GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.* FIGHT IN MEXICO. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 28* Thirty-four rebellious Catholic fanatics were killed in a combat with Federal troops, and a priest was captured and executed in the State of Jalisco. HISTORIC CRIMINAL DEAD. BELGRADE, Sept. 29. Alilan Ziganovitch, implicated in the murder of Prince Ferdinand at Serajevo in 1914, has died at Uskubaged at the age of 40 years. Serbia refused Austria Hungary’s * demand for his extradition in her famous ultimatum. RUSSIA AND FRANCE. PARIS, Sept. 29. It is reliably foreeasted that France will rfjecr. AI. Rakowskv’s latest debt offer. .TUGO-SLAYIA’S ECONOMICS. BELGRADE, Sept. 29 The Serbian Cabinet have decided on sweeping economies including the abolition of six Afinistries the reorganisation of the Civil Service, and the sale or lease cdVStnte enterprises into private hands, or to semi-official but independent companies.

CHEN MARRIES SUN’S WIDOW LONDON, Sept. The “Daily Mail’s” Riga correspondent states: An official Soviet despatch asserts that Eugene Chen, the Hankow leader, has married Madame Sun Yat Sen, the Chinese widow of Dr Sun Yat Sen, the Chinese revolutionary. They • will spend the honeymoon in China, starting a new revolution, which the Red International has largely subsidised.

NOT BELIEVED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 29. The police released Baldwing, who surrendered in connection with the murder of Gutteridge, disbelieving his confession. MALARIA A.CURE FOR PARALYSIS VIENNA, Sept, 23. Professor Wagner Jauregg, at a convention of German and Austrian psychiatrists to-day reported he had had great success with his malaria treatment for paralysis of the brain, and presented a number of cases completely cured after lieing inoculated with malaria fever. Statistics submitted by Professor Jauregg’s assistant showed that inoculation with malaria fever led to complete recovery in more' than 81 per cent of the cases treated in the initial stage.

In advanced cases, he said, the percentage of complete cures was 31. Several psychiatrists produced pictures, showing how the malaria treatment clears the brain and restores it to a normal state. AVAREHOUSE BLAZE.

LONDON, Sept. 23. A most pungent fire broke out in a London docks five-storey warehouse, filled with spices and coffee-beans, and 150 firemen fought in relays. They had to wear gas masks owing to the density of the fumes of roasting coffee and spices, which diffused the atmosphere for several miles. CREMATORIUM SCENE. PARIS, Sept. 23. An accident in the crematorium A recently nearly ended in a riot that might have considerably embittered feeling between Belgium and Germany. Belgium has no crematorium, and bodies to be cremated are usually brought here. A German, who died here, and n body from Brussels were cremated on the same afternoon. The ashes were placed in small ißle boxes, which were standing next each other on a slab.

With sorrowing relations and friends of both deceased standing around, the attendants were about to place the lids on the boxes, when one of the German mourners tripped and stumbled against the slab, upsetting both boxes and mingling the ashes. Uproar followed, and a suggestion to equally divide the mixed ashes raised such a storm that the Belgians and Germans, crowding the crematorium, were only restrained from commencing a battle for the ashes by main force.

Eventually - the mourners were induced to depart, leaving the ashes in the keeping of the crematorium authorities, pending a settlement of the dispute. CHAPMAN’S OYSTER. FEED. LONDON, Sept. 23.

Lamenting that oysters at sixpence each are too dear even for enthusiasts, Percy - Chapman, the captain of the victorious English team in the Fifth Test last year, recalls that he ate 17} dozen when visiting Australia in 1924. It was on an un-river trip from Brisbane. “Australians ‘presented the team with a sack of 6000 oysters and wanted us to eat the lot,” he says. k “AVe lashed out willingly, hut failed. I was the best long-distance eater, and Howell, two behind me, was second. “Fortunately - the next day was Sunday. On the Monday I knocked up 90 runs. The oysters did me good.”