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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1930.

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

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

14

114

17

27 28

19

35

39

195

19

52 53 54

160

U

167

HORIZONTAL

1-Assist

5-Garden tool

10-Competent

14-5cent

15-Bird

16-Surfeit

17-Monster

9

10

112

113

16

223

157 158 159

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63

166

HORIZONTAL (Cont); VERTICAL (Cont.)

52-A vegetable (pl.). 56-Reply

60-King who Christian

ized Norway

61-Court papers

63-Mitigate

10-Precious stone (pt.)) £5-Acquicaca

19-Wander

22-Bawled

84-To wither

| 65-Promp

20-Roaming salesman |67-Leaping reptila

60-English manufactur

Ing center (9-Vehicle

1+Birds (Latin)

26-Ralsed platform

27-Hemonstrates 31-Carvile

36-Subsequently

38-Anaesthetic 38-161 (Roman) 39-Insect (pl.) 40-8taple article of

food

41-Metal money

42-No (Scot.)

43-6malt coln

44-Temporary peace

45-The third of a butt

or pipe (pl.)

VERTICAL

1-Eard 2-Margin

3--Domineer

-Cheret dignitaries 6-Supports by prope 6-Vim 7-Desert dweller,

E-Dealt out sparingly 9-Brought into band

apa 10-Athwart

47-Confined within cer 11-Stroke

tain limita

40-Headgear (pl)

61-Big waves

12-Affection

13+Scrutinized

21-At any time

23-Fatalflor

20-Austere 27-Sow

26-Frogs (Latin) 29-Fleh-eating animal 30-Tax (Scot.)

32-Search thoroughly

33-Visitor to Wonder

land

rand

|34-Govered on the in-.

vide

37-Farmer U. S. Prosl

dent.

40-Act of conferring 41-Mounted verssin for holding torches 43-Fuel

44-Conjunction

46-irritated

48-Annoys 60-Twilled woolen stuff 52-Inform fully 53-Prefix-pl

+

5-Traditional seat of.

ancient Irish Kings

55-Head of a family

S7-Lamant

58-Serf

59-Pastoral pipe 02-8pread

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in

to-mon rows issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

THE CHINA MAIL.

RADIO TOPICS

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

The following programme will be broadenst to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on 955 metres:-

5-5.30

of p.m. Programme Columbia Records by courtesy of Messrs. Anderson Music Company, "Adia"-Selection

(Verdi, arr. Tavan),

Now Queen's Hall Light Orchestra.

"My Ain Folk"

(W. Mills G. Lemon), "I Hear You Calling Me"

(H. Harford & C. Marshall),

"Four Ways'! (Erie Coates),

Maestros

Regal Cinema Orchestra

5.30-6 p.m.--Aunty Letty, Aunty Madge, and Uncle Jack will enter tain the Children.

6-7 p.m.-Programme of Colum bia Records by courtesy of Messrs. Anderson Music Company. "The Schoolmaster and the Boy"

(Ronald Jeans),

RADIO TELEGRAMS

It is notified for information that with effect from February 26 the local currency rates for radio telegrams to the countries named below will be Increased аз shown:-

Indo-China

.$0.35 Slam

..$0.00 Netherlands East Indies $1.10

ADVERTISING

U.S.

Time Purchased " Programmes

J. Goodman writes to the London Telegraph:

MARCONI MYSTERY

Cables and Wireless Shares

London, January, 20. Holders of Marconi's Wireless £1 shares who did not accept the offer to exchange into shares of Cables and Wireless, Limited, are expressing. emphatic protests against the

to the allocation Marconi company of only 4,411,766 out of the 30,000,000 21 shares of imperial and International Com- munications, Limited, which has taken over the communications

assets of the cable and Marconi companies.

not

On the basis of the Communica- I trust the B.B.C. will not be

tions

company's "standard induced by the munificent prospects held out to

them by potential ad revenue" of £1,885,000, the Marconl vertisers to adopt the policy of in- company would receive only about £274,000 revenue from its share- cluding advertisements in their pre-holding in the Communications com-

grammes.

I can hardly Imaging anyone who pany. has listened to the American pro- grammes, with their half-hours allotted to various trading concerns, will wish for the same thing in | Britain. Even the time signal"

is an advertisement:

Stand by for the time-signal from the Watch Manufactur-

Comedy Sketch by Cicelying Co. The watches are the

Courtneldge and, Jack Hulbert.

finest in the world, and can be "Rigoletto-Prelude and Duke's Song", obtained in all towns and cities of "Rigoletto Quartette",

the United States.

Maria Gentile, Ebe Stignani,

Alessandro Granda & Carlo Gale. "The Engineer (Will Fyffe), "Dr. McGregor" ........W Fyffe. "Chauve Souris-A Russian Bar

carolle" (Varlanoff),

"Chauve Souris-Round the

Chauve Souris Company Hay Wain" "Hungarian Dance in D Minor", "Cavatina"...Violin Solo by Arthur

Catterall with Piane.

