mutual conductance?"

The answer to this was not in the

Soprano.. Lilian Davies. 10 pan.-News Bulletin.. Tales Of Hoffman-Barcarolle," "Calm As The Night,”

the whole staff of the B.B.C. was I wandered into the wireless de concentrated in one room. Mr.partment of one of the big stores Reith, the chief (now Sir John while a companion was busy choos Reith) ocoupled one corner, "anding some material in the adjoining with his secretary, the engineer, department. A beautiful young "Uncle Caractacus" and the neces- man stood behind the counter. anry typists gave an air of bustle to Surrounding him were stacks of the whole scene. Those were days cheap valves, and as I stopped to when one was looked upon as t glance at a leaflet giving the char- great expert if one owned a single- acteristics, he leaned over and said: valve set, or talked of grid-leaks or

"Can I help you?" atr-space condensers! The actual evening programme consisted of rather uninspiring musical items lasting 3 hours, and there were only a few thousand registered listeners in this country. To-day, the number has reached over two millions and a half, and the London programmes sent out from the short wave station at Chelmsford are heard by listeners all over the world. These facts are sufficient refutation of the pessimist's pro- phecy that the pubile would soon tire of this new invention. On the contrary, wireless is fast becoming an essential public service, and now we are to have a building of euch magnificence that it almost takes one's breath away — enormous studios with waiting-rooms, bend room, engineers room, announcera room, listening room, echo room,

A stoking rod sticking out of the eight rehearsal rooms, six waiting-

"Have you one of those tiny cab of an LM.S. goods train travel- rooms, & reception, sulte, and a

and 12-volt batteries they use in foun-ling between Kensington special dramatic effects studio, and,tain pen torches?” [?

Cricklewood was struck by a passing last but not least, the cost will not

"Certainly, sir." He brought a electric train and rebounded and be far short of half a million

knocked the fireman, Mr. A. Good- package from another counter. pounds.

man, unconscious.

an leaflet, but he answered without a

Duet Lucrezia Bori and moment's hesitation, "Twenty, sir." "Laugh, Clown, Laugh,"

Lawrence Tibbett. (This obviously referred to the "In The Woodshed She Said She amplification factor.)

Would," "But that is an extraordinary figure," I ventured.

At times we hear a good deal of talk to the effect that broadcast has reached le saturation point, but the argument is difficult to 'reconcile with this example of continuous progress before us,

Blowing Up the H.T. Battery

He smiled: "There is nothing better in the standard price range. of valves."

"Do you connect the gridleak to positive negative of the flament?"

or

"Negative, he replied. (The leaflet clearly said "for detection the grid should have a positive bias!") I thought it time to change the subject.

"This," he confided, "scontains two dry batteries, giving a total of $ volts. A dry battery always gives 1-volts, a wet battery" he pointed to an accumulator "always" gives two volts, whatever the size."

On a shelf behind was a tray of small Leclanche cells. “What kind

Have you ever experienced the | ofà battery is that?” I asked, with sensation of exploding the H.T. | child-4ike Innocence,

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battery? It is not the kind of ad- "That is a wet H.T. block of 32, venture that generally happens, but | cells, a most popular method of pro-]; I went through, bhia alarming ex-viding H.T. potential, recharges perience the other day. This was during the night and is ready when how-1 had been testing a 7-valve you switch on the next day”...... short wave super-heterodyne re- ceiver and a representative of a well-known valve concern happened to drop in. I mentioned that there was poor amplification in the inter- mediate amplifier. “Why not," he said, "try a set of our new high | magulfication valves?" I thanked him, and in a day or two a bully

"So that being a wet battery you get a total of 64 volts?" I ventured. "Well-or-not really. Although actually. It is a wet battery it is really similar to a dry sell battery, each cell giving only 154-

As I said before, salesman is varily a source of entertainment.

Comedienne Gracie Fields.

"Humoreake," "Traumerei,"

Pianoforte Solo. Mark Hambourg. Gems from "The Desert Song," Gems from "Countess Maritza,"

Victor Light Opera Company.

God Save The King, 10.30 p.m.-Close Down.

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