GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

it. (Australian & N.Tk Cable Association.) SOVIET TO SEND OBSERVER. GENEVA, Fch. 11. :>n The Soviet has announced that it is u- sending an observer to all meetings of o- flic League! Committee on Security a. and Arbitration, commencing on February 20th. COMPENSATION TO FREE STATE. LONDON, Feb. 11. of Details are issued of a further supm plementary estimate of £794,513 of L which £220,000 is for grants in compensation for damage done to property in the Irish Free State. NORWEGIAN CABINET RESIGNS. LONDON. Feb. 11. The Norwegian Labour Government u _ which failed to survive a censure mo1C tion, has resigned. M. Mowinckel, an 5 , n cx-Piomier, is again forming a Cabinet. GIFT TO ART GALLERY. LONDON, Feh. 11. 0 _ Sir John La very, R.A. has given a s ( j collection of his own pictures to the Art Gallery at his birthplace, Belfast. h] It is estimated that the value is bein tween £25.000 and £30,000. BRITISH NAVY INCREASES. LONDON, Feb. 11. The Admiralty is building the 10,e- 000-t-on cruiser Exeter at Devonport. i- It has also announced the names of nine destroyers and six submarines, to ■J be built in the current programme. 10 b- ANGLICAN FACTIONS. LONDON, Feb. 13. n_ The donionstrntons at St. Cuthbert’s L 0 Church, Danven, which began on sth. [l . February, culminated in an extraordlv iiiarv scene. Mounted and foot police guarded the Church, in which was a 1C congregation of eight hundred, who , e remained quiet until the Vicar, the ; s Rev. Laurie, went into the pulpit, p. Then he was unable to make himself „ heard, owing to laughter and shouting. , e The Vicar then went into the street i and returned with police officers. Amidst ironical laughter and singing, the police officer accompanied the Vi,r ear as lie moved about the Church, s _ taking names as humlreds of the pcov pie trooped out. The Vicar, from the chancel, then nnounced that owing to the blasphemy the service would end. When the Vicar went out into the strete again, there was an outburst of >r “booing.” Mounted police escorted ie him to the Vicarage, s- Legal proceedings will follow the dcie monstration. a . s- KING CUTS His THROAT WHILE SHAVING.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 12. Tlie visit of King Anmnullah was cut short owing to an accident while shaving. He sobered a deep gash in the neck, and, despite advice visited Antwerp. The wound grew worse, and lie abandoned his programme, and loft for Switzerland. A CAUSE OF CANCER. ‘THE DISEASE OF CIVILISATION.’ SIR ARBUTHNOT LANE'S OPINION LONDON. Feb. 12. Sir Arbutlmot Lane expressed the opinion that motoring is the cause of a new form of cancer of the lungs, from which ten per cent of cancer victims die. He bases his statement on figures supplied from Vicuna, showing an increase in cancer of the lungs since 1890. Sir Arbulhnol Lane says: ‘Mt is obvious that the condition is coincident with the motor can and the use of tar on roads. I am convinced that cancer is a disease of civilisation. as shown by its comparative absence in India, wherever the natives adopt the natural form of living; though where Indians adopt the habits and food of the white men, the incidence of cancer is equal to that in Europe."’ THE KRANZ CASE. PUBLIC APPALLED. uBER LIN, Feb. 13. 111 Revelations in tile Kranz case conLI tinue to appal the public. The frivolous indifference and brazen mendacity with which Hildegarde Scheller answered i| nest ions by the Vice-Prefect of Police is regarded as most shocking, . when it is remembered that her brotlilc er and boy lover were killed practi- " eally in her presence. The girl’s callousness is partly ex'T plained in a discovery made by a police-woman who went to the Scliellor home to inquire regarding Hilde1S garde’s antecedents. She found the girl’s father bent over a table, with his head in his hands. He was not bowed down by grief, however, but solving a crossword puzzle. Elinor Ratti, a girl friend of Hildegarde, who visited the house on the night of the murders, was ruthlessly n cross-examined when she attempted to i- exonerate Kranz at the expense of Scheller. u A FRENCH PROPOSAL, a LONDON, Fell. 13. Hie ‘Daily .Mail ”■ Berlin corrcsp m- , dent says Senator Lenierv, an '\ t I‘rencli -Minister made a remarkable 1 statement in the newspaper “ Taglicne Rundsehan ” about negotiations ho is conducting in Berlin with a view to gaining (ierman co-operation in the exploitation of French colonies. He describes a plan to form several companies employing equally Franeo-Ger-man capital in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Africa, Senegal, and Lenierv states Quai D’Orsav lias approved of the plan. COLLIERY DISASTER. LONDON. Feb. 13. All the victims of the colliery disaster were married. The survivors state that the fourth blast half stunned them. They had to cover two miles, guided by a solitary lamp. They had to grope and crawl most of the way. All the escuers were withdrawn as the roof had fellen in, and the mine jjjJ has been rescaled. DA RDANEL I. ES CAM! >.\ IG N. VON SANDERS’S REVELATIONS. LONDON. Feb. 13. Von Sanders’s book. “Five Years in Turkey.” just translated into English, contains the interesting revelation that in the Dardanelles crisis, the decision often hung on a knife edge. Von Sanders adds: “Had the British succeeded, the fortress of the Straits would have been quickly silenced, as it had little ammunition and thus there would have been no further difficulties in the way to Constantinople. After the failure of the naval attack, it was dear to him that Britain would not relinquish such an obvious prize. Fortunately, a full month elapsed, enabling us to complete the most indispensable arrangements. Though the British underestimated the powers of the Turks, it was most fortunate for us that the British attacks did not last more than a day. There were punctual pauses of several days.” Von Sanders says the British, had they lmt known it, were within an ace of success,