GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright. PL AC! UK EPIDEMIC. DELHI, Jan. 28. The plague epidemic at Hyderabad in Decca is growing alarmingly. It is officially reported there are hundreds of death's daily. The city is being evacuated by the inhabitants lor the isolations camps. BAILWAY DISASTER. DELHI. Jan. 28. Forty were killed and thirty injured in a railway disaster 100 miles from Bangoon on the main line to .Mandalay. A mail train crossing a bridge near Kyautaga dashed into the river.' The engine and three full carriages were submerged. It is practically establishy.. l etl that the disaster was the work of | wreckers at Kyautaga, for some time the centre of disallectoin. NOVELIST DEAD. (Australian Press Association & Sun.) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 20. Obituary.—At Nice, the novelist. Ibanez, from bronchitis and pneumonia complicated with diabetes. SPAIN AND LEAGUE. GENEVA, Jan. 29. Spain is expeqted to rejoin the League before the Assemibly in September. MANY TRIBUTES. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). MADRID, Jan. 29. Newspapers of mil shades pay a tribute to Ibanez. More than four thousand telegrams were despatched to Mentone and many delegations arc going thither. MENTONE, Jan. 29. Ibanez died at the beautiful village of Fontana Rosa, and sorrow over his prolonged exile from his native land k id believed to have undermined his " health and constitution. Latterly lie divided his time between his turnons garden, which he intended to bequeath to writers of 'the world and his new book which he intended to name “The Fifth Horseman of Apocalypse,” for which ho attended the last Assembly at Geneva to obtain local colour. His sons arrived l>v aeroplane before his death, but his daughter and her husband were late. The novelist wished to lx- buried at Mentone, saying be did not want bis body to be taken to Spain, so long as the present regime existed. A PREDICTION. v (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 29. Sir Oliver Lodge predicts the time is certain to come when the earth will stop spinning, and the moon will crash upon it. The speed at which Hhe earth is rotating is gradually slowing down, owing to the friction of the tides. The moon is no longer spinning because the Earth produced tides therein, which stopped rotation. There was a time when the earth spun so fast that the day was only tour hours long. The moon then was part of the earth but broke away and has moved further away ever since. A\ lien the Earth’s rotation ceases, the pro- - cess will he reversed and the moon will return and crash down upon the par-

ent. Stupid people even in the present day take the great poem in the v first chapter of Genisis and interpret it literally. There was a sort of disturbance when science discovered that the universe was not brought into existence in a great hurry in a period cf 14-1 hours.

AUTOGRAPHED bat. LONDON, Jan. 29

A cricket bat autographed by New Zealanders of 1927 realised fifty-five guineas for the benefit of Alexandra Orphanage at Hampstead. The highest bidder was Sir Edgar Mowring who is presenting the ba',t to the Orphanage Cricket Club. SOVIET DECISION. (Received this day at 9.30 a.in'). LONDON, Jan. 29. The Central News Agency’s Riga correspondent states advices from Moscow report the Soviet decided to reinstate Zinovieff and Kainenolf following their second retraction, and handing over of documents relating to the activities of the opposition. The decision awaits the confirmation of the political executive. A SENSATIONAL ARREST. BERLIN, Jan. 294 The political police arrested ex-Sergt.-Major German, of the Imperial Air Force, and now a land owner in the State of Oldenbni'g, who is alleged to have been a British spy, and to have set fire to Ahlhorn Aerodrome, Oldenburg, in December 1917, when it contained six Zeppelins ready to depart on a bombing flight over England. The police are most secretive and refuse to reveal details and identity of the place of the arrest. REPORTED RUSSIAN REVOLT. [“Sydney Sun” Cables.] RIGA, Jan. 29. An unconfirmed message states four of the most pro-Trotsky Soviet artillery regiments have revolted and are bombarding Kremlin.

AVAR COMPENSATION. OSLO. Jan. 29. Germany lias agreed to pay Norway about £330,000 compensation for Norwegian seamen killed or wounded during tlie war through the German submarine campaign. The Norwegian Government will devote the money to the families of the victims.