GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(Ay Telegraph—Per Press Association.^

PARIS MURDER TRIA^. PARIS, Oct. 24. Tho trial of Scliwarzbard has do- ' veloped, as was expected, into an investigation of General Petlura’s responsibility or otherwise for the Jewish pogroms in the Ukraine. A string of witnesses for five days has declared that General Petlura befriended the Jews. To-day evidence was given to the contrary. M. Goldstein, a member of the Petrograd bar, but an anti-Bolshevist who was compelled to leave Russia, testified that the order to save the Ukraine and kill the Jews came from Genera! Petlura’s headquarters. There were no massacres before General Petlura was head of the army and none after he left the Ukraine. A woman medical student A Mile. Grinlierg, said slttMiad nur'seef the Jewish victims of the pogroms. She described the massacre and violation of young girls and children in the streets by General Petlura’s soldiery. THE DEAD SEA. RECLAIMING MINERAL RF.SOURCES. RUGBY, Oct. 24. Tt is reported that a subsidiary company of the recently-formed Imperial Chemical Industries, Limited, of which Sir Alfred Mond is chairmas, has secured a concession for re- -y, claiming the mineral resources of the 1 Dead Sea.

The concession, it is said, has been awarded after negotiations extending over many months .The Colonial Office and the Governments of Palestine and Trans-Jordania have, conducted the negotiations with British. Continental, and American applicants for tho concession.

The “Sunday Times,” which announces the award, says the contract lias not yet been signed, but an official announcement may be expected shortly.

The area represents some of the world’s most valuable stretches of untapped riches. Expert examiners, including the geologist of the Palestine Government, have estimated the quantity of salts deposited in tho Dca Sea as follows:—Potassium chloride, 2.000,000.000 metric tons; magnesium bromide, 980,000,000 tons; sodium chloride, 11.900,000.000 tons; magnesium chloride. 22,000,000,000 tons; calcium chloride, 0,000,000,000 tons.

For practical purposes it is said the supply of potash may be considered inexhaustible.

Imperial Chemical Industries, Limited, was registered last December with a capital of '£(55,000,000. It amalgamated Messrs Brunner, Mond and Co., Nobel Industries, tbe British Dyestuffs Co-operation, and the United Alkali Corporation.

IRISH GOVERNMENT. LONDON, Oct. 25

Lively times are expected in the Dai I Eireann as the Fianna Fail Party have drafted bills proposing a repeal of tho Public Safety Act, and tho local Government Act of 1925, which latter requires that the officials of local authorities, on their appointment or on receiving increases in salarv, shall sign a declaration of allegiance to the Free State Government and the constitution. , •*'

The Labourites will probably support Mr De Yalera’s Party. In any case, the divisions will test the Government’s strength. Mcßride, whose arrest in connection with the shooting of the late Mr Kevin O’Higgins was effected oil August 31st. has been leleased from Mount-joy Prison, Dublin. CAPE FLAG SETTLEMENT. CAPETOWN, Oct. 23. A settlement is now complete in the matter of the Cape flag- ATbe settlement has been accepted by the cancrises of all three parties. It lias publicly been announced by Hon. Mr Malan, on the authority of Premier Hertzog, that the South African Party Caucus lias accepted it, subject to assurances being given that the Union Jack is to fly, not only in the Union and provincial capitals, as provided, but also in those large centres of the Union where the predilections of the people naturally point in that direction; and to this Premier Hertzog lias readily agreed. He also lias agreed that, so far as Natal is concerned, the Union Jack should fly throughout the province on equal terms with the South African National flag. The most important point in the settlement is that the Union Jack is now statutorily declared one of the flags of tho Union. In the second place, the shield disappears from the national flag, and is replaced by the Union Jack. The old Republican flags are to he integral parts of the national flag, occupying one-third of the area of the central white strip between the orange and the blue horizontals. The compromise is generally hailed with intense relief, though the design of the National flag lias not been received with enthusiasm.

HOAXED THE WORLD LONDON, Oct. 25. The “Daily Sketch” says: Hunter Charles'Rogers, after being exposed in the “Daily Sketch” as a dealer in spurious documents and pictures, asserts that he planted the relics in Glozel. He says: “With an Englishman now in America, I went to France with stones, implements and vases, and seeking a farmer’s help, ’dug them in. the idea being to lead a party of discovery in 1928. I ran out of money, and the farmer, in order to benefit himself, began “discovering” the things prematurely. Most of them were genuine. The others were copies I made. We liouglit a lot of genuine prehistoric stuff, and had a few genuine stones I,'earing prehistoric drawings of reindeer horses. Wo- made glass and old razor blades. It is easy to deceive tlie experts. T am only a Buckinghamshire farm labourer, but I have hoaxed the world in my time.”

MEN’S FASHIONS. ROME, Oct. 216. “Modern masculine fashions are Socialistic and anti-Fascist, not Italian, because they are dictated from London and New York. We must find a dress more suited to the Fascist era.” Thus reads a Young Fascist manifesto, urging that the Fascist mode gradually l>e extended throughout Europe./-...1t proposes the creation of different types of dress for the various categories of citizens, such as the intellectuals, the capitalists and the workmen. It expresses the opinion that the male costume should be more virile and warlike, and more adaptable for carrying arms openly, as. for example, an automatic or a sword at the waist. LORD LOUGHBOROUGH BANKRUPT. LONDON, Oct. 25. A receiving order lias been issued against Lord Loughborough, who previously went bankrupt in 1924. His present liabilities are £18,120. He has no assets. When be applied for a discharge as a bankrupt, lie said Tie had been much handicapped by bis title from obtaining employment. The Earl of Roslyn also paid his son’s debts on an earlier occasion, totalling £20,000. -