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The Wirela Talographer Com-] misalon appointed by the Cabinet on December 23, 1920, and, con- sisting of Lord Milner (obairman) Dr. W.H. Eccles (vios-chairman)] Mr. LB Turner, and Mr. E. H. Shaughnessy, bas isaued its report which is signed by all the members except Lord Miloer.

Its terms of reference were to decide on the wireless plant most suitable for carrying out the scheme of Imperial wireless com-: munications recommended by the Imperial Wireless Telegraphy Committee, 1919-20, to make rec- ommendations regarding the f

actual sites for the stations pro-' posed by that Committee, and to advise generally on the prepara- tion ofspecificationsfor machinery: and apparatus, the making of contracts, and the constraction of the stations.

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The general recommendations of the Commission are that the transmitting stations in England. Canada, Australia, the Union of South Africa, India, and Egyp: should be equipped with ther- mionic valve plant, but that in view of the skilled attention! demanded by that plant in its present stage of development and also of the isolated nature of the stations in East Africa, Singapore, and Hongkong. these three stations should be equipped for combined arc-valve transmission. arcs alone being installed imme-] diatelyjand valve plant added after practice has become standardized. As regards the South African station, for which the Imperial, Wireless Telegraphy Commission recommended the use of the ex- German station at Windhok, the Commission suggests the advis ability of constracting an entirely new station near Jobannasburg. The capital outlay would be greater than that needed for the adaptation of the Windbuk

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and ap paratus sufficient for working simultaneously with the other stations outmelly communicating with it, all the receiving and operating apparatus being in one. and the same building. Detailed Will technical recommendations are and given for the combination of the stations. The thermionic valvel seta, it is stated, should be capable

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CHINA TRADE BILL.

Try to Reconcile Senate House Differences Over

Dyer Measure. President Harding has agreed

SPECIES OF WOMEN.

Not Mysterious, Only Unex plored, British Novelist Says

in Lecture Here.

povelist and expert on

Mr. W. L. George, the British the audience in the Selwyn Theatre, "species of the female," told so New York, that the first thing to get out of its head was the notion that woman is a mystery.

They

amusement. He maintained that

of transmitting continuously at to take up the Congressional hand speed and at 90 words a situation presented by the House minute at full power for reception of Representatives enactment of Airth earldom has claimants in at 3,500 miles. It is suggested the Dyer bill, authorizing Ameri- Mr. Barclay-Allardyce, the pres-that the Marconi Company be can incorporation for companies ent petitioner, and the Graham-invited to tender for certain of doing business to Chipa, and the the apparatus, including the Senate enactment of the same -The suggestion of a Royal res

valves, but if their quotation measure with the tax exemption he said,

"Women are not mysterious," idence in Ireland recalls that the Committee of Privileges of thermionic valve and other plant

Two of the cases coming before should

be acceptable features of it deleted,

"they

are, merely there is in the new Free State a the Lords are the claims of Lady could be designed by the Com-

unexplored." residence with special apartments Rhondda and Lord Bolingbroke mission, after the conclusion of can. Missouri, called at the White to tread, Mr. George went on to

Representative Dyer, Republi-

Rushing in where angels fear set aside for the use of the King. and St. John. They are not, the work now being undertaken House accompanied Mr. J. B. tell how he has taken up the states a London journal. When however, peerage claims in the at Horses, erected in England, Powell, secretary of the Ameri- study of woman as a man might Mitchelstown Castle, the original strict sense of the word. Lord and tested, proved designs being can Chamber of Commerce in stady insects. He collects speci- seat of the Earl of Kingston, wes Bolingbroke and St. John is a recommended to the Dominions Shanghai, and delegation of mene, catalogues them, analyzes being built, George IV. promised viscount, but he has to prove his and India. the earl that during his proposed claim to his title, though the

American business men operating them and fles them away for. visit to Ireland he would certain proceedings will be merely a report, which, as is remarked by President would call in Secretary range from seventeen to sixty-

A considerable portion of the matter, and were told that the ty-five distinct species.

