Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 141, 5 September 1927, Page 1

Cable Jottings

FIREWORKS DlSASTEß—Thirteen persons, mostly women and children, were killed as the result of an explosion in a fireworks factory in Argentine.—A. and N.Z. MR. SAKLATVALA. —In spite ol protests the Foreign Office has informed Mr. S. Saklatvala, Communist M.P. for Battersea North, that his passport for India has been cancelled.—A. and N.Z. ROTORUA STRIKES QUAY. —When the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Rotorua was entering Southampton docks to embark passengers for New Zealand she struck the quay. Her sailing was delayed until her hull had been examined. —A. and N.Z.-Sun. RADIO TEST. —The Melbourne wireless station sent out a programme from 11.45 p.m. on Tuesday until 5 a.m. on Wednesday. It used a wave-length of 29. S metres. The programme was successfully received.* ll London, Eindhoven. Tokio, San Frajicisco, Vancouver, Capetown and Bombay.-—A. and N.Z. FREE STATE LOAN. —The President of the Irish Free State, Mr. W. T. Cosgrave, announces the flotation of a national loan of £10,000,000. He says it is the duty of the Irish people to provide funds to enable the State to function. —A. and N.Z. FAST WATER SKIMMER.—The Sea Flea, an air-screw-driven water skimmer, in which the French inventor, M. de Gasenko, with a crew of three, intends to bounce from wave-top to wave-top to New York, crossed the English Channel from Boulogne to Dover in 26 minutes. The average speed was 75 miles an hour.—A. and N.Z.Sun. FRENCH ANARCHISTS. Two French anarchists, Daudel and Robert, and an Italian, Ronchini, the secretary of the International Sacco-Vanzetti Defence Committee, have been arrested. Daudel and Robert are accused of several robberies from churches and of assisting fellow anarchists to evade

the police. Ronchini has been deported.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. GERMANY REPAYS.—The French Finance Ministry has issued a communique which expresses satisfaction at the regularity with which the Dawes plan has been applied for the first three years ended August 31. It says it constituted the touchstone as to whether France would obtain payment of an important share of reparations by deliveries in kind. —A. and N.Z.-Sun. BORING FOR HEAT. —The possibility of boring holes four or five miles apart for the purpose of utilising the internal heat of the earth was discussed at the British Association meeting by a civil engineer, Mr. J. L. Hodgson. He said hot rocks in the interior of the earth stored heat to an amount that was 30,000,000 times greater than that stored in coal. —A. and N.Z. WATER CONSERVATION.—T h c New South Wales Government has decided to place £IOO,OOO of this year's loan estimates for starting a water conservation scheme on the Lachlan

River. The cost will be £1,352,000. In addition to serving the settlers along 800 miles of the Lachlan, the scheme will enable Crown lands to be opened up so as to accommodate 850 new settlers. —A. and N.Z. CANTON’S WAY. The Canton Government has had leading bankers and merchants arrested and is demanding from them a sum of £1,000,090 with which to carry on the war against the Northerners. All the Chinese banks involved will be invaded by soldiers until the money is forthcoming. It is understood the bankers are yielding to the pressure. COMMUNISTS ARRESTED. —The police made a round-up of Communists throughout Hungary. Numbers were arrested, including 50 people at Budapest. One of these was Ignace Kornis, who posed as a nerve specialist. It is alleged that he offered tb ensure a revolutionary outbreak at Budapest. He is further charged of blackmailing a bank director, but he declares he was merely making experiments in psychoanalysis.—A. and N.Z.-Sua.