GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press As.su.—United Service

ANOTHER LAXDRU. "K . PARIS, Juno 26. The Lafidru affair is recalled by the discovery in a.villa at Saint Marguerite, outside Marseilles, of the body of a strangled woman. This body was found in the house, and a further •)- search revealed two other bodies of women buried in a chicken house and a cellar respectively. The floor of the ■ cellar had been newly cemented by the occupant of the villa, who is missing, and who is alleged to have been engaged in marriage swindling. It is known that the missing man had love affairs with five women, all of whom have mysteriously disappeared. MT. VESUVIUS. ROME, June Mt. Vesuvius is in eruption! The volcano is erupting in a spec-' tacular manner. There are continual ' Jr explosions. These have launched masses of incandescent lava, which has raised the eruptive cone almost to a level with the great crater, which crumbled away on April 6th. 1906.

PEACE IN INDUSTRY. LONDON, June 27. After a four hours’ meeting of the General Council of Trades Union Congress. an attempt that was led by Mr George Hicks and Mr A. J. Cook (Coal-miners’ Secretary), to force the Council to discontinue its investigations of industrial peace possibilities with" Sir Alfred Mornl’s group of capitalists, was defeated by fifteen votes to six.

Messrs Hicks and Cook urged that discussions with the Mond group had reached their limit of usefulness. The meeting also discussed a proposal to establish national conciliation machinery to which the Confederation of Employers’ Organisations and the British Industries’ Federation will he asked to subscribe. This ma't’ter will be reviewed by a joint conference of the employers and the Trades Union Congress on the 4th. July. It is intended that this machinery shall he entirely voluntary, and without any dement of compulsion.

BRITISH COMMUNICATIONS. LONDON, June 27

Air Denison Pender told the shareholders of i.io Globe Telegraph and Trust Company that it was not only desirable, but of the utmost importance, on national grounds, as well as in the interests of all concerned, that a merger should be carried out, thereby forming a British combination capable of holding its own with the great communication combines contemplated elsewhere. Despite the cheaper rates for wireless, he said, cables still had a definite and important part in the world’s eommunictitions, hut they could not afford to lose their traffic to .lie wireless.

CURIOUS SENTENCE. VIENNA, June 26. Belan Ivum, the Communist leader, was charged here with forming a secret Soviet and with giving a false description of himself. Belan Kuni was sentenced to three months’ prison, with the further curious sentence of one day’s fasting for each of-these montlis. to be followed by deportation, for his action in contravening an order which had forbidden him to return to Austria.

SHOT DEAD IN CHICAGO. NEW YORK, June 26. News from Chicago states that Big Tim Murphy, the Chicago Labour Leader, was shot and killed in his homo in the exclusive residential "District, by asailants who attacked him with machine guns.

IN EGYPT. CAIRO, June 27. Though the country is quiet, thcVauthorities are taking precautionary measures. They have drafted military forces to certain centres to aid the police.

GERMAN POi-iiiCS. BERLIN, June 27,

As the result of a striking suggestion by Dr Stressmann, Herr Mueller is likely to solve the problem by forming a new Cabinet, consisting of personalities. Five members of the last Cabinet, namely, Herren Stressmann, Curtius, Grocner, Brauns and Schatize have definitely acceptted the samo offices in the new Cabinet, as they held in the late one, while Herren Helferding, Severing, and Districh are ready to take the portfolios of Finance, Home Affairs and Agriculture, while Dr Wirth is agreeable to accept the Vice-Chancellorship.