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RADIO NOTES AND NEWS Some Ships' Wireless Anomalies.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1924. (FEATURE SECTION).
the mattor is one that concerns not only one or two companies or one or two nations-it concerns miny and the need for wiraloys un a Japanese ship or a Chinose ship is just as uigont as it is in the case of a British ship There should be no insuperable difficulty about the chief maritinio nations, Japan included, coming to somo agrooment ne to which vessela should be compelled to carry universal wireless, with minimum tonnage for all nation- promont Uniteri alition. Tho States system is the most com- prehensive and generally useful; the French law that is soon com. ing into operation would embrace Inost, ocean-going ships that curry passengers; and the British rule, while perhaps less com- prohensive than that of either France or the United States, has worked woll up to the promont. The Japanese Government, as the Japanese shipping concerns, has shown amplo evidence of a regard-for the safety of the R01- man and thw sou traveller and it is not to be supposed that Japan would fail to agree to any reason- alle international standard that might be proposed. It is im possible to say what China would or could do, having no shipping laws, but in the ease of an inter- national wireless agrooment she could adopt it in similar to hor adoption of the International Rules for Prevent- ing Collisions at Sea. In those days, tho ques ion of wireless is hardly less. important. Shipping and Engineering.
There are many matters con- nected with shipping that call for International agrootmont and in regard to which international agroomont must come, sooner or lator, but inevitably, and among the most important fa the question general of the adoption of s international standard showing exactly which vessels shall coin-1 pulaorily carry wireless appar atus. As matters aro at present, white noarly every shipping nation has its own regulations on the subject there is in those roculations a divorsity and a difference which eventually will For have to bo eliminated. example: All British. vessels of 1 800 tona gross and over register- od in the United Kingdom and trading from the United Kingdom have to carry wireless; in the United States the law rays that wireless shall be carried on all vessels carrying 50 persons or over. including the captain and crew Norway specitius all ships of 4.000 ton's gross and over; and France, all vessels over 500 tons (this regulation has not yet come wireless Into operation). operator is included in all cases having no China, of course. shipping laws, or regulations of any description apart from such Becosary local rules as bave haen made by that long-suffering body, the Maritime Customs, has no wireless laws, and Japan, though the world's third shipping nation, has no law to enforce the carrying of wireless on any of her national ships. It has been left to the Japanese shipping companies linmselves to have
as they con wireless installed
though aider necessary, and practically all of the large pas senger-carrying vessals Hailing under-the-Japanese_flag carry wireless apparatus with efficient operators, a large portion of the Japanese merchant marine, both cargo. passenger-carrying and Carrying, is without this very necessary moans of safety.
ON THE CHINA COAST. The need of some international -agreement on this important sub- ject is no where more apparent than on the China Coast, where few of the locally-engaged passen. ger-carrying vos Helsearry wireless apparatus, and where there is n great number of ships of all nationalities in constant service. The urgent need of China Coast vessels carrying wireless has been hammered by the press in these parts for at least five years, and while, oven now, the proportion of coasting ships that have been so fitted is still infinitesima), at least two of the big shipping com- panies operating in these parts have taken definite steps in the matter and it is not unlikely that in the not distant future a goodly proportion of British vessels will have wireless protection.
But
a manner
AMERICAN SLANG.
Worries British Fans.
-London English radio fans in touch with American stations declare there is a crying need for a wireless dictionary.
They say they can't make houd or tail of auch Americanisms as cat's "hard boiled." "oodles."
**ham," eyebrows,"
jane," "cuckoo" "southpaw," and "iron men.
wow."
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ALSO IN THE FIELD.
Another entry in the race to develop a method of transmitting, movies by radlo is Colonel E. H. R Green, son of the late Hetty His radio station near Bizzards Green, world's wealthiest woman. Ray, Mass. holds not only powerful broadcasting-and receiving apparatus, but Includes a laboratory whore Colonel Green and picked radio engineers have been working on the radio movie Isag Colonel Green is shɔva here working the d als of a receiver at hi slation.
REVUE IS HOOKED. another farther down the road
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FOURTEEN IN GERMAN.
Fourteen broadcasting stations in Europe use the German lang uage for broadcasting, the latest being the one at Vienna. Francel has only seven such stations.
NETWORK FOR FRANCE,
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The tendency of British ain- atours to pick up American slung terms is creating havoc among consorvativo English, who can't understand what it's all about.
France is to follow England Radio papers hore have started an agitation against the mysterious, with the idea of a national not- radio transmitting These will also sorve lingo from overseas, saying "the work obi king's English is good enough, stations.
as regional broadcasting stations. for us," but the y unger genera tion is eagerly mastering the use of such expressions as "knock 'em for a row of alabaster icicles." while balled parents listen in with disgust.
RADIO FOR TRAFFIC. Trattic police assigned to stop speeding have radio. transmitters and receivers on their ears. message from one enp to another
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POSTCARD 22 YEARS LATE.
Post Office Record.
The Post Office has recently boaton its own record.
Thore have been many in- stancesof long-delayed lettore and postcards being delivered, some- 20 timos after 10, 15, or yeare, but a Wandsworth resident has just received two such carda by the same post.
One card was posted at Nowry, Ireland, on July 15, 1902, and the other at Barmouth, North Wales, on July 25, 1904.
With a difference of two years in the dates of posting, it is ex. traordinary that they should have arrived 20 and 22 years late by the same delivery.
The first was addressed
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S. W.," and the ather" Miss Tilly,
Fulham-road Walham- green. London. 8.W," with a footnote opp. Town Hall," the writer evidently not knowing the number of the house.
OF CHINA.
QUEEN'S BULIDINGS.
ABSURD PRACTICE STOPPED,.
A The addressco (Mrs. R. Ness) is now married, and lives Wands. in Lebanon-gardens, worth.
NEW NAME.S
Shipping Board Changes.
Co.,
HONGKONG.
and Barry as the American Far pointed out, the Shipping Board East. Line, Columbia Pacific Ship ships on the various routes will ping Company as the Oregon and become known to the public under Oriental Line and Swayne and the trade names as announced by Until recently the Post Office
Host as the Pacific Australin the Shipping Board and in the mado a surcharge of 1d. on cards
case the boste are sold to private.. which for years had been un- Trado uomos for steamshipinos Line.
Little Information regarding operators they will have establish- delivered, the argument being operating United Statos Shipping
a namo of value to the that the presont postal rate was Board steamers Lavo boen as just what action the Shipping ed Id., and, as the card only bore a proved by the United States Board contemplates with the an- operators. halfpenny stamp, the postage was Shipping Board, according to cable nouncement of these new names advices raceived by the local for their operators has been insufficient.
It is interealiong to note that in offoe of the Shipping Board, says received here. It is presumed, M: Boulay of Nogent-le-Botrol.. bowever, that the Board contem- France, recently Killed 250 vipera neither ́oa56 WAS Mrs. Noss the Manila Bulletin.
The Pacifio Mail Stoamship plates using them in all adverties in three daya shooting, which burcharged. The absurd practico In such instancos has apparently Company-la-to-be-known as the ments instead of the name of the brings his totalbes during the
In this way it is fast six years to 5,000 2 California Orient Lino. Struthers operators. now been stopped.
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