GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

v ?.y Telegraph— Per Press Association.. FASHION GOES TO THE DOGS. LONDON, Oct. 28. Fashion lias gone to the dogs for inspiration. The latest in trimmings for frocks is appliqued enamel in greyhound designs, which are particularly effective in silhouettes. Two greyhounds in full cry, cut in felt of ti darker shade titan the hat they decorate, are a. striking addition to the season's millinery.

SECRET TELEVISION TESTS. LONDON, Oct. 28

“Television, Limited,” tire at present experimenting with a two-way television to enable conversations to he carried out by wireless each participant being visible to the other. The company have taken over premises at Ling Acre, the whole of the top floor and roof giving 7000 square feet. They arc not marketing televisor sets, pending the introduction of improvements, which are at present being f.ost-

Tliere is evidence of strong efforts by unknown persons to obtain the con. paiay-’.s seefets. The pre-buses "have twice been burgled, and the watchman was once plied with drink and his keys stolen. There have been numerous attfan*" to pump employees and an armed guard is now maintained day and night. Tests so far show that vision can he reproduced wherever wireless can he picked up with sufficient strength for ti loud speaker.

FATAL “RAG.” LONDON, Oct. 28

The Paris correspondent of the “Times” says that “ragging” of new cadets at Saint G'yr.. the French military academy, resulted in a jnnio<* accidentally falling through a. trapdoor and fracturing his skull. Seventeen cadets were dismissed and sent to regiments of the line as privates. They include nionihfn of distinguished military families, desirous of carrying on the tradition as officers. The Minister of War has forbidden rdl ragging at military schools.

LUXURY IN THE DESERT. LONDON, Oct. 28.

When Jbn Sand, King of Arabia, henceforth travels in the desert, he will employ a fleet of motors accommodating his suite and bodyguard of 50 and his harem of 24 wives.

The harem will no longer he compelled to ride on camels, shut up in the stifling heat, hut it will ride in luxurious caravans, equipped with thick c-arpets vtrnl cushions. There are no windows permitting a view of the inside, hut the roof-lights are of opaque glass, and the caravans are c-ooled by electric fans. The King’s bodyguard will travel in two charabancs of a fleet of eight vehicles, which cost £II,OOO and are of 20 h.p., with giant tyres, huge radiators, and 00-gallon petrol tanks.

DANCED ON BURNT -FEET. LONDON. Oct. 28

Many of the Communists on trial at Budapest (Hungary) on charges of conducting subversive propaganda, says the Vienna correspondent of the “Daily News,” assert that the police tortured them in priso-n to extort confessions.

Alexander Lowoy declares that lie was hung up by the feet, and his soles burned with a hot iron. As he refused ter confess, ho was taken down and forced to dance, the pain being so intense, that lie implored his tormentors to shoot him.

IMPOSED BY FREE STATE

DUBLIN. Oct, 28

Irishmen must in future say the Rosary on beads of home manufacture. This is the latest ukl'se of the Free State Government, which has just imposed a 33 1-3 per cent ail valorem duty on Rosary beads. Finance Minister Blythe, moving the resolution, said it was expected the tax- would cause about £51)00 extra to he invested in the manufacture of tho beads in Ireland. The trade in Rosary beads was about £20,000 ayear, and, with the tax, over 70 per cent ol the trade would he in Irish hands.

divided •justice. LONDON, Oct. 28. The Paris correspondent of the “Daily News” says that owing to a Franco-ltalian extradition disagreement. preliminary proceedings against Saute Pall astro, the notorious Itali.-ii bandit, who was arrested in tin tindeiground station at Pans alter a desperate struggle, have been set draw, for hearing in a stationary prison-wagon on tin’ i-ranio frontier. . -u The Italian magistrates, who enter bv a door on the Itah.m territory, will confront Pallastro, who w ho on French territory gun ded A French detectives. It is hoped at this hearing to decide whether the bandit i',,:;, L,„l , r.n.l m»l •*" >“» country. SAMOA MANDATE. GENEVA, Nov. 4. Sir James Parr addressing the Mandates Commission, justified New land’s action in Samoa. Notwithstanding a small group cl agitators, the Government had performed its ordinary functions most successfully. Last >c.u showed the highest birth and lowest death rate yet achieved. The taxation of the natives was reduced to 36s per head All were entitled to I roe medical treatment. The New Zealand Government was also marketing copra, and on the natives behalf, the High Commissioner had sold tho first shipmen tto Europe and at the highest price yet obtained, indicating the success of the movement. -Sir J. Parr expressed the opinion that the ren l reasons for the agitation in Samoa were copra and prohibition.

FRENCH POLITICS. LONDON, Nov. 3

The Daily Mail's Paris correspondent states that M. Krankin Bouillon has quitted the Radical Socialist Party 'and resigned the Presidency of tiie Foreign Affairs Committee and is forming a new party entitled the Radical Unionists, which will be do voted to the maintenance of national union ns essential to prances security. The provinces will probably follow suit, inaugurating the most miportiant political sniit for thirty years. M Bouillon declared that the National Union, which saved Franco from disaster, inasmuch as they alhci themselves unconditionally with the Socialists who were commit-teed to the evacuation of the Rhineland and Germany’s absorption of Austria. This would lx* very dangerous to France, ensuring certain war wi lun ten years.

