GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 17 October 1936, Page 12

GENERAL CABLES

(British Official Wireless). RUGBY. October 15. The. inauguration of the train-ferry service between Paris and London, begun on Monday wvth the ceremonial lowering of the dock gates, at Dover, was completed yesterday morning when, for the first time, an international sleeping car express, which left Nord -Station. Paris, 11 hours earlier, arrived w’dli passengers at Victoria Station. The train iuid crossed the sea., and the travellers made the journey from one capital to the other (while they slept. It is announced that the Royal Re(S'frrcli ship, William Scoresby, wT leave St. Katherine Dock. London, in a few days to continue whale-marking operations iu the Antarctic. She will touch at Dakar and Capetown, mid will then proceed south-east to the i<-o edge in the vicinity of Ender.byLand, working on this and Other whaling grounds as the distribution of wludos renders it d.estirable. She; will not touch land again until the end of the whaling season in March. During her last marking commission a year ago-, some 700 whales were marked from the William- Scores-by. It is possible to regarn the marks from the operations of the previous sensons, and thus to gather information not only on the migrations of whales but on the question as to wh-fhm-ivhales return to the same grouu,] in the .south, year after yetir.