GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association, GIGANTIC BELL. RUGBY, Alarch 4. £ The easting of the largest bell ever made in England and tho fourth largest in existence was celebrated at Croydon yesterday by 2300 bellringers from all parts of tho country. The befl, with others has been made for a carillon in the Riverside Church at New York. Its note is two whole tones lower than any hell hitherto tuned in "jrthis country. The weight of the hell is 18J tons. AIR GREGORY’S SUCCESSOR. RUGBY, Alarch 4. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Austen Chamberlain, has appointed Air Robert \ ansittart, Assistant Under-Secretarv of State. He will remain seconded for service as principal private secretary .to the Prime AHnister, and Air Lancelot Oliphant has been appointed acting Assistant Under-Secretary in his place.Air J. D. Gregory. Assistant Undersecretary in the Foreign Office, who signed the reply to the Zinovieff letter in 1924. was recently implicated in speculations in currency and dismissed. At the inquiry into this case the ( Zinovieff letter was mentioned, but Air Gregorv was exonerated of any manipulation of the letter for his own purposes. The “Observer” published a letter from Air Thomas Marlowe ; formerlv editor of the “Daily Mail., to the effect that he had two copies of the Zinovieff letter in his possession on October 24. 1924. both from friends. He circulated reprints to other newspapers, with an intimation that their authenticity could be established at the Foreign Office and elsewhere. He added :-“I have never seen AH' Gregory and 1 did not pa> him or any other person £SOOO or any other sum for the letter. It did not cost me a single penny.” The Foreign Office hearing what had happened m _ Fleet Street, Sir Eyre Crowe decided that it would be better if the letter were published with the draft ot Air AlacDonald’s reply to AL llakovskv. ALU SERVICE-ACROSS ATLANTIC. CONDON, Alarch (3. Air Vice-Admiral, Sir William Sefton Brancker, addressing the Institute of Transport, stated that the first regular airship route would probably he to Canada whither two airships carrying a hundred passengers are now being constructed. It is likely that they will he fly in" in 1928. The route will be via the Azores. They may also organise a service to Egypt. Airships would not compete with shipping but would be a - useful supplement. Applauding Hmckler’s flight, lie said : If one man can do that without ground organisation; with properly organised aircraft and organised night flying we shall be able to do the Australian journev in 180. This is within reach m five or six years if we get down to it ami spend tho money. EMPLOYERS REFUSE DEMAND, LONDON, March 6. The conference of cotton employe oV and operatives at Manchester, long session broke down. The employers suggested a joint quiry by equal members ou each sid<# but the workers demanded an impart of chairman, also an accountant and asp sessors to enable a full investigation into tho costs of production and distribution. The employers refused the demand. GERMAN FILAI BANNED CONDON, March 5. The Daily News’ Berlin correspondent says that -Mussolini lias prohibited throughout Italy the exhibition of the German film “Metropolis,” a mammoth display of mechanics, purporting to forecast how a machine era will destroy mankind’s happiness. The Fascist Press has hitherto praised the film. WORLD’S BIGGEST MONOPLANE. LONDON, Afarch 6. The Air Alinistry’s world’s biggest experimental all-metal monoplane was successfully tested at Martleslinm. It weighs nearly 20 tons and lias a wing spread of one hundred and fifty feet, three engines aggregating 2,100 horse power, and seven and a-half feet landing wheels. Twenty passengers can be carried. Olio design is an adaption of the German. Dr Rohrhaeh’s ideas.