GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(2r Telegraph—Per Press Association.? ARAB ATROCITIES. BAGHDAD, Jan. 2. y Atrocities committed by Faisal Damish’s followers during a raid on tho Iraq frontier are angering all Iraq.. The raiders ferociously m.Tssacred all males, including babies, seized thousands of live stock, and left the women to starve. Tho sufferers were mostly harmless shepherds. News circulates too slowly to permit effective punitive action by the Royal Air F 'oree. Nomad Arabs are panic-stricken at the weakness of Ibn Sand's regime, which threatens to bring serious consequences. | POLAND AND LITHUANIA. ■ LONDON, Jan. 3. The Warsaw correspondent of the “Morning Post” says that events are showing that Sir Austen Chamberlain was correct in describing the compromise between Poland and Lithuania as only a step towards solution. The public utterances of Professor Vnldemaras. Premier of Lithuania, are becoming less conciliatory. He declares that it is for Poland to make proposals. These apparently must lie territorial concessions or a change of status of Vilna. Poland, however, regards the frontier as settled once and for all. “Under the circumstances,” says the correspondent, “no speedy solution of the dispute is anticipated here.”

SOUTH AAIERIOAN BEAUTIES. MADRID, Jan. 2. The Government is inviting each South American republic to appoint a woman representing its beauty and intelligence to participate in ceremonies connected with the Spanish-American exhibition in Seville in the autumn. The Spanish Government will defray the cost of the journey, and the expenses of their stay, and is sending a warship to America to convey the beauties to Spain and home again. RUGBY INTERNATIONAL KILLED. PARIS, Jan. 2. The brilliant international Rugby player, Dumanoir, was killed while carrying out military service as an air lieutenant. He was flying low when lie became caught in a high tree and crushed. He first came into prominence in Rugby in the season 1924-25 when he played against the New Zealanders. PRINCE HAS A FALL. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 4. The Prince of Wales, hunting with a C'ottes Moore pack in a spirited run his horse stumbled at a fence and the Prince was thrown. He landed head first in a deep snowdrift on the other side of the fence still holding the reins. He was unhurt and re-mounted and continued the chase.

1 MUTATING REGULATIONS. LONDON, Jan. 3. Several irritating war regulations which survived under the name of D.0.R..A., generally cartooned as an interfering old woman, may be removed under the recommendation of the Departmental Committee, which favours the sale of cigarettes and tobae- . co in shops until 9.30 in the evening. J instead of 8 o’clock; also tho sqle of tobacco and sweets in theatres, cinemu'* and public houses, so long as they are open. The Committee. however, recommends that the compulsory early closing of shops generally he embodied in permanent legislation. SOVIET DEATH SENTENCE. LONDON, Jan. 4. Official rejsirts issued in Moscow state that Poliakoff, commercial director of the grain department of the State Bank, and his assistant, Telesnin. were sentenced to death for selling to private merchants grain on more favourable terms than the Stat? Departments. Neither will benefit by the October amnesty, in view .of tho fact that their crimes proved that th.-y were involved excessively in prolonged abuse of their official positions for selfish purposes. The middleman receiver was also sentenced to death, hut the sentence was commuted to ton years’ imprisonment.

TUTANKHAMEN’S TOMB. LONDON, Jan. 4

At Luxor, Air Howard Carter opened the antechamber of Tutankhamen’s tomb. He discovered a beautiful alabaster canopic jar, containing the King’s viscera ; also valuable tomb furniture.

The chamber will be opened to visitors on January loth.

ADVICE TO MOTHERS. FOOD ADMINISTRATION. (Received this day at 9.30 a.in). LONDON, Jan. 1. A serious warning against sloppy fowl administered by a fond mother was told in these words by I)r Livingston, dental surgeon of London University at a conference of health nurses. “ 1 do not think there is anything in which microbes better grow than milk and biscuits pulped and given to little M illio before bed. Sticky, starchy, sloppy food ferments all night and two minutes later little Willie awakens with the toothache. Microbes get to the nerves of the blood, the poison spreads ami Willie develops tuberculosis glands. He is rushed to a hospital and is pullAl

round by fifty or sixty people, including doctors, nurses, surgeons and charwomen. Little Willie a little later is added to the wreckage that produces Bolshevism. My advice to mothers is ‘ Don’t do it.’ ”

BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY. LONDON, Jan. 4. The " Times ” says that 192" will be the most important in the history of the British film industry. Home trade distinctly progressed, largely owing to the anticipatory effect of the Act, enforced on Ist January, although t> ■several important provisions are inoperative until later. Many new studios \ are being built'. v

FEARS OF PONSFORD. (Received this day at 9.30 a m). LONDON. Jan. 4. Inc “ Daily News,” in a leader, says English selectors must have concluded the Marylebone tourists hardly afford the nucleus of a team represent!.ig England for the next Australian tour. There is nothing in the bowling that suggests terrors to Australian batsmanship II we desire to retain the honours we must do much more than provide bowlers to feed the monstrous averages of Ponsford, the most remarkable and most heartbreaking scoring machine ever invented. GLOZEL FRAUDS. PARIS, Jan. 3. While the antiquarian, Salomon Reinacli, stoutly maintains the authenticity of the Glozel discoveries, a member of Fradin’s family on whose land the discoveries were made, asserts ho believes the bricks found were the output of pottery tileworks on the same spot in loth century, the inscriptions being the proprietor’s abbreviated re--•pords of orders, I '