GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A GIGANTIC BATTLEPLANE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received August 30, 10.30 p.m London, August 29. Flying tests are being carried out at Farnborough with a gigantic SiddeleyCurtis battleplane, heavily armored and protected on each side with machine-gun galleries. The craft weighs nine and a half tons, and is equipped with twin Siddelcy-Deisey engines, each of 420 h.p. The plane is designed to act ateo as a bomber. PRINTERS’ WAGES. Received August 30, 10.30 p.m. London, August 29. It is stated the printing trades ballot resulted in all unions accepting a reduction of three shillings weekly in wages. A definite result regarding the lithographic section is not yet known. STRANGE CASE OF INSANITY. Received August 30, 5.5 p.m. London, August 30. The Geneva correspondent of the Daily Express reports that a wealthy Swiss bankers son, who was sent to Stuttgart to study German, became ill, and a German woman doctor there declared he was suffering from a hereditary disease. When the youth returned to Geneva physicians found that the woman was mistaken, but her verdict so preyed on the youth’s mind that he has been sent to an asylum hopelessly insane.

MOUNTAINSERING FATALATIES. Vienna, August 29.

Two tourists were climbing the Gross Glockner, a mountain in the Tyrol, and one fell end was killed. His companion’s cries for help were heard for three days, but, owing to a storm, assistance was impossible. Eventually another party of tourists tried to rescue him. Two fell and were killed, and further attempts at rescue were unsuccessful.