GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. WOMEN'S I'IIANCIIJSE. LONDON, >1 arch 8. Mappers of England celebrated tlie franchise victory at Queen's Hall tonight at a monster meeting of delegates from 147 of the principal women’s societies. Mr Baldwin, the principal speaker, called on all women to realise the new freedom only meant a new duty, for freedom without obligation was merely a license for anarchy. TRADE ESTIMATES. LONDON, March 8. The Hoard of Trade estimates provide £2,037,000 for the purchase of Australian zinc concentrates, sales of which arc expected to return Cl ,502,05(1. A KIM A L SURVEYS. BRITIS 11 S PEC lALI STS. RUGBY, March 7. Aeroplanes are being increasingly employed for aerial survey work, and a. British aircraft operating company, which has specialised in this direction, has designed a special cralt for this purpose, based on experience during surveys in Northern Rhodesia. The pilot sits in the nose of the machine, and the photographer operates his camera from a special cabin near the pilot, with a vertical view of the ground through the windows in the floor. The machine is specially engined to permit continuous flight at great heights over unmapped hush. The operating company is at present completing a survey of the Zamffiesi River for the Northern Rhodesian Government, and is preparing maps of an area of 0900 square miles. An expedition has now been dispatched to Bagdad to carry out a survey of 1000 square miles in the vicinity of the city. One of the company’s representatives is now in South America arranging for an aerial survey of certain cities and harbours.—British Official M ireless. PR IN CESS’ GENERAL. TOKYO, March 0. jt is officially announced that the funeral of Princess Suchitto will take place on 13th March without a. period of Court mourning, the reason being her infancy. The coronation plans are unchanged. A LOTTERY WINNER. BERLIN, March 8. A poor teacher at Baden bought a lottery ticket and kept it a secret from Jiis wife for fear he would he henpecked for his rashness. He won £25,000 in the State lottery. *'or twenty years the teacher had taken an eighth share, hut Hi is year was tempted to plunge. A sensation was caused as a result, as it is rare for an individual to win. the whole prize with a single! ticket. STRENGTH OE ARMY. LONDON, March 0. In the Commons, Sir L. Worthington Evans, closing the debate oil the Army Estimates, emphasised the feet that before the war, the strength of the army was 719,000. To-day it is 472.000. , 4 The vote was agreed to by 189 to _O. CRIME WAVE IN PARIS. PARIS, March 8. The city is outrivalling Chicago as a crime centre. Never in its history has there been such a wave ol P™ss and public attack upon the police and tiieir poweriessness m dealing nitn criminality. There has scarcely been a day of the new year without someterrible crime, and the perpetrators escaping. . To-dav the body of a motorist was found on the hanks of the Seine, the victim being kidnapped from the motorear, which was abandoned at Bins do Boulogne. A sensational scene was enacted at the Paris Divorce Court when the judge wliose duty it is to try to reconcile people before a divorce action, . announced the husband’s relusal to compromise his wife. Madame, who is a Servian, aged 215, drew a revolver from her handling and shot hurseil in the heart. The newspaper “ Quotidien comments that the crime wave .threatens to submerge the police organisation. 1 here are three reasons for the crime wave: The police are insufficient and are inadequately equipped; the juries \w not convict, and the heads ol the departments are incompetent. THE jTRUPHENE MURDER. AN EXTR AOR DI N A R Y STOR Y . PARIS, March 8. A startling theory, reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe, is advanced concerning the Trupheiie murder. It is now suggested' that Truphene, who in possession of more than lidUU.) ■>< diamonds, himself murdered an nnknown man and substituted the vi - tim’s body and dressed it in Ins clothes to which he set five, hoping to mislead the police into Lelieviu- l.<was dead. The theory is supported by three men identifying rupheiHfrom tl,e photograph as the driver <• the motor car in which .1 the laxly was conveyed to the stone. Two women well known to Iruphene state that he mentioned that u- ou a presentiment that he "oui - assassinated, and his body burned, also that he was going to Amsterdam Mick he had a new position. Another intriguing that Truphene’s overcoat in the po of which there was a small set of J . used for weighing jewels, «a. on the roadside near the body. FAMILY OBJECTIONS. LONDON, March 8. The New York “ Sun ” publishes i . statement to the effect that rangements were made lot the... • • Hinchcliffo trans-Atlantic High ; In premature publicity forced the, abandon it. The “ Sun j admission to this effect Gillespie, who is Hmohrblