GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

TO LEAVE GERMANY

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PARIS, May 16

Conditional on Germany fulfilling promises and conditions, Cabinet lias decided that the last French soldiers shall quit German territory on 30th J une.

ROCKET CAR PIONEER KILLED

BERLIN, May 18. Herr Valier, the pioneer of the rock. .t driven aeroplane and motor car, whose age is 35 years, was testing a new model rocket car when the rocket suddenly exploded. 'Valier bled to death before the doctors arrived. The police are investigating the cause of the explosion.

MARSEILLES SENSATION

PARIS, May 17

At Marseilles fifteen hundred troops and police were-necessary to control the crowd witnessing the guillotining outside the prison, of a Corsican, named Griffaut, who, with confederates attacked and killed a bank messenger whom they robbed of £3,200. The fire brigade hosed the people from trees and roofs.

KILLARNEY FOR SALE

LONDON, May 17

Hard times are responsible for another world famous beauty-spot entering the auction mart. Last week it was announced that Ben 'Lomond was for sale. Now- the Earl of Kenmore proposes to sell his estate of Killarney, which; comprises ten thousand acres with sporting rights for one hundred thousand acres, and fishing rights for several rivers and lakes. There was a scheme to make Killarney a National park a few years ago, but it failed. Notice of the sale is being advertised in the American newspapers. Hence there is- the prospect of the stars and stripes now floating above one of Britain’s once most famous area.

A TRAGIC RESULT

LONDON, May 17

“Chain letters,” which have reappeared in England to a marked extent, are held responsible for the suicide of a fority-nine year old London widow four days after her receipt of such a letter. This was the day on which she was to expect misfortune if she “broke the chain.” The Coroner condemned “the ridiculous purposeless idiocy of such letters.”

COSTS £4OOO TO WIN. LONDON, May 17

Two British motorists, J. Bromnge and S. T. Stubibs;wcivil engineers at Lahore, have arrived in London by motor from India, to settle a bet for half a crown, which was made in a friendly argument at the Lahore Club. They travelled in an Armstrong-Sid-cleley car, which had already a mileage of 54,000, Practically their only trouble tm route consisted of two punctures. Their journey occupied seventy-three days. Their average daily mileage was 141. They won the half crown bet, but the trip cost them £4OOO.

RUSSIAN PIRATES

(Received this day at 9.41) a.m.) BERLIN, May 18

An armed expedition is being organised at Archangel to round up pirates in Solovetsky Islands in tfie White Sea when the ice conditions permit. The occupants of the penal colony were left to provide for themselves after the revolution and apparently pirated Russian, Finnish and Norwegian fishing vessels which then mysteriously disappeared. A Finnish steamer reported she repulsed, a pirates attack. It is estimated there are three hundred pirates, composed of former warders and convicts. Che number of captured sailors is placed at two hundred.

A WORLD JOURNEY.

HONGKONG, -May 18

Stevenson, F. R. G. S., Banks, Greham and Mitten left here to-day aboard the junk, Maskee, in an effort to sail round the world. They expect to reach Sydney in September,

WOMEN MOTORISTS’ TEST. ' LONDON, May 18

Women motorists are thoroughly vindicated by the result oT the first motor ' trial for women only, London to Landsend. Out of thirty-four starters only eleven failed to negotiate the famous test hills of Devonshire and Cornwall, where many experienced men drivers come to grief.