NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 66, 5 March 1929, Page 5

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

LATE CABLES IN BRIEF.

Trans-Atlantio Telephone. — Plans are well advanced for the installation of the first exclusive telephone cable from the United States to Britain. The B.S. American Telephone and Telegraph Company and the British Post Office have agreed to co-operate in a service in conjunction with the present wireless telephony, which is necessarily subject to atmospheric interruptions.

Electricity Contracts,— Sir Andrew Duncan, chairman of the Central Electricity Board, stated yesterday that the board had already placed contracts for over £3,000,000 and was in tho coming week to place contracts for another £3,000,000 in connection with a scheme under the Electricity Supply Act.

Heavy Rains.— Nearly six feet of rain has fallen at Cairns (Queensland) since January 1. When the rivers between Townsville and Cairns subsided on Saturday two trains slipped through to Cairns carrying the first mails from Brisbane since Wednesday week. One train from Cairns reached Townsville. Heavy rains on the uplands have revived fears that the rivers may rise again. Charge of Murder. — Harold Lever, aged 23, was shot dead at Dunedoo, N.S.W.. yesterday. His father, Joseph Lever, is held on a charge of murder. The father and his two sons are travelling plumbers. It is alleged that a quarrel occurred and that the son was shot dead with a pea rifle at a river camp where they were camped.

Guidance of Youth.— The Bishop of Bathurst, N.S.W., Dr. Crotty, in a sermon, said: “What the modern youth wants is not so much critics as examples. Parents to-day are preoccupied with material tasks and do not so much lead their offspring as follow them, with an almost comical gluttony, on their youthful pleasure hunt. I have no desire to condemn the middle-aged to a life of joylessness, but when middle age and old age vacate the throne of moral leadership to scramble with youth for the flesh pots of existence, the depths of treachery to God and man surely have been reached. The Church, instead of fuming against modern youth, should do something to save it from the things which are poisoning and unbalancing it.”

International Forgers Vladimir Orloff, one of the suspected international document forgers, whose arrest was announced yesterday, was once one of the. chiefs of the secret police in Tsarist Russia. Heis now a master spy, seeking to avenge the murdered Emperor, while Michael Sumarekoff formerly was an envoy of the Ukraine Soviet Republic. Another arrestee was Gertrude Duemmler, a girl of bewitching beauty, who is Orloff’s secretary. The police raiding Orloff’s country house at Schandau found a finely equipped chemical laboratory and an arsenal of small arms Jt is believed many alleged Soviet documents published in Europe were manufactured in Orloff’s factory at Schandau. The Berlin correspondent of the New York newspaper “Knickerbocker” tricked Sumnrdkoff in+o loaning him forgeries for sufficient time to have photographs taken, and thus enabled the Berlin political police to arrest the gang.