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GREAT STRENGTH OF BAMBOO.

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1n B intrainctors nute to a paper and Telephony, published by the Marconi rend before the Engineering Seristy of Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., contains the China, at Shanghat, it was expiniord following statement, signed F. ]

with instructions Robinson," regarding the position in General Ma Lien Chia of Anhui has that, in accordance

H. 14321 Heidenstun. China:- wired to the Glovermanent stating that he given by Mr.

carrying His Majesty's Mails, will be despatoired fully agrees with General Chi fisich Yuan, Engineer-in-Chief of the Whangpos Can From the purely technical point mƐ

of the view, "no great progress in wireless tele- from this port 4.M. on MONDAY, the 18th of Kiangst, about the revity for the mechatient properties of bamboo reported graphy took place during the year 1922. JUNE, taking Cargo for the above Porta.

Silk and Valoable Carge for Italy, France on by Mr. B. Ekoliind. Engineering Asd Recent devolopments in this great country and London (under arrangement) will be cau- organization of a joint sweinl railway; forer for guarding the various sretions staat in charge of the Bearl's Construes have moved rather on the lines of build rered by this Steamer proceeding to Bombay of the Tientsin-Pakow Line, with a view: tim Department, had been made.

ing up an organisation to operate the and there transhiged to the en-carrying

Steamar für Marseilles and London, to presenting any reptition of the

Soit consisting of compart sand, it was existing wireless stations. Linelwag batuit outrage within the stated. is most suitable for a bamboo. The present Government chlý came into territories of Clihli, Shantung. Kiangsu plantation. The best times for planting or town'd, the middle of 1921, and,

In this connection, General are the 1st, gul, sth, 9th and toth months mitarally they requier time" to 6" je with Ma says that, owing to the disbandment of the Chinese year. Young bai the problems arising out of such a new of the various regiments of the Anavichan plants one year of age are taket, from seine as wireless tobgraphy. Like all army carps in his porites, and the pres–ald plantation, renäaves and planted in the

The Chiuse, they have the most 'dillenit valence of handlits in northern and desired plaer, From an eight years all

probents until minor an southern Anhai, the present strength of plantation' about 300 haubecs per mow

susouthed away; nevertheless, the Chinese The Steam chip, "EOREMOST CASTLE.” Wireless Telegraphy Company-a jäinti the Anhui aug under his command in can be cut yearly. The bents, nav a valu-

From NEW YORK, concern of the Chinese Governm ut" and auffent, he proposes the reorganizas able by-product. About 40 lbs of shoots

ean be cut yearly,

Mareoui Wireless Telegraph" C., Ltd..

ONSIGKEES of Cargo are herly informed tion of his troops into one full division per ma

of London-coatinms its consulting and

that all Goods are being hundet at their and four mixed brigades, including the shade-u ntioned spread military guard,

111 esult of 130 healing to educational work, and, notwithstanding risk into the Godew of the Hou kong and rad he demands that he should be

was 13.340 Bs, the maximum being 21,0 the any difficulties met with, it has: Kowloon Wharf and Gotown C. Ltd.. (mathorise] to spend an additional half of a million dollars per annum for military purposes.

As the rvert dishandment of super." Rumis troops in Anhui puly saved åbent 4800,000 per annum, the people of Anhui Lara vehemently oppsing the scheme of General Ma and they about dy deelt to shoutkler the new military barder it the Peking Government sanctions it, te appears that the Lincheng incident, in stead eneuuraging troop disbandment. in the entry will afford a fine exense for the avaricious and ambitious militarists ut the provines in vularge the existing fore of armed coolies, who are really no

The

RAMBOO FOW · HUPEN

1. and the mininum value being 6,300

have bom

bat,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

at Kowloon, whence, and/or from the wharves Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless delivery may be obtained. noties to the contrary te given before th No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all tools remaining undelivered after the 18th inst

All claims against the steamer must be will be subject to rent.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are the 28th inst, or they will not be recognized.

The collapse of the Lamb was ready become firmly establs led in the always susklen and the material was splitommercial ill. It goes wi hout saying! sato pieces, parallel to the longituntia that its activities will emsid rably „in- axis, none of the libres being torn. This rase once the regulations. nw about to; fnet iliated stuct the collage was" be put into foten by the Chinese Govern caused by the shearing forer. The value mens requiring at Chiwse ships above, of the maximam shearing stives in the a vernja tange to carry wireless prevented to the Undersigned on or before. centre fibres of the "materin' was highest paratus, com, ut force. This is another, for the smallest sizes tested and lowest, iudication of China's effort to ring the for the biggest sizes. Bamboo was set ceminercial" yndertakings of her country as inforcement for concrete beams which into line with those of western countries, were the tested for bending, and the In order to facilitate the maintenance sa'ne of the tensile stress was calculated of the increasing number of bips using' by means of formule similar to those wires in the East, the Mare ad later

