GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(2r Telegraph—Per Press WIRELESS. LONDON, Dec. 4. Marconi’s statement points out the Company was not invited to participate in the discussions between Government and the cable companies. He discloses the company is shortly inaugurating American beam, and depreciates the talk that a war might injure wireless, hut agrees wireless would he fatal to cables, owing to the present cheapness. When facsimile transmission is perfected, a substantial reduction in operation cost and rates is certain and therefore the standardisation of rates and restriction of wireless to a minor role would keep up tho rates. The statement draws attention to the vulnerability of a cable in war time, Britain cutting all German cables and Germany cutting the British Pacific line for six months, but German wireless was continued throughout the war. It adds that in the event of a.-. war the Pacific naval preponderance! could not prevent the cutting of all Australian cables.' Only the occupation of British territory could stop wireless. The statement emphasises that fading will be overcome ancT the present effects of it will lie avoidable if the Empire wireless is worked as a unit, and scattered parts are linked up with beams. Marcino is prepared is submit a scheme on these lines, and is also prepared to co-operate with cables providing the development of wireless is unrestricted.

CARBERRY’S FLY. HELIOPOLIS. Dec. 4. Carberry lias landed. BRITISH LABOR. MOVE. LONDON. Dec. 4. Jarman, secretary of the Liverpool branch of the Seamen’s Union has gone to London to discuss the Australian deadlock .with Havelock Wilson. Tile chairman says we will advise our members in Australia to carry on. Labourites are unlikely to bo successful in pulling them out after the treatment of the former strike. Some are still stranded in Australia. HUSBAND’S REVENGE. CHICAGO, Nov. 25. Angered (by an amorous insult to his wife, the aggrieved husband, John Faith, lined half a dozen guests against the wall of the apartment of his host, Carl Brown, whom he accused of the unwelcome attentions. “I am going to shoot this man,” calmly announced Faith. “Don’t bo alarmed,” laughed the host. “He has a gun, but no nerve.” Instantly two shots were fired, wounding Brown in the arm and breast. Brown was taken to hospital in a dying condition. .MAGNETISING A WRECK. LONDON, Nov. 25. The pig-iron cargo steamer, Ellerwnyer, which was broken up on tho Carr rocks of North Berwick, may bo recovered by a new magnetic process. The salvage company is employing a two-ton electro-magnet, which is lowered by a crane.

* CANCER THEORY. LONDON, Nov. 25. A new theory in the causation of cancer is advanced by Professor Warburg, of Berlin. Energy in the healthy tissues, Professor Warburg says, is chiefly derived from the oxidation of carbohydrates—the consumption of tho starchy foods. If oxygen is lacking, the tissues perish. In the absence of oxygen, cancer cells can break down carbohydrates and derive sufficient energy for survival. He believes that the tissues of the tfiody, which consist mainly of cells using oxygen, have interspersed among t'hem cells which grow without g oxygen.

When oxygen is deficient, the latter cells multiply, providing a nucleus for the subsequent development of cancer. If this theory proves correct, man will know for the first time how dancer is caused, and all systems of treatment will be revised accordingly.

LITVINOFF EXPLAINS. •LONDON, Dec. 5. The “ Observer’s ” Geneva correspondent states Litvinoff, in an interview, said: “ Surely there is nothing extraordinary in our proclamation that absolute disarmament alone will end war. Disarmament will never begin , seriously unless the world grips tbe ->y necessity for going the whole hog.” He categorically denied he came to Geneva for any purpose save disarmament. He emphasised that the Soviet was ready for a resumption of relations with Britain but could not initiate negotiations, not because of an exaggerated consideration of prestige or etiquette, hut for the simple reason that such meetings were valueless unlcsx they were mutually arranged.