GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

WORLD’ SPEED .RECORD

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

THE PRAYER BOOK. LONDON, April 2<». Presiding over it lull attendance of 711 churchmen in the filial Mages ol the Prayer Book the Primate read a message from Australia signed b\ two archbishops. 17 diocesan Sij-hnps, and 8110 clergy, sympathising with him in the rejection of the last book. D< added that he had been strangely taunted with forgetting churchmen overseas. 11 is reply was simple. He was in close touch with churchmen within the Empire and throughout the discussions lie contrasted these rather wearisome proceedings with the pioecdtlie formerly, when a few responsible men of calibre completed a iask in a month or two.

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. LONDON. April 25. When the Stock Exelumgc opened to-day the effect of the Budget was quickly apparent. It- inllm-itc< "amainly stimulating and Hn-iv wa- a general advance in railway -tucks, while iron and steel -ban - ueio stronger and more active than lot -ome time past.

Quotations for sugar share- "''iv good. Motor share- were practically unaffected and showed no movement. Hilt edged securities are unchanged.

BRITAIN MAY REGAIN HONOI R

LONDON. April 25. Captain Malcolm :Campb‘ell is to make an attempt in Ibis country, within the next two months, to recover for Britain the world’s motor speed record. His record of 2C0.0 miles per hour was beaten on Sunday by Ray Kcceh. who, at Dayton Bench. Florida set up a new record of 2(h.-> miles ner hour.

Captain (.'amp-bell says Ik- will immediately effect modifications in the “Bluebird.” a Napier-engined ear, in which his earlier record was established. He believes it is quite capable of regaining the record.

He has cabled congratulations to Keech.

BRITAIN AND PERSIA

NO SETTLEMENT REACHED

RUGBY. April 25. In the House of Commons to-day. tlilo Foreign Secretary. Sir Austen Cbamberlain was asked wlmt progress bad been made in the negotiations for the establishment of a civil air serv vr> between Iraq and India, and whether .any friendly sell lenient ol questions outstanding between Hie Pcrsiain and British 'Governments had been reached, tie replied that lie regretted no settlement had been reaeb-

A SHOOK ABSORBER. BERLIN. April 2ii

A motor ear deliberately era-lu-d into a. tree a a speed of 2!) miles nil hour to-day. in order to demonstrate an invention of considerable importance in the motor world. Neither the ear nor the driver was in the least injured, because llie entire slun k was absorbed by a solid rubber tub:- fixed to movable steel clamps in front. The rein- of Hie ear was exactly similar outwardly to the present universal bumper bars. Two ears, fitted with tin- shock a-lr-sorb-ers. then met in a head-on collision at the same speed - 20 miles an hour—and no damage resulted.

A third test was when a pedestrian was run down. The pc.h-t rinn was harmlessly thrown aside L\ tbe htllf-

Tbe demonstrations were filmed. Engineers ami experts gave tbe invention an enthusiastic: ,-roeoption. One of the leading German insurance companies has been so imp rested that it lias offered a 25 per cent, reduction in its rates on ears that are fitted with such buffers.

GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN

SIR lAN HAMILTON ON THE EVACUATION.

LONDON. April 25.

General Sir fan Hamilton, add re-s----ing the 29th. Division survivors at London, said : “Never since the original landing was Gallipoli so much in evidence. Some mud had been stirred up, but that is ehraetoristic of every live idea which fought its way steadily to truth. “Mr ISonar Law sold the River Clyde to the Spaniards for £7OOO, so anxious was he to see the last of her. “We were told that the evacuation saved thousands of lives, hut the public are getting an inkling that by the evacuation we lost hundreds of thousands. if not millions of lives.”

MOTOR EXHAUST FUMES. LONDON. April 27. The increasing danger of motor exhaust fumes in London’s congested thorough fa res was illustrated by an extraordinary incident in Blackwell road tunnel beneath the Thames, when ten petiole fainted and thirty were partly overcome and three were hospitalled. Following a traffic 'block, a long string of motor cars and buses pumping exhaust gases into the* air. the driver of a motor Inis staggered out of his seat and collapsed on the pavement. The occupants of other cars were successively overcome.

M. BRIAN!) -ILL. PARIS. April 27

M. Brie ud is weakening. T’neiiliioiiia lias followed influenza in a complicated form of blood poisoning.

CAPE TRAIN DISASTER. CAPETOWN. April 27

\ mail train from Johannesburg to Capetown vas derailed at Hex River Pass, a mountainous region. early tins morning. It rolled over and seven carriages caught fire. Ibe driver, fireman and five passengers were killed. The whole country is awaiting definite news.

NEW TUSS.U'DS OPENS. LONDON. April 27

Every type of Londoner and many Americans thronged Tns.sands, rescued from the ashes after three years and i caponed with bands, and flags. The old clinginess lias given way to a marble ball, marble stairs, electric lifts and gold balustrade. Crowds flo'ketl round the Roya Family detailing excitedly the Queen as lovely, the Prince of Woles just like liis picture, all the old Kings and Queens faithfully resurrected, while (ohliam and Lindbergh are among the latest arrivals The new chamber o. horror? is a dim dark dungeon with stun beams of light shining on the faces ot criminals. SP \XIKH EMBARGO. MADRID. April 27. Owing to an infringement of the embargo against Sunday work. Re Rivera has prohibited the publication of morning newspapers on Mondays under penalty of suppression. DISARMAMENT. RUGBY, April 21. Lord Cushendun, speaking at a League of Nations Union meeting last night, expressed his disappointment

that more had not been done in progressive international disarmament, but emphasised the fact that without waiting for any international agreement Britain had for economy and other reasons already carried out a large measure e-f reduction. This reduction was particularly notable in the personnel of the Navy in tonnage of ships and in dockyards. It might l>e argued that Britain’s reductions in the fighting strength of the three Services- amply carried out her obligations to reduce her armaments to the lowest level consistent with public safety, but Britain had offered to do more and was ready to do more as soon as an agreement with other nations was reached. One of the great obstacles at Geneva was the difference in the views taken by the nations on conscription, hut he had faith that a very much larger measure of disarmament would Ik* accomplished. although in itself it was not the only factor in maintaining peace.