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PRIZE FOR CANCER CURE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FASTER RADIO MESSAGES,

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13. 1923.

3,000 Replies From Forty Nations.

New Code Almost Triples Speed of Transmission.

GENERAL GEORGE O. SQUIER AND THE NEW TELEGRAPH IN- STRUMENT HE RECOMMENDS FOR FAST TRANSMISSION.

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A new universal telegraph Use four yards of resistance alphabet, proposed by Maj Gen. wire and wind in usual spiral) George . Squier, chief signal form for the filament tesist- officer of the U.S. army, willance. Datails of phone trans- make possible the transmission. former are as follows: Core of either by radio, cable or land iron wire bé in. diameter and 3 in. lines, of more than two and one-in length: primary winding, 3 oz. half the volume of traffic it is of No. 4%, and secondary. 4 6 of possible to bandis by trasmitting No. 34. with the old Morse code.

Instead of dots and dashes, util- ized by Morse, Squier's alphabet: is made up of bills and valleys.

LORD ATHOLSTAN, CANADIAN PUBLISHER AND HUMANITARIAN This is made possible by the us WHO OFFERS $100,000 FOR A CANCER CURE.

of alternating current of varying intersities, unknown in Morse's day. An interval, of high inten-

The $100,000 prize offered by Ofths others, some are too weird. Lord Athelstan for an effectively fantastic to warrant investiga-aity would correspond to a daab cancer cure has attracted world- tion, others are obviously im-in the Morse code. wide attention.

probable.

Three thousand claims of cures, ]

One applicant suggests diet from 40 different nations, base of snails and several rely on mud been submitted by medical men, baths. Almost every plant in fanatica, etc., in the 15 months herbazium bas been called into the Montreal Star and associated root an easy first and with red since Lord Atholatan, owner of service as a specific with blood publications, posted his reward. clover chopped fine having its More are coming in daily.

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Discovery of a "medicinal treat- ment for the effective cure of cancer" is sought by Lord Atholstan as a gift to the world,

The offer

An interval

of intermediate intensity would A low intensity replace the dot. would represent a space. Yet the bigh intensity or the low, repre- enting dashes or spaces, now re

dot. would require no more time quiring from three to five times the time necessary to register a

then the intermediate intensity. | representing a dot.

The Variometer.

Replying to the query: How does

variometer B

function? Wireless Popular understand fully how this instru ease-To ment operates it is necessary to realise what happens when two coils, both carrying a varying current, are coupled together. If the coils are coupled closely they will have an

electro-magnetic effect upon one another, and if the coupling is gradually loosened this effect is lessened, until a

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BASEBALL QUERIES.

Interesting Points Answered.

In view of the growing interes: in baseball in Hongkong, we hare arranged to Dublish evary Wednesday and Saturday a Betjes of questions and answers relating to the rules of the game. Below will be found the first batch:-

Questions.

One--If in swinging at a third

strike, the ball touches the person of the bateman and goes to the grandstand, what happens?

Two-Have base runners the

right to advance on such a play?

Thres-Does the infield fly rule

apply with a runner on first bars and less than two out?

·Four-If a base runner after"

and how can he be retired

reaching second, decides to run back to first, what is his status

coupling these coils is to in- point is reached where the effect is zero.. Now, the effect of

crease the inductance of each,|

Fire. If a base runner in steal- and if the coils сте at the ing second, reaches the base in an offer to the Imperial Cancer the message is more easily de-series, the total inductance of does he receive credit for a stolen When transmitted by machine, same time connected together in safety, overslides, and is retired. Research Fund, offering an ad- cipherable than Morse, being the two. coils can be varied by base" ditional gift of $100,000 to a more compact and the spacing of

Land Atholstan now has rablerti

was given to the devoted to the study of the dread letters and words more. easite/arying the coupling between

world in the form of a brief letter sent by Canada's foremost news- paper publisher to Sir Arthur Currie, principal of McGill in versity, Jan. 2 1923

The news was fleshed instantly

disesse.

The donor of these bequests is

the first Canadian-born peer to be rised to the House of Lords for services rendered to the British Empire.

All Canadian Pees" has been & newspaper owner him! fm.

This

followed.

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READ BY SOUND.

theru. This is all that takes place in a variometer. Two coils. connected in series, are coupled

By giving to each intensity together, the coupling being varie high, intermediate or low tone, ed by rotating the inner coll so the operator who receives by ear that its inductance either assiste to every corner of the globe and for the next three months a steads

could read the messages by sound or opposes that of the 'outer coil. as rapidly as he now picks out Thus roughly, we are able to vary stream of answers poured in from

the dots and dashes.

the total inductance of the circuit Egypt, Japan, Peru. Bulgaris, At the age of 1s he joined the China, Denmark, Algeria, New staff of the Montreal and code is that a dash shall equal

The formula for the old Morse from the sum of the two induc-

tances to the difference betweeti Zealand and a score of other landr. before he was 21, with a gross

the two. It is, of course, know In less than six months the epitel of El had joined three dots in time-lengts, that

between the time Manean author of 2000 mark had been passed and George

to you that a ircuit Ca since then early a thousand barg, pungent essay and emelements of a letter shall be equal to the duration of one ret, that names have been ended to the list. | light ferve. tarting the Mont

the interval between two letters Of the remedies already filed, | Tent Stee

of one word sbali equal three

any

10.

