GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

CANADIAN INVITATION. LONDON, July 22

The Canadian branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association invited British and other Empire branches to send a delegation to Canada in September and October, 1928, the visit to last four to six weeks, and will cover all the main provinces.

A BELGIUM IMPOSTOR. BRUSSELS, August 22.

Steplmne Otto, described as F.nrope's king of imposters, is again in tlie hands of the police, accused of posing as a Brtish officer. He was unmasked before finding victims. Possessing a persuasive tongue and perfect manner, Otto has had a remarkable career. He once pretended to he an envoy of the Prince of Wales, also an attache of the King of the Belgians. His greatest exploit was the decoration of the American. General Allen and the whole of his staff at Coblenz, with fake medals. The hoax was discovered only when Allen sent a letter of thanks to King Otto. He is well known in London. where ho was imprisoned. He also swiniVled In's way through Europe even borrowing money from a former Sultan in Constantinople. lie was arrested in Germany early in 1027, for posing as an officer of the InterAllied Disarmament Commission. He was born in Belgium and served in the Fiench Foreign Legion.

PARIS MURDER. VERDICT. LONDON, July 22. Guyot (cabled on July 21st) was sentenced to death.

HONOUR BY QUEEN. LONDON, July 22

It is unusual for the Queen to participate in audiences granted to visiting Premiers, Ministers and Commissioners, therefore, Australia House was surprised and gratified by the receipt of a telephone message that the Queen would lie delighted to receive Lord Byrie, when the High Commissioner was having an audience with the King.

A NCI ENT 1)1 SE A SES. LONDON, July 23. That Alexander the Great died of verebro-spinal fever and I. of Germany suffered from adenoids, _ were among the disclosures duo to the uniiiteniional preservation by sefilptors and artists of past centuries said Sir Humphrey Rolleston, addressing the British Medical Association at Edinburgh. Investigations showed that gout was not a modern disease and that six out of twenty-four Sultans, between 1299 and 1095, were sufferers from this disease. Tuberculosis had been identified in Egyptian mummies, and was very prevalent fin ancient Greece, where it was one of the few infectious diseases. Smallpox had been traced in a mummy dating from 1100 8.C.. Bubonic plague was also recognised in Egypt and Syria in the third century B.C. Other diseases thought to he of modern origin were also virulent centuries ago.

PAR-SEE CEREMONY. LOXDOX, July 23. With rites once only previously performed in England, five children of Mr Saklatvala, the Communist M. P. of Battersea, were invited into the Parsee faith at- Caxon Hall, Westminster, in the presence of co-religionists and socialists. Mr Saklatvala’s English wife said she was happy to redeem a pledge to her late father-in-law that his grandchildren would be brought up within the Parse© fold Prayers were chanted in A vesta, one of the dead Persian tongues. The ceremonies included the branding of the ** forehead with thick rod phosphorescent paste, and the clothing of each with a sacred vest, which is never to lie discarded, day or night.

A PRIVATE FLIGHT. AMSTERDAM, July 23. Van Leer and Black lately flew from here to Batavia privately, for business .purposes. When they returned, the Queen created the particpants in the flight Knights of the Order of Orange and Nassau. GERMAN'S FAIL. BERLIN, July 23. The aviators Loose ami Risticz, when attempting to beat Chamberlain endurance record, wore forced to land after twenty hours flight.

HEAVY NAVAL COSTS. LONDON, July 23. Mr Winston C’hurchhili (chancellor of the Exchequer), speaking at Devon, declared: “Thus far, it cannot be said that any assurance of economy nominal security, or improved goodwill has emerged from the Geneva Coil, fereene. No effort must lie spared to ensure its success. Nevertheless .an agreement involving a gigantic expenditure on naval construction would he worse than a moderate expenditure without any agreement.” H

HORATIO BOTTOM LEY AGAIN. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LOXDOX, July 24. Horatio Bottomley has earned the maximum of the remission of sentence for good conduct, and is due for liberation on 9th August. The Maidstone Prison officials are determined that the liberation will bo absolutely secret, in order to avoid a demonstration. The prisoner’s nephew says Horatio is in splendid health. He has lost his former excessive weight and is aniazingiV confident of his power to reinstate himself with the public. LICENSING LAWS. LONDON. July 24. When the licensing laws were passed special provision was made for ships and trains, but aircraft did not exist. A regulation just issued forbids the opening of aeroplane bars until the craft is three npies from England,