GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 11 September 1930, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) I’ I.ON DON, September 9Tlie 4 f Daily Express ” correspondent, at Laibach states that Italian soldiers 1 arc deserting th e frontier and w.-.inder t ing into T.aibaelu the capital of the s Jugo-Slavian Province of Flovema t where they are- being They a state that the reason is theirl fear of an imminent Italian-Jugo Slav war. i Troops have been equipped with -! extra, ammunition, and are guarding - the Itialian. Consulate. The feeling in J Trieste isi running so high that not ? only the Jugo-Slav but the French - Consulates are doubly guarded. The - ex,‘centcd Slovenian youthsi are hailed, as martyrs throughout Slovenia. i A message Corsica, states that ; ! the commander of a French submarine J upon amending two miles from the coast* rubbed his eyes with amazem-cn' i on seeing a girl swimming to the ship, -(waving a hand, and qailing 1 in Eng.[lish: “May 1 come aboard and have. t a look round?” The hatchway was! [ opened and the bat hen was charmingly I welcomed and entertained. She I prove; to be the noted swimmer, Miss , Rutter. She spent half an hour ini P the tibmarliue, then dived from thoj , conning tower, and swam ashore, where she ’s holidaying. The latest name to be added to the long scroll of medical heroes and martyrs is that of Dr. Leonard Mark, who recently died at the age of 7 -'d For forty-five years knowing himself to be suffering fijom the- rare and ? dreade Jdi ease, acromegaly he com- , pile-d a most careful record of his suf faring and reactions, in order To as s.st research. He finally bequeathed! I his body to St. Bartholomew’s Hosipital in the hope that dissection would . enable the tiHscovery of the cause and •'cine of the disease-, of whi<*h little is • known, except that it is a small turnon •at the b-se of lhe brain cans.ng grad-? • u.'il. eulargeme'nt of the bones of tho, jaw, hands ami feet accompanied by torturing hendache : i. (A us and N.Z. Cable Assn.) SHANGHAI, September 9. A newly created independent Pekin Government has been formally inaugurated under the leadership of General Yenh.-ushan, the central figure of the anti Nanking rebellion. Pomp and grandeur marked the ceremonies I which wore attended by hundreds of Pekin’s most prominent. Chinese and foreigners,. Majshal C.hanghsueh Liang v I .Manchurian Dictator, is reported to f

’have declined a post in the Govern- 1 4 ment, although main tanning Inoutral- 1 | ity. A public holiday was din the territory controlled by the j '•Northern Coalition. Nanking’s mili-I - tary •efforts to regain control of North f 1 China have been utterly unsuccessful. ? * 'l'he position of both armies is pine i f 1 lii-ally unchanged. i (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) | L ATHENS, September 9. I' Ten sailors were incinerated, and ' ‘ several were injured when seven sail- j • ing vessels and a steamer were de ■ ■ strayed as the result of the careless- 1 ynes.s of a ship’s cook, who threw burn■ j 4 ing embers on petroleum floating on t the water in Pireaus Harbour, near! 1 the storage tanks of the Standard Oil I ' Company. •, The flames spread quickly, catching/ a sailer taking in fuel. In a few min- . utes seven other vessels, and a small I • boat loaded with petroleum were] ablaze. The flames wore mastered be- I | fore they reached the shore where the I oil tanks are situated. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) | CAPETOWN, September 9. I The ninety tons Norwegian whaler, • bound for South Georgia, has returned. The deck cargo and coal were swept loverboard by mountainous seas. The I captain hove to for three days, seven • hundred and fifty miles west of Capej town. The seas topped the masthead, j (Official Wireless) 1 RUGBY, September 6.

I After floating in the sea for about fifteen years a large mine was found •yesterday, washed on the rocks near ! Folkestone, not far from the route of i cross-Channcl traffic. | Experts from the Fishery Protection 1 boat at Chcrwell took out the detonaItors and removed the- magazine, which ’contained two hundred pounds of high explosives. This was taken out to sea i and exploded. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) ' ANTWERP, September 9. Tt is now established that i Crocker is not the Hungarian actress Sari Petrass, a lifelong friend of Lady Horne, whose body, with that of Mrs Crocker, was recovered from the water after the oar in which thoj’ were travelling had gone over a bank near a ferry. Divers recovered the bodies of jLady Horne and Mrs Crocker, of LonI don. Their chauffeur declared that while approaching the ferry, he made for the spot where he understood the t bridge was. He was dazzled through I the flashes of the lighthouses and drove into the water. The- police, not satisfied .with th'e chauffeur, Albert Preedy’s, explanation, arrested him, It is understood that he ’will be chargled with homicide by imprudence. It j is alleged that he disregarded danger •signals displayed on the approach to (the ferry. LONDON, September 9. J During a frank debate at Geneva, |at the League of Nations Council, re’garding the continuance of the French 1 occupation of the Saar basin, Herr jCurtius (German Foreign Minister) .urged a speedy termination. M. Briland (French Foreign Minister) re-, I plied that only 250 troops were now* necessary, to ensure free movement of trains. France did not intend a permanent occupation. It was arranged that Herr Curtius, M. Briand and Signor Grandi (Italy) should discuss the : matter, preliminary to the Council’s i examination.

(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received September 10 at 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 10.

The Chief Justice, at the Chicago Criminal Court, instructed the Grand Jury to end the reign of terror which, he said, was carried on by racketeers who had slugged and shot their way into the control of labour unions. He estimated that the racketeers cost the American public six hundred million dollars annually.