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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

JEWEL THEFT SEQUEL.

Brooch Lost In Colombo

seen in Westend Shop. There has been a surprising saqual to the theft in Ceylon jast year of jawals worth £50,000, belonging to Lady Bandaranaike, wife of Sir Soloman Dias Bandaranaite, native aide-de- camp to the governor of the island,

Miss Cathleen Church. personal secretary to Lady Bandaranaika. returned to her home near Watford from Colombo for her holiday,

and will'. be,

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recently *W jeweller's shop in Bond-street a diamond pendant brooch which she believed to be part of the missing jewellery.

She inforized Scotland Yard of her suspicion, "and important; developments are expected.

At the time of the theft, says the Daily Mail, Lady Ban- daranaike and her husband wer entertaining # bouse! party, "including three women who A70 members of well- known English families. Her! jewels were placed in har jewel

inside another box. The thieves left no clue. The efforts of the native police to dis- cover them failed.

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NOVEMBER

RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.

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Tel. 781.

Tel. 781.

1924 Buicks Arriving

The following 1924 Buick Models, (equipped with 4 wheel brakes), will arrive in Hongkong by the middle of this month :-

Four--7 Passenger Touring Two ---4 ,, Sports

Four---5

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arrange for

Phone Central 1036 and

demonstration.

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THE

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UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER

IS THE MACHINE YOU WILL

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"Phone Central 1030,

Station WTAM, Cleveland,

showing its serisland, (left)

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part of its boge battery.

One of the outstanding diffi- ftowers 100 feet apart, and consists culties experienced while listen- of two six-wire cage antennas in on the regular run of boadcast- joined by the lead-in.

ing stations may be eliminated The counterpoise consists of 12) 259-foot lengths of wire five feet! apart, set 12 feet above the ground.)

NEW TUBE XEEDS

by an innovation at Cleveland.

Thedithealty is the interference in the form of an inceasant hum from the motor generators that develop the power to transmit the radio programs.

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NO AMPLIFICATION.

. Members of the Institute of Radio Engineers at New york The innovation is the substitu- have again had their, affention. tion of battery for motor gen-directed to the possibilities in the arator as direct source of trans-radio field of the Donla "Sodion mitting power. It is the work Detector."

This tube has no grid sad is amped hard-that is, a·I air or; as possible is taken ont of it. Yet, says Donle, the tabe is ex- tremely sensitive.

of the Willard Storage Battery It is a new form of vacuum Company which has begun trans-tube, invented by Mr. H. P. mitting from it own broad-Donle, which was once before casting station, WTAM, every placed before the radio world and Wednesday and Saturday nights. which has since been perfected. Its wave length is 390 meters.

Noiseless, steady, vacuum tube operation is what radio engineer have considered ideal for radit transmission And battery cur rent, the Willard engineers say Because of the peculiar use of is the kind that meets this ideal sodium, an alkali metal, in the It is a pure direct current genrube, Donle maintains the new erated by chemical, not me-detector alone returns signals as chanical, action. The result, loud as an ordinary detector tube they add. iselimination of a steady aided by two stages of amplific- humo, and a more clearly broad-ation. More advantageous is the cast program.

fact that the tube cannot be made! At the same time the use of] to oscillate or regenerate of it- choke coils and filter condensers self. Consequently it gives pare is obviated. They cut down the tone reproduction and is free from efficiency of operation explain the the howls and squeals that nsual- Willard engineers, by consumingly interfere in an ordinary` radio much power and wasting more in concert, Doula saya. overcoming resistence.

With its resultant advantages, therefore," WTAM has started sending its voice cut into the air, and letters from listeners have been coming in commenting on the clarity of the concerts.

HYPNOTISM BY RADIO

A person can be hypnotized by radio! Mr. Joseph Damminger, hypnotist and mind reader, de monstrated this feat recently from station at Ridgwood. His "subject" was in an office 10| miles away.

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The station has an output of 1000 watts, making it one of the

RADIO NEWSPAPER. largest broadcasting stations in The first newspaper to depend the country. The power source solely on radio for "spot news" is consists of a battery of 1280 cells, one built at May City: Alaska, of two volts each and a capacity where a broadcasting station re- of 12.ampere hours. Broadcast-ceives imme liste reports from the ing. however, is done only on outside world 2000 volts, so that only 1000 cells are in use at one time.

Charging is effected through the regular, 110-volt lighting system at a normal charging rate of one ampere. Fully charged the bat- tery will operate the broadcasting station for 12 continuous hours, before recharging is necessary,

SECRET RADIO SOON.

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8 Des Vœux Road, Central,

(Corner of Ice House Street)

Tel. No. C.4453.

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P.O. Box 635 or Tel. K765 (After 7 pm} DEMONSTRATION TRIPS ON REQUEST.

Tests of a system of secret radio telephony have been so successful of late, that it may be expected in popular use shortly. THE HUMAN ZOO Recent tests were made between Los Angeles and Catalina Island, 30 miles off the California coast. CANADA'S RADIO CHAIN. Besides having this peculiar Canada soon expects to have a advantage of bettery transmission, radio chain that will cover all of WTAM boasts ideal location, far the dominion and stretch even from electric car lines, away from into the Arctic Circle. Six noisy mechanical apparatus and stations are planned, five of eight miles from the business which will be in the northwest centre of Cleveland. Its aerial territories and the other at stretches between two 140-foot Dawson.

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Answer-In the case cited, the breaks of the game favoured the player who had driven his ball into A hazard

The Links ordinarily a dry ditch but-filled

with water because of a recent heavy rain. When the player came upon his hall and found it having been carried to such a position by the flow of water from the hazard, the player had the right to lift his ball and drop it without penalty.

Question:-Player drives, his ball tuto casual water in a hazard, which is a dry ditch except in wet weather. From the tee the "ball could be seen to splash in the water. The grade Questions what reaT WAS and the current carried the ball the Amperieso open and amateur from its position in the championships established? hazard to casual water to Answer: These two events the green.

Should the ball which bring together the cream

be returned to the hazard where of the Khalaur and professional

it first struck, or has the player golf talent is the United States

the right to lift it from throat and often from foreign sho Hon in which it to

Barton it without van te be

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