Transmitting Installation Ordered for Erection it Nanking We are informed that the Kuomintang authorities have placed an order through the Chinese Govern= ent Radio Works with the Kellogg Switehboard & Supply Ca, for, a radio broadcasting transmitter for installation in. Nankin for operation by the Nat ernment.
The transmitter will be used for the provision of public broadcast programmes, and is indeed yet another indication of the progressive tendencies. now being evidenced in #0 many directions, The technical details of the con= tract include the provision of two 140-ft. self-supporting steel masts for the carrying of the ' antennae which will be supplied from a 600- watt transmitter, and will have a day. range of approximately 600- rites, the range after dark being uch that the station will be heard practically throughout China, Tt is understood that this station is the first of a series of similar stations which are to be installed in various cities within the Nationalist ferriter The placing of this contrnet_ is significant not only of progressive tendency, but also would appear to presage "the withdrawal of the Fesirietions against the importation of radio apparatus which have been Jin force for s0 long and have done so much to restrict the normal pro-ress of radio in China. Tt only remains to express a hope that the Government. will immediately take steps to control radio brondeast throughout their territory by means of a svatem of receiving licences fuch ax ie in force elsewhere and Which may be reasonably looked to a source of revenue os well as means of providing efieient pro A xunnen of the 2,800 employees of the Hung Vu Cotton Mill met on. Monday and resolved to petition the management to rescind its lockout order, and to pay them 30 cents per day for the time they did not work, or, as an alternative, for the man= fAgement to pay them three months salary and hand an equivalent mou to the Nationalists for their anti-Noedsern campaign, Ax officer of the P. & 0. S. Manta, which took a large number fof the Royal Marines from Skanghai lest November, speaks in glowing terms of their general behaviour, "They are a splendid body of men," he states, "and gave not the slightest trouble in any way from the time they left Shang~ hai til they arrived in England." This information, though gratify. ing, is by no means surprising, as the Marines, while they were in Shanghai, were second to none in the manner they behaved,
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