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NOTES AND NEWS LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.

THE LOCAL SOCIETY.

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"FADING" EXPERIMENTS.

THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

A FULL AGENDA.

ARMS TRAFFIC.

H.M.S. WOODLARK.

FIRED ON AND REPLIES.

Shanghai, Oct. 14.

THREE YEAR SENTENCE.

"Before. Mr. J. H. B. Nihill and Major C. Willson at the Kowloon It is reported that H. M. S. Rugby, Oct. 14

Magistracy yesterday, an unent Woodlark was fired upon on The opening session of the Int-ployed Chinese was charged with October 13 near Tungting Lake. perial Conference will be held on being in unlawful possession of a The vessel was subjected to a Tuesday next, in the Cabinet room dagger without a pormit from the severa bombardment, and was of the Prime Minister's official London residence. All the self- C. S. P. and with having in his forced to governing Dominions, and India, possession Instruments it for an machine-guns and pompoms. She will be represented at the confer unlawful purpose, to wit, two pieces suffered no casualties.--Router:

of electric wire and a small plocò ence, which is the first to be held

of wood. since 1923.

In answer to the first charge

return the fire with

INDIANS WAR. MEMORIAL.

SIX NEW VALVES ORDERED.

The mystery of the cause of that

Owing to the "great distances to Jannoying phenomenon known as The local Society has been un "fading" is far from being solved; be travelled by the delegates, the defendant stated that the fortunate in discovering, that fur-but a great deal of information their attendance necessitates forg weapon was given to him by a ther faults have been located with has recently been obtained in the absences from their governmental friend. The other two articles regard to the valves, after he re- course of extensive experiments responsibilities in various Domihad apparently been put into his

WORK COMMENCED AT cent complete overhaul of the carried out by both professionals ions, and the conferences can only pocket while he was asleep on a be arranged at irregular and in-stack of wood on the foreshore at.

NEUVE CHAPELLE. broadcasting act. In consequence, and amateurs. no test was broadcast last Friday, As most listeners know the frequent intervals, but in racent Kowloon City.

Sub- Inspector Stimson said that

Rugby, Oct. 14. and the Technical Committee has trouble is, ás ja rule, only experi-years it has been found possible!

Work has already bean bogun on ordered four new valves. from enced when a distant station is to hold these Empire gatherings a Chinese constable, who was on Shanghal

One possible cause is every two or three years. Al-duty in Chut Tsai Street at night the memorial at Neuve Chapelle of the tuned in. member Society has ordered a further two that the direct or earth bound though in intervals between cou on September 26, was suspicious to the Indian troops who fought and when these are received they waves may be interfered with by ferences the Dominion Prime Min- of the defendant's movements. In France. should prove aufficient to carry on the waves reflected from the up-istors are kept closely informed by He stopped him and two other

It will probably be completed for some considerable time. It is per strata of the atmosphere, cable on international affairs in men who were with him. The de- not yet known when another test which act as a kind of electrical which the Empire as a whole is fendant was searched and the next spring.-British Wiraleas. will be made, but this will be an sounding board. The interference concerned, a vast field remains dagger found concealed in his nounced as soon as the new valves of two or more waves, arriving at for fresh discussion and consulta girdle. The wire was discovered tho man's walst arrive, and have been tried. different angles and at slightly dif- tion when the heads of ovsus colled around

Another member of the Society ferent times, may easily cause governments assemble in London, while the piece of wood was found. and in this respect next week's in his pocket. As soon as the has made a useful donation, which fluctuation in signal strength. will be utilised for buying a small

conferonce will be no exception. table suitable for storing tools and other apparatus belonging to the Society.

RADIO AND FAR EAST.

Another possible cause is dis- turbance of the reflecting layer due to small whirl in the atmosphere, which may agitate the reflecting" surface.

RADIO JOTTINGS.

I

LACK OF AMATEURS

Radio station 2L0, London, ré- HAMPERS DEVELOPMENT. cently tried a novelty broadcast by first presenting a little drama fol- San Francisco, Oct. 6.-

lowed by a comely sketch. After The results of an exhaustive wards these two-wore ran together survey of trans-Pacific communi-into a humorous novelty. cations were published on October!

Radio has made great advance 6th by the United Press and they ment in England. In the little vil- indicate conclusively that the solu-large called Stoke Dry there are 12 tion of the communications prob-houses and 11 of these are equip lem rests entirely with, radio. In

ped with radio sets. In the parish worked on the problem for five radio receiver. years. the handicaps which now! prevent the development of trans- Pacific radio communication by

An Outline of the Agenda."

An outline of the work that lies before delegates will be given in

articles were found on the defen dant's person the other two men escaped.

After consultation, the Bench

a speech in which Mr. Baldwin advised the prosecution to with- will welcome the visiting Prem-draw the second chargé and pro- ders. There will, however, becced on the major count only. nothing rigid in this outline, and

when the visitors reply in turn

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ARMS IMPORTATION.

PROHIBITION DECREED IN

MEXICO.

Mexico City, Oct. 18.

