MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1928, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

AVAR WIRELESS DISCLOSURES [“ Tho Times ” Service.j (Received this day at 8.50 a.m.) LONDON. Jan. 3.

A Berlin correspondent states that followin'; Fwing’s disclosures cabled on Dec. 13th. an cx-wirclcss officer, Lieut.-Commander Krasclmtzki, in an article in the “ Vossiche Zeitung.” regarding the German Department corresponding to Room 40, says it was housed in a mysterious barbed wired, wireless station on a lonely moor in New Al mister. Astonishing achievements were recorded, hut it was long before the officers responsible for naval ciphers learned their obvious "lesson that their discovery of the British code key the first night after the monthly change implied that the British could discover the German key with equal ease, especially since it was much simpler than the British, even if the British had not secured it from German submarines sunk in shallow coasfat waters. Nevertheless the German keys were unaltered for months. Even if the German wireless operators forgot to secure the new signal when it was eventually changed, they could work it out from the first message received. Only in 1916 was a new faultless code book issued. The key thereafter was changed daily. The British knew the Dogger Bank plans beforehand, hut at Jutland. Germany changed the longstanding wireless call signals, substituting flagships for that ol A\ ilhelmsli.aven land station.. The British concluded tho flagships were still in harbour and that only cruisers were at sea. Tbe trick was not realised until the cruiser Southampton reported the whole German Fleet were retreating.

It EJU VEM AT LON L'A ILS. HE HI AX. Jim. 3. Yoronoff’s rejuvenation is attacked as a dangerous delusion and a snare, iiy IVofeiser Holfmeistcr, who says lie transplanted glands from an ape Irani Java in a fifty-four year man. The glands tailed to lu net ion and later a microscopic X-ray revealed the tissues ivere dead. He had similar results with dogs. Rejuvenation lasted three months alter which the animals’ health was affected and they died.

ELECTRIC SIGNS. PARIS, Jan. .3

The Prefect of Seine has ordered the elimination of the largest electric signs in the centre of the city, owing to a tear that the boulevards of Place do la Concorde becoming like Broadway or Piccadilly Circus. Signs will lie limited to goods sold in the buildings to which they are attached. This means that scores of signs wliiclCfeature Paris nights will disappear, including an electric newspaper printed in English.

AERIAL TORPEDOES. LONDON, Jan. A. The Science Academy is studying a project to use aerial torpedoes to speed up postal services. The inventor Hirschaver. Chief" Engineer of the Government Aeronautic Service, and Talon, Engineer of Midi Railways, propose the construction of aerial tubes, suspended from pylons containing double tracks, over which torpedoes, each weighing 2501bs carrying fifty pounds of mails could he driven at a s]>eed ol 275 miles hourly. The inventors estimate they could shoot two tons of mail matter hourly through the tubes at a cost of three-farthings a pound.