Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 11

Cable Jottings

AIR-MAIL SERVICE.—A fortnightly air mail service between Amsterdam and Batavia was yesterday instituted PA.th e cr Company—A. and N.Z.CRQSSING DEVICE.—The German railway authorities are having installed an electrical device at level crossings which it is claimed will hold train unless the passage is clear. BAIRD'S TELEVISION. —The British Broadcasting Corporation has set aside half an hour a day for television broadcasting by means of the Baird system. The transmission will , experimental. The object of the demonstrations is to give a wider opportunity for the development of the Possibilities of the system.—British Official Vv'ireless.

GERMAN REPUBLIC.—A new Bill or tlie protection ot' the German Re--h H? shortly be brought before *ne Cabinet for approval. Under the P»*Bure it is proposed to increase the penalties for slandering the Republic, Constitution, the flag, or officials.— POTATO SHORTAGE.—There is an acute shortage of potatoes in the Sydmarkets. New Up-to-Dates are mng at a rat© of £4O a ton. Sussex I; k mGrch *nts assert that the publi c being imposed upon with washed h« Sn ? an * an and Victorian tubers £l9 and selling as new at bs Bd. IgRRtFIC STORMS. Terrific have occurred on the -leaiterranean coast. A cyclone of cani eCedented force struck Toulon, »enormous damage. Houses t 0 ® Unro °fcd and trees were up‘n?n Widespread floods are also u . d ' The casualties are believed oe heavy.—U.S.