CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25129, 10 March 1947, Page 3

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

. (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) Soviet Delegation to Britain.— Soviet writers, scientists, and trade unionists are among 20 members of a delegation from the Supreme Soviet of Russia who will arrive in Britain by air on March 11 to be the guests of the British Parliament for about a

month. Plans have been made for an extensive tour of the principal cultural and industrial centres. Mr Vassili Kuznetsov, president of the Soviet of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet, leads the delegation, which includes two women.—London, March 8. Cold Weather Aviation Tests. — Royal Air Force and Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm units, which are conducting cold weather aviation tests, are reported to have solved one of the most important cold weather air defence problems in finding a method of making instantaneous starts without preheating in temperatures 40 degrees below zero. This is being done with ordinary reciprocating engines as well as jet engines. The principle is the use of highly volatile naphtha fuel, which vaporises easily at extremely low temperatures, and the dilution of engine oils to prevent stiffness from cold. — London, March 8.

Hold-up at Jockey’s Home.— Two men who were involved in a hold-up at the home of Bernborough’s former jockey, George Mulley, at Maroubra, on January 7, received heavy sentences in the quarter sessions in Sydney. They pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 10 and seven years’ imBrisonment respectively. Sydney, larch 8.

N.Z. Students in Seattle.— Twelve New Zealand students from Victoria, University College, who have been visiting the United States and Canada, have arrived on their way tb Los Angeles and San Francisco, and back to New Zealand. “Perhapsjyou have returned to peace-time conditions more than we have,” they told reporters, “but your trains and stores are not as crowded as ours.” —Seattle, March 8.

Sunspot Disrupts Communications. —A sunspot described as the biggest and blackest seen from New York in two years resulted on Friday in the disruption of radio communication over .much of the earth’s surface. All radio-telephone circuits to Europe were out of order because of magnetic disturbances. —New York. March 7.