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Grey River Argus, 4 December 1924, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

GALLIPOLI HORSE S EPITAPH. LONDON, December 2. I “In memory of Bill. Sixth Light Horse, 1914-24, aged 21. One of the best.” This is the epitaph engraved on the headstone surmounting a lone ly grave under the shadow of Walker’s Ridge, Gallipoli. Bill was a horse which left Australia with the original Sixth and after the Armistice was shipplod to ttyo Peninsula. He became the special property of Colonel Hughes and the .Australian I associates on the staff of the WaiGraves Commission. Bill faithfully saw the job through to the end, and then died. Colonel Hughes, who h::arrived in London, states that the Graves Commission’s work on the Gallipoli Peninsula is practically completed. Ouly a few headstones remain to be erected. The whole fortyfour cemeteries are in splendid condition. SILENT AEROPLANES. LONDON, December 2. , The ‘Daily Express’ says the Jiri tish experiments, aiming at the elimination of -noise by aeroplanes!, resulted in the problem being practically solved- A new device permits noiseless escape exhaust eases without interfering with the lifting powl'r and speed, while the arrangements of goal’s attached to the engine avoids the propeller's whirr. DRY LAW EVASIONS. | WASHINGTON. Dee. Liquor law violations in the iiaraon .'il capital detected by the city pd ee totalled 14,013 last fiscal veer; <B 13 were arrested for intoxication. litre than twenty thousand gallons of Iff |hpower illicit beverages were seizltl. 'l’he liquor violations increased ur 1244 arrests over the previous ye: t. CHINESE SITUATION. |. PEKIN. Dee. 2.1 Chang Tso Lin, accompanied my Chang Hsusli Liang, Yanyu Ting (Ulse£ of Staff) and Wm-hen Sheng (Governor of Heilungkiang) and other members of the Staff, and bodyguard, I|‘Tt Pekin for Tientsin by train. Trains arc leaving prepared to convey thegreniainder of the Fentien troops |-to Tientsin. SHOOK UT THE MATRON! •' LONDON, December 2 Muriel Brown and I’hyllis Sh : iv. were sentenced to ti\o years in Ihe Borstal Institute, and .Rene Agar uzas bound over as the result of an attack on the matron of the J.eeds Resaue Home. I CANADIAN BANK FRAUDS. OTTAWA, December d, A further group of Canadian fiiim ciers in high positions have been ait to gaol in connection with ihe a blurt* of the Home Bank. Charris Barnard a millionaire mm I a Montreal Coijmration lawyer Was sentenced to two years’ imjirisonml*n( for authorising false returns to Jlie Government during the final two vej> rs of the bank’s existence. ' Coionel Clarence Smith was sint Io gaol tor one year, and Sydrwy Jones, auditor, to four months.’ Ocqln Smith, chief accountant, has a suspended sentence because he gave |hc Government every assistance <lurMg the prosecution of the Directors. Tffie losses by the depositors excee<»d three million sterling. W —t— I