GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 16, 11 September 1912, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

THE TIMES’ RECORD. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United -Dress Association.) London, September 10. The Times has just celebrated its forty-thousandth issue with a remarkable forty-four page supplement covering the history of printing. MANOEUVRES AT NORFOLK. London, September 10. Sixty thousand men are engaged in tlie manoeuvres at Norfolk. Captain Longcroft, of a Government built bi-plane, made remarkable reconnaissances. The opposing gunners were unable to estimate his height and speed and did not attempt to lire. Ranges taken simultaneously differed by 3000 yards.

WIRELESS

Melbourne, September 10

When the Port Darwin wireless station is completed, thereby linking Australia with the Empire, by a wireless system, the Government intends charging two shillings a word for wireless cables.

VESTED INTERESTS IN THE WAY

London, September 10

Sir H. Heaton, interviewed, said that deferred cablegrams were absurd, s:nce the carrying capacity of the American cables was 325,000,000 yearly, and only 25,000,000 were sent. The Australian cables could do sevenfold, sending 50,000,000 instead of the present 8,000,000. Vested interests alone stood in the way of penny-a-word telegrams throughout the world.

MILITARY MANOEUVRES AT

SAXONY

Berlin, September 10

The Kaiser is witnessing the manoeuvres of 25,000 troops at Saxony. He is living in a portable asbestos house.

CHINESE LOAN FOR £10,000,000

Pekin, September 10

The Powers are indignant at the report of a ten million sterling loan in London nearing completion. The Goverment admits that Hsiunghsiiing, former Minister of Finance, is negotiating for the loan.

TOWN IN DARKNESS. (Received 8.55 a.m.) London, September 10. Islington was in darkness for several hours owing to a slight accident to the power station.