ITALIAN TROOPS IN TRIPOLI,
Wearing too thick Clothing,
The right and wronge of the Italian occupation of Tripoli ceased to agitate the minds of the local critics when, on October the 11th, the Beranglieri landed. We were all swept off our feci, so to speak, by the great names and memories which it ovoked. I.was „“drinking coffes in what was, two week ago, a Turkish military club whion this event occurred.
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Rapid atrides have recently boon made in the development of the long-distance telephone. The possibility of uniting practically the habitable globe with a not- work of telephone systems, com- municating with one another from any distance along the entire range; seems to be no more dream of the visionary, but one of the Intest projools of the practical scientist. It is too early yet; perhaps, says I hurried from the club to see the Standard, to speak with cor- thoni land. It was an historic tainty as to the result of some im- sight. There were twenty Transportant experiments that huvo Atlantic and other Italian linors been made by the General Post in the harbour, besides soine lialf Office authorities, but if the ex dozen men-of-war, and a number pectations, of the experts are res of torpedo-boats. This harbourt lised a tromoudous step forward formerly the most deserted of th-will be monde in the near future. PEAK TRAMWAYS CO. great ports on the northern coaso These experiments have been in of Africa, is now the busiest. 1 hand for several years, but the was seldom that one saw here repeated disppointmonts met with three or four steamiera at a time. have imposed considerable reti- Now the horizon is hardly visiblocenea upon officials as to the re- for the long line of shipping. The sults expected. soa is alive with small craft, pint; naces, gigs, motor launches row. boats, sailing vessels. And Sometime ago a temporary test 12.40 p.m. 1 1.16 pm. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES. through the midst of these smalfors made of the possibility of telophoning direct from London craft, like huge sea-serponts, come a string of boats crowded to Rome.The experiment was lis with soldiers and drawn by steam-appointing in many respects, bui tugs. On the white sands to the did not prove to be altogether dis west, over near the Garguish fort,ouraging. A stall of exports hans the horses, commissariat store, poak-mules, and mountain artit Tary are being steadily fanded by means of excellent pontoons. All Whose sands to the cast are black with men and with stores, and in a few days twenty thousand more
are exccted,
..
Experts Busy.
meanwhile been busily occupied with other important experiments. These have been directed more particularly towards improving the cross Channel transmission of
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ssages. Satisfactory telephonic practicablo between London and communication has been found Marseilles, both Franco and Bol Ignorance and Blunders gium being the immediate object- Bat I am anticipating. It is ives of the prezent experiments. still day-time and the Borsaglieri When these have yieklad substan are landing. They are not, the tial resulte efforts will not be typical Italians one sees in Newmate to connect Tondon with York. Many of them are fair, Berlin and other important Con- Geraisuis, square-built, healthy-iontal contres evou so far na looking, youths. They come from Constantinople. Shipul these ex- Florence, and the majority of periments prove entirely satis them have never in their lives Tactory telephonic communication
General Managar, until now set fool outside their with almost any part of the habi
Hongkrag. 3rd Nov., 1911. native village. Tho, surprise in table world will bo within measure-TUE CHINA their wide-open, grey oyes is likeable distance of achievement.
PROVIDENT the surprise of the Cooknoy sud-
LOAN AND MORTGAGE donly swooped off his feat by an
00., LD, aeroplane in the Strand and land- One of the chief difficulties ex (CAPITAL PAID UP...$1,250,000.). ed in Timbuctoo. The mosques, ports have had to contend with the Arab dresses, the camels, fill was to get satisfactory results from tousen Mortgageo! Itours Projeny thom with unspeakable astonish the submarine cable. For instance, mont. And their officers, up to when a poreon speaks in the cross Roads resolved on Storage: the very highest in the War Channel telephone the submarino. Advances, made on Merchandise. Office at Rome, seem to be a gwires are charged with a certain rande on the Provident System. norant of leaal Bowditions in Affumber of vocal, or rather electri- (Rates and Particulars on application). rica as the simplest private. Ical, impulsos, and until these ooze ⚫have seen an officer drink water ut at the other end of the cable from one of the contaminated to uso a popular form of express- street fountains. Officers and men iau] it impossible to continue the are constantly eating melons, and message untisfactorily. When one drinking beer.. Nobody wears a hegins to speak his message the cholera bolt The water-bottle electrical fluid" aks into the of the French soldier in Algieria cable and in a brief space of time and of the British soldier in "dribblos out" at the other end. Egypt also, holds two litres. The Butthereare disturbingiafuonees water-bottle of the Italian toldier at work. There is within the cable]
itself a process of retardation, on
here does not hold half a litre.
But the supremo, the crowning, the one land, and an impulsive
the inexplicable blunder is the
forward movenient on the other,
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like Irish frieze, hot enough for the flow of the message vib St Petersburg in mid-winter, but rations. The inventor, has absurdly, criminally, out of place therefore been endeavouring to liere. Whoever is responsible bring about a perfect balance. for sending the Italian Boldier to between these retarding and in the Tripolitan in a dress like that pelling influences. This desidera com styl workmen. ** should be hanged, for he will tum has at last been attained by. soon be many times a murderer. supplementing the new cables The men will take off that drese. with "induction coils" which are They will have nothing to rep incorpointed with the cable during lace it with. They will contract tlie process of manufacture. By fatal ohills: They will fall easy this means the message is able to Hongkong. 24th July, 1911. [029 082 1. "Ciry Oyrice :~LÜUĜALE JOROES, LONDON; E.0.
victims to enteric and cholera. I pass evenly and continuously have seen the knapsacks of sol- through the enable, and the only diers wet with porspiration problóm now left to deal with is through carrying these heavy the effect of the "resistance" of clothes. Out as the front, I have the cable itself.
seen whole regiments digging tronches in a blazing sand and boneath a blazing sun. They all
Ho "But, doctor or I novor got up, till after breakfast!"
Great Possibilities.
The principle of rolay batteries
wear these heavy clothes. They has been successfully applied to have not even received permission the telegraphic service, but tele- to take off their coat-Cor,phonic currents are so feable that Times, of India.
the difficulty has been to construct instruments sufficiently sensitiva to respond to the vibrations re- Physician: "I would advise you coived at the other end of the ca to take a walk before breakfast" ble. Experimental instruments
inve, however, been produced which encourage the belief that in the near future commercial instruments may be forthcoming "I hope yolt appreciate the fact, system of relay stations can be ex When these are roadya satisfactory sir, that
That in marrying my daughter tended from point to point, until you marry a large hearted, gon-one's voice may be foun:l porfoot erous girl?!?!!!
ly audible, oven after enoroling "I'doeir!with emotion" vast tracts of earth and water and I hope she inherits those through the magio web of the long qualities from her father."
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1A, D'Aguilar 'Street, Hongkong.
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