AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

VC3THALIAN AND N’.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. A TERRIER.’ GALE. IN THE ATLANTIC. NEW YORK. Ang. 27. The White Star liner “Arabic" arrived. hearing over fifty injured. The injuries were sustained in a hundred mile an hour gale, which has raged in the North and South Atlantic during the last three days. Five large liners, heavily loaded with passenger.-', (ought the gale, the liners shipping waves forty and fifty feet in height. The Arabic was stripped of her life--I,oa- and the port hole* were smashed. The Homeric hud eight aboard injured. Her superstructure was damaged. Captain Hickson, of the Ambit', said Tuesday afternoon's wind attained a velocity of on-' hundred and twenty miles an hour, it kicked up pyramids of water, which to—ed bis ship like a canoe in river rapids. Without warning the hurricane lifted a gargantuan sea. slapping the Alulae on the .-Larboard side, and pilling one hundred screaming frightened men. women and children ill a Inching heap in a corner of the main lounge, where they were mixed up with the furniture and paintings from the trembling walls, and also chunks of half-inch glass from the smashed portholes. Rushing waters swept the decks, crushed the lifeboats, twisted the stanchion- and flooded virtually every cabin on the upper deck. Panic ruled. All that the ndieers could do was to calm tlo‘ whimpering women and children, while some of the male passengers had to he accorded rough treatment.

MYSTERIors RADIO RECORDS NEW YORK. August 27.

The development of a photographic film of radio signals for the twentynine hour period while the planet Mars was close to the caith deepens tho mystery of the dots and dashes heard l,v -optrated powerful stations. The film discloses, in black and white a regular arrangement of dots anil dashes along one side. On the other other side, almost at evenly spaced intervals. are curiously jumbled groups, each taking the form of a crudely drawn face.

THE PLANET HABITABLE. NEW YORK. August 28.

The heat problem of Mars has successfully heen attacked by the use of the t'ohlentz radiometer,' which is capable of measuring accurately the heat of a candle one hundred miles away. Lowell Observatory declares the average tenive rat tire of Mars is eight degrees centigrade, indicating that tho planet is habitable.