BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 September 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) COTTON PROSPECTS. (Received this day at 10.1-5 a.m.Y WASHINGTON. Sept. 8. The Agriculture Department announced the cotton prosper Is declined from the forecasted production of 13,492,000 hales on the first of August to 12.002.000 on the first of September, which is 5,283,371 bid" I clothe 1920 crop. The condition of the crop on September 1 was reported a; 50.1 per cent normal showing a decline of 13.1 per tent in the month. A decline occurred j M ~]) States o::cep! New Mexico, Arizona and California. Weevil was stated to be the dominating factor of the situation. Propagation was accelerated by the wet weather, infestation increased materially /ind the area, extended northward. futures advanced approximately ten dollars a bale in all markets as a. result of this report.

AN ARREST. PARTS, Sept. 8. A butler named Sadillak has been arrested in connection with the express train murder. A TRAIN TRAGEDY. PARIS, Sept. 8. Eye witnesses described a terrible scene which culminated in the murder on the far is-A m ions train. When the train began to move from Paris, a villainous individual of herculean proportions addressed repeated improper remarks to fellow travellers, chiefly young men and girls. The latter l!< d through the corridor and entered another compartment, which Sadillak attempted to break into. A fellow traveller named Bclot. a ban* clerk, remonstrated with him, declaring he was acting like a madman.

Sadillnk snatched a huge knife from a a. suitcase and stabbed Eeb-t in Mm .neck, .and instantly killed him. Ho also knifed three others in the scuffle. The girls pulled tne alarm signal and the train stopped. Sadillak flung out the body, leaped down and was lost in the darkness. He was arrested at dawn in a garden, after savagely biting two policemen and injuring a journalist.