Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 371, 4 June 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

DE VALERA BOBS UP. —The Irish Republican leader, Mr. Eamonn de Valera, submitted a motion in the Dail for the abolition of the oath of allegiance. The matter was shelved by the House. —A. P.A. WOOLLEN MILLS BURNED. —Two large spinning mills, with their machinery, at the Ipswich Woollen Mills, near Brisbane, were destroyed by fire last night. NEW FLYING RECORD. —Two Italian aviators, Ferraxin and Delpreto, have succeeded in beating the existing world’s endurance record of 53h 35m by staying in the air for 58h 43m. They began the flight on May 31. A.P.A. TURKEY’S EXAMPLE.—Prior to the departure of King Amanullah of Afghanistan from Constantinople, for his own capital. Kabul, lie said he was convinced that the example of Turkey was the only one to be followed. In future he would have one eye for Turkey and one for Afghanistan.—A.P.A. GREAT OIL FIRE. —A cargo of Russian kerosene was being discharged from a steamer into tanks belonging to the Standard Oil Company, at Sewri, near Bombay, when one tank containing 600,000 gallons of oil burst into flames, and was destroyed. After an all-night fight the fire brigades saved ; the adjoining tanks, containing millions of gallons of oil. —A.P.A. RIOTS IN INDlA.—Nineteen persons were killed, and man\ were wounded, in three riots between Hindus and Moslems in the Punjab and United provinces. During celebrations at Rupar, in the Punjab, six Sikhs and two Moslems were killed in fighting which followed upon an attempt to sacrifice a cow. The police fired on three occasions in order to disperse the mobs. —A.P.A.