GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

istralian & N.Z. Cable Association. FLOATING DOCK TOW. LONDON, March 11. A lie “ Morning Post ” says the Ad-■Jj alty have placed a contract for tow- ' the fifty thousand tons floating k to Singapore with a Dutch firm. ; task presents the greatest problem sea transport ever undertaken, tish firm admit the Dutch company the only firm m the world capable undertaking the proposition at a sonable price. It will he taken in j sections, with four of the most verlul tugs to each section. An idea the size i-s offered by the statement ,t there is sufficient space within it nfortablv to house the world's big;t finer. There is floor space tor 0(X) men and more than one hundred les of electric cable. The most hnzlous part of the journey will be the ez Canal, which will be entirely j ■ued of traffic, because the highesled possible there is three miles an u r. A LIVING TOUCH. PARIS, March 11. \ldlle Suzanne Diquet, a well-known : woman, narrowly escaped burning death at Vincennes, while testing non-inflammable, air suit of her own rent ion. .. Clad in silvery looking overalls, a finet and gloves, which were coated th a species of white cream, Mdlle quet demonstrated to a. small crowd ,o suit was plentifully besprinkled th methylated spirits and then set lire At first all went well, and ion the suit was fell ablaze, a voice nn the midst of the flames, said: do not even feel warm.” Half a finite later, however, a shriek of ■onv was heard and the non-inflam-Mile suit was on fire. Three solers hurricdlv enveloped the living roll in blankets, and extinguished e . flames. Mdlle Piquet was not riouslv injured, but was disinclined repeat the experiment. OBITUAU Y. LONDON. March 11Obituary—Thornton Desburv, Bishop Sodor and Mali, aged Cl. “FRIENDS OF SOVIET.” PARIS, March 11. While a Society called the “Friends : Soviet” was assembling at Lyons, i anarchist began firing a revolver ■ OIU a platform, companions elsewhere i the hall following suit. ■Thirty bults riddled the platform, wounding 1 seriously. The police found Hudsons, knives and small pistols. LATEST FASCIST FAD. LONDON, March 12. The “Daily Express” special eorresondent in the Tyrol, says it is a trange fact that everyone who has ied hi the Southern Tyrol since Octoer. 1927, bears an Italian name. This ; due to a Fascist miracle. The presets decree that all the dead must e buried under Italian names. In ertain parishes they even decree that he graves of bygojic generations must ear Italian names. It is easy to sec he humour of such an order, but it s a different matter for children burvng a father or mother under a strange iiitUvndish name. Tradesmen, doctors md lawyers arc compelled to erase heir German Christian names and reduce them with Italian ones. CHILIAN UNREST. COMMUNIST PLOT TO OVERTHROW GOVERNMENT. SANTIAGO, March 11. The Chilian Government lias announced that a. Communist plot to overthrow the Government was chockm 1 on Friday by- the arrest of forty versons, including the son of a former President. Allesandn. SNOW IN BRITAIN. LONDON, March 12. Bitter weather is being experienced. Blizzards and heavy falls of snow prevail throughout Britain. including London. The severe cold is predicted to last for the rest of the week. This is more remarkable since the last week-end was the hottest for eighty-seven .years, for the beginning of March. The change in temperature is the biggest ever recorded in Britain in a single week. SHIFTING TONNAGE. [“Sydney Sun” Cables.] (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). LONDON. March 12. Out of a thousand odd shipping companies in Britain. says “Fairplay's” year book, seventy-three art included in six groups. Peninsular, Royal Mail. Ellerman. Cunard. Holts and Furness. Their capital is 113,(100.000 sterling and they own 8,11(5,000 tons which is forty-two per rent of the Empire’s tonnage and exceeds the entire merchant fleet of any othei nation except United States. ZINOVIKFF LETTER. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). LONDON. March 12. MacDonald resembles a comic policeman. warning the prisoner that anything he says will he taken down, altered and used against him, say: Air Marlowe, replying to Mr Mac. Donald, cabled on 4th March. The statement does not answer my letter. 1 join MacDonald’s warm repudiation and implication that 1 received confidential documents from Governmental Departments, apart from tin question whether the /inoviHf lettei addressed to the Communist. McManus. was in any way confidential. He adds that if the "Daily Mail” had not forced publication of the Zinovieff letter, estimating the time in dealing with il and transmitting it to MacDonald, who was on an election tour, it would have been published the day after (Tie general election. CHARGE OF TREACHERY. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). WASHINGTON, March 12. As a result of the recent “Teapot” disclosures, Mr Norris, in the Senate, demanded the resignation of Mellon and Robinson, The Democrat denounced tin- coat riijutioii of Sinclaii to the Republican party as the practice of Republican treachery to the nation. He stated the gift could not now be atoned for.