GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 October 1924, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

GERMAN LOAN. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT 1 LONDON, Oct. 15. A large queue at' applicants in connection with the German loan issue assembled at the Bank of England at 6 o’clock this morning. They numbered" 2000 by 9 o’clock. SUIGIDE BY GAS. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. Senator Frank Branclegee, of Connecticut; one of the Republican leaders in Congress, committed suicide by inhaling gas. His body was found in the bathroom at his home. TRAGIC DEATH. LONDON, Oct. 15. The Daily Express reports that while a couple were executing an eccentric dance, the man as a toy soldier and the girl as a rag doll, at a dance club near Baker Street, London, the man fell. Tlie audience applauded it as a dramatic finale, but the girl screamed: “It isn’t acting. It’s real. He’s dead.” The man had just executed a somersault. He had complained that he dicl not feel well. FOUND IN RIVER THAMES. LONDON, Oct. 14. An inquest was held into the death of J. C. Chadwick, a Yorkshire manufacturer, who was found in the Thames clad in the evening clothes in which he disappeared a week before from a West End theatre. A sobbing woman, fashionably dressed and heavily veiled, gave evidence of friendship between’ Chadwick and herself. For nine years she lived with him as his housekeeper. He came to London to insta.l her in a flat, and both of them went to a revue at a vaudeville theatre. Chadwick became very depressed, saying: “It’s a poor life Tor me. You are in London and I am in Leeds.” The depression was increased by the fact that he could not marry her because the divorce decree obtained in December .bad not been made absolute. Chadwick left in the middle of the performance and she returned to the hotel later, when she found that Chadwick was not there. A doctor’s evidence was that Chadwick struck the parapet in falling from the bridge. A verdict was returned that there was no evidence as to how fie came to be in the water. HOISTING OF FLAG ON HERALD ISLAND. WASHINGTON, Oct. U. United States officials refrained from commenting on the hoisting of the American flag on Herald" Island. Apparently the Government is not willing to‘ comment even on the informal character of the claim to Wrangel Island asserted on behalf of the Russian Soviet Government. —Reuter. NAVAL WAR. MEMORIALS. LONDON, Oct. 15. The Duke of York unveiled at Portsmouth the last •of three naval war memorials, of which two have already been unveiled at Chatham a.nd Devonport.—Reuter. FLIGHT OVER. ATLANTIC. NEW YORK, Oct. 15. ’Hie. safe arrival of ZR!3 at .Lakehurst .marks .the fourth successful attempt of human- beings to span the Atlantic in a non-stop flight. The aeronautic experts of the army and navv regard it as the most .significant, if not the most spectacular' flight. > They declare the world is wit-, nessing evidence that the dirigible is destined to he the international passenger ship of the near future. PRINCEI FALLS FRQM HORSE. OTTAWA, Oct. 15. • The Prince of Wales arrived at Toronto from Detroit early to-day. "While participating in a fox hunt arranged in his honour by "the Toronto Hunt Club at Newmarket, thirty miles north of the city, the Prince had a spill, but was unhurt and continued his ride. The Earl of Dimmore also fell and retired. ARMY BLIMP EXPLODES. NEW YORK. Oct. 10. _ An army blimp exploded when 150 feet in the air at Newport News, several officers and men being badly injured.