GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 220, 11 June 1924, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES

EXTRAORDINARY FATALITY MAN’S BODY CARBONISED BY ELECTRIC CURRENT By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyeight. An extraordinary fatality occurred at Saint Die, France, as the result of a controversy between two electricians as to the lethal power of electric curlrents. One, named Royer, insisted that it was possible without danger to climb to the top of a standard, carrying a high tension current, provided he did not touch the wires, and proceeded to climb up the standard, to which wires carrying current at 65,000 volts were attached. As he neared the top his companion heard a tremendous report, and saw Royer’s body disappear in flames, literally carbonised by the current. Every shred of his clothing had vanished.

The Egyptian Budget Estimates provide for an increase in the Egyptian forces, and tho creation of a navy and an air force, says a Cairo message to the Sydney “Sun.”

A London message announces the death of Sir Mortimer Durand, who held several important diplomatic positions, and was Ambassador at Washington from 1903 to 1906. He was 74 years of age.

George Gardiner has been remanded to June 20 at Sydney on the charge of stealing £BOO, the property of the Postmaster-General. Gardiner was a clerk in the Postal Department.

Guy Butler, the famous Cambridge quarter-mile runner, tore the muscles of his right thigh at Stamford Bridge, seriously prejudicing the hopes of the British that he will win the 400 metres at the Olympic Games.

Three deserters from the Hood have been sentenced, at Sydney to twelve months’ imprisonment on charges of stealing. It was stated that the naval authorities would deal with them after they had served their sentences.

The Maloja, which, sailed from Tilbury on Sunday, is fihe first Australian liner to carry lifeboats equipped with a directional receiver, which enables the occupants to locate the nearest ship and summon,help. The apparatus was designed as the result of the Trevessa disaster.

> Six men, who were working in an enamel oven in an automobile plant in Chicago, were trapped in it, and. the only chances of escape were to dash through a wall of flame, or to wade through a vat of boiling paint. Four chose the former, and died; the others went through the vat, and escaped, though they were badly burnt. —Sydney “Sun” 'Cable.

The “Daily Chronicle” states that nearly sixty men, women and children were taken seriously ill at the Empire Exhibition on Monday afternoon, and were treated at the central ambulance station, where the medical officer diagnosed the trouble as ptomaine poisoning. Some of the patients said they had eaten veal and ham pies.

La Piscine, at Destourelles, where the Olympic swimming and water polo contests will be held, is an immense concrete structure, and will accommodate 12.000. Access to the great open air bath, which is supported on enormous pillars, making leakage repairs easv, is gained by climbing three floors. Furnaces beneath the pool; which is 50 metres long and 18 metres wide, keep the water at a temperature 75 degrees Fahrenheit