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RADIO NOISE METER,

A USEFUL INSTRUMENT.

A fact-finding instrument for <radio 'fault-finders which takes the guess out of trouble hunting and accurately measures the quantity of electrical interference in micro volta per meter, has been develop ed by the General Engineering Laboratory of the General Electric

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per meter, which in the customary WAR OFFICE MEAT THE NAVY OF TO-MORROW. SZECHUAN STILL IN

unit of measurement of radio

signala.

The receiver is enclosed in an aluminum box and weights thirty pounds. Six tubes are used. Th pick-up is obtained with a rod 1 antenna, two meters long. Using the ineter, a radio noiso correspond-j ing to a field intensity of three micro-volta per meter may be mea- sured. With the head phones, it is possible to measure still lower

noise levels. A search soil may bo und to investigate noises around malor brushes, transformer ground leads, etc. ....

CONTRACTS.

DISAPPOINTMENT IN AUSTRALIA.

Sydney.

- Much disappointment has been occasioned in Australia by the failure of this country to SCERT War Ofice ment contracts in the face of foreign competition,

The announcement that the an nual contract for 1,500,000 tins of The calibrating unit is also en-meat had gone to South America closed in an aluminum box which was unfavourably commented upon is fastened to the side of the re in many quartors. General opinion ceiver." The calibrating unit is so

was summarised by the Chairman designed that the radio noise may of the New South Wales Meat be measured with any antenna that Board, Mr. J. B. Cramsie, who bit may be used with the receiver. Tho terly remarked that the British output of the calibrating unit may Government, although it

was

The new instrument is called a radio noise meter nind is not to be confused with meters made to men- suro noises undible to the human ear. This meter records the quan: tity of noise, generally described electrical interference, made audible only by radio receivers,

The meter locates the sources of the noise and measures its inter sity. The need for a measuring instrument has been felt for some time, and such organizations as the National Electric Light Anskiation, A feature of the instrument is the Radio Manufacturers Asadiation standard noise created and by and the National Electrical Manu menna of which it becomes possible facturers Association have been to measure the intensity of the in- hampered in their efforts to im-terfering noise. Operation of the prove radio réceiving conditions by instrument consists in adjusting

Australia," said Mr. Cramsic, the lack of a standard testing in the intensity dial until the stand has been successful on occasions strument and a standard of meaird noise reads the same on the in securing contracts for army surement. The 'noise meter makes meter as the radio noise. The in- supplies both in times of peace and possible a comparison of the test tonaity in micro-volta per meter is war, especially during the period results of different investigatorn;] then read from a curve, Switch that the Australian Meat Council it gives manufacturers of electrical ing from standard to radio noise is was in existence to urge its claim apparatus a means for measuring accomplished by depressing and reupon the British Government, but the amount of radio noise crented leasing a key switch. The standard the South Americans are able, with by the apparatus, and the meter noise is obtained by alternately their huge organisations, to cut these contracts to a price that will also given an invaluable method of charging a network of small coD- obtaining data upon which fair and i densers from a dry battery and dis reasonable rules and ordinances charging into the antenna in such may be based. Many municipilities,, a way as to produce a noise that anxious to protect radio listeners closely imitates the usual transmised, in times of peace the British from excessive electrical interfer- | sion line noise. enee, have passed ordinaners limit- ing permissible" interference. The trouble, heretofore, has been to de fine permissible."

be varied from zero to 10,000 micro-Labour, was prepared to place con- volts per meter.

tracts with foreign countries having cheaper labour and a very much lower standard of living than the Dominions, and yet prated of rain- ing the standard of living of its own workers.

. The radio noise méter consists of list parts, a receiver unit to detect and indicate radio noise, and a calibrating unit to measure the in- tensity of the noise in micro-volts

not allow our Australian canners to compete and pay award wages.

"Surely," Mr. Cramsie continu.

Government can allow the contracts The portability of the instrument to he supplied from competitors makes it readily applicable to tests within the British Dominions and in the Geld, in the home or wher from stock raised under the British evy the radio noise may occur. It fag so that in times of war our is especially useful to measure canning plants and working trews radio noise on transmission lines,-which would be at their disposal house wiring, around distrilmtion and not at that of the highest bid points, or electrical apparatus of der should be kept in a state of

the highest efficiency " any description.

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ade purposes. We need, in the coming years, a large number of simple, well-armed and armoured vessels, of moderate spred and great sex-keeping capacity," On the basis of our existing total ton- nage we could have a fleet of the following, composition : —

Battleships

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Allowing 10,000 over and above those actually manning the ships, men waiting for draft and under training, we should require a total peremmel of 105,000 in the Royal Navy, nearly 40,000 less than in 1914 before the out break of hostilities.

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CONFUSION.

CONFLICTING REPORTS OF

FIGHTING.

BANKS CLOSE THEIR DOORS.

