GENERAL CABLES

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

DOCTOR’S SUICIDE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association? LONDON, Sept. 10. The body of Dr Oswald Clive Shields, 56, of. Melbourne, practising in the West End of London, was found in, the woods at Richmond, Surrey, with an artery in the groin severed by a surgical instrument found nearby. It is stated that he had long been overworked, and refused to take a holiday. He acted in war time as operating surgeon at Boulogne and surgery specialist at Wimereux. His wife and five children were holidaying with his brother, Sir Douglas Shields. WEST HAM REFORMS. LONDON, Sept. 9. “We have made work more profitable than living on the dole,” says' Sir Alfred Woodgate, Chairman of the West Ham Commission, set up by the Government. “We are reducing the rates fourpence in the pound for the next six months, totalling a reduction of eightpence since we took over control. We are reducing the six months’ outdoor relief, by half ,a million. We have arranged to pay a debt of £2,275,000 by yearly instalments of £302,000.” TRIPOLITAN SKIRMISH. ROME, Sept. 10. . General Mezzetti fought rebel tribesmen in the central Range of .Tripoli, killing 218, and capturing four hundred loaded camels. The Italian casualties were slight. HOP CROP ESTIMATE. LONDON, Sept. 11. Lemay’s estimate states the British hop crop is sufficient for the brewers’ requirements, in view of the surplus held during the last two years. . IRISH ELECTIONS. LONDON, September 11. A notable declaration was made by Mi- Cosgrave, who said: With a view to ending the political turmoil, I am prepared to forgive and forget, conditional that the majority Will of the people must decide all issues. If the Republican Party give up the arms they dumped in 1923, when fighting ceased, there will be no necessity for putting the Public Safety Act into operation.

NO ITALIAN STRIKES. ROME, Septeinber 11. The Tribunal at Pisa declared that strikes in the past were regarded as manifestations of liberty, because no other means were available to workers to obtain the improvement of conditions, but all strikes were illegal now, as the Government provided competent mediums lor the purpose of settlement of disputes. WOMEN MURDERED. PARIS, September 11. The Strasburg police are hunting for Franz Bagesat, a. workman, suspected to have murdered thirteen women, whose bloodstained clothing was carefully packed in three wooden chests at his lodgings. It is supposed that he burned the bodies.

DARWIN’S HOME. LONDON, September 11. Dr. George Browne is finding £l5OOO to purchase and endow Charles Darwin’s home. Darwin paid £2200 for the house. MATTEOTTI MEMORIAL. BRUSSELS, September 11. At the unvejjing of a memorial to Matteotti, Mr Arthur Henderson declared it was a symbol of homage of International Socialism to the ideals of liberty and democracy. Matteotti realised that Fascism was a denial of the principles of political liberty and democratic right. It was banishing torturing, destroying and slaying the bodies of men, but it was unable to kill free spirit, reason or - annul the law. Fascism and Bolshevism together had spread ruin, desolation and death. Matteotti used the weapons of reason and goodwill which alone would ultimately prevail against tyranny. “SPIES” CONDEMNED. • LENINGRAD, September 11. The trial of 26 alleged British spies has concluded. Three were released because of insufficient evidence. The prosecutor demanded the death of nine others, including a woman.