GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1932, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

ADMIRAL APPOINTED

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, January lu.

' The British Admiralty has announced that Rear-Admiral Earl Hr ax is to be Commander-in-Chief of the American and West Indies Naval Station, in succession to Vice-Admiral Sir Vernon Haggard, the change to date from April 2, and that RearAdmiral Dunbar Naismith is to be CVunniander-iu-Chief of tire East indies Station, in succession to ViceAdmiral Fullerton, the change to date from April 29th.

INCITING A MUTINY

LONDON, January 19. In a further Daily Worker prosecution, Frank Priestley, 35, the publisher was sentenced to three years imprisonment on two charges of incitement ol mutiny. RADIUM DISCOVERY. VIENNA, January 19. ' A water diviner, using an old silver watch chain as a pendulum, obtained such reactions at Neuhaus, near Linz that he guaranteed water to be available nine feet down. Boring s did not yield water. The diviner was so puzzled that lie sent a sample of the earth to the Government research institute, which report'd it to have the highest radium content hitherto found in j Europe. Eieven thousand tons of earth v ould yield a kilogramme of pare radium. SOVIET DEFENCE. MOSCOW, January 19. Three thousand children are being trained to partake in the forthcoming) chemical defence manoeuvres, which the | ■soviet Government is organising. Iho children will demonstrate with gas masks during the poison gas attacks.