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TO PREVENT COLLISIONS 'AT BEA.

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WIRELESS COMPASS AND WATER OSCILLATOR

SINDING WATER SIGNALE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER

G.

R.

ST. JOHN'S HALL

UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG

1

NOTICE.

"QUBEN'S COLLEGE.

Term

HONGKONG.

COMMON COR

NOTICE.

Monday,

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

New Students of the Univarity QUEEN'S DISPENSARY.

who desire rooms in this Hostel shouki apply at once to

Rev. E. Martin M. A.

ST. JOHN'S HALL,

The University.

NOTICE.

KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.

NOTICE.

WANTED.

WANTED.-Position qualified Mechanical Engineer (British), possesses good know ledge of Electrical Work & Commercial Engineering. Apply Box 130 c/o "Hongkong Tele- graph."

We beg to announce that WANTED-Lady Stenograp

the Queen's Dispensary has

It it safe to predict that some mant by Mr. Davis.' “The radio [day every consial light will flash cabins on all now, United Kruit out a radio signal throughout the Company ships have been de- day and night in addition to its signed with a view toward pro- swinging beam of light at nightviding room for the installation of the submarins signalling ap paratus or Fessenden oscillator," The location of other ships at he says, "so that when it has Rapid advancement in the science of radio telegraphy and sex has been made possible by been perfected to a stage where it telephony as a result of the war the use of the Pickard palorus is a material aid to navigation September 13th.

with impetus has accounted for much in conjunction

another and safety of life at sea it can be of marina of the increased safety at sean trument

com immediately installed.

Applicants for admission should (writea Dudley A. Nichols in a munication, the Fessendan oscil.

The oscillator has another use.

attend in the Great Hall at 9 a.m. New York paper).

This instrument, the in- Increased lator. efficiency of radio communication Fention of Reginald Fessenden of According to Mr. Davis, in addi-on Saturday, September 11th, alone furnishes no small measure

Prospectus 1920-21 upon ap Boston, conveys signals from ship tion to its use as an aid to pariga. of security. Navigation has been to ship through the medium of tion, is lends itself quite readily plication to the Headmaster.

I consists of a to both telegraphing and tele- made more accurate through tha the sea. nas of the chronomatara checked diaphragm, mounted externally phoning through water. by wireless time signals. Ships on the vessel's hull, which is set

A Grand Illuminated Promen of the Atlantic Coast nowadays into vibration by an electrical de

ade Concert will be held in tha may have their positions checked rice. The vibration of this dia-

grounds of the A.C.C. an Satur-been by radio compass observations phragm is communicated to the

day, September 13th, at 9 p.m. taken from several separate shore surrounding water, and these ing upon the water charsetaris.

water vibrations travel away tics," he says. It is therefore rataroad to the Colony and that Regiment will perform (by kind GEORGE'S BUILDINGS.

I hereby give notice that I have The Full Band of the Wiltshire

Due to the efforts of George vessel with a velocity of 4,710 we shall shortly be able to teleme on behalf of myself and my ham and Officers), and several| the possible and not improbable that the Power of Attorney given by permission of Lieut-Col. Wynd- Davis, general manager of the fees a second. They receive these phone from one ship to another Erm to Mesere. Rueben Julian well-known local artists will ap radio telegraph department ofiorations on another craft ten or through the water as we do at and R. M. G. Silva ceased to be pear. Admission 81.00. the United Frult Company-twenty miles distant it is only present over wire or by radio." developments ▸re now under was necessary

effective as from the 9th August. to have A

similar which have for their purpose the diaphragm, which picks them up

1920 determination of a ship's position and by means of another electrical by radio bearings taken from the contrivance renders them audible ship itself, and also the estimat in a telephone receiver. ing of the relative positions and distances between vessels at sea. Mr. Davis, who is making ex. It is easy to grasp the magnitude perimental installations of the

station.

fia a}}} directions from

Fessenden ocillator

and

"Telegrapbio signals and tela- phone conversations may be carried on over distances of from five to twenty-five miles, depend-

RADIO ON LIFEBOATS.

The radio pelorus is also peing pur to another use by the United Fruit Company. It will be re- wambered that at the time of the Titanic disaster there was con

the siderable trouble experienced in

יי

JOSEPH BROTHERS

(Signed) E. M. Joseph,

JOSEPH BROS. Hongkong, 3rd September, 1920.

NOTICE.

K. KIMURA & CO.

of the value of such observations Pickard pelarus on ships of the picking up survivors from the

For example, ships positions United Fruit Company, explains lifeboats due to the fact that the We have this day authorised have been in the past obtained the ingenious method by which boats had become separated and Mr. S. TOYAMA to sign per from bearings made from severs these two instruments are em-lost from one another.

