GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

ENGINEER DROWNED. LONDON, June 19. A boat belonging to the New Zealand Line steamer Tasmania was conveyin'-: a party to the shore at Hamburg, when it capsized. An engineer, Frederick Curry, was drowned.

NEW GERMAN TRACK. BERLIN, Juno 19

Inaugurating a super speed track at Nuerburgring, British machines, Velocetto. Sunbeam and Excelsior were first, second and third in the opening race for machines not exceeding 330 centimeters.

LINER AFIRE. LONDON, June 19. The steamer Essen, bound from Australia to Hamburg, arrived at Amsterdam with a fire burning in her No. 3 Hold. Despite the efforts of the Fire Brigade the outbreak is still raging.

Tt is surmised that the fire started in the copra. Openings were cut in the side ot the vessel to allow of tho passage of water, but a heavy list prevents flooding.

LATER NEWS. AMSTERDAM, Juno-. 20. The fire on the Essen has been exiiguished. SPANISH FIGHTING. [“The Times” Service. |

lßacc>ved this day at 8 a.m.l LONDON, June 20.

A Madrid correspondent states four Spanish columns captured the sacred mountain Yebelalan, Rgisulis’ former stronghold containing the most venerated shrine in Morocco, which Christian troops are nor allowed to approach. There were heavy rebel losses.

GER MANY\S ATTITUDE. LONDON. June 19. The Daily Mail’s Berlin correspondent says: M. Tchichorin (Soviet Foreign Minister) has departed for (Moscow He has failed to induce the German Government to allow the Russian Trade Delegation from London to establish itself, preferably at Hamburg, where it would occupy a different field to the Soviet’s Berlin Delegation He was also unable to arrange for new credits.

A FLOATING PALACE. LONDON. June 20. The Times Lo Havre correspondent says:—France seems successfully to have out-hixuried everything afloat with her new Le Compagnie Generate Trans-Atlantiquo forty-three thousand ton liner. 11 l)e France. This is the largest liner constructed since the war. Her designers apparently have aimed to make the passengers when aboard forget that they are on a. ship. The features include a c hapel accommodating eighty persons, also a striking marble reception hall. There is elecric. lighting, giving the effect of softened sunlight. There are beautiful statues, and marble pillars, also Sevres vases. The grand drawingroom is entirely in lacquer. The ’din-ing-room is the largest on any steamer. It accommodates seven hundred out of the 1658 pasengers which the vessel will carry.

Three seaplanes, which will proceed to shore when the steamer is within a reasonable distance of the coast, will mean shortening tlie voyage for those passengers who arc in a hurry. Tho vessel shortly makes her maiden voyago to New York, after which she enters the Le Havre— Plymouth—New York service.

Excursionists from all parts of France inspected the vessel.

GERMAN LINERS. BERLIN, June 19. German has placed orders for two big liners, each of forty-six thousand tons. They will be passenger steamers, with which Germany intends to try to recapture the blue ribbon of the Atlantic services.

FASCIST TERROR. PARIS, June 20. Signor Labriola recently made >a dramatic escape from Italy. Interviewed here, he told an amazing story of Fascist outrages. Labriola is a former Minister of Labour, and formerly was a colleague of Signor Mussolini, but lie disapproved of recent Fascist de\elopments. He says that the day after the alleged attempt on the life of Signor Mussolini at Bologna the door of his (Labrioln’s) flat was battered in by Blackshirts, and he (Labriola) and liis son, aged 16, were each put in a corner of the room, covered by revolvers, and told they would lie shot- if they moved. The Blackshirts then smashed furniture and china, ripped pictures to shreds, and tore up hooks. Labriola declares over 1000 houses were similarly treated. Mussolini refused Labriola a passport, he says, but lie escaped. Ho says:—“A man has only two chances in Italy to-day—Fascist or prison.”

ESCAPEE RECAPTURED. PARIS, June 20. The arrest is reported from Brazil of a notorious Bonnot Gang bandit, Roliert Dieudonne. who escaped while serving a life sentence on Devil’s Island, for complicity in the murder of a hank messenger in Paris in 1913. MEXICAN REBELLION. MEXICO CITY. June 19. Fourteen relic]s and three soldiers were killed in a clash 1 vet ween the Presidential troops afid the insurgents at Jalisgo State.

BULGARIAN POLITICS. LONDON, June 20. The Times Sofia correspondent states:—The King of Bulgaria, opened the Sobranje, in the Speech from the Throne, declared that the general participation of the people in the recent elections proved the freedom in which they had been held. Tho Socialist leader, M. Sakizoff, interrupting, protested, hut his objections were drowned in prolonged and frenzied cheering from the Deputies and the public, who acclaimed the King’s subsequent appeal to the Deputies to assist in the economic imitation.

A MOTOR. FEAT. PARTS, June 19. Driving alternatively, S. Davies and J Benjnfield won the International Twenty-four Hours’ Grand Prix Motor Race over the Lemans Circuit. They covered 1480 miles. IRISH DEMONSTRATION. LONDON, June 19. Mr de Valera is calling a monster demonstration for Thursday, when the Republicans elected to the Dail Eireann will demand admission to Parliament with the abolition of the Oath ot Allegiance. The Republicans are asked to requisition lorries and cars to take part in a march on Dublin.