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İHOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1925,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WIRELESS LIGHTHOUSE, beam of about 15 degrees from

BONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL

FolographiclAddress: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.",

AND.

SHANGHAI

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HOTELS,

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KOWLOON HOTEL

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First Class Billiard Room and Saloon Bar. Electric Lift and Telephone to each Floor. Ms. K.608 & K.609. Cable address: KOWLOTEL, Hongkong

Under the encral Supervision and Management of FRANK L. COOKE Propoietor.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING,

TELEPHONE ON BACH FLOOR. HOTEL, LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS

Tel. Central 375.

THE

Telographic Address "Vigonia”

EUROPE

SINGAPORE.

FOR

HOTEL.

COMFORT-FOOD-MUSIC-DANCING

Tormis: A la carte or Inclusive.

The after-dinner dancea are held ovary Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Telephones in every room.

The Europe Orobestra plays nightly during Dinnor, and for Tiffin on Saturdays.

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Kalastame "Europe Singapore".

Telephone 2740.

ROOM

ARTHUR E. ODELL. Managing Director.

POST OFFICE. NOTICE.

Postage stamps should be affixed in the right-hand top corner of address side of all postal articles:

The Radio Service has roverted to normal hours of working, Corsages may be handed in at any hour of the day or night during, General Post Ofice bours at Radio Counter, Main Hall, at all other times Posages should be taken through the corner entrance at Pedder Street rand Des Voeux Road to the Radio Office on the 3rd floor of the building, These doors will be closed after 10 p.m. but admittance may be obtained by ringing the right-bell,

Rndle Trafic with Canton is suspended until further notice. Interport Radio Telegrams are subject to delay.

#essages in Codo must have pams of Coda used included in text. The Parcel Post Service to Canton 19 suspended until further notice.

Japan

London 5th Nov.)

Manila

INWARD MAILS.

Per Ilosang

Trieste... Pres. Pierce Kitano Maru

Dne. December 3.

December 7, December 10. .December 10. December 14.

Jono of its faces, the reflecting wires acting like a colossal mirror and throwing the otorgy

DOCTORS' INCOMES.

Invisible Signals Replacing all in one direction. As this Information in Speeches.

Flash.

Sir Charles Sherrington, in a recent Speech at the Royal Free Hospital, said the average annuşl earning of the medical practi tionor it Britain to-day had beun: pot at between £500 and 2600 a year, and he saw little reason to suppose that estimate was not

jarrial revolves it makes contacts ons ring at its base, and theso A "Wireless Lighthouse" is the boing arranged as letters of the latest of the wireless adaptations alphabot in Morse result in a dovised by Sonatore Marconi. Its continual string of leftors being possibilities are such that it may transmitted. quite conceivably largely sup- As the aerial swopps round se ploment, if it does not suparsede, does the beam, and when it is prosent-day nothuds of shore picked up by a ship the lotter of signalling and conquer tho the alphabet that the ship re-applicable to the woman as woll torrors of darkness und fog. ceives will toll it at, what angle as to the man practitioner; it was Instead of a lighthouse flash-i is to the South Foreland light- not, to his mind, a discouraging" ing out" to sen, a groat acrial house, and its position can be average in the era before us..

The strongth, of slowly revolving, would flash worked ont. into space an invisible signal the signals also gives a clue as to which would not only worn ships the proximity of the soured. of their dangor, but enable their exact position to be identified in the thickest fogs.

At King's Colloge Hospital,'' Sir Arthur Keith discussed the student habit.

loss, the power of study was not extremely difficult to acquire, bo-

The advantage claimod is that It was not he said) the eating the devico will work no matter knowledge, but the digesting of what the weather, and fog has it that made the roal student Though the device is only in no effect whatever, while the re- The 19th or 20th year was a good the experimental stage, it is reiving set is so simple that even time to begin to acquire the sufflelently advanced for. de a small fishing boat can carry it student. habit, because it was muniration purposes. Senatore and receive signals for 50 or 60 about that time the brain acquired The wavelength of its fullest size, when all its con- Marconi's yacht Elettra sailed miles. from Daver with Senatore Mar- metres used cannot interferenexions were formed. Neverthe- eoni on board and a number of with any other transmission. Long-range signals AFR ospresentativos of shipping com-

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of cause all inherited instinct was Panies and Government Depart- required

the primary purpose against it. There was a curious! ments. She kept in touch with which

.to guide navigators in warfare between the stomach and an experimental revolving aerial is on the South Foreland lighthouse darknows and fog near porilous the brain. The two organs did right round tho Kent post and coasts. But Senatore Marconi not seem to go in harness well to- up the estuary of the Thames has heard the South Foreland gether. Carlyle, Darwin, Huxley, until she had almost roached signals at a distance of one Spencor-all students were con- Southend. Her course could hundred miles. The chief ob- stantly complaining of their

bacause it! he spotted by the signals recolved ject of the tests was to ascertain stomachs. That was

the effect of bean, transmission was not realized that the brain with extreme accuracy.

results The secret of the invention overland. The

were required less fond to maintain it lics in thu use of directional entirely satisfactory. When the than the muscles. The person steaming up the who desired to "acquire the beam wireless. The experimental Elettra was aorial on the South Foreland is Thames estuary, the South Fore-student habit with success "must a remarkable structure. It looks land signals, sont from twenty-adopt a regimen. Just as møn like a gigantic cage, and com- six miles away, almost entirely trained for a boat race or any prises a number of energised overland, were clearly audible.

