GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

BRITAIN’S NEW AIRSHIPS,

(United Press Association.—By Electric

Telegraph.—Copyright.)

LONDON Sept. IS

• The '/(Daily TejlegJtvph’s’ aeronautical oorrespondent states there is no possibility of the Etnpire heavy oil airship RlOl emerging before November. The weight Of the engines and their fittings exceed the estimate by five tons and she has a thousand horse-power less than expected. She is not likely to carry the in.ended one hundred passengers and petrol burning. Tlie RIOO will be ready in the middle of October, but will not venture into the Tropics. Both for structural and strength she far outstrips the Graf Zeppelin.

MOTOR. CYCLIST SHOT BY FISHERMAN.

PARIS, Sept. 15

When knoaked down by a motor cy#le a fisherman named Hippolytc. a labourer, lay waiting for two hours and shot dead the returning motorist, a farmer, Beuricht. The fisherman when arrested pleaded lie only desired to frighten the farmer.

MEMBERS OF SOCIETY ARRESTED, -7

LENINGRAD, Sept.' K

Seventy intellectual members of a Society known as “Resurrection” have been arrested for counter revolutionary activities in Scholastic institutions. The authorities now say the movement has been destroyed. It is not revealed whether those arrested will be shot. •>

WRONGLY GAOLED

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 15

Tivo labourers named Kliden and Theunisen, have joist bfeen released after serving four years of a fifteen years’ sentence, for the murder of a level crossing watchman near Diessenniuwerk, who was believed to have been killed by a hammer blow, the motive presumably being robbery. The two men were convicted mainly on the evidence of a married couple with whom they spent the night when the body was found. The couple remorsefully' confess that their evidence was given under police pressure and threat of imprisonment. The. wife’s written statement discloses fowl police methods. The Advocate-General is conducting a rigorous investigation.

CANADIAN IMMIGRATION

OTTAWA, Sept. 16,

The importance of securing a preponderance of settlers from the British Isles, as compared with a minority during recent years, and a belief that assistance would be continued to British settlers in certain classes, was stressed in a, report of its National Commitsee on Immigration which was adopted by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce at its annual meeting at Oanoff (Alberta).