GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

’ Australian Press Assn.—" United Service SEAGULL PLANK INVENTOR. NEW YORK, May 4. Leonard Bouncy, who spent six months studying the common seagull, and thereafter built an aeroplane ns nearly as possible like the hini. to-day gave his life for his ideal. Tl.is machine differed in almost every way from the accepted aeroplane theory. It was bird-like in appearance, with pinions in place of wings: It was openly predicted that the invention would never fly, hut Bouncy tried it at Curtis’s Field to-day. He raised it from the ground and Hew it at a terrific speed for half a mile. Then, as Bouncy waved his hand derisively at the onlookers, the odd-looking craft nose-dived straight down to the ground. It was completely smashed and killed him.

A CANADIAN DERBY. VANCOUVER. May 5

An aerial derby for Canadian airmen only is being planned from Windsor (Ontario) to San Francisco in September. The prizes total ten thousand dollars. A EIRE. ROME, -May fi. A fire broke out in the training school for seaplane pilots at Partoroso near Taieste. A hangar and live machines were destroyed. The flames spread to the hydrogen store and other explosives were Involved.

ITALIA AT KING’S BAY. OSLO, May (I. Despite a violent headwind the Italia lias lauded at King’s Bay.

ROUMANIAN CRISIS. LONDON. May 0.

The “ Daily News ” Vienna correspondent says 150,000 delegates ol the Roumanian Party assembled at Alba Julia have revolted, demanding the resignation of Premier Brntiaiiii. The peasant leader Mania has departed to present the resolution to tho Regents personally. The Peasants Congress remains in session until a reply lias been received. The movement is regarded as one of the most momentous in the Near East sinee the war. If it succeeds Prince Carol will he recalled.

;GERiM.\:N STATEMENT. BERLIN, May (I

Herr Strcsemann in a speech at the University of Ifindenherg presumably referring to the Rhineland said it would he degrading the League to a mere technically administrative apparatus if it were regarded as tolerable that one of the League Powers should maintain troops in the territory of smother." The world would also have to realise the League would be estimated, according to its successes in disarmament. The Herman people had long seen the Imperial Government branded with the charge of Competition in armaments. They now saw other Powers creating a

Supremacy in armaments such as Imperial Germany in her wildest dreams never conceived. It was unprecedented ill history that people with such martial laurels as Germany, should Ix-nouiiCe warlike retribution, seeking it only through peaceful undcrstamlihg aiid rectification of unhappy errors.

MINERS BALLOT. (United Service.) (Received t,l >ia day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May fi. Tbc Notts ballot, cabled on 29 th April, resulted 32.377 voting lor the miners association, and 2,533 for Spencer’s union. vSU B.MARIX E LAGNCII ED. LONDON. May <5. The British submarine Odin costing half a million, a sister ship of the Oxley and Otway was launched at Chatham. 1! ELGAR [AN CONGRESS. (Received this day at 0.30 a.in).

BUCHAREST, Afay 6

A grea-t • congress of the national peasant party is opening at Alba Julia to-day. The leader, Mania. hn c ' exhorted his followers to maintain order, hat feeling rails high. Sixteen military aeroplanes dropped lon (lets warning peasants against attending the Congress, which is described :1 • Bolshevist in character. Ihe patty, on the other hand, declares the sole object is to secure immediate, elections throughout the country, which the Government has refused. Mania denied a conspiracy to restore Prince Cared. Me is expected personally to deliver a strong resolution in favour of a Regency Prince Carol is most accessible to Interviews and persistently hints that developments are imminent. He says Cupescu does not desire to stand in his way to the Throne. The Government has stopped the issue of railway tickets to Alba Juba. The roads are blocked by columns of inarching peasasts. ' It is reported 'he Congress will remain in session and await the Regency s reply.

•SUBMARINE'S DEPTH RECORD ROME, May 6.

At Spe/ia, the Italian submarine Balilia reached a depth of 330 loot during tests. It is claimed to ho. the maximum depth ever attained. •

PRESIDENCY CAMPAIGN. . WASHINGTON, May 5

Out of the murk of political corruption charges the alleged Kn Klux Klan control and accusations of undue influence by State Anti-Saloon voters ol Indiana at Tuesday’s primary will give their decision between Hoover and Watson, after one of the hottest campaigns in years. Tt will then he seen whether Ohio results have an influence upon Hoover’s aspirations since it is freely predicted that Indiana would bo the second hurdle which the latter must negotiate before seeing his way clear to presidential nomination.

ABOLISHING SLAVERY. CALCUTTA, May 6.

A ulave releasing expedition into the Burmese triangle recently returned after the release of the final hatch ofi 1028 slaves. Ho slaves now remain. At a largely attended durbar, the Commissioner announced the definite abolition of slavery in Kaohin Hills. Generous compensation had been paid and henceforth there was no further right to possess slaves or receive compensation.

A SCHOONER’S ROUGH PASSAGE HONOLULU, May (>■

The four masted schooner Elba A has arrived with seven loot of water in 'the holds, after a desperate run of one hundred and forty-eight days from Newcastle with coal lor Cad as. Forty days from the Australian port she Sprang a leak in a terrific gale. One man was lost overboard, the galley swamped and food spoiled. Potatoes were the only provisions left when she arrived. She has a crew of sixteen and is known as “the vessel that alwnvs comes home.’' BRITISH RESIDENTS SAFE.

LONDON, Afav G. Official. —British residents at Tsinangfu are safe.