MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1925, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

IOaiEALIAN AND N. 7.. OAF”.* ASSOCIATION. SOVIET RUSSIA. TROTSKY'S SUCCESSOKS. LONDON, Jan. 11). The ‘Morning Bust” commenting on M. Trotsky’s fall, says: “It cannot ho said that the Triumverate, Kaineneff, Stalin and Zinovielf—have shown any marked ability since they have gained control. There is something wrong, no doubt, ami Trotsky for months past, has been aware of this. He is shrewd enough to see that his great days are ended, and that his only hope lies in agreements with forces more powerful than those which the Bolshevists let loose on the world. Now he is gone, leaving only wild, iiieomjietent men in THE FRENCH INVESTMENTS. BARIS, Jan. lib M. Ilerriot, French Premier, received VI. Krassiu (Russian Minister) and it is understood that he intimated that the French Government are not i repared t.<> renounce the claims to the money invested in Russia by the French public lief ore the war. LONDON SLUMS. LONDON, January 20. An increasing agitation among tbe religious and other bodies regarding the London slums has culminated in a private deputation from the London Municipal Society waiting on Mr Neville Chamberlain, the .Minister of Health, with drastic proposals. The speakers affirmed tliat 181,000 people are living in over-crowded areas and that .'lii’i.OOO are living in ililapadated areas. Under the present law eight years, they stated, is required in abolish a slum and complete new dwellings. Mi- Chamberlain, in replying foreshadowed prompt legislation. WIRELESS SMELTER. LONDON. January 20. Dr Resell, the Dean of the Faculty of Metallurgy at the University of Sheffield, states that wireless valves can he used to melt masses of steel. Within a few months, large thermionic tireless valves will be installed in t!„. Sheffield furnaces. They will he ,pc. ially useful in manufacturing nickel alloys. A two-hundred volt direct current is passed into the valves, which converts it into alternating current of an extremely high frequency. When this current passes through the metal, the latter becomes far hotter than the crucible containing it. A piece of iron is melted by the wireless valve Before the erm ible becomes warm.