News by Wireless

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 424, 4 August 1928, Page 1

News by Wireless

The following news has been picked tip by Mr. Ivan O.'Meara, Gisborne, and telegraphed by the Press Association:—■ There is a decided change in the Soviet’s international outlook. and Russia is prepared to sign a world peace treaty * * * It is reported that Washington officials see no obstacle to the United States joining further naval negotiations at Geneva. It is predicted that America will insist on an adequate number of 10,000—ton cruisers. • » m Major Fitzmaurice, the transatlantic flyer, has signed a £20.000 contract to do ship-to-shore flying with the German-Lloyd liners. Shanghai reports that the next step of the new Nanking Government will be to assume control of ail Chinese ports, possibly ending the foreign customs administration. The Government is finding demobilisation a big task. A large revolutionary army is still Spread throughout the country, while one Shantung force is still encamped. • • * Six were killed, and 15 injured when the Paris-Brest train was derailed early yesterday. Guiseppe Biagi. the wireless operator of the Italia, gave the first real interview of any of the crew, describing- the conditions of life on the ice. He told of the finding of Pomeller dead on a block of ice after the crash. He explained the great difficulty of putting into the commission tiie jumbled mass of radio equipment spared in th*crash. The new 600-mile air line between Roost veil Field. New York, and the Bermudas, opens in Xovember. • * * Xew York has been engulfed by another iieat wave, the temperature rising to 89. with great humiditv. One resulted. • * • An aviator. W. F. Scott, established i a new record parachute drop, leaping ; 7,700 feet through space at the navv 1 air station. He landed in a clump of I trees uninjured. Costly Words.—For using mde*.- !.• I language in Hobson Street George , Ktdnan was fined 4:2 at the Police ■ Court tliis morning. He was fined a ' further 20s for drunkenness.