CABLE NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4594, 22 May 1922, Page 2

CABLE NEWS

I ißy Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Aust.—\Z Oat>fs Association.) , London, May 20. The City by-election caused through Lord Balfour's elevatign to the Peerage, resulted: Mr Edward Grenfell, 10.114; Sir T. Vansittart Bowater, 6178. New York, May 2(T. The Los Angelos cinema world has been stirred by a new sensation. Rudolph Valentino, a noted movie star, married Winifred Hudnut, the daughter of a rich American perfumer, before his final divorce decree from Jean Acker, another movie star. and his first wife, had been The second marriage occurred in Mexico. Valentino, upon his arrival in Los Angeles, was arrested on a charge of bigamy. The penal code fixes 10 years' imprisonment and 5000 dollar fine as the punishment for ■bigamy. Berlin, May.2o. . Following on a police and military' raid in Upper Silesia, which has been in a state of siege for a week owing to bandit outrages, 30 persons were, rounded up and arrested. Two, it is believed, are implicated in the murder of Sergeant Storer, belonging to the British Armv of Occupation. Rome, ' May 20. Signor Stampa announces that an agreement has been concluded under which Italy will build and staff aviation bases at and other parts of Russia, will furnish supplies : of aeroplanes and pilots and will arrange flying routes. London, ; May 19. M. Paul Cambon and Count St. Aulaire, the past and present French Ambassadors, were entertained at luncheon by the House of Commons. Mr Chamberlain, in toasting tho guests, said they bad assembled to reaffirm the friendship between the two countries, which had made common sacrifices and which had left scars on all hearts that would be remembered for generations. "We must have our differences of opinion as our interests differ, let anyone having influence in either country resolve _ to seek to see through surface difficulties to! our profound underlying unity. Let us use our influence to remove misunderstandings and determine to find a friendly solution of all differences. I am not sure that M. Cambon and I do not belong to a generation that is passing away. I have a suspicion M. Cambon still likes the old diplomacy, with its reticence, its silence and its careful avoidance of the limelight of tho press. So do I. I wish it were given us still to live in a world where those quiet ways satisfied the needs of tho times. Whatever place there might be in the future for the new methods, these, always would bo room for the older tliplomacy. FATAL EXPERIMENT. Washington, May 20. At Cambridge (Massachusetts) A. K. Dunbar, a research engineering Fellow of Harvard University, and a workman in an adjoining room, were killed, and seven students injured, by an oxygen explosion during tho course of Dunbar's experiment with liquid air. PILFERAGE PREVENTION. London, May 19. The railway authorities in England consider, as the result of "new methods, that the worst phase of pilfering has passed. Last year's loss was £1,900,000. These methods include sealing vans, acting in conjunction with the uniformed police, patrols at the various depots, wire binding for boxes and packages, the removal of the consignor's nama and any indication of the "contents. The newest devise has been satisfactorily tested, police dogs enabling pilferers to be caught red-handed. INDIAN RAJAH WILL REMAIN IN EUROPE. .London, May 19. The Daily Mail states the Rajah of Pudukota has declared his intention of remaining in Europe. Tho reins of government will be handed over to his brother. The Rajah has just roturned to London from Cannes, where he has a villa. He is spending much time on the London racecourses, being keenly interested in the turf. AMERICAN MONEY FOR EUROPE A number of American millionaires including Mr J. Pierpont Morgan, Otto Kahn, C. H. Billins, and Oliver Jeslin, have arrived. ; Mr Morgan is going to Paris to confer with bankers there in reference to the proposed International loan of two hundred million sterling for Germany.