GENERAL CABLES

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 8, 10 July 1922, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

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General Semenoff, who secured permission after much pleading to land at Nagasaki to visit the Hot Springs for his health, was met. on the wharf by an agent of a Japanese firm which furnished 5000 pairs of shoes to Semenoff's forces, and was presented with a bill and a demand for prompt payment.

A cable message from Manila reports that the condition of Rear-Admiral Dumaresq is most serious. The physicians state that there is little hope of his recovery.

Admiral Percy Grant has been appointed Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth dockyard.

The Quest sailed from Simonstown this morning. Mrs, Smuts, in a farewell letter, described Commander Wild and his comrades as "heroes and gentlemen all." ;

A London message / reports the death of Sir William Nelson, founder, of the Nelson Line of Steamships. ■ .

After an interval of three months the horse-killer is again operating in Adelaide. Another horse was found in the park with its threat cut. The first outrages commenced in 1918, when a number of horses were found in the parks and suburbs killed or maimed. :To date 33 animals have been destroyed.

Jacli Chalmers, of Sydney, has been awarded the Albert Medal for extraordinary gallantry in rescuing Milton Coughlan, after the latal attack oj a shack in the surf at Coogee on 4tli February, states a London message.

The principal award of the Royal Humane Society has been bestowed on James WaUsoii, an engineer at Mount Mulligan, states a message from Melbourne.