GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

TARRED AND FEATHERED. ARRESTS FOLLOW INCIDENT. LONDON, June 27. A party of men raided the house of Joseph Parks, a master builder, of Dundalk. His wife and daughter were locked up, while Parks was blindfolded and motored to a lonely part of the Dundalk racecourse, where ho was stripped and tarred and leathered as a reprisal for giving evidence at Dublin, when three Republicans were imprisoned for stealing ammunition. Six arrests have been made in connection with the tarring and feathering.

Oil. AY ELLS FIRE. NEW YORK. June 28

A fire at Longhead). California, wrecked four oil wells, damaging others. Two hundred thousand sterling damage was caused. An explosion occurred in Julian Number One well.

HOUSE OF LORDS. LONDON. June 27

In the House of Lords, Lord Novar drew attention to the disappearance from the Order Paper of Lord Astor’s Bill for disqualifying Peeresses to sit in the House, which twice previously was rejected.

Lord Astor explained that the Government were introducing a House of Lords Reform Bill, and a new situation was created, especially as Lord Salisbury and Lord Birkenhead had stated that in the event of a reform there would he no objection to considering the claim of Peeresses in their own right to sit. Therefore he intimated that he wished to withdraw liis Bill.

The House formally granted leav for the withdrawal.

VISIT TO RUSSIA. LENINGRAD. June 27. The party of British children, who. as cabled on Monday 22m1. left for Russia, have arrived here. In replying to a welcome by the Leningrad Children’s League, they declared that they were happy to lie among their Soviet fellows, from whom they hoped to receive instruction.

Their steamer also brought an urn containing the ashes of Mr McManus, from England, according to his last wishes for the burying of his remains at Moscow under the Kremlin wall.

empire unity. NEW YORK. June 28. “ Empire parts may bicker hut they meet outside menace united,” said Sir Cecil Hurst, legal adviser of the British Foreign Office, in an address to the University of Cliiacgo. “ Thureln lies our claim to he a political unit. Though the foreign might question treating of the various parts of Hie Empire as a unit, simply on the strength of common allegiance to the King.”

house of lords reform. LONDON. June 28. The “ Daily Express ” states a crisis has arisen owing to a considerable hodv of Conservative Commoners intimating to the Whips that they disapprove of a comprehensive scheme for reforming the House of Lords in this Parliament. Their only desire is a bill setting up a joint committee of the Lords and Commons to tleeide what is a money bill and thus relieve the Speaker of his present responsibilities.

LABOUR CENSURE MOTION. LONDON, June 28. The Parliamentary Labour Party has given notice of a censure motion regretting Government had brought down a .scheme for fundamental changes in the Lords, which jerrymanders the (•institution, in the interest- of Conservatives. and deprives the Commons of control of finances, entrenches the Lords on a hereditary basis more firmly against the people’s will than for centuries, and i.s iu defiance of every modern precedent, and robs the electors of powers to deal with the Lords. Therefore, the motion declares it will be an outrage on the constitution by forcing the proposals without a mandate. If well enough, Air MacDonald will move the motion, otherwise Air Clynes fires the shot and ATr Snowden seconds.

A NOBLE FIREMAN. SAYING THE RENOWN. LONDON. June 23. The “ Daily Chronicle’s ” Portsmouth correspondent says that he is able to give the first authentic account of how Stoker Jeffries saved the Renown from disaster on May 26. Jeffries was in charge of D Hold. He was attending to the water-fading when the cry of fire was raised. In an instant, tongues of flame were flashing across D Hold. Oil sprayed from pipes leading from spare tanks which feed the furnace, was dropping on the hot floor, and it was Igniting and sending up great sheets of flame, so that the 'hold became a furnace. The order was given for all the men to ascend, hut Stoker Jeffries did not obey the order. Instead, he seized a hose drenched himself with water, and then rushed to the water valves, where he increased tlio water supply to the boilers. thus making an explosion impossible. His next action was to shut off six oif valves, though they were hot. and lie had to use the hose on them before he could touch the valves. To add to his difficulties, the lights went out, and only the glow from the furnaces relieved the darkness. No one knew that Jeffries was lighting the flames below until he appeared above tlie hatchway, with his work accomplished. Then hoses were turned on to the furnaces, and water was poured in until there was nine feet of water in the hold. The Duke and Duchess of York were having lunch when the cry of fire was raised, and it was mid-night before the stokehold was unsealed and repair work was commenced.

His messmates regard Stoker Jeffries as the saviour of the ship, hut the stoker dismisses the affair with a shrug of the shoulders, and the remark that he merely did his dutv.

ESCAPEE’S EDITORIAL. PARTS. June 27

AT. Daiidet’s newspaper. L’Action Francnise. publishes an editorial signed by him. reiterating that his son was murdered. Tt is believed that this article was telephoned from him, and also that he is not far from Paris. Meanwhile lengthy inquiries are being conducted throughout the Administration to ascertain the wlivs and wherefores of the hoax. Incidentally, vengeance has fallen on the hapless AL Catry, governor of the gaol, who has l>een dismissed, and has been called on to explain why he was so easily deceived.

The Royalists are working hard on behalf of AT. Catry, pointing out that a week before AL Catry had received a genuine order by telephone to release an anarchist who was hungerstriking.

The police say that the hoax means the end of any decision to grant an amnesty to M, Dundee.