GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

REVOLUTION IN AERONAUTICS. Australian Press Assn.—United Servioo LONDON, Sept. 19. Aviation critics in both Britain and France agree that the Spanish Inventor, Senor De La Cierva’s Auto-giro flying machine, is the most revolution- . ary aeronautical development of recent years. In flying from Croyden, the Auto- "), giro crossed the English Channel to Capo Grisnez (France). This flight is being described as being as important as M. Berriot’s famous crossing of the Channel in 1909. Tlie Auto giro reached Cape Grisnez in one horn- after leaving Croydon. Descents were voluntarily made at St. ; Inglevcrt and at Abeville for refreshments, instead of making a single hop from Croydon to Paris. At Paris thousands of people corned the inventor, after a utc descent, which was almost a r.RZ? tical one. The machine did not mc,B , three yards when it landed. <*£s' Senor Do La Cierva made a statement that this flight was the greatest experiment of his lifetime. He had found no trouble in controlling eitiier the height or the speed of the machine. The Autogiro rose to an altitude of six hundred metres in three minutes, and it averaged a speed of one hundred miles an hour during the flight. ■ RECORD HARVEST. LONDON, Sept. 20.. “I have hover known a more successful harvest than that just reaped in Britain,” says Professor r James' Long, agricultural expert. “The farmers in practically every district admit that almost every crop is unusually good and has been reaped most quickly and cheaply, thanks to prolonged fino weather.”

Taking a hundred as the full average, Professor Long estimates tho crops as follows: Wheat 98; Farley, 97; oats, 94; potatoes, root crops and hay, 95. Tlie “Daily Express” says: “There has been a marvellops summer in Bri- , tain. It has brought inestimable benefits. Tho harvest is expected to be a record, and health throughout the country is vastly improved owing to the unusually Iprge amount of sunshine.” ’ ’ * TROTSKY’S EXILE. LONDON, Sept. 20. The “Daily Mail” says:—“News lias been received in London of several attempts recently to kill M. Trotsky, who is exiled in Turkestan. M. Trot-_f skv himself has revealed a plot in jr smuggled letters to.hja friends abroad, - including M. Rakovsky, in which Ke pleads' for help against the Soviet Secret Police, who lie alleges, are tho instigators.” .“ M. Trotsky describes how his littlo cottage at Almaata, 2GO milos from tho nearest railway, was thrice attacked , by sharpshooters hiding in the trees. He (Trotsky) and his son were defend-. > ,ing themselves .with sporting rifle's. The cottage was thereafter blockaded. Only local friends gifts of food .averted - starvation.” •■V;-..

iM. ■ Trotsky says that lie is denied. lights newspapers and medical advice, j v' The “Daily. Mail” states that Mos- . . cow disclaims any knowledge of the plot nnd has despatched an investigating commission. “ Meanwhile,” 'adds the “Daily Mail,” “Moscow has ar-;;; rested thirty-three more, oppositionists, ail.of them friends of Trotsky.” V,. SOVIET INTERNAL LOAN. pP MOSCOW, September 19. ' The Soviet is issuing a new internal loan of three hundred million roubles at 11 per cent. 1 . ~ _____ :':AV i : UNEMPLOYMENT IN RUSSIA. x_A ' , LONDON, Sept. 20.T\ The “Times’s” Riga correspondent. (' states: News: from Moscow indicates that unemployment is increasing rapidly throughout Russia. After having fluctuated since January between two and two and a-lialf millions, it is now about three millions, including half a - million skilled workers. A further , increase is inevitable at the conclusion of • tlie harvesting. - ’

RECOAI.AIENDED FOR DRUNKARDS STERILISATION.- T, PARIS,,Sept. 20.

Doctor Tenmlous, a specialist in nervous diseases, advocates the prohibition of marriage for confirmed inebriates, or their sterilisation.

Dr Tcmulouse opposes a projected Swiss law for tho sterilisation of mental defectives, because, ■he points out,mental diseases need not he hereditary. On the contrary, lie says, the children of mental deficients are often exceptionally intelligent; hut it js different with drunkards, whose offspring are extremely prone to all kinds of intoxication. , i ELECTRIC TRAIN ACCIDENT. LONDON, Sept. 19! Forty-four were injured when a suburban electric train, carrying five hundred, crashed into buffers at Charing Cross this morning. Alost of the injured were women and girls. All except three were sent home after treatment at the hospital. Half-fainting women and girls were assisted to ambulances at intervals for t nearly an hour. ! Some were imprisoned in tho wreckage for half an hour, parts of the carriages being sawn away to secure - their release.

AVOMEN JOCKEYS PROHIBITED. PARIS, Sept: 20.

The stewards have now prohibited women from participating in any kind of horse race, and have warned the provincial racecourse companies ■ that if they organise further meetings, w-ith women jockeys, subsidy derived from the central authority will he withdrawn. . ■ ■ AVORLD POAYEI? CONFERENCE. - ■ .LONDON, Sept. 20. : Fifteen hundred delegates, representing forty-five nations, speaking twenty languages, will attend a ten-days’ world power conference, which opens on 24th September at the Imperial Institute, to discuss fuel problems, when 175 papers containing two millions words, will be presented.

FASCIST CONSTITUTION. (Received this dav at 9.25. aim.) ,ROME, September 20. The Fascist- Grand Council, Signoi Alussolini presiding, adopted a measure for governing its constitution. The Council will he the supreme organ of the Fascist regime and government coordination of ‘ activities of both. It will sit secretly. Members, 1 including leaders of the Government and Fascist Party will lie unpaid, and immune from arrest or criminal proceedings, without the Council’s .consent. The meeting concluded amid cheers for the Duce.

DAAIAGE TO AUTO-GIRO. (Australian Press Association). . (United Service). . A j (Received this day-cat 9.25. a.m.) PARIS, Sept. 20. AVhilo Senor Do La Cierva’s auto- , giro was descending vertically at Lb Bourget, the tail hit the ground heavily before the under-carringo, causing y considerable damage.