NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1925, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

NEW SUBMARINE ’PLANE. LONDON, Aug. 11. Secret trials are being conducted by the French authorities with new types of aircraft designed solely to act as the “eyes” of pmverul submarines capable of long cruises. French constructors have, it is claimed, evolved submarine ’planes which ascend more swiftly, are more powerful, and more portable than those produced since the war by German firms which have specialised in this field.

The new French ’plane is a tiny craft, of ingenious design. It folds up when not wanted and passes through a trapdoor on the deck of the submarine, occupying an extraordinarily small amount of space in the interior of the vessel. Even the body, as well as the wings, fold. When it is needed for aerial scouting it is thrust up in a collapsed form on to the deck of the submarine as she cruises on the surface, and it is assembled in a short space of time. After it has been launched on to the water on floats the pilot takes his seat and the machine rises into the air. The pilot keeps in touch with the sidsmarino commander by wireless. Trials of new submarine ’planes also ure being carried out in this country and the United States. LONG AIR JOURNEY J.OXHOX. Aim. itAirway circles are laughing, writes the Air Correspondent of the “Daily .Mail,” over a story which emanates from one of those long, remote stretches of European air-line which are being worked experimentally at ptosent and on which travellers have adventures reminiscent of the pioneer days of railways, when journeys were made in open trucks, i A pilot, it appears, started oh recently to lly over a senes ot partially organised sections, carrying with him a passenger who was determined to sample ali there was to he offered, good or had. by this new mode of travel. \ chapter of accidents marred the trip. There were forced landings for minor adjustments and descents owing to had weather. Nights were spent lout oil lonely landing-grounds. | The pilot more than once suggested to his passenger that it would he better if the lat I oft him and sought the nearest railway. Hut this aerial 1 voyager was indomitable. Me stuck to j the aeroplane night and day. j When, eventually, he did step down from the cabin, his olt-brokcn jouincv 1 finally completed, friends who had 'assembled failed to recognise him. and i for the reasons that, whereas he hail 1 entered that aeroplane clean-shaven, the mishap*:; and delays had been such that he emerged from iL having grown hoard while in (light!

YRRKK ON THE FILM. LONDON. September lib London will see another all-British film dealing with the war when " Ypres ” is shown lor the first time on October •">. The aim of the picture, presented by New Kra Films, who have already presented " Armageddon ” and “ Zcobnigge.” is to show the critical moments in the holding ol the salient and the ; ,cts of personal heroism, displayed there.

The producers have had the active guidance and co-operation ot the liritish War Office. The film opens with the arrival ot the /11 i Division at what was soon to he the salient, and the beginning of the first battle in Oetoiler, 101-1. The dramatic moment of this battle, the re-rapture of Glieluvdi. is ike lirs.t main episode of the I >ift 11 r.*.

'l l: :- next centres around Mill (10. and the great ad of heroism which made Incut ■ O- M. Woolley the lirst Territorial VOther incidents follow, ami then comes a reproduction of the exploit of Flight Sub-I,lent. WarncI'on!, V.'.. when lie “dropped” the lirst Zeppelin near Ghent, made a forced landing in enemy territory, refill IF, I his machine, and returned in safe tv to the British lines.

.Mc>-ines Ridge and Rasschcndaelc are next seen, and later are seen some winners of tile Y GIRI/S I.IFM 7b YEARS AGO. ARK THEY HARRIER NOW:LONDON. September The ilays when piris learned whole volumes ol poetry by heart am! as a reirealioli played grace were recalled yesterday by .Mrs Eliza Dressner, in defending the Victorian homo-life against a charge of boredom, has aroused considerable interest. '■ I do not believe that their method of brightening everything up and all these modern inventions have really rl ide young .people happier," Mrs Dressner, who is lib years of age, said to a reporter yesterday. '• Reading occupied a good deal of our time, and even to-day 1 can recite most of the works fit Byron. .Shelley, Keats, Thomas .Moore, and other favourite poets of the day. Are they still read

| "Wo !i;id our games then, sis iI iO ! oii 1.., of to-day have, lull tho.v were of 'a more gnu ol'ul nature. There wore I ('raw. where small hoops were thrown j lirre ami there into the air with graceful ftirvos of the hotly. Later I remember my mother taking me to archery meetings. anti later still wo played croquet. Then came lawn tennis, although it was not played to anythin”; like the extent of the present day. "We enjoyed ourselves in a life of calm and quiet that people of to-day would not nppieeiate or understand. Our evenings were spent at Inline, reading or singing. 1 am afraid many young people of to-dav are uncultivated and stupid.” VICTORIAN 01.0 .AI AIDS. Delegates to the conference of tin' National Council of Women at Birmingham attended the pro-Cathedral Church yesterday morning when the bishop (Dr I' - . Barnes) preached. Revolution, said the bishop, was the counsel of despair. Good homes made good citizens, ami evil homos were the source ot nine-tenths of social misery. As the range of women’s .activities extended we might hope that the pathetic and useless old maid of the Victorian era would he forgotten. lie confessed, however, that it seemed, in general, inadvisable that married women should he permanently engaged In work that took them from home and children.

£1.000.000 STRTKK. LIMERICK. Od. ■_>. The settlement of the strike that is holding no the Shannon electricity scheme for that i- what the Trans-

port Workers’ Union action in withholding labour and picketing amounts to—may prove difficult. Messrs Siemens, Schukcrt offer unskilled labour 8d an hour; the union demands Is Id. The amoun in dispute is approximately £1.000,000. If the contractors make concessions there is every likelihood, that the additional amount will come out of the pocket of the Irish taxpayer. Mr Joseph McGrath, (ormcr-ly Minister of Industry and Commerce, has been appointed bv the contractors as director of labour. Estimates of the number of Gcniuians in the vicinity of Limerick range from 70 to 200, including several women typists.