GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1929, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

THE FINGER-PRINT SYSTEM

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

LONDON, February 22

Following the publication recently of the details of a remarkable resemblance of adult male twins, of whom it was said that even their finger prints are identical, Scotland Yard of the asking whether this has indicated a weakness in the fingerprint system. Scotland Yard has obtained reproductions of the finger prints of the twins, an examination of which has revealed certain superficial resemblances but, other charcteristics are absolutely dissimilar.

■SUCCESSFUL WIRELESS TRIAL

ROME, Fob. 23

A successful trial of wireless telephony conversation was carried out for six minutes lietween Turin (North Italy) and Buenos Aires (Argentine.)

A MISSION OF PEACE

DELHI, Feb. 23

General Nadir Khan has'*arrived at Bombay. In an interview, he said: “I have come on a mission of peace, at the call of niv fatherland. I hope, with the grace of God, to succeed in putting out the fire which is burning in Afghanistan.” After a brief rest, the General, who is not in the best of health, proceeded to Peshawar. BREAD RATIONING. LONDON, February 23. “The Times’s” Riga correspondent states: There are twelve hundred proletarian watchers, otherwise spies, employed in Leningrad atone to ensure the working of bread rationing. They are inspecting cards and examining purchases. There are fifteen hundred of the watchers in Moscow. Th ree hundred members of the Cooperative Societies have been arrested in Leningrad and charged with speculating in bread cards. All of them in the-meanwhile have been placed in the card less category. A NE W .EXPERIMENT. LONDON, February 24.

The “ Sunday Chronicle ” says the inventor, George Bennie, has been permitted the use of the North-Eastern Railway siding to carry out shortly revolutionary experiments in running a cigar-shaped railplane driven by air propellors and suspended from overhead monorail track, supported by trestles which will permit of a construction over the existing railways and roads. Bennie claims that the machine, is capable of 120 miles hourly with passengers and mails. The design will allow cars to rise slightly by air, thus avoiding friction weight on the rails. RUSSIA AND THE WORLD POWERS LONDON, February 25. Celebrations of the Red Army's eleventh anniversary included shooting matches, demonstrations by five thousand military ski-runners and the handing over to the Red Army of four new aeroplanes constructed 'from rroletariau subscriptions “ Our reply to the Cham berlain fund.” Speeches, broadcasted Russia-wide, declared the capitalist governments cannot he trusted, wherefore the Peace Pa t does not affect the position. There is the necessity for maintaining the Red Army at its present strength of 522,000, and the urge for strengthening the air force as well as chemical warfare preparations, lest Poland and other border states open hostilities.