CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 79, 27 December 1937, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES

-Press Assn.

(By Telegraph-

— Copyright.)

Fire in Explosives Factory LONDON: Seven hundred exployees of the Nobel explosive factory at Falkirk rushed out on Christmas Eve without their pay when fire broke out. The powder magazine was saved, but eight tons of explosive* were destroyed, necessitating the deviation of trains., Fritz Kreisler's Income-Tax WASHINGTON: A settlement of the income-tax controversjf by the payment of 23,087 dollars is xevealed by the American Government, which set the famous Violinist Fritz Kreisler's 1932 income at 123,921 dollars and his 1933 income at 159,806 dollars. Earonet Prefers Farm OTTAWA: A message from Pine Lake, AlbePta, states that Mr. Arthur Stonhouse, a baronet through the demise of his tousin, Sir Ernest Stonhouse asscrts he will not relinquish his farm and live in England. He is married with three cildrenh. ried with three children. "Big Game" Angling SYDNEY:' The "big game angling contest " in connection with next year's anniversary celebrations in Sydney will be officially open-ed on New Year's Day when a fleet of fishing launches led by the harbour pilot steamer will parade through the heads to the fishing gr-ounds along the New South Wales coast. Many competitors from overseas are participating. Sabotage Suspected PARIS: Sabotage is' suspected as the cause of a mysterious fire aboard the aimost completed 26,000-ton battleship Strasbourg at the Saint Nazaire shipbuilding yard. Serious damage was done before it was.subdued. An imm»diate inquiry was ordered,