GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 55, 29 November 1926, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES

The Suez Canal Company is erecting a memorial at Ismalia to defenders of tile canal in war-time. —Sydney "Sun” Cable.

According to a Rome message to Sydney “Sun,” engineers are contemplating the erection of a billion can-dle-power lighthouse on the summit of Mount Etna, as a beacon for air services.

A Constantinople message states that fire devastated the business quarter of Broussa. Two hundred shops were burnt, the damage being estimated at a quarter of a million sterling. Several persons were injured. The Rova! Mail and International Mercantile Marine Company confirm the former’s purchase of White Star shares. The latter adds . that the White Star organisation is in no way affected. The editors of Communistic newspapers published in Cologne and Aix-la-Chapelle have been sentenced to seven months’ imprisonment for libelling President Hindenburg in a poem entitled “Beware of the Dog.” If all sports were stripped of every atom of danger there would be no sport at all, said the Coroner at an inquest on the boy boxer Geoige T-Tnrt, who died from the effects of a fall suffered in a contest at Hull for the Northern Counties’ boxing championship. The Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death.