GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1925, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.]. HUGE HYDRO SCHEME. BERLIN, August 14. The electrical linn of Siemens and Schtickert have contracted with; the Irish Free Slates Government to construct hydro electric works on . the river Shannon to supply light and power for a large area of Ireland. LONDON, August 15. . The I ‘Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent states; “The Siemens and Sckuckert agreement (cabled yesterday) pro vides lor four generating stations, with an aggregate of ninety thousand horsepower and the distribution of 288 millions of kilowatt hours annually to all parts of the Irish Free State.” A Dublin message confirms the agreement. It states that the preliminary portion of the scheme involves the expenditure of ”2,500.0110. The cost will be £5,200.000, for which the whole of the Free State will be supplied with electric lighting and 1 lower. WIRELESS ON TRAINS. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) BERLIN. Aug. 16. Passengers on trains to Hamburg and IferlTn will be able to talk to subscribers to any German exchange, using wireless apparatus now installed (be system npplving to all main lines of the State' railways. Telephonic < omiiiiiiiicntoin between the trains is also possible. ECONOMIC SITU \TB)N BAD. BERLIN, Aug. 16. It is estimated that by the end of August 85 per cent, of the mine workers will be unemployed in Ruhr, where the economic sitnaUmi is rapidly growing worse. I radio s arc compelled to prosecute to secure payments for the necessaries of lilt'. STIXNUS’S KINAXCE. BERLIN. Aug. 16. Believing the Bank's relusal of Outlier credits for bis motor works_. in Berlin to lie due to bis bolding 65 per cent, of tho shares'in the works, Edmund St i lines has presented ball, amounting to two million marks to workers, though tlm present lias, not yet been accepted.