CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 July 1933, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

INTERNATIONAL POLICE. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] CHICAGO, July 28. American, Canadian and European police officials are attending conferences of the International Association of Police Chiefs. To-day they organised the “International World Police” to expedite information concerning international crime and criminals. Two headquarters are being established. One probably will be in Washington, and the other in Geneva or in Vienna. CANADIAN LOAN. OTTAWA, July 29. The Canadian Government are planning a three hundred million dollars “Patriotic” loan at interest of 3| per cent, upon the return of Premier Bennett from London. This plan calls for an appeal to Canadians to be made along the same lines as those in the “Victory” issues during the war. There will be short term bonds, which will be issued in small denominations. TREASURY BILLS. RUGBY, July 29. Applications for treasury bills, today, totalled £81,475,000. The amount allotted, at three months, was forty millions. The average interest rate per cent is 6/11 decimal 68, compared with 6/5 decimal 42, last week. SUBMARINE CABLE. RUGBY, July 28. A new submarine telephone cable, the most advanced of the kind yet produced, is to be laid next month across the Straits of Dover to increase facilities for conversation between England and me Continent. When the cable is linked up with new land lines on both sides of the Channel. an “on demand” service will be available for international calls. The new cable contains nineteen quads of double pairs of lines, but. a much greater number of extra conversations may be accommodated, if necessary, by the use of the carrier circuits system.

LABOUR LEADER. LONDON, July 30. Mr. A. Henderson’s return to Parliament. is practically assured, through the Claycross Labour Party selecting him to contest the vacancy caused by Mr. Duncan’s death. ELLSWORTH EXPEDITION. BERGEN, July 30. The steamer Funefjord, wth Ellsworth’s Antarctic expedition, including Wilkins, Bernt, Balchin, departed for Ross Sea, via Cape Town and New Zealand.