GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. INDIAN FRONTIER ATTACKS. LONDON, Match 4. A Basra correspondent says it is understood a battalion of Gurkhas are arriving from India to reinforce Koiveit. Tho Sultan of Koveit’s. messengers returned from King Wltnbis saying lie was unable to answer for Mutairs Atiaillis. and advising to prepare against an attack. The messengers declare they saw hostile tribes, mustering at Nnjn. , IRISH ELECTION PROBLEM. [“Sydney Sun” Cables.] LONDON, Alarch 4. The “Daily Alail” says the Freo State Parliament is asking the Committee of privileges procedure, to decide whether James Larkin, the communist elected tor North Dublin in. the general election of 1927, is James. Larkin who was adjudicated bankrupt in 1924. It is pointed out that one.. James Larkin was elected for North Dublin, and has never claimed the seat. Another James Larkin, whosedescription in the nomination papers, coincided with the others, was not elected when he stotrd for Dublin County. Nobody is able to say whether the successful candidate is the notorious strike leader or his son. The former at Lite date of the election was still an undischarged bankrupt and ineligible for Parliament. SOVIET RATTLE PLANES. LONDON. March it. The "Daily New’s” Moscow correspondent. states that the fuselages ot fourteen battle planes, presented to the Soviet Air Force, bore the inscription in large red letters “Our answer to Chamberlain." They are the first ot sixty-two. planes at present being built by public 'subscriptions to commemorate the breach of relations with Britain. This makes the Soviet's second British air detachment, the other being the ultimatum squadron, built in reply to Lord Curzon’s ultimatum. LONDON, March I. The "Daily Mail’s” Rome correspondent says D'Annunzio is seriously ill from pneumonia, supervening on influenza. JAP PRINCESS ILL. (Received this day at 9 n.m.) TOKYO, Alarch 5. The illness of the Princess Saehsiko. younger Imperial (laughter, hitherto not serious, has changed adversely into a critical condition of pneumonia. OBITUARY. DELHI. Match ft. Obituary.—Lord Sinra. from heart failure. SOVIET SHIPMASTER. MOSCOW. Alarch o.' The president of the Soviet merchant marine, states the captain ol the Tovarisch will ho reporting shortly and if the report shows the officers have been guilty of infringement of the rules of established international practice at sett they will be punished with the full severity of the Soviet laws.