Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 335, 21 April 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

AIR LINER CRASHES.—An air liner in flight from Madrid to Barcelona crashed near Saragossa. Eleven passengers were injured, eight of them gravely.—Australian Press Assn. . BENES VISITS LONDON.- I Th e Foreign Minister of Czecho-Slovakia, Dr. Eduard Benes, has arrived in London on a private visit. He will see the British Foreign Secretary, Sir AusJen Chamberlain, next week.—Australian Press Assn. RULE IN PORTUGAL.—It is announced from Lisbon. Portugal, that, thanks to the intervention of the President, General Carmona, a satisfactory pacific Government has been formed by Colonel Jose Vincente de Freitas, formerly Minister of the Interior.— Australian Press Assn. XJ.S. ELECTIONS.—The treasurer of the American Democrat National Committee, Mr. Jesse H. Jones, says it is not unlikely that the party will nominate a woman for the Vice-Presidency at the convention to be held at Houston, Texas, in June. —Australian Press Assn. WAR GRIMLY RECALLED^ —A grim reminder of the Great War was furnished by the discovery in the Aisne Department, France, of a cave containing the bodies of 50 German soldiers. They had presumably been lulled by a gas shell. —Australian P.A.united Service. CALCUTTA STRIKE.—The 30,000 engineers v.'ho are on strike in the neighbourhood of Calcutta are restless again. Large numbers are marching mto Calcutta daily, while others sit on the rails in front of trains. A Communist, Philip Sprat, who was acQuitted at his trial at Bombay, is active behind the scenes on the strikers’ publicity committee.—United Ser- ‘ vice. COMMUNIST ARRESTED. —A Communist member of the French Chamber of Deputies, M. Doriot, who was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in February while he was in •Moscow. was to-day arrested as he *’ as leaving an election meeting at ya-lenciennes. He is alleged to have mcited French troops to disobedience. Australian Press Assn. .claim by PRINCE.—The exCrow n Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria nas demanded a revaluation of the. compensation of £2,000,0000 granted ° (iim in respect of liis lost estates, u* view of depreciation during the inflation period. He has also asked for J? additional sum of £1,000,000. The Government has refused to consent to a revaluation or to arbitration in the matter.—Australian Press Assn. jVO BLIGH MEMORIAL. —A fund .being raised to place a. stained glass Window in Rochester Cathedral nnd also for a fund to benefit deserving an(i suffering Kentish cricketers, in memory of the late Earl Darnley ’formerly the Hon. Ivo Bligh), the owner of the original cricket "ashes.” — •Australian Press Assn.