GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1920, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

/ A BURNT FORTUNE. X VANCOUVER, Nor. 29, Keith Collins, a former aviator with a good war record, lias confessed to having participated in the recent robbery of 5,000,000 dollars from the express at Council Bluffs. The robbers, lie claims, burned all the bonds except 500 dollars, fearing the paper had been marked. Detectives believe that Collins destroyed more than 2,000,000 dollars.

! GERMAN OBJECTION, s LONDON, Dec. 1. The Berlin postal authorities have retimed a letter addressed “Her Royal ( Highness Princess Henry,” curtly endorsing - fhe envelope, “Address ‘Frau.” Royalties no longer exist in Germany.” CHARGE OF FRAUD. LONDON, Dec. 1. John Berman, an American, manager • for Lloyd’s Bank' at AA'hiteehapel, and | Jacob Prager, a Russian, have been • committed for trial 011 a charge of hnv- , ing defrauded the (iank of £42,000. 1 Bail was allowed in eacli case, ip sureties of £3OOO. ! AVATER POAVER. MADRID, Dee. 27. J Efforts to harness the water power going to waste in the Pyrenees and transform it into electricity are being intensified. Engineers have surveyed ed the entire mountain range and have . succeeded already in controlling many torrents and making them furnish power. Altogether 200,000 horse-power mow is furnished, and capital amount- 1 ing to 300,000,000 million pesetas hast j been invested. Every day sees additions 1 j to the amount of power available, and I engineers employed in the work esti- | mate that in a. few years Catalonia will 1 ! he able to do without coal. f i A DEAN’S PROTEST. ' i LONDON, Dec. 1. 1

Preaching in Durham Cathedral, Bishop AVelldon, Dean of Durham, pleaded j that writers must no tviolate the sanc- • tity of private life. He deplored books 1 written by responsible persons in which j the veil of delicacy and decency was torn j aside. Everybody regretted that such bad taste should be associated even indirectly with the highest political office ' in the land. LORD MAYOR AND SALVATION. LONDON,, Dec. 1. In proposing a vote of thanks to General Booth’s wife, Mrs Booth, for a Sunday address at Barrow, the Labour Mayor said: “There are many ways to heaven.” Mrs Booth interjected: “There is only one way,” But the Lord Mayor replied that his religion was the brotherhood of man. A woman then excitedly arose in the audience arid declared that the M.'ij’br •‘was not saved.” KRUGER’S MILLIONS. LONON, Dec 1. The inquest into the death of J. E. Prince, whose body was found in the Thames, has revived speculation as to Kruger's mysterious millions. The Evening Standard has published a story tli at the money was believed to have been buried in South Africa. The place was known to only two men, for-tune-hunters—Von A r eltheim who died in an English prison, and Prince, who has carried tlie secret, to the grave,

186 MILES AN HOUR. PARIS, Oct. 22. At Buc aerodrome, near Paris, the air man Fronval was first in a competition to which the airmen had to climb to a height of 1100 yards, switch off their engines, and plane down, landing in or near a. circle with a circumference of 11 yards. Fronval landed about 2 yards from the circle. The world’s speed record for flying was broken at Buc to-day when M. Sadi Lecointe covered one kilometre in 12 l-10sec. which works out at ,298 kilometres (1861 miles) an hour. The record was formerly held by M. Casale, with a speed of 283 kilometres per hour.

CONSTANTINE. GENEVA, Oct. 23.

The 1 report that the Swiss Government would not allow Constantine to leave Switzerland is incorrect, for as he is not interned, it cannot prevent his leaving, provided his papers' are in order. Should he leave, however, he would not be permitted to return. What the people here wonder is, where the money conies from that he spends royally on propaganda and also for his heavy personal expenditure, for lie still lives luxuriously ,and still writes and telegraphs as “His Majesty, King Constantine.” He willingly accepts invitations to -dine with the new rich, even brnging with him a host of uninvited guests, but the next day should he meet his hostess in tho street, he does not condescend to recognise her. He is very unpopular in Switzerland, and the Government and people alike, except perhaps the proprietor of the hotel where he stays, would gladly he rid of him. CONSCRIPTION SCHEME. BERLIN Nov 1. A scheme for industrial conscription for both men and women on tho Bul_ garian model lias been worked out fully by the German Government. It is mainly tho work of Professor Seheucking. Compulsory work for a year is advocated as a substitute for tlio former army service, with a view to increas ing the sense of discipline among the classes. This proposal meets with great opposition from the Socialist and the Democratic element ill tho country, while tho Conservatives naturally are in favour of it.

FAMINE SPECTRE.

LONDON, Nov 3. Peasants in great numbers are moving eastward to escape an impending famine in Central Russia, according to the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent with General Wrnugel’s troops. This is the first real testimony that has reached here of the terrible catastrophe which

has been predicted for that region, and which, as experts have agreed, must invariably tend to overwhelm Soviet Russia in 'tho coming winter. “AVe have evidence,” the correspondent writes, ‘■from an intelligent and trustworthy observer that the famine spectre has already turned densely populated areas into desert wastes, whoso fleeing inhabitants regal'd tlie Red Terror as nothing compared with the awful fate in store for hundreds of thousands who can hot got away.” HUNGER AND AVANT.

LONDON, Nov. 21. Conditions in Petrograd were summarised in one phase: “Hunger and want, hut order,” by H. G. Wells, British author, when he arrived here from Russia. He implied that similar conditions prevail throughout Russia. In a conversation with a Daily Mirror reporter, Mr AVe 11s said he had a chat with Nikolai Lenin, the Russian Bolshevik Premier, and went about freely without a girdle. He said he was able to see and judge things for himself, hut declined to give any general conclusions because his observations are not digested. He decided he had been amused when he read of disturbances and insurrections in Russia, adding: “All that' is just humbug.” WOMEN JURORS. LONDON, Oct. 31. The British Government does not intend to allow the new jury system to become the jest of humorists by allowing the possibility of family jars in the jury box J They have issued a set of rules for tlie guidance of file court officials, among which is the following: “Husband and wife shall not both he summoned to serve on a jury 011 the same occasion.” Another rule provides that the women on any panel of jurors shall he in the same proportion to the men as the total number of women on the jurors’ books is to the total number of men. A woman may apply to the summoning officer for exemption from attendance- on

account of illness within three days of the receipts of the summons. These rules arc to come into force lyMYSTERIOUS BURGLARIES. BERLIN, Dec. 26. A series of mysterious burglaries in country .houses in Northern Prussia are baffling the police. Twenty mansions have been robbed of all their silver, the thieves ignoring gold, jewels, and valu- j able tapestries. The police believe the robbers arc one gang,, which is declared to he the most expert known in Europe for years.