GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

A COURT JUDGMENT. LONDON, May G. • Tho “Times” Berlin correspondent comports the Stettin Court giving judgment in the Black Reichswher trial sentenced Heine and Ottow to fifteen and four years imprisonment respectively for manslaughter. Frahel was sentenced to three years for complicity, The Court found Schmidts comrades in Rossbacher Corps executed, him for suspected trt-acherv. without particular brutality. Cudgel blows rained on tho dying man, were inspired by a desire to shorten li'Ls sufferings. The Rossbacher’x were justified believing themselves soldiers. Tbe crime though bordering on murder was inspired by patriotic motives, and therefore the accused were not deprived of their civic rights. haelier spectators cheered the verdict' and liouqiiocted Ottow. ■—< Tl io Nationalist press pictures accused as martyrs for their fatherland. The University of Heidelberg’s confirmed honorary degrees on Stresemaim and Shurma.n, American Ambassador. was marked by speeches demonstrating the Americo-Gernmn solidarity in favour of AL- Kellogg's proposals, Sburiuan declared war must he renounced if culture is to exist. V'' He was most impressed hv the similarity of American and German international ideals and hoped all nations would join in the glorious march in the cause of civilisation. Speeches do not encourage tlie supporters of the Frnnco-American Entente or convert those regarding tho pact is idealistic.

Stresemann’s view that Bismarck was a pacifist who behaved with excessive moderation in imposing tlie treaty of 1870. irritated the Frenchmen. Shiirninn is considered to have gone too far in an effort to lie polite to liis hosts in reference to the glorious march which provokes ironic citations of the Lusitania and the invasion of Belgium. LONDON, Alay G. A. Budapest correspondent reports Baden Powell and Lord Hampton were enthusiastically welcomed in connection with the Girl Scouts international meeting. 1 housands 'of Boy and Girl Scouts paraded.

WARSAW ARRESTS. WARSAW, Alay G

Twenty leading Russian emigrants wore arrested as the result of raids on Russian organisations, tlie outcome of the Lagariff shooting..

TEA PROSPECTS. CALCUTTA, Alay 15

Indian Tea Association has cabled London that the weather is abnormally dry in all districts and rain is badly wanted.; All garden managers are complaining of Hie drought which is likclv to ruin this latest tea season.

AI. HR LAND’S EFFORTS. LONDON, March G. The “Times” Berlin correspondent reports Herr Streseniann has written a preface to a collection of AI. Briand’s speeches published in Germany, illustrating liis long faithfulness to tho cause of a Franco-German rapproaeh- , incut, Streseniann urging the rapproachliient should not only lie a shock **i>sorber. He recalls that since tho war Franco-German relations have become the keystone of a Permanent European pacification. Immediately after tho war the Germans were favourable to Hie elimination of elements poisoning relations, but, on the contrary, tlie French desired a greater Power and only gradually realised that a military hegemony was no guarantee of pvoSf~ peri tv and provoked German exaspera-

lion. When it is compared with the French co-operation in the international sys- %■ teni of seeking peace, M. Briancl s persistent efforts in pursuit of the policy of rapproaclnnent before , branee was ripe for it, were chiefly responsible for a Franco-German understanding.

FANGALOS TO BE TRIED. ATHENS, May 4. A Parliamentary commission, after a long drawn out inquiry into charges against General Pangalos, the former Dictator, decided that he must formally stand his trial on a charge of conspiring to start a revolution.

LINER LOSES PROPEiLLOR LONDON. May 5

The liner Comorin arrived at Plymouth. She lost her port propel Icf on the night- of May Ist. after leaving Gibraltar. The ship trembled from stem to stern. The majority of the passengers wer asleep and there was no panic. The journey was resumed under the .starboard engine. The vessel, though crippled, covered three hundred miles a day across the Bay of Biscay. Two hundred passengers were disembarked. including Sir Tom Bridges, the ox-Govcrnor of South Australia.

AIR TRAGEDY. LONDON. May G

R. Hopper, aii pilot and D. Tanner, passenger, members of the Bristol Wessex aeroplane Club wore making a flight in a Moth plane when ti:e machine went into a spin at a height of one hundred feet, nose dived. and crashed aflame. The Clu?) members rushed up hut were helpless and the victims wove incinerated. BRITISH GUO A R CAPITALISTS. LONDON. May 7.

The “Daily Mail” states; Air Philip Snowden, ALR.. speaking at Starthwaite. declared that the Budget redaction of two shillings per hundredweight in the duty on imported sugar has benefited only the British refiners, hut not the consumers. Air Snowden : “This plan between Air Churchill and tile sugar refiners has been concocted during tin- p:t<t few * months. and preparations have been made, for it. in order to bamboozle the public. The shares of one refinery began to rise some weeks ago. owing to their knowledge of Air Churchill's plans. There has been £2,0f>0.000 added to the value of the ordinary shares of tile sugar refining industry during the

past six weeks.” THE KING’S LIBERTY. LONDON, May G.

His Eminence Cardinal Bourne (Catholic Primate of Britain), preaching at Cambridge, said that it was conceivable that a day would come when the English Sovereign would feel unable any longer to declare himself a faithful Protestant, lie asked: ••What will happen ? I suppose means will legally he taken to declare that the bond of allegiance has ceased. Many Engl islimen will then sav: ‘Wiiy should the King of -England, alone among men. he deprived of that liberty of const nonce to which Protestants attach so much importance? It may he that he legally lias lost his claim to our allegiance, hut this we voluntarily renew, whatever be Hie religion he professes!’ PRISONER ESCAPES. APIA. May .1.

The coolie. All Alan, who is under sentence of death for murder, has escaped from the custody of the Samoan policemen, and is still at large.