GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 157, 30 March 1926, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telbgbaw’ f’ii-i- Association Copyright. The King of Rumania has accepted the resignation of the Premier, M. Bratiano, and his Cabinet, and is expected to ask M. Averesco to form a new Ministry.

A convoy of tanks preceding a French column • marching from Sednaya to Niva encountered a powerful body of rebels and fired on them, killing' thirty, reports a Reuter message from Beirut.

The Riga correspondent of “The Times” reports that Zinovieff has been dismissed from the chairmanship of the Leningrad executive committee owing to his opposition to his colleagues’ policy.—“ Times.”

The London “Sunday Express” states that Swan, Hunter, and Whigham Richardson, Ltd., of Wallsend-on-Tyne, have secured an order from the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co., Ltd., for a 20,000-ton motor-ship, which will be 600 ft. long.

The Adelaide Trotting Club has decided to inaugurate ostrich racing at its meeting on Saturday next. The club originally applied to the Royal Agricultural Society for permission to race birds on its showground, but the society refused the request.

While a keeper at the Rome Zoological Gardens was driving wild beasts from one cage to another he momentarily turned his back, and a tiger knocked him down. Before the officials could drive the tiger off the animal had half-eaten the body of its victim.

The “Osservatore Romano,” the Vatican organ, denies that the Vatican inspired Brazil’s opposition to Germany’s admission to the League of Nations’ Council. It declares that the Vatican has never asked to join the League, and has been careful not to impede the League’s work, a Reuter message from Rome reports.

The body of the woman discovered last week by the roadside at Oakleigh, Victoria, has been identified as that of Mrs. Elizabeth Law. An examination revealed that death had followed a certain operation, and that the body had been hurriedly dressed and taken in a vehicle to the spot where it was found. So far there is no clue as to who the perpetrators are.

Miss Turbervill, national vice-presi-dent of the Y.W.C.A., in presenting prizes at the Guildhall, London, said: “If those who talk about the modern girl would come to the Guildhall annually, they would see the true type, and also what exercises and i athletics do. The cocktail type of which we are overtired of hearing hardly exists compared with real girls.”