GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 52, 25 November 1926, Page 11

GENERAL CABLES

Mrs. \V. K. Vanderbilt denies a report from New York that she applied to Rome for the annulment of her marriage.

Captain Williams lias abandoned Ins Pacific flight, owing to the lateness of the season, and has commenced his return journey to Melbourne.

A voung and pretty woman barrister,' Mdll'e. Juliette Goublet, shot herself near the heart, in a corridor of the Paris Law Courts, and was taken to hospital. It is believed love trouble was the cause of the action.

M. Henri Berenger, in a letter to M. Briaud, declines to retain the French Ambassadorship at Washington for a further six months on the ground that his mission ended when the debt agreement was signed. He indicates his disappointment that the agreement has not vet been ratified. |

A New Zealander who is alleged to have absconded from bail at Wellington two months ago when charged with breaking, entering, and stealing, has been arrested at Coogee and is being held, on a charge of vagrancy.

The two remaining prisoners out of the four who escaped from Hobart Gaol on Sunday afternoon were recaptured in a gully at Knocklofty. The prisoners offered no resistance. They had had no food since Sunday, and were in a weak condition.

The Pearson Publishing Company has apologised to Sir Renncll Rodd for the appearance of his name in connection with the “Whispering Gallery” controversy. The firm affirms that Sir Rennell Rodd was not the author of the memoirs, and did not participate in their preparation or publication.

A Brisbane message says the shipping companies have lodged an application with the Board of Trade asking for the deregistration of the Queensland branch of the Waterside Workers’ Federation and the cancellation of its award, for participation in the overtime strike, which is alleged to be illegal.

According to a Moscow message Zinovieff and Trotsky paid the penalty of their opposition campaign at a meeting of the executive of the Communist Internationale, when the former was relieved of the chairmanship of and work within the Internationale, and. Trotsky was relieved of the chairmanship of the scientific and technical department of the Supreme Economic Council.