GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 9921, 19 September 1923, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS. TROUBLE, IN TRANS-JORffANIA* TRIBESMEN REPULSED. (Per Press Association,. : Copyright). [ JERUSALEM, September 18. The Adwar and Belka tribesmen who attacked Abdullah's camp were repulsed with heavy losses. , Later the Emir Abdullah's troops quelled the revolution in Trans-Jor-dania. The revolutionists fled after a fierce engagement, leaving 82 dead,, including some chiefs.

AMUNDSEN AND THE ARCTIC NEW YORK x September 17. A message from Seattle tha§ Captain Roald Amundsen has arrived there from the Arctic. He confirmed! the previous announcement that hef would attempt; an aeroplane' flight; ' across the North Pole, starting, ■a& i Spitzbergen next summer. ■„ ', His ship, the Maud, which was -fio> drift with the Arctic ice pack acrosa * the North Pole, was moving slowly northward, and should complete heir drift in three years. • She is now in ! latitude 76 degrees North, and is im wireless touch with Spitzbergen. [Amundsen proposed to ! fly from? Wainwright, on the North coast ©£ Alaska, across the North I.Pole tot' Spitzbergen last June, but 'was com-* polled to abandon any,idea of/a flightithis year, owjng to the aeroplane notanswering tests.] i

TROPICA!. DISEASES IN SAMOA.

LONDON, September 17.

For the purpose of studying tropical diseases in the Samdan Islands, the Western Pacific Research Expedition leaves shortly under Dr. Patrick Buxton, a former student of the London School of Tropical Medicine. The New Zealand Government is specially facilitating the expedition. COMMUNIST'S DAUGHTER SHOT. PARIS, September 18. A man called at the flat of Rappoport, a Communist leader, and asked to see him or a member of his family. A young woman replied: "Rappoport is not at home. I am his daughter, if you care to tell me what you want." " The ■'caller replied: "Oh, you are hies daughter," and thereupon he drew a revolver, and fired point-blank. The girl fell unconscious, while the man hastened to the nearest police station, where he confessed his crime. The man. proves to be a Russian ex-officer, who has been employed as a cleaner. It is supposed he wished to; avenge his country. Rappoport has been several times to Moscow, and is regarded as one of the most prominent Soviet rerepresentatives in France. FRUIT COMPANY'S LOSSES. (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 18. The accounts of the Fruit and Prov duce Exchange Co. of Great Britain, Limited, for the 16 months ending December, last show a loss of £83,124. The 'directors state they are preparing a scheme which, if the shareholders approve, should place the company on a sound financial basis. The company imported a large quantity of Australian apples and pears.