CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Conference Delegates Entertained. London, October 2? The delegates to the Imperial Agricultural Conference, on their way back to Lond.on after in 800-mile tour of England and Scotland, witnessed technical films n tho guard's van. They included tho growth of nasturtium at a speed 20,000 times greater than the actual rate. German Coal Strike Ends. Berlin, October 28.—Tho coal strike has ended. The Government appointed an arbitrator, who awarded the miners an 11$ P or cent, increase. Light Aeroplane Record. London. October 23.—The aviator Finat, accompanied by a passenger, established a world's distance light •plane record. He flew a 40 horse-power 'plane 29 times round a circuit from Le Bourget, covering 1146 kilometres in 11} hours, on 160 litres of petrol, nearly doubling the previous record of 600 kilometres, held by Czecho-Slovakia.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 25 October 1927, Page 11
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135CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 25 October 1927, Page 11
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