GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 20 September 1932, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES

(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). LONDON, September 17. The Prince of Wales is spending a few days with the King and Queen be- 1 fore leaving for Denmark,. He fliea from Croydon to Copienhagen on September 22, by the Imperial Airways liner Atlant, and will be the guest of King Christian, to whom, he will carry greetings from the King and Queen for th e Royal birthday on September 26. Th e Prince leaves for the Island of Fyen on September 27 as the guest of Count Wedel, and leaves Denmark for Stockholm on September 29. He will be the guest for four days of King Gustav, the remainder of his visit being spent at the British Legation, and he returns to England about October 11. LONDON, September 17. A message from Tirana (Albania) states that a mass trial of terrorists, aiming at the overthrow of the Albanian regime and the assassination of King Zog’s entourage, ended in seven being sentenced to death; ten to imprisonment totalling 101 years; seventeen to 15 years; and two to three years, while fourteen were acquitted. The Judge recommended the condemned terrorists to King Zog’s clemency. RUGBY, September 17. The third cruiser squadron from the British Mediterranean Fleet, composed of the cruisers Calliope, Calypso, Ceres, and Curlew, with the submarine Rover, under the command of Rear-Admiral F. L. Tottenham, will pay a visit from September 17 to 23 to the Bulgarian naval base of Varna, where King Boris and Queen Joanna are now in residence. A party of officers and members of the crew, including Admiral Tottenham, is expected to visit Sofia for three days. Six high-pressure transmission wires which together with an earthed conductor for the protection of others against lightning, will now be put in position across the Thames Estuary. This marks an important stage in tho development of the national electricity scheme. It will connect the main lines in the east with, those south of the Thames in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey. The primary function of the six conductors will be to convey current from a huge power station at Barking, on the north of the Thames, to switching station, when it will be fed to south-eastern counties. The steel towers, between which 1000 yards long conductors will stretch across the river from Dagenham in Sussex to Crossness in Kent, are 487 feet high, but in the centre of tho span, conductors each weighing 20 tons, will dip to a height of about 250 feet above high-water mark, high above the masts of the tallest ship. LONDON, September 18. Though there was no whaling in the South Atlantic last year, owing to the glut of whale oil, operations opening on September 20 will be so intense, it is estimated that 25,000 will be killed and boiled down aboard the floating refineries before the hunting ends in March. One hundred and twenty-nine ships are now steaming towards South i Georgia. Aeroplanes and wireless will be employed to locate tho whales.

A fleet order states that the steering orders “starboard” and “port” n ust be used in their direct sense in the Navy merchant service as from January 1, 1933, for the purpose of preventing misunderstanding. The orders “Wheel to starboard!” and “Wheel to port!” will “be used for six mouths after which reference to the wheel must be omitted.

The Aeronautical Inspection Directorate, having made experimental tests, which proved satisfactory, the Air Ministry has extended the rime between the overhauls for the Rolls Royce Kestrel engines fitted to the Royal Air Force aircraft by two flying hours, and the time in future between overhauls will be 500 hours, equivalent to 75,000 miles. LONDON, September 17.

At the conference of the employers and operatives in the Lancashire Cotton industry, the basis of a threeyears’ peace between the employers and .operatives 'was laid, when the questions relating to the re-establish-ment of collective bargaining, including the provision of machinery to ensure the honouring of agreements, were disposed of. The two most difficult questions, namely, the new rates of wages and the reinstatements of operatives, remain to be considered next week.