for steel reinforced concrete; "the intind Maritis Communication Co.,

better than brigands. di the same time very large deflection caused the formation Ltd., has established a service and main- General Chi Hatch Yuan of Kiangsu has

tection

wired to the Governavut stating that as he is reapons for the safety and pr

ot fareigarrs within his juris diction. the organization of a special railway police force for servies along can be delayed, otherwise he will acept that section of the Tientsin-Puker Lies, na responsibility for future consequences. General Tien of Shantung will surely do the same thing because he is already com plaining about the shortage of troops de his command for bandit-appression and railway-guarding purposes.

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a large number of big cracks, so that tender drpat at Hongkong which, in can- in the calculations the tensile stresa oži 'junction with similar facilities offered at the concrete is entirely neglected. The Shanghai by the depot of the t'ainese ultimate tensile stress of the bamboo was

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found to be 14,000 s. per square inch. National Wireless Telegraph Company, Yangtze estimated the working stress of universal chain of slepots established and Mr. Meyer on a Freent visit to the Upper enstitutes another important link in the the twisted and plaited tambo ropes, maintained by the various as cinted used for towing the junks up against the Marconi Companies. Until the year 1923, current of the rapids in the Gorges, at vessels in the China trade fitted with about 10,000 the. per square inch of the wireless apparatus worked at considerable material, this stress every now and then disadvantage owing, to the absence of being more than doubled. The material wireless depots, but their requirments of which the ropey are made is taken can now be met at the above depois whe- from the outer of an inch of a bamboo ther they require complete sets or merely;

feed repairs to existing equipments. at about 4 in. diameter.

A training school for Chinese wireless Tests for deciding the ultimate com Experiments at Villacoublay Acro drome, near Etampes, have culminated pressive tres of bamboo were executed legraph operators is to be openeıl dur- ia the perfection of automatic Right, and by the kind assisture of the Shanghai ing 1923 vither at Hongkong or ni Shang- on April 9th for the first time an aeru

tige. and Municipal Council Pubic Works Depart haj. plane rose, Hew for

which place their compression During the summer of 1922, the 25 kW: inned without a touch of the pilot's ment. hands. Several fights had already been testing apparatus at the Board's disposal, are station at rumsti (Eastern Turke- made in which the machine was controlled

pressure approached the tan) was completed and this station has from the ground, but in all the previous experiments it has been necessary for the ultimate stress big trucks appeared on been in direct communization with several pilot in the machine to take charge for the sides of the specimen which opinel "stations in Italia. The transportation of landing. The aeroplane red was a large wider and wider and the piece fually material for this station and its construc Voisin bomber of 300 horse power, în

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having arrived from the abare ports, L'en- guess of Cargo are hereby informed that their Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon doods are being landed at their risk into the Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, Kowloon, and Options Goods will be carried on unles stored at Consigneca' risk and expense. jestructions are giren to the contrary before noon, to-day.

All truken, chaled, and damaged good. is to

be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on 15th inst. at 10 AM.

All claims must be presented within Stern

days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised.

No claims will be admitted after the andelivered after the 16th inst. reminject to rent Goods have left the Lodowns, and all Goods

will be

Consignees of argo'ars hereby notified that by the Superintendent of Imports & Exports, they must predace an Import permit signed Hongkong, before Hills of Lading can be countersigned,

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigued by

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FROM UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT.

THE Stearship

be obtained.

which an experts tiavelled as parengers, broke down even with a decreasing pos¦tion represents quite an important evenz it links together Indis and Before it left the ground all the controls Sure. The ultimate compressive stress of inasmuch as „were sealed in this presence of officials,

found to be 5,500 lbs. per | China.

A 25, are station is now under en and the seals were intact at the case of baby wass the flight. After a fair long taxi, the square inch. When used as reinforcement.

This plane began to climb, and quickly reached material for wouerete the large elastic truction at Kashgar and should be com

is great dis plated about the middle of 102. a height of about 1,000 ft., flying steadily, strain of the bamboo and apparently unler perfect entrol. In

advantage. When using Lambo as a station is intended to entum unients with obeline to the pressure of butions on a keyboard installed in the round it parued inforcement it is recommended to cat¦ ["rumsti, but it will also be capable of to right or left, swooped, and climbed the material into thin 1sths in order to carrying on communication with stations

increase the adhesion. It is of importin, Russit and India as well. circled gracefully over the again, and kuot of spectators. When it had been ance to acquire knowledge of the rate of. The W station erected al Urga,¦

