GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service

KING’S BIRTHDAY

(Received this day at 9.3(1 a.m.) LONDON, June 4

For tho first time in history a contingent of Australian naval men, headed by Hyde, participated in the King’s Birthday Ceremonial parade at Portsmouth. Another twelve officers and a hundred men attended the trooping of the colours at London, and were afterwards guests at a. lunch by the British Empire League.

A LABOR MESSAGE. LONDON, June 4

The following cable from Tom Walsh to the Industrial Peace Union, was received by Loudon headquarters this morning:—“Received your last message. My statement on industrial peace will bo issued to the press this week. Airs Walsh proposes to organise a women’s branch. She would he greatly assited if credentials could lie sent from the English executive. Tho Australian press will render every assistance.”

It is understood the English executive is favourable to the issue of credentials.

ITALY AND SWISS. GENEVA, June 4

Widespread surprise is expressed at the action of the Italian Government in forbidding Swiss workmen to enter Italy and expelling the Swiss domiciled there. None is exempt from expulsion, at a month’s notice, an extreme case ljoing that of a Swiss foreman, employed for forty years in a cotton factory at Somazzli. Switzerland welcomes the outstand of Italian labourers and hopes she will not be compelled to adopt retaliatory measures.

TOWING FLOATING DOCK. (Received this day at 11 U a.m.* LONDON, June 4

The huge fifty-thousand ton floating dock leaves orf Singapore on 2Lst June and arrives on 11th November. The three days’ passage of the unwieldl.v structure through the Suez Canal will necessitate the entire suspension of all traffic as it enters each section.

REPLY TO DEAN INGE. PARIS, June 4

-11. Voronoff, replying to Doan Inge’s suggestion that money-gland treatment is an insult to religion, points out Catholics highly endorse the treatment. He says: “1 have performed operations on three priests. One ordered special mass as an appreciation. I lectured at Toulouse in response to the Catholic University’s invitation, while the first monkeys ever received from Africa were shipped to mo by a Catholic missionary.”

ITALI A RESCUE WORK. MOSCOW, June 4. The Italia Rescue Committee, in view of the receipt of a supposed S.O.S. decided to send an expedition composed of ice-breakers and airships to Franz Josef Land, skirting the north coast of Nova Zembla. It points out the Italia’s landing at Franz Josef Land would be entirely in accord with the view it has held throughout.

MRS PACE COMMITTED. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, June 4

Mrs Pace broke down hysterically when committed for trial and had to be carried from the dock. Tlie chief evidence was her statement alleged to have been made in the police station on lltli March reiterating the charge that her husband was cruel, be bad tied her to a bed for a whole day, threatened to shoot her, struck at her with a hatchet, threatened often to take his own life with poison, often crowed like a cockerel and harked like a dog. She would say emphatically she knew nothing about the poisoning. Tlie police admitted they had verified many of the wife’s statements.