GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

NAVAL MANOEUVRES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this clay at 8 a.m.) GIBRALTAR, March 31. The Atlantic and .Mediterranean Fleets are separating, after valuable manoeuvres, which resulted in a noteworthy difference of opinion concerning air versus sea arms. The predominating opinion, which the higher command holds, is that aircraft is being developed and improved, hut they insist the value of sea power is still nndiminishccl. FINE EASTERTIDE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. April 1. There was a brilliant Eastertide, with sunshine of eleven hours on Sun day, over a wide area, including London, and temperature of seventy in the shade. HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS. LONDON, April 1. There was a heavy crop of road accidents arising from the immense motor-car and motor-cycle traffic. Twelve were killed. LABOUR CONFERENCE. LONDON, April 1. At the annual conference at Carlisle, Mr .James Maxton was elected chairman of the Independent Labour Partv. Sir Oswald Mosley failed to secure election to the National Council. FREE CHURCH BURNT. LONDON, April 1. A fire doing damage to the extent ol 130,000 destroyed Victoria United Free Church at Eglinton Toll. Glasgow. A vast crowd watched the most spectacular fire in the city since the burning of Kelvin Hall. FASTEST AFLOAT. PARIS, April 1. 'flic French Navy prides itself on possessing the fastest war vessel afloat, the torpedo destroyer “ Fiillepard.” which on sea trials attained a speed of 3R.i knots hourly. NAVAL REGULATIONS. (Received this dnv at 19 a.m.) LONDON, April 1. As a sequel to the Royal Oak case, and in accordance with Mr W. C. Bridgeman’s promise in the Commons, the Admiralty has now issued a series of rules and regulations designed to make easier and less hampered hv red tape, the right of appeal of celery officer and. man in the Royal Navy, against any alleged grievance. 1 io\ision is made under due restrictions for any unsatisfied complainant to. carry his case from authority to superior authority to commander-in-chief and finally to the Admiralty.

OBITUARY. PARIS. March 31. Obituary.—Myron Herrick, American Ambassador to Trance, aged 70. PORT FOR WINNIPEG. VANCOUVER. March 31. Winnipeg is about to realise a fifty year old dream of its own seaport, with the completion ol the railway to- Tort Churchill on Hudson’s Bay. It is expected thirty million bushels of wheat will he shipped annually to Liverpool by this route, during the three months in which the Bay is sufficiently free of icebergs to permit steamers to reach the Atlantic. AFTER ELEVEN YEARS. PARIS, April 1. Henri Rollon, a former Marseilles hairdresser, arrived at Havre, alt-ei eleven years on Devil’s Island, "hero he was serving a life sentence for betraying his country, a charge which has been proved to he wrong. He had been convicted on the evidence of a man, who during 1926. appeared as a witness in a murder charge, hut. his evidence was found so outrageous that the Judge ordered him from the Court. The Bellon’s case was Inter reopened and he was found entirely innocent. The authorities released him and gave him £4O sterling compensation, which was just sufficient to pay his fare home.