GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

EARL BEATTY RETIRES. LONDON, July 29.

On Karl Beatty’s last day at the Admiralty, Air Baldwin sent a letter of appreciation of his eight years’ valuable assistance in the difficult postwar period of retrenchment and economy, and expressing the hope that Earl Beatty’s services would remain at the disposal of the Committee of Imperial (Defence. COMMOTION IN ITALY. LONDON, July 31. The “Times” AHlan correspondent states: The Magistrates are firmly dealing with any landlords who are not complying with the Government’s Rents Decree. Several property owners at Turin, Trieste and Parma have been sentenced to long terms of detention owing to their resistance to the new law.

Disputes between landlords and tenants are daily increasing. The disputes have reached a total of thirty thousand in Turin. The rent reductions ordered have in many instances been granted to the extent of from fifty to sixty per cent. , Great crowds of people blocked the Arilan Courtyard, desiring to present tenants’ appeals.

EX-CROWN PRINCE. BERLIN. July 31

The ex-Crown Prince of Germany is leaving Silesia, where he is distinctly unpopular, owing to hi.s over-bearing manner. He says that he will not stand the insults and abuse there any longer. Ho is going to Potsdam, which is still intensely royalist. TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. BERLIN. Aug. I. The Aero Club of Germany is offering one hundred thousand marks fur the first German who flies from the Fatherland to New York before August, 1928. Tire flight must hs accomplished in eighty-four hours, in a German machine. An intermediate landing will be allowed.