GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)) BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON, Jan. 25. ( Declaring the Government’s memorandum, cabled on 18tli, was most disappointing regarding arbitration, Lord Cecil says the refusal “all in”, of arbitration could not be due to Government thinking arbitration advisable with good people, but- wrong with had. The only other possible conclusion as that Government preferred to arbitrate than quarrel with powerful countries. which were not very high minded in their ettitude. “I do not know the ground on which Government argues that the jieople would not support general arbitration.. Will Government subject the. question to it free vote in the Commons, or ask League to remove such doubts Britain’s signature was all embracing. Arbitration would give the world the lead. Persistence in the present attitude was tantamount to guilt in maintaining what was a legitimate method, of settling disputes. reprieve REFUSED. LONDON. Jan. 26. A visit of the aged mother of Daniel Driscoll, and farewell to her son v in the condemned cell, caused remarkable scenes outside Cardiff Gaol. As she was leaving the great crowd surged round the grief stricken woman in efforts to shake her hand. It was only with difficulty that she reached a

taxi call. Mr T. P. O’Connor states that he has received a telegram front Liverpool Trade Unionists asking for the call of a general stoppage of work on Thursday if Sir Austen Chamberlain’s decision is not altered. Mr O’Connor says he has replied ' “I cannot but J personally approve even of a general stoppage of work if it will stop what I consider a judicial murder.” Roman Catholics are arranging for *~ the Rosary to ho recited outside the prison f nt the 'time oifj the execution. As a dramatic last minute effort to. secure the commutation of Rowland’s and Driscoll’s sentences, nine memibera of the Jury have signed a memorial which will he rushed to the Homo Office this morning. This states that the Jury was influenced by the allegation that the men were members of a K ;„,-r and that the jurymen think that two”lives should not he forfeited for one. Masses for the doomed men were said in many Roman Catholic Churchos in Wales. V ACTRESS SHOT DEAD. BUDAPEST. Jan. 25. Dressed ready to go to a ball, "Valentinia Convinci, a leading actress in the National Theatre at Bucharest, was found shot dead in her dressing room. Her husband, a rich merchant, whose house is a rendezvous for artists and writers was also shot, but may recover. / BAPTISED FROM MANY' WATERSBELGRADE, Jan. 25. > The infant Prince lias been named Tontislav, after the first Craot- King, 925 A.D. The child was baptized with many* - waters, from the Danube Cave and Vardar Rivera and front the Adriatic •Sea. QUADRUPLETS MADRID Jan. 25.' ■. A iieasant woman has given birth to _ four healthy girls. . BRITAIN’S LAND VALUES. LONDON, Jan. 26. Advocating the taxation of land values, Mr Phillip Snowden, speaking at Hanley, said if the value of land in Britain, in proportion to the population, were taken at only half New Zealand’s figures, a tax of five-pence in the pound (the same rate as that imposed in Sydney) would produce a hundred millions sterling. MURDERED C(>NSTARLE. LONDON, Jan. 25. The police at Liverpool detained a man and women in connection with the alleged theft of a motor car. Twenty detectives surrounded the hotel where there were suspects. The man when confronted, allegedly whipped out a fully loaded five chamber revolver, but a detective struck the weapon out of bis band just as tlie trigger was pulled and the cartridge

misfired. Developments are expected. A A recent cable stated that the weekend witnessed cinema-like jxilice activities in London, which many associated with the brutal murder of Police Constable Gutteridge (in an Essex Village cm September 27th). Intercepted telephone messages resulted in / elaborate plans to surprise motorists returning to a garage at Battersea, and one man was taken to the police stacio'ii and detained. A search of the garage car revealed a service revolver loaded with dum-dum bullets, and a number of surgical instruments and drugs. AFGHAN ROYALTY. PARIS, Jan. 25. The King and Queen of Afghanistan arrived and were greeted at the station by a smiling President, booming guns and tlie Afghan National Anthem. The King was a handsome figure in a gorgeous red, gold and silver uniform of an Afghan General, with a white egret plume in his cap. .The Queen, who anywhere would pass for a European, was wearing a smart hat of brown velour, and a fur coat. There was a touching scene when I'riucc Hedayntullali. aged sixteen and a-half, who lias been studying in Paris, greeted bis parents, whom be has not seen for two years.

Then began an imposing, colourful procession along the Champs Klysees. through La Place do la Concorde, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where the Royal Party are the guests of*r France.

King Ainanullnh is using the bed on which Napoleon slept, and the writing q| table that was used bv Ganihetta. King Amanuilali’s arrival in London is fixed for March 14. bitten by mad dog. BUDAPEST, Jan. 25. The mother, aged eightv-five, and younger sister of Manui. leader of the National Peasant Party of Roumania, were bitten by a bouse watch dog, which suddenly became mad. They were taken to the Pasteur Institute at Kelozvar. V new knighthood. LONDON. Jan. 24. Major-General the Hon. Alexander Hore-ltuthven has been gazetted a Knight-Commander Of St. Michael and St. George. (Major-General Sir Alexander HoreRuthven, V.C., D. 5.0.. has commanded the Ist. Infantry Brigade at Aidershot since 1924. He saw active service in the Sudan in 1893 and during the Great War in France and Gallipoli. In 1908 he was Military Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia).