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['•The Times” Service.] BRITISH INDUSTRIES AND AUSTRALIA. .Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) LO.XDiX, Nov. 0. The Federation of British Industries has issued a memorandum designed to prove that alterations in. the Australian tarillis will result in severe detriment to certain British industries in a manner wherein the framers of the regulations had not intended. They declare they would welcome the assurance of the Australian Government that was prepared to receive a reasoned statement from the industries concerned and make adjustments by removing the hardship of individual trades.
GIANT BRITISH AIRSHIP. FOR TRANS-ATLANTIC SERVICE. (Received this day at 0.25 a.m.) LONDON. Nov. G.
A'ickers Ltd. are constructing an airship of one million cubic feet capacity, more than twice as large as the Z.R.3, for the British Government. It is expected the airship will journey to the United States in two days and return even quicker, enabling people to spend tlie week-end in New York.
A'ickers propose to manufacture tho parts at their works and assemble them at two great great sheds at I:o. den, Yorkshire.
ARAIISTIC’E DAY. (Received this day at .8.30 a.m.) LONDON. Nov. G.
The King. Prince of Wales and tho Duke of York " ill place wreaths on the Cenotaph on Armistice Day. 1 lie Dominions and Canada will also place wreaths thereon. FLIGHT OF AVID EL EPS WAVES. LONDON. Nov. G. The reception of Afareoni’s experimental hundred metre wireless signals of varying strength, day and night, combined with the reports of their reception in Australia, suggests the daytime waves travelled to Australia westward across .America and the Pacific, and during night-time eastward across Asia. THE ZIXOVIEFF LETTER.
A SOVIET THREAT
ReccLcd this day at 8.30 a.m.) COPENHAGEN. Nov. G.
The Soviet newspaper “Pravda” publishes an open letter threatening t|,at unless the British Government gives the Soviet satisfaction in connection wi l’> the f.inovielf letter, the Soviet will publish throughout Europe and Asia exposing the falsifications perpetrated during Lord Curzon’s and Mr MacDonald’s, regime.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1924, Page 2
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