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MAIL NEWS FROM CHINA

CANTON-KONGMOON TELEPHONF

A long-distance telephone ser- between vice is being installed Canton and Kongmoon, in the West river region. The total cost

o the installation is estimated to

amount to £47.000 sterling

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Work

on

HIGHWAY

the inter-provincial highway extending from Pingyi In Yunnan to Panhsien in Kul- chow is proceeding apace and is scheduled to be completed before the end of October. It is learned that the Yunnan and Kuichow Provincial Governments have recently received a telegram from General Chiang Kai-shek, Prest- dent of the Military Affairs Com- the misstuli, instructing that nighway must be completed with-, in the shortest possible time

HIGHWAY TO BE CONSTRUCTED

With a view to tacilitating the of transportation

agricultural products in Northern Kiangsu, the Klangsu Provincial Depart- ment of Reconstruction has de- cided to construct 100 kilometers of highway between. Yanchow and Tahsien. Work on the projected. highway will be started shortly and is expected to be completed. by February next year. It is esti- mated that a total of $895,000 will be required for the construction of the highway.

RAILWAY COMPLETED

· Construction work having been completea, the Hotel-Chaohsten (central Annuli section of the Huainan Rallway was opened to traffic on September 1. The last section of the line between Chao hsien and Yuchikow, on the nor thern bank of the Yangtse River. wiit be completed next spring.

LONG-DISTANCE LINES-

The Telephone Administration of Chungking which is at present under the jurisdiction of

the Chungking Municipal Guvern1- ment will be taken over by the Ministry of Communications. Un- der the auspices of the Ministry, Chungking wil be linked by long- distance telephone with Chenetu and Kuichow.

CHENGTU-YACHOW HIGHWAY

Construction of the Chengtu- Yachow section of the Szechuan- Hsikang Inter-provincial High- way has been completed by "volun- tary elvilian labour. Surveying of the Yachow-Karigting (Tatsemlu) section is being made by two groups. The units of the 24th Army under General Liu Wen-nui, concurrently Defence

Commis- sioner for the Szechuan-Hsikang border, will undertake the con-

struction of this section.

RAILWAY TO BE COMPLETED

Construction

Tatung- of the Puchow Railway, traversing the province from north to south, is making rapid progress. The sou- thern section of the line up to

the Fenglingtu, along

Bhansi- Shensi-Honan border near Tung- kwan, will be completed on Octo- ber 5. Through transportation with the Lung-Hai Railway wil be instituted simultaneously.

VETERANS TO HELP

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Chungking, Sept. 17. To expedite the construction of the Szechuan-Shensi Inter-Provin-

WHARVES AND PONTOONS

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1935.

ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

In order to facilitate communi- DIESEL-ENGINED SHIP-TO-SHORE

cations between the south and north banks of the Yangtze River. plans are being made for the con- struction of wharves and poo- toons at Yangchow and Chin-

TUG

WIRELESS

klaas. A party of engineers from Ordered By Railways New Developments

the the Yangtse River Conservancy Commission and the Klangsu Pro- vncial Department of Reconstruc- tion is engaged in making the necessary surveys.

National Economic Council

NANKING-WUHU TELEPHONE

Installation work having been completed, the long-distance tele phone service between Nanking and Lunu. river port in eastern Anhui, was officially inaugurated

The line is a sec on August 20. tion

of the nine-province long- distance network designed by the Ministry of Communications The Wuhu-Hankow section of the net- work will be opened to traffic in September.

CHENGTU-CHUNGKING

RAILWAY

To facilitate Communications in the province, the Szechuan Provincial Government, is reviving plans for the construction of the Chengtu-Chungking Rallway. The projected Ine, linking up Cheng- tu. provincial capital of Szechuan,

with

Chungking, the important comercial port in eastern Szz. chuan, will be 324 miles in length. A petition for the construction of "the Railway, submitted by the Szechuan Provincial Government to the Executive Yuan, has been referred to the Ministry of Rabi- ways for consideration

DEVELOPING CHINKIANG

Singapore, Sept. 14. The First Diesel-engined tug ever to be built in Malaya was launched at the

uf shipyard Messrs. United Engineers Ltd., at Tanjong Rhu, Singapore, yester- day.

