GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1928, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) DALHLEM EXPLOSION. BERLIN, Jan. 9. Police investigations of the explosion in the house revealed that the basement of the tenement was used as a chemical laboratory for the manufacture of detonators. The presence of explosives had been a strict secret, the owners fearing police interference, so they told the authorities that they were manufacturing cosmetics. When the debris was cleared away nine barrels of high explosive were revealed in the ruins, sufficient to wreck the whole of this wealthy residential district. Popular indignation in the neighbour, hood is intense. Weingartner, one partner, is being prosecuted. J Tfe other, named Stammer, was Mown to pieces by the explosion, which occurred while he was filling detonators with fulminate of mercury. Neither of the partners was a trained chemist, Weingartner being a fruit canncr before the war. who converted the factory during the war lor the manufacture of Vercy lights for aeroplanes. FORD’S PROPHECY. NEW YORK. .Jan. If). Henry Ford, interviewed at the Automobile Show, said he supports Hoover for President. He contemplates an airplane trip in the near future to his rubber plant on the Amazon. He considers the large triple-motor monoplane is the Hying machine of the future and expects an increase in the production of this typo of machine. Authorities in the districts of Columbia and Pennsylvania announce that licenses will not he issued for the new Ford cars, until they are equipped with two sets of independently operated brakes, in compliance with the traffic, laws compiled under the direction ol .Mr Hoover. Secretary of Commerce, and intended as a model for adoption by all states. Ford representatives sav that changes will be made to comply with the law in their areas.

CANADIAN MOVE. VANCOUVER, Jan. 10. Heavy pressure for a reimposition of the dumping fluty on Australian butter again is reported from Ottawa. Little fear is expressed that the Government will yield to the demands, as such a course would endanger the Trade Treaty with Australia, which is regarded with increasing respect, and Mr Robb is against a re-imposition of the duty.

DARING JEWEL ROBBERY. MELBOURNE, Jan. 10. A daring thelt in full view of hundreds of people was committed at Palfrey’s jewellery store in the city, shortly before noon. Two men smashed the plate glass

window and stole two racks containing fifty-four diamond rings, valued at 112,000, and decamped. Although chased by a number of men. who witnessed the. robbery, the thieves escaped.

CAPTAIN MISSING. LONDON, Jan. 0. The Gazette says that Scotland Yard officials are searching for Captain Arthur Robert James Cant, who arrived in Dnhlin from New Zealand, to lake over the new Government steamer Maui Romaic and .subsequently went to Liverpool, owing to a revision of Plans', since when he has not been seen. Mil AN lE,R V IN CANADA. VAXCOUVER, January 10. The economic co-operation of the Empire was urged hv'Mr Amery. addressing 1 1. a Hoard of Trade. “Without any strait jacket, of Imperial tariff, without limiting the units in forming tariffs to suit our own needs, we can find ample room for cooperation, and foster mutual support and stimulation hv other means. There are innumerable ways of co-operating and the problem of future years is how j in our free partnership, we can make that co-operation most effective/’

ENDURANCE FLIGHT. SAX FRANCISCO. January 10. Supervisors of Mills field air port lime ordered the board runway to be lengthened to 750 feet, in preparation for Smith’s coming attempt at an endurance record (light, which is planned to commence within a few weeks. The plane has been overhauled and its pet-

rol capacity increased.