Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-06-28
Lord Kitchener Proposes
Four Billion Irrigation
Scheme for Egypt.
NEW WIRELESS USES
Norwegian Naval OFFICER Has Perfect.
ed Means Of Operating Typewriter
by Wireless, Which May Be Used
for Moving Other Things.

(By Herbert Temple.)

london, June 27.-New uses for
wireless biography are being made
known here almost every week. A
Norwegian naval officer, I am inform
ed, has perfected a means of work.
ing the typewriter by wireless-an in
| vention upon which he has been at
| work for some years. An achievement
of this kind demands the provision of
relays" for intensifying the force of
| the signals received, and Captain Hoy
! Ian is said to have surmounted this
difficulty. Selenium, which is used
so successfully by DR.. Low in his
Seeing by telephone experiments,
plays an important part in this inven-
ton.
The question of control force by
| wireless is dealt with in an article in
the Marconi organ, "The Wireless
World"
If the dots and dashes of the Morse
code can be transmitted with regular
ity over thousands Of miles," say the
writer's (H. Dobell and Commander
IC. P. Ryan, cit would seem only
reasonable to suppose that. with the
help of suitable relays, valves could
be turned on and off, helm moved to
port or starboard, machinery checked
and started, alarms rung, In fact. that
a whole multitude of useful opera
tions, each in it's proper sphere, could
be controlled
| Boycott London Fnrriers.
! The supremacy of London as the
raw fur market of the world is serl-
ously threatened by an organized Ger
man boycott.
| German fur merchants through
their association, and thirty-four firms
| outside the association, have pledged
themselves under a bond Of $1,000
each not to attend the June fur auc-
| ton in London, not to buy goods pur-
chased by others at these auctions
The Germans are being assisted in
the boycott by the French association
by certain merican houses and by a
| few London buyers.
The reasons put forward by the
| Germans for their action are CD thai
the June sales are generally inferior
goods; (2) that, therefore lower prices
are itemized and the publication OF
| these prices disturb the values fixed
by the preceding auctions in March
before the goods bought at the March
sales can all be disposed of, to the
manufacturers.
Extends Sgypt's Cotton Acreage.
| I hear on good authority that when
Lord Kitchener, the British consul
general, arrives here shortly he will
bring with him details of great irri-
! CATION scheme which will put nearly
| tho 0Nnf
ton map"
The plans for the construction of a
barrage on the White Nile about 371A
miles above Khartoum are now being
drawn up by the Egyptian authorities.
In deciding upon this work the gov
| eminent has been influenced by the
great success of the Assiut barrage
and the Esneh barrage. This vast
weir will act as a necessary auxiliary
to the drainage schemes in Northern
Egypt. Within two or three years the
area in the delta will have been re-
claimed, and then the new barrage
will be urgently required. At present
nothing but rice will grow on the
swampy land. Much of this belongs
to the Egyptian government, which
therefore will benefit greatly by it's
drainage. From every point of view
the money spent on the barrage will
be an excellent investment.
1t is estimated that the scheme will
cost about $4,000, 100000 and all this
will be found out Of revenue. The
receipts under this head will be low
this year, so the commencement OF
the barrage will probably be post
poned for at least twelve months. The
whole work OF construction will occu-
py about three years.
Lord Kitchener, who has personal
ly interviewed all the leading cotton
experts in Egypt, has taken a promi-
nent part in the preparations for the
successful completion of scheme
which will add materially to the pros
perity of the country.