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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1931.

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DAY BY DAY

TRE

recovery.

PONIBU

from

LAWB ENGLISHI don, but without much 'success. It VICK; THE CHINESE LAWS DO MORE,

THEY REWARD VIRTUE-Goldsmith. is interesting to note, however, that this controversy led to the forma-sangial, is due here on Friday at

The Empress of Japan, tion of a concern known as the 5:30 p.m. Hongkong And Caston Steam Packet Company, but it did not lant collar bone when out riding at Shang- Colonel F. Hayley Bell broke his

more than five years. Many years hai on Thursday morning but he is later, in 1866, the Hongkong, Cin-making antisfactory progress towards ton and Macao Steamboat Company came into existence and still plays an important part in maintaluing contact with this port and Canton, If we are no mistaken, it was not until the 80's that the two porta were linked by telegraphy, whilst, of course, the railway has only been in existenen for some twenty

years or NO.

|

Wireless Terrors To Come.

By HAROLD

WATKINS.

TMAGINE a soldier, painted and guiding of a torpedo to its exact coloured to near Invisibility destination is as simple to the with all the latest tricks of remote control engineer as the camouflage, sented in the hollow first proposition of Euclid, of what is left of a shot-shattered And here is

new one, obviously It is and torpedo tree. Crushed against his body is possible. The body of Lo Kwal, a married a little box with many diala. an aeroplane, yet not an aeroplane, wonman of 71, Heklochuen, who fell Down below, crouching in na shell, yet not a shell. It is a pro- overboard from the Kowloon City shell hole, are two or three others, fertile built of the lightest known Ferry Man Kur, Bas been recovered surrounded by battery-boxes, tun-motal, supported perhaps by a by the police on the foreshore.

ing colls, and weird instruments, small gasbag, perhaps a glider-like and not far away there lumbera plane, depending exclusively by a procession of wicked-looking its contained baiteries and the (extra help of such power a can Army tanks and whippets,

The photograph of its Excellency the gang by telephoto procon, which we published in our yesterday's issue, was from a study by Kubzn.

tou to Hongkong

.

From time to time the tree-man be transmitted from n

powerful glances towards them Then, wireless station. through powerful glasses, his gazel It will be discharged in a strong is turned to a distant hillock be-wireless ray rising to a height that The rainfall registered al the mind which he knows there exists takes it out of the immediate dan-

Gardens during Botanic

August

trench packed with enemy

myger zone, and protects it from too totalled 13.64 inches. There were ten days when no fail was recorded, and soldiers, or perhaps a series of early enemy observation. Its dis- the highest was 9.76 inches, on the deadly onemy machine-gun em-tance of travel will be predeter- 16th.

placements,

mined, and it will be guided by And then he twiddles the dials the shifting ray till it is over the Suffering from injuries received on the little box-and lot the required spint. Then it will fall, through falling into a quanlity offtanka, their terrible little Kuna with Its load of high explosive, to hurning is paper, a hoy named Lam pointing now this way, now that do its worst.

Now, at long last, business men u Hongkong and Canton are able to communicate by word of mouth wter the telephone. The value of this new contnel carnof de WV 95 estimated.

It serves, as was so propriately stressed in yesterday's Kai, sged 7, of 11, Cheung Sha Wan begin to change direction.

Broadcasting in the next war taken to the Kowloon pening messages, to strengthen the Road, was

No human decuples any one of will be one of the most potent and Hospital for trentment.

them, but with uncanny precision powerful factors both for gond bunde between the two ports, and to

The Sincere Co., Ltd. anno:Ince

they line up, halt, start or turn and evtl. What competition there bring us closer together in our res

that they have just received a trial they seem to aim at that distant will be in the quick raising of the lations one with the other. The shipment

rench. They are being controlled power of the stations that alrealy finited States K highest praise is due to the Hong-prvia) eggs and there are being put by a radio ray and they obey every exist; what hurried building of

they receive WIT their Kong Telephone Company for its

new ones-stations capable of "sensational offer" now in progress ↑ quivering.

| observer in- the tree,

interested listener within a thou- An Alsatian dog belonging to Mrs.

