NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1923, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

CANADA’S PULP WOOD. NEW YORK, July 13. The action of the Canadian Parliament in giving the Governor-General, Lord Byng, discretionary power to impose nit embargo on' the export of pulpwood is causing consternation among American paper manufacturers and some amount of perturbation at the State Department in Washington. Yesterday leading manufacturers from all parts of this country met in New York and organised “a committee for the perpetuation of the papei industry in the United States. The chairman of the committee is All Henry W. Stokes. He issued a statement pointing out that if the cuibnigo were enforced the price oi pulpwood would begin to rise at once towards the war-time level, and more than 1,000.000 cords of wood a year would be added to the drain on our own fast diminishing pulpwood resources. He further asserted that evert branch of the printing and paper industries. employing more than 500,000 workers and producing yearly goods valued at more than 0300,000,000, will In- affected injuriously by the embargo. Washington despatches are to the effect that the State Department is bringing those facts to the attention of the Canadian Government.

During the debate in tfic Canadian House of Commons it was argued that the United States was draining Canada of its pulpwood resources while conserving its own, and that American owners of Dominion pulpwood suplilies were keeping the mills running with them, whereas it would he far more beneficial for Canada it mills were established in Canada.

The New York World, which advocates low tariffs, in a leading article impresses on the Administration that Canada in the embargo— Holds a dub of no mean force to compel some pleasure of fair reciprocal trade oolicv between the two countries.

The trade hoggishness of our larill of abomination provokes such retaliatory measures as Canada threatens.

The agricultural schedule of the tariff, from first word to lasi, is a blow direct at Canada, and a wanton blow. The Administration should immediately modify its tariff monstrosity unless it is prepared to face disastrous injury to the American paper manufacturing and printing industries.

A DOG’S WARNING. LONDON, July 12 Mr George I’irrie. of I I. Grey-place, Greenock, was awakened about 4 o’clock yesterday morning by liis dog jumping into his bed. lie found that the animal was ill, and at the same time lie smell, gas. He paid little attention to the gits fumes, hut the dog’s alarm laid disturbed his sleep, and shortly afterwards, as the fumes seemed to have become stronger, Ingot up and turned off the gas til the meter ttiid threw the windows open. Mrs l'irrie, his mother, who "ns also aroused, heard heavy hreafhing in the rooms occupied by lu-r son Robert and her daughter Funny. On entering site found them in a condition bordering on collapse as- a result of the fumes.

They were carried ottf of the house in a dazed condition, and, after being attended by a doctor, quickly recovered.

Some time a I terwards there was a loud explosion in the street, and parts of the pavement were thrown high into the air. Three shop windows were broken and part of the debris was picked ut> hundreds of yards away.

ll was discovered that an escape Irom a -:as main had found an outlet in the top lloor occupied by the I’irries alter passing up through plaster wall-. BABY’S AfR FLIGHT. LONDON. July 12. Among iho passengers on an aeroplane from Cologne to London yesterday was a liahv hoy seven weeks old. The baby and his mulher ttew to Cologne a fortnight ago, when il was was only five weeks old, i.o visit, the father who is stationed there. A family party from Ohio, U.S.A., (lying from London to Amsterdam yesterday, had nearly half a ton of baggage with them, and another machine "■as necessary to carry it. REVENGE BY TELEPHONE. BERLIN, July 12. Revenge by telephone was the crime with which a pretty typist, Fmilein Erna, was accused in a Berlin court this morning.

Her late employer, a stout Prussian business mail, solemnly told a tale of what happened the day after lie dismissed her. At a ii'.ribiy early hour in the morning, when lie was; sleeping, his house-keeper ..brought him a magnificent bouquet, to which was tied a card of an acquaintance, with the words, “Brightest good wishes.”

■'The pour man tried to go to sleep again, but was disturbed by the arrival of an enormous basket of tulips. Two minutes latc-r a boy came with a number of bottles of liquor and two hams.

Then the telephone bell rang, and at the other end was a girl, who bewilder ed the poor man 'by thanking him for roses and chocolates, which he was quite certain .he had never sent her. This surprise was followed by others.

One acquaintance after another rang up and gushed their thanks for flowers, gloves and champagne. After lunch tradesmen arrived with a gramophone, two cases of soda water, and a canary in a cage. The stout Prussian business mail rushed round to the shops to know what was happening, and in every case was told that the goods had been ordered in his name by telephone. ft did not take him long to establish the guilt of the pretty Frnulciii Erna. who knew who were his acquaintances and who were his- •tradesman. This morning she confessed, and said she wanted to pay her employer out for dismissing her. The judge let her off with a small fine.

BIGGER AIR SERVICES. LONDON. July 13. Important details regarding British air services are contained in a report on civil aviation during the year ending March 31. issued yesterday by the Air Alinistry. The report records work in Great Britain and throughout the world. It notes that British aircraft gained a larger share of the cross-Channel air tragic,than in the previous year. Of a total of 5,137 flights and 13,172 passengers, 2,965 flights were made and 10.0G6 passengers were carried by Bi itish aircraft representing percentages of 57.7 and 76.4. The efficiency of British services lias steadily increased, and for the second consecutive year no passenger was killed in the course of flights on regular sendees.

Other points from the report are : “Information obtained from experimental flights by night in February on the London-Paris route, confirms that night-flying on the route in the absence of fog and low cloud is as commercially practicable as day-light flying. Further experiments will ascertain how the difficulties of night-flying in

adverse weather conditions may he overcome.

“Wireless stations at Manchester and Birmingham aerodromes have been reopened, and a new station has been erected at Biekendorf aerodrome, Co-

logne. 'The coming service between Southampton and Havre or Cherbourg has rendered necessary the erection of a station at Guernsey. “British sheet maps of the aeronautical series have been completed to proof stage for Britain, the Balkans, Egypt, Iraq, and Oman, and publication is proceeding. Those for Kordofan. Baluchistan, and .Japan-Vancouver route are in hand. Yemen and Algeria are included in the- programme.

“For land in fog an automatic landing device is ueing tested. An electric cable is laid as a track beneath the surface of the ground. The aircraft carries search coils and an instrument which acts as steering and height indicator. During fog the aircraft is directed 'to the aerodrome by directional wireless or otherwise, and when nearing the landing track the instrument comes into operation, enables the pilot to locate the track, and by watching the indications to heighc to land although the ground is invisible-

in the Aliddle East, traffic on the Cairo-Bagdad air mail service lias increased three-fold during the course of 1922.

Some striking developments ate foreshadowed. Particular attention is being given to providing a machine capable of flying long distances as, for instance, over desert regions, without intermediate landing.

Principal routes for which machines are now being constructed are: Kng-land-Francc via. .Southampton. for which a super-marine twin-engined Amphibian bout seaplane with a range of 300 sea miles, is being built; Bag-dad-India route, for which a machine will lie 'built with petrol capacity for SCO miles and speed of 95 miles an hour; the Imperial route, for which a machine will be built with a- petiol capacity for 1.300 miles and speed ol 90 miles an hour.