GENERAL CABLES

Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14029, 4 April 1919, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

CAPTAIN FRYATT'S MURDER

INVESTIGATION BY MILITARY

(Australian and N.Z. Gable Assn.) BERLIN, April 2. A Military Court has openedan investigation into Captain Fryatt's ease. TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. AMKRK"'. \X PREPARATIONS WITH DIRIGIBLE. ,' (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) NEW YORK, April 2. The Pun's Norfolk correspondent says that the United States is preparing for a trans-Atlantic flight with a eßrigSble, which will be piloted by Ensign McCraken. The airship will oc fitted out with 250 horse-power engines, and will have a cruising radius iof 7000 miles. |] SIBERIAN TRADE. ANGLO-CANADIAN "EXPLOITATION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn ) WASHINGTON, April 2. ' Canada and Britain -have formed a partnership for organising the Hibernian Company with immense resources in order to further trade between Siberia and the British Empire. GREATEST MARINE POWER. POSITION OF THE UNITED STATES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn ) WASHINGTON, April 2. Mr G W. Hurley, president of the Shipping Board, in a statement, says that the United States is to-day potenftially the greatest marine Power in the world because of her shipbuilding instrumentalities. "I understand that Britain will be able to construct 3 000 000 gross tons of shipping m 1919 Japan has also developed as a creat shipbuilding nation, her annua maximum output being estimated at .1,700,000 tons." SMALLPOX REPORTED ON AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORTS. (United Press Association.^ MELBOURNE, April 3. Advices have been received that cases of smallpox have developed on three transports en route to Australia.