Daily Post - 29.07.1941, Blaðsíða 3

DAILY POST
3
faws of lcelaid:
Reykjavík Electricity
Snpply
Por some time the E'.ectricity
Company has been inviting tend-
ers for the new ipiabhinery at the
Ljogafoss pawer station. Tenders
have been sought both in Eng-
land and America.
This machine must be of au-
proximately 9,000 horse-piow-er,
but the tiwo which are no % Use
aí the Ljosafoss station are of
6.250 * horse-po'wer each. The
El’ida River station has ope of
Í.500 horse-power, so that the
total. e'ectrical horse-power is
17,000. The proposed addition
will increase this by approxi-
mately 50°/o.
The demand for eiectricity has
increased much more rapidly
than was expecied, when Ljosa-
foss was planned. No estimate
tvas made of when it would be
necessary to increase the power,
but it wias supposed that the
additional maohinery would be
installed wihen it became neces-
sary to use more than ione of
the twio machines noW' there at
°nce. One of them was always to
be in reserve. Hoavever, both of
them are nowi being used con-
tinuously and it is apparent that
the full power will be required
this winter.
The question is whether the ef-
ficiency of the Ljosafoss plant
Lcan be increased.
Wi-th the present supply of
water at Ljosafoss this Sogur
fall will be fully utilised by the
proposed installation, The flow
°f water is checked at night and
oolleicts in the lagoon, this addi-
tiona] supply being used next
day.
When the upper Sogur falt is
used, it is proposed to use Thing-
vellir ]ake as a souroe of supply.
This will not mean that the pre-
sent level of the water will be
raised, but it iwdli be possible to
empty -water from the lake, low-
ering i-ts level by one metre, at
those times of the year when the
demand , for power is greatest.
If everything goes smoothly,
the new installation shouid be
ready by the autumn of 1942.
The Russian military missi-
on án the U.S.A. was today in-
troduced to Mr. Sumner Welles
and afterwards had a long talk
With the Chief of Staff.
REHEARSAL FOR ‘ÍHE VICfORY PARADE
Nazis’ Enormous
Use Of Material
Neutral experts now pre-
dict that unless, whithin the
next fortnight, the Germans
inflict a decisive defeat on at
least one of the three main
battlefields, they will be un-
able to maintain their enor-
mous expenditure of material,
and that the lack of substanti-
al military achievement will
have the gravest effect on the
already overstrung nerves of
civilians in the Reich. The ever
increasing strain on the Ger-
man lines of supply ,thanks to
the Russian “Scorched Earth”
policy, does not hamper the
Russians, who are withdrawing
. on to supply bases, while the
Russian aircraft need only
j make short flights to drop
! supplies by parachute to cut—
| off units.
LEAFLET FAILURE.
There is no report that even
the slightest success has been
achieved by the Germans by
dropping millions of leaflets in
Russia, urging the recipients to
cease senseless resistance.
The Pro-German Swedish
paper “Afton Bladet” states
that the Russians have 300
divisions available for . their
western front, and that 200 of
these had not been inaction
when their observer left Mos-
cow ten days ago.
OIL DANGER.
, The growing threat to Ger-
man oil rescurces is shown by
two statements on M°scow
raidio, one saying that as the
result of bombing by the Red
Air Force, the oil fields at
Ploesti have been burning
continuously for a week. The
other says that the famous
Leuna chemical and synthetic
petrol works, — th eobject of
frequent R.A.F. attacks, was
badly damaged by fire on the
night of July 22, and all pro-
duction is said to be at a stand
still.
HOME IN LEAVE.
(Continued from page 2).
The nice girl you met on
Tuesday seems to become nic-
er every day. Towards the end
of your Leave you start doing
some more hard thinking. You
realise you may be away an-
other twelve months. You’d
like to be sure that the nice
girl will still be waiting when
you come back. ....
Fall In
Two Men!
The sub-editing and proof
reading of “Daily Post” since
its enlarged size is getting a
big job for the two Services’
men who are doing the job,
and it can well be imagined
that their task is complicated
by the fact that the compw-
sitors rae Icelanders who
know very little English.
We’re asking, therefore, for
volunteers. Any of our British
or American readers who like
the smell of printer’s ink and
do not mind an hour’s inter-
esting work occasionally during
the evening, should call in at
Alþýðuprentsmiðjan (over
Ingolfs Café) any night be-
tween 8 and 9 p.m. Ask for
Sgt. McGhie, or Mr. Jón
’Magnússon.
Have a hand in producing the
troops’ own newspaper!
Icelandic Lessons
given by
SIGURÐUR SKÚLASON, M.A.
hteadmaster of Y. M. C. A.’s
Evening School in Reykjavík.
Adr. Hrannarstíg 3. Phon 2526.
You return to Iceland, leav-
ing behind some glorious me-
rnories, .... and a proposal of
marriage.