Sept. 16, airs at the Kiangnan Arsenal, Shanghai, will be wound up by ' the end of this month when the entire equipment will have been transported to Na Kiangning The workers will be discharged for the present, but will be re-employed far as possible when the machinery has been installed in Nanking. The amalgamated works will be named the "Hu-Ning" (Shanghai-Nanking) Arsenal—Kuo Following the successful opera tion of the Marconi automatic wire= less beacon station which was in= stalled in 1930 at North Saddle Island, near Shanghai, the Chines® authorities have arranged to equip two other important navigational points with similar apparatus of the latest type.
'The sites of the new beacons will be at Shaweishan Island near the mouth of the Yangtze, and Gutzlaff, also on the important. ship~ ping routes to Shanghai and the' Yangtze, which will fitted with ' beacons of 700 watts and 500 watts power' respectively, The apparatus will be specially designed and constructed. fox uso under tropical conditions, Automatic wireless beacon siations of this type which transmit omi-directional enabling ships fitted with wireless direction finders to take bearings, have. become accepted by the leading mari time countries of the world'as one of the most important aids to navi gation, as is evidenced by their Increasing use on busy coastline.
The Marconi beacon. transmitters characterised by extreme. sim: plicity in operation and. ability. to tun for Tong period without ten tion by skilled personnel." The entire apparatus is controlled by" master clock which switches on the (transmitting apparatus at premet mined times, when the transmitter sends out a characteristic signal incorporating the call" sign. anottod to the beacon, after which the plant shuts down until' the next call again automatically transmitted, Provision is made 20 that the Jean be transmitted at comparative ly' long intervals during fine weather or continuously when {0g ovthes gr unfavourable candent for visibility prevail in the. vicin Jot the beach Ware trying, unaided, to kiss the magic stone last month, Tames Burke, of Charleville (County Cork), fell 100 ft. from the baislement of Blarney Castle, near Cork, fand was killed. Only a'week before this curved, three "nigmibues Shanghai St, Patrick's Society, Mr. 'Walter', Wilson, of Messrs: Sardine, Matheson & Ca,, Ltd., and Inspectors. J. Sullivan abd 'D." Gioy nane, of the Shanghai Municipal Police, who left for Home together last March, met at Corke and" suc: cessfully, accomplished this trying ordeal. "The stone's embedded. the outside wall and the top of it a few feet below the summit of the castle. People' who kiss it. in the hope of deriving the gift of words-—eloquent, enchanting, and wonderful for all, purposes, eapecl= ally' love—which i¢" in" supposed. to tow, are usually held" by" the "yt ankles' head downwards.
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