GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

.Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. i THE EX-KAISER’S SISTER. BERLIN, March 7. ! The ex-Kaiser’s sister failed man ' attempt to prevent the publication ol a ’ book describing her romance. Tho Court that she was a person ol histoiie fame, but tho Judge granted the re* ’ quest 4.0 suppress photographs of her- ' sell and Zouhkofl taken together. ) AIRSHIP CONSTRUCTION. | BRITAIN LEADS THE WORLD. RUGBY, March 6. 1 Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Branek- ‘ or, in a lecture last night, claimed that in airship construction it could honestly be said that Britain was ahead of the world. Speaking on air transport more generally. .Sir Sefton said that the main problem at present was to reduce the cost of operations, ami make air transport pay. A very high standard of safety and a. good standard of reliability had been reached. He prophesied a market amongst foreign nations for British .commercial aircraft ais there had been in the past in connection with Britain’s shipbuilding industry. TROOPS BY ’PLANE (Received this day at 8 a .in.) LONDON, March 7. The Daily Mail’s Jaffa correspondent -says that the Government is taking immediate steps to deal with any hostile movements of Ibn Saud towards the Trans-Jordania frontier. A force is being mobilised and men are ;8 recalled from leave. The second aril mowed caif company h.ais left Raiatdh ;8 for Amman. A number of troop- — carrying aeroplanes, said to contain twenty men apiece, reinforcements from Egypt, passed over for, Amman. Aeroplane patrols are keeping close observation on the territory south and south-east of Amman, but no concentration of tribes has been noticed. INTER NATION A L CONGRESS PARIS, March 8. The two chief German ex-service-men’s organisations, representing four million ex-servicemen, agreed to roopernte with the British Legion and ex-servicemen’s organisations in Poland, France. Italy, Roumania, Jugoslavia, Belgium, Portugal and Czechoslovakia in arranging a world congress to discuss a means of ensuring “■ world peace. BYE-ELECTION. LONDON. March 7. The Middlcsborough bye-election, owing to the death of the Rt. Hon. C. P. Trevelyan resulted: Thompson Kingsley Griffiths (Liberal) 10,717 A. Ellis (Labour) 10,<528 Stanley Sadler (Conservative) 8.213 Tho Labour majority at the previous election was SDG. there being only a Conservative in the field. JAP PRINCESS DEAD. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) TOKYO, March S. Princess Sachiko lias succumbed, septicaemia supervening pneumonia. Tlie Empress, who was personally and devotedly nursed by the Emperor is suffering from catarrh, but is reported to be improving. CHINESE WARFARE. HONGKONG. March 8. A big success was registered by tlio Cantonese army, operating against tho Soviet Communists, who recently had a reign of terror in the Swabul and Hailukfung Districts. An encircling movements is being carried out. Important towns and villages have been recaptured and many Communists have been killed and their arms seized. The remainder are fleeing to the hill lastnesses. COM MONWE AI -Tf 1 L 0 AN. LONDON. March R. The underwriters receive 81 per cent of the (nnimonwealth loan. PRINCESS MARY. LONDON. March 8. Princess Mary and Viscount Lascells left for Egypt where they will spend a. month as guests of Lord Lloyd, touring the Nile and visiting the Pyramids. POISON GAS. MOSCOW, March S. The Soviet’s central executive ratified tlie Geneva protocol against the use of poison gas in warfare with a reservation to be free to retaliate against those violating It,