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WAR NEWS.

GERMAN FORGERIES.

TELEPHONES IN THE

TROPICS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 27TH, 1915.

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SHIPPING IN PORT.

STEAMERS.

Insoets delight in making their homes between the petticoats of insulators, and it is common to find, formed in a single night, wels glistening with dow and con- necting the wire to the insulator stalk,

ACHILLES, British str., 4,483, Joseph the insulation resistance of the line being

Edmondson, 25th April- Miike 21st inventing this was the use of oil insulators,

reduced to a few ohms. One idea for PANTUI, British str., 1,365, Fedy, 23rd

April, Coal-Order. in but it was soon realized that in the

line be put in a more condition th quickly be blocked up with insects and the

Quinn, has noticed that insets will not Spain, the Telegraph Engineer of British with ordinary insulators. Mr Guthrie

two lines run down the main struet, a enter glass insulators. telephone line with porcelain insulators In Georgetown

and an electric light line with American glass insulatore. In Georgetown to

Mr.

THE ENGINEER'S TROUBLES. The Berliner Tageblatt published re- bently in a prominent manner an article

The seriens difficulties encountered on German-Italian relations purporting countries

telephone engineering in tropical to be written by the Genoese deputy, Mar-

were described quis Carlo Conturione expressing sentiorical

papiór before the Institution of tropics the oil and oil chamber would

Engineers by ments of the greatest friendliness towards Llewellyn Freeen, who hoped that, as Germany. clared that he never wrote such an article.telegraph systems but also in hary The deputy subsequently de- similar troubles are met with not only in The Berliner Tageblatt, like iis confrèreelectrical installations especially where the Posnische heilung recently, would ap-overhead transmission lines are employed, pear to have been the victim of a hoax. his remarks would prove of interest als to other branches of the electrical engine cring profession.

A LOYAL NATIONALIST.

Mr. Geoffry Esmonde, second son of Captain Dr. Femonde, M.P., has joined the Cadet Company of the 7th Leinster Regiment at Killworth Camp. Captain Esmende's eldest son is a second lieuten ent in the 6th Royal Irish Regiment at Fermoy.

Hence father and two sons are in the 18th Irish Division under General

Parsons.

There is probably no other member of Parliament who has joined the colours with two sons,

DESTRUCTION AS A BUSINESS PRECAUTION.

According to an article appearing in the Sydney Morning Herald," Germans in Australia scoff at the idea of a post be

boycott. They frankly declare that their troops, before an evacuation of the occupied territory, whother forced or by treaty, will destroy all factories and, me chinery and all means of manufacturing commodities in Northern France and Belgium. Thus ab the end of the war the world will be compelled to purchase in Germany staffs and other goods which were formerly the produce of the devast nted districts.

"MORE"""KULTUR."

WEAKNESS AND EFFEMINACY" AMERICANS.

OF

an electric-light line with American glass es run down the main street, a tok phene line with porcelain insulators and insulators. In the insect season the porcelain insulators are blocked with insects am.cl their

up

webs,

April-Shanghai 20 April, General.

Butterfield & Swire. BOURBON, French str., 998, Lover Mont, 25th April-Saigon 22nd April, Rice

Chinese f

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Doyle, 25th April-Saigon 19th April, Rice-Shewan, Tomes & Co. CHUNGKING, British atr., 1,011,

Roca

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Lowie, 19th April - Swatow April-Butterfield & Swire. CHUSAN, British str., 1,337, R. Roberton,

DAIYA MAZU, Japanese str., 2,750, Y. 24th April-Bangkok 13th April, Rice-Butterfield & Swire. Goto, 17th April-Wakamatsu th April, Coal-Mitsu Bassar Kaisha. ESANG, British str., 1,127, Baker, 21st Hongay 18th April, Coal-Jardine, Matheson & Co. FENGTEIN, British str., 1,073, A. Harris, 19th April Swatow 18th April, Ballast.Butterfield & Swire. FEITHIOF. Norwegian str., 891, Jons. improvement should result in the insula-HAITAN. British str., 1,183, J. W. Evans, Cliristensen, 24th April Bankok 16th April, General. Chinese.

He said that the main troubles are due. many natural effects caused by dan! not to the heat, but to the damp and the heat, the humidity of the atmosphere in many places varying between 50 and so per cent. This damp keat produces a marvellous growth of vegetation. 20 thick that along the sides of while the glass ones remain as clean country 'roads thero are actual

as ever. Apparently the insects prefer walls of green leaves perhaps soft a dark place for their home. The ordinary or 100ft, high, the growth of which is glass insulator is more hygroscopic than day and grow as high again in the on- so rapid that they may be cut back on Porcelain, and the author is therefore suing 24 hours, while insect life is as pro-glass could be easily obtained considerable melined to think that if oil insulators of life as the vegetation. Lightning, again,

has a virulenco unknown in this country. and even the wild animais do their best to increase the engineers' labour. I

parte, for instance, it is not un- usual to have a mile or two of linca wrocked by giraffes, elephants, or mon keya. When the giraffes roaming over the wilds of East Africa come up against telegraph or telephone line they have not the sense to draw-bock or duck her heads, but push on, carrying wires and sometimes poles with them.

