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CHINA'S MOST WESTERLY SEA-PORT. PROGRESS ÁT PAKHOI.

Main Street in Pakloi, nudy-weldenyd and rebuilt,

HÔNGKONG TELEGRAPH, APRIL 6th, 1929.

shown by the Company in under- Laking ploneer work in road mak- Ing is now going to be a hindrance to further progress until the roads can be taken over by the authorl- ties and the Company compensat- cd.

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Another road made by another company runs from the centre of Pakhoi to Namhong, about 35 miles away, but there is very little truffle that way and the company possesses only three or four cara and one bus. The Limehow road is kept in fair condition, but the Namhong one is poor. The latter was originally continued on to Taanp-lei, where it joined up with the Limchow-Paaksha road, but some bridges on this section were swept away by heavy rain floods. and have never been repaired, so no cars run on that section now. The bridges on the Limehow road ure quite good."

Unsucessful Efforts:

Two other efforts towards

sucessful. Many years ago an Electric Light Co. was started but the machinery was continually overloaded and finally ruined, so that it had to be abandoned, and there is no electric light available

Pakho might be called China's metus which is a feature of Pak-modernising Pakhoi have been un- most southerly port as well as the sol surroundings, and at the other most westerly, were, it not that and along for about three miles to after passing Boihov on the foland he @shing village of Kotak, which of Hainan, the const line suddens now accessible by mens of a ly turns northward ngain before ramshackle old motor-bus, as well reaching its auth-western bounds by ricksha.

ry up against Tongking. Al

There is no Rund or sea-front though on the south coast Promenade at Pakhof; the shops in Chinn, Pakho has the sea to the the main street turn their backs on north of it, being en a narrow the sea and run right down to the promotory curving round towards shore, some, being built on stilts the west, which makes the bay that it the edge. At low tide it is constitutes the harbour of Pakhai.] ossile, to scramble along the That is the reason for the name ore over the sand and mud and of Pakhol, which means "North riskinis, but at high tide even Sen," Le. having the ken on the hat cannot be done. The new north side of the town,, 11 is a buildings in the widened streets very shallow bay, full of stud, and are quite decent looking mes of as the coast is not lighted, no wo and three storeys, and the ships rome in after dark,

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Then, about four years ago, a waterworks was begun, and wella were up in a very unsuitable place which would get flooded with dirty water in the rainy season. But the scheme fell through be cause the man who provided some of the money and took charge of the rest of the company's funds, is said to have gambled the money.

away instead of buying the machin- ery with it-

There is a 'small wireless station oadway a being paved with cohere, and the charge for a message There are no harbour facilities of nete cement. Artesian pumps are

to Canton is 10 gents per word. any kind, and cargo has to be un-hored at intervals for public walky There is also an nerodrome con- loaded into the. Igral small boats, supply.

so when the unprotected, sen is About a year or so before the rough it is difficult to get the work strends were widened, a motor done. Passengers generally have rond was made from Pakhoi to to finish their shore-going trip on Limehow, the district city, about the shoulders of the boatmen 18 miles juland. It was made through the shallow water and upby Joral

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which the shure-rather, a primitive now runs several small mator method of landing! The stenmer bases and ears, all of which were service is very irregular, the boats bought second-hand and are now just happen along, sometimes two in a deplorably delapidated con- or free an one day and then an[dition, tied ag with wire and string

company

An old-style faím curt, quite er rimen in Pukkoi. It dues freo

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interval of three or four days or and bits of tin. However, he more without any at all. There uses enver the distance between is one skip that runs to a schedule. Pakhoi and Limehow in about 50 but as it only eames once a fost-minutes, so they rerve a useful night its regularity is hardly no purpose; it formierty was a four or

five hours'

a chair. Liveable.

journey in Pakhof formerly Boasted Chree! The road is continued in from Consulates British, French and Limehow for another 15 miles to German, but now there is only one, the village of Shekhong, and there the French. The others have is a brunch road which carries on been closed since the War, and through Trump-lei and Kungkook the buildings sold, the British one to Paak-sha, a distance of 50 or 60 to the Roman Catholic Mission, miles from Limehow. and the German to the Sal: Ad- ministration.

Wider Street”.

Future Possibility.

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taining two militury aeroplanes

which munke occasional, flights, so

it will be seen that Pakliof is up-to- date in these respects.

Another small sign of up-ka- dateness is that all dogs have to wear collars marked with n,cence number, which has to be paid for:

In spite of all modernity at Pak- hoi, the district city, Limehow, has made hardly any progress. No streets have been widened and the 'vity walls are still standing, being regarded as useful for keeping out bandil. Limehow way, in fact, besieged by bandits only eighteen. morths ago, and inhabitants were glad of the walls then.

