GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 29 February 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. CLAIM AND COUNTER-CLA IM. LONDON, Fell. 28. Arinstro rig-Whit worths have filed a claim for £150,000 sterling. South Australia counter-claiming probably £IOO,OOO on the ground of late delivery of engines wliorofor the Government contracted, delaying harvest transport. CINEMA ABLAZE. GHASTLY ITALIAN TRAGEDY. ROME. Feb. 28. The cinema fire at Mori ago resulted in a shocking disaster. 'I he number ~ of deaths is not yet ascertained, but { it is believed to be considerable, in- ym eluding many children. The display was given on the first floor of an old granary, constructed of wood, at which there were 300 spectators. A film caught fire, and the operators wooden cabin was quickly ablaze. The hall was filled with smoke, and men, women and children rushed to a single wooden staircase which collapsed. Podesta, the proprietor vainly trying to calm the maddened crowd. Many thus wore burned to death, asphyxiated or crushed to death. Meanwhile there were terrible scenes . in the village. Mothers rushing to see if their clililrcn were safe, weie unable to approach the burning building. , , Mori ago has no fire brigade and when the. firemen arrived from Treviso the building was a mass of cinders. Thus far forty bodies have been extricated from the ruins. Podesta and his wife escaped by jumping from a window. ELLEN TERRY’S BIRTHDAY. (Received this day a.m). LONDON. Feb. 28. World-wide congratulations were rereived by Miss Ellen Terry, including a telegram from their Majesties. Miss Terry was inundated with letters, sonnots, poems and telegrams, the lattei being numerous. The telephone was engaged all day transmitting. The post hag contained offers of patent medicine, cure tor bronchitis and old fashioned prescription Tor colds. Great bunches of flowers arrived continuous-. lv. A special programme largely played by the Terry family was broadcasted, featuring the, principal successes of her career. Birthday greetings were spoken and Terry’s broadcast replv to greetings sum the trihi *.e to me is a tribute to Shakespeare and so to England for is ho not the clr . glory of England. IN THE NUDE. "'ceeived this day at 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, Feb. 28. A curious antidote for the tendencies revealed in tlfe Kranz case (cabled on were discovered in Berlin. It consists of complete nudity.. To-day a large invited audience at Berlin Theatre saw men, women and children entirely denuded of the smallest particle of clothing carrying out gymnastic and enlisthenie exercises. The guests included a large number of Reichstag deputies and other prominent men and women. (The amazing show met with commendation. nor was (here any audible protest, when the medical adviser to the movement, Dr Hans Graaz. solemnly argued that an association of men and women in Garden of .Eden raiment was the surest method for mental, physical health, adding it would render impossible the atmosphere such as occurred in the Kranz case.