Dire was christened the Jugra and

be stationed at Fort Wil Swettenhain, having been built to the order of the F.M.S. Railways under the supervision of Mr. O. Heron, A.MINA, MIMar.E., the Surveyor-General of Ships, 8,S

She is one of the largest orders received by the Tanjong Rhu yurd

recent times, and the launching ceremony was attended by a num- ber of shipping mea

Among those present wert.— Machau. Mr. Heron, Mr. A. C. Surveyor of Ships, S.S.. Mr. J. A. F. Strachan, chairman of Messrs. United Engineers Ltd., Mr. R. M. Duff, of, Messrs. United Engineers Ltd., Mr T. E. Edmett, manager of E. the shipyard, Mr. Merton Erown, general manager of Messrs. Thornycroft (Singapore) Ltd., Mr. A F. Wilde. Messrs. Thornycroft's shipyard manager, and Mr. J. Cockburn, Burveyor of Ships, 9.9.

CHRISTENING CEREMONY

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The christening ceremony was performed by "Mrs. Edmett, bottle of champagne being smash- ed against the bows before the vessel sild Into the water, and Mr. Heron, representing "the ождета, congratulated the builders on turning out a very well-found tug.

He drank to her success.

The Jugra was manoeuvred to the fitting-out berth beside the slipway, and a reception afterwards, "held at the residence of Mr. Edmett at Tanjong Rhu,

WAS

The Jugra has a length of 76 feet o.a. and 70 ft. p.. moulded beam of 16 ft, and moulded depth of 7.6 ft., giving her the appear Chinklang, Sept. 18. ance of a normal-sized tug fami At the request of the Kiangsu bar in Malayan harbour waters.

Her engine is of the Ruston Provincial Government, the Yang- taze River Conservancy Commis- Diesel. direct reversible 8 V.ERD. HP. and son despatched a group of engi- type, developing 275 neers here yesterday for further driving a single screw. Her hull is Investigation of harbour conditions of steel.

with a view to developing Chin- klang, the provincial capital of Kiangsu, as a commercial port.

The engineers, headed by a Dutch expert. are surveying the Yangtze River from Chinshantsui

Chlaoshan. The work is to be completed in a fortnight, and on the basis of their investigations, engineering plans for a

harbour project will be devised-

Kuo Min.

THE BOXER FUND

Nanking, Sept. 1. The 33rd meeting of the Board of Trustees for the administration of the British Boxer Indemnity Refund was held here yesterday under the chairmanship of Dr. Chu Chla Hua, Minister of Com- munications and concurrently Chairman of the Board.

The meeting approved the re- quest of the Ministry of Railways for a third advance of funds for purchase of materials for the Hunan-Hupeh portion of the Canton-Hankow Rallway.

With regard to the application of the Ministry of Rallways for $500.000 for construction work on the Chuchow-Shiuchow section of the Railway, It was decided that the sum be appropriated at the beginning. of November.

The meeting also referred the following matters to its various sub-committees for examination;

(1). The request of the National Reconstruction Commission for a loan of £36,000 sterling for-the purchase of further equipment for the Nanking Electric Power Works. (2). The request of the National clal Highway, the General Staff Reconstruction" "Commission for a Corps of the" Provisional Head- loan of £1,000 sterling in material quarters of the President of the and $35,000 in cash for the pur- Military Affairs Commission has chase of equipment for the Electri- ordered 2,000 veteran road-builders cal Experimental Station, from Kwelchow to assist in the work.

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FITTING HER OUT

It is expected that fitting her out will occupy a few weeks, after which she will undergo trials and be delivered at Port Swettenham, making the voyage under her own

power.

. All the tugs at present owned by the Harbour Board at Singapore and by the PMS. Railways at Port Swettenham are steam- driven, so that the Jugra will be an innovation. She will not carry any special salvage nor fire-fight- ing gear

The tugs now in operation at Port Swettenham are the Prince, built at Hong Kong (and the only ánc equipped with salvage gear); the Rose, also built at Hong Kong: the Pentower, built in Holland: and the Edith, built in Singapore.

MONTH'S AERIAL

DEVELOPMENTS

Here are a month's' aerial de- velopments in Lancashire.

The latest air service in the county is one linking Liverpool with Nottingham, Leicester and Norwich, inaugurated early in August. It has been introduced by Mr. F. Leo Celly, who has or ganised a twice-daily service to bring the Midland towns in direct aerial communication with' Lan- cashire and with the alr services to Blackpool, the Is'e of Man and Belfast. Season tickets for busi-" ness men are being introduced.

Following inquiries by the Bri- tish Air: Ministry the possibilities: of constructng an aerodrome at Banks, av lage between South port and Preston, are being in- .vestigated.

