GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service EGYPTIAN CRISIS. CAIRO, June 18. Tlie Egyptian Minister of Finance, one of the Liberal memlrers of tho Cabinet, has resigned. Premier Nalias Pasha consequently has cancelled his projected visit to Europe, owing to an alleged Liberal plot to overthrow the Egyptian constitution, which the Wafd press alleges has been undertaken by the Liberals with British connivance. The Egyptian Parliament is not adjourning for the usual summer recess. GREEK CRISIS LONDON, June 18. a A Salonika report says: seeking to extend the Greek tolnui'o workers’ strike have induced a ber of electricians and railway workers to join. It is also reported that the first squadron of the Greek Navy at Mitylen has joined the strikers. Collisions with the police and strikers have taken place in various towns. Several persons have been killed and injured. FORGOTTEN TROPHY- LOST. LONDON, Juno 17. Hie “Daily, Chronicle” says: The biggest joke that Wimbledon has yet known was a cup which Princess Helena Victoria presented to tlie British ladies’ team on Saturday. It was not the real Wciglitinaii Cup. hut a substitute, because the Americans had forgotten to bring the real Cup over. Miss Harvey, the British captain, states that the suggestion that tho Americans were so certain that they were going to win that they did not trouble to bring the Cup is absurd. They are a charming, sporting team, and they left the Cup in America owing to a misunderstanding: It will he sent to England shortly.

FLYING-BOAT TRAGEDY. LONDON, June 16. , Four wero killed and several seriously injured in a flying-boat accident at Margate Fair, when the front-stay of the boat, which was named the “Alan Cobliam,” broke when at its highest. There were six occupants, chiefly middle-aged persons. They - flung headlong in all directions among the merry-makers. Three of tllom were killed instantly, and another died in ■ the hospital. A number of children and others were knocked down and trampled in the ensuing panic. 24 HOUR MOTOR RACE. PARIS,. June 18. The twenty-four hours’, motor race, produced a ding dong battle between an American Stutz car, the largest car in the race, and a British Bentley car, driven by Capt. Wolf Barnarto, which carried off the blue riband for speed, distance and endurance in the fastest race ever held on the Sartlia Course. The Bentley car occasionally touched the enormous speed of 107 miles per hour. FARMERS’ VISIT. LONDON, June 18. Most of the Austral-Scots entrained at Inverness glad of, their freedom, a few remaining to visit the Novars estate, others traversing the Caledonian canal. The Rev. Armour preached to a large congregation, stressing the value of imperial ties.