Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 260, 24 January 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

.SPANISH BEAM SERVICE. —The 'Madrid Trans-Radio Company,’* with J capital of £ 143,000, has been formed to establish an Americo-Spanish beam Service.—A. and N.Z. SWIMMING RECORD.—By swimgtfng 150 yards in lmin. 60 3-ssec. t at Sydney, Mis*: Edna Davey created an rrc <>rd for the distance. —A. wd NJS. CHOLERA. —ln an to war< * off a cholera epidemic ™ authorities inoculated 7,000,000 one- third of the population of indo-China last year.— A. and N.Z.Fimes. EBPIQNAGE APPEAL. George panssn and Thomas McCartney the : Wo men sentenced in England to 10 Fears’ imprisonment on charges of espionage, are appealing* against their k evictions and se^t^nces. —A. and MONTE CARLO’S RlVAL.—Under ** cence » a company with a capital 1 a 2,000,000 proposes to build a luxurtAU,l^casino at San Remo aa a rival o Monte Carlo, where Italians have een forbidden to go since the Prime Jtimster, Signor Mussolini, came into Power.— A. and N.Z.

JTBNNIS AT CANNES.—The Eng*l*l. Eileen Bennett, defeated Miss v yiB * America, in the final at the * ew Courts Club tournament at Cannes ° y •—4. 6—2. Miss Betty Nuthall did r ot c °mpete, as she was practising her flew overhead service.—A. and N.Z.

y IREL.ESS a iQXEER.—The c«>- 1 the Institution of Electrical Engivf r « has awarded to Professor J- A Fleming the Faraday Medal for conL nc uc'Us service to the advancement u e^ metrical science. Professor Flem- * is well known as the inventor of the *** wireless valve.—A. and N.Z.