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At a dinner at which Mr. Bani- | responding to the toast. "If you say MacDonald was entertained re- knew where to. bok in sonic cently by the Landon Srotz Labour magazines you would see under a Club, at the National Hotel, name, which I will rol divulge, Bloomsbury, the chairman (31r. į tave different varieties of literary J. R. Leslie said that Mr. Mae- | outburst, that, would absolutely Donald had never written poetry, amaze So That is my secret, "Mr. Leslie has done me - justice," said Mr. MieDohald, in you any further information."

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THE HONGKONG, - TELEGRAPH,

SERIOUS BLUNDER IN MEMOIRS.

POISON STORY ABOUT PRINCE ALBERT.

Messrs. William Heinomann, who publish the book in Great Britain, have received a cable from Mr. Wilson, who is in New York.

Mr. Wilson explains how the mistake occurred, and Mesars, Heinemann have announced "That in the edition of the book, which will be ready in about ten days, they have taken to ensure thatj

created by the paragraph referred there can be no false impressions

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1927.

WIRELESS AND GRAMPHONES.

PLUGGING FROM ONE TO THE OTHER.

THE "UNKNOWN" ́ SOLDIER.

Wax

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A MOSQUITO-PROOF · TRIBE.

NAKED SWAMP-DWELLERS OF RHODESIA.

SOME NEW METHODS IN RADIQ.

QUARTZ CRYSTAL CONTROLS. FREQUENCY,

and

HOW BODY WAS CHOSEN.

Paris, November 11.-To-day in The most outstanding examplef Wireless and the gramphone London and Paris the King and

The Batwa tribu, of Northern At the Radio World's Fair re of Mr. P. M. Wilson's editorship were once regarded by all of us President Douruerque respectively Rhodesia, five a far from com-cently held in New York, radio of Greville's unexpurgated as natural implacable enemies. laid wreaths upon the tomb of the memoirs that by which Queen Wireless enthusiasts said it was Unknown Soldier, who has now befortable life, but they possess one fans were afforded an opportunity Victoria was represented to have now unthinkable that anybody come one of the great traditions Seat advantage over their more to see for themselves how one of civilised brethren-nature has the greatest boons to radio recop- been in danger of being poisoned should draw nightly entertainment of the world. by the Prince Consort-will be from a dead, black, and expensive made to reveal the identity of the The Batwa live in the great possible. This was demonstrated tion-frequency control is made Inevitably the attempt is being made them mosquito-proof. rectified in a new edition of the dise when you could get it book.

quivering out of the ether, for "Unknown," but the riddle will ukange swamp, formed by a as part of the feature display of

The dead tributary of the Kafue River, the Westinghouse Electric twopence halfpenny a week, says never be answered. ä Home writer. Gramophone man who lies under the Are district from which Dr. C. M. Manufacturing Company.

Interference in reception, ac- owners replied coldly that they de Triomphe fell at Verdun. Doke, Professor of Bantu, Studica still preferred music to squeals. On the battlefield from the at the Rand University, has just cording to radio-engineers, is duo Argonne the Woevre the returned after a prolonged tour of to a large extent to the in- To-day the two instrument have

investigation.

ability of broadcasting station to literally joined forces. The join dead lay, in 1910 and 1917, in

Though latterly many of the keep rigidly to the wavelengths haseen made by length of hundreds of thousands, and many cable with a plug at one end, and were they whose names are undisatwn under Government protée-assigned by the Federal Radio tion. have taken up residence on Commission. With stations se at the other a little horseshoe coverable.

the mainland, at one time theyparated from each other by dif It shaped box with a needle project-

private soldier, Įdid not dare venture outside the ferences of only 10 kilocycles in ing from it.

a slight "While the theorists argued, the Auguste Thin, of the Brd Company confines of the swamp for fear of their wavelengths, even the problem. We ought to have who designated the body of the one part to another by cancequency will cause, one station to practical engineers calmly solved of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, their enemies. They travel from wandering from its assigned t

After all, what is a loud-spoak. I the eternal flame shadowed by the reeds and, papyrus, and live in sult that a shrick or how Issues er set? Half of it is a device for arch. M. Thin explained to-day primitive houseboats. errory

what happened.. Ho had to choose

"Patient Fishers,' picking a series of electricn!

between eight collins, and he select- The Batwa live mainly by fish-Westinghouse experts claim, Is oscillations out of the ether and ed the sixth. He was summoned ing, and for hours they stand found in the Piezo quartz crystal rectifying them; the other half by his colonel on Armistice Day patiently with spears waiting for oscillator, developed in Westing- amplifies them and turny themin, 1920 and told that he had been passing barbel, with which the house laboratories and now equip The passage alleging that the into sound,

chosen to find the Unknown Soldier, swamp abounds. Others usped on several transmitters of Queen feared being poisoned by

And what is a gramophone? und at 4 o'clock must appear in new poison, which they scatter on the Westinghouse Station KDKA. her husband, of course" refers Half of it is a device for revolving uniform at the Citadel with the surface of the water. They also The Piezo crystal, it is claimed, to the Queen of Naples, and not to disc and picking oscillations off Minister of War and the Generals.make flour from the tuberous roots has the property of vibrating at. The Queen of England. 1 deeply it with a needle. The other half He followed them into the of a water-lily, which they dry a fixed frequency, thus guarantee- reynel that confused as I was does exactly the same as the subterranean ways of the an- In the sun and then pound. Whening against any change in wave- by a copyist's error in dropping second half of a loud-speaker cient fortress, and · found

mixed with water" it makes a kind. įlength. If any change does occur, a paragraph. I falled fully wireless net.

