GENERAL CABLES.

Grey River Argus, 15 February 1927, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

“BOLLING BOUND GEBMANY.” BERLIN, Feb; 11 Inside a huge thirteen cwt. barred, rolling beneath decorated arches re Market Place at Homberg, two Ge* mans completed a freak escapade of “rolling around Germany.” The i whole town turned out to greet the! heroes, who have stirred all Germany’.® imagination, but the story leaves t(? the imagination how the barrel is pro .polled, or how the occupants endured the constant bumpy rotation. However, the completion of the feat, it is explain cd, served the villages as an excuse tor emptying many other barrels in honouring the heroes. SEQUEL TO BUM-RUNNING. NEW YORK, February 13. At Edgewater (New Jersey) arrange meats arc being made for Mayor Henry Wishel, who was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment, in connection with rumrunning to continue to govern the city .from his cell in the Atlanta Penitentiary. A great deal, of feeling was stirred when Wishek was found guilty and a petition signed by all the city’s school children ijiduceiL the Judge to reduce the. sentence from two to one years. The case, which involved the Ch jet of Police, who was also found guilty and sentenced to a similar term, has divided the city into two camps. The women are declaring that they will pe tition., the Government to unseat the Mayor, while the latter’s resignation, it is believed, will not be accepted by the Board of Aldermen.