GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

TRAIN WRECKERS. HAVE SENTENCES REDUCED. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, August 25. The derailment of a train at Cramrington, during the General Strike, for which some miners were sentenced, is recalled by a Home Office announcement that the Home Secretary lias recently reconsidered the sentences imposed. It is pointed out that some miners displaced a rail, and that only a warning from the driver of the Flying Scotchman prevented the endangering of the lives of 240 passengers, and that even then a train was derailed. The Home Office declares that the crime was a terrible one, and that the sentences did not err on the side of severity, but says that, having regard to the prisoners’ previous, good character, the Home Secretary, with the concurrence of the Judge, lias recommended His Majesty to reduce the sentences as an act of clemency.

William Muckle, William Baker, and Oliver Sanderson, who were sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, will he released oil September Ist.

The sentences on James Allison and Gordon Stephensen are being reduced from six years to four years. The sentences on Arthur Silson, Thomas Roberts, and Robert Harbottle are being reduced from eight years to five years.

THE POPE’S HEALTH. LONDON, Aug. 25. “The Times’s” Rome correspondent states: The Pope’s health is seriously affected by tlie exceptional heat of the 192 S summer. Vatican doctors declare that another summer in his present environment may seriously injure him. The Pope recently declared: “T no longer even walk in the Gardens, because the tropical atmosphere takes j my breath away.” The authorities are discussing the necessity of a change of the Pope’s summer residence as the Vatican Gal- __ dens are not sufficiently ventilated, and are low-lying, and very damp at night. They are of the opinion that the Pope could occupy a villa outside the Vatican by constituting the visit as a private one, thereby not altering tlie Holy See’s historical attitude as to extra-territoriality (in relation to the temporal power of the Papacy). LONDON. Aug. 25.

Advices from Rome state that following oil reports, cabled on August 22nd, the “Inipero” states that His Holiness the Pope has decided, after consultation with the College of Cardinals to go privately next summer to the Papa Villa at Castle GnndolftV on Lake Albano. ’

WOMAN SPY. BERLIN, August 25. Matilda Seiheneck, aged fifty years, lias been sentenced to thirty months’ imprisonment, for espionage on behalf of France, for the last five years. The woman Seiheneck was a German spy in Belgium during tlie war, and she was reported to he partly responsible fni- Nurse Cnvell’s arrest. JAPANESE PASSENGER SERVICES. TOKYO, August 25. Commencing on August 27th, the “ Asa hi ” newspaper is starting a regular aeroplane passenger service, three times weekly from Tokyo to Osaka, and also a weekly service between Tokyo and Sendai.

AIR FATALITY. ■ J (United Service.! (Received this day at a a.m.) SEATTLE, August 27. Three men and one woman, passengers, and two pilots are believed to he lost in a plane missing since leaving Victoria for Seattle on Saturday morning. The weather was foggy. Patches of oil and two hats were seen floating in the water. The Seattle passengers are: A man, believed to he Alexander MacCallum Scott, an English member of Parliament, a barrister and his wife, also Thomas Lake Farestern, manager of the Union Oil Coy.. California, and Dr D. D. Holden, of Victoria. CHEAP RADIO SETS. LONDON. August 25. The British Patent Office announces that a special tribunal lias heard the Locwo Radio Coy’s applications for either a compulsory license under, or a revocation of five letters patent owned by tlie Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company and a Hritsh Thompson Houston Cmnany. The tribunal is satisfied that the abuse of these Companies’ monopoly rights has been established, and it has decided that the applicants should he granted a license, they paying in future rovalities of ten shillings for each tripvalve receiving set. and 7s Cd each for their double valve sets, subject to a condition under which the parties are allowed twenty-one days,, to settle.

The applicants the Loo wo Coy, claimed that wireless receiving sets equal to the three-valve ones could ho made and sold in Britain for thirty shillings each, and eventually under mass production for twenty-five shillings apiece. The wholesale price of these sets in Germany is 25s and the retail price 39s Cd. Royalties amounting to £35,000 were paid to the Tele-, funker Company in-Germany in 1927. The Lnewe, Coy. is prepared to pay equivalent royalties to Marconis, and are also anxious Immediately to transfer their manufacture to Britain. The Comptroller-General and the A.4s ix t a.nt-Co mptro 11 or in announcing this decision, are of the opinion that the royalties charged of 37s 6d on the Loewo triple valve sets, and 62s Cd on the long-range sets are overhigh. The respondents insisted on these royalties', and thus with their refusal of mom reasonable terms, prejudice, the establishment of a new British indutsry. A commercial policy excluding large sections of the public from the full enjoyment of broadcasting is not justifiable.