GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 184, 30 April 1924, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

INSURRECTION AGAINST SOVIET OUTBREAK IN TURKESTAN A Reuter message from Moscow says it is announced officially that a serious anti-Soviet insurrection has broken out in Turkestan, and is centred. in Bokhara. It is also reported that fighting is proceeding on the Afghan frontier.

Edward Williams, the Paddington murderer, was executed at Long Bay gaol yesterday.

The new Irish Free State taxes include 3-sd. per pound on sugar, 6d. per pound on cocoa, and 10 per cent, on soap and candles.

The famous Scotland Yard officer, Inspector Mercer, is dead. His investigations in Belgian racing stables led to the arrest or Horatio Boltomley.— Sydney “Sun” Cables.

A fourth victim of the Euston railway smash died after a transfusion of blood supplied by a fellow victim, a neighoour in Coventry, with whom deceased travelled to London.

Word has been received at Sydney that the steamer Tintenbar Las been washed off tho reef at Sinberri Island, and now lies on the beach. Hopes are entertained that the vessel may be salvaged.

■ The Indian Tariff Board appointed to consider means for helping Indian industries has recommended protection to the extent of 25 per cent, for imported fabricated steel. This has given satisfaction to Indians, but Europeans demand the maintenance of the Free Trade policy.—Sydney “Sun” Cable.

Three men, penniless and dressed in civilian clothes, have been arrested in Melbourne, and are charged with being deserters from H.M.S. Hood. Their names are given as Joseph Haugh, aged 19; Albert Andrews aged 18; and Robert Guiller, aged 18. They said they meant to go to the country to look for work.

The inquiry at Melbourne into the Wyrallah-Dilkera collision has concluded the taking of evidence. George William Stevens, lighthouse-keeper, gave evidence that he knew of no instance of anyone ever being; saved from “the rip.” He also said that on the night of the collision a lifeboat would not have been of any use.

Nora Linton, 22 years of age, daughter of a well-known Sydney solicitor, committed suicide at her parents home by gas poisoning. Connecting a large trunk to the gas by means of tubing, she then entered the trunk, covering herself with a blanket and closing the lid. A sad feature was that her father died shortly afterwards from natural causes.

One of the most disastrous fires in tho history of the Central West Queensland broke out at 10 o’clock on Monday night in tho premises of Hodgson and Hunter, at Dalby. At midnight the buildings were still blazing fiercely. The wooden structure, which houses tho main business part of the town, was practically totally destroyed, and the damage was then estimated at £16,000.

The Parisian correspondent of the London “Daily Express” states that Fritz Rothmann, of Wurtemburg, is about to marry his twelfth wife. She must bo a woman of courage, for out of her eleven predecessors teree died of illness, the fourth r.nd fifth from accidents, the sixth shot herself, the seventh was drowned, the eighth and ninth were murdered, the tenth was divorced, and itlie eleventh perished by fire.

Seven hundred members of the St. Barnabas Pilgrimage Fund, drawn from all parts of the Empire, arrived at Boulogne in order to visit the battlefields and the graves of relatives killed in the war. The party, accpmpanied by six priests, included men. women, and children of all ages. It motored to Wimereaux, where a moving spectacle was seen when the pilgrims knelt beside the graves and praved, in the pouring rain and driving" wind. An officer of the Imperial Graves Commission acted as guide.