GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

Australian Press Assn.—United Service TO SToF CAES. LONDON, August 21. The police, seeking an effective method to .stop car bandits, have tested a steel spiked mat weighing fifty-six pounds and containing one hundred two-inch spikes. A man is able to stretch it across a road in a few minutes. A car approaching at 35 miles an hour had all the tires punctured, and its speed reduced to 15 miles in a few yards. SHOCKING FIRM TRAGEDY. (United Service.) (Received this day at 11 0 a.m * LONDON, Aug. 22. Robert Lockhart, his wife, two sisters, and two daughters were seated at supper in their cottage in Dittislmlt, Scotland, when the motor cycle he had been repairing in the lobby burst into flames. Lockhart was unable to open the door am! the window was over small. The family were thus trapped. The two daughters and the two sisters were burned to death, while the parents sustained serious injuries. INTERNATIONAL forgers. BERLIN, August 21. The police claim to have broken up a dangerous and clever gang of international forgers, who of recent years have defrauded banks throughout the whole of Europe of hundreds of thousands sterling. The discovery was duo to the arrest of Luigi Milano, who attempted to obtain £ISOO on a letter of credit from a Yokohama specie bank for £5,800. Luigi fled, panic-stricken, ) owing to the delay while the bankers examined tbe letter, leaving a false passport. A quartz lamp revealed that the letter was genuine, but that the owner’s name and amount bad been altered. • i Two others have been arrested. The police have ascertained that the gangs headquarters were in Marseilles. They are now seeking five members of the same family', who are believed to he involved. r fhe Italian police allege that Milano is concerned in the Ifratids in Italy. MISSING AIRMEN. (United Service.' (Received this day at 10.40 a.m.) MONTREAL, Aug. 21. Canadian and American steamers have joined in a search for Hnssall’s plane, which disappeared late on Saturday', after leaving Labrador coast lino en route for Greenland. It is believed they dropped one hundred miles off . Oape Chidicy. AUSTRALIAN SCOTS. (Received this day at 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, August 21.

A section of the Australian Scots, on the eve of their departure for Australia via Canada, interviewed, sounded a depressing note. James Eecles, who had been absent from Scotland for fortytwo years, declared Scotland had not progressed as had their overseas countrymen. He said the race seemed to be falling hack. Andrew' Malcolm, absent forty-nine years, declared it was a crying shame that tracts of land were being sold to American Jews and castles were being demolished. If it continued there would he great gaps in Scottish history.

NEW Alll STATION. 1 LONDON, Aug. 21. Aeronautics announces a new flying

boat flight by six supenimrino Soutli- '■* ainpton machines, similar to those at present in Australia, will commence from Plymouth in September after their home training and proceed to the Persian Gulf, where they will he stationed at a permanent base, probably Basra. Taken in conjunction with Die decision to establish a Far East flight finally at a new base at Singapore, this shows that the use of the air weapon is extending, until all strategic points on Empire routes have ail units,