in the Far East, concerning the reference. At present he has eix. ly stay there, with the result that formality. The late Lord Boling-the Vice-Chairmen in so ex-Hoover and consider with bim & eight years of age, and thirty-five the castle was finished in a hurry, broke and St. John made. it mayplanatory foreword, is of a severe-plan for assisting the House and of them are married. In case of but in princely grandeur, so that be remembered. A its first guest raight be the King.marriage, which only came to a broad discussion of the problems

romsotic ly technical nature, is devoted to Senate conferees to reconcile the sudden death, he said, he wanted Several magnificent state rooms, light after his death, hence these regarding in addition to a great Royal bed-proceedings. Lady

differences. roasts, antennæ

his executors to burn the records room, were specially prepared. case concerns ber seat, in the sated by the

Rhondda's machinery, and apparatus pres-

The Dyer bill originally bur, though the King want to Lords.

installation of passed in the House allowed with epigrams, which kept bis Mr. George spiced his lecture Ireland he did not visit the South. summons

She wants £ writ of thermionic valve plant on & scale Chinese and Americans to incor- audience in a constant simmer of and the apartments were unused. peeress in her own right, and, if attempted. Special attention is exempted such corporations from much writing was being done

issued to her as a larger than has hitherto been porate under Federal law, and To this day they remain as they this is done, she will be able to paid to the thermionic valve plant taxes on income derived from nowadays with were furnished a century ago, take her much-desired seat on itself, to the ability of the in-business conducted exclusively elemental, mental, gorgeously hung with crimson the Scarlet Benches.

five words-- brocades emblazoned with the

dastry to meet the probable dein China. This system is follow-cosmic, and universal. Royal Crown.

mands, and to the question of ed by British and Japanese laws. Mr. Aretas Akers Douglas, who capital and maintenance costs.

It is the habit of some writers, A claim to the famous Scottish Vienna, is one of those who of the valve

is to be our new Ambassador at As the result of an inspection

he said, to speak of a woman's Baridom of Airth, which has been rejoice in an unusual Christian Carnarvon Mercovi station, the

elemental cosmicity, or perhaps plant at the dormant (together with that of name handed down from genera-Commission draws the conclu

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ber cosmic elementality-it made Monteith) since the death in 1694 tion to generation over & long, sions that that installation is apsuring daily regularity, thus re-on her universal Farmony, or, on no difference, he added. Or it PINKETTES are a boon, enmight be that the writer harged of William Graham, second Earl period. Early in the 18th century proaching the order of meguitade moving the causes of sick head-the other hand, her harmonious of Airth and eighth Earl of Edmund Akers, of an old Lanca- required in the Chain stations, sober, bilicusness, torpid liver, universality. The main thing, he Monteith, is one of several claims hire family which settled in the and that the Marconi Company facial eruptions and ill-smelling contended, was to to peerages which the Committee West Indies 300 years ago are in a position to supply fall-breath. for Privileges of the House of married the daughter of Aretas size thermionic equipment for Lords will shortly investigate. Beton, Governor of the Loeward those stations. As the CarnRIVOR *A The eighth Lord Monteith was a Islands, and called his eldest son, station has succeeded in comple son of Lord Kilpont, who was born in 1734, by his father-in-law'municating direct with Australia murdered in September 1644 by name. He in turn called his at certain hours of the day. It is the dainty little laxatives, aze Robertsch, British Famine Com- his friend and companion, James second son Aretas, and Fate regarded as certain that the Chain obtainable from chemists, or, post missioner in Russia, has been re-

CIONER'S TELEGRAM, Blewart of Ardverlich, Perthshire. willed that Aretas should carry station in England, which would free, 60 cents the phial from Dr. ceived by the Russian Famine A talegram from Sir Benjamin Upon this incident Sir Walter on the male line. Scott founded his famous. "Legend Ambassador has already roadstalling strength of the Carnarvon obuen Road, Shanghai.

The new be of three or four times the lg Williams Medicine Co. 96 Sze-Relief Fund, saying that he is of Montrose." Mr. R. B. Can-provision for the future by giving station, could communicate with ninghame Graham is a claimant the name to his young son, born Australia throughout a longer to the Monteith saridom and the in 1905.

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