GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) P 11! ATES’ AGREEM ENT. LONDON, Dec. 5. The Admiralty announces that Chinese pirates have agreed to produce f.alor, who is well. RUSSIA AND FRANCK. GENE VA, Doc. 5. Litvinoff has sent a message to Moscow stating that as a result of conversations with AT. Brinnd, the misunderstanding a.risng from the R.akovsky incident is closed. There is no question ol a Franeo-Russinn rupture. When the new Ambassador arrives in Paris he will open pourparlers regarding debts and credits; also a non-aggres-sion pact. Both statesmen regarded the immediate* cessation of a state of war between Poland and Lithuania as i n dispensable.

ALLEGED FORGERY. BUCHAREST, Deo. 5. < Ferdinand’s alleged letter in reference to Carol, cabled yesterday, is semiofficially described as a forgery. Brati an u before his death repudiated the letter. URCHIN NOT HURT. CHICAGO, Nov. 25. Airs ATahel Smith screamed on seeing a small boy run into the street in front of the automobile which her chauffeur was driving AVhen the hoy fell, and she felt a wheel bump over an obstruction. she slumped in her seat and died of heart failure. The chauffeur leaped out to find the hoy again on liis feet, making faces at lfiim. He was unhurt. It was a rock' they ran over.

LIGHT GETTING LAZY. LONDON, Doc. 5.

The “ Daily Mail ” Paris correspondent reports: “Light is getting lazy,” says the scientist, Abbe Aloreux. Calculations since the early ninteentli century show the. speed of light lias decreased regularly 2j miles per second yearly, from 192,030 miles per second to about 180,000 miles. The variation is not attributable to more accurate measurements. A satisfactory explanation is unavailable.

SPIES TRIAL. LONDON, Dec. 5

AVlion the court reopened and proceeded with the case against the alleged spies, Monkland, under crossexamination. said he told AfcCartnoy he might, as an underwriter, get in Jormatfan regarding thef sh'vpm'ents of arms to Russia’s border states from Britain. He did not suspect AlcCnrtney was acting against Britain until he received the first questionnaire. He admitted he had previously accepted £25 for fictitious information, merely in order to discover AlcCartney’s object. He was unable to say what he would have done with the money if McCartney had never reappeared. It was a week or a fortnight. Inter when he consulted tin* authorities. He adapted a dual pose after interviewing Admiral Hall. He was unable to understand the phrase in the latter “Remuneration he (meaning Alonkland) asks is large, because he had never demanded more money.” LONDON, Dec. 0.

Admiral Hall was giving evidence ns to how he arranged with AfpnkInnd lo meet the chief of the Government Department, when Air Humphreys asked if it could he heard in camera, and the court was cleared. ,STATE A 1 ENT DfSCR EDITED. PARIS. Dec. 5. The police discredit Afarineseu’s story especially in view ol the fact that no body beard the shots. “Le Afatin" says nevertheless numerous warning threatening letters were sent to Carol from Bucharest and were handed to the nolice. A BOR TI Y E CONF E R ENCE. GENEVA. Dec. 5. Sir A. Chamberlain and Litvinoff conferred for an hour without result. AN ACCIDENT. BERLIN, Dec. 5. Bouhkolf (cabled on 21st November) in a motor cycle accident at Gadt-s----berg was hospitalled with internal and other injuries. VESSEL CONVERTED TO OIL BURNER. LONDON, Dec. 5. Reports state the Narkumla has been converted to ail oil burner and the change has proved entirely satisfactory. The Naldera will be converted as soon as possible.