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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1930.

DAY BY DAY

SIR AMBROSE FLEMING, F.R.S. on FILMS AT HOME BY RADIO.

last session, the Radical leaders led a violent attack on the Government for its neglect of national defence, whereas recently they have been criticising it for spending, too much

BRITAIN BUILT A MARKET-PLACE thereon. Naturally, the public

IN WHICH OTHER NATIONS 'TRADE plumps for the more understandable RENT FREE Alexander Ramsay. and definite attitude of M. Tardieu. As Mr. Ramsay MacDonald re- cently expressed it, the world hopes for the progress of disarmament A whist drive is being held at are focussed on the efforts of France St. John's Cathedral Hall at 8.45 ing a popular musichall number, as ormous industry connected with the WORTH HURRYING FOR! and Italy to reach an agreement. p.m. to-day.

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Thongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, Nov. 3 1930

THE FRANCO-ITALIAN NEGOTIATIONS.

A Chinese case "of typhoid 'was notified during the week-end.

TELEVISION has passed its namely. by the transmission of merely experimental stage and cinema films, as at picture palaces. arrived at the position of be-There is, as we all know, a en was shown by recent exhibitions in production of these films, and in it London. We can at present trans the highest inventive and artistic He added that ultimate failure

The P. and O. 8.8. Rawalpindi,mit to a distance either by wireless talent is engaged, seemed to him unthinkable. But to from Singapore, is due here at 10 waves or along a wire and repro- The arrangements for producing duce by a suitable receiver images the film are extremely costly, but the observer of the situation, there a.m, on Thursday.

of the faces of one or two distant when once the photographic nega- tives have been secured on unlimit- appears very little ground for optimism at the moment. Italy's the month of October only .02 inch

At the Botanical Gardens during persons or of things.

The faces are clear enough to be ed number of positive prints can attitude on naval and military mat- of rain was recorded, twenty-nine easily recognised, and all move be obtained and rented or leased to ters cannot be described as In-days being rainless,

ments and changes of expression, various cinemas for show. When as well as detalls of hair, teeth, the positive film is run through a dicating a very lamblike disposi.

Charged with having a amall eyes, etc., are quite distinctly seen. cinema projector, which is a sort of tion, whilst the French insistence

The things televised can be simple magic, lantern, it throws on the screen 16 superimposed pictures quantity of contraband opium, a

scenery or printed or writ-

Each of these is a on guarantees and sanctions again Chinese was sentenced by Mr.stards. The actors in a tele- per accond.. serves to stress the difficulties. Lindsell, at the Central Magistracy vision play can speak themselves photograph of objects, scenes, or

persons taken at intervals of 1-16th. and be heard as well as seen." What will strike the ordinary man

of a second, and the effect is to give It should be noted that there are us on the cinema screen a repro- most is that, with both countries having signed the No-War Pact, it The Consul General for Italy two possible television receiving ar- duction of the objects or persons in is passing strange that there should informs us that to-morrow, the 4th rangements, which may be called motion.

of November, being the anniver-respectively the "public view' and

the "private view." be all this pother in coming to sary of the Italian Armistic, sensible understanding.

memorial service in honour of the In the public view the received Glorious Dead vill take place at image is large enough to be seen by Catholic Cathedral at 9,30 several hundred spectators at once

in a music-hall ur other theatre. Empire Crusader's Success.

In the private view the image is Deprived of the excitement of an A Chinese was charged, before small and can only be conveniently

this morning. to five months' hard labour.

the

8.11.

the

П

Long has

If the pictures are projected on to a screen giving a small motion picture a few inches in height and breadth, then it is possible by exist. ing television transmitters to dis- tribute these motion pictures to

distant "lookers-in" who have suit- able "televisors" or receivers in

their houses.

