CABLEGRAMS.

Otaki Mail, 4 July 1923, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

AERiAL WONDERS. !: .MECHANICAL CONTROL PERFECTED ! A FRENCH TRIUaipH. LONDON, July :,'. '' The Daily Express's Paris corres- '•■ puiiuont says a. development of incalculable importance has taken place in : French aviation as a- result of the exi perls' efforts during the last, nine l months. A Frenchman ha* invented ': a device which it is believed will revolutionise military flying and put j France ahead of all nations. The invention consists of die adoption of a 'perforated cylinder like a piano play- : er to control Hi if; the movements of a ', piioidess aeroplane. The derice enj ables the plane to rise mid perform a series of pre-arranged evolutions, in- , .-Hiding dropping bombs at any point ; within "the aeroplane's normal radius, then turn and return to its aerodrome. Complete success is reported to ! have j been obtained"'ahO also the control of ' aeroplanes-by wireless, thus ensuring! an alternative or complementary met!}- I

ocl of direction in the event of accident to the piano player mechanism. It is believed pilots will tend to disappear and will be replaced by strategic scientists at the air fifth's base. Wireless control as applied to torpedo boats has also undergone successful trials at Toulon. Similar experiments in the Wireless control of aeroplanes £4vl torne'doeri • have ken carried out in England and I nil'A« jh\iniries. but never with the su-; preme success claimed for the French. Probablv portion of ihe increased air vote will be devoted to machines fitted with the piano player device. THE POPE'S FEAR. BOLSHEVISM MAY OVERWHELM • GERMANY. .<< ROME, Juty 2. ; The Vatican Chancellory ha<= issued a semi official note stating that the , Pope is profoundly grieved by the | manv acts of sabotage by Germans in the territory occupied by France. His sorrow is all the stronger because acts of sabotage are contrary to the princi- j ple.% of fustic and charity which the : Pope steadily preaf.hed. Vatican circles consider the incident j arising out of the Pope's letter on the occupation of the Ruhr is now closedTri a line conversation between the pop.- and M. Jonnart, the French dip- , Tomat. s*>* former amply illustrated the spirit ot'his letter. The Pone was Phfefiv r„-e-0,-.'«ir.ic.-l with the fact thftf. ihe I'ljfferintr of ihe German people > ro9v facilitate Oie n«.r,etration 01 BOi- ■ whereof" at^e^iojg^g^-