Interest in the subject of wireless "broadcasting" was aroused the other day by mention of the subject in Parliament, the Minister in charge having to plead guilty to certain difficulties in the way. Probably the whole thing is too remote for us in China to worry about for soma considerable time to come, but none the less we atv—indebted to the General Fleetric Ca., Ld., for a most enlightening pamphlet on the subject. This points out that in tha United Kingdom there will probably be eight broadcasting stations, allotted to firres who are themselves manufacturers of wire. Jess equipment, and they will be responsible for despatching at an annual fixed charge an interesting daily programme, the nature of which will be announced in' the press. Then the private individual obtains a licence to own a receiving set, purchases one, and then, (to quote the pamphlet)
Dinner finished, you and your friends retire to the drawing-room. ~The newspaper giving the various programmes of the stations in the country is then consulted, your selection is made—a tuning switch moved, and in an_ instant connexion is established. The musical sounds of a distant concert, the stirring appeal of some well-known speaker, or an interesting discourse on the latest scientific discovery—are thus brought to your own home for enjoyment during your leisure hours, Mr. Howard Bucknell, sz., U. 8. Vice-Consul, arrived in Shanghai on Wednesday by the Siberia Maru. Mr. Bucknell, who is a San Francisco man, has been home 6n leave during which time he married Miss Lucy Barrow Taylor, of Washington, D.c., who is here with him. After two or three days in Shanghai Mr. and Mrs. Bucknell will proceed to Changsha, where Mr. Bucknell represents the American Government as Vica-Consul. et auction prohibited without permission.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.