GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

(From yesterday’s second edition.) FORGED DOCUMENTS. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Miguel Avila, a -Mexican half-breed gentleman who furnished Hearst with spurious documents designed to show Calles was waging Bolshevik war against United States of America, was charged with forging these documents himself. When the Senate Investigatory Committee completed their inquiry the Committee exonerated as falsely charged everyone named in the Flcarst documents and will present the finding apportioning the blame as amongst Hearst himself, his detective and editors, who handled the story that in a few days brought United States and Mexico unpleasantly near war. The crowning evidence that forgery had been committed came when authentic State papers written and signed by Calles and other Mexicans, credited with having written the Hearst documents, were produced before the Committee.

AFGHAN ROYALTIES. ROME, Jan. 8. The Afghan Royalties were enthusiastically welcomed on arrival at Naples. They have left for Rome. FLOOD DEVASTATIONS. LONDON, Jan. 8. Hundreds are hornless, hungry, and scantily clad, including many children, who are crowding the relief depots, where many firms and individuals are sending gifts of food and clothing. Nearly a thousand homes are uninhabitable owing to the water carrying in creosote tar from riverside mills. A majority of bedding lias been ruined. Damage at Bermodsey is estimated at £IOO,OOO.