MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.
Apparently bent on suicide a woman mounted the parapet of the Southend pier. Her shoe heel became wedged an iron rail and she hung head down over the sea and screamed for help The police rescued her.
The Russian steamer Jupiter, nationalised under the Soviet and later captured, by Wrangel and transferred to the French Government, for which it made numerous voyages, arrived at Dartmouth. The captain hoisted the red flag and telegraphed to London placing the vessel at the disposal of the Soviet representatives.
The Hamburg dockers have struck for higher wages and work at the harbour is at a standstill. A British steamer from India was only able to unload a tenth of her cargo of rice.
Edward Clarke Young the former imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, pleaded guilty at Houston, Texas, to a violation of the Mann Act, and was fined £lOOO. The Mann Act seeks to prevent men travelling from one State to another with women not their wives.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 81, 13 March 1924, Page 5
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