GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

TWO NOTED BANKERS SUICIDE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). BERLIN, Jan. JO. Banking circles are shocked at the suicide.of two out of three partners ol the trusted firm of Katz and Joldauer. SHIPOWNERS DELEGATION. LONDON, January JO. Oscar Thomson is likely to he one of the shipowners delegation to go to Australia, on behalf ol Lord Kylsanx interests. STARTLING FIGURES. (Rewived this day at 0. a.m.) LONDON. January JO. The newspapers this morning give startling figures of Kate Meyrick’s fortunes which were amassed in ten yeais in association with night clubs. It is stated she contributed to Goddard at least £IOO per week. In 1910 she was assisting her husband, an Irish doctor, to run a nursing home in Ireland. She left him with eight young children to rear on fifteen shillings a week. In a ifew years she was able to invest £27,000 from one club alone. She sent her sons to Harrow public school and her daughters to Roedean and Giiton, and two of them married peers, Lord Kennoull and Lord Clifford. I lei income m 1928 was estimated at over a thousand weekly. Her secret service was equal to Scotland Yard’s. She employed ex-detectives in the disguise ol various street callings to give warnings of raids. She became over-confident by admitting strangers to the “ Fort.vllirce” dub, which led to her undoing. LC DENDORFF’S OAMPAIGX. BERLIN, Jan. 30. General Ludendorff, in his latest outburst, while addressing two thousand people, at Aue, declared that Jews, Jesuits and Freemasons had conspired to bring about the late war. Their intrigues had prevented his (Ludendorft’s) training an additional five million soldiers before the war. If lie had had an additional hundred thousand men in 1914, lie would have won the war in a few months. The General spent ninety minuteoil his tirade condeming the Jews and the Christian faith, beginning with what he called the iniquities of Moses, and ending with the Dawes Pact, which he described as a crime. Frau Ludendorff vehemently denounced Christianity as being un-Gei-man, and she sought converts to the “Germanic faith” as revealed in Nordic songs.

The. audience dwindled steadily throughout. Only twenty people took Ludendorlf’s. new Fagan pledge.