It is not to be assumed that any election in the constituency for Mr. Butters, at the Kowloon Ma-seen by a few persons at once in

cinema film can in this way be tele- over seven years, the South Pad-gistracy this morning, with steal an ordinary room.

the orchard of The apparatus for the public viewvised. It may, and for some time rington electors must have thor-ing fruit from

Mr. F. W. Stapleton, in Waterloo is necessarily more elaborate.. probably will, require special films oughly enjoyed the somewhat Road. He pleaded guilty and was

The next matter of importance is with the subject well displayed over bizarre contest which has just re-friend $5, or eight days' imprison the nature of the images which can the picture area. Thus, for in stance, a view of a single large sulted in the return of the first Em-ment.

be transmitted and seen. pire Crusader to the House of Com-

If there were an unlimited num.animal, the man-eating tiger at the mons. Two things strike us about Fines of $5 and $3 respectively Admiral Taylor's victory. The were imposed by Mr. Butters, at ber of celebrated men or beautiful London Zoological Gardena, or his. two men boxing, or girls fencing. Kowloon Magistracy this women who would consent to be neighbour, the fine lion Prince, or first is that the seat is too power morning, on a Chinese who was "televised" it might be possible to or a single golfer giving a lesson in |ful a Tory stronghold to offer any charged with having ridden a provide a suficiently varied pro the proper stance and club swing.

guidance to general public opinion bicycle in a reckless

manner in gramme to maintain a public in-

tion pictures if the proper film were politically. The second is that the Jordon Read, and also with hay terest in television reception in it- could all be now televised as mo-

self, even if the received image

prepared. breach in the Tory ranks. is faring no light.

was only a single face.

It is true that some simple tele- Up to the present the interest has vision plays, with one or two actors We have not heard a great deal from healed. Of course, Sir Her-

What was first reported to the latterly concerning the efforts of bert Lidiard contributed to his own police as an armed robbery in the chiefly centred in the scientific ac in them, have been, already tele- hievement itself and that it should vised, but these shows have no confusion by vacillating on the France and Italy to evolve some

village of Tung Man, Un

to transmit the great interest for the ordinary in be possible at all

are only sort of understanding in regard to point of food taxes. He recanted district, New Territories,

his pledge in order to obtain the turned out to be a case of ordinary image of a moving living object. telligent person and naval disarmament. It will be re-support of the Central Office, and larceny. The tenants of an un-If, however, that interest is to be technically interesting as showing

a visual television.--Daily Mail. called that at the time of the Lon-immediately annoyed Lord Beaver numbered house in the locality more than a transitory one it will step in advance over single-face don Conference, these two nations,brook, who persuaded Admiral have reported that they had stolen be necessary to provide

from them, by an unknown person, programme which has an interest in itself for the general public, quite articles of whilst agreeing to some of the pro-Taylor to accept nomination as a various

jewellery

apart from the technical details of

The Poppy-Day Sub-committee visions of the Treaty, could not re- Stomach Taxer. The latter's vic-valued at $115.

the method by which it is achieved.of the British Legion, Hongkong This is the case with the broad-and China Branch, is appealing for concile their viewpoints on the tory after the apparently patched.

for the sale of A concert will be held at the casting by wireless of music and ady volunteers up pance of Caxton Hall is signi- question of naval strength. At the ficant as indicating the essential Helena May Institute on Thursday speech. There

is an unlimited poppies in Kowloon on Armistice. recent ceremony of depositing the death of the split in the rank and November 6th, at 5.30 p.m., or-amount of available music and of Day. Ladies willing to assist are ratifications of the Treaty, the Bri-file of the Conservative Party, the ganized by Mrs. H. A. Stewart, as musicians to render it, and hence asked to send their names to Mrs. sisted by Mrs. Balenn, Mrs. tish Premier expressed an earnest voters. As Admiral Taylor declar. Gregory, Miss Betty Pestonji, Bir. the public appetite for it is never Branson, Kingsclere, Kowloon.

appeased. The majority of the hope that the negotiations whiched after the announcement of the Li Chor-chi, Bandaman W. Hunt two or three million listeners listen

