CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1931, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

FORMOSA TRIBES. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.] TOKIO, April 25. An inter-tribal Aboriginal uprising in the Musha region of Formosa yesterday resulted in a hundred and nine being reported killed. I HOMELAND CENSUS LONDON, April 25. Forty thousand specially engaged enumerators have distributed twelve million forms in connection with the census, which is being taken on Sunday. The census will cost £240,000. It is believed that it will reveal an increase in population of probably two millions, compared with 1921. His Majesty, at his own request, is filling up a special form. BATH DECLARED “BLACK.” NEW YORK, April 23. At Zion City (Illinois), Voliva stated that he was resigning from active control of Zion City and the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, to spend the remainder of his life in the spreading of his doctrines throughout the world. He told reporters: “Recent reports that I was dying were false. I shall not die until 1976 —at the age of 106. I merely scalded myself while bathing. I 'was a silly fool" to scald myself, and I will never go near the bathtub again as long as I live.” RAILWAY CRASH. LONDON. April 25. Regarding the Royal Scot express disaster, the jury returned a verdict that the accident was caused by the driver failing to observe the signals, and to have the train under proper control when passing distance signals. COMMUNIST IMPRISONED. LEIPZIG, April 24. Max Maddalena, a Communist member of the Reichstag, was sentenced to two years in a fortress for publishing a treasonable article in Hamburg newspapers. Maddalena, an ex-metal worker, was accused of fomenting strikes in industry. He had previously served a sentence for breach of the peace. MAYOR OF LYONS.

PARIS, April 26. A niessage from Lyons states that M. Herriott (ex-Premier) was reelected Mayor. He, at first, refused to act, as the two deciding votes were given to his opponents, declaring it was impossible to administex* the town’s affairs, unless there was a complete Socialist majority. But a second ballot, in which eleven Councillors abstained, confirmed the election. M. Herriott thus retains d. post held by him for a quarter of a century. U.S.A. TRADING LOSSES. NEW YORK, April 26. Exports of United States cotton last year were valued at only one hundred millions sterling, the lowest since 1915. The Postal Department shows a deficit, including airmail services, totalling about twenty million sterling. The loss oh the merchant marine is twenty-seven millions. LINER’S ""“SUICIDE.” ' LONDON, April 26. With flags flying and screws full speeding, the Pacific Navigation Company’s 9000-tonner, Orita, for 30 years a popular ship on the South American run, will gloriously suicide by dashing on the beach at Morecambe, in order to break herself up before beingsold to shipbreakers, thus avoiding the usual fate of disused liners, waiting in Rotten Row, for a melancholy end.