GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 28 July 1925, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

RACING MOTORIST KILLED

PARIS, July 26

The Italian motorist, Ascari, died from injuries, following the overturning of his car on the twentieth lap of the Automobile Grand Prix, consisting of eighty circuits of the autodrome, a distance of about 621 miles Seagrave, the only British competitor, abandoned the race in the thirtyfourth circuit.

LONG DISTANCE WIRELESS. LONDON, July 26. Signals by the Melbourne. Wireless Station A. 3 BI). were picked up in exceptional strength the last two mornings, by station G 2 K.F. Lon- I don. The Dunedin Station N.Z. 4, A.G., was heard at slightly less strength G 2 K.F. desires A..'! R.D. to listen in during the current week at six in the morning (English sum-mer-time) on a wave length of fortythree metres with a view to determining the best length on which important. telephony experiments should shortly be carried out. G.2 K.F. was the first station to pick up the MacMillan's Arctic Exitedition, and was the medium of transmitting a m**sagc from members or the expe? s Hon to America. FRENCH DEBT TO BRITAIN. PARIS, July 26. A French financial mission is going to London to-day to negotiate gards a settlement of war debts, headed bv M. Negret, of the Ministry of Finance, Thion De La Chatime, manager of the Bank of Indo-Cliina.