In order to. prevent bandits and revolutionaries obtaining arms

President Calles has decreed the The defendant was aertenced to prohibition of importation of rifles,

they will be at liberty to raise three years hard labour, on the pistols, and cartridges.--Reuter's any questions upon which they charge of possession of a dagger. American Service. would like to have an expression

of opinion by the conference.

The first day of the conference will probably be confined to ex- changes of courtesy, but, before adjourning a more detailed survey. of the agenda of the conference and its procedure will be made."

THEATRE

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the opinion of experts who have of Wilcote every house has a In the hist of subjects to be dealt ITALIAN GRAND OPERA CO.

come.

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with some matters will doubtless Light summer programmes are be, referred to a committee, while offered by the Canadian National others will be reserved for discus

short wave, will shortly be over.ailway which operate nine brond-sión at full conference meets, cast stations. The programmes It is generally assumed that inter- Unless new and unexpected in-are intended primarily for the en-Imperial matters will be discussed tertainment of passengers on ra- on statements by Secretaries of ventions appear, the bulk of radio

dio-equipped trains.

State for the Dominions and Co- communication will be by the short A "radio broadcast" vocabulary lonies, and for defensive services, wave system, according to leading

is being compiled in England. and that other questions will be experimenters, and it is generally The work is being undertaken by raised on a statement made by the predicted that several of these low cost systems will span the Pacifica committee which incfades Robert Secretary for Foreign Affairs. within another year.

The effect Bridges, poet laurente, and Sir Many membors of the conference,

Forbes Roberton.

however, attach more importance to the economic questions that will figure on the agenda.

on commercial development in the Pacific will be revolutionary.

AMATEURS CONTRIBUTE.

Amateurs who have contributed largely to the success of radio have made some remarkable advances

In the last year while Navy Radio and the Radio Corporation of

America have been carrying on

The lack of wella

their work.

"The four principal causes for trouble in a radio set have been found by a recent investigation to be: 1, a bad ground; 2, run-down batteries; 3, burnt-out or faulty tubes; 4, a fault in the areial or loud-in system. "

Radio engineers advise mounting cone-type speaker behind a hole

All memoranda have been pre-

pared by appropriate government departments on such matters as overseas settlement, inter-Imperial trade, communications, research, films, and other subjects upon

in a board about four or five feet which" decisions may be taken

equipped experimenters in China,"

in diameter and suspending the by the conference.-British Wire Japan and the Philippines, has made progress slower than on the whole assembly about three feet legs.

from the ceiling to improve the Atlantic.

The hole in the

Talking between Pacific coast tone quality. points and stations along the board should be about the aume China coast, in the Philippines size as the cone of the speaker.

An unusual request received by and Australia, is no longer a goal sought after by amateurs. They station WBAL, Baltimore, was have accomplished that time after, from a Georgia "fan" who wanted time and are now working to make the director to call' Johns Hopkins such communications constant and flospital every day, ask about his wife who was there and report the dependable.

The United States naval rádio lady's condition on the air each' recently communicated direct with night.

Peter MacArthur, chief announ- the cruiser Henderson in Shanghai harbour. Richard P. Upham, with cer of atation WOC, Davenport, a small station on Baker's laland la...received several thousand visi near Salem, Massachusetts, talked tors at the studio one afternoon. recently for 23 minutes with E. F. So great was the strain upon the Wood, operator of a station on the gemia! "Bobby, Burns of the Air Island of Kaul, T. H. He used that he was compelled for several. a ect working on thirteen volts days to have his hand swathed in

bandages. supplied by dry batteries.

Chinese amateurs in Hawaii |-

have communicated several times CHARTERED WIRELESS. with Johannesburg, South Africa.: Pacific coast stations have com-

municated dozens of times with Institution by Royal Charter the Philippines, Australia and stai seems, distinctly the fittest way of giving the new. Broadcasting con- tions in the north Pacific.

The work now is centred on retrol a gobd start and suggesting finements that are necessary to e-its proper ideals. The essentials tablish continuous communiea of such a body are that it should tions. The navy radio has had re-be insulated both from Mammon markable success with high fre- and politics, and endowed with' quency in its regular transmission authority and elasticity. It should. over the San Francisco, Holonlulu, be able to claim status. and self-direction of the type enjoyed, Manila route.

say, by one of the great Universi- NEW TRANSMITTING DEVICE. In Seattle a firm of radio dealers ties, for wireless should be itself, has just perfected a new transmit-among other things, a University ting device which has been accretly of Taste. It can do much to re- tested at various Pacific coast atd-pair, for instance, one of the most tions and found to be extraordina-conspicuous failures of elementary rily successful in increasing dis-education in raising the quality of tances for high frequentcy. com- common speech, It could, almost munications.

establish-in time--a standard It is the scarcity of stations. In voice analogous to the "standard the Pacific, according to the gene- yard" and the standard pound." ral belief, that has hampered de- Whether it could codify pronoun- velopment. If there were more ciation, is another question. Some amateurs in the Philippine, China of the judgements on this just fe- and Japan, experts say that the re-sued by the B. B. C. must prove raining barriers to continuous, admirable apples of discord. And low cost communication would in these matters there is, perhaps,: soon be removed.

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