LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1931, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS

FIRST PUBLIC ROLE.

“BETTY” AS BRIDESMAID. LONDON, September 26. Princess Elizabeth, elder daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, will fulfil her first social engagement in public, states the “Evenng News,” when she appears as one of the bridesmaids at the wedding of Lady May Cambridge, a niece of the Queen, and Captain Henry Abel Smith, of the Royal Horse Guards, on October 24.

RlOl DEAD. MEMORIAL UNVEILED. LONDON, Sept, 27. A memorial in the form of an altar tomb, on which is carved the name sof the 48 victims of the RlOl disaster, at Beauvais, in France, in October, last year, including that of Squadron-Lead-er Palstrn Austrnlia”s representative on the ill-fated flight, has been unveiled in Cardington Cemetery.

ARCTIC EXPERIENCES. FRAGMENTS OF NEWS. LONDON, September 2b. A member of the crew of the Nautilus, who has returned to England, has disregarded the ban placed np.on the revelation of news, and has given an account of the adventures of the Wilkins expedition. The submarine, he says, dived under the ice three times in a week, and remained down for two to three hours on each occasion. “There was a thick layer of ice inside the vessel,” he said, “and it was impossible to keep warm, despite the fact that were wearing three suits of underclothing. “Our most weird experience was the crunching of the ice sounding like long m u’s of thunder. We burrowed under H'<\ rnekice and crept on the ocean bed (We -ting fish fossils and specimens, incb' ,: ng the skeletons of animals. “1 believe it is possib’e to reach the r»n’e but n specially-constructed submarine is essential,”