CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1937, Page 14

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

EX-KAISER’S COUNCIL.

[FEESS ASSN. —COPYEIGHT.]

LONDON, December 10

The former Kaiser has summoned a family council, says the Doorn correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.’ TtfUs understood the discussion, -will relate to important family matters and will also indirectly concern the estate of the Grand Duke George of 'Hesse, who was killed in' the recent air accident at Ostend. The management of the former! Kaiser’s estates is becoming more difficult because of increasing Government restrictions.

DESTROYERS FOR BRAZIL.

RUGBY, December 9

The firm of J. Samuel White and Company, Cowes, announces that it ihasi received an order from the Brazilian Government for two destroyers of the same type asi the British H. class, with a speed of 354 knots.

WAR PRISONERS.

LONDON, December 10.

The “Daily Mail” says that according to Paul Rodolf, an Austrian soldier. who escaped from a Russian labour camp, a lost army of 70,000 prisoners of the Great War, exists;, scattered in remote' parts of Siberia and Outer Mongolia. The army consists mostly of Slavic Austrians and Hungarians, whose families abandoned hope for them years; ago. Many have remarried! and .settled down, and have lost touch with their former associations.

NOBLE EXILE KILLED

HELSINGFORS, December 10.

Once a life guard and head of one of Russia's noblest families, _ Prince Alexander Demidoff died of injuries received while driving a hay-cart. Exiled by the Bolsheviks, the Prince went to Finland with rich possessions. Later he w'as forced to sell his estates. When he became ruined he worked in the fields. / . ■ '■ FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10. His aunt Myllicent has been awarded complete control of Freddie Bartholomew’s affairs, after the boy’s testimony to the Court: “I would like my aunt to control the estate.” The boy indicated that while she was in charge of affairs, under a year, she saved twenty thousand dollars, but since others had taken control, the estate had depleted rapidly. ITALY AND LEAGUE. LONDON, December 10. The Rome correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says: The intention of Signor Mussolini to leave the League of Nations lias caused a deep impression. The reason for the decision might be summed up as disappointment that His letters to Mr. Chamberlain did not lead to Anglo-Italian t cbl ks Count Grandi (Italian Ambassador) has gone to Italy to attend the Fascist Grand Council.

TURKISH IRON WORKS RUGBY, December 10. Officials of the Treasury, and of the Export Credits Guarantee Department of the Board of Trade, have returned from Turkey, after discussing formalities arising out of the granting of a guarantee to cover credits of over £3,000,000 for the erection of an iron and steel plant at Karabuk. The contract is being carried out by a British firm. About 50 British constructional engineers are supervising the work, and a number of Turkish students are being trained in England to occupy positions on the staff of the new works.