fore him right coffinis, each of thick porridge.

the station shuts down, but it can detect the mistake, although I did Wasteful. Duplication.

containing the mortal remains

Despite the fact that the Batwa | never slide off its assigned fre ridicule the allegation as L

. Obviously. then, any

owner of unknown "soldiers. His duty go about practically naked, and quency and interfere with other palpable alsurdity.

both of a gramophone"and of a

was to place upon one of the eight the whole of the swamp and its stations. The passage which came into wireless set has half the outhcoffins a bunch of pinks picked on environs are thickly infested with

duplicated, which is wasteful. If the battleeld. After such prominence is slated Septen the set is up to date, the low adjuration from Colonel Maginot, be practically immune from bites solemn mosquitoes, the Batwa appear to ber 17, 1855, and runs:-

frequency amplife and

then Minister of War, he marched and consequent malaria. better at their job round the row of coffins, followed speaker are thin the corresponding part of the by the Minister and the Generals, gramophone.

and bid his bunch of flowers on the collin of number six.

to in the eable. What every. editur fears, naya Mr. Wilson in his cablegram is the which cannot be wholly avoided in an immensely compilented

task:

4

foreseen it.

loud

man who was to lie for ever under along water lanes through the conflict with another, with the re-

from the receiving,

The solution of the problem,

The Queen," he said, was going on better than formerly. Not a Lad hearted woman, and kept in

Gramophone companies, realise order by fear of her husband, who, she thought, would poison her, or ing this, are now marketing ma-

Why? As Thin explained, he chine which are virtually wire was serving in the 6th Army Corps. which he is very capable.” “**

less sets with h turntable and The number 6, that of his corps, ́ ́ "Ite? is Lord Clarendon, and the electrical pick-up needle in place is an integral factor of the number. paragraph dropped by the copyist of the aerial circuit and detector.

132-that of his regiment, "By made it clear that Lord Clarendon What is more practical, and adding 5 to 6 you get 12. He had had returned from Italy and was more interesting to me, is that the decided that he would choose the discussing the Queen of Naples same job is now being tackled by cuffin pabered 6. Upon it he and her husband, King "Bomba," numerous wireless firms. Their laid his bunch of pinks, and a otherwise Ferdinand II., who gain, sets are equipped with sockets by moment later a man in mourning | ed his nickname from his en-which it is possible to make a cod-thrust him aside and fell upon the thusiastic bombardiment of his nexion to the first low-frequency coflin in tears. He adds:"It was rebellious subjects,

valve, without using the first half also the most molest coffin of the of the set. And they are selling, eight-made of pine wood." for as little as a couple of pounds, electrical pick-ups which you can;

gramo- Et to the lone arm of a Mrs. Grieg will distribute the phone in a few seconds, in place 1u!*i264

Victoria British of the original sound box, com- School on Wednesday 21st. Decem-plete with a cable connexion to

the socket in the wireless set.

ber.

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The Batwa never bury their dead. They place the bodies on rafts, covered with reeds, and to them far into the interior of the swam, where they are abandoned to Nature.

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In demonstrating the device, at

mitting set was set up, and by the radio show, a miniature trans-

AIL arrangement of swinging pendulums, the general method of controlling a set by means Piezo crystal was made clear.

of a

THE SHOOTING AFFAIR.

ALLEGED ROBBER HEMANDED.

After the usual Palica. formali- ties had been completed, the al- leged robber who was shot during the recent affray when Sergeant McMahon was wounded and "two Chinese constables fatally injured, was brought before Major C. Will- son, at the Central Magistracy this morning, on charges of murdering P.C. Wan Wong-chi, and P.C. Chan Sing.

Washington, Dec. 8. Iten touching upon the Philip pines In President Coolidge's budget included $80,000 for rubber investigations, $171,255 to $196,000 for sugar plant experi- mentations and $350,000 for re- Įpairs and rents for army barracks. The amount set aside for the

Inspector Lane prosecuted and barracks is the same as that pro-applied for a week's formal re- vided this year. Any portion of mand. The defendant was 0- the amount that is not used is to cordingly remanded till next Satur- go toward the acquisition of such day morning. building sites and additions to existing military reservations as may be found necessary,

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AVIATION DISASTERS.

FOUR JAPANESE AIRMEN KILLED.

Washington, Dec. 11, Declining to make an open de- elaration or his candidacy, former Governor Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, nevertheless let it be known, to-day, that he would not interfere with the efforts of his friends in his behalf to obtain the Republican nomination for Presi- dent. He expressed an opinion. that the condition of agriculture

Tokyo, Dec. 9. was the foremost, isgue of the A poll of the American Legion Four Japanese aviators approaching campaign. With re, will be made to ascertain the killed last night in a collision of ference to prohibition, he said that organization's attitude toward planes over the Omura aerodrome. he agreed with President prohibition, Edward Spafford, One of the machines burst"Into Coolidge's message, favouring national commander of the Legion, flames. The pilot and observer of

announced to-day.

each plane were killed.

atriet enforcement.

PROHIBITION ISSUE.

AMERICAN LEGION POLL

New York, Dec. 8.

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