The subject of fitting wireless aboard ships trading on the China Coast is revived by the news of a] scheme in Hongkong for training] Chinese as operators. Two of the leading shipping firms there are supporting the project to establish] training school, and we. may trust that-all shipping firms may sooner rather than later sco their} way to do likewise. Once school Yor Chinese operators has been set going and is turning out compet ent men in numbers adequate to the demand, there will be no excuse for any of the local coasting vessels Dossessing wireless com jon. This is, a matte which has been the subject of much animadversion for the past few] argument used introduction was the isa which shipping companies have to bear in employing, Foreign operators, Even 80,. the firms considered generally was desivablo and. have the ction of pro Targer fof their steamers with the necess-apparatus and personnel. Tu the case of the malice exalt, however, it hag not hitherto" been found feasible. The difficnttios in the way will surely now ho largely removed by the provision of] trained Chinese, hence we may Took forward to' seeing. it adopted fon a largo scale, A" very well-Known officer on the China Const, writing in these columns shortly} after the Hong, Mow disaster on the TLammocks, described wireless oan the Snest lifesaving device ever invented, and there is no doubt} that ho was right. We seo it today in the ease of the pilgrim ship. Frangestan photo passengers but} for that must have been in a sore] plight.
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