GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

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

A WIRELESS CHAT. LONDON, May II

The “Times” political correspondent states, Hon. L. S. Amery, seated in his room at the House of Commons, spoke by wireless telephone to lion. OrmsbyGore at Java to-day. Every word was clearly heard. .The Dutch Government arranged the conversation, being anxious to prove that beam enables Europe to speak to Java.

NEWSPAPER AVAR. LONDON. May 11

The warfare between Hothermerc and Berry newspaper groups is intensifying. Berry’s outbidding their rival secured several allied Aberdeen newspapers, They again outbid lor two Derby papers, Rothermere’s increased hid, arriving after Berry’s hid was accepted. II o therm ere retaliated by buying an opposition Derby newspaper, which supports the Liberal’s policy.

SETBACK TO NOBILE. LONDON. May 11. A message from King’s Bay. Spitsbergen. says Nobiie met his first serious reverse when six Italian alpine chasseurs,. who according to the general plans were to ,be dropped at the North Bole, for n 'short survey, left the expedition. ’? heir, experience oi the conditions amid Volar ice wastes at Spitsbergen convinced them that the venture was overhazardous.

AIR CARRYING MAILS. NEW YORK. May 11

The two hundred foot non-rigid army airship, late to-day settled on a United States Shipping Board*steamer in three minutes, picked up sacks of mail and again taking the air hack to Lakehurst hangar. The steamer meantime continued her course without halting. Shipping Board Chairman O’Connor opi nos they will soon he exchanging passengers in the same way.

BOMBAY STRIKE. CALCUTTA-, May 11

The East Indian Railway strike took a grave turn last night. when thousands of the strikers hold up traffic in the business quarter of Calcutta. They attacked European officials and civilians. Private motorears and trains were obstructed on the Howrah-Amta Railway and the passengers were ordered out. and the trams were bombarded with stones. The strikers boarded trams and robbed the conductors, and also dragged out and assaulted the occupants, who were escorted to safety by armed police.

The attacks mostly were confined to police officers, whose cars were wreck-

The arrest of a strike leader named Batierjee, who recently returned from Moscow, was the signal for a wild rush by thousands in ail attempt at rescue, and the police were forced to release the leader. Finally the tram services were suspended.

Europeans are forbidden to use the roads in the strike area. At Bombay the mill strikers have received three thousand sterling from .Moscow.""

LOCUST VISITATION. LONDON, Mnv 11

The “Times’s” Jerusalem correspondent states: The locust campaign is at its height.

An official bulletin states that in North Amaii those engaged in fighting the locusts over ait area of eighteen thousand diinumas have collected 27 tons of live locusts. They have also collected over 10(1 bushels of locusts’ The locusts and eggs have been dumped into empty wells. Five hundred ploughs are being used to turn up the ground where the locusts’ eggs have been laid. All of the Haifa defence corps, with a detachment from Jerusalem, are in action with forty-five flame guns against the invasion of tiic locusts.

SALVATION ARMY COLLEGE. LONDON, May 11

Ten thousand people were present at the laying of the foundation stone of tlie Salvation Army international training college at Denmark Hill as a memorial to General William Booth. The memorial will cost .0330.000 of which 0250,(700 has been subscribed. The site covers seven and a-lmlf acres, providing accommodation for six hundred men and women students who will live in lioslels. The buildings were designed by Sir Giles Scott, architect of Liverpool Cathedral. RAPHAEL PAINTING SOLD. London, May n.

The “Daily Express” states Lady Dcsho rough lias sold tin* Raphael “ Madonna and Child.” known as “The large C'owper Aladonnn,” the date of which is 1508. Ilic price is in the neighbourhood of £150,000. The name of the purchaser is not disclosed. SAILING SHIP SAFE. LONDON. A lay U. A French steamer wirelessed to l shout tint she spoke to ‘the sailing ship Beatrice on luesday, all well. ' AIR AY AY ACROSS PERSIA. TEHERAN. A lay 11. The British and Persian Governments have exchanged notes regarding the granting of permission for the Imperial Airways Coy to fly over Persian territory. The Persian Government says that it is prepared to enter into negotiations with the Airways Coy in that connection, as there Js no special reason for refusing permission under certain conditions.

fire on EGYPTIAN TRAIN LONDON. A!ay 11

A mail van en route from Alexandria to Port Said took fire. The fire completely destroyed the Continental mails for India and Australia. The General Post Office says that there is no official information, hut it is certain that no British mails have been destroyed. COST OE RHEUMATISM. LONDON, May 11. “ Five and n-lialf million weeks "’oijt were lost owing to rheumatism in England last year. The cost in loss of wages and medical attention was seventeen million sterling.” said Sir Walter Kinnear at the medical authorities conference at Bath. Sir George Newman declared children’s acute rheumatism was sowing the seeds of a growing harvest oi diseases of the heart and nerves. Doctors were unaware of its real cause but since it started at school age. it was .« ..„f- lr..