GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

AIR FORCE MACHINES

BIG TROOP-CARRIERS PROM • EGYPT. {United Pres* Association—By Electric l Telegraph—Copy right. J RUGBY, December 21. Three Vickers Victoria aeroplanes, of Squadron 216 stationed at Heliopolis, will begin a service flight to Cirpe Town, on January 12. The machines are of the type which evacuated the Europeans from Kabul during the trouble in Afghanistan last, year. In the course of the flight they will go through troop carrying exercises at three of their halts. This will be the first occasion on which African native troops have been transported by air. Tlie machines are. fitted with two Napier Lion 450 horse-power engines. Each is capable of carrying twentythree soldiers and their equipment. With a full load they have a cruising speed of about eighty miles an hour and a range of nearly five hundred miles. LONDON FOG. holds UP traffiic. (Received. this day at 8 a.m.) ... LONDON, December 23. A fog paralized London’s night traffic. The streets were littered with derilict motor cars, and the tramway services are in a state of chaos. The, atmosphere is so thick that pictures pere practically invisible on the cinema screens. OBITUARY. LONDON, Dec. 23. Obituary.'—Ventila Bfiatinu, exPreittier of Rumania.