GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1920, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

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INSANE AIRMAN. LONDON, While flying Inear Marseilles, a French aviator - suddenly went insane and repeatedly tried to decapitate pedestrians. Only frantic dashes en abled them to avoid the machine. ITALIAN NAVAL DESERTION. ROME December 8. Two Italian torpedo boats deserted to D’Annunzio. According to a guarded communique, which says two torpedo boats of the upper Adriatic squaddon anchored in Port Fiunie in an irregular manner, the commanding officers were apparently taken by surprise and were unable to assert themselves. CAPTURES IN KOREA. TOKIO, December 7.

Tho Japanese - War Office has announced the seizure of documents purporting to show that Koreans in.Chintao" district purchased a large amount of supplies from Bolsheviks including fifty machine guns and three thousand rifles. A considerable number of these arras have already been captured from Koreans. A BELGIAN’S PROTEST.' BRUSSELS, Dec. 8. At the close of a debate in the Chamber on . the .Government’s policy, a man in the public gallery fired three shots at the benches between the advanced Liberals and Socialists, shouting that he wanted attention given to the German deportations of Belgiaiftcivilians. Nothing had been done for them. He was one himself. -

SEX ANTIPATHY. LONDON, Dec 8. The Cambridge Varsity graduates rejected by 904 to 712 a proposal to allow women full membership of tho University. PRESSMEN IN" TROUBLE. LONDON, Dec 8. The court-martial lias sentenced Mr Fitzgerald and Mr Edwards, the proprietors of tho “Freeman’s Journal” to six months ’imprisonment for something it published. The newspaper has also been fined £SOO. q