Plans procuration. widely separated shore radio played to determine the exact have been projected on certain stations, the intersection of these relative position of two or more United Fruit ships which call for several lines of bearing indicating vessel.

the equipping of all lifeboats with Hongkong, September 6. 1920. the osutical position with a fair

small radio pelorus. And degree of accuracy when plotted

During the temporary absence that will have a small radio

numitter, having a ten-mile Colony. Mr. S. TOYAMA has range and capable of sending out been given authority to act on his intermittent signals for a number behalf, and is in charge of our

Hongkang office.

- When

two ships equipped

CONSIGNEES.

|STRUTHERS & DIXON INC.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. From BALTIMORE

HE Steamship

"EASTERN CROWN"

THE

on a chart. But the trouble basĺwith this apparatus are proceed fin addition to this the captains of Mr. K. KIMURA from the consignees are hereby notified

been that mariners have beening in a fog." he says, reluctant to depend upon these oscillator, which has a range

the

two

eForT the

of hours.

Then, in case it should become necessary to take to the Heboats, instead of trying to steera definite always beeping dead astern of the conrae by" group formation by

this can be as easily done at captain's boat. With the pelorus

night as in the daytime.

Advancement

in

K. KIMURA & CO. Hongkong, September 6, 1920

· LESSONS IN CHINESE.

ME LI HON FAS, a Chinese grada

in Tiserasure, bar been a serener - Kunigas kerala sort merchante en 1224 Takay ver twenty jedze

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tred method of training In-

from ten to twenty miles, is k **redio positions" for the reason that there has been no way to in constant-operation. check them from the ships.

"Now

*uppose

simui. Masters

exonerata dlaneous signals are sent out from if they

get into difficulties one of

ships while navigating according to ten seconda,

from oge another's observations. Now, the radio transmitter and the other 'Pickard radio pelorus with which from the oscillator transmitter. the United Fruit Company's ships The radio signal traverses space are being equipped permits thefata velocity of 186,000 miles a aavigator to make these observa-second-virtually instantaneous- tions from the bridge of his vessel.ly a far as distances of less than

the Bearings may be quickly taken a hundred miles are concerned, ordinary ship's radio telegraph on all of the shore or shio radio while the oscillator signal travels squipment can be observed. But stations within range, and in this through the water at a constant a few years ago there was no way not only can the vessel's speed of 4,710 feet a second. emergency equipment, and the position be plotted.but the rela "Aboard the ship which result was that when an accident tive position of other ships may receiving these signals. the occurred at sea which stopped be determined,

navigator wears a double tele the operation of the ship's engines

acd electric generator phone head se: so that he has a

wireless transmitter was likewise! separate receiver over each ear. One of these receivers records useless. And this was just the THE HONGKONG TUTORIAL oment when the radio telegraph | EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE was most needed for sending out distress signals and summoning | aid.

"RADIO BEACONE" IN FOG.

the vecillator

It is of interest to learn that the installation of "radio beaccos" the radio signal and the other at points along the coast is being makes andible urged. Nearly every one

is signal familiar with the light-horses

"Now best signals "have “Sİ that dot almost every civilized coast, that wink out their bright different tone pitch which dis- Just before the war this cond- Therefore ifition was some bat remedied by beams far to seaward and warn tinguishes them. mariners of shoal waters and the navigator on the receiving the installation on most vessels other dangers. Each of these ship hears every ten seconds a of a stult storage battery and Coastal lights has a regular bigh-pitched radio signal follow-emergency transmitter. This was system of Bashes which identiced two seconds later by a lower called the auxiliary set and bad fies it, and it is by these that pitched oscillator signat he coastwise shipping is guided mediately knows that the in grea: part. But sometimea ending the signal is 9,420 these light beacons are shrouded; in banks of fog and it is then

disant.

LOCATING THE SHIP

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posed at 325 zaie vertic is par la the Chisese examination, and

He is to god kauwinder of Mas

learning jan (binger Guera's Kani, Cantza). 2nd four

darin and HankA

Then who 12ikk.

removed to

ST.

(OPPOSITE STAR FERRY).

HARPER AND CO. LTD.

NOTICE.

[state experience and salary è pected. Reply to P.O. Box No. 96,

SOME passengers of ears that. passed Bonham Road No. 84, oa Thursday abon:11 p.m., were very kind in helping up two gentleman with an Indian Motor Cycle on the ground. Those passengBTS will greatly oblige by sending their address to Box No. 431 co "Hongkong Telegraph."

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Land at Kowloon, MONOKONG HOTEL CO., LTD About 16,945 square feet, in a very desirable position for European dwellings. An Interim Dividend of $5 per

For full particulars :- share has been declared for the apply to:-Linstead & Davis, half-year ending 30th June 1920.

Alexandra Buildings, Hongk Such interim dividend will be payable on and after Tuesday, 14th September 1920 at the Officen of the Company, where Share bolders are requested to apply for Warrants.

