LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1936, Page 16

LATE MESSAGES

AUCKLAND, July 2

The theft of goods belonging to the firm which employed him, was admitted by a storeman janitor, George Patrick, 34, at the Police Court this mo~.ing, pleading guilty to stealing a radio set valued at £ll, and accessories valued at £B9, the property of Motor Specialities Ltd. The police said that the property was all neat,ly. stored under accused’s house. In a statement accused said that in the first instance he placed the radio set in an empty case, which he was taking home, and thereafter occasionally took accessories. “The habit of taking things grew until it became a fnania.” Replying to counsel’s application for renewal of £lOO hail, Mr. McKean said he;did not know whether he should comply. Patrick was in a position of trust and had stolen over a long period. It was not a case of sudden impulse. However, the S.M. agreed to renew bail. ROME, July 1. Umberto Gugielmotti, National Secretary to the Fascist Union of Journal-

ists, congratulated them assuring them of their colleagues’ solidarity. He summoned the Italian branches to support them. Signor Alfieri, Minister of Press Propanga, states the journalists’ gesture was a spontaneous reaction, when they saw the delegates applauding the former sovereign 'of a country where so many atrocities were committed. It was not premeditated. The Government might, or might not, agree with the action, but tho Minister’s previous message expressed the feeling of the whole Italian people. Moreover, tho journalists’ disapproval took the form of whistling and booing in a theatre in which it was always permissible to clap. Signor Gayda declares that Europe dishonoured herself in disapproving of the jeers of the journalists, which were those of forty-five million Italians. He strongly resents M. Titulescu’s comments.

A torchlight procession was held in Rome, in honour of the “Geneva prisoners/’ i