AN IMMORAL MARRIAGE. BERLIN, Nov. 3

The latest sensation in connection with the coming marriage of the exKaiser’s sister is that the Ecclesias tieal Presbytery of the Diocese of Bonn is refusing to permit the ceremony in church, on the ground thn the 'marriage between persons of such differing ages is immoral. The Princess has announced that the marriage will take place privately,

NEW SILVER. COINS. LONDON, Nov. 3. A Royal proclamation determines new designs for the crown, half-crown, florin, shilling, and minor changes in the sixpence and the threepence. The reverse of the latter two coins wil hear, acorns inter-leaved with oak branches.

THE ORIGINAL “ FLAPPERS.’ LONDON, Nov. 1

The Dowager Countess of Jersey, speaking at the Council of the Primrose League, disclosed the origin of Hawon! flappers. She said she found the word in Gulliver’s Travels, where flappers were persons armed with bladders filled with peas attached to stick* whose function was to stir up lethargic unobservant men. Lady Jersey said that women politicians would follow the example of those flappers. ARMAMENT FIRMS AMALGAMATE. LONDON, Nov. 3. Vickers and Armstroug-Whitworth, after several months’ negotiations, signed a provisional agreement to amalgamate in naval shipbuilding, and the heavy armament sections of their businesses. RELEASE OF COMMUNISTS. PARTS, Nov. 3. Immediately the Chamber reassembled after the vacation, the Communist, Garcherv, moved for the release of the Communist deputies Gachin, JXiriot, Marty and Duclos. to enable them to attend their Parliamentary duties. The Socialist, Baron, supported the motion, and declared that deputies owed duties to the electors which they could not fulfil while in prison. The Conservative, Maginot, said it would ho a. disgrace if men convicted of eneourging soldiers to defy the Government’s authority were not allowed to serve their just sentences. The Ministerialist, Barthou, admitted that the Communists’ anti-military propaganda was u national danger but pointed out that release did not commit the Chamber to approval ol their action. The motion was carried by 2(>4 votes to 221. PARIS, Nov. 4. The Chamber’s first step alter the vacation was to vote for the liberation from the Finite Prison of the* Communist deputies, Cnchin, Marty, Duclos and Doriot, so that they might participate in the session.

REICHSTAG DECISION. BERLIN, Nov. 3. The Reichstag Committee in considering a reform of the penal code, rejected by 17 to II the Socialist motion for the i.ibolition of capital punishment. Communists supported by Centralists and Conservatives opposed the proposal, declaring that social developments had not yet reached a point at which the deterrent influence of capital punishment could he dispersed witli. POISON GIVEN TO SICK MOTHER LONDON. Nov. 3. There was L dramatic development in the arsenic case, when Mrs Dolvinge was charged with giving arsenic to her mother, Mrs Waite, when visiting her in hospital. Mrs Waite has since died in a nursing home. CHR IST MA S HOLIDAYS. LONDON. Nov. 3. A Royal proclamation appoints Tuesday, December 27, a hank holiday, thus adding a holiday lost ihrough CJhristniad Day ladling on Sunday. FLIGHT ACROSS THE DESERT. BAGDAD, Nov. 4.

The airman Lancaster said they had had an adventurous journey across the desert. They were delayed by wind, rain and sand storms.

ROYAL FAMILY AFFAIRS

(Received this day at 9.30 a.m.)

LONDON, Nov. 4

The “ Daily News ” says greatly more significance than at first meets the eye is attachable to the Duke of York’s separate circular. It is absolutely without parallel, since the days of the Stewarts, that His Majesty’s second son. although traditionally he has actively followed tho services am; has of recent years led the life ol a civilian, should particularly devote his energies to a modern industrial life and also become a business man. The Royal Family hitherto has had no real niche in the State. DTYORCE PROCEEDINGS. MOSCOW. Nov. 4. Madame Chaliapin did not object to divorce or offer of .alimony of COO monthly for her lifetime. ECONOMIC CONVENTION. GENEVA, Nov. 4. The Economic Convention nbdishes restrictions six months after it becomes operative. It does not affect tho right to temporarily protect interests in abnormal circumstances. The reservations have little hearing on Australia and New Zealand. The chief one is Germany’s declaration that she will maintain the coal embargo if Britain maintains the. embargo on dyestuffs.

WHOLE FARM BURNED

LONDON. Oct, 28

The Strasbourg correspondent of tho “Daily Mail” says that a fire engine was racing to a fire in the village ot Oberhnrren, when it killed it cow. Peasants surrounded the engine and demanded that the firemen should immediately pay £SO compensation The firemen did not have sufficient money in their pockets and the villagers dragged the engine to the locfil pound. Meanwhile the fire destroyed the farm.