LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1929, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS

TERROR OF THE ROADS,

CRIMES IN SOUTH AFRICA

CAPETOWN,. Aug. 13. The Cape Peninsula lias been/ profoundly disturbed in the past- few days by the activities of an armed and masked motor bandit, who held up two motor buses, lute at night, escaping witn the conductors’ cash. It is believed that the same man rang up a taxi stand ‘in Atlderley Street, from where a taxi driver proceeded to the spot named by the' mysterious caller on a lonely suburban road. The taxi driver’s body was found late at night—he had been shot through the heart—and his car was found auandoned at the foot of Adderley St. Four further outrages of a similar character have occurred in the past 24 hours’ motorists having been fired on by a masked man. A large passe of police to-night concentrated on a lonely area near Captown in the hope of capturing the bandit, who is supposed tj- be a homicidal maniac.

TREATY WliH GERMANY

SOUTH AFRICAN SECRET,

CAPETOWN, August 13.

A remarkable discussion took place this afternoon in the Assembly on the Union’s fight to levy of artiole 8 of the Germif trade treaty. This debars differential duties nguinst German goods.

Ministers maintained that article f < not debar dumping duties, or, if it did, that, by arrangement with Germany, the latter would never raise any difficulty in that regard. Opposition speakers then demanded the production of this apparently secret arrangement, but Ministers claimed privilege 110 c to disclose the nature of it.

WONDERS' OF BRAZIL

STRANGE TREES AND PLANTS

CHIOAGO, August 13

Trees which produce sugar and lard plants which yield potions for treating disease, and poison which kills' all fish in a body of water without spoiling their edibility, are among the discoveries reprted by Mr L. Williams, leader of the Botanical Expedition to the River Amazon.in Brazil.

■ “The sugar tree,” he said, “has a bark containing a sweet, edible resin with the consistency of real sugar. The lard tree excretes an oily substance which is in close affinity to the lard rendered form animal fats.. Many plants produce remedies for treating rheumatism, nervous disorders and tumors. ‘