GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1928, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

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GUN PLOT. ' LONDON, March 30. Investigations by Scotland Yard throw new light on the gun plot, it appears the guns were not intended tor the Irish Republican Army to create a reign of terror in London. In the event of further trouble in Ireland, 300 men were to he available to stage miniature riots and resort to

every means to prevent troops going to Ireland.

FRENCH CHURCH ORDER. LONDON, March 30.

A Paris correspondent says an order signed by French Cardinals, Bishops ifnd Archbishops, bearing the Pope’s approbation instructs the clergy to emphasise kindly and firmly the grave canonical prescriptions existing against members participation in the Francaise organisation. Unless they retract from the error of their ways and have no further dealings with tho party, not even reading its newspaper, they will be denied burial in consecrated ground, also the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Communion. The order warns the action of the Francai.se members intending to marry that they will he similarly denied a religious wedding ceremony. The correspondent says: The order recalls the ecclesiastical pronouncements of the Middle Ages.”

IN E ANT IDE M (>IIT A MTV. (Australian Press Association A Sun.) LONDON, March 30. New Zealand's lowest, infantile mortality in the world is not only due to climate but to the magnificent backing the people have given the I’hmket Society, said Sir J, Parr, presiding at the Overseas League lunch to Dr Truby King, who replying reviewed the history and growth, of child welfare in New Zealand, lie recalled a war time visit to Britain and the founding of the niothercraft training centre in London, where the survival rate was now equal to any part ' ol New Zealand. Members of the Plunket Society watched the progress of the London movement with interest. He was also gratified to have assisted in starting the London movement, in which New Zealand had become a specialist house. FASCIST ORDER. ROME, March 30. Cabinet lias issued a. decree forbidding organisations instructing hoys and girls unless affiliated to the National Bov Scouts and (lirl Guides. All others must be dissolved within a month. PREMIER KING EXPLAINS. OTTAWA. March 30. “The reference by the Premier to the Anglo-Kgyptinn treaty was not to the treaty finally drafted, hut to the treaty in form during the preliminary negotiations in which form it was presented to the Canadian Government: at that time,” said Mr King replying in the Commons this afternoon to J, S. "Woodworth (Winnipeg Labour). The Premier added that in the draft as originally presented to Canada there was no limitation as to the parts of the .Empire to which the treaty might apply. A FATAL STUNT. LONDON, March 31. The remarkable story of a tragic advertising stunt was told at the inquest on the hoy who was a victim of a Stnlvhridge aviation accident on Sunday last (when a plane flown by Miss "Winifred Brown, supposedly with a film urgently awaited at a Stnlyhridge cinema, came down in a field whore a crowd had gathered, and having no room to avoid tho crowd, was run info a wall, killing a hoy). In her evidence, Miss Win if red Brown said that she did not know that the air flight was an advertising stunt. She thought that- it was an urgent matter. She was surprised when tho

'plane was over the landing fields to see the crowd below. She never doubted the assurance of her passenger, William "Browning, that the, field was suitable for a landing. When she reached the ground, however, she realised that she could not pull up the plane before thej-o would he a collision with the crowd, and she adopted the only possible course and tried to take off again, but she struck the wall.

The passenger. William Browning, who is a film salesman, gave evidence that the object of the flight was to secure publicity for a film that was to he shown at Stalybridge. Tt was decided to deliver the film on the Sunday so that a crowd would collect, hut there was nothing in the box. The Coroner: You were, deluding the. public ?”

Browning: “Yes. We did not consider it safe to carry the celluloid film in the aeroplane.” Browning added that he saw two thousand people in the field. He was a certificated pilot, and he had previously chosen the landing field. He thought that it was suitable. Miss Brown knew nothing about, the stunt The Coroner snia hat he could exonerate M iss Brown, because she had been told a deliberate lie that the journey had to he urgently made, whereas there was no film in i lie box. Tt was difficult to understand Browning's qualifications to clioo-e a landing ground. His flying experience - was merely that of a novfre. A verdict of death from misadventure was returned. NEW TTTLK. LONDON, Marcj, 30. Prince Henry, the King’s third son, had three new titles bestowed on him on the occasion of his 28th birthday, namely, Baron Culloden. Earl of Ulster and Duke of Gloucester. The now titles are representatives of England, Ireland and Scotland. The Dukedom of Gloucester, which will enable him to join his brothers in the House of Birds, revives a title of great antiquity. which has been held by all members of the "Royal Family, mostly between the year 1385 and 1834, when it became extinct. Famous holders of it were the good Duke Humphrey, who was wounded at Agincourt. He was a lover of learning, and he gave Oxford University its first library. Another holder was Richard the Third.

The Earldom of Ulster revives a title that was borne in the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, and was also borne by the Duke of Edinburgh, the son of Queen Victoria. The title of Baron of Culloden was amongst the titles held by the Duke of Cambridge, who was Commander in Chief of the British Army nearly forty years’ ago. and it became exfinct at his death. - It is understood that the Prince will be known as the Duke of Gloucester.