GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 12 August 1925, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

LONDON COMMUNISTS. LONDON, August 10. Detectives raided the headquarters of the Communist Party and National Minority movement, and discovered in sidious propaganda, printed in Soho. OVERS EA S M A1’K E TIN Cl. LONDON, August 10. It is understood that a summary has been cabled to the Dominion Governments of the Imperial Economic Committee's' first general report on marketing overseas of foodstuffs. Publication is held up pending a communique by Mr Baldwin. INDIAN TRAIN EOB3ERY. DELHI. August 10. It Is reported from Kakori, near Lucknow, that four armed masked Dacoits held up the guard of a moving passenger train at the revolver point. They pulled the communcation cord and stopped the train. The assailants were joined by 16 others, also masked. They rifled the brake van and decamped with the cash chests after restarting the train. A Gurkha passenger, while arming himself was shot dead; also a Mahommedan and a European passenger, the latter while attempting to come out of a compartment. An armed contingent of railway police have been despatched.

ROUND THE WORLD IN A SLOOP VANCOUVER, Aug 10. A message from Victoria (British Columbia) states that Commander Maude, who left in a sloop for England in May, and whose whereabouts have been the cause for anxiety for several weeks, landed at an Indian village cn the Washington Coast on Sunday, partially blinded by the sun’s glare. The lone mariner said that he was hit on the head by a boom, and for many days was in a semi-unconscious state. He voyaged as far south us Santa Barbara

FRISCO MUPvDERER SUICIDES. NE>. YORK, August 10. As officers surrounded his apartments in San Francisco, Charles Schwartz, perpetrator of tho chemistry scientific murder of G. E. Barbe, "a wandering missionary, committed suicide. ‘s-hwartz mutilated Barbe’s body to make it appear that he himself had been killed while experimenting witii nn artifieal silk formula. His object was to collect the insurance of £30,000 also to avoid a suit for breach of promise of marriage. RHODESIAN FIND. JEWELS 10,000 YEARS OLD, CAPETOWN, Aug. 10. Edward Rossiter made an important archaeological discovery in a wonderful terrace of ruins at Inyanga, Southern Rhodesia. Ten feet deep, he found an urn containing five copper bangles. The urn had crumbled to dust. The bangles are of pure copper. It is estimated that they are eight thousand to ten thousand years old, and work of people skilled in defining minerals,

MEMORIAL TO EXPLORER SCOTT. LONDON, Aug. 10 A national memorial to the dead of Scott’s Antarctic expedition of 1912, was unveiled at Devonport before an immense gathering. Commodore Charles Boyd, member of Scott’s first Antarctic expedition, unveiled the memorial. He asked the Mayor of Plymouth to accept its custody and suggested that the children of the local schools should be brought into the shadow of the memorial to hear the story of the expedition, as an example. Those who laid wreaths itelude Mrs Hilton Y’oung (previously Mrs Scott), Master Peter Scott, and the surviving officers of the Discovery. The monument is a granite pylon surmounted by a bronze group, representing “Courage Sustained by Patriot ism. .Spurning Fear, or Despair of Death. ’’ . |; FATAL MOTOR CYCLE RACE. I .ONDON, Aug. 10. During the Belgian Grand Prix mo tor cycle race, a British rider, Hollowell fell, owing to the machine skidding when rounding a dangerous corner. He died from, injuries.