Soon they are there, thundering sand miles! Williams, of 11, Ashley Rond, was into that hidden hive of murder The history of the next war in- thetaken to Mataukok for observation in the trench. Another turn of deed will be written in the com- after it had bitten Yim Kan, aged 11. another dint and their guns spit uniques of the combatants' an- of 3. Pilke Street yesterday. The death about them. And when

nounces. And what jamming! was removed to the Kowloon their work seems done, those that one then will be the well-worked- Hospital for treatment.

have survived furn about and

jout plans of the International come heavily home at the twist Broadcasting Union which now- of the dinis,

Cup for sale on an item of their comible masts from thedinning lies into the ears of every

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siderable difficulty. WEBSU happy ensoperation in the Cantun authorities must also be noted, as, without it, the undertaking would have been impossible. Those who recall other days, when the Telements should be mobilised, even phone Company was controlled from Landon, cannot help but compare conditions now with those which ultained at that time. is every respect Hongkong has gained by the change-ower to lural direction, We have been brought into fine with modern ideas by the installation of the automatic system, and this

MEMORIAL SERVICE

A pervice in menery of the Master Dock und Engineer Oflicers of the 8.8. Kwongaung whe were bost at sea un August 10, will be held at St. John's Cathedral, on Tuesday, September 8,

at 5.30 p.13.

Officiating clergyman. Rev. 6. Waldegrave,

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1981,

LINKED CLOSER

TOGETHER.

Pintless Planes,

from

power at

utationa adays keeps the compulsorily if necessary, British)

swamping each other,

The very first hint of propaganda Government securities being

This is a simple. elementary will bring out all the given in exchange. The holding picture of just one of the thou- their disposal

wavelength ihust secured could be used in the sand dreadful things wireless will near enough to set up a heterodyne I countries of origin for the pur. do in the next war-if there is a howl. Short waves or long, the

se of providing foreign ext war.

result would be much the same. It is a logien development of exchange. The surgestion bas the science of remote control-

War Office Mouthpiece. been taken up by the Labour new and specialised science that

But shall we have any receiving Party and it will no doubt receive has come into being out of the consideration. It finds little susarcess of early experiments. And sets while the next war is being waged-that is, if we are in it? port in orthodox financial circles, not only can it be applied to tanks (And who will dare say we shall development has beun quickly fol-

where, it is contended, su abnor. is even deadlier, for example, not be in It?) lowed up by the laying of the trunkmal and striking a measure could when operated on aeropiones.

the world; There are those who believe the | line to Canton.

Every country, in Enterprise such asuty be justified by a crisis as which has an adequate supply of declaration of

war would he this deserves, na it will assuredlynente as that which led to the machines (and which country has synonymous

with

broadcast ten command, the support of the public, mobilisation of American securi-not?) will have it in its power to order to the four or five or

The present send out squadrons of such 'planes millions of licensees in Britain to The Company is a big asset to the ties during the war.

critical conditions, they declare, pilated only by gleaming instru- dismantle their sets--in which Colony, and those who control its unpleasant and awkward as they

ments.

ease a huge corps of inspectors would soon be visiting every home activities have the reassuring are,

Beam systems, which send out e ented by norms their waves in a straight line, wifi which has ever hadi wireless knowledge that a very real, vital | methods.

furemust be useful here, for the 'planes can licence. and appreciated service is being there in the need to restore the he made to keep strictly within

confidence of those who for so their pencil path. rendered to the conimunity.

many decades have been content

could!

Can

First

and

Even

battleships

They would not collect the sets but merely demand the giving up be of all the valves,, good, bad, or

century and that Jung-distance calls disaster, Britain herself is facing withdrawing funds From: the tice, Centurion roams the Hens command or advice from the B.B.C.

behind her #0

70

Thanks to the opening of the telephone trunk line between Hong-

to entrust their short-term money operated by remote control if re- Indifferent, without which a dot is kong and Canton, these two great

The Sterling Slump.

surplus to London. This can bequired, although it is difficult to either-well, quite useless, or only commercial centres are to-day mary

done by the concentration of all What is more likely is that every bably would not matter. Thanks sec a logical purpose for them. a crystal set. Crystal sota pro- effectively linked than ever before. | world finnurin market of the Bank economic position.

The integral strength in the our efforts on re-establishing our big warship will control a fleet of to their small range, they would The eynie may say there is little of England has been demonstrated demonstrated to

Once it is highspeed smaller boats, which be limited to reception from their Our creditors will dart ahead to worry the local station: about which to boast on this score, in a paradoxical method this past that British security and British enemy.