Mr. Butters, ht the Kowloon proceeding between result, this is no time for wobblers. (Argyll and Sutherland Highlan-simply to enjoy the result. Not. France and Italy to enable them to If the Conservative Party are genders). Tickets may be booked in one in a thousand cares to know Magistracy this morning, confirmed the sentence of three weeks' im- then advance. Please note, Teas must how or why the receiver operates.

be booked, Telephone to the assent to the whole Treaty would uine Empire Preferencers,

If, then, television is to become prisonment, after a re-hearing of before long prove successful, but they must be logical and ask the Matron 22160. Owing to the con- a permanent addition to our pains the case in which Wong Fal, a pig- country to give them a mandate to tinued low value of the Hongkong amusements and to furnish con- tiller, was charged with having impose food taxes. It is absurd to dollar, the Committee has been tinually novel visual programmer used grievous bodily injury to offer the Dominions anything else reluctantly compelled to increase comparable in variety with those other pig-killer, at the Ma Tau in return for a preferred place in the price of teas to 40 cents per of musical or audible programmes, ok slaughter house, on the night

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So far as can be gathered from the brief reports hitherto issued

Nothing of the Franco-Italian negotiations, the French have suggested that each else would of more than trifling value. This recognised, Mr. Bald. party should build and replace pori win must either be prepared to ac 8, or nearly so, with the other,cept food taxes as part of his pro- until 1936. When this proposal gramme, or tell Mr. Bennett with was put forward, a somewhat in many regrets that there is nothing genious suggestion was advanced to be done about Imperial Pre- that there

ference as the Canadaian Premier should be parity

sees it. And, of course, there s in numbers but not in (on-

nothing really that can be done, The Italians.. it would nage.

As Mr. Winston Churchill asked seem, have been standing absolutely many years ago, in Canadian sup- firm on their demand for complete port to bebought at 2s. a quarter theoretical parity, and have tested and Australia's at 3d. per pound?

YOUNG GIRL STEALS

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BOUND OVER FOR PERIOD OF ONE YEAR.

all the French proposals by it. It has been suggested recently that the negotiations are held up until the French can ascertain what the actusi Italian programme will be if parity is granted, and there ap pear to be grounds for thinking that Italy would not at once build up to

Charged before Mr. Butters, at equality with France. Neverthe-the Kowloon Magistracy this mom- less, thesomewhat bellicose speechesing, with the theft of a gold wrist watch, or, alternatively, with made by Signor Mussolini when the

having received stolen property, last two Italian cruisers were apa Chinese girl pleaded that her five- proved, and the general attitude of year-old sister had picked up the watch and had given it to her,

France towarda disarmament pro- She (defendant) then took it to blems, make optimism very diff-the jeweller's shop for repair. eult. M. Tardieu's recent speech The complainant, Leung Miu- at Alencon, reiterating the French wan, said she lived with her uncle at 644, Shanghai Street. On the Government view that security night of October 31, she left the based on contractual guarantees watch in a box in the sitting room, accompanied by sanctions must and went out. On her return, she went to bed and only discovered precede disarmament, gives her loss, the following morning. much, clearer reflection of French Thinking that the watch must have been given by somebody to the Lee public opinion 38 2 whole

Ying Kes jeweller's shop for re- than those delivered on thepair, she went there and made on- same day by the leaders of the quiries, when a foki produced the

watch. Radical Party in the Chamber and

A Chinese detective said that on Senate. The more liberal attitude maiding enquiries at the shop, he expressed by these two belongs, no-was told that two women had brought the watch there for repair. He traced the defendant to the first floor of 564, Shanghai Street.

fortunately, to a decreasing minority. It is not easy to know what they really think, whereas M. Tardieu's opinions are quite simple

4.

Mr, Butters convicted the de fendant of theft and bound her over in a sum of $100 to be of, good be- and always the same During thehaviour for one year.

The Optimist

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