athletic competition, so they must train for the life of a student. aerials arranged in a straight line, together with a number of While all other kinds of nuts. There was no fear of using the reflecting aerials, or simple bits especially hazel and Spanish matured brain to its fullestcapa- Nature had supplied af of wire, insulated at both ends, chestnut, have proved a deplor-city. arranged behind them, and paral- able failure this autumn, there wide margin of safety in every lel to them, at a distance of one has been in England almost bodily organ. The heart, if put quartor of the wave-length. All everywhere fair crop of to it, was capable of doing ten the aerials are vertical and are walnute. The largost walnut times its normal work. approximately one wave-length grove in England-at Kempston. in height, this in the case of the near Bedford-was formed purely South Foreland being just over 6 for the timber. The then owner rotres. Special arrangements of the farm planted 365 trees for are provided for ensuring that the cynical reason that wars the currents induced in all the would never cease, and walnut- energised aerials are in phase wood would always be wanted for with one another.

gun-stocks. After fruiting for more than a century most of the remaining trees were uprooted a few years ago by a great storm.

COLOSSAL MIRROR.

The aerial is revolved slowly, and projects signals in a narrow

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Sir Arthur Lawley told a gathering at the Middiessox Hos pital that he had been for eight years in India and for eight years in Africa, and he could find no words adequate to express his adroitation of the work which the men and women of the medical profession were doing to reduce the sum of human misory and suffering in those far-off lands.

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WEDNESDAY to SATURDAY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.151

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"LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY"

DIRECTED BY WILLIAM BEAUDINE

Laughter Chases Tears

The sweetest of comedy and the tendercs! of pathos vie with each other in the story of Little Annie Rooney-a story that plays June of Life and Love on the heart strings) of humanity and that has no dull moments nor slack in pace.

Comedy Speeds Pathos

THE STAR

TO-DAY only

CARL LAEMMLE presents

HOUSE PETERS

Raffles

The Amateur Cracksman

Added Attraction

From Europe via Negapatam Letters ouly

Japan USA, Honolulu, Japan and Shang-

Pres, Harrison ihni

Pres, Jackson Wanile USA., Honolulu, Japan and S'hai Prus. Taft

Aisuta Maru Straits

OUTWARD MAILS.

Shangha

Fort Bayard

For

Toihow, Pakhol and Haiphong. Manila

*Manila

Saigon

watow

Munila, Australia and New Zonland

Fia Thursday Island

Hochow and flaiphong Java vin Batavia Swatow, Amoy and Formosa...... Straits, Ceylon. Indla, Mauritius, E. AS. Afrien, Egypt and Europe vin Marseilles

Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, Canada, U.S.A., C. and S. America and Darope via San Francisco and 'Europe viu Siberia (letters and post cards specially superscribed

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Amoy. Wahlwei..

Swatow, Amoy and Formosa " #follow and Haiphong

Saigon, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, TAS. Africa, Aden, Egpyt and Europe via Marseilles

Amoy and Foochow Atoy...

Straite, Coylon, India, Mauritius, E. &B. Africa, Aden, Egpyt and Eur- opo via Marseilles shanghai.

December 4.

. December 4.

'December 4.

Date.

Per Borneo Maru..Wed., Dev. 2, 2.30 p.m. Tjikembang... Wed, Dec. 2, 5 p.m. Chung Hling...... Wed. Der 2, 5 p.m. Taming Thurs., Dec. 3, 8.30 am. President Jackson

Thurs., Dec. 3, 3.30 p.m. Emp. of Ania Turs., Dec. 3, 3.30 p.m. 3, 3.30 p.m. Telemachus.Thurs., Dec. Yingehow. Thurs., Dec. 3, 5 plan,

Changto

3, & p.m.

Parcels Desi, Dec. 4. Registration .9.45 a.. Letters.10.30 a.m. (Due Thursday 18, 17th Der.) Chaksang .... Fri Dez. 4, 10a.m. Tiisaluk...... Fri. Dee. 4, 11.38 au. Kutsu Maro....Fri, Dec. 1, 230 pm.

Kitano Maru

.Sat.. Dec. 5, Registration......8.45 an Letters 9.30 1.m. (Due Maravilles 3rd January, 1926.)

Pres. Pierce

„Sat., Dee. 5, Parcols

.Noon. Registration.2.15 p.. Letters ..8.30 p.m (Due San Francisco Dec. 20.)

Kumsang

Chipahing Hozan Maru

Snt., Dec. 5, 6 pan. Sat., Dec. 5, 5.10. Sun, Doc, 0,9 nm.

Mingoang... Mon. Dec. 6, 8.30 ani.

Andro Lebon......... Tuce., Dec. 8, Registration..11,45 a.m. Letters.

.12.30 p.nl. Das Marseilles 9th January, 1926.) | Hai NingTues., Der. 8, 2 p.m. Sinklang.....Tuca., Dec. 8, 3.30 p.m.

Morca Kwongsang

Farcels....11th. 5 p.m. ...Sat., Dec. 12. ... Tues., Dec. 8, 5 p. * Registration, 945 nan.

Letters

10.30 .10. (Dus Marseilles 8th Jan., 1920.),

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mission." Frime importance is. sight or more wirolese message attached to the utilization of from one transmitting valve on short wave lengths in view of the tho samo ton-metre wave longth, fact that virtually all the avail and their reception on a single able wave lengths have already instrument, was made recently been allotted to broadcasting by the inventor, Mr. JH Ham-statione. Mr. Hammond's system mond, jun., before officials of the permits the commercial utiliza Navy Departinent, who have now tion of low waves without dis- permitted the announcement of a turbanico from interferences,

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