SUBSCRIBERS INSTRUMENTS.

tion.

DISCUSSION-OF-PEACE-

TERMS.

APPEAL TO THE REICHSTAG.

a renewal-of-the agitation for freedom The meeting of the Reichstag has caused to discuss the conditions of peace." It is clearer than ever that the agitation comes from the parties which want free- dom to demand annexations of territory, such claims. and if possible to pin the Government to

agricultural

the ravages of white ants on the instru- The use of teak practically prevents ments, but there are other insects. In Nigeria &

A petition has now been addressed to fancied an instrument as a hive, gaining the German Peasants League, the Cen swarm of bee-like insects the Reichstag by the Agrarian League, entrance by the alot of the switch-hook, tral Union of German Industrialists, the and though the comb. they made in the League, and the German League of the League of Industrialists, the Hanka Interior was cleared out over and over Middle Classes in fact, by the chief again, it was always re-formed, until in German industrial and despair the engineer had the whole ap- paratus removed. The spider, again, is organizations. The petition criticizes the a real post all over the tropics, delighting recent official article in the North Professor Edward Meyor, the dis- circumvent the insect plague telephone ill-informed about the opinion of the to build its nest in the telephone case. To German Gazette, says that its authors are tinguished German historian, has pati- cases should be seated up as closely as Country, and proceeds: tioned the Kaiser to put an end to the possible. The switch-hook should carry Bystem of interchange of professors be brass plate to keep the slot in which tween the German universities and Har- the arm works entirely covered, and it is vard University. The Professor com-desirable to have no terminals above the plains of the antagonism displayed by eric but to take the conductors ex-President Elliot ana

President aste likely to be Lowell, of Harvard, towards Germany,

by holes which are sealed up and declares the

experienced with the subscribers instrument. German professora

Js that should dissolve an association with them due to maltreatment by the subscriber and others in America, who, in spite of himself. The fact that the instruments and stronger, with secured it, greater their learning, are inflicted with the are largely used by native servants spirit of weakness and effeminacy,"

accounts for many faults, but the most West and East, and with thfrontiers in absurh fault ever heard of by the author and Colonial extensions of territory was due to the stupidity of a white man which are necessary for the security ef who was found to be in the habit of using our sea power, as well as for military and Without those oxton- the inouthpicos of his telephone, which economic reasons. hung from a wall instrument by his desk, as a cigarette ash tray.

THE "BLOCKADE,"

A German who happens to come across Great Britain's Board of Trade returns for February must find the results of the submarine blockade" becoming "curi- ouser and curiouser," says the Pall Mall Gazette,

For the month in which the drand decree went forth for the isolation and starvation of England was also the firos since the outbreak of war in which our imports have improved upon last year's figures. While higher prices have something to do with this, it is a fact that more flour last

month with the pirates prowling around

than in February, 1914. The question whether or not a blockade was "effective" has seldom been answered with such ironical clearness,

GERMAN WIRELESS TRAP.

the conditions of peace is allowed, it will If free discussion about the object and appear that, wird quite trifling excep tone, the whole German people, irrespec- tive of party, and in the Gold as well as will. This will is to hold out to the very at home, is pressed by a single powerful so that our German Fatherland existence, FREZA PIArge from ito fight

ending of the war in such a way that a

sions of territory our common gasl—the

a repetition of such struggles somos practic ally: pit of the question cannot be

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It appears probable that the Govern tendency at present, do go farther and ment will be able to confine the discussion demand the automatic system, obstacle which at present it, in the and will not face the issue in public. But an to the sacrecy of the Budget Committee, author's opinion, insuperable, is that the Meanwhile there are some interesting maintenance of really satisfactory insult criticisms in the Radical Press. tion on overland lines is almost im Frankfurter Zeitung, obviously with an possible, and if pressure of 24 or 10 eye to the Bocialists, says it does not con- moderately fair working of the system principle to all annexations should main- would be extremely doubtful. To put the tain the principles at all coste in the vires underground is usually prohibitive new circumstances which have arisen. in cost, as some of the subscribers' pre- On the other hand, discussion is pra mises are perhaps 20 miles or more from tura for two reasons. In the first place, the exchange. With an automatic system Germany has not reached her military not only would insulation troubles have goal, and it is as yet impossible to know, to be expected with the high pressure on for instance, what new territory Ger U.E. MILITARY ATTACHE'S NAME FORORD.

