GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

<Zr Telegraph—Per Press OBITUARY, COMMISSIONER. E. CaDMAX. LON DON. Dec. 12. The death is announced of Commissioner Elijah Cadina.il. the first Salvation Army Captain, whose adoption of the title led to the system Of Dinks within the army. SURTAX AN UNEARNED INCOMES LONDON; Dec. 14; The Parliamentary Labour Party has adopted a resolution ill favour of a surtax of two shillings in the £ oli all unearned incomes overt-£SOO. The scheme wfis much discussed in recent months. The resolution instructs the Executive of the party to have the proposals placed vigorously before the country. Mr Snowden favours the surtax ing used for national debt reduction, f hut many others in the Labour Party t desire it to be available for social services. It is believed that the tax will bring in eighty millions sterling per anniiin though Mr Snowden is doubtful ii’ it will yield so much. The ‘‘Daily Herald,” in supporting the scheme says: Only 250.000 will be liable to surtax. “ These people can pay. and it is right they should he made to pay, and they must he made to pay.”

giant submarine. LONDON, Dee. 13. A Paris message states that France has begun the construction of the largest and most powerful submarine, which exceeds by hundreds of tons any undersea craft being built. It is capable of going all' way across the Atlantic submerged, and will carry a hundred men, and be able to fight surface vessels, lay mines and attack batleships at long range. A British United Press message states that the construction of this craft is the outcome of the failure of the Geneva Conference. France at present is slightly inferior to Italy. MUSSOLINI’S BOMBAST. (Received this day at 9.30 a.in). LONDON, Deo. 14. “Italy is going to lie one of the great powers of the world, and will rise to a prominent position not as a Holy Rome Einpii'e, hut a new Italy. The Italian Empire is to lie based on a foundation of rock,” said Mussolini in a striking interview with the “Evening Standard’s’’ Rome correspondent. Ho likens the present day Italy to an athlete’s carefully trained body, clean, hardened, nourished, clean-living, clean thinking, leading a man’s life full of love of country and the country’s rulers and it is T, Benito Mussolini, who has cared for tlie moral physical diet of Italy, who is carefully watching that nothing injurious to my country finds its way into the system. Like a proud parent, I am soon going to launch a child I have nurtured. I am certain the world will credit me for a purified Italy. Many short sighted people say the regime is tyranny because I have forced people to do things distasteful. Such is not tyranny hut the wise GrtU vemment of Faseismo and the greatest blessing that could come to Italy. I challenge the world to take a leaf from my diary. Italy is going to make it. self felt. It is no longer a C. 3 nation. The name of Mussolini is going to count from end to end of the glolie as a symbol of right, fairness and wise Government without tyrannv.

OIL TANKER BREAKS IN TWO. LONDON, Doc. 14. . There was a sensation at Liverpool when the Anglo-American Oil Company’s tanker Seminole grounded in the Mersey and broke its back, ieleasing eight thousands tons of petrol, which is drifting towards Liverpool with the current The danger of fires is so great that all the police were rushed to the landing stages to prevent smoking and striking of matches about the ferry boats. The fire brigade laid out a thousand yards of hose and had hydrants ready for any emergency along seven miles of dockquay The troopship, California, with twelve hundred troops aboard, is being towed out of danger.

STUDENTS’ R'AG. Y' LONDON, Dec. 13. Oxford and Cambridge Rugbyites over-reached themselves by ragging in the West End of London. Amazing scenes of disorder occurred in two theatres. and the managers were obliged to lower the curtain an hour earlier. The rag was continued in the streets, and several arrests were made. Several women complained of damaged dresses. The police were summoned and threw out several young men in evening dress. After that, wild scenes were witnessed in Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, men clambering on roofs of taxicabs, attempting to force an entrance into restaurants and night clubs, which 1 hastily closed their doors. Tho undergraduates practically took possession of one theatre, and invaded the stage, so that it was impossible for the artistes to carry on. The orchestra and others in the theatre walked out after being attacked. Hundreds of glasses were broken, five hydrants were torn from the walls, and corridors flooded. -Missiles were hurled at the stage. The management returned hundreds of pounds sterling to patrons who demanded their money back. L.

WIDOW’S SENSATION. NICE, Dec. 13. An aged widow’s story of how she allegedly foiled a murderer in her lonely villa has thrilled visitors to the Riviera, where the alarming frequency of brutal assaults is causing concern. The widow related that a burglar burst into her bedroom early in th ■ morning, waving a revolver and bloodstained chopper, and gave her the option of surrendering jewels or death. " She calmly told him the maid had ti key of a sec ret hiding place. “If you kill me you will never find them.” Tho burglar agreed to wait, and downstairs she found the body of the maid, with her head split open. While the burglar was engrossed in searching for her, the widow telephoned for the police, hut the burglar escaped/" Later there was a sensational denouement. when the widow contessed to killing the maid, after a violent quarrel. and faked the burglary story to avert suspicion. UNFIXANCIAL PILGRIMAGE.

LONDON, Dec. 14. tiie newspaper “Sketch” states after organising a pilgrimage of Contemptihles to Moms last month, Captain J. P. Danny, Chairman of the Contemptibles’ Association, reveals lie had to mortgage his house to meet a £4bL___/ deficit. The ironical fact is that Captain Danny himself, who was thrice wounded, was unable at the last minute. owing to disability to accompany his comrades to jfons. Danny states on the strength of a women’s telephone offer to subscribe £I,OOO, which was unfulfilled, he issued 200 invitations. Despite the newspaper appeals the public suhscribetj only £192.