GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 24 November 1924, Page 9

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

The Turkish Premier (Iqmet' Pasha) has resigned, owing to ill-health, re tin Bey succeeds him. ■

Dr. Earle Page (Federal Treasurer) announced that the Now South Wales loan of £10,300,000 has now been fully subscribed. ...

An . attempted revolution in Greece failed, and the Government promptly arrested General Loufas anq many oiuoers. The capital is calm.

The Full Court in Sydney, dismissed an application for rule nisi in connection with the Cropley Commission, and the Commission 1 will continue : the inquiry.

. The President of the British • Board of Trade (Sir- Lloyd Giearne.) meets representatives of the Federation of British Industries on November 25, to discuss the' Australian tariff charges.

The State Department of the United States, lias issued a flat denial of the rumours emanating, from Geneva that the United States Government is taking steps .to convoke a* Disarmament Conference in Europe.

The French Cham/cr of Deputies adopted a Bill uprising tho Government to raise loans through American hankers, the Morgan’s group, being mentioned. ■ The amount is 100,000,000 dollars, and the interest 7 per cent. '

The Pekin Legations have been informed that General Toan-Clii-Chui iviil probably! arrive in Pekin on November 26, whereupon a Provisional Cabinet will hand over office to Tuan, the latter taking the post of Premier and assuming the functions of President, pending the election- of a permanent chief executive. A report from Canoo>r states that- a Norwegian mission at Ande has been captured by bandits.

The' Paris correspondent of the London “Morning Post” says a novel system of aero cars, to relieve traffic congestion, will shortly be tested on -an experimental line, Paris to St. Denis. The cars are built of aluminium, shaped like aii airship, suspended from a single rail, 45 feet from the ground, supported pri twin cojurans, and will bh driven by propellors developing a i speed of 50 miles per liour, although 150 miles are possible. Passengers will enter the cars by means of lifts.

A strange radio freak is reported from Port Arthur, Canada, mystifying experts, who believe that vagrant leakage of high voltage electricity from some power plant is responsible for the peculiar conditions. The strongest stations cannot communicate with grain ships more thuu 75 miles except by using 400 metres, winch wave length gives the normal results. Any other wave length is subject to interference. Experts from Toronto and New York spent weeks : n trying to solve the mystery without, result.

The “Daily Express” says that after failures, half hearted efforts, and long delay, Britain has at last sot to work earnestiy to establish the world’s greatest airship service. Cardington village, near Bedford, is destined in a few years to become the largest air port in service. Empire airships will arrive at and depart from this port. They will commence services in Egypt, India, Australia, Canada and South Africa. It is officially announced that preliminary construction work is being carried out by the Air Ministry’s ItlOi, a mammoth sister airship to the one recently cabled. She will have a rustless steel hull, seven engines, developing 4200 horse power, a speed of iO miles per hour, and will carry 100 passengers who will sleep m two-berth cabins on a separate deck amidships. She will be. designed for alternative war service.