GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

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POLAND AND LITHUANIA. * GENEVA, September 10.

The League adopted Vanbloklands’ report urging a continuance of direct negotiations with Poland and Lithuania and the despatch of technical experts to investigate the situation, which will not be presented to tho Council again until the 1929 session. • LONDON Sept. 9. Sir J. Parr added that lie. considered tho occasion justified his absence from Geneva. It was not often remembered that Cook piloted Wolfe up tlie Saint Lawrence to take Quebec, lie charted Vancouver and the tortoise is still living at Tonga, 150 years old, which Cook brought from England and gave to tho Queen of Tonga ns u peace offering. Tlie descendants of cattle and pigs be took Pacific-wards remained as mementos of bis discovery.

Fuller apologised for Sir Ryro’s absence and recalled Northshore Bridgo was appropriately constructed at Middlesborough from which had grown up round Cook’s birthplace.

' FRANCO-BRITISH AGREEMENT. LONDON, September 8. Official circles suggest the reports that the Anglo-French naval agreement is likely to be dropped is misleading. Britain and France had reached a joint formula for naval disarmament for presentation to the Leaguo’s preparatory committee of disarmament. If the United States, Japan, Italy, agree to the AngloFrench joint proposition it will go to the Preparatory Committee ns agreed. It has unofficially been suggested that American and Italian opinion opposed and Japanese favoured the proposal, which meant it would be either altered in accordance with Italo-Amcrican views or abandoned and a new thesis substituted.

POLA NEGRI INJURED. PARIS, Sept. 9. •Pola Negri’s horse shied at a motor car in Bois de Boulogne yestereve and threw its rider, who is hovering between life and death at ..the American hospital at Nevilly. She' regained consciousness < this morning and spoke to her husband, Prince Serge Mgvani who. has not quitted her side since the accident. .

DISABLED SOLDIERS.

RECEIVE WELCOME IN BELGIUM.

LONDON, Sppt. 9. The- Brussels .correspondent of the “Times,” states forty-eight British disabled ex-service men who are visiting Belgium are being warmly welcomed throughout the country. Motor cars in which they are travelling are ■ being pelted with flowers. The routes aro beflagged, and there are civic receptions and entertainments everywhere. A detachment of troops is always present to accord honours, while a band plays “God Save tho King.” They were especially cordially greeted at Mons, the people proving, they had not forgotten that tho British first fought there in 1914 and reentered on the last day of the war. The disabled men placed a wreath on a monument at the cross roads, the scene of the first Anglo-German fighting and visited A cemetery where 223 officers and 391 men are Buried . A Burgomaster in welcoming them at the Town Hall said:—lVe have received many British but to-day greet with most tender emotion, the men who have given their flesh and blood for justice. He read-out tho names .of six disabled survivors of Mons who stepped out of the ranks and signed the “Gold Books’ of the city. A WILL JOKE. LONDON, September 9. Chiswick, a draper, in bequeathing £163,928, concluded his will: “As I have always had a reputation for being late at appointments it will be my joy to be late at mv own funeral. I hope my friends will enjoy the joke. Please make me ten minutes late.” ITALIAN SENTENCES. ROME, Sept. 8. The fifteen year old youth Anteo Zamhoni’s attempt to assassinate Signor Mussolini at Bologne in 1926, after which the crowd lynched Zamboni is recalled by a military tribunal sentencing Mammolo Zamboni, Anteo Zamboni’s father, and Virginia Zamboni, Antea’s aunt, each to thirty years imprisonment. His Brother was acquitted om the ground of insufficient evidence. Signor Mussolini was among the witnesses. Other evidence sought to show that Anteo Zamboni was under the influence of his family. t£3? Automobile crash. " MILAN, Sept. 9. During the European Grand Prix race on the Monza. Track, Talbot, travelling at 125 miles an hour, grazed another car and overturned, the ear being precipitated amongst tho spectators, nineteen of whom were killed, including Talbot’s driver, Materassi, aged 26. Many were seriously injured.