As one of the measures for the settlement of house rent disputes, the executive and supervisory commutees Of the Federation of Shanghai House Rent Reduction Committees, at a meeting on Sunday, proposed to form 3 House Rent Appraisement Com-Initlee to be composed of 21 members, Sixteen of whom would be delegates from various rent reduction committees.
Another interesting part of! that day's demonstration was when Mr. Bergman first took a pair of pliers and Jater a knife and with these severed the connecting wire between one the buttons and the set itself, A hum iwas Immediately audible from within the steel box, and in a few moments the electric bulb was again flashing lia signal of distress.
With regard to this signal, Mr. Bergman said it can be varied according to individual needs, He suggested that the most practicable was. the International Urgent Message signal of XXX, followed by DE (of), the ship's call sign, and tke words "Help Pirate, Hin morse. This message would be repeated at 20-second intervals unti! the machine was stopped. {The inventor has been working on this transmitter for a number of years He. has already submitted to the Estronian Government, of which he {sq citizen, several "improvements with regard to loud speaker telephony and evolved his present invention from en anti-kidnapping apparatus on which he was working several years Jago, and which Fe has not yet gates: factorily solved.
Concluding a trip to. the Orient for. the. purpose of rebuilding the lumber. trade between Oregon and China, Mr. Charles E. Dant, head the largest lumber company on the north-western Pacific Coast, and also part owner of the States Steamship Line, "departed from Shanghai on Saturday morning In the s. Asama Maru for America,
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