Chengtu, April 2-Reports ns to the fighting that has been going on between the forces of General Li Chi-hsiang and the other generals of the 28th army are very confus. ing.

General Li seems to have been driven out of, or to have with. drawn, from one or two important centros along the main rond to Chungking and there seems to be

á diaposition on the part of noise: at least of his rivals to finish the jub properly and make an end of his career as one of the most eut- cessful, from a monetary stand- point, of the military men of the province.

On the other hand, it is stated that General Li has written to wis

superior officers acknowledging his mistakes and promising to obey in struction in the future,

General Yang Sen is supposed to have representatives in Chengtu who are seeking peaceful means of thing the present troubles, but at the same time he is suspected of being the main instigator General Li in what he did, and in be waiting for the defeat of General

of

General Li is credited with hav-

ing over 100,000 troops under his command and General Yang Sen with about 30,000. Some casual- ties have been reported in the Press but nothing in the way of definite information na to actual fighting is yet available.

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Teak Dining Tables, Round, and Square Tables, Dining Chairs, Teak Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Ice Chests, Filters, Dinner Crockery, Glass Ware, E. P. Cutlery, Table

It is not suggested for a moment, when he will seize the oppor

Lunity of occupying this desirable H.K. Benevolent Society. Fenders, Brass Ware, Ornaments, that, in total tonnage, this fleet is territory. necessarily the fleet of the future. The size of the Navy must always be affected by the size of European wavies. A two-power standard should always be our minimum, though, in view of our world-wide"

responsibilities, there is a minimum in our cruiser needs which is un- affected by, other navies,

Thus, to take an extreme case, if foreign navles were abolished wo should still require a considerable cruiser fleet if privateering and piracy are not once again to raise their heads on the High Scns.

between this

Communications Interrupted, "Communications city and Chungking are interrupt- ed as is always the enso when fight- ing is in the air, but some postal runners are getting through" -with local mail.

MAY 5th, 2 P.M. and Ceiling Fans, etc., etc.

CITY HALL.

Clothing and Household Goode gratefully accepted at CITY HALL any MONDAY or THURSDAY: between

Yesterday the city was beflagged in honour of a representative of the Nanking Government who was arriving from Chungking, His re port on the situation may have something to do with the relative 10.30 and 11.30. positions of the rospective officials.

Within the last month several close I have been careful to emphasise banks have been forced to that such a fleet as I have fore-bank-notes in the hands of the pu

their doors, leaving their worthless

shadowed can only come into being gradually. Our existing fleet, shorn right away of a few of its more extravagant units, will in any case become obsolete in the not distant future. If the argument in my book is sound, as Admiral Custance maintains, and our future fleet, in

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lic. As most of the smaller banks in the city have the backing of. some military man this bank failure method really works out as another form of public support of the use less armics that have to be fed and elothed in order to make the posi tion of their officers assured. In these private banks, all of which issue paper notes, and in the num berless lotteries of the city, he military man who back them have a never failing source of income which can ho manipulated accord- ing to circumstances.

Shortage of Rain.

The Navy, and the Navy alone, There has been no rain for a can decide whether such a fleet'is.matter of weeks which, at the time in main essentials, the Navy of To- morrow. To laymen its attractions arc to be found in its relative

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most costly features of our later ships-extreme speed, Its main tenance will be relatively cheap, not only an account of its simplicity but because it will not require great shore stablishments and a great shore personnel,·

Being exclusively coal-burning the annual cost of its maintenance will be redistributed to the nation as a whole in work and wages. Its material and fuel can be, and there fore should be, exclusively British. Indeed, it is deserving of emphasis that a Navy that is nationally en- tirely self-supporting and. self- sufficient is not so grent a drain] on national resources as it has be-1 come the habit to assume.

It is true that the annual out-"] lay on the Navy is, econumienlly.. Unproductive, “ns, indeed, in most other public expenditure, but it is equally true that this annual naval expenditure, if efficiently laid out, is not a high premium to pay for the insurance of the productive ac- tivities and freedom of a vast Em- pire which can obtain true security and defence by no other means.

A numerous cruiser, fleet haa always, as a matter of history, co incided with the national prosperity and booming trade, Trade needs that security which the Navy alone can provida

of the year, cause, the people gen. erally much concern. The city au thorities have declared a fast and, no pork or beef ean be bought. Rico becomes dearer almost daily and is now selling at a price which, to the local people, seems exorbit

ant.

Whatever the real explanation.

there has been recently almost. nightly raids by armed bands with-

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in a radius of a mile from the TERMS:-CASH ON DELIVERY. city. Those bands are well orgar iz. ed and so well armod that the local militis are afraid to come to grips rounded and in case of resistance with them. A farm house is eur-

the robbers do not hesitate to shoot down those whom they are about to despoil. That such things can take place practically under the walls of the city is sufficient com- ment on the kind of protection given to the people by those in

Authority.

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