CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 November 1933, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

MOTOR SPEED. • >&’ [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, November 7. Sir Malcolm Campbell, at the dinner of the Authors’ Club, said it was his ambition to achieve a speed of five miles a minute, or 300 an hour for which feat he must reduce the pre; sent time for the mile by 1.23 seconds; JEWS AND ARMISTICE DAY. RUGBY, November 6. Armistice Day this year' falls on the Jewish Sabbath. Yesterday, . ten thousand British Jews paid their annual tribute to those of their faith who died with the British forces during the Great War, at a service on Horseguards’ Parade. They were inspected by Admiral Keyes, and after this an officer and a man who had both won the Victoria Cross, placed a wreath on the cenotaph. SCIENTISTS HONOURED. RUGBY, November 7. The King has approved of the award of two Royal medals by the Royal Society to Professor G. I. Taylor for mathematical work, physics, geophysics and dynamics and to Mr P. G. Laidlaw for work on disease due to viruses, including that on the cause of prevention of distemper in dogs. Many of Professor Taylor’s experiments have been applied to practical engineering. He has for many years worked on experimental aeronautics. He took an air pilot’s certificate in 1915. Mr Laidlaw is one of the three scientists who tackled the virus of the influenza germ, which is so small that it can pass through a. porcelain filter. Ho is pathologist to the Medical Research Council.