Notices on owners of land r quired for the new Manchester airport at Ringway (Cheshire) have been served by the Manches. (3). The detailed plans, sub-ter Corporation in preparation for .mitted by the Ministry of Indus- an early start. The new \aero-. drome will be one of the largest The Highway upon completion, try, for the establishment of a Wenchi, factory at

in 'Great Britain. The first part will greatly facilitate communica- newsprint

*f the scheme provides for the tions between the two provinces as Cheklang, and the request of the

erection of buildings and hangara well as the bandit-suppression Ministry for a loan for the esta-

blishment of the mill.-

with runways 1,100 to 1,200 yards campaign.

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Recent research into the pro- blems of wireless transmission by short waves has resulted in a considerable advance in the art o building short wave wireless transmitters for worldwide com- munication, and particularly for ship-to-shore working, so that 13 now an everyday occurrence for vessels in any part of the world to communicate regularly, with their home country on short

waves.

In order to improve the faci- litles for Italan vessels to keep in touch with their own country from all parts of the world, the "Italian Ministry of Communica- tlons recently decided to increase the the existing equipment at wireless station of Coitano by the provision of a new Marconi_type with * short-wave transmitter wave-range of 13-100 metres and this hus now been installed at Coitano far this service.

The latest refinements of short- wave transmitting technique par- to high tieanly with regard quality of speech and constancy the transmitted wave, pave of been incorporated in this instal. lation.

The output of the transmitter to the ueria reeders is 56 kilo- watts maximum un continuous wave telegraphy and 35 kilowatts on telephony at 80 per .modulation, and is, therefore, one of the most powerful of its kind. in the world

cent.

SCOTS MODELS ENTERED

For Engineering Exhibition

London, Sept 10. Scotland has an increased re- presentation this year at the 'mo- to be dal Engineer" exhibition opened by Sir Josiah Stamp pre- sident of the LMS, Rallway, in the Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster, on Thursday. Sep- tember 19.

Among the entries from Scot- lapd, several promise especial in- submitted by Mr. Moirton J. Cowie terest. A most ingenious one is an architect, of 30 St. John's Car storphine, Edinburgh.

It is a in, to a foot scale model of a naval picket boat carried by HMS. Hood Built by him in somewhat limited spare time over a period of two years, he utilised all kinds of odds and ends in a clever manner. ›

ODDS AND ENDS The funnel top was fashioned from the nozzle of a garden syringe: the funnel base from part of a brass bed-knob; hatch hinges are tie-plus: handrail stanchiona are earrings and tle-pin binges; scuttles, brass washers; whistle base, part of a pot-hook; bollards curtain-rall wire; and a gun ring, an alarm clock balance wheel.

Mr. Alan E. Forbes, Linthorpe, King Edward Street, Fraserburgh, has built a rortary steam engine, mounted on bed-plate, to drive model twin-screw destroyers through reduction gearing. The GREATER CLARITY The speech response or ine new. engine has developed 10,000 r.p.m.

at 50lb. per square inch. a high order installation is a and, in fact, is equivalent to that ot a motebroadcasting station. a line base within plus ** mi o decibels over a band of 50-10,000 cycles having been arranged.

It has, in the past, been cus- tomary to restrict the speech channel for telephony to a much smaller band, but the provision of a very wide speech response is of particular value in view of the added clearness and inter gibity of the transmitted word which results.

There is the additional advant age that such a service is also available for the transmission of musical programmes."

An Important feature of the new installation at Coltuno is the provision of four spot-waves which can be selected practically instantaneously by means of turn-table mechanism which brings into cireuit appropriate tuning inductance and condensers so that * minimum of time is Cost when conditions necessitate a change of wavelength.

UNIFORM AERIALS Specia, care has been taken in the stablisation of the transmit- ter, and two of the four spot-

oscillato waves have a master with a stability of one in 50,000. The other two have a stability of one in 20.000, so that in this respect the equipment fully.com~ plies with international legisla→ tion.

The whole of the installation is contained in four compact, completely enclosed blue.cellulos ed cabinets, which are placed 'n- line. A control tables in front of the four units is used for star- fing up the different machines which supply the power. Every part of the equipment is easly accessible in accordance with mo- dern transmitter design.

Four vertical "uniform" aerials are employed, each for a different wave length. These are connect- ed

by with the transmitter copper concentric feeders. The changeover from one aerial the other is made by remote con- trci from the transmitter hall,"

The

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TOLL OF THE ROAD

London, Sept. 20. Road accidents in Britain during.. the week ending September. 21 were 155 killed and 4,762 injured. These figures compare with 181 killed and 5.040 injured during the corres "ponding week of last year.

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