Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 717, 17 July 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

INFLUENZA IN SYDNEY. —Influenza is rife in the city of Sydney. The nursing staffs at the hospitals are seriously depleted. SIR JAAIES PARR HONOURED. — A message from London says that the Prince of Wales entertained Sir James and Lady Parr at dinner at St. James’s Palace. KELLOGG PEACE PACT. —The American State Department announces that President Hoover will proclaim the Kellogg Pact as being effective on July 24.—A. and N.Z.-P.A. PICNIC TRAGEDY. —A message from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, says a truck that was bringing high school girls from a picnic fell into an abyss, 1.000 feet deep, near that place. Eleven Persons were killed, and 22 were injured. —A. and N.Z.-P.A. N.Z. BOY SCOUTS IN LONDON. —A dinner was tendered in London to the New Zealand Boy Scouts. Sir Alfred Pickford. Commissioner for Oversea Scouts, was a special guest. The programme consisted of songs and hakas. The scouts are now touring the battlefields of France. TO BAN SUBMARINES.—The First Lord of the Admirnlt’*. Mr A. V. Alexander, in a speech at Sheffield, referred to the recent submarine disaster. He 3aid he hoped that in the future there would be an international agreement to ban submarines as weapons of warfare.—British Wireless. EUROPA’9 NARROW ESCAPE. — The new North German Lloyd liner Luropa, which has been virtually reconditioned since the recent fire on board, narrowly escaped destruction again. She had just left a floating dock at Hamburg when an explosion “'•nk the rear section of the dock. — * Am wjd N.Z.-P.A.