GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

/Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) FLOOD PRECAUTIONS. - (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). f LONDON, Jan. 8. v Every precaution is being taken to ' deal with a repetition of the flood. All basements and ground floors in the danger zone are evacuated. The police patrolled the embankment. Shelters and food have been provided for the temporarily homeless and several relief funds have been opened. At mid-night a large crowd of sightseers from theatres and parties assembled on the cm bankment. The river was high but ] high water safely passed without the floods recurring anywhere. ROYAL SYMPATHY. 4- LONDON. Jan. 8. \ Their Majesties telegraphed to the / Mayor of 'Westminster sympathising with the relatives of the flood victim;:. The King is contributing £IOO and the Queen £SO to the relief fund.

ENORMOUS DAMAGE. (Received this day at 10.16 a.ra.) LONDON, Jan. 8. Important places flooded include "Woolwich Arsenal, Billingsgate Market, Office of Ministry of Pensions. I Kew. This entails a delay in’ paying ex-servicemen pensioners, but the British Legion is attending to eases of necessity. The Salvation Army is distributing fowl in the poorer areas and has established kitchens. M nyor Lambert, who has opened a fund, states a thousand people living in basements cirtually lost everything. A large number of societies have responded to an appeal for immediate ro lief. Veterinaries are treating gratis hundreds of eats, dogs and poultry. Many houses are condemned in Horseferry Road area as dangerous.

ANOTHER GERMAN EXPLOSION. BERLIN. Jan. 8. A thunderous explosion apprised the citizens when the Dalhelm Villa, occupied by experimenting chemists was blown up. The garage and one wing were destroyed. Two were killed and eight injured. A CHURCH SCENE. LONDON, Jan. 8. A man seated behind a pillar, rendering his localisation difficult, interrupted the Rev. T. Wellard, when entering the pulpit at St. Paul’s this morning. “In the name of the Father and the Son and of the people of England, I protest against the Ministries of tho Church, acting as Christian Ministers, because they are accessories to the most hellish wrongs in defiance of the laws of God and man upon the people and poor by ministers judges, and law officers.” vergers asked the interjector to leave and followed his refusal by forcible ejection. He withheld his name and address, but promised to return. Ho said his grievance was against tho police arresting a poor man on false charges and accepting bribes, in which, lie declared, the ministers and magistrates acquiesced.

BOOTLEG GEE WE ECK ED. VANCOUVER, Jan. 8. The famous reputed bootlegging schooner Noble, running between Vancouver and San Francisco, was wrecked on the West Coast. A lifeboat from the Bamfield’ Cable Station made a gallant attempt at rescue, hut got only two survivors. Four others, the captain, first officer, engineer and cook were drowned. It is stated the first officer M. B. Wall, was a New Zealander. WIRELESS MESSAGES. LONDON, Jan. 8. Although wireless telephone calls from London to New Y'ork cost £l6 sterling for three minutes, over 2000 calls were made in the first year’s working.

BAND WOUND UP. LONDON, Jan. 8. The London Gazette contains a notice winding op the famous Besses of the Barn Band. AVAR RELICS USELESS. LONDON, Jan. 8. Regarding them as useless and repulsive, the committee of the Manchester Corporation decided to remove all war relics from parks and sell them as scrap metal. SOVIET GRAIN. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.A LONDON, Jan. 8. The “Berliner Tagcblalt’s’’ Moscow correspondent states that the Soviet’s export of grain which was twelve million tons annually before the war, and was three millions last year, cannot exceed one million for the current year, while a decline to six hundred thousand is not impossible. Peasants bring to the market only G 5 per cent, of the grain compared with that before the war.

Tho “Daily Express” states the peasants are hoarding the harvest and are willing to sell only at prices the (state is unwilling to pay. Tho authorities are organising for a. drive to force the surrender of the grain surplus. PARIS, Jan. 8. The Tribunal of Commerce ordered the attachent of £159,000, deposited in various banks by the Soviet Commercial Mission. The order was made at the instance of Banca Arnus, of Barcelona, with which the Soviet contracted for the monopoly of export of oil

from the Caucasus to Spain. The Soviet denounced the contract and despite stipulation for compulsory arbitration in the event of disagreement, consigned the oil to other Spanish firms.

M. BRIAND’S REPLY. PARTS, Jan. 8. M. Briand’s reply' to Air Kellogg recalls Briaml’s previous proposal on the same subject and adds that the French Government highly appreciates the favourable reception the United States Government accorded M. Brinnd’s proposal. Tt considers Air Kellogg’s suggested procedure satisfactory, and that Jit. would be advantageous to concentrate its character forthwith by a FrancoAmerican signature. The note says: ‘I am authorised to inform you that * the French Government- is ready to k co-operate with America in submitting « 4 for approval of all nations an Act signt>d by France and America, under which the contracting parties renounce aggressive war and accept every Pacific method France and America would invite other States to adhere thereto.

IRISH AFFAIRS. LONDON. Jan. S. “Tho English, in my few years of office have never interfered with any Irish matter,” said Air Tim Healy at n. banquet given by the Executive Council at Dublin, on the eve of bis retirement. Air Cosgrave presided and Protestant and Catholic Archbishops of Dublin were present. Healy acknowledging a- cascade of compliments, continued : “ATav I now be canonised. I have enjoyed this flattery, I am not such a fool as to believe it all. Old men are useful as undertakers. The country needs young men. You have heard talk about our foreign King, but he is a gentleman. AA T e know his pedigree; I wish we knew as much about those who refer to his ijif*rferspce in