Personally, however, I lean to seeing that Hongknog has had a month. After rescuing one out-finance are as firm and solidly tish Navy's target ship Centurion? couraged to keep our sets in order, Who does not know of the Bri-the theory that we should be en- | telephone service for about half airy after another from financial based as

ever, all question of When the Navy wants target prac-ready always to listen to words of a crisis, the pound sterling being London market will pass. of thousands of miles are a com-the subject of doubt! When the out such a demonstration all other destroyer 10 or 16 miles astera. become the principal mouthpiece With with her captain and crew in a which of course would immediately

mon feature of everyday life in Bank of England stepped in to expedients, however ingenious or But she never fails to obey her of the War Olce, Broadcasting other parts of the globe. By the the assistance of Austria a few simple they may appear to be, can ethereal orders. very nature of things, however, we months ago, a comparatively smali | only be expedients, giving in the Far East must Ing behind credit Was gutte sumleient. permanent salvation from the the rest of the work. Difficulties Austria had the Bank of Englund | dangter of economic disaster. in adapting ourselves to modern Confidence was restored. Today enough. developments abound on all hand, when the Bank of England is financially, geographically and

pressed by creditors, the combined otherwise. The real point to be efforts of the Bank of France and stressed, however, is that we are the Federal Reserve Bank of New no longer content with what served | York. -in immense defensive past perdrations: the desire and measures have failed to impart the the determination to improve is necessary confidence. It is a de-

pluralite, bug apparent, and yesterday's event la striking Tnet, illustrating the Lan indication of that fact. In-

Hank of England's pre-eminent cidentally, we derive some bonefltposition. There has, of course, from being fast in the field, for we been a slight recovery in Sterling are thus able to prost by the ex-but not nearly sufficient to cause periences of others. Thus in the any satisfaction in London. The

uninitiated may well ask how it! telephone link with Canton we are is that the simile demand of a few: equipped with the most modern foreign ereditors for their money! (system, which eliminates those ir back has caused so serious a rilating delays which were formerly position to arisa The secret lies associated with long-distance calls.in the fact that we have been borrowing short and lending long.

Home

the less

It is Interesting to look back over We are faced with short-term the history of Hongkong's com- liabilition of between £200,000,000 mercial contact-with Canton, es and £250,000,000 with practically pecially in pre-telephone" days. no current asseta in meet them. | Some four or five years after Bri. But we are not bankrupt. As a tish occupation of the Colony, writing under a pseudonym in the well-known international banker, group of about sixty Hongkong Manchester Guardian points out, merchants banded together and our international position is one made arrangements with the owner of, impregnable strength. "We of a steamer to carry mails to Can- dispose through our nationals. `of ton for a monthly subsidy of £150. long-term investments abrond The following year, the Government which even, after allowing for all holdings in economically embar stopped in and insisted on tho

rnasod countries, may cnally steamer carrying and delivering amount to a couple of billions Post Office lottore at a charge of sterling" He suggests that some twopence aplece, and when the cap portion of these foreign Invest-

flouse might become sort of Wireless-controlled torpedoes citadel of the War Office. It could and similar missiles will provide be mada independent of every out- another new terror for the op-alde need. posing sides. The watching and Its central tower, within the 4ft. walls of which are all the studios, has its own means of making its electric power, its own huge ol tank for fuel, its own deep water well sunk more than 60ft, below ita basement. Once it was

stocked with food, its announcers

and broadcasting officials could live within the tower for weeks, and nothing short of a direct hit from the air could stop it from scading out Ita war messages to the world. Somewhere in the next war, also, television would discover a useful purpose. Incomplote as it still is,'

"As a matter of fact, I just sold one to your next-door neighbour."

"Then, thanks, I don't think I'll need one"

would be impossible to ignore

it

its

One

properties.

can visualiso, for example. a time not so very distant when

televisor

trench

periscopes with transmitters connected to them will show on a screen at G.ILQ. a clear picture of just what is hap pening in No Man's Land.

PHIPPS

SPOTS THE CARS..

66ARDON me, madam," I said, Phut may have a look at your headlampe?"

"Certainly," replied the woman at the wh

"Are you Spotting the Cars

"Of course I am," I said. "Have boan for the last week. I've tried all sorts of ways, but the plea- anntest, I find, is to sit

with a tankard in front of one of those oldo worlda Inns-you know, the sort with a petrol pump disguised as a sundial and watch the traffic (Continued on Page 7.)