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OBITUARY.

TEAD OF TEXTILE FIRM COMMITS SUICIDE.

Berlin, Aug. 5.. Iferr Simon, head of the old toxille company of Simon Brothers, has committed suicide, presumably ns a result of heavy financial losses.

Tis liabilities are estimated at a million sterling, but friends pro- pose to reorganise the firm sa as to avol liquidation.

Herr Simons' art collection is very valuable, and the idea of Jurting with it had depressed him.

-Reuter

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Emile Berliner,

New York, Aug. 5. The death is announced of

Emile Berliner, the inventor of the telephonic transmitter and gramophone.-Reuter's American

Service.

[Emile Berliner was born at Hanover, Germany, on May 20, 1851, and graduated at Samson School, Wolfenbuttel. in 1865, He went to the United States in 1870 and was married eleven years later to Cora Adler of Washington, Be Invented the loose contact

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1929.

CANTON-HANKÓW RAILWAY.

BOXER INDEMNITY MONEY, TO COMPLETE,

British

share

to

the

In June, Committee was

Act of consider the the Boxer Indemnity should be de- voted. They were of the unani- meus opinion, (quoting from the China Year Book, 1928), "that the most profitable work of outatand. ing national importance will be the extension of railways, and they strongly recommend the construc tion of the unfinished section of the Canton-Hankow railway."

LABOUR'S RECORD.

SOCIALIST M.P, DECLARES IT DISAPPOINTING.

London, Aug. 5. Canton, Aug. 3.

"We are not prepared to walt 1925, an Advisory centuries for Socialism, declared

appointed under Parliament to uses which augural speech at the Labour Party's summer school at Digswell of

Park, Hertfordshire. He said that the Government's two months' record was most disappointing. They must insist on disarmament. He expressed the opinion that defence armaments in peace time, when reduced to the final analysts, was that they were required for The the defence of the Empire. Socialist Government should break up the, Empire into constituent parts as soon as possible.

Mr. J. Maxton. M.P.. in his in-

Replying to Mr. George Bernard Shaw regarding the cotton Indus. try crisis, Mr. Maxton said that the Government was empowered to declare a state of emergency.~| Router.

For many years construction work on this, the main aftery of China's system of communications, has been at a standstill. Through lack of funds, but due as much to disturbed political conditions as anything else, what was built of this line has been allowed to run down at the heels, and rolling stock, raila, sleepers and all have deteriorated. But, the decadent the most favourable conditions it railway is about to take on a new will require a full five years to lease of life, and in addition to re-finish the work. telephone transmitter or miere-ringing the existing sections of juvenating the worn-out parts, and plione in 1877. He discovered that a loose contact will act as a telephone receiver and was first to use an induction coil in connexion with transmitters. He is the patentee of other valuable inventions in telephony.

the

the Canton-Hankow railway to a high state of emciency, the intors vening sections, which have been surveyed but never constructed. will be built, and that before much time has elapsed.

Loun to be Flonted.

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A motor highway has been built from Shiuchow to Lohchang, and in a few hours the traveller fa carried from one-northern Kwang- tung city to the other. This high- way will greatly facilitate the transportation of construction materials, for it parallels. the pro- posed rondbed in many places.

In this district, the work of

and some parts of the line have. already been started.

For in- stance, the piers of an 800 foot bridge across the Nam Yung (Nan Isiung) River at Shiuchow have been laid. Besides, progress has been made on the 1400_foot Kao Lin Chuen Tunnel. From the south end 560 feet have already been driven and lined with con- crete, and from the north end 215 feet have been driven.

Berliner Invented in 1887 the gramophone, the first talking The Communications Minister, machine, which utilizes a groove Mr. Sun Fo, has rendered his re-surveying is well-nigh completed, of even depth and varying diree-part to the National Government tion, and in which the record wherein he has asked that a loau grove not only vibrates but also of $65,000,000 be floated, for it will propels the stylus, across the re- cust something like this to finish cord (nown also as the Victor the job; and the authorities in Talking Machine), for which he Nanking were so impressed by Mr. was awarded the John Scott Medal Sur's recommendations that they and the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal have given their authorization, by Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, and it has been agreed that avail He also invented and perfected able Boxer Indemnity funds shall the present method of duplientine be set aside us the guarantee that disc records,

the $65,000,000 will be repaid, to the security will come from the the, lenders. The greater part of Russian Boxer Indemnity, but there will also be about

Mountainous Country,

Berliner has beer engaged in an educational campaign against the dangers of raw milk and other

By for The most difficult dairy products since 1901, He is

available part of the whole line for both the author and co-author

$3,000,000 left from survey and construction js of the Belgian Indemnity pamphlets dealing with the pre- which may be used for the pur-Lolchong-Pingshih District. This funds that which passes through the vention of sickness. He planned chase of materials. An under- is due to the mountainous nature and was a member of the Washing-standing with the Belgian Govern- of the terrain, it being necessary ton Milk Conference, 1907.

