GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 March 1926, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

BY GABLE—TBESS ASSOCIATION —YBIGHT.

BERLIN, March 4. An extraordinary death pact was revealed when five housemaids at Wilhemshaven simultaneously jumped over a bridge into the harbour. Three were drowned and two rescued. PARIS, March. 4.

Lizi Lambrino, ex-wife of Prince Carol of Rumania, whose marraige was annulled in 1919, has commenced legal, proceedings for recognition of her status, together with support for herself and her child. She has arrived in Paris, and has consulted a lawyer, who is asking for £IOO,OOO insurance on her life and that of her child. He points out that she agreed to separate from her husband, and even consented to remarriage on the understanding that this was merely formal because v of dynastic reasons. Lambrino argues that since the Prince’s renunciation of the throne he is no longer- tied by dynastic reasons, and consequently she is entitled to relief from him. She calls upon the Prince to appear at the courts to answer the claim in three days. SAN FRANCISCO, March 4. According to a telegram from Seattle, the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company announced on Thursday that they had been awarded claims aggregating 2,050,000 dollars by a mixed claims commission for the loss of five freighters sunk in the world war byGerman submarines. NEW YORK, March 4. The Assistant Secretary of Labour, Mr Husband, has ordered the actingCommissioner of Immigration to return the Countess Cathcart to Ellis _ Island immediately for deportation if she loses the habeas corpus proceedings on Fridav. THE HAGUE, March 5. The trial has opened of three Hungarians, Jankovitch, Narcovski and Marcovitch, for attempting to pass forged French thousand franc notes. Maroovitch said that he was entrusted hv the secretary, Windischgiyietz, with the task of buying jewellery m Holland with forged notes. A Dutch jeweller gave evidence that Marcovitch had actually attempted to purchase jewellery to the value of 30.000 to 40.000 francs, to he paid for with French thousand franc notes. The prosecution demanded that the accused should he sentenced to periods up to nine years.