GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 April 1925, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. VALUABLE JEW'EDS STOLEN. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, April 17. The robbery of uncut diamonds valued at £25,000 from the shop of Mr. Ernest Whitehorn, gem merchant, Hoiborn, is baffling Scotland Yard. There are no marks on the doors, all of which were locked, while the safe was locked and undamaged. It is thought the thieves secreted themselves in the building, opened the safe with master keys, and then relocked it. A watchman was always on duty. ENGLISH CRICKETERS. LONDON, April 19. When the Duke and Duchess of York joined the Maloja at Port Sudan, the Duke requested that the English cricketers be introduced to him. He congratulated them separately, and said that though he was sorry they had not retrieved the ashes, they deserved the country’s thanks for all they had done to foster the spirit of sport in the Empire. R A ISULI^DEAD. LONDON, April 17. Reuter’s Tangier correspondent says it- is officially stated that Raisuli, the notorious bandit chief, is dead.

LONDON’S DEFENCES LONDON, April 17. The Dailv Mail says the London Anti-Aircraft Brigade is carrying out a novel recruiting plan. Nightly during the last week in April searchlights and anti-aircraft guns will operate against aeroplanes dropping instead of bombs pamphlets urging men between the ages of 17 and 45 years to join the brigade, which is materially below strength. WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS. LONDON, April 18. A correspondent of the Morning Poet, after describing the new beam station at Bridgewater, states that by October England will ho in constant wireless telephonic communication with Australia, Canada and South Africa, and Australia will he in similar communication with Canada. After the Empire is linked up by wireless England will l>e similarly connected with the rest of the world.- The Marconi Company is maintaining its services in addition to the Empire services. PUBLIC EXECUTIONER. BUDAPEST, April 17. Among five hundred applicants for the post of public executioner in Budapest were three women and several men. who offered their services .free as social workers. One mentioned that he had assisted at over it hundred executions as a press representative, and knew the ropes thoroughly. Another, recently repatriated from America, claims that he took a leading part in twentv-five lvnchings. ONE-ARMED MAN’S CRIME. PABIS, April 18. Last November the body of a Russian barman named Koustchenke. who formerly was a lieutenant in the Tsar’s army, was found shot and weighted in a canal. The mystery long baffled the nolice, who concluded that the strange knots were tied by a one-arVned man. They therefore sought.out such a man and found a Russian named Kossokhatcho. who confessed that he murdered Koustchenke as a result of a political argument. He added: “J gm a Bolshevik and he was of the old regime. He struck me. I saw red and I shot him. f fastened weights to his. neck and dumped the body into a canal.” ANOTHER USE FOR AIRSHIPS. WASHINGTON, April .17. Tt is reported that the navy dirigible T.os Ancelos, in a test flight on Thursday, sailed off Rum Row and observed manv crews heaving cases of liquor overboard and secured, photographs. Persons on hoard the airship apparently acted on their own initiative, according to the Navy Department, hut stated that if the pictures taken were of value tbov would he turned over to the prohibition authorities.