GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

KIDNAPPED GENERAL

(United Press Association.-— By Electric

Telegraph.—Copyright.)

PARIS, February 8

The first important piece of evict ience in the complicated search for General Ivoutepoff (the missing leader of exile Russian military men,) has been produced by an hotelkeeper at the Chateau Reward, seventy miles south of Paris. He stated that a limousine, corresponding to that which was used, stopped outside liis hotel. The chauffeur, who was fatigued, entered the hotel, and asked for a double glass of rum. It was noticed that three men crouched inside ol the cai, and that particular attention was paid to a large sack which was bulky enough to contain a body . It vas lying beside the chaffuer’s fet. Shortly after its departure, a red taxi passed at great speed. The police believe that the body may have been en route 'for disposal in the Marehy Lakes at Melleroy, towards which the chauffeur asked for direction.

STRIKE OF INDIAN RAILWAYMEN

CALCUTTA,. February 8

While the leaders of the Railwaymen’s Union state that there are over one hundred thousand railwaymen now striking, an agent of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway says that the total number of strikers are only seven thousand among the running staff, and fifteen thousand of the workshop hands. Full train services are being kept up with some difficulty. The Deli Muttra section is now affected.

The Government of India has issued a communique to the strikers empbisising the unreasonableness of the Union’s action in calling a strike, which its says, is obviosly dictated by outside influence.

IN THE AIR

PARIS, February 9

Piper and Kaye arrived at Dijon at 12.50. Bad weather delayed their departure till 2.53. They descended at Sathonay near Lyons.

MOB DISPERSES,

PARIS, February 9

Ohiappe, Parisian prefect of police commanded the reinforcements dispersing the mob, who greatly hampered the firemen by cutting the hosepipes. Numerous arrests were made.

TEN JOCKEYS FINED.

PARIS, .Feb. ,10.

In connection with the false start preceding the racecourse riot, the Stewards fined the ten jockeys for making false starts, and an eleventh jockey for striking the starter’s assistant.

MURDERER LET OFF

VIENNA, February 9,

Karl Lukscli has been acquitted b.v a tender-hearted jury on the charge of murder, when, in front of his child aged six years, he put (four bullets into his wife’s body. A line of eight shilling was imposed on him for being illegally in possession of a revolver. Lukscli is noted for his brutality. Recently he served six week’s imprisonment for stabbing his stepmother.

EMPIRE ECONOMIC CONFERENCE

VANCOUVER, Feb. 10

The “Sun” declares the rejection of Lord Beaverbrook’s plan is an unpleasant augury for an Empire Economic Conference.