GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

i; STEAMER STRANDED. OREW INDUCE IN DRUNKEN REVELRY. [United Press ABBociation--By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RIGA, Dec. 29. ; A Finnish steamer stranded in a severe storm iri the Baltic, and the crew, giving' up liope of rescue, looted a number of cases oif smuggled liquor and i'nduljgefl an a drinking orgy while the threatened to break up. The carousal eiider) in. a fight wherein a* Sailor was killed hv a hammer blow. Eventually another vessel succeeded in rescuing the crew. EDGAR WALLACE. BERLIN, Dec. 29. Edgar Wallace, visiting Germany, declared there are no master criminals nowadays. “If I were not a writer T could be a most capable criminal and easily earn money. (Swindling might turn to criminal for the sake of sensation if England only possessed an inspired detective.” He adds, however, writing of crime has more of a moral arid is more profitable. ' MARSHALL JOFFRE. KING ASKS FOR NEWS. RUGBY, December 28. Lord Tyreil. British Ambassador iri Paris, has been asked by the. King to follow the progress of Marshal Joffre’s illness and to express the King’s deep regret. TOMBS OF THE KINGS FOUND. LONDON, December 30. . Woolley’s British . Museum and Pehnsvlva.nia University expedition bas discovered tombs of the Kings of Ur dating.to 2300, B.C. They include those of Kings Uremgur, Dungi and Birsin. The buildings, unfortunately, were plundered by the Elamites In two thousand B.C. Nevertheless their structural interest and other possibilities are unexhausted. TREASURY BILLS. Received this day at 8.30. a.mA LONDON, Dec. 30. The Commonwealth Treasury bills have been fully subscribed. TRIBUTE TO 1 DOUGLAS. LONDON, Dec. 30. Hundreds were unable to find seats at the memorial service at St. Michael’s, Oomhill, to the cricketer Douglas and his. father, who were drowned i iri~ the recent collision in Cattagat. Lord Harris, Sir Kynaston Studd, and other promising cricketers and business men were present. \The service order stated: “Lovely and pleasant were they in their lives, in death they were not divided.”