Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

N.S/VV. POLICE CHIEF. —Superintendent W. H. Childes is to succeed Mr. James Mitchell as Commissioner of Police for New South Wales. —A.P.A. MASS FOR DEAD CARDINAL. —A solemn requiem mass was celebrated yesterday morning at Westminster Roman Catholic Cathedral for the late Cardinal Gasquet.—British Wireless. WAR PLANES FOR GREECE. —The Greek naval air service has ordered six Fokker Rolls-Royce torpedo airplanes. Each will be capable of carrying a torpedo weighing a ton slung under the fuselage.—United Service. PRINCE AND BOY SCOUTS. — Lieut.-General Sir Robert BadenPowell has received an intimation from Craigweil House that the Paince of Wales will attend the Boy Scouts’ :amboree as the King’s representative. —United Service. SMASH IN VICTORIA. —One man 'vas killed and four others were in.ured when a Victorian passenger train crashed into a motor-truck on a. level crossing near Milage, on the 3airnsdale line. The truck‘caught fire nnd was destroyed.—A.P.A. INFORMATION LEAKAGE. A. special inquiry is proceeding at Scotland Yard reiating to the suspected leakage of secret information to agents °f a foreign country. The “Daily Express” says it understands two officers nave been suspended.—A.P.A. “RADIO EYE” FOR PLANES. — There will shortly be tested at Washington a new military device called the “radi:» eye.” By means of television transmitted from an airplane this •'‘(‘nds radio images of cities, troop Movements and fortifications to __ aSround receiving station up to 500 miles away.—A.P.A. VESTRIS INQUIRY.—The Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the British liner Vestris five months ago the coast of America will be opened Monday. April 22, in the great hall of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Westminster. Mr. Butler Aspinall. K C.. will be the presiding commissioner.—British Wireless. GERMAN AIR SERVICE. —A German air company, which has been '•nerating in Persia for two years, has started an air mail service between Teheran and Bagdad. This will connect with the London-Karachi mail. Ti° inauguration of the service fol*vs the settlement of political difficulties because of which Germans have Cjtberto been unable to cross th© Iraq frontier.—United Service