CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 October 1932, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

PRINCES’ TOUR. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] RUGBY, October 13. Although they remained only- one night in Hamburg, the Prince of Wales and Prince George epent many hours visiting different parts of that great port, including a typical block of the workmen’s flats, which they entered, talking for some time with the occupants before midday. They were seen off by 'the Burgomaster at the aerodrome, and they flew to Amsterdam.

After a short stay there, Prince George took leave of his brother, and coiitinued the flight in the Imperial Airways liner to Croydon. The Prince of Wales drove to the British Legation at The Hague, with the British Minister, Sir Odo Russell. His short visit to Holland is of a private nature and he leaves for England by boat tomorrow night.

KREUGER SWINDLE.

STOCKHOLM, October 13.

Torston Kreuger, brother of the late Ivan Kreuger, the Match King, has been arrested, following an inquiry into the failure of the Hoogbroforeen Company, a subsidiary company of the Kreugei’ and Toll Companies, of which Torston Kreuger is a director.

LANCASHIRE MILLS.

RUGBY, October 13.

Negotiations for a settlement of the Lancashire spinning mills dispute on the matters of wages and hours, were opened at Manchester under the presidency of Mr F. W. Leggett, Labour Ministry Official, who recently effected a settlement in the weaving industry. An agreement was reached to deter the notices to the workers, which had been due to expire next week, and it was decided that a Negotiation Committee of both sides would meet under Mr Leggett’s chairmanship. FALL FROM WINDOW —_ I LONDON, October 14. “My experience in the vast majority of cases like this, is that they are suicidal,” declared Coroner Ingleby-Oddie, at the inquest on Rose Rhodes, widow of a barrister of Canterbury (New Zealand) who fell sixty feet from a window of her son’s Chelsea flat. “Naturally the relatives always endeavoured to show that death was accidental. It is possible but improbable, that her fall was accidental. Marks under the window were apparently made, while Mrs. Rhodes was getting out and suspending herself from the window.” The son, in evidence, stated that his mother arrived from New Zealand in June. She was without troubles and lived happily with himself and wife. The Coroner returned a verdict that

there was insufficient evidence to show if it was accidental death, or suicide.

CANADIAN REVENUE. OTTAWA, October 14. Customs and excise revenue' of Canada totalled 99,128,093 dollars at the end of the fiscal half year, September 30, a decrease of 7,856,175 dollars from the similar period last year. Exports of Canadian wheat in the first half of the fiscal year were greater both in quantity and quality, than in th£__corresponding period last year. Exports were 103,698,022 bushels, valued at 60,917',590 dollars, compared with 93,235,249 bushels valued at dollars.

CHEMICAL SHEARING.

LONDON, October 3.

A fantastic claim that sheep can be chemically shorn is made by Professor Iliin, of Moscow, after eight years’ experiment. He says that he treated 2500 sheep with chemicals, and each was stripped of wool in three to seven minutes, 12 per cent, more wool being obtained than by using shears. He also claims that infra-red and ultraviolet rays heavily increase the fleece.

EX-KAISER’S RETURN.

LONDON, October 14.

The “Daily Herald’s” Amsterdam correspondent, interviewed the exKaiser’s Marshal at Doorn, apropos of the wedding of the Crown Prince of Sweden to the daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, which will take place at Cobourg on October 21. The Chief Marshal said that the exKaiser would like to be present, but he did not contemplate asking permission to be. The ex-Kaiser, he said, wishes to remain in Holland until the German people ask him back. By the German people, he meant a 'National Government embracing all of the political parties. Asked whether the Von Papen Government was really a National Government, the Chief Marshal replied, “Yes. Though the Socialists and the Communists are not represented in it, they have deliberately placed themselves outside of the German people.”