GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association." VIENNA RISING. LONDON, Sept. 15. The ••Times” Riga correspondent says :—Eighteen participants in the Vienna insurrection of last July have arrived in Leningrad, where the.authoritics warmly welcomed them, and arranged a special meeting at which the visitors dilated on the cruelty of the Austrian police, and tho treachery of the Austrian Socialist leaders. One speaker, Pankraty. declared “V e have come to Russia, not only to heal our wounds, hut to study the ho-'t methods of revolution, for the overthrowing of the hmirgeoise."

IN ESSEX JUNGLE. LONDON, Sept, IG. The first sight of a woman for fifty years left the hermit, James Mason, (who for half a century has lived secreted in a jungle-like retreat in Sussex) in a state of nervous distress. Mason, the sensitive ill-treated son of a Cremean Army Sergeant, living at Great C'henfield, in Essex, was jilted. It was a strange courtship, according to accounts. .Tames, from the solitude of his father’s garden, responded to a girl's whistle by throwing notes weighted with sixpences over a high hedge, hut the rejection of his suit resulted in an impulsive vow by James never to see a human face again, except that of his devoted brother, Thomas, who also vowed to guard James from any intrusion for his lifetime. The same afternoon they purchased 20 acres in a wild part of Essex, and remained within walls ever since.

The woman in question says that she is the former sweetheart. Following the “Daily Mail’s” map, she states, she penetrated the Masons’ retreat. James’ brother, on hearing the woman’s voice in the hut, was so alarmed and bewildered that he rushed for assistance, plunging through two miles of ploughed fields, and lie implored the aid of a. neighbouring farmer and his foreman. The trio, after failing to locate a policeman, scrambled through the fortifications of the retreat, and discovered the woman in tho hut, still conversing with James Mason, who was obviously upset. According to her story, the woman asked the hermit if lie would like to go to Loudon. He replied that ho would only go with her. The two finally persuaded her to leave.

GAMBLING TRAGEDY. LONDON. Sept. 16. Advices from Nice state that Antoine Cfisali, who is believed to have lost a fortunte at gambling there, killed himself, and his wife and family. Casali waited until his wife and two children were asleep. Then he turned on the gas, and all four died. Madame Casali formerly was Mrs Branson Williams. She was British and the children were also.

FRENCH TARIFF. PARIS, Sept. 15. It is semi-offieially stated that, pending the conclusion of tho Fra neo-Ame-rican commercial agreement, France is shortly promulgating a decree giving the United States unprecedented advantages by a special tariff amounting to a rebate of half the new duties,

M. LITVINOFF’S CRITICISM. LONDON, Sept. 15. Tlie Soviet is alarmed at the prospect of a break with Britain. M. Litvinoff, interviewed by tlio British United Press at Moscow, declared:—“ The instigators of the antiSoviet campaign in France must he regarded as the instigators of the world conflagration. Only naive or conscience tricksters believe that this campaign is directed against M. Rakovsky. It is a mere pretext for the reactionaries to disrupt the debt settlement. The negotiations on this question was solved recently to the satisfaction of both parties for the payment of sixty million gold francs yearly by the Soviet for the benefit of the holders of worthless Russian paper. The scheme includes credits for Soviet orders to the French factories. It is not a mere chance campaign against the Soviet. It began in France two days after the debt settlement was reached. There can he no question of any agreement regarding the claims of payments if Franco-Soviet diplomatic relations aro worsened or ruptured. It is clear that the break between Britain and Russia was a merciless threat of peace. A break between France and Russia would increase the danger.

ATTACKS ON COMMUNISTS. PARTS, Sept. 15. Ex-rresident Millerand is contesting a Senatorial bye-election at Orne. He opened his campaign by strongly attacking the Communists. He described the Soviet Embassy at Paris ns “ the headquarters of revolution,” and he demanded that the French Government should eject M. Rakovskv, and should recall the French Ambassador from Moscow. Oni'y such a rupture, he declared', could strike Communism. Otherwise, France would he the dupe of Moscow, which would be happy to escape any difficulty by replacing 51. Rakovsk.v with another Communist. The French Government, after making a declaration that Communism was an enemy, must act determinedly.

