GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service

LONDON, May 21. Obituary.—Sir George Frampton, aged GS. VIEWS ON MIGRATION. (Received tins day at 12.25 p.m.) PARIS, May 21. Henry Do Ivorab, a French publicist, in an article on British migration in " Le Matin” says:—“Presently there will only be three countries able to supply white migrants—Germany, Poland, and Italy. At present Germany is holding back, but Italy has begun a systematic scheme ot colonisation. Methodically and systematically Italians are going to Australia. Australian authorities, are not encouraging them, but they manage without it, owing to their own excellent local organisation. Each newcomer finds credits necessary to establish him, a sort of loan of honour which the migrant engages to return by making a loan to cohorts following him. It is easy to imagine after years of this kind of penetration that Australia and Canada will not retain the traditions 1 aspect of the British Dominions. Their spirit will have changed and political tendencies mollified.”

AUSTRIAN SENTENCES. VIENNA, May 21. Baja Omerovic and Ivan Makstiinovic, two notorious Serbian criminals who were sentenced to be hanged fiftveight times, have been sentenced to imprisonment for ISO years apiece. They broke gaol and committed many atrocities, alter being sentenced in 1924, and were recaptured. Their sentences confirm the Hungarian code of providing a separate sentence for ovary offence.

SEARCH FOR MURDERER. LONDON, May 2!. I.e Bourget says the police are now of the opinion that the Wilson murder may not have been a mere brutal crime, but the climax of an encounter witti a personal enemy. They are searching for a man in a grey rn : n coat, who was seen near the brushwood at the time of the murder.

’PLANE FOR WILKINS. BERLIN. May 21. The Government is sending a special aeroplane to Oslo in which IV ilkins and Eisolson will lly to Berlin. MOST DESTRUCTIVE GAS. (Received this dav at 12.25 D.m.l LONDON, May 21. The Hamburg explosion, which was not loud and not destructive, was immediately followed by a. great volume of dentil dealing fumes, spreading over the city. Police and firemen, aided by ammonia, periodically struggled to the rescue. Nino collapsed and died, while the fate of a great portion of the city was- in the balance. The situation was saved by a merciful clinngo of wind, which veered in such a manner as to blow tho gas towards ail isolated neighbourhood. A heavy rainfall also helped to disperse it. but the danger was not considered past until this morning. Had the wind changed to the opposite direction, towards the congested parts, it is impossible to estimate the havoc the gas cloud would have caused. It is stated there was sufficient gas to wipe out an army.

There is considerable discussion at present why a Germ,an firm was in possession of phosgene, which is forbidden in Germany by the Versailles Treaty. Professor Haber, tire most competent authority on poison gas, declares it is only manufactured in Germany in the smallest quantities for dye purposes. It is one of the most dangerous of gases. Half a gramme in one cubic foot of air was sufficient to kill. Ho is unable to understand where it ewne from, as it is stored by a limited number of linns under the greatest precautions. Tho firm concerned alleged it was old war material destined partly for destruction and partly for export to United, States. It is now believed that eleven arc dead.

FRUIT PRICES. LONDON, Afay 22. 'l'lie Moreton Bay’s and Ceramic’s apples from Tasmania—New crop realised 9s to 11s, crabs 10 Gd, others 8s 3d to- 9s 6d. West Australian—Cleopatril 11s to Us Gd. dun ns and Jonathans'. 10s to 11s, chandlers 10s to 10s Gd, others 9s Gd to 10s. South American —Dunns 11s to 11s 6s, jonatliaiis and London pippins HE to 11s, other 8s Gd to 10s. Rotorua’s and Cornwall’s, Now Zealand—Cox’s 12s to 18s, duiins and London pippins 12s to 13s, delicious 11s to 12s Gd, jonatliaiis 12s to 14s. RESULT OF ELECTIONS. LONDON, May 21.

Tlie “Daily Mail” in a leader, states the result of the Gorman Elections distinctly favours peace, and the advocates of a war of revenge have been numerously defeated. The strongest party will be the Socialists, the Gerjnaii variety of which is less extreme than the British. The most important feature is the fading of Hohenzollcrns. Germany is definitely turning from Monarchism to Republicanism. BERLIN. Afav 21. The “Taglisehe Rundschau” asserts that Cabinet will tender its resignation to-morrow.