FOR SALE-6 Roomed House on the Peak within 6 minutes walk of the Top Tram Station. For particulars Apply Box 432 c/o Hongkong Telegraph."

häving arrived from Baltimore via ports, on 6th September, 1920,

The Register of Shares of the that their cargo is being landed Company will be closed from th at their risk into the Hazardous to 14th September 1920 (both days of the Hongkong and Kowloon no transfer of Shares can and/or Extra-Hazardous Godowns inclusive) during which period be Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd.jregistered. Kowloon, and stored st con- By order of the Board of ourselves A

Directors. signees" risk-

Consignees of cargo must pro- duce an Import permit signed by the Superintendent of Imports

•

J. H. TAGGART.

Manager.

and Exports, Hongkong, before Hoogkong, 318: August, 1920. Bill of Lading will be counter- signed.

NOTICE.

All broken, chafed and dam-i Godown aged cargo is to be left in the where it

Mr. Charles Albert Bannerman will be examined at 10 are. on 13th Brooke bas been admitted a Part-¦ red to win 12 No Sept. 1920 by the Company's ner in our Firm as from 1st April,

Surveyors, Messrs. (armichael 1920. and Clarke.

The name of the Firm will re- All claims must be presented main unaltered. within ten days of the steamer's | arrival here, after which they

NOTICE.

13. Bonbam Road. Opposite the University Tel No. 732. P.O. Box. 500

Principal

JOHN P. JONES, B.Sc., M.E. Min.

The Institute affords Special Pre. taration (Class and Private. Day as im- but a short range. In fact, when Evening. Oral and Correspondence gipit was usually needed it failed to for University Matriculation feet work. And even if it did work. Degree Examinations.

when the vessel's generator ceas-

Prospectus un application:

& cannot be recognized. No claims will be recognized after the goods have left he Godowns, and cargo lundelivered on and, after 13th September 1920, will be subject to frent

-

Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for | countersignature immediately. STRUTHERS & DIXON, INC.

Agents.

is: floor, Powell's Building. 19. Des Vœux Road Central. Hongkong, 6th September, 1920.

NOTICE TO CONSIG NEES.

vessel

PENTREATH & CO.

NOTICE.

THE DAIRY FARM, IGE &

COLD STORAGE CO. LTD...........

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE TWENTY-FOURTH OR- DINARY ANNUAL MEETING of Shareholders in the above Com- İpany will be beld at the Com- pany's Town Office 2 Lower Albert Road, Hongkong. on TUESDAT the 21st day of SEPTEMBER 1920 at 12.30 o'clock in the afternoon for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st July 1920.

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of

NOTICE.

We have this day established Consulting En- gineers and Surveyors.

BEST & MAY,

13 Chater Road.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

"HE Undersigned have received TH

instructions to sell by Publje Auction on

Thursday, the 9th September 1920. commencing at 10.30 am.

at No. 18 Godown of the Hocgkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon A Large Quantity of Flat, Round and Square Bar Iron, Steel and Iron Plates etc.

S

T

50 bales Cotton Belting, ex &..

VARR

Harold Dollar.

arrived on 17th.. Apail, 1918

D

and

A Large Quantity of Sundry Goods.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BRO Auctioneers.

the Company will be closed from THE Undersigned have received 7th to 21st September 1920, bath days inclusive,

By Order

M. MANUE,

Secretary.

Hongkong. 1st September, 1920

NOTICE.

CO., LTD.

New Session has now commence ed rooning everything was planz-. Tutorial Classes are being conduste ed into darkness, and this always in English. Wathematics. Trigonome that the "radio beacons" would Hut as yet he knows only resulted in needless loss of life try. Mechanics, Physics, Chemistry. prove invaluable.

the distance and

the due to the faulty launching of His Geography, Latin Ant Visualize this picture: A long, direction

bearing. Fr lifeboats and other reasons. French for Hongkong University lean steamship is feeling her way then throws a switcb which

But on the United Fruit Com-July Examinations. along the Atlantic Coast. The connects his telephone head set pany's steamships to-day the Private Tuition can also be had in

S. S. DELIGHT." night is murky, impentrable and to his radio pelorus and swing radio cabin is the heart and pulse these subjects. her white hull looms ghost-like the pelorus scale around until belin time of danger. The operation

From SEATTLE through the darkness, merging hears the radio signal at its of radio equipment is entirely without bint of outline into the greatest intensity. This gives independent of the ship's engines

The above-mentioned pall of fog that has fallen since him the exact bearing. Say, for and generators. Each radio cab