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ment has been arrived at: as far as for the line to skirt the edge of n it goes this $3,000,000 must be gorge. The river banks are made used to buy Belgian made pro-up of very hard limestone, which duets, and it is understood. that must be cut away to form the some orders have already been roudbed. Progress will placed in Antwerp for equipment sarily be so slow that even the required by the Canton-Hankow surveyors can proceed but

quarter of a mile a day. Sixty odd funnels, and many heavy rock cuts have to be made in this district.

He was the first to make use In nerenautical experiments of a light weight revolving cylinder internal combustion motor, now extensively used on acroplanes. Under his general directions his yon, Henry, designed the first line. successful helicopter, rising and sustaining Rimself in it. He was President from 1915 to 1921 of the D.C.. Tuberculosis Associa- tion.]

JUNKS DAMAGED.

STRUCK BY LAUNCH AND

CARGO JETTISONED, Two cargo junks were damaged when they were struck by a steam launch white loading coal alongside the 8.8. Tanda, shortly after 9 a.m yesterday.

The Survey.

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A large percentage of the rest of the line that remains to be built will pass through rolling country, but problems of survey and con struction will not be difficult to

In the Lokow-Chuchow District, a great deal of work has been dona

At one time or another all of the uncompleted portion of this railroad system was surveyed. But Mr. H. S. Chuck, Managing Director and Chief Engineer of the Yuch Han Railway, Chuchow-solve. Shiuchow Section, has recommend- ed to the Ministry of Communica- tions that healdes the surveying party that is now in the field, three other parties will be sent out to re- locate the route. As previously surveyed, the grade in part of the uncompleted sections is more than 70 per cent, and one problem is to find stretches of country close to the surveyed line of such a nature that, by slight changes in the pro- posed route, the grade may he cut down to 70 per cent. or less.

The exact extent of the damage is Bat yet known, but the cargo of both Junks had to be thrown over- board to prevent them from sinking.

The Canton to Shiuchow Section, in operation more than No-one was injured, in the coll-years, is 139 miles in length. fifteen siun.

From Hankow down to Chuchow another 60 miles of track were lald, and that section was opened to traffic in 1921. There remains a stretch of country 270 miles across over which trucks must be laid before Hankow will have through railroad communication with Canton.

AMERICAN CRUISERS.

SENATOR'S PROTEST AGAINST SUSPENSION OF WORK.

Washington, Aug. 5.-

A declaration is been issued by Senator C. E. Swanson, of Virginia, to the effect that President Hoover has proceeded "contrary to law" in directing suspension of work 021 three cruisers, asserting that Congress has given its plain date for the cruisers, construction. -Reuter's American Service.

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in the past. All of the grading work has been completed; all the culverts are in place; all of tho bridge piers have been sunk; somo station buildings have been erect- ed, and all of the ralts have been Inid.

of the

sleepers were put down to hold the However, just sufficient rails together, and under the sleepers there is a total absence of ballast. Nor have any bridges been built,

Hengehow, Mr. H. S. Chuck

Fo, is the logical place for tho suggested In his report to Mr. Sun

head office if work on the wholo line is undertaken simultaneously. This is a large city near the centre of the gap over which rails are to be laid. It has the further ad- vantage of enjoying quick com. munication with Nanking.

Until bonds have been issued and money raised, the actual work of construction cannot be started. Managing Director Chuck cannot say how long it will be before there will be money in hand, but, he does not believe it will take a great while to get this project under way, And, in the mean, while, preliminary work is going on apace and, as related above,

Work in Six Districts. For convenience in carrying on construction work, the Chuchow Section has been divided into six districts, not by even number of miles, but by controlling cities which the line must pass through, The proposal is to start work in all six districts simultaneously, part of the needed equipment has It is estimated that even under already been contracted for.

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