Inside the city a public garden has been made out of a waste piece of ground, but the brickbata that covered it formerly, were Bever ample tely removed, and be hind the now and imposing en france gales the actual, garden looks very disconsolata indeed. There is one other sign of progress in the fact that a morth gate has 'been opened in the city wall, but no proper approaches have been made to it, either Inside or oul, and it does not seem to be used very much. For reasons connect- ed with old superstitions many Chinese cities have in the past had no North Gate, and in some cages gate that once existed has been blocked up. So to make u new North Gate Is evidence that superstition is breaking down.

TREATING DISEASE

BY RAYS.

(By A Specialist)

AGED WIZARD OF ELECTRICITY. THOMAS' EDISON £2 YEARS OF AGE.

Every time you snap on electrle light, use a vacuum cleaner, ride a street car, attend

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a movie, turn on the radio, play the phonograph, drive an auto that uses a storage battery, or do a thousand other things that are commonplace now, you owe a debt to Thomas A. Edison for his inventions mude all these things, possible. Above is a striking sketch of This modern miracle man; at the left, the aged inventor is seen working in his laboratory and below he is shown with his first phonograph, invented nearly a half century ago.

Then he turned back to his first The world's greatest inventor-ng beginning. But it served.

Already he had given eyidence love, electricity. The are light the man whose achievement, touch! your life every day, who made of a keen natural curiosity. had been invented and was in some for street lights, but it was possible for you the radio, the mother, going to the cellar one use electric light, the moving picture, ing, found him at a long tabletactical for use in the home. of Edison détermined to And an the street car and a whole host of covered with bottles, most equally important but less specta-which were labelled "polson." Helelectric light that could be used cular inventions-was 82 years had rigged up a laboratory, of cheaply by every householder, old on Monday, Feb, H

orts, and was going to make some The problems were many, but in That man, of course, is Thomas esperiments. When he went to 1879 Edison Introduced the Arst. A. Edison. For decades he has work on the railrond he moved incandescent electric lightt been One of America's most his laboratory to the baggage car famous, and useful, citizens. He and messed around gally in it at bas also been one of the most every spare moment. active; and now, at 82, there is no sign that he intends to relax in

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At about the same time Edison

produced another Invention--less spectacular, but tremendously-im- portant. He developed the first central power station, to furnish

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of the shoving picture camera and projector.

Edison was always interested chiefly in inventions that had a direct, practical value. He was not greatly interested in his mov- ing pieture Inventions; he did not believe that they would be commerelally profitable. So ho abandoned this field, and left to others the great work of develop Ing the moving picture industry. But every movie you attend was made possible by Edison.

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Recently Edison's attention was Lurned to artideial rubber, Edison went to his winter home in Florida to conduct extensive experiments with rubber substitutes.

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More than 1100 patenta ro- present Edison's life of invention. Many of these cover articles in daily use. Yet Edison never was Bsted among the richest men of the country. His whole career was devoted to invention, and once device was completo he lost Interest in it. It has been estimat- ed that the industries which have grown out of his invention aro worth at least $20,000,000,000; his own "personal fortune has been estimated to, run over a million, but, not to any height comparabló to those of Ford or Rockefeller.

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any way the tremendous activities Electricity fascinated him from the eurient for the hundreds of the beginning. The telegraph lamps with which his Menlo Park that have characterized every was then coming into general use, laboratory was festooned. year of his long life.

To do this, he had to devise a Edison's birthday is always anfand he longed to learn about it. event. Reporters and cameramen Chance gave him his opening dynamo far more efficient than bestege him, Lake as many pictures In 1862 young Edison rescued anything then in existence. He he will allow and ply him the daughter of the Mt. Clemens did -and then developed a new on everything station master from under the electric motor, built an experi The great advantage of treat with questions ment by ultra-violet rays lies in under the sun. Always recognize wheels of a train. The station mental electric train and paved ed as a man of surpassing in-master, full of gratitude, asked the way for the electric street car, electric If another 50 miles were to be

their effect upon the blood. coprirurteil, to Oupo, it would then

locomotive," Besides the ordinary red corpus tellect, he is now, in his old age, the boy what he could do to repay subway, elevated and

"want to be a telegrapher," In 1882 Edison's New York Until nearly four years ago the be possible to get by motor-ear all

the way from Pakhoi to Kwang-cles (the tiny discs which give the accepted also as something of an him. streets of Pakhol were the sugaowan, a total distance of about there are a minority of small white

power plant began commercial blood its characteristic colour) oracle.

On his birthday, too, people Edison replied.

So a Telegrapher he became, operation on a small scale. Out narrow lanes as elsewhere 170 miles, and from there to the

to look back over his lang

His life-story always and for five years he worked in of it grew the giant General China, but since then the two main West River and all over Kwangst cells floating in it. The first like streets have been widened to about Province. But this is not possible might be compared with the mor

bears re-telling. It is immensely that job. All the time he was Electric Co, of to-day. 30 ft., leaving one of the former vet. As the rod here is the pet chant navy, which carries cargoes

of oxygen. The second, flying the interesting. The story of what he studying electricity, and tinkering lanes lying parallel between them. vate property of the Company that white nign, which repels, and did, and how he did it, is one of with embryoule invention.