Laymen bardly realize what having arrived from the above- twilight a great, moist cloud example, that the pelorus in-in has been equipped with attemerlone strides have been mentioned Ports. Consignees of descended upon the ocean. Not dicator stands athwartship and storage battery of 100 cells, which made in radio telegraphy and cargo are hereby informed that a gleam of a star above shows pointing to starboard: then he have a capacity of 225 ampere telephony since the war and in their cargo is being landed at through the blacket of mist; not knows that just a little less than boors and working voltage the latter year or two of the war.their risk into the Yaumati Go- fish from the beacons on the two miles away on the starboard equivalent to that of the ship's Radio telephony is becoming pas-downs Co., ist Yaumati typhoon coart. High upon the craft's beam is the ship which is sending generators. In case an accident sing common. It is not unusual shelter) and stored at Consignee's bridge the navigator is rotating out the signals.

occurs down in the vitals of a for ships hundreds of miles risk. the graduated seale of a peinrus.) "Suppose the petoras indicates vessel which cuta of thest san to be regaled with music All broken, chafed and damaged hardly different from the ordinary that the ship is dead ahead and regular, source of lighting, this sent out by wireless from some goods are to be left in the G-THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT | pelorus that is used to take that the radio and pacillator large battery is automatically shore station. And by means of downs, where they will be ex- visual bearings from every ship signals are but a half second thrown

and loud speaking amined on 13th inst, s: 2.15 p.m. A separate amplifiers

AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of except for the coil of wire, which

All claims must be presented Fifty cents per abars has been This would indicate that electric lighting circuit and the telephones this music is increased apart. is mounted on its top. A pair of in the path of the ship ahead and ship is flooded with light as long until its original intensity at the arrival bere after which they can- 30th June, 1920.

in volume at the receiving stations within a week of the steamer's declared for the half-year ending small telephone receivers

are only 2,345 feetdistant was another as the battery in the radio clamped over his cars.

not be recognized. remains ship, and by veering off or chang-cabin

unsubmerged.

Such Interim Dividend will be He notes down several readings, ing course a collision could be Incidentally the" radio cabin is

The operator of the steamer No claims will be admitted

and after FRIDAY, [payable on and going to the chart accurately) averted."

situated on the top deck.

Zacapa, of the United Fruit Com-after the goods have left the 17th September, 1920 at the lays out the precise position of

pany, recently reported to Mr. godown, and all goods remaining Offices of the Company, where Taken separately, the two ine, the ship.

This battery cao, in addition to Pitcher, of that company's New undelivered after 13th inst struments, pelorus sad oscillator, lighting the oralt, furnish power York office,

shareholders are requested to that while on will be subject to rent. Through that shroud of fog and have passed the experimental for the continued operation route from Cuba to New

But their use in the of

No Fire Insurance whatever apply for Warrants. darkness are penetrating strong, stage.

The REGISTER of SHARES regular wireless York a radio telephonie, con-will be effected. clear dashee from the beacons conjunction just described is yet apparatus for

of the Company will be closed many bours. cert, sent out from an experi. Consiguses are requested to on the distant coast: flashes, being experimented with. A few There is in reality no auxiliary mental station, at Deal Beach, send in their Bills of Lading for from 6th to 16th September, 1920

made apparatus. Instead not of light that is so quick installations have been

(both days · focjusive) doring the New York, was picked up. "The counter-signature immediately. mist, but for testing purposes and to deter radio transmitter and receiver masie was amplified," the report FRANK WATERHOUSE & CO. Shares can be registered."

which period no ly obliterated- by

transfer of of radio vibrations that travel mins the practicability of this are installed in duplicate, so that says, "and reproduced by a long- with the speed of light; vibrations idea for avoiding collision at sea it any accident occurs to the speaking telephone

By Order of the Board of As Operators, Directors invisible to the eye but by the during fog.

equipment regularly used, by a promenade deck. Twenty couples triumph of science, made audible However, there is some in-quick shift the other apparatus danced to this music at sea for

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.- to the par

[dication its feasibility in a state- is ready for operation.

three hours.

General Mausgeru.

MUSTARD & CO

Connaught R&. Central

the

outo

both

transmitter is rivalled

оп the

U. S. Shipping Board.

1st Floor, Hotel Mansions.

HOWE SCALES, and WEIGHING MACHINES

Portable Platform Models Portable Platform (Hide) Models

Models

Gricer

Bathrow

Flowe Scale

instructions to sell by Public Auction on

WeJuesday the 8th. Sept., 1930. Commencing at 11 2.53.

at Chan Choi Kee's Factory. No. 25 Whitfield (Shadkiwan Road)

1 Noodle Machine with accOS- sories

1 Bread and Biscuit machine

with accessoTÍCH

1 Tin Making Machine with accessorize

Also

A Quantity of Furniture and Shop Fittings fall more or less damaged by fire and water)

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

'Auctioneers.

FOR SALE.

MILNER'S SAFES

APPLY TO

LAMMERT BROS. Duddell Street.

SOLE AGENTS

CHINA