AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

CAustralia & N.Z. Cable Association.! CAMERA AS BURGLAR TRAP. NEW YORK, Aug. 31. The Eastern Kodak Company lias completed an automatic camera, designed to picture burglars at work. It can bo concealed anywhere in a bank. It i.s worked by pressure on buttons, conveniently located in a dozen different places, while tit night an automatic flashlight is touched off when a, salebreaker touches the dials. AMERICA’S ARMY. WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. .Major-General Hines, chief ot stall in an address at the opening of exercises at the army war college declared an adequate stjmdiug army of loft thouasiul would he organised into a modern defence establishment of America. but economy conditions would keep it considerably below that figure. He stated the present authorised strength of the regular army was 117,500. Current appropriations would be sufficient to maintain a larger numerical force. If the allied question of supply and training were neglected, hut men without weapons would only make useless sacrifice and weapons without men were of no immediate military value. We must never flail to recognise tho fact that our first line of defence was the army, as it now stood and that in case of emergency the nation must depend on the personnel of organisations already constituted to hold the line of resistance until great national (armies could ho mobilised, trained and equipped for battle. M EXICA X CON DIT TONS. NEW YORK, Sept. 1. Paul Smith and Flaherty told Mr Coolidgo on Wednesday that the Knights of Columbia would not ask the intervention of Knifed States in Mexico. They said the order desired only tho cxereeiso of whatever good offices was possible in international law, to ameliorate the conditions in Mexico,