"CITY OF MANCHESTER". directed accurately, on to the elected lauding line, another touch of the key decay of the bamboo when used as rein the capital of Mongolia, is not at present

working, owing to the unsettled state of having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by her ure informed that all Goods are being landed at their board brought it gently to earth, whers forcement material. Tests to this effect

male a perfect landing, while its two are already planned by the Whang the country, but it is expected that this risk into the hazardous and/or extra-hazarious Passengers ted with their hands raised above their heads in proof that they had Conservancy Board. The question of the

part in the maneuvre. It is this pre-shrinkage under water and of bamboo tie will resume work during 19. Godowns of Holt's Wharf, whence delivery biem of landing which has hitherte proved intedded in concreta is likewise of great When this has been done and when the No Claims will be admitted after the Goods the greatest afstacls in the way of purely

be subject to reDL nutomatic flight. On this Voist machine importance for forming a final opinion as station at Kashgar is completed, the Gove have left the dedowns, and all Goods remain- All "Claims the Sicamer must be pre munication with the three great northern it was solved by means of a misal to the suitability di bumboo as reinfonte. Frnment at Poking will be in direct coming undelivered after 17th June, 1923, will some four yards long attached to the ment material

trading contres for the interior of North- sented to the Undersized to or berat Pad

June, 1923, or they will not be recognized. under carriage. In taking off one end

All broken, chafed and damaged doodla of this red is automatically rins de the Tol touches earth, it shuts off contact. The paper concluded: --When studying west China.

The National Research and Testing are to be left in the Godowns, where they will and brings the machinn moothly te amb as a

between the hours of 10.45 m. and Noor, gral Contact between the ground would be unfair not to pay certain atten. Laboratory inaugurated by the Board of be examined on any Tuesdays or Fridays, keyboard and the controls of the nero

No Fire Insurance has been effected, plans is maintained during flight by sun to the remarkable suspension bridges - Communication has now been completed within the fres storage period of one week. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by Hertzian waves, while stabilite is denoted by Chinee engineers in West. It will be run by the six students who

THE BANK LINE, LID, hina on the Tibetan burders. The most! by an arrangement of four "gyroscopez

General Agents. the Marconi College ut.

(948 Automatic control of the plat can be Jams of the bridges is called Aada ised through a two years' course of in- either by menng of a ground lowboard or Chine, on the road between Kuanhsien Istruction 12 by a perforated rall installed in the and Munkong Ting (over the Min River). 'Chelmsford, machine itself, which acts ja much the Afr. Ernest Henry Wilsom, V.M.H., in

Western Chiun, same way as the music rolls in mechanical A Naturalist in piano-pinyers.

*ays:-

A ATONDERFUL BRIDGE.

construction material it

Hongkong, 12th June, 1993.

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The Wireles Telephone Signal Corps which was forined by the Board of War in 1919, still continues to render great! This most remarkable structure is abiat 50 yards long, 7 feet wide, built gervice to the Chinese Army. The entire entirely of bamboo cables resting in KRYPTOK LENSES

seven supports fixed equidistam in the Corps is under the control of Chiness are conceded to be one of the very best bed of the strenin, the central on ly officers and the apparatus is worked.by

The Hour of the bridge being of stone.

Chinese soldiers.' forms of bifocal lenses. The bifocal scz.

rests across ton tambou rables, vach 21

The erection of new stations at Harbia. ¡ment is ground and fused into the distant inches in circumference, made of bamboo, lens making the product practically one split and twisted together, Fiveitar Peking and Canton, is under considera cables on each side form the rails.'_ The piece of glass. The segment are totally cables are fastened to huge capstans, emtion, and a large trans-Preilio station in 67, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, invisible and the lens has a beautifal bedded in masonry, which are revolved by complated for Shanghai. These stations means of spars and keep the cables tout. are to be erected by the Federal Wireless appearance, Kryptok lenses of any pres The floor of the bridge is of planking held Telegraph Co. of America, and they will cription in sither regular or Tória form down by bamboo rope on either side. be under the control of the Board of Com are manufactured by the Hongkong Lateral strands of bamboo keep the munications at Peking.

There is no doubt that a big field for Optical Co., Bucersora to Clark & Co., various cables in place, and wooden pegs, driven through poles of hard wood, assist

Those students who have LEGISLATIVE Manufacturing and Refracting Opticians, in keeping the floor of the bridge in posi wireless in China will be spon in the ONGKONG HANSARD REPORTS

rear future. tion. Not a single nail or piece of iron the most competent optical manufactur: is used in the whole structure. Every studied abroad are now beginning to put Session 1991,

As time goes on year the cables supporting the floor of into practice the ideas they have absorbed

in western countries the bridges are replaced by new ones, they themselves replacing the rails. This and more and more of such mon get into bridgn is very picturesque in appearance, power, the use of wireless in China is as and a most ingenious engineering feat." ured of considerable expansion,

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