GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service

EUROPE’S HEAT WAVE. LONDON, July 18. More than fifty people have been drowned in lakes and rivers in Poland during the heat wave. The heat in. Poland has readied 125.5 degrees Fahrenheit. The rivers, and notably the Vistula, are so low that navigation has been abandoned in their upper courses, and it is likely soon to cense altogether. ALLEGED LIBEL. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) CALCUTTA, July 18. The Government of Bengal is taking action against the newspaper “ Forward,” for its allegation that the relief gangs systematically killed the Indians wounded in the recent rail smash. The railway also is taking action on the paper’s statement that the . disaster /was due to the railway’s own M neglect to look after the permanent way. At present, there is no cltie ns_ to who removed the rail. CALCUTTA, July 18. At the tea sales there was a good demand for better sorts, but quotations fell.

QUEEN ALEXANDRA MEMORIAL. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 18. The Queen Alexandra National memorial has closed, totalling £233,086, whereof ■ £133,134 is from England and Wales and £37,771 from Scotland. The King in a letter of thanks draw - special attention to the generous suppci! from the Dominions. Apart fron, Alfred Gilbert’s memorial opposite the Friary Court at St. James’s Palace, the district nursing movement in Britain, benefited by £217,086.

(United Service.)

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) MOSCOW, July 17

At the economic espionage trial (cabled on 11th July) three Russians were sentenced to eight, five and one years imprisonment respectively, six other accused employees of the Soviet agricultural organisation receiving sentences from a year to two months. Two were acquitted. An amnesty allows the release of the two leaders Orlov and Matveiv.

A BITING WOMAN. ATHENS, July 20

A young woman approached M. Venizelos and asked permission to kiss liis hand, whereupon she hit it, exclaiming: “Traitor to your king!”

FIGHT AT LABOR' CONFERENCE (Received this dav at 10.16 a.m.) LONDON, July 18.

There were amazing scenes at the Miners’ Federation Conference at Llandudno Town Hall. Herbert Smith, a burly Yorkshireman, the President, left the chair and engaged in a f.ght on the stairs, leading to the public gallery, with Arthur Horner, Communist member of the Executive of Soil'll AVayes. Cook joined in helping Horner, a dozen lending delegates becoming in-

volved. t The storm threatened yer.er.luy when the Lancashire delegates were refused credentials by , Robert Smith, the Scottish Mine Workers’ Secretary, they alleged on political grounds. Ihe women in the gallery screamed and others joined in the battle, tailing sides seemingly indiscriminately. The row finally subsided. OBITUARY. LONDON, July 18. Obituary.—Allan Hughes, Chairman of the Federal Steam Navigation Company and Australian Shipping Comu merce. “W