General Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 75, 26 March 1923, Page 2

General Cables

AEROPLANE SPEED RECORD. Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association Washington, March 24. The Army Air Service lias announced that Major Hefforhan has set up a new aeroplane speed record of 250 miles per lioiu', covering a 75- , mile distance against higli winds-and a sand storm in 18 minutes. IMMIGRANTS FOR AMERICA. Now York, March 2-1. One of the largest groups of British immigrants to arrive in one ves- j se) was brought by the Cunarderj Oameroni j, which landed 117(i j Scotch and Irish, many of them be- j ing skilled mechanics who will make | their homes in American FRENCH CHAMBER SCENE. Paris, March 2-3. There were violent scenes in the Chamber during the discussion on credits. M. Poincare (Premier) called the Commurjist Borthou an abominable liar ) and Berthou retorted by accusing M. Poincare of submitting to blackmail by the Royalist Baudot’ who used the notes of Poincare’s private life. There was a great uproar, and tbo President, failing to restore order, the sitting was suspended. NARCELYNE ANAESTHETIC, London, March 24. Professor Gauss, of Freiburg, has discovered a new general anaesthetic called narcylene. It consists of purified acetylene and oxygen gases, the smell of the former 'being masked by an addition of oil of pine. An assistant, who pluckily submitted to experimentation, becajmo insensible to pain in Jess than five minutes. More than 500 operations • have since been performed successfully. •VARSITY BOAT RACE. London, March 24. Oxford won tho ’Varsity boat race by three-quarters of a length. Time, 20min 50sec. j Oxford has now won 40 of those contests and Cambridge 3-1. There was a dead heat in 1877.

SHEFFIELD’S REVENGE. London, March 24. Sheffield has taken a remarkable revenge on the United States for the Fordney tariff, which was directed against special British steels, by declining an American order for three hundred thousand tons of steel > bars. • The order would have gone to ■Germany but for the Ruhr occupation. The firm which refused the order wrote that it was not prepared to hold up orders from. British competitors in favor of American rivalswho were;, now in difficulties 'because former manufacturers were unable to supply their requirements. ■V. •■-■' I?: . “ RISE IN THE Fr/VNC. -1 Paris, March 24. The director of the Bank of Franco declares that one cause of the improvement in the value of the franc is the great unflux of American and Biitish tourists, 210,000 passports being handled for Americans aloneHe says that each of these spends a thousand dollars, thus 2360 million francs are being exchanged for foreign currencies. NEW ZEALAND BLACK SAND. London, March 24. “Nature’ writes that chemical and X-ray analysis has. definitely decided that New Zealand : black sand duo* not contain hafnium, but consists of silica, iron and aluminium, with a trace of titanium. AMERICAN INDIANS BEATEN. Now York, March 23. The sheriff’s forces killed ono Indian and captured ten in a fresh skirmish at Piute. The posse drove the Indians back against a cliff wall, capture seeming inevitable. One renegrado mounted the rock and fired into tho posse, while ton stood defiant until tbeir comrade was shot, falling headlong down the rocky slope. The others then surrendered.