GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 28 March 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

BOMB OUTRAGES. J (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn & Sun Cable; (Received March 27 at !) p.m.) NEW YORK, March 27. News from Chicago states that the homes of United States Senator Deneeu. and of Judge Swanson, were bombed on Monday night. The former was partially wrecked. The bombers arc believed to bo political enemies. peasants behead soviet OFFICIAL. LONDON, March 26. “Th ( > Times’s’’ Moscow correspond ent rt'ports (hat infuriated peasants in the Crimean village of Filarionovka, beheaded M. Urikhodko, whem the So vie.t had sent to report on peasants’ delinquencies to the newspapers. The peasants split his head in quarters, which were scattered. A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. LONDON, March 26. The 1 Daily Mail’s” Warsaw correspondent states Vilna reports a mys terious atempt to poison the population of Minsk by selling three him dred casks dfl arsenici'sed pickled cucumbers, resulting in hundreds of victims in one day. The authorities, through cinemas, theatres and res taurants notified the public to eschew cucumbers, and arrested Kozdam, a seler of several casks, and compelled him to eat one of his own cucumbers, making him seriously ill. The affair is reportedly a terroristic act, and a Soviet pretext to further wholesale arrests of White Russians. PEOPLE POISONED BY A MADMAN’S TEETH. OTTAWA, March 26. A Montreal mesage states that a woman ie dead, and a man is delirious and many may die, as the result of being bitten by an infuriated man with defective teeth, named Albert Shutes, aged 56 years. The victims have been placed under treatment in the hospital. Shutes has been arrested on a charge of wounding, and possibly manslaughter. AJN OTHER EMIGEATIUN MOVE. LONDON, March 26. In the Commons, replying to Air Couper, Mr. Amery said that at the request of Australia, t arnangementi were made for a mission consisting of Messrs Harry McGowan, Hugh Hirst, Ernest Clark and Dougal Malcolm to leave in August for Australia to com for with the Federal and State Go vernments on development of migration. The Commission would confer with leaders of industry ami commerce on the development of Australian reflourccsj and any other matters of mutual economic interests, ponding to the promotion of mutual trade, and increase settlement in Australia. The tour would occupy six months.

THE MALTESE POLITICAL CRISIS MALTA, March 26. Because cab drivers struck;, the treasury will be without funds from March 31, till April IL The -Governor Lord Stricklau ar leged that the Opposition Senators wore supporting the cab drivers. This was indignantly repudiated and a withdrawal was demanded. Lord Strickland thereupon 4 the Senate adjourned till April 11, as a protest without passing the Appropriation Bill. The prospect of being without money for eleven days led to such hostility towards the Senators responsible that the police are guarding them. The situation is tense. Governor Strickland is considering petitioning the King to amend the constitution reserving to the Assembly, financial control. Previously the Senate defeated the Government’s proposal to appoint an Agent General in London, which post was offered to Sir J. Connolly on January 24. The Cenate referred back the Assembly’s money vote for tho appointment. GREEK-ROUMANIAN TREATY ATHENS, March 23 Greece and Roumania signed a pact of non-aggression and arbitration