GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 233, 23 June 1915, Page 8

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

THE AERIAL TRAGEDY. TOUCHING DEMONSTRATIONS. PARIS, June 22. A touching demonstration was made around the bodies of Wafrneford and Needham, who were killed at Paris. Crowds defiled past. There were many wreaths, including the representation of an aeroplane, inscribed "Honoured. by the King, admired, by th e Empire, mo.urned by all." General Gallieni sent wreaths on behalf of Paris. '.Wa.rnefp.rd at the time of the accident was wearing the Legion of Honour Cross, which deeply penetrated his chest . ■ k-. •' ,-• ' THE GERMAN NAVY. BIG ADDITIONS. j LONDON/June 21. A Gefrnian naval officer as.sei*ts that 1 Germany has built since August two : battleships of 26,000 tons, of a speed of 25 knots,, and carrying 15-inch guns. She has also built 4S submarines, including 12 of 800 tons with a speed lof 15 knots submerged and 21 en the surface. ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. LARGE SUMS INVOLVED. SYDNEY, June 22. Before th e High Court, Artuhr Kidman (contractor), Major F. W. Page of the military forces in New South Wales), Major A. G. Dohnell (Assistant-Director of Supply and Transport), Sergt. E. Les. lie (principal clerk, acting under Major O'Donnell), were charged with conspiring between themselves and others, between October 29 and May 8 last, to defraud the Commonwealth of large sums of money by charging excessively for goods for the use of the armed forces in Australia. Th e point was raised that the Act under which the charges are laid only came into on May 7th, and the prosecution is depending on a retrospective Act. . Major Page pleaded not guilty. Counsel for the other accused asked that the indictments be quashed. The Chief Justice stated that the Full Bench of the High Court had been summoned for August 2 to deal with the question of the retrospective powers of the Act, and all the points raised would be reserved until after that sitting. The trial was adjourned until August 9th. Kidman was also charged with forging on a tender the name of C. Brown for the supply of goods for the military, with the intention of having the document accepted, as genuine. An application to quash the indictment on the ground that the Commonwealth has no power to deal with reijro. spective cases was refused. In this case the hearing was fixed for to-morrow.