Later one is told:

You have just heard 1 minute 30 seconds past 10 o'clock by the —— Watch Manfacturing Co. The watches are the best timekeepers made. They can be purchased from

United States. all jewellers and stores in the

Faney losing our "Big Ben" for that!

"Ivan Caryll Memories"

Mr. S. Wilding Cola says that (Ivan Caryll), "Paul Rubens Memories",

there would be only a brief com- Debroy Somers Band.ment, such as "This programme is "The Five O'Clock Girl-Up in the being broadcast under the direc-

Clouds",

tion of So-and-so Company." That is not the case in America, and while It might be so here at first, it would not for long satisfy "purchasers of time." Otherwise where would they get the advantage? -

"The Five O'Clock Girl Thinking of

You" (Kalmar & Ruby),

Layton & Johnstone. "On the Quarter Deck, March"

(K. J. Alford), "Ellesmere, March" (J. E. Grace).

The Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards. "Messiah He shall hed his Flock"

(Handel), "Creation's Hymn" (Beethoven),

Dame Clara Butt. "Wembley Military Tattoo",

The Band of H.M. Grenadier

7-8 gramme.

Guards.

p.m.-Experimental Pro

8 p.m.-Chinese Programme re- layed from Ko Shing Theatre until end of Play.

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

ORS

ENATE

DONOR RIGS

DEGA POTS

PELD GRABS NAIL LANG DEEPENS}

put forward by the Marconi direc In the light of this, the estimate

tors in their report last May, when they sought to prove the desirability of the £1 shareholders exchanging their shares for Cables and Wire- Jess, Limited, can be further examined.

The Directors' Figures The Marconi directors, without themselves to 231 committing estimate of the revenue of either the Marconi company or Cable and Wireless, published figures in the May report based on the assumption that the Marconi company will pay 20 per cent, on its Ordinary shares and that Cables and Wireless will pay the dividend on ita fixed-divi- dend capital.

But if the Marconi pays no more; than 20 per cent on its Ordinary capital, its total annual distribution will be only £447,000, of which only of profits £173,000 would consist from non-communication assets (the manufacturing and royalty side of the business).

On the other hand, from the figures so far available it would seem that Cables and Wireless must receive twice or three times £178,000: If advertising firms are allowed from its interest (as a Marconi to "purchase time," the programmes shareholder) in the Marconi non- will become patchy, and interlarded communication assets if it is to meet No doubt a few big firms my capital. with the merits of So-and-So's soap. the dividend on its fixed-dividend

Thus

directors' the Marcont broadcast occasionally a two-hour concert, but the smaller firms, who calculation of May last seems to be will have to be catered for, will be based on two mutually exclusive able to pay only for odd half-hours. assumptions. Then good-bye to our operas and symphony concerts!

NAVAL PARLEY

are

The proceedings of the naval conference

belig regularly broadcast across the Atlantic and thence throughout North America.

Mr. F. W. Wile, who was Berlin correspondent of The Daily Mail from 1906 to 1914, apeaks from London every Thursday evening over the 65 stations of the Columbia

The Marconi board might use- fully enlighten its shareholdera by an explanation, as their Interests are vitally affected by the allocation of the Communications company's shares.

There are many uncertain factors that might affect the revenue of the Marconi company, but, for the guidance of shareholders, it would be interesting to know exactly what the Marconi directors had in view in their statement of May last Daily Mall.

broadcasting system, which has WIRELESS PHONES 20,000,000 listeners.

Transmission from London Is Successful Experiments

jointly by use of the ocean tele-

phone cables and radio short waves.

This radioed picture of the wedding of Italy's royal heir to Princess Murie Jose of Belgium shows an-interlor view of the famous" Pauline Chapel in the Quirinai Palace. In a magnificent ceremony, which carried Home back to the feudal splendour of the Middle Ages, Crown Prince Umberto, future King of Italy, took his childhood sweetheart for his bride. Thandérons acclaim greeted, the happy couple as they motored through streets packed with human ty, in the Holy City after the culmination of their wedding cere mony.

ATLANTIC

3200 MILES

at Sea

J

Now York, Dec. 23. Another chapter was written into the annals of communication when persons aboard an neroplane, flying 3,000 ft. above New York city, con- versed by means of the wireless telephone with passengers on the Leviathan, Inbound, some 700 miles at sen. So easily were the con- nections made and so clear the con- veraation that the participants in the unique demonstration could not help but feel that it was a perfectly normal procedure rather than the making of communication history.

The aeroplane, a Ford tri-motor, owned by the Bell Telephone Laboratories and known as the "Aying telephone booth," ascended with its passengers, including two reportera and several radlo technicians, from Hadley Field, New Brunswick, NJ.. shortly after 1.80 p.m. As soon as the machine, under the guidance of Captain A. Ray Brooks, had reached an altitúde of 2,000 ft., Mr.F. S. Bernhardt, a radio engineer, handed muzzled" microphones and headphones to those on board, which måde it poe- sible to carry on a conversation above the noise, of the motora,-- United 'Press, or

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