CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1930, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

PIRATE COLUMBUS.

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BERLIN, September 19. Columbus’ famous voyage to America was not his first, according to Procssor Ulloa, a well-known Spanish authority, lecturing to the American Congress at Hamburg. “I am definitely able to establish after research in the Spanish archives, that Columbus made an earlier crossing with Danish privateers via Ireland, Greenland, Labrador and Newfoundland to Florida, where he landed. The documents reveal that Columbus was formerly’ a pirate,” said the professor.

AUSTRIAN CABINET RESIGNS,

VIENNA, September 25.

The Schober Cabinet has resigned, following the ■withdrawal of the support from it of the Christian Social Party, whose Leader, M. Vaucoin, is likely to be asked to form the new Government.

OLD TURK INJURED.

NEW YORK, September 25.

Zaro Agha, the Turk, whose claim to be 151 years old, has made him world-famous,, and who came to the United States in July to lecture and give . exhibitions, was knocked down by an automobile while crossing Broadway at Sixty-one Street in the White Way district to-night, and was seriously injured. The motor car responsible for thy accident sped away.

TRADES UNION CONGRESS.

RUGBY, September 24. The general council of the Trades Union Congress to-day elected Mr. Arthur Hayday as chairman for the ensuing year. For the past forty years Mr. Hayday has been a prominent official of tfie National Union of General and Municipal Workers. He has been a member of the Westham Town Council, and has represented Nottingham West in Parliament since 1918. HOMELAND POST OFFICE. RUGBY, September 24. The Postmaster-General (Mr. H. B. Lees-Smith) stated that when the accounts of the Post Office for the last financial year are completed, they will show a record profit of approximately £9,250,000. He claimed for his Department an average level of efficiency higher than that, displayed in other industries, and said that the criticism to which, as a, public Department, it was open, acted as a tonic. Referring to tho postal service, he said that it had carried 6,000,000 letters per year. As for the telephone service, the proportion of wrong calls was only one per cent, in the provinces and 33. per cent, in London, while the average time a subscriber had to wait before the operator answered his call was 6.4 seconds in the provinces and 5.3 seconds in London. JAP GENERAL’S TRIAL TOKIO, September 26. The public trial of General Yamanashi opened to-day. On entering the Court, a young reactionary assaulted Yamanashi, striking him on the forehead, and exclaiming: “Traitor to country and Emperor!”