GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. AMBASSADOR AT BERLIN. BERLIN. Feb. 27. The Government agreed to Sir Horace Rumltolci’s appointment as British Ambassador at Berlin. TREATY WITH UNITED STATES. LONDON, Ecb. 28. Sir Austen Chamberlain, in reply to a question, said the United States had not offered a multi-lateral treaty to Britain as she did to France. YON BUCKNER'S EXPLOITS. LONDON, Feh. 28. Yon Buckner’s daring exploits in the Seaddler are picturesquely told in ” The Sea Devil,” published to-day. The ship ran through the British blockade in the course of a storm, and emerged siieeesstullv Irom a soaieli. one of the crew, hewigged. passing as the skipper’s wife. Ranging the South Atlantic and Pacific, she scuttled five million worth of shipping during 1917. and sank fourteen English. French. Canadian and American vessels. Despite the havoc, she gained the teputation of never having taken human life. She was eventually wrecked on Alopellio Island by a tidal wave and c aptured. CORONER CENSURES RUSSIANS. LONDON'. Feb. 28. The Coroner, in giving a verdict ol drowning, owing to a collision at sea, said be was not satisfied that the Russians bv any means did all they ought to have done to help the men drowning, under their very nose. It was incomprehensible wily nothing was done to save their lives. SOVIET 1? A XIS H M ENT. LONDON, Feb. 29. A British report from Moscow states a prominent Trotskvite, Fiatakov. has written from his place of banishment. recanting and asking io-r Ternstatement in the Communist Party. bound and burned. PARIS. Feb. 28. A hound man, burned so as to be; unrecognisable, was found in a ditcln near Alelun. Marks of a motor car, nearby, indicate that tbe man was brought to the spot, bound in the car on arrival, sprinkled with petrol and burned to death. RUSSIAN AID. DELHI, Feb. 23. Definite evidence of Soviet intrigue in India is furnished in a statement at the Indian Railway federation meeting, that a large sum was donated from Moscow to finance the recent Bengal-Magpur railway strike, when 15.000 workers were involved. The money was sent to Calcutta via the Deutsche Bank of Berlin and National City Bank, New York, hut on unauthorised instructions by a Railwayman's Union official, the money was refunded, and Moscow was asked to he more careful in sending it in THE CORNWALL CRIME. LONDON. Feb. 28. Maynard was carried into the Court at Rude, doubled up in a mattress, and covered with a rug. Though a doctoi certified that he was perfectly able ■ to appreciate the proceedings, Maynard continued to groan and writhe as • though in agony, throughout the formal proceedings. The case was adjourned. Maynard later recovered sufficiently to walk steadily. FRENCH SHIPBUILDING. : LONDON, Feh. 29. A Paris correspondent reports 'I ardieu introduced a bill authorising tlieGovermneiit to grant special terms and credits, approximately a million - sterling yearly for a quinquennium to assist the shipbuilding industry. It ) is pointed out Ilia! Trance since the war has built a million tons, bringing the mercantile tonnage to 3. 500.000. The 10.-ses last triclinium exceeded tin: construction. Financial assistance is i necessary to enable France to main tain her position.