GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 295, 8 September 1924, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

(Bi Telegzaph.—press association.) COPYRIGHT. The Lord Chambprlain has licensed Bernard Shaw’s play “Mrs. Warren’s Profession,” after many refusals. ' Four Japanese destroyers have been ordered to Amov for the protection of Formosan residents whom, it is reported, Chinese soldiers are illtreating. A warrant for the arrest of the boxer Firpo has been issued by the United States Labour Department on charges that he brought, or attempted to bring, Blanca Picart to tho United States for immoral purposes. The bond is fixed at 1000 dollars. At the proroguing of the South 'African Parliament, the Minister of Finance stated that the Government had reconsidered its decision regarding the Imperial Conference in view of the fact rihat the discussions would be merely of a tentative nature, and would participate in it. —Reuter. The new Commonwealth ten million loan is being raised for the States, for public hvorks purposes. Each State undertaken to repay the Commonwealth annually 10s. per cent, of its loan towards the National Debt sinking fund, and to the redemption of the Commonwealth Debt. The Rome correspondent of the London “Daily Express” states that a woman, the owner of a fireworks factory at Avella, near Naples, dropped a match in the powder magazine. The explosion which followed killed the proprietress, two children, and two women friends. Captain Amundsen, the Arctic explorer, has filed his bankruptcy petition at Christiania, attributing his position to heavy losses over the unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole last year. It is expected that his proposed new flight from Alaska to the Pole in an all-metal aeroplane will now be abandoned. ’ A message from Santiago de Chile states that there has been a tense political situation therp since Wednesday, when eighty army officers in uniform attended’ the Senate, noisily protested Against a law granting salaries to legislators, and denounced their neglect of projects beneficial to the army. The Cabinet has resigned. Scotland Yard has not. made any progress towards identifying the woman’s remains found at Ditton Marsh, Esher, but are seeking a mysterious man believed to be able to throw light on the puzzle. Sir Bearnard Salsbury, the pathologist, is of opinion that the leg -picked up on Wimbledon Common belonged to the same body, the remains of the sawn portions fitting accurately. A telegram from Los Angeles says twenty members tof tho Hollywood fcinema colony, including several prominent in the industry., have, been arrested charged with disturbing the peace. The police interrupted a gay party at Laurel Canyon. . One has been identified by the police as , Jules Lebaron, head of the Lebaron studios, and another was Robert Conville, director for Lebaron. Five of the party were women, whose names are not disclosed. Jack Rherrill, a former film director, and W. L. Sherrill, in whose home the party was staged, is charged with possessing liquor.—Reuter. When Lieut. Locatelli, the Italian airman, who attempted to fly from Iceland to Greenland with the American world flyers, and was rescued from the sea by an American cruiser, arrived in New York, he was met by police reserves at the Grand Central Station. This was done as a precaution against an expected riot between rival factions of the Italian residents. A crowd of 5000 Italians assembled, and shouts of “Hurrah for Locatelli” war® answered hv “Down with Locatelli and the Fascisti.” Fearing an outbreak, the police ordered the official welcome to be dispensed with, a.nd escorted Locatelli to a hotel by side streets, and guarded the banquet at which he was the guest of honour. Lieut. Locatelli stated that lie had renounced his proposed flight to the North Pole with Amundsen. He had learned from his disastrous aeroplane trip ending in, Arctic waters that therp was a better chance of reaching the Pole in a dirigible than in an airplane.