MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 241, 25 September 1922, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Mr. Edgar Luckenbach, president of , die Luckenbach bteamslnp Company, uenies an Australian report that ne in- ’ uunds to establish a line in tile Aus- ’ tralian service. lie says the United ’ States Shipping Board forced him out ut the Ausiraiian trade, and he intends 1 io stay out. The Second Chamber at The Hague carried the second reading ui a new Constitution Bill providing for women’s franchise; tnat \\ ilhelminia’s progeny only shall succeed to the Liirone, German princes being excluded ; that a Sovereign cannot declare war without the assent of Parliament; and that the Queen’s and one Queen Mother Juliana s allowances oe doubled. A crowd of children waiting for admi utance to see a motion picture entitled “The Trap” in the Strand Theatre. Pittsburg, were hurled to the basement wnen the floor of the entrance collapsed. One child was killed and forty injured. Forty detectives made a raid on the Hotel Douglas, in the heart of the Broadway district. New York City, and seized 5(10,000 dollars worth of drugs. It is believed that this was the source of a country-wide narcoticsupply the ramifications of which have long engaged the attention of the police in England, Canada, and the United States. A total of £30,600.000 has been lost i by American mark speculators. According to one estimate. An American company is being formed to invest holdings in German real estate and in industrial stocks. American speculative purchase's of marks are estimated at 6000 million marks. Mrs. Clare Sheridan telegraphs the “Ix)iidon Daily Herald” from Constantinople that she told Kipling she was writing lor the "New York Morld.” "He did not say he was talking confidentially. I regret that he objects to the publication of his views. No doubt the female of the species is more deadly than the male.” The London “Daily Telegraph’s” Copenhagen correspondent reports that China has accepted the Soviet's ' invitation to confer with a view’ to settling outstanding differences. The negotiations will commence at Pekin in the near future. Trotsky.apeparing in a new role, has written a play entitled "Two Worlds.” which will be performed in a Moscow | theatre shortly. Advices from Hamburg state that, while under the tow of a German tug. His Majesty’s ship Euryalis, going to Kiel to be broken up, went ashore near Brunsbuttekoog. Six tugs were unable to shift her and her situation is serious.