GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.' A GLITTERING CEREMONY. PARIS, Aug. 31 A glittering ceremony marked the presentation of a gift hook, (cabled on 24th August) containing addresses of nrmtitiide from Dm French nation to Britain, at the Hotel De Ville. Tho gilded saloons were filled with si galaxy of notable people. The President Principal of the Council and Prefect- of the Seine made eloquent entente cordialle speeches. Sir Austen Chamberlain (British Foreign Secretary) in accepting the gift reaffirmed his action for the Entente and conviction that a Franco-British Union was necessary for tho peace of the world.

BEAM WIRELESS. LONDON. iAug. 31. TTankey (cabled on 17th August) said the chief engineer of Marconi's told him that Empire broadcasting would probably develop along lines of a compromise between beam and broadcasting, the new system retaining the power and conserving tlie virtues of the.<beam, while covering a wide area. The engineer plotted on a map of the world what he thought would furnish the eventual solution of Empire broadcasting problems, namely a short wave station in England having three apertures of varying width firstly, 120 degrees sending out waves to cover tho Pacific Islands, Australia. New Zealand, Far East, India and Ceylon; secondly, sixty degrees covering the whole of Africa; thirdly, seventy-five degrees covering Canada and West Indies. It would ho possible for such a station to broadcast over any of these areas or over the three simultaneously, by conserving energy which ordinary broadcasting dissipated. A low ijowered. inexpensive station could be used. Marconi's are at present experimenting surperimposiiig speech on the existing beam to Canada. They propose to make similar experiments in . South .America before broadcasting. Marcuse is continuing the adjustments of his apparatus and has received cables from various parts of the Empire announcing an excellent reception of the broadcast of 20th August. A further experimental broadcast will he made on SSptomber 4th. before commencing Empire broadcasting proper.

SCIENTISTS CONFER. GENEVA. Aug. 31. There are two hundred scientists, statesmen, economists government officials present at tlie opening of the first International World Population Conference wliicn it is expected will result in the establishment of a permanent international organisation to study one of the most fundamental problems facing mankind, seeing the size of the earth and its capacity to support human beings are .limited, while populations are continually growing, creating social economic and political situations which are threatening most profoundly to alter and possible wreck the present civilisation. Professor East (Harvard Universal vji expressed the opinion that at the present rate of increase of the earth’s population within a century would reach five thousand million which was the utmost the earth was capable of supporting. He advocated the immediate formation of an international union to establish a, just peace between the peoples founded on basic instincts and limitation of ie-

production. CECIL’S RESIGNATION. LONDON, Sept. 1. The Daily Telegraph Geneva correspondent says: It will he interesting in view of the resignations of Bord Cecil and M. De Jouvenal, to see how far the policy described as “hotel diplomacy” will he persisted in. It is unreasonable to expect the Ministers to discontinue the discussion of ' matters that already are the subject of correspondence, but the existence of a. large body of opinion that resents the manner in which the first class issues are kept from the League cannot he disregarded. CONFESSION AND SUICIDE. LONDON, Aug. 31. The “Times” Leningrad correspondent savs: Mitingin, one of those included in the 26 alleged British spies on trial (as cabled on August 30th.) confessed to espionage. He then committed suicide hv jumping* from a fourth floor window of the prison. CREDIT FOB RUSSIA. BERLIN, Aug. 31. The British United Press understand that the British Co-operative Wholesale Society is granting credits to Russia to the extent of half a million sterling in connection with its grain purchases from Russia. ANTARCTIC CONTINENT. LONDON, Aug. 31. That belief in the existence of an Antarctic Continent was still based on circumstantial evidence "as a view stressed by Dr Rudma.se Brawn (President of the Geographical 'Section of the British Association) in an address at the 96th. conference He declared that Indely Land, the one certain land, had three thousand miles of only hypothetical coastline. Its coast had not seriously been searched for since the land’s discovery in 1921. No ship ha'd yet penetrated the western sTiores of Weddell Sea. A great gap remained between Charcot and Edwards Land, which later was still unexplored. The costly nature of the exploration of this area rendered all efforts to carry it out unlikely on the part of impoverished Europe. The necessary funds will not be available for years. Hence Enrojie looked to the great men of the nations of the Southern Hemisphere to carry out the work.