FROM THE AIR

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 198, 4 August 1928, Page 5

FROM THE AIR

GISBORNE WIRELESS RECEPTIONS ITEMS FROM FAR AND WIDE. INTERESTING NEWS BUDGET. (Per Press Association.] Gisborne, Aug. 4. The following wireless messages have been picked up here: — Paris: Six tvere killed and fifteen injured when the Paris-Brest train was derailed early yesterday. Rome: Guiseppe Biogi, who was the wireless operator on the Italia, gave the first real interview of any ol cue crew, describing the conditions of the explorers’ life on the ioe. He told of the finding of Pomeller dead on the block ice after the crash. He explained the great difficulty of puttin; into commission the jumbled mass of radio equipment spared in the crash and of the castaways going fishing and never getting a bite.

New York i The new air line between Roosevelt Field and the Bermudas, a distance of 600 miles, opens in November. New York is engulfed in another heat wave, the temperature rising to 89, with great humidity. One death resulted. Aviator W. F. Scott established a new record parachute drop, leaping 7700 feet through space at the Navyair station. He landed in a clump of trees uninjured. It is reported at Washington that officials see no obstacle to the United States joining further naval negotiations at Geneva. It is predicted that America will insist on an adequate number of 10.000-ton cruisers. Major Fitzmaurice. the transAlantic flier, has signed a £20,000 contract to do ship to shore flying with th® North German Lloyd Steamship Company. Berlin: It is reported at Berlin that the Soviet has decided to change its international outlook and that Russia is prepared to sign a world peace treaty. Shanghai: It is reported that the next step of the new Nanking Government will be to assume control of all Chinese ports, possibly ending foreign customs administration. The Government is finding demobilisation a big task. A large revolutionary- army is still spread throughout the country, while one Shantung force is still encamped.