GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 51, 24 November 1926, Page 11

GENERAL CABLES

Two Air Force officers were killed m an air crash at Henley.

Flight-Lieutenant Bernard, who recently left Marseilles, has arrived at Madagascar.

The much-discussed book, “Whispering Gallerv,” proves to be a forg«FThe alleged author, Sir Rennell Rodd, disproves authorship.

The Empire Parliamentary delegation received an enthusiastic send-off 'at Melbourne on their departure for England bv the Otranto.

A Moscow message says that. Trotskv now retains onlv one chairmanship, that of the Concessions Committee, ’which he is not expected to hold much longer.

The death is announced of Mr. Cement Shorter, editor of “The Sphere,” and a director of “The Sphere” and “Tatler Company since 1900 and of the “Ulustrated London News’* and Sketch Company since 1922.

The death has occurred of Major Gardiner Johnson, of Vancouver, a pioneer ship captain, well known in Australia and New Zealand in the ’seventies, when he commanded vessels carrying immigrants to New Zealand. He played in the first cricket match in Vancouver.

Remarkable features of the annual Mafeking dinner at Johannesburg were that both General Sir Robert BadenPowell, the defender, and Commandant Sarel El off, commander of the beseiging forces during the siege of Mateking, were present, and exchanged reminiscences.

A group, including Mr. Reading, chairman of the Calcutta Association, Sir David Yule, the banker, and Sir Thomas Catto, also a banker, lias purchased Mr. Lloyd George’s controlling interest in United Newspapers, Limited. It is announced that their newspapers, including the “Daily Chronicle.” will follow a policy’ of progressive Liberalism.

The French Government’s intention to sell Saint Margaret’s Isle, where the “Man in the Iron Mask” (a mysterious political prisoner in the time of Louis XIV) was imprisoned, has aroused intense opposition at Cannes, as. it is a great attraction to tourists. The prisoner’s room is still shown, and it is feared that the isle may pass into the possession of an American millionaire.

George Radley, 44 years of age, fatally cut the throat of his wife Florence with a razor at their home in Footscray, Melbourne, and then cut his own throat and died later in hospital. It is believed he became suddenly’ demented, as he had been behaving peculiarly- for some time.