GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

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

HOLFORD PICTURE SALE. LONDON, May 19. At the second day of the sale of the Flolford pictures £52,103 was realised, - making tlio two days’ total £41G.197. QUAKE DAMAGE. SHANGHAI, May 21. There are no communications between Yokohama and Tokyo. Unconfirmed reports state the earthquake did small damage. FOUR AIR BOATS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SINGAPORE, May 21. Four Royal Air Force flying boats on route to Australia have departed for tlic first stop at Banka. AIILK DRIED FROAI GRASS. LONDON, Alay 20. An interesting prediction was mndo at the Sanitary Inspector’s Conference, that milk may shortly he produced from grass, unaided by tile cow. Successful experiments are at present being carried out in several districts. A SAVAGE AfURDER LONDON, Alay 21. A Paris message states that there were fourteen knife wounds in ATrs Wilson’s neck, breast and hack, any one of which would be fatal. There was money in the woman’s handbag, so robbery was not the motive.

She had been playing golf, and chose to walk home alone. When she did not arrive, her husband informed the police. whose dogs eventually found tlio body in some brushwood.

A main’s torn rout, covered with blood, was found near the place where a deaf mute, named Yambre, works. Vambre, by signs, denies the murder, but lie has previously been charged with assaults on women, and he has been detained at an asylum for degenerates.

AIURDER SEARCH. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). PARIS, Alay 21. ’ As an outcome of an important statement obtained from a resident who says lie saw a man running into the bushes at the scene of the Wilson murder (cabled yesterday), the police are now searching for an Englishman, of whom they have a detailed description. Tt is believed Yambre has established liis innocence and tlie man will be released to-day. Wilson was formerly managing director of Iron and Steel Company, Cumberland. Airs Wilson, before her marriage, lived in Wiltshire and was a well-known AY T cst Cumberland huntswomnn.

SCOTLAND YARD REVELATIONS. LONDON, Alay 21. Airs Browne (wife of one of the men condemned to death for the Essex police murder) in a startling letter to “Reynolds’ Sunday News” on Afiss Savage’s case, says that on the day following Browne’s arrest Scotland Yard men took her to their station at 10.30 o’clock in the morning and kept her there till seven o’clock at night. They questioned her Hour after hour. She had nothing to eat or drink. ' Her child accompanying her cried bitterly, “Alummy, can’t T have something -to eat?” The police then provided tea. and rough sandwiches.

Sho alleges that the questioning was unceasing, the police saying, “Aon must he aware of your husband’s movements, and of what lie was doing.” She was tired and worn out when she was allowed to go at night, fdio had not said anything, as sho was so fatigued.

LONDON, Alay 21

Air A. Hopkin Morris (Liberal) lias tabled an amendment to a motion that was moved by Sir Win. Joynson Hicks (Home Minister) as cabled on Alay 18, setting up an inquiry regarding the Savage case. The amendment is for the deleting of the words in the motion referring to the conduct of the prosecution and thus limiting the inquiry strictly to the police station in taking the girl Savage to Scotland Yard.

A number of members of tlie Opposition fear that tlie matter of the interrogation of Scotland Yard would otherwise be obscured by a 'mass of details regarding tlio Hyde Park arrest. .Moreover, they fear that the public inquiry might prejudice criminal proceedings for perjury.

lIER FOURTH DIVORCE. LONDON, May 21. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent reports a strange divorce case between Count and Countess Rentier Do Sauvigny. This is the fourth occasion on which this lady has figured in the Divorce Court. Originally she was Miss Georgina Moselnms, who inherited eight millions sterling from her uncle, who was a Dutch oil magnate. She first married an English officer, named Bernard, hut he was divorced. She then married Lord Sholto George Douglas, the uncle of tlie Marquis of Queonsborry. This marriage was also dissolved, and she then married a Turkish Prince, the seventh son of Sultan Abdul Hamid. She was again divorced, and she married Count Savigny eighteen months ago at a London Registry Office. The Count and the Countes quarrelled the day after their marriage and parted, and they have never met again.

They have»now been divorced, but the Count- states it is incompetent to decide whether the Count is entitled to half of his wife’s fortune, which is usually shared upon divorce. Hie Countess state that she will resist the claim.

GAS TANK EXPLODES. Australian Press Assn.—United Service (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, May 22. A tank of phosgene gas exploded in a street at Hamburg last night and a great gas cloud settled in the neighbouring streets which were hurriedly evacuated. Twenty thousand were driven from their homes. It is known three are dead and a hundred hospitalled, all in danger of death. The Reichswehr was mobilised to assist firemen in attempting to disperse tlie cloud with ammonia, and all the available gas masks were commandeered and further support by a special train from Berlin.