... LISTENING TO AMERICA. I Oen 1 day and and The staff of experts at the 8.8. C. under Captain Eckersley were engaged every night last week in conducting testt kstening to America with a view to improving the apparatus for receiving, and to gaining a knowledge ...

... debts of Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, and other countries to America. It is estimated that the United States has now about 1,200 million pounds invested in South America. ...

... TELLING AMERICA. Lord Derby, the president, speaking at the annual meeting of the Travel Association this week, said arrangements had been made for a series of broadcast talks on the British Isles, to be given from 280 stations in the United States. ...

... DRY AMERICA._ !In July lat the mulli.debated liquor IWO bibition I'mw came into force throughout the United States., which is to be -dry until further n.,ti,e In New York and elsewhere. violation is threatened in order that tbe whew mar be tested ...

... ASTONISHED AMERICA. The giant Great Western Railway engine, King George V., which recently created such an impression by its performances in America, is due to arrive back in Cardiff on Saturday on board the s.s. Chicago City, of which the Pentiron ...

... Pictures for America. Visitors to the States from this country have perforce to take a good amount of luggage with them, but I doubt if ever quite such a strange lot of baggage was put aboard an Atlantic liner as that which accompanied Mrs. Edwin Abbey ...

... PHEASANTS FOR AMERICA. Three hundred live pheasants for breeding purposes consigned to the Kennecott, Copper Corporation, New York, were shipped to New York in the White Star liner, Olympic, which left .Southampton this week. ?tearer tii6u,* ar exxiee ...

... Mission to America. Sir William Mackenzie, formerly president of the Industrial Court, will it is stated, be chairman of the mission of inquiry which the Government will send to study industrial conditions in the United States. He has served on many important ...

... THE JEWS FOUND AMERICA. Jews ran claim to have discored An:cries. for though Columbus waa oot • many t:f the rrew of him belonged to rare, the ftw.day nt The .urgeot. nanavl Bernal. and lb, %WI • Jew. The phyeirsaa Morro. • Jew. It. • Jew that fir ...

... America's Courteous Reply. In the Bristol Guardian of August 4th, 1923, appeared the following On receipt of the sad news in Bristol the Guardian despatched this cable to NVashington : Death of President widely mourned in Bristol. ' Bristol ...

... THE GREAT LAKES OF AMERICA. Lake Superior is the largest and Lake Ontario the smallest of the Great LakeT. Lake Michigan ranks second In Ilse, being forty • ve miles shorter than Lake Superior; but it is twice as deep at its writes' depth, the figures ...

... THE DUCK INDUSTRY IN AMERICA. The duck-breeding industry. both for table binds and layers, is developing so rapidly that it bide fair to rival other branches of poultryrearing in the course of a few years. In America the breeding of Peking is so exten• ...