GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1928, Page 8

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

ARMY OF OCCUPATION. (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.) LONDON, August 10. What is believed to be without a precedent, will be the participation of the Eighth King’s Royal Irish Hussars, the only British cavalry regiment serving in the Army of Occupation of the Rhineland, in the coming manoeuvres of the French Army cf Occupation, under General Guillaumat. AMERICAN CARS. WASHINGTON, August 9, Australia, which occupied fourth position during May, 1928, as a market for American passenger automobiles, assumed second position last June, Canada being first. In June the automotive exports from the United States totalled 45,851 thousand dollars, representing an increase of nearly one-fifth per cent, over the same month last year.

IMPROVED LIGHT.

LONDON, August 9

Mr. MacDonald, first officer of the Aquitania, has disclosed that, as the result of experiments with an invisible ray, it is possible to increase the distance of the human sight twenty-fold. The ray is equally efficient in the day time or the night time, or in a fog. it works similarly to television, recording images on a mirror. CA N ADA ’ S PROSPERITY. VANCOUVER, August 10. A message from Ottawa states that tho revenue for the first, four months cf the year has increased by thirteen millions. The expenditure has increased by four millions. The total revenue was 168 millions and expenditure 107 millions. The population is intimated at 9.680,000, an increase of 139,000 on last year.