CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1935, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

YUGO SLAVIAN ELECTIONS (Press Assn—Copyright.) BELGRADE, May 7. The general election resulted: Government Party 2,788,000 votes. Opposition Coalition 983,248. The remaining' fiftysix thousand was divided among minor parties. The Govern--mont. Party is accordingly allotted 221 seats out of 370. CEYLONESE ARRESTED. COLOMBO, May 7. As the Governor stepped out of his car after the Jubilee parade a youth jumped between the car and the mounted escort, waving a black cloth. He shouted “down with British Imperialism.’’ The police arrested him. His brother was arrested at Guile, last night for making a similar demonstration. JAPANESE AND “SPIES." TOKIO, May 7. A message from Kobe states that M. A. Pierce, a former Police Commissioner in Los Angeles, caught in a police net and detained for eleven days, charged with photographing a fortified zone, was lined thirty yen. Three Shanghai foreign residents continue to be held as suspected of spying during a yacht cruise. SOLDIERS’ BONI’S. WASHINGTON. May 7. fn liter of lite 'promised veto by Mr Roosevelt. he Senate joined tlm House o! Representatives in voting for a cash payment of a soldier bonus. 1-y a two billion dollar issue of new currency. ADMIRAL’S PROMOTION. LONDON, May 7. Sir A’fred Chatfield will succeed Sir Roger Keyes its Admiral of the f'lcet. There is some comment in Naval circles on Admiral Keyes’ roti; f>ment. under the iive-ycar rule, especially as Earl Beatty continues to hold rank, after 16 years.