GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1928, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

A MEXICAN MURDERER

CLAIM OF TORTURE

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(Received I his day at >8 a.m.) SAN ANGELA! EG 10. Nov. A. Jose We leg n Toral, during Mis trial for the assassination ol Obregon. said (lie police, after his arrest, hanged him I»v the thumbs and stretmod his body upon a rack am! be was otherwise tortured to ifmve a confession. Others are implicated. The police denied the torture.

HONOR FOR, EMPEROR OF JAPAN

LONDON. November 3. His Maesty is conferring the Order of the Garter on the Emperor of Japan. Tim Duke of Gloucester will probably convoy the honour to Tokio in .1925).

ITALIAN PROTEST

LONDON, November I. The “Observer,” commenting on Carosi’s protest on behall of tee Halhunts, says, it will probably cot! menu itself to the Dure. but such episodes create bad blood between peoples, aim weaken the claims ol democracy to dominate the world.

CAMPBELL LEAVES FOR SAHARA

LONDON. Nov. 3

Malcolm Campbell flew from Croydon aboard the Bluebird, piloted by Lieut. I). Don, for Hie Sahara, seeking a motor speed track.

BRITISH AIRSHIP FOR THE ATLANTIC SERVICE.

LONDON. Nov. 3

Rased on the Burnev-Rolls Royce Ririgibe. now being completed, the Lowden Air-hip Guarantee Company is preparing designs embodying lessons ol the Zeppelin flight for an airship carrying 198 passengers. It will have a speed of one hundred miles an hour, and will he tilde to nogotiato Atlantic storms. It will fly from London to New York in 18 hours and New York to London in •5(5. It will cost halt a million sterling,

CONFIDENCE MEN

WANTED IN LONDON.

LONDON, Nov. .‘5. Scotland Yard has issued a description of three men for whom there tire warrants for an alleged attempt at the confidence trick on a rich man in London involving £20.000. They are described as “associated _ with Australian confidence men.’

ONE ARRESTED

LONDON, Nov. 3. One of the wanted men (cabled earlier) named Barker, lias boon arrested. He will lie charged this morning with being concerned in attempting to steal twenty thousand pounds from Doctor Graham, an Australian.

JAR STEAMER ASHORE

THURSDAY ISLAND. Nov. 4

The steamer Tangoniaru, is aground on the Gippa Rocks, near the westc’-n entrance to I hursdav .Island liarbou' - .

NEW BANK OE ENGLAND NOTES

LONDON. Nov. 3

It is announced that there are to be new Bank of England pound and ten shilling notes They will come into use in Britain from November 22nd. gradually replacing Treasury Notes. It is understood that the new pound note is green and the ten shilling note is red.

PANG ALOS Alt RESTED. ATHENS. Nov. 3. The ex-Dietator Pangnlos, whose release from prison was one of the first acts of Yenizelo.s, has been imprisoned on a charge of manslaughter, having fired from a balcony upon a jeering crowd on the eve of the last election. His release is expected, pending trial.

HUGE WOOL SHIPMENT

SYDNEY, Nov. 3

Six ships are sailing to Britain and Continental ports to-day from Sydney They carry forty-four thousand bales of wool, valued at £1,350,000.

“I have been for eighteen years n supporter of daylight saving,” said Mr T. At. Wilford, speaking at Eastbourne, “and my experience in Great Britain, France, and Canada, lias not changed that opinion. France, principally an agricultural country, finds no difficulty with the farmers, while flic, farmers of England made no protest yigaiiist the principle while T was in England in 3.92 G and this year. In Montreal the railimve keep their own time independent of the change of an hour fn the city, and no inconvenience is experieccd, while the granting of the extension spells health and happiness to many millions. Every man and woman with a. cottage and garden - hoped for the hour’s extension, as did the young people and the sporting asociations. T hope to see our wish attained shortly in the granting of the full hour.’