NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1929, Page 2

NEWS BY MAIL.

CAPTAIN FINED

LEWES, (Sussex), Feb 15. Vanliove Richard, Captain off the Belgian ship Adolphe Urban, now at Xewliaven, was fined .070 at Le\yes. Sussex to-day for overloading his ship at Blyth, Northumberland, last December. He was also ordered to pay C 25 costs. Dr. Gins'burg, prosecuting for tho Hoard of Trade, said that the vessel, which was small, was submerged five inches below the Rlimsoll mark and had 40 tons more than she should have had aboard.

An important feature of the case, Dr. Ginsburg added, was that the vessel was foreign and was engaged in the English trade. The extra cargo carried above that allowed would produce a clear profit. English vessels, he said, were careiful to observe the regulations, and foreign shipowners must be made to obey them as well.

CROATIAN NEWS.

BUDAPEST, Feb. 15

A. Hungarian journalist who lias just visited Croatian leaders in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, gives an interesting account of the surveillance methods exercised by Serbian secret police since the proclamation ol the dictatorship in Jugo-Slavin. The residence of M. Crnmbic, one of the Croat leaders, is constantly watched and be is not allowed to drive in a sleigh or motor-car unless accompanied by a Siberian detective. M. Cumbic has addressed a telegram ’of protest to the chief of the King s Chancery Office, but so far lias received no reply.

I’OLICE ] NTK It V ENT I< >N

.M. Perns!r, si former ( rositinn deputy who was wounded in tin* Skupshtina outrage on .June 20, was about to go for a drive in a sleigh last week when a detective intervened. He also finds that he is nob sit liberty to drive in a carriage or motor-vehicle unescorted. The secret police have forbidden -M. Krugevic, another iormer deputy, to leave Zagreb. As he was about to take a railway ticket to Dugosello recently he was stopped at the booking office and informed that lie must 10main in Zagreb. NEW SEDAN RAILWAY. KHARTUM, (Sudan.) Feb. 15. The opening to-morrow ol the last section of the railway from llaiya (near Port Sudan) to Makwar will mark a new era in the Eastern Sudan. It will he the culmination nt a f |V<> " years programme involving an expenditure of nearly L'2,{)(M),ooo The work provides a great loop trom the existing main lint* at llai.va to near the Se.nnar Dam. connecting with the main lines to Khartum and LI I

Obeid, gives .-i direct route for Gozira cotton ;ifid Kordol'aii produce to tlio sen, ;ind opens more than ‘JO. 000 s(|ii;ire miles ol fertile Imt hitherto imiecessihle country.

In the last two sections, KassaTa-Oedarr'f-.Makwar. the trail was hacked through virgin forest and kittir hush, which is a tough hramhle tree with thorns lour inches long.

XK\V YORK’S UGI'OR

NEW YORE. Eeh. 1C

While Mr Hoover, the PresidentElect, plans a complete investigation into prohihition New York continues to enjoy Europe's choicest liquors.

Two ofliees ostensibly devoted to legitimate trade have been raided by Federal prohibition agents, who secured imported liquors valued at £1C(!.!K)(). This store is alleged to be tin* nest-egg of a •‘ring'’ which supplies high-gr'de drink to prominent wealthy New Yorkers. Four men and a woman have boon arrested a.ul released on hail of £lb'Jo each, imt the leader of the alieged ‘•ring’ - was said to he holiday-making

in Kurope. The Fedora! agents made the nr

rests after several mouths of inquiry, during which they found that liquor was being supplied for many big sue

ial affairs in Now York, even to one of the largest public dinners given recently, and that the "ring” made a speciality of supplying drinks at fashionable weddings.

TROTSKY’S BAD HEALTH

CONSTANT! NORTH. Feb. Ri

The Ogpu (Russian political police', agents in charge of Trotsky, .the exSoviet Commissar who is now bidder, in the Soviet Consulate here. are

awaiting .his recovery from the voyage from Odessa before moving him from Constantinople to Angora, the Turkish capital.

Trotsky’s health has suffered severely during the exile in Russia;i Turkestan to which Stalin, the Soviet dictator and his implacable rival, condemned him ; his weakness is stated to have been increased by the voyage across the Black Sea, in a heavy snowstorm, in the uncomfortable 10!K> ton tramp steamer Hitch.

Three rooms are allowed him and his family in the Consulate (formerly the Russian Embassy)'. but they are all kept in complete seclusion. It was reported to-day that Trotsky is to be moved to Biiyukdore, at tin Black Sea entrance to the Bosphorus. 10 miles from Constantinople, to he detained at the summer quarters of the Soviet Kmbassy, where lie would have freer movement in the park and grounds.

HIDDEN MUNITIONS

VIENNA, Feh. 10

Arms seized by the polite in :i cellar with n steel door under the promises of the Arheiter Zeituug. which is also the general headquarters of tlm Socialist Party in Austria, include 02 machine nuns packed in cases. Pities, revolvers, field telephones, and plentiful ammunition for all thr weapons including machine-own belts —enough for a regiment----have also been found.

They are ostensibly the property of the Pepuhlican Defence League and tiie Union of Workmen's Sporting and Target-shooting Associations. a dubious concern dissolved by liio t'lniii cellar’s order last Wednesday as illegal.

•Similar stores of arms and ammunition have been found concealed in or near each of tile 100 brancheof the union throughout the country.