Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 160, 27 September 1927, Page 1

Cable Jottings

MR. EALDIVIX'S HOLIDAY.—T h e Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldw.n, who has greatly benefited in health from his stay in Aix-les-Bains, will return to London this evening.—British Official Wireless. GAMES FOR CHILDREN.—The stadium at Wembley has been placed at the disposal of the National Playing Fields Association for organise*! games to be played by London school children. It will probably’ be used for cricket, football, and net ball. —British Official Wireless. INDIA’S BRAVE DEAD —The Earl of Birkenhead .Secretary of State for India, will unveil on October 7 a memorial at Neuve Chapelle to the memory of Indian soldiers who fell in the war. A detachment of Indian troops from all the Indian units which fought on the western front is also to take part in the ceremony.—A. and N.%. SYDNEY CITY FIRE.—An outbreak of firt: in an old building on Circular Quay, Sydney, which was owned by the Sydney Harbour Trust, and occupied by a number of firms, gutted two floors which were occupied by the Moore Brush Company. and G. H. Enemark's photographic studios. The damage is estimated at fcIO.'OOO. —A. and N.Z. GERMAN AIR CRASH.—The theory’ advanced by officials of the Lufthansa j Company’ for the crash iri which six j persons, including the German Ambasj sador to the United States. Baron von | Maltzan, were killed, is that one of [ the propeller blades broke off, tfc rowi.V ( an enormous strain on the left wing ot | the plane, which crumpled up before | the pilot cculd land.—A. and N.Z. SWISS FLOODS —Devastating floods have occurred iri Switzerland. Several bridges have collapsed in various ps.rts of the country. Nine people were drowned when the hojse in which they resided in the canton of Orisons was flooded. One village has been inundated with thick mud. A lake steamer was sunk at Lugano, but there were no casualties. j WIRELESS DISPLAY. —The rapid i development of the wireless industry’ ! is shown ir. the National Jladio Exhij bition, at Olympia. It is the sixth of its kind to be held in Britain. While ! the first was but a small affair, this i year 300 firms have stares, and the ! varieties of appliances of all kinds j which are displayed number thousands. There is an average reduction of 30 per cent, on last y'ear’s prices.—British i Official Wireless.