GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1920, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

By Tal«ewil*.—rress Assn.— CopyrlcM. Three of the four United Sta'tea aero-, planes that reached Nome two days ago have started their" flight homewards. The airmen had planned a flight to Cape Prince of Wales, thence across Behring Straits to Siberia, but <■■ telegram was received from the War department, disapproving of the project, and caused its cancellation. •Sir Edward Thorpe has been nominated president of the British. Association which will be meeting at' Edinburgh in 1821. It is understood that there will be a continuation of the policy of occasional visits to outlying portions of the Empire. The association meets at Colombo- in 1922. 1 The Agenzia Libra states that Archhishop Mannix is expected to arrive, early in September. He will not be received immediately by the Pope, but an audience will be granted just previous to Archbishop Mannix's departure. The Daily Express says that the Government has decided to no longer employ a large garrison to hold Mesopotamia, and the Arabs will be. given the right of self-government their own chiefs( assisted by British administration if desired. A missi.o.n, including Sir. Percy Cos and Mr. Harry Philby, is going to Bagdad to put the new policy into execution. ' Professor C. F. Jenkins, in an address on engineering before the British Association, said that the time had come to thoroughly overhaul and revise the fundamental data on which strength and the suitability of materials was based, During the war aeroplane construction revealed remarkably how inadequately the problems of stress and strain had been solved, especially in regard to anisotropic materials, and in a lesser degree to isotropic materials. There was practically no theory, in a form available for the engineer, by which the strength of timber could be satisfactorily calculated. The outcome of researches during the war had yielded some reasonably accurate data. Professor Jenkins urged the necessity for undertaking- fullest research work on the subject. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. M. Venizelo3 has recovered and left for Greece. '