GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 13 August 1946, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

LONDON GAS STRIKE LONDON, August 11. London faces a partial blackout., a shortage of bread, and a cut in industrial output as a result of the strike of 2,000 maintenance men of the Gaslight and Coal Co., which is in its fifth day. The gas supply to 5000 consumers has already been cut by one-third. Depleted gas means less bread baked and the black-out of 1400 miles of streets in Whitehall, Chelsea, Westminster and Fleet Street. In addition, 200,000 industrial producers, including exporters, may have their output curtailed

NILE FLOOD ABNORMAL LONDON, August 11. This year’s Nile flood' may be the worst for decades. It is earlier than any other since 1869, obliging the authorities to open upper Egypt’s basins to limit the damage, Hie Minister of Public Works announced that next week he will be compelled to uood 300,000 acres of cultivated land in upper Egypt to save more than 4,000,000 acres elsewhere. Troops have been called out to help irrigation officials. BOY SWIMMER RESCUES MOTHER LONDON, August 11. ■ A 12-year-old boy swimmer named Matthews was swept out to sea by a current at Mawganporth, on the Cornwall coast, together with his mother, father and uncle. The boy retained his hold on his mother and, with what spectators described as amazing coolness, brought her back to safety. Matthews, when he staggered ashore, learned that his father and uncle were drowned. 900 M.P.H. PLANE ? NEW YORK, August 11. The Bell Aircraft Corporation is constructing the first piloted plane designed to travel faster than sound, reports the New York Times Washington correspondent. The designers hope that the plane, wnodn as X.S.L. rocket-powered will fly 900 miles an hour but this is dependent on how the controls react to the wind tunnels test. HOMELESS FAMILIES IN ENGLAND LONDON, August 11. When 30 former servicemen and their families living in rooms at Chalfont, St. Giles, heard that 250 brick huts in a nearby camp were being made readv for the Italian Wives of Polish soldiers, the men sent a lorry through the village, collecting bedding and furniture and moved in. Other people from Chalfont are expected to follow suit, and there are plans for establishing a shopping centre and dancehall and theatre. Captain Bouget, chairman of the local council housing committee, said the committee had repeatedly asked the War Office to allow it to take over such camps, as .it had 1600 applicants awaiting council houses. War Office and Health Ministry officials are at present having conferences on commandeering incidents elsewhere. The legal position is not clear, but, strictly speaking, the commandeerers are trespassers. “DE-N AZI FYI NG” BERLIN, August 11. The British will soon be t taking over the United Steelworks in the Ruhr, the biggest German armaments cartel in Europe. They are checking the combine’s foreign assets. A British official said this wouii answer the allegations that the British were not de-Nazifying sufficiently.