490 can be ruled out as not eam- Exriyadition at the paper rell-idots, and between two words it plying with

the original off of pennies calle-ted from new-jshall equal fire dots. coming from fab healeTY. adhaye user the counter being pasa vocales of autosuggestion religious fanatiro

By the Squier stem, fats and

afled to the paper merchant for the dashes, represented by aigh or

next day applies.

low intensity, are of equal length and the space between letters and wonjs

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tuned by either altering it in ductance or capacity, and an by ineans of the variometer the in ductance can be varied very critically simply by rotating one of the coils, and thus sharp tun- necessity of a condenser. ing can be obtained without the

New Loud Speaker.

A further development in broad- cast reception has been introduced by the Marconi Company, and experiments made at Wembley. A new type of loud speaker was which did not distort the voice! in the usnal manner of such in- extraires with one detector vale, strumente, Five bigh-frequeres

Adoption of the new E-CH. le-pecially for ash-land radio

work, willberone.dered&the

international conterence on cor- unication which probably will be held within the year.

It lens itself particularly to relieding cable congestion and to meeting the difficulties of find- ing enough long-wave-lengi bs for long-distance radio communica- tion. By multiplying the na: ber of words it is possible to send hocrls, the same result is obtain-

ri asif the number of available wavelengths had been doubled.

Wireless in Ceylon

I hear from Ceylon 78 writer in Home journal, that, in *pite of the increasing interest in wireless amongst Europeans and Cegionese in the island, develop ment moves very slowly, and the Proposed Grdzuance 20 permit amateur wireless in Ceylon has not yet been published. It is ex- pected that in the near future wireless broadcasting will be in- troduced in most of the big cities of Indis, whereas it appears that wireless telephony has not yet even been demonstrated as an ex- periment! I only hope that those who have bauded themselves to- gether as the Ceylon Wireless Club will be able to take some

were used, while to supply ab current to the specially construct ed loud speaker an additional five valves of rather heavier construc tion were employed. The aria wire. In its present form it re- was about 20f. in length, single

presents the most efficient method yet devised whereby one person can address a large audience in the open air. The set was only installed at Wembley temporarily.

Recent Inventions.

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Answers,

One. If while attempting. A third strike, the ball touch any part of the batsman's person, be is out.

Two.-- Base

rubbers cannot

advance on a missed third strike which comes into contact with the batsman's person, the hall be. comes dead.

Three Tho infeld fly rule does not apply with a runner on first only. There must be rucners on first and second or first, second and third and less than two out.

Four-He can be retired by being touched with the hall, or by holding the ball on the base that be was entitled to, which was second.

Five-If base runder over- lides a base that be is attempting to eteal and is retired, he does not receive credit for a stolen base.

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The following inventions were recently announced at Home: the Printing and Kindred Trades W.W. Burnham-Inductances. Federation, held at Scarborough. In a variable inductance com movable like the pages of a book, prising pivoted coils which are! each moving coil is operated by al by speech current vari-tions in spindle paralled to the pivotal the microphone ciruit. axis of the coil-holder through circuts may be arranged so worm or toothed gearing. The that one acrial, may serve both spindle is long enough to avoid for transmisson and reception. the hand coming close to the coils Soc Drauit et Raulot-Lapointe. tively the movable coil may be rent-The secondary winding of when operating them." Alterna--Converting alternating cur. mounted directly on the spindle a transformer or other high ten- simultaneously operated by the nected to a pair of contacte saó or again several coile may be sion alternating source is co- same spindle.

to a point between two conden. sers. The other terminals of the second pair of contacts, and the condensers are connected to

are variously employed to four contacts co operate in alter A Hongkong - Query. prevent receiving, taking place ate pairs with a switching de- simultaneously with transmitting. vice rotated by a synchronous Grid" (Hongkong) saks in One arrangement has a detecting motion, whereby the condensers Popular Wireless what length of diode valve shac ting the high are alternately charged in the No. 25 Eureka wire to use in a tension supply of the receivez same direction by successive baj?“ filament resistance, and for parti- circuit and being rendered con-waves and discharge high tension óulars of a telephone transformer.ductive so as to shortcircuit anidirectional current suitable The answer given is

same when inductively energized for X-ray work, etc.

E. Pollock. Transmitting and refinite steps to make the Governmitting and receiving set valves

receiving. In a combined traus

ment move in the matter.

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