GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 29 May 1925, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

AMERICAN OIL SCANDALS. (N.Z. and Australian Cable Assn.) WASHINGTON, May 27. fall, Sinclair and Doheny were reindicted by a Federal Grand Jure, which has been, taking new evidence in the oil lease eases. The action is the sequel fio the dismissal of the former indictments. At_ lee, Pomerenc and Owen Roberts, special Government counsel, obtained a new Grand Jury and submitted fresh evidence, resulting in the latest development. Two indictments are returned, the first charging Fall and Sinclair with conspiring to lease the Teatpot Pome naval oil reserve without competitive bidding; the second charging Fall and 'Doheny with the same offcn.ee regard-

ing the Californian reserve. The Government has apparently dropped the bribery aecusati-n against Dohcny. There is no indictment against Doheny’s son, Edward, who was formerly indicted.

IRISH WOMEN BEAT THE CUSTOMS. LONDON, May 27. Belfast, women are adopting- piquant ruses to smuggle silk goods into th • Free State across the frontier, wearing half a dozen pairs of stockings ami other lingerie. Sylph-like girls leave their Free State homes, go to Ulster, aird return enriou-lv shapeless wearing- a, number

of corsets. One girl recently accompanied a coffin. supposed to' contain the bodv of her husband. It was really filled with champagne, powder puffs, and underclothing. FOUNDLING HOSPITAL. LONDON, May 27. interest is attached to the impending removal of the famous Foundling Hospital at Bloomsbury, to the country and the purchase of its site of 56 acres at a cost of a million and thrcequarters by a company for rebuilding purposes. One of the directors of the Company, is Mr Sam Copley, a West Australian m'Hiouaire. who achieved fame a few vears ago by purchasing a largo slice of Huddersfield, his birthplace, and presenting it to the Corporation. LIBEL CASE. LONDON. May 27. A settlement was announced in the libel action brought by flu* Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders against the British Empire Exhibition. 1924, ami Sir Lawrence Weaver, in respect of an interview Weaver published in the newspapers in January, in which plaintiff contended that he unwarrantably suggested the reason thSociety refused permission tor its mem_

bers to the exhibition at Wembley was that the Society included a large body of traders interested in foreign cars. Defendant unreservedly withdrew the statement, apologised, and paid the* plaintiffs’ costs. ALLIED DEMANDS ON GERMANY. LONDON, A lay 27. Britain and France have practically agreed io the demands to he incorporated in a Note to Germany, on the subject of disarmament. The next stage is for the Reparations Commission, which meets on May 29th. to state whether the ‘Germans carried oni the obligations under the Dawes plan. When both the financial and disanna. i ment obligations have been curried out, Cologne will be evacuated. THE WASTE OF MILITARISM. LONDON. Alay 27. The Army accounts disclose that sev_ entyjive of the new types of tanks, ordered in 1919, costing a million ster. ' ling, were scrapped after the first “were delivered, owing io their uselessness. One hundred and sixty.live million rounds of war lime rifle ammunition was condemned as unserviceal.de. BULG ARIAN COMMUNISTS. SOFIA, Afay 27... 'fhe trial of persons accused of sheltering conspirators concerned in the Cathedral outrage, has ended in the Agrarians, Perche, Lieff, Leger and Madame Nicolava, being sentenced to death, ATadame Leger tn imprisonment for life, and Alalet io eighteen months’ imprisonment. PHILIPPINE UNREST. MANILA, Afay 27. The Constabulary attacked the Sultan Sa Baya, the A'lohemmedan leader at Lanao, who has been holding a. fort for many weeks, despite the personal visit of Governor Wood to Lanao, seeking to persuade him to surrender. Seven Aloros were killed. A large number escaped, including probably the