GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1931, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

WAR IN BURMA. , United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) DELHI, May 26. When the trouble started in Burma, the military forces consisted of seven infantry battalions, two of them British, and live from the Indian Army, besides artillery, and auxiliary troops with reinforcements.

Four, infantry battlions arc now on their way. “ Five additional companies of military police are to be raised. - The forces at tho disposal of the Government should be more than adequate to deal with the Burma situation. FIRE IN VICEROY’S HOUSE. DELHI, May 25. A fire originating from a workman’s cigarette destroyed costly panelling and a magnificent chandelier in the Viceroy’s House, which was one of the show places of New Delhi.

BARQUE ARRIVES. United Press Association. —By Elect™ Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, May 2(5. Wearing slacks and a short reefer jacket, the stewkrdriess ' Adelaidean Myril Ridgw-ay, peered over the side of the fotUTiiaster Panope, anchoring at Queenstown, and looked the fittest; of the whole crew, whereby she was dubbed ‘ ‘Lady of- the- : AVindjahihrer7 " Miss Ridgway interviewed by the Australian Press, said she had enjoyed every moment. . The greatest' thrill of the early voyage was. a great sea that smashed the forebridge. She had not mustered courage to venture aloft, but was never seasick, and became a real sailor. She enjoyed the rough, ample food. They once. passed a huge school of 15 to 25 foot sharks. The crew caught two. She signs off to-day and goes Giasgowards to visit a married sister and then may go Austral ward in the Panope, which five days’ calm in the Irish Sea robbed them of an excellent chance of winning the race. Three Esthonian stowaways appeared a few days after they left Adelaide and were -made to work their passage.