AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

it N.X. Cable Association.] AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY. • NEW YORK, October 3. j Ihe progress ot aerial photography I has been demonstrated by the receipt jin c.. York. San Eratteiseu, and Chicago •.imultaiieously. via the telephone, ol photographs taken by airmen over Fori l.cavenwork, in Kansas, thirty minutes previously. The new method enabled the llier to develop negative and positive lilms in eleven minutes during t l,e flight, alter which they were dropped to a telephone station, whence they wore forwarded. It i- pointed out that during the world v.ar it wn- frequently from live to six hour.- before the front line troops received enemy pictures. Tho liter- were then required to return to the base, where the pictures were developed, alter which came the perilous ia.-k ol delivering them to the troops. F A S. SFUMARJXE DISASTER. NEW YORK, October 3. Reports I rum Newport state Admiral Christy, in charge of tin.' rescue operations, announced to night that Submarine 8. .11 was flooded from stem to ft stern, and all aboard were dead. J F.S. AIR EXQFIRY. NEW YORK. October '2. ( omniauder Rodgers, appearing before the Aircraft Inquiry Rotted at Washington, absolved the Navy Department irom all blame tor the failure ot liis Hawaiian flight, which ho attributed to an unfavourable wind and a lower petrol mileage than was estimated. He opposed unconditionally General Mitchell’s unified air proposal and the creation ol a separate Air Corps.

Commander Rodgers reeommeiuled the establishment of a levy for National deli-nee, controlling the iirn'v and navy, and supplies and each division being administered by an tut do r-Seo rotary. He declared the aviation problem could not lie solved without considering the entire national defence system. It might its from its own complications, unle-s treated In- highly skilled physician.-, unprejudiced in favour of am- particular branch. ” The airplane within the hist, few years has become an integral part of the defences.” he said. ■'[t is easy to imagine that within a short time wo may find it the most important weapon tho nnvv has to wield,”