GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1928, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

THE FRENCH , ATTITUDE

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

PARTS, Sept. 23

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has opened an inquiry into the leakage of the League naval compromise agreement which is believed to have occupied at Geneva, It is officially regretted the disclosures were made irregularly, otherwise there is general agreement there is no harm done, because the document confirms the An g 10-Fre neh Governments sinocrif.y in an attempt to' roach an understanding. The only mischief consists of the use to which Ihe document was subjected in America.

French opinion believes the unfounded accusations made in United States was because the American navy has become the bone ol contention in internal politics. Especially in view of the impending election there exists an influential section in America, anxious to prevent Anglo-French cooperation 'toward peace.

TITLES OF NO ACCOUNT. (Received this day at 9.25. a.in.) LONDON,' September 23. Mr Mosley says titles do not count nowadays, therefore he is not surrendering the title off baronet which is his. A TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP. ROME, September 23. Mussolini and Venizelos ceremoniously signed the Italo-Greelc treaty of friendship and arbitration similar to tbe Ttalo-fTurkish Treaty. i A MINISTRY OF SPORT. PARIS, September 23. An influential group of members of Parliament are making, an effort to establish a Ministry of Sport with the object of co-ordinating national and international sport and generally controlling all sporting activities. EDUCATIONAL FILMS WANTED. PARTS, September 23. A bill is being introduced to establish a governmental Department of Cinematography for the production of educational films. TELEVISION AND * VOICE TR ANSMISSION. LONDON. September 21. Television synchronised with the human voice is an .accomplished fact Air Baird, the expert, to-day televised Scenes enacted at a studio- tlnee-quai--I&rs of a mile distant from a house in ihe West End of London, where the Spectators watched the operator turn a knob, making the image of a man appear on a glass screen. The man onened his mouth, and said Good afternoon 1” as clearly as if he were in the room. The spectators then telephoned to the studio and asked the man to sing. Immediately his expression changed. He sang a negio “Spiritual.” There was a slight flicker on the glass screen, but the vision was as perfect as that of the cinema film of a decade ago.

Air Baird states that distance makes no difference. The experiment could be repeated across the Atlantic, though • atmospherics might interfere with' the voice transmission as they do with the ordinary radio messages across the Atlantic.