GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

',-xUst..llae fe H.Z. Cable Association. ) CHARLEMAGNE'S TOWER FALLS. -4TOURS, March 27. 1 • The famous Tower of Charlemagne ' here lias collapsed. It fell with a ter--3 rifle crash, blocking two streets, and s damaging buildings. The authorities were warned by the appearance of an enormous crack, and therefore stopping the traffic, they prevented any c.-tsnal--1 ties. ' AN ENGAGEMENT. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) s LONDON, March 28. The engagement is announced of ' Victor Hood, and Mrs Violet Mcßean, ' of New South Wales. / I POPE AND FASCISTS. (Received this day at 9 a.in.) £ ROME, March 28. ° The Pope, addressing the Diocesan P Board, criticised members of the Catli- ■ olio Centre Party who openly supportII ed Fascists during the recent Congress. 1 His remarks are generally interpreted as meaning that the Vatican and the Fascist Government are not as near a ’ satisfactory settlement as was thought. 1 The Pope admitted Fascismo had done a great deal for the Catholic Church, hut there were still many reasons for complaint. Specifically Fnseismos claim a monopoly of the education of youth which is patent- in the reference to the I suppression of the Catholic hoy scout movement. ! DOUBLE TRAGEY. II AMSTERDAM, March 26. The Stock Exchange and society ' circles here have experienced a sensation by the news that Madam Van Eaghen, niece of Sir Henri Doterding, the financier, and the only woman member of the Stock Exchange, has been found in her home with a bullet 1 in her head. The Thillet was extract- ' ed. hilt the patient is in a critical condition. The woman’s husband, who was a 3 prominent rubber-merchant, nas been ' found fatally shot with a revolver. Sir Henri Doterding was interview- ' ed at Ascot late to-night, but he was not aware of the occurrence. i 1 PEASANTS BEHEAD SOVIET 1 OFFICIAL. 1 LONDON. March 20. “The Times’s” Moscow correspond out reports that infuriated peasants in the Crimean village of Filarionovka, 1 beheaded M. Urikhodko, whom the So s viet had sent to report on peasants' B delinquencies to the newspapers. The 1 peasants split his head in quarters. ' which were scattered. :■ LOAN FOR FIJI. LONDON. March 27. The Crown Agents for the Colonies are-inviting applications for a £765.000 loan for the Fiji Government at - five per cent, and 101, with redemp- • lion between 1946 and 1953. n s QUEENSLAND SUGAR INTERESTS. i LONDON, March 27. The Hon John Huxlmni, Agent General for Queensland, interviewed Sir Francis Floud, the Chairman of the Board of Customs and Excise, pointing out the extent to which Queens- , land would suffer under the proposed new polarisation of the sugar standard. and urged that Queensland’s viewpoint deserved consideration. Sir t F. Floud gave a non-committal reply. 1 SLATER'S STATEMENT. * i* 'Received this dnv at 8.50 a.m.) a LONDON, March 27. I Oscar Slater’s first statement since i liberation in November is published ) in the “Daily Express.” He declares: “Twenty years ago T voluntarily of 1 my own free will, told an American , Court that T waived all formalities | and would he safe in my faith in ? British justice. Of' my own free will, against all advice, I offered myself to ? British law to he tried for a murder . T did not commit. My conscience was - clear. I had faith hut some force known or unknown crushed me, and dazed and bewildered I staggered inr to twenty years of Hell. Now again, voluntarily of my own free will. I surrender my. cause and person to ] British justice is which I trust and [ believe, with all my being. Tin’s . time truth and faith must conquer. I For sixteen years in Peterhead Prison I was silent, under a silence imposed by prison law, by the darkness of cap- , tivitv and by the agony and tortures of the mind. T almost forget how to , .speak, but I held on to my brain. I Now that T can speak 1 recognise that it will he hard to establish the truth.” ROW ING DISCUSSION. LONDON. March 26. The girls’ idol, the University boat crews, are at present the centre of severe criticism, and their methods are variously described as old-fashiono 1 and inadequate. The fact that three lesser crews, coining direct from office desks to compete in the “Head of the River” Race on Saturday, lowered ih.e time of Oxford's trial time over tin* same course, has caused prominent oarsmen to scoff and say that the Oxford training should he drastically curtailed, two months being adequate. instead of the crews being looked up and pampered until they a’e bored with one another. Mr Collett, the Cambridge President in 1924. asks: "Why four coach vt • anyhow?” The general feeling seems to be that; there is too much hero worship, and not sufficient common sense in the methods employed. MOTOR OWNERS PETITION. LONDON. March 27. Tn the Commons, a petition was presented on behalf of 920,060 motor owners in favour of the substitution of petrol, for horse power tax. SOLDIERS MARRIED TO GERMANS. LONDON. March 27. Mr Worthington Evans, in answer to a question, said 690 soldiers of the British armies on the Rhine had married German women since the Armistice. OBITUARY. 1 LONDON. March 27. j Obituary.—Leslie Stuart, aged 62. JAFAR PASHA. LONDON. March 27. •Tafar Pasha has arrived in London. Tn an interview lie said lie did not attach much importance to the rumours of Wahabi and other raids. The talk about Jehad was exaggerated. The Wahabi’s excuse that the erection of frontier forts justified raids was without foundation. The nearest to the fort was merely a police post seven miles from the frontier. CHINESE AND JAPS CLASH. SHANGHAI. March 27. Anti-Japanese boycott feeling is intensified in Amoy necessitating additional naval protection. Strike pickets preventing shipping activities and attempting to seize all cargo landed resulted in a serious conflict with Japanese naval men. The Japanese had previously notified the Chinese authorities that the pickets would he treated as pirates, in the event of their seizing cargoes of Japanese vessels. A cargo lighter was seized by pickets and was chased by a launch containing Japanese naval men. The lighter was captured and the picket-5 detained.