GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

BABY PRINCESS

(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, April 26. Little Princess Elizabeth enjoyed a new experience at Windsor Castle, when, with the King and Queen, and the Prince of Wales, she was allowed to stay up for her first concert. She was dressed in frilly pink georgette. Her eyes moved round in wonderment, while her tiny hands beat time to the singing of the Royal Welsh Ladies’ Choir, which starts an Empire tour next month. At the conclusion, the King, patting her golden curls, told the Princess to thank the Choir. With great self-possession, she toddled on to the dais, held out her hand, and said “Thank you, conductor!” to Madame Cara Novello Davies, the mother of Ivor Novello, the cinema star. GALLIPOLI EVACUATION. LONDON, April 25. Sir lan Hamilton, addressing the Twenty-ninth Division survivors at London said: —“Never since the original landing was Gallipoli so much in evidence. Some mud had been stirred up, but that was characteristic of every live idea which fought its way steadily to truth. The late Mr Bonar Law sold the steamer ‘River ‘Clyde’ (from which the 29ths landed), to Spaniards for £7OOO, so anxious was he to see the last of her. We were told that the evacuation saved thousands of lives, but the public were getting an inkling that by the evacuation we lost hundreds of thousands, if not millions of lives.”

’QUAKES IN EUROPE. ATHENS, April 26. Earthquakes are still being felt at Corinth. A number of the residents have left, but the majority are determined not to abandon the city, which it has been decided to reconstruct on the same site. SOFIA, April 26. Further shocks have been experienced in Bulgaria. Half the number of houses at Galabety collapsed. The Black Sea suddenly rose several feet at Verna, but it dropped to normal a few hours later. RAIN WITH MUD. EUCHARIST, April 26. Curious phenomena occurred at Constanza in Roumania. The sky darkened, and rain fell which appeared to’contain mud. This rain fell continuously for three hours. MOSCOW. April 26. A violent storm did great damage in the Ukraine. Work had to be suspended in many factories. Telegraph and telephone communication is interrupted.

SPAIN AND SUNDAY WORK MADRID, April 27. Owing to the infringement of the embargo against Sunday work, Premier De Rivera has prohibited publication of morning newspapers on Mondays, under penalty of suppression.