CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 16, 12 October 1937, Page 7

CABLE BREVITIES

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Fortune in Piano A Spanish soldier, in attempting to play a piano in a house in the Carabanchel sector after its capture could mahe no eound. He lifted the lid and found it stutfed with banknotes and small sacks of jewellery valued at thousands of pounds. Revolt in Abyssinia The Rome correspondent of the British United Press says that Marshal Graziani is reported to have told his troops to show no mercy against rebellious Abyssinians, of whom over 5000 have been killed during hombing from the air. Brief Reference The new edition of the alpiunao De Gotha giyes tbe Duke of Windsor only 18 lines, comprising four as brother . of King George and 14 in the genealogioal seption. It says that the Di;chess is not entitled to the address "Your Royal Highness.'' Jean Batten's FligK Miss Jeaii Batten, the Now Zealand aviatrix, has not yet decidod when she wilj leave on her flight from Australia to England, Her route will he the same as on her record-breaking fiight from England to Australia a year ago. Leaving Larwin, she will fly tQ Koepang, Batavia, Akyab, Calcutta, Allahabad, Karachi, Baghdad, Cyprus, Rome and London. If she succeeds in beating Mr Broadbent's record she will be the first to hold the solo record in both directions at the same time. Duchess Recovers The Duchess of Gloucester, who has made a rapid recovery from the slight chill she contracted, will travel south with their Maj esties from Balmoral 'this week.— British Of&cial Wireless. . 'Tjty Before Yon Dance" The Vicar of. Harringay has inaugurated a- Saturday evening 'p^y hefore you dance" sqrvice, says a London cable. He invites girls and youths to attend in their evening clothes, Vesuvius in Eruption ' Aftier s,everal months' quiesence 1 Vesuvius has erupted and lava is flowing down the Valley of Hell. Ashes wero flung into the sky and the roaring of the crater could, be heard for miles. Thus £ax there is no danger to tho neighhouring villages. Sydney Wooi Saies At tho Sydney wool saies yesterday, 11,587 bales were oifered and, 89t>U sold, also 590 privately. Competition was fairly general, with America and Japan operatiug sparingly on suitable lines. Good to best descriptions of fleeee and skirtings were fully five per cent. below last. week's closmg rates. Greasy Meriuo made 22$dt The average price last week was £18 1/7 a bale, and I3.9d a pounA. Catholics in Germany The Eoman Catholic Bishop of Berlin, in a pastoral letter, condemus strongly the Nazi decree foxbidding roligious instruction in.schools by priests. He declares that. as a countor measure,, children will be instructed in rooms attached to churches. Parents will be asked to support the church to ensuro chat their children will not be alienated from their spiritual instructors by hostile elemeats, Robeson to Leave Stage Eaul Eobeson has decidod to quit the West End stage and dovote his life to plays dealing with working- ciass prob- ! lems. Labour Daily The long-standing dispute affecting the xight of the Labour politicians, Messrs J. Lang and L. Bcasley, and the prominent unionists, Messrs J. Culbert and T. Bell, to aet as directors of1 the Sydney L*abour Daily newspaper was i decided yesterday by Mr Justice Long Innes in the Equity Court, when an order destraiaing their election as in Becember, 1936, was granted at the instigation of 13 unions whoso representativos successfully contested a biallot. Notice of appeal was immediately lodged on behalf of defendants» "One-Dish'' Sunday The first "one-disli" Sunday in connection with the winter help campaign was ohserved throughout Germany. All the restaurants instead of their usual variety provided only one dish, a stew made from an official recipe. Brewery Strike There was a fairly general response to a call for volunteer union labour for the idle breweries at Brisbane. which xeopened yesterday under police protection. Long lines of cars from hotels in all parts of the city and suburbs arrived and took away thousands of bottles of beer. As a result. the bottlewashers joined the strikers, who are now blacklistlng the names oi flhie hotelkekepers mvolved#