GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

v Ry Telegraph—Per Press Association^

YOUTHFUL BANDITS. PARIS, Nov. 29

The mysterious murders of two mid-dle-aged men, found at different times in the woods of Billvmontigny, with throat wounds, were cleared up by the confession of a Polish schoolboy, aged 12. Stnnilaus Chelminish, who also betrayed accomplices aged 13 and 15. The trio’s motive was robbery.

AVINE SAIT’GGLED. PARIS, Nov. 29

French customs detectives discovered French and Spanish wines being smuggled to Germany by the train load. The wine was contained in kegs, then placed in tank cars filled up as such by the customs. ■ It is believed the praeticcfTms lioen carried out for three years, and a million sterling worth smuggled.

DEEP SEA TRIP. GIBRALTAR. Nov. 29. A Danish cedar skiff, rowed hv Captain Niels Ycndecodte, and two com- •« pan ions, arrived 'at Algecira* from Denmark. They aim to reach Bombay. SURFEIT OF AUSTRALIAN LOANS. LONDON. Nov. 29. The “Daily Express’s” city editor states there has been a surfeit of Australian loans in the last few months. The average investor likes to spread c his capital and underwriters will not hurry to get rid of the liability, as it is certain that the demand will arise before long. The present discount is merely temporary.

GERA!AN BRIQUETTES. LONDON, Nov. 29. Samples have reached London of German-made trial briquettes, from Aforwell coal. On behalf of the L. and N. Company. it is stated that Germany’s only grievance is that it is a. better briquette than that made from German coal. BURSTING DA At DISASTER. ALGIERS. Nov. 28. Graphic details are to hand of the flood in which sixty Europeans and hundreds of Algerians perished. Two-storey houses in the path of the torrent disappeared, and whole families along with their houses. AVithin half an hour the law courts and civtv large buildings had been obliterated. and the place where they stood is now a ravine sixty feet deep. Lightly constructed Algerian quarters were swept away like chaff and sleepers drowned in hundreds. It is estimated that the torrent travelled a hundred miles hourly. ALGIERS, Nov. 28.

A sergeant of flic Chasseurs de Afrique learning that many babies were isolated in a flood-bound train, swam his horse a mile carrying milk. The soldier swam out and brought back a baby whose cradle was balanced on the edge of a ravine near the house where the family perished.

CRIASTNAL NEGLIGENCE. , LONDON, Nov. 29. AVatkin James AVilliams, forty-six, a shipowner, was sentenced to a year’s gaol and ordered to pay costs of prosecution on thirteen counts in connection with sending out Die British steamers East'way and Tidewater, in an unseaworthy c-ohdition. The Eastway foundered with a loss of 23 lives in a hurricane in the Bermudas.

The Attorney-General alleged that the ships were persistently overloaded from foreign ports. The Judge’s summing up pointed out that although AVilliams said lie told his Atari no Superintendent to instruct captains that they must not overload, he had not called the supenintendent as .a, witness. The case was of gravest importance to the shipping community and sailors.