GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

| '--.ust, htu fc N.Z. Cable Association. I NAVY TRADE RETURNS. COM MUXIST LITERATURE. LONDON. March 26. The Comniun sts arc again trying to capture the British Navy. They have recently succeeded in distributing a large quantity of seditious literature at Loth the ship and shore csthnlishments. The “Daily Mail” says: The Communists’ object is to influence the delegates at the Lower Deck Well are Conference, which meets at Chatham in April, and to induce them to make extravagant demands on the Admiralty. It is suggested, for Instance, that special pay should he claimed for the ceremonial parades. * One pamphlet, according to the “Daily Nows.” idealises the naval conditions which may exist under a Communist regime, another urges the formation of Naval Trades Unions. _ The police and the naval authorities are taking action to prevent the further dissemination of the literature among the men of the na\t. MALTESE POLITICAL CRISIS. MALTA, March 24. The Senate of Malta has defeated the Government’s proposal to appoint an Agent-General in London, which post was offered to Sir .T. Connolly on January 24th. The Senate referred hack the Assembly’s money vote therefore. The Cabinet does not regard this decision as one involving its resignation. G ERMA X RETCI 1 STA(!. BERLIN. March 23. The Reichstag dissolves on March 31. An election appears certain on May 20. It I'RGLARS HAUL. LONDON, March 26. Burglars blew open a safe at Hatton Garden, escaping with a haul of diamonds worth £5,000. WOMEN FLYERS. BERLIN, March 26. The Americans, Mrs Esther Homier and Mrs Mildred Johnson, have set out alone in a Lufthansa aeroplane on a circuit of Europe, involving crossing the Alps. They may he passengers in July in an all-metal Rohrbach threeengined flying boat across the Atlantic. WH OLES A I,E POISON IX G. LONDON. March 26. The " Daily Mail ” Warsaw correspondent states Yilna reports a mysterious attempt to poison the population of Minsk hy selling three hundred casks of nrsenieixed pickled cucumbers, resulting in one hundred victims in one day. The authorities through cinemas, theatres and restaurants notified the public to eschew cucumbers, and arrested Kozdiin, the seller of several casks, and compelled him to eat one of his own cucumbers, making him seriousiv ill. The affair is reportedly a terroristic act of the Soviet as a pretext to further wholesale arrests in White Russia. CTIILDREX OUTRAGED. OUTCRY FOR PENALTY. SYDNEY. March 26. Sydney has been horrified during the past few days hy two gross assaults Oil children. In the first instance, a girl of ten years, when on tier way to school, was dragged into some scrub, her assailant threatening to knife her unless she accompanied him. There is such a public outcry that the Government is offering a reward of five hundred pounds for the apprehension of the assailant. The second case concerns a girl of thirteen years, living in a widely separated suburb, who has been the victim of a similar attempted outrage, hue her screams attracted assistance. In the latter case, a youth has been arrested. Two similar crimes in succession have aroused a public outcry, and a demand for more drastic punishment of this class of offence, which, since the abolition of capital punishment, has been very prevalent. A TARANAKI MAN. SYDNEY. March 26. The unknown soldier, cabled on March 10th, has been identified as McQitay, of Taranaki. CROSSING DISASTER. MELBOURNE, March 26. A train crashed into a motor truck when the latter was crossing the line at Ilrymple, near Mild lira, killing William Beaumon. Ivy Moss and Cohit Pickell, and injuring three other passengers in the truck. MELBOURNE. March 27. Josephine Lament is also dead and two others in a critical condition, two serious. This crossing is recognised as extremely dangerous, as the view of approaching vehicles is obstructed. The train was a special. It is thought Beauman who was driving the truck was unaware it was due.