SOVIET TRADING WITH ARABIA. LONDON, Sept. 17. The “Times” Riga correspondent, contin.cs: “ The Soviet has published! an account of the Arabian expedition (recently cabled), and it is claimed that they reduced sugar by sixty shillings per ton. Keeping out Indian sugar. 1 They similarly operated with flour.” The “ Times ” correspondent says that while tne Soviet was trading with Arabia, there was an acute shortage throughout Russia, and that the authorities were pacifying sugar queues with the announcement that three thousand tons of foreign sugar liad arrived from Leningrad, and that three other cargoes were expected.

A MARE’S NEST. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. IG. The “Daily Express” states a supposed bomb, with a charred fuse, was found in the underground railway near Temple Station. It is being examined by the authorities. The “Daily Mail” says: The Home Office and Scotland Yard arc investigating the mystery of a bomb, with a burned fuse, which was discovered in an underground railway between Charing Cross and the Temple. The paper adds that many anonymous letters, threatening damage, since the execution of Sacco and Yanzetti, have not been given any great credence, but the Home Office has decided to prevent the possible arrival in London of Vanzetti’s ashes, which have been entrusted to his sister. LONDON, Sept. IG. It transpires that the supposed bomb (cabled earlier) was only a harmless tin, containing an ounce of photographic magnesium. MADAME ZAGHLUL’S GOAL. LONDON, Sept. 15. The “ Daily News ” Cairo correspondent says: “Madame Zaghlul (wife of the late Zaglilul Pasha) has informed the Wafdists Society of her intention to undertake Zaghlul Pasha’s task,

She said: “I am pleased we aro going to persevere until our country is independent. I wii'l not spare any sacrifice to that end. Fam happy to be considered your mother.” She is tho second wife of the late Zaglilul Pasha, and the daughter of Mustapha Faliini. who several times was Premier of Egypt. She is an ardent Nationalist and a brilliant politician.

BREAD EXPERIMENTS. LONDON, Sept. 15. For the purpose of proving the contention that wholemeal bread is better than white, the “ Daily -Mail ” invited Doctors Rowlands and Ethel Browning to experiment with twenty rats, half of which were fed on wholemeal and half on white bread, varied with casein, cod liver oii', dried blood, fish and meal.

Dr Browning undertook the leeding, and old not allow the hoppers to he emptied. Those supplied with white bread always wore finished, and wanted more. They consumed 199 ounces in 34 days. Those given wholemeal never finished their supplies, and consumed 72 ounces. The latter at the opening of the experiment weighed 840 grammes and at the close 131(5. Tho others weighed 952 and 11(6 respectively. Tho wholoineal-fed were sleek and healthy, lmt one white-bread-fed died, and the remainder were listless, losing hair and apparently dying. As a further experiment, tho rats were fed with a deficiency diet, which showed that when they were sinking they refused white bread, hilt ate wholemeal avidly.

CANTON LEADER SAILS. DELHI, Sept. 15. General Ohiang Kai-shek, the former Generalissimo of the Cantonese Nationalist forces, is travelling incognito on the French steamer “ Clienonceaux ”, which lias passed through Colombo, hound fur Marseilles. 'l’he General smuggled himself aboard the steamer as a third-class passenger, using the assumed name. His destination is said to he United States. AVAR. DEBT PAYMENTS. LONDON, Sept. 15. Britain to-day received an account, of war debts three million pounds from Franco, and two millions From Italy. The former payment does not involve any gold movement, hut it is merely a, transfer of French credits in British banks to the Treasury. A JUDGE'S DICTUM. LONDON. Sept. 15. The dictum of an English County Court Judge that nobody is justified in owning a motor ear with a salary or income below fifteen hundred sterling, nas aroused a sharp controversy. Air Selfridge expressed the opinion that a careful man with five hundred a year can safely invest in a motor-car. Sir Josinh Stamp says: it .should he possible for a man with six hundred or seven hundred, to run a ear, but below this, other claims oil income ought to come first. The Automobile Association says: Thousands of members do not earn fivo hundred sterling annually. A second hand car can ho purchased for fifty sterling. A man and his family can get an astonishing amount of pleasure for 4s weekly. There arc two hundred omnibus drivers in London alone who own motor cars. They say they have given tip paying doctors’ bills anil spend money running cars.