the lines, but the somewhat intricate many could acquire in the East and hold selectors and pre-selectors and other without all too great a responsibility. apparatus would have to work in a The Frankfurter Zeitung then proceeds, The cause of the recall of Major G. T. climate capable of causing trouble even in very instructive language:- Langhorne, this American military in simple ungueto system. At present A second consideration is political, attaché at Berlin, which has aroused the the author is entirely, in favour of a Even if we win the most complete victory greatest interest in Washington, is now magneto system, with either mechanica that can be conceived, wo must never said to be the unwarranted use of his restored indicators or incandescent lamps yield to the belief that we can be free of our enemics for all time. The main thing name in German wireless messages for worked by relays. the purpose of deceiving the Allies con- Although camel appears to be a very is, not to have again to fight such a berning German military operations. flexible, non-absorbent material, likely to coalition, so that a future war shall not maintain a high insulation, experience of bring us into a similar danger to that Wireless messages were sent to the United enamelled wire in the tropics is not al: which we have now happily averted. For States War Department signed "Lang together satisfactory, especially for small. this purpose it will be necessary to make home, praising the German military gauge windings of coils. Two colonica had a distinction in the treatment of dispositions and giving various particu-boards equipped with enamel-insulated oppounts at the peace, just as Bismarck, lars of great strategio value. These wires throughout, but in a short time efter a war, met the enemy, not with insanges were tapped by wireless stations various relays failed. On unwinding the regard to the position of the moment, in England and France, and, boing n coils tiny green spots were found, ap- but with a view to the future. Tho plain language, were immediately read.parently caused by the damp acting on mental process, therefore, which we have The fact that they were signed by the the copper. These could be accounted for to go through concerns not merely the American military attaché is said to have only by assuming that very fine wires in problem what territory in East and West caused much weight to be attached to passing through the bath do not pick up may be desirable for our colonization and them. The ruse was finally discovered, the enamel evenly, so that at various our industry, but the much more gour and the best way out of an awkward situa points there is only a very thin coating plicated problem of our general position tion was considered at Washington to be or no ecating at all. Search is now being in the world-for instance, whether in Major Langhorne's recall. No protest made for some more satisfactory method the long run it is Russia or England that cau be made formally to the German of insulation for these fine wires For will be the more dangerous enemy. Cavernment, it is said, because the false other purposes enamel insulation gems to Public debate about this question is nie sages were sent ostensibly by private sive entire satisfaction.

obviously impossible at present, although One frequent worry in tropical ex-it is to be desired that everybody should changes is the subscribers' objection to seriously busy himself with these things,

ringing off after a conversation, and so that in the decisive hour wa may be 9.15 pm-Albert Morrow at the Bijou MACHINE BULING, GOLD-LETTERING, MARBLING, Ero- to avoid the consequent delays in freeing, guided not by phrases but by realities. low circuits an automatic clearing sien-l has been fitted to all boards in the Maly States, even to those for 30 subscribers.

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The Germans are applying a new form of robbery in Russian Poland. The Com- mander-in-Chief has decided that all pay- metats by German troops are to be male. standardized in most tropical cou. German paper: which has no value ont Overhead construction is now fairly in German money that is, no doubt, by the end of August, and odds of 8 to 3 tries, and the poles either consist of side Germany at the fixed rate of 100 that peace overtures would be under way wrought iron taper tubes with cast-iron, marks for 60 roubles. This exchange is by June 16th. This optimism is not bases or are built up of tubes of riven equivalent to 163 $-3 marks for 100 everywhere shared, but it is interesting sheet steel. Wooden polls in mest part: roubles, and this price is calmly fixed to note that even the most pessimistic do are hopeless on account of white ants, but although the quotation in Berlin is 211.5 --not believe that hostilities will be pro- wooden arms ars fairly common, as the marks for 100 roubles, or only about longed after the end of the year. The white ant will not work its way up 15f four marks below the normal quotation. Wall Street Journal editorially declares for more of iron tube to reach then that the forcing of the Dardanelles will arma, which are of tubular irou, if hard attribute this decision to anxiety about Eemi-official German journals schmaly probably mark the beginning of the end. wood is not cbtainable, carry 6, 8. or 12 the state of Russian finances, and say that There is a note in the market also,"Cordeaux porcelain insulators, ineunted is is a good thing, to show Germany's

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ngocial The market is saying now that insulation of the lines is very low, owing strength." peace is not far away, with or without to atmospheric humidity. The vectation, PRISONERS AND FARM LADOUR. the starvation of Germany, a point upon however, is more troublesome, and the en The Germans authorities are now work- which information is so diverse that sen- gineer is hampered in taking the only ing out an elaborate scheme for the sible discussion is profitless. Nationaleasure that would enable him to itaprove employment of prisoners of war on farm obstinacy is an unknown factor in the way the trees and relueting of the adequate supply of this labour will be B WEERLY PREEN, JUST to DECEMBER,

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