GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

(Australian Press Association & Sun.) WAHABIS HA IDS. JEHUSALK.M., Feb. 22. Waliabis, under Il m Alashor, attacked Belli Salehr tribe, which was pasturing flocks of camels at Sliarabe, ltiO miles from the frontier of Transjordania. They killed 100 Beni Sakhrs. Another raid of Wahabis with a thousand camelry and three hundred horsemen attacked Ei/.abnn Dhakisli tribes in Amman, while the males were absent with flocks. They slaughtered filty families and plundered the camps.

SOVIET PROPOSALS. GENEVA, Feb. 22. The text i.s published of the Soviet disarmament proj>os;ils. The preamble states: “.Desirous of safeguarding general peace and considering the existence of increased armed forces constitute an immense danger, bearing a germ of fresh inevitable armed conflagrations, mc solemnly acknowledge the only true method of safeguarding pence i.s a general complete abolition of all armed forces.” Proposals include the division of alf seas and oceans into sixteen clones to be protected by certain specified nations from the standpoint of their resources. COURT FINDING. ROME. Feb. ‘22. A Court of Inquiry found the direct cause of the loss of the Prineipessn Mafalda (cabled on 20th October) that the left propeller shaft fell away, causing a leak that, was unstoppable, because it was impossible to close one of tha small communication portals. a COTTON MILLS' DISPUTE.

LONDON, Fell. 21. The employers have proposed a joint conference to consider what goes to make tip the cost of production of yarns and cloths and to report wherein the costs may he reducible. The workers are consulting, hut liavo already affirmed that there is no justification for reducing wages. CHURCHES OPPOSED. fßeoeivcd this day at 8.50 a.m.) AVASHINGTON. Fob. 23. The Federal Council of Churches issued a statement asserting that Church organisations are opposed to the naval programme as “provocative of war psychology, and as making increasingly difficult, the continuance of the President’s efforts towards a general naval reduction.” LEGITIMACY ACT. (Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 23. An interesting application under the Legitimacy Act, 1020, was heard by Mr Justice Hill, who granted a declaration of legitimacy to Ladies Burnham and Somerleyton, Mrs MeCalmont and Maximilian John de Bathe, all children of Sir Henry and Lady Charlotte de Bathe, who lived together thirteen years before marriage, in 1870, owing to the objections hv Sir Henry’s father to the marriage. The four above children were born before the marriage, which-took place following the death of the objecting parent. It was pointed out the declaration did not affect the Do Bathe title, as an act, specially stipulating that there was nothing therein that could transmit the right of succession of the piety sent holder, Sir Hugo De Bathe, who ‘ married an actress, .Mrs Lnngtray. He wins the younger son of the same undon horn after tho marriage. PORTUGUESE; BOMB MAKING. t"* [“ The Times ” Service.] ( LONDON, Feb. 22. J A Lisbon correspondent reports the ‘ roadside discovery of two mutilated 1 bodies, believed to have been killed ; by an explosion of self-made bombs, led the police to inform the citizens of the discovery of the countrywide manufacture of bombs, and also documents allegedly proving that adversaries of dictatorship, in co-operation c with communists, are spreading odious 1 propaganda abroad. The police appeal 1 for assistance to suppress the bomb- ,r| making. ;