OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1928, Page 6

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

THE FIRST FLIGHT. CEREMONY IN LONDON. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 17. To-day is the 2oth anniversary of the first flight Iby a power-driven aeroplane and the event will lie celebrated to-night by a, function arranged by the Royal Aeronautical; Society. The function will take place around the Wright aeroplane in South Kensington Museum. [Orville Wright ami his brother Wilbur, since dead, made the first flight in a. lieavier-tbau-air machine on December 17tli, 1908, travelling Bf>U feet in 58 seconds in a 12 h.p. biplane they bad constructed.] BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. RESUMPTION OF RELATIONS NOT CONSIDERED. RUGBY, Dec. 17. Sir Austen Chamberlain stated in the House of Commons, in reply to questions, that the Government, did not consider that' M. Litvinofl’s speech in Moscow -on December 11, with regard to trading and diplomatic relations between Russia and other countries, in any way improved the situation between Britain and Russia. In the Prime Minister's speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet on November 9 last year the conditions were set forth oil which the Government would lie ready to consider resuming relations with Russia, but those conditions had not yet been fulfilled. RED SEA CONCESSION. QUESTION IN COMMONS. RUGBY, Dee. 17. In the TTou.se of Commons Mr I/. S. A.mory, Secretary for tin* Colonies, when asked about the nature of a claim regarding Red Sea concessions, replied that before the war the Turkish Government was alleged to have grtinted to certain subjects a concession i'pr .the extraction of a certain substance from 'the wafers of the Red Sea. From' tjme to time the British Government had had requests to recognise this concession, the most recent being d’rom a French company, which was to have acquired an interest at a comparatively recent dale. The British Government was advised that if was under no legal obligation to grant the Turkish concession.