CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 August 1922, Page 1

CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION BLAKE’S FLY. LONDON, August 6.

Blake telegraphs from Delhi that the machine is working badly. He reached Delhi on due date and directly after the engine began to splutter and eventually stopped entirely, before we could reach the aerodrome. Macmillian made a good landing in a plough field, but it was obvious we could not fly out again. We soon traced the trouble to choked filters. After cleaning them the machine ran well. Meanwhile I walked to New Delhi and got the Leicestershire Regiment to send a guard. We found the only way was to take thp aeroplane to a road a mile and a half away and then motor the aeroplane for a mile and rise along n broad straight avenue, flanked by trees. Colonel Clive Wigram of the public works department turned out fifteen hundred Indians, and foot by foot nc moved the aeroplane over mud ditches and hanks to the road, laying down a chain of railway sleepers as we moved. Before we could finish darkness came on and the heaviest thunderstorm I ever experienced. The rain fell in a solid sheet and the thundei rolled continuously. The flashes of lightning gave the only light- Soaked to the.skin wc got the machine to the roadside, Clive Wigram working as hard as anyone, lifting sleepers, filling ditches and covering machine with tarpaulins After doses of quinine we went ro bed and next day got the machine to the starting place and MacMillan flew her to the aerodrome. Everybody was relieved to see her in the air again. The work of tlie Leicesters and natives was wonderful.

CANADA’S RECORD WHEAT CROP. NEW YORK, duly 31. A representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association interviewed here Sfr Mark Sheldon, late Australian Trade Commissioner in the United States, who has visited Calgary, Vancouver ,'Toronto, Montreal .Chicago and Washington. Canada., lie says, will have the largest wheat crop in the history of the country. hut growers, in consequence ot the United States tariff, are doubtful what they will realise from it. 'I he Parliaments of Alberta, and Saskatchewan have passed measures providing lor a compulsory wheat pool, hut there is considerable doubt whether a pool will he effective, since it is not known how it will he financed. Financial interests are very chary concerning committees of this sort, since the wheat will have to he held a consideiable time. Any possibility of advance of more than 50 or 00 cents a bushel to pool members is scouted, because there is a great danger that if the wheat has to he held a considerable time and a big crop follows next year great financial loss will result. Canadians are interested in the tariff reciprocity Ix'tween New Zealand and Australia. They recognise thq difficulties in the way of Canadian--Australian reciprocity, hut feel that some agreement could he arranged to a limited extent, suitable to Loth countries. 'Canadians are also interested, especially Crown Ministers, in recent developments of the Australian immigration policy, and there is a feeling that Australia, is stealing a inarch on Canada.

last CRIMEAN NURSE. DEATH OF MISS RTDAVEDD. I.ONDON. A tif.'. 3. Tlio dontli is announced of Miss Elizabeth Did well, a Red 01. She was the last of Miss Florence Nightingale s Crimean nurses.

tions’ Conference i s anxiously awaited in Austria. A Vienna correspondent says the Conference appears Austria’s last hope. It is feared any further delay in granting the promised assitancc to Austria is likely to he most disastrous owing to increased hank note circulation to 768 milliards crowns. The cost of living in Vienna nearly doubled last month and many necessities are out of reach of the bulk of the people. Meanwhile Sofia reports Bulgaria is following Germany’s

exfJinple .demanding a moratorium and reductions of Bulgaria’s debt. The Inter-AUied Commission referred the matter to the Entente. Italy’s attitude is likely to he influenced by her own internal situation. It is reported that Premier Facta stated the Government has decided to take very vigorous measures to restore order because the troubles .are paralysing, the life of the State and creating an impossible situation.

PROPOSED WORLD FLIGHT. LONDON, Aus 6. The machine in which Macintosh. Tyinrns, and McCloughtry propose a world flight will he specially built. It will he a Fairev twin float seaplane, and a six hundred horse-power Bolls Royee engine. The route will he west to east, crossing America by the chain of big lakes. PARIS, Aug 6.

The Commission passed a recommendation on Bradbury's communication, and the existing financial state of Germany and the collapse of the mark, and also recommended monthly instalments of fiVe hundred thousand he paid to the Commission, who shall distribute it as they may determine. In the event of. the Allies agreeing to this proposal, the other cash payments for 1922 to ho suspended.

SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. LONDON. Aug 6

At the Social Democrats’ Federation meeting, Lee editor of “Justice said the present propaganda to remove the German war guilt was directed towards the rehabilitation of the HohonzoUems. Strenuous efforts to relieve the whole property was proceeding in Prussia. A resolution was submitted protesting against the often sice tone adopted towards the French l.v the imperial Government, and the policy of withdrawing co-operation with Franco. Dan Irving denied there luid > offensive criticism, and considered tie Britrih Government had shown exsav it was pan-German. The resolution was carried, minus the reference to offensiveness.