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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,

OCTOBER 1lтx, 1929.

AHEAD OF THE MAIL. [SUPPRESENTARY WIRES FROM

INDIAN PAPERS.]

SHIPPING DANGER.

PUBLIC HOUSE SCHEME IN CARLISLE

Loxins, September 21st. The Loen! Advisory Committee of Car- 1-1 and district state that "the manage Iment of-the-Publie Hauser Scheme report LONDON, September 121. that the profits for the year were £10,281, The mishap to the steamer Hapress of Lafter weting all requirent charges and Senthal in the busiest apprich in South-järiting off the cost of improvements not ampton. ., near the Yab fightship las estimated to inercise the realisable value! diseal the existence of a sunken wreek at the properties, Aften deducting £7.709 over which there is only thirtysix feet of in resquet of leasehold, depreciation, ewe..

It transpires that the wreck katla balance of thoing profits amounted!" life from treat post titel there to hisap of which interest pleurlard EN1,756 and the resiste averned as a sing must have bem innanterable

plus to the Exchequer, niaking the total escapes from disaster to vessels,

Fat-accrumb-singileen Bath,

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FUTURE OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE.

The receipts of the unch risking for th year were more than suflicient to met s}? expenditure, at the outstanding indebted Hess of the pubertaking to the Exchequer was reduced during the year by £00.715, the periutage return on papital employed being 9.1 per vent.

DANGER TO LIVERPOOL

Laspos, September. Ha, That Great Britain is not merapulated and that for children constituted an Migal family were points in the address Dr. Vaughan Cornish, presiding er the Geography section of the British Asso ration at Liverped. He said the Briti

LONDON, September 2nd. pendo were pre-minent; the warhol's doors! kenyar in reqret of remise, strategie,

Dr. Hope, Medical Offer of Health for! and racial comunications. The division; to erect a barrier against coloured! Inter Liverpool in a repart in the Part Sani- in Australia was best both fur white and try authusrities, rays that Liverpool nar. the coloured peoples of the moon region rowly escaped being swept by a plague of Asia. The consolidation of the British bought to the port by eats on a ships from

"India. position in the world depended on future

colonisation. The world 20 years bence. He says that the city rat-catching staff would be pareviled among the nation, discovered dead plaguesinfectell rats in a @ CO., LTD.,ly 200 years remained to prs: consignment of mitres fhre while the

WINE MERCHANTS,

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RADIO EQUIPMENT

the Tests being made by the Hongkong Hotel Co, Ltd. "May be heard in your own home, bat be certain the Set you secure has been approved by the Postmaster General,

We Guarantee

Our British made Sets to comply with any "future Rules and Regulations in respect ot

Exceiving Sots in Hongkong.

ELECTRICAL DEPT.

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DRUGS

PRESCRIPTIONS

When the Doctor prescribes he expects the Druggiat to fill the proscription with Fare Drugs. The quality of our Drugs, Medicince and Toilet Goods is not surpassed Have the Doctor's Prescription Allod here and the result will c satisfactory!

THE PHARMACY,

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vide a temperats clinfitte in the British Empire and a suteingy of strek, to on- sure the ionance of their iritish character,

CABY DES LYS'S STATUE.

LONDON, September 18th,

The late (inby des Lys's mother and sister commissioned a Pøj wulptor to execute atalar of the rerres for 0,000! frame for erection in her antive tow 11, Marseilles, but disliking the model they contract, The refusal to complete the Sculptor obtained julgament for so franes for the execution of the model and thegreention if the statue was postponed. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC BY SAILING BOAT.

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New York, September Hith. Alan Gierbault, the French international trans teenis player, has complited Atlantic page along from Frauen in a Roston wailing boat after 14 days The lion was built by Kemp. The designer of HM. King George's privats. yacht. During the voyage Gurbault en countered three hurricanes, which wrerized. the Irering gear. He replenished the di pleted water supply by collecting rain. He me a lor in mid-Atlantic. from which he securel provisions.

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PLYMOUTH BELFAST AIR MAIL SERVICE

Learn (Oxford). September 18th. "Ashersfy' trial was ride yesterday of an air mail servies, from Plymouth to Belfast with stops at Birminghari and Blanchester The whole distance was a complished 4 hours 55 minutes. The stice will be started to-morrow and will, form an important accessory'en the Trans- Oerau Mail Services reaching Plymouth.

NORWEGIAN STEAMER FIRED ON.

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cargo was bang discharged. The native erew were dilated, the cargo cleared and the ship famigated. Sixty four rats and two mies were found deait or alive, of which half were infected with plague.

20intiwar Isa purge di

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GRALTAR, September 16th. The Norwegian steaner Sairater, which has been engaged in salvaging the Spanish | BEERSVE FUND battleship Expone, has arrived here and reports bar a Spanish armed navol traw-

le fire on the vessel 20 miles to the south. east of Gibraltar. The vel was detailed for 4 hour while she was searched and finally allowed to proceed.

PROBLEMS OF WIRELESS TRANSMISSION.

·Foxpës, September 190. The final day of the British Asociation at Liverpool was arvut chinfly to technical diseasšimus,

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Mr.J. Scott-Taggart, of the Engineer. ing "Section, outlined invention to achieve greater lectisity with wireless receiving wet, and said that atmospheric interference remzled an important pro blem: The ether coming congested Son difficulty was experience in separating the desired from the undesired signals, Congestion was due to the recessity using longer waves for long-distance work and the faze that alt high-power station Chefvo were broadenst stations. The allocation

Hailar any new wave-lengths only increased over-ergy ding of the other.

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Mr. Scott-Taggart's method. by a pró- cess of multiplication. increases the

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for signals of nay particular, ware, length.

Sit Oliver Lodge, addressing the eón. duding general sing, sal that the, Assembly had been a great one from the scientific view-point. There we all ex treme rush of discovery in physical scienci but he ometimes thought that we were living in the begining of the Newtonian ora. It was nonsense to talk of Einsteir superseding-Newton, for the disenceries of the last 2 years merely supplemented Now

LATER

Those engaged in wireless operations te! gard the future with great entcorn, in view of the statement made by the British Association that, wirs communication Las become difficult owing to the vast num bor of signals filling the other.

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Manager.

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~Teasing to the Firsty..

LONDON, September 22. The Peninsular. sad Oriental Company 4 steamship Houlton has made her trial trip from Belfast to London and will shortly bo commisioned for Indian service, Visi tors aboard this vessel to-day included Vi count Feel, Earl Winterton, the Earl of OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE Mount Edgcombe, Viscount Pirrie, Lord. Inchcaps, Lord Clanely, Lord Gladstone, Lord averforth, Bir. Winston Churchill, Mr. Harelock Wilson, and Mr. James

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