GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

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STATUS OF PAPACY. LONDON, Oct. 15. The “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent commenting on Hi#--' Papal reconciliation with tho Italian Government, states: “Jt is known that Signor Mussolini places the reconciliation with the Vatican among the highest of his ambitions. He is the only statesman who is capable of persuading the Italian nation to cede to the Vatican a few acres of territory, in the shape of a narrow pathway to the sea.” The correspondent adds: “At any rate, tho Vatican, on its part, is prepared to abandon its claims for international guarantees to which Italy will never agree”

RAILWAY FUEL, BERLIN, Oct, 15. Following experiments in the firing of locomotives with powdered residual brown coal, after distillation, the railways are purchasing a brown coal field and erecting a distillery.

ALBANIAN 3HNISTER. ASSASSINATED. PRAGUE, Oct. 14. An Albanian student shot dead the Albanian Minister in Belgrade, Gena Bey, alleging that he had been attempting to hand over Albania to Jugo-Slavia. A GRUESOME FIND. LONDON, Oct. IoN Tho dismembered body of a woman was found on the bank of the River Clyde, at Glasgow, wrapped in a piece of sheeting, made up in tlie form of a parcel. A rower on the river noticed the parcel, and pulled in and opened it. He found that the head had been severed, the legs chopped off, and left arm, from whiclt the ring finger was missing. There , was no clothing, nor any clue to identify the body.

STREET OFFENCES. LONDON, Oct. 15. The Minister of Home Affairs, Sir v W. Jo.vnson Hicks has appointed an influential committee of five women and ten men, under the chairmanship of the-Right Hon. Hugh MacMillan, to inquire into the law governing street offences, such as solicitation. This inquiry is the result of the arrest of several innocent persons recently. N.Z. WAR- MEMENTO. LONDON, Oct. 14. A Maori treasure lx>x,~ containing tho Now Zealand Engineers’ Honour Roll was placed in a recess in Kitchener’s Chapel, at St. Paul’s, in the presence of Sir James Parr and Eng- c lish military officials. ' "Y

STEAMER IN DISTRESS. LONDON, Oct. 15. A message from Las Palmas states the British steamer Syde, sixteen miles from the African coast, is wirelessing for help as her engines are out of order, and the vessel has nineteen sick aboard.

DANCING RECORD. LONDON, Oct. 15. A dancer, Nicholas, dancing continually for a week, partnered 192 Portuguese ladies. A doctor was called in when his temperature rose and treated him while dancing. - ' i

A MEMORIAL. PARIS, Oct. 15. 31. Doumergue unveiled a marble plaque in the Pantheon, commemorating writers killed during the war while defending France. These include Americans, Belgians, and Spaniards. 31. Harriot, in a speech, declared: “ The real tomb of the dead heart of the living.” - -