GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(Rv Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

THE GERMAN SPIRIT ALARMS FRANCE.

PARIS. Aug. 12. Knrdoff’s speech in the Reichstag, cabled yesterday, caused excitement here. The “Journal Des Debats” says it is “more venomous and more full of hate than anything from Germany for a long time, besides being full of mistatenicnts. From such a speech vo must conclude Germany aims at the absorption of Austria, repudiation of tho Dawes plan, and the recovery of Alisace-Lorraine.” • •1.0 Temps” declares the speech shows a lot to be done before disarmament is a reality. The speech originates in a spirit against which reason is powerless.” ■MORE TROUBLE in PORTUGAL. Madrid. Aug. 12. The Portuguese Cabinet has resigned following on the Oporto Commandant’> report that lie is unable to control the troops. UNREST IN PORTUGAL. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LISBON, Aug. 14Flirt her details ot the attempted coup d’etat show the two ring-leaders were Captain Roderiques and Lieut. Sannento. They forced their wav into the Council Chamber and demanded at the point of the revolver, the resignation of the President in favo tr of Major Camara. The President refused and pluckily flung himself, althougn unarmed, against the attackers, who tired, wounding the Secretary to the .Minister of Finance, another bullet piercing the clothing of the Minister ot Justice. The officers regained the street and rejoined Camara at the Barracks, where a decree was signed declaring Camara dictator. Meantime Carmona was most active and secured the arrest of the plotters. The original cause of the trouble is believed to be the appointment ot Colonel Passos Souza as Vice-President of the Council. The city is calm but the Government thought it prudent to withdraw to thy aerodrome on the outskirts. The Var Minister states he was remodelling the Ministry, but postponed the order to avoid the impression the Government, was acting under pressure. 'lbis is the third attempted revolution this yeas and the eighteenth since the Monarch v was abolished.

THE LOYALTY OF INDIA. CAPETOWN. Aug. IT

Sastri. the first agent for India, in Eoutli Africa, who arrived recently in connection with the Indian problem, received a remarkable ovation Horn a large European audience when lie appealed for a new spirit in the treatment of the Indians. He declared that the occasional discriptive movements in India were inevitable when the mutual relations were still in process of adjustment, but he said the Indian people dare not contemplate the consequences of a withdrawal of Britain’s hand from the helm of the Indian Empire. He declared the British Empire was the one sure guarantee of peace in the distracted world, hut regretted the loyalty of India was often endangered l>v the treatment accorded the Indians in parts of the Empire other than Britain and India. India would obtain the full Dominion status a few years hence, and her people could not he despised by their fellow citizens within the Empire. NOTORIOUS BANDIT. ARRESTED IX PARIS. LONDON, Aug. 13. The Daily News’ Paris correspondent reports that the notorious Italian bandit, Santo Pollastri. who for year’s has evaded the European police, was arrested after a desperate struggle, and that Mussolini lias demanded liis extradition.

Assisted by a gang of criminals to whom he paid high wages, Pollastri specialised in Franeo-ltalian jewellery valuables, in course of which it is alleged, ten murders were committed. He at first denied his identity hut confessed when confronted by members of his own gang of whom thirty were recently arrested.

NEW BATTLESHIPS. LONDON, Aug. 14

The battleship Rodney, the world’s Vrrgest ship, left the Mersey, where it was built, for Portsmouth, for gunnery and speed trials. The keel was laid in 1922 and the vessel launched ;n IV‘25. The battleship carries nine lfi-nch guns.

FAITH AND ORDER CONFERENCE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LAUSANNE, Aug. 14. The Faith and Order Conference considered the question of the sacraments.- Doctor Ashworth, Baptist, of America, declared the blessing from the sacraments was derived rather from Hie faith in which they were received than from the official status of the administrator. Doctor Afaldwyn Hughes, Wesleyan, of England, pleaded that a.’i churches should gather round one Communion table to meet' their Lord, without asking how He comes, only knowing of His presence. Doctor J. V. Bartlet, Professor of Church History n Alandfield College, Oxford, comment-*! it was around the two sacraments with the New Testament authority for the baptism and the Lord’s Supper, that most of the difference between the churches turned.

RISING FEARED IN SOUTH AMERICA.

LA PAZ (Bolivia) Aug. 13-

It is feared that in the event of a rising of eiglitv thousand Indians in the departments of I’otasi, Cochabamba and Sucre, spreading to the department of La Paz. it might become a catastrophe, because there are two hundred Indians in La Paz and the whites are in a decided minority. It is expected that the rising will be stamped out by soldiery trained and equipped on modern lines, though it may inquire the sacrifice of many lives. Stories are current of depredations at haciendas, owners of which are fleeing before the infuriated descendants of the Incas, who are garbed in red blankets, their women following, carrying babes <m their hacks.

CONDEMNED TO DEATH. LONDON. Aug. 12.

The Times Riga corresponded says that the Supreme Soviet Tribunal lias imposed death sentences on Generals Annankoff and Denisoff. who voluntarily returned t> Russia last year. Annankoff and a hundred Cossacks, who defied the Reds in the early stages of the Revolution, fought their way from Siberian to Czecho-Slovakia. aiding Kolschek until the White Russians collapsed and then went to China.

ITALIAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST REBELS.

ROME. Aug. 13

Reports from Benhazi states that an Italian campaign against rebel mountain tribes resulted firstly in isolated encounters in which a small number of the enemy were killed. Then airmen notified the presence of a. main body retreating in AVadigabar and a flying column aided by tanks, overtook them, killing two hundred and capturing seven hundred camels,