Edison always had "side lines." The chief business street in the made it, they will not allow anyone

the most absorbing stories America Then he moved to Boston, where destroys invading microbe

he secured his first, patent-on an Wule pertecting one invention he one near the sen-shore, but only else to run a rur'on it without first

has produced. Ultra violet rays, acting on the

electrical vote-recording machine. would be toying with hall a the central portion of it has been paying to the Company the amount bloed-vessels of the skin, stimulate

other ideas at the widened, so far, and it petera out of the fare on one of the Company's the body so as greatly to increasE

Milan O., was Edison's birth-But the device, while a successful dozen WAM 11 commercialune. at, each end into the old narrow ears for each journey, AL this

place. The year was 1847. The invention,

Thus, while the electric light, the number of these cells. lame. In the centre, ́however,, ac-irate' motor traffic will not make

and motor, were being How they do it is still a mystery. nation then was a quiet country: failure; and in 1869 Edison, then cess to the other widened street much progress here, though an

given the world, Edison wax mux. has been provided by widening a exception has been made in favour fraction of an inch into the body, the Industrial

They can penetrate only a minute agriculture was its mainstay, and 23, moved to New York, slightly dynamo

revolution had discouraged.

success.ng the experiments that were to. short cross street, so the plan of of a Mission Hospital ear which is

so it is impossible for them to have hardly begun to be felt, The There he had better the new streets is in the shape of permitted to run without payment, the capital letter II, The upper in recognition of the good work any direct action upon the deeply streets of big cities were lighted He devised an electrical stock make radio possible. He also de situated organs which normally by gas; in smaller towns they ticker, patented it-and sold thevised a machine that would make low-grade iron ores valuable, and widened strect raus out at one end being done by, the Bospital.

were not lighted at all. Electric-rights for $40,000.

but all of his available cash into into the wilderness of sand and! It looks as if the enterprise control euch an increase. But we capable of know that they are

ity was only

the formation of a company to a puzzling natural causing profound chemical changes phenomenon. It was a pre-Edison With this money he determined market it for most of the coun- in Inanimate substances.

country, vastly different from to-to do what he had always longedstry's available iron ore deposits One of these changes is the pro- day.

to do-establish himself in an then were of the low-grade type, duction of vitamins. It is likely When Elison was his family indispendent laboratory and devote and there was an enormous market that the same kind of thing hap moved to Port Huron, Mich.; and all of his time to research. He for such a machine. pens when they act directly upon there, five years later, he started moved to Newark, N. J., built a Unfortunately, the tremendously

out to make his way in the world. A job as newsboy on a Grand workshop, and started on the long rich Mesaba iron range, in Minne- Trunk railroad train was b's first path that was to yield some of sata, was discovered just then. the world's most useful inventions. Edison's company failed, and for a

IF job-not, perhaps, a very promin- The first few years were un-lime he was acutely embarrassed Used as a substitute for glase in ectacular. Edison helped per-financially. To recoup ho invent feet the first practical typewriter, ed a machine that would make the burner of the "Mercury and developed a carbon trans-ecment more cheaply-and get his Vapour" lamp commonly used for milter for telephones; but it was money back. the medicinal application of ultramot until 1876, when he moved his

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the blood.

It is not strange that this secret should not yet have been discover: ed, for, indeed, we know very little na yet' of these rays. The sun's Hght is largely composed of them, but to call them "light" might ap- pear to be a misnomer, since they are invisible to the human eye.

They are curiously delicate an compared with other rays. · In- stead of crashing through solid zubstances, like their relatives the X-rays and the Gammarays of radium, they are turned back by the slightest obstruction.

A film of grease on the skin la an insurmountable obstacle to), them. (Every woman knows that un cily cosmetle will prevent sun- burn, which they cause.) Smoke, Hoot, or moisture in the air will prevent their passage. They will not even penetrate ordinary glass. Quartz, which the rays will pass, is

violet rays.

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At the same time, he was trying

In this type of lamp they are shop to Menlo Park, N. J that to invent a practical storage bat- tery, This took years of his time, generated by passing an electric real success began to come.

After a number of experiments, and he fa said to have made 50,000 spark through a long quartz tube, ane end of which is Alled with he devised a little machine with a experiments for this one purpose. mercury. Another usual type Is, wax cylinder, needle and sensitive in the end, he succeeded. practically, an ordinary are lamp, diaphragm. Into the funnel that with carbon or tungsten electrodes, led to the diaphragm he spoke the Though the working of both words, "Mary had a little lamb," these is a fairly simple matter, Then he changed the machine graph, which their application for healing pur-around, but in a different kind of sounds for posterity, Edison won- poses is not. It requires not only needle, and turned'a lever. Out of dered if sights could not be pre- technical skill, but the wide know-the funnel came his own voice, served likewise. He left electri ledge of medicine as a whole, saying "Mary had a little lamb." city for a while and began to which only training and expert-The phonograph had been invent-experiment with cameras, Tho

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