GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1920, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

WIRELESS TSXPERIMKNTB. By Tclesr.iph P.'wra Assn —Copyright. London". March 22 }\larconi returned to England and if leaving immediately in the specially fitted yacht Elettre (700 tons) on n voyage of wireless investigation wliieli is !'■ likely to produce important and roman'J tic results, including an attempt to c!is- ■ cover the origin of the mystery messages. Marconi, interviewed, freely discussed his plans, 'When rounding Spain for Italy lie would be in the neighborm hood of Gibraltar on April 24 when Mars ] was nearest to the earth. The scientific ,g installations on board the Elettre inip elude special long distance wireless telerl graphy and telephony.—United, Service. = r DISPOSAL OF EX-GIiRMAN SHIPS, s- Washing!mi, March 24. <r Britain intends presenting a claim on 1- (lie United States for lueses caused bv ii the detention of former German ships 'd after tin; completion of their service, 111 when they were allotted 1a tiie United Slates. n CRITICISMS OF U.S. NAVY, •p Washington, March 2-I. ' During the Senatorial investigation t _ into Admiral Sims' criticism of the Navy Department, Senator Pittmann charged Admiral Sims with relying very much upon the iirilish Admiralty fur his opinions and recommendations, nm] desiring to turn over the whole American navy to ir the British, regardless of the needed prole lection of the United State* coasts l- Aus.-X.J2. Cable Assn. •e NEW NAVAL IDEAS. London, March 2.1". h Sir Tennyson D'Eyncourt, lecturing at 1,1 the Institution of Naval Architects, said ll? the battleship Hood was reconstructed to ;0 withstand several torpedo hits without '!« seriously lessening her speed. America ' was already following the example set V 1 y the Hood. I s Mr. Archibald Hurd strongly deprecated the view held by the Dominions that .j' sea-power was a tl ing of the past on ac- „■ count of the developments in aircraft; ,t that would mean the sacrifice of British >t naval Cable Assn. v . i- CHINA AND GERMANY, ic Peking, March 24. Germany's unofficial representations v for the resumption of commercial relat tiims with China have been transmitted f through the Chinese Minister at Copen--0 hagen. They have not been accepted, China informing Germany that it is impossible to renew relations pending China's acceptance of the Versailles Treaty.—Ans.-N.JS. Cable Assn,