OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1928, Page 2

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

curious FIRE. UNDER THAMES EMBANKMENT. (British Official AVireless). ItUGBY, Sept. 9. An unusual fire occurcd last night underneath the Thames Embankment, when an electric light cable, which is carried in a tunnel under tho footpath, luseil, causing dense volumes of acrid smoke to spread from the shafts. Firemen in gas masks worked by the light of searchlights. At ono time it was feared that the gas mains nearby would be reached. Finally a fire float on tho river pumped water into the tunnel and the flames were subdued.

PICTURES BY AVIRELESS. R.UGBY, Sept. 9. As the result of technical experiments made with tho wireless transmission of still pictures by tho British Broadcasting Corporation and the General Post Office, a short picture transmission will be made daily from Daventry SXX, outside regular programme hours, beginning in October. If. and when, there is sufficient pulv lic demand for still pictures radiated ill this way, transmission will be included in the regular programme hours. Fultographs system will be used. This should not be confused with what is commonly known as television, which is in no ivay'involved in this series of experiments. DEAD CREAV OF Loo. BRITISH THANKS TO SOVIET. RUGBA’, September 9. The Norwegian Minister, Dr Urbye, has expressed to 51. Litvinoff, on behalf of the British Government, gratitude for the kindness, attention and assistance rendered by the Soviet authorities in connection with the removal of the bodies of the British seniors who lest their lives in the submarine L 55.

ACROSS EUROPE. DEMONSTRATION OF BRITISH MACHINE. RUGBY, September (3. Flight-Lieutenant Soholofiehl left; Brooklands at live o’clock this morning on an attempt to \!y to Bucharest, over 1400 miles. He is flying a twoseater Yic-kers-Napier Vivid machine, and hope sto reach Bucharest to-night. Ho will make two halts, one at Nuremberg and one at Belgrade. The purpose of the (light is to demonstrate to the Rumanian Government the capabilities of an aeroplane which is of all-British manufacture in competition with machines from Italy, .France and other countries.

CANCER TREATMENT. USE OF RADIUM. LONDON, Sept. 6. London Hospital, which already possesses 121 milligrammes of radium, is purchasing a further 210 milligrammes at a cost of £2854 for use in cancer treatment. The radium is to be mounted in the form of needles similar in appearance to those used with the gramophone. They are of platinum and contain from two to six milligrammes. Each treatment consists of inserting* a mriier of needles in cells, in growth. They remain there for varying times, generally live days and in favourable) cases growth is not only prevented from spreading, .but is also destroyed. As many as forty needles are used in some cases.

ENGLISH CRICKET. MEAD’S THREE THOUSAND RUNS LONDON, September 10. C. P. Mead is tne third player to score 3,000 runs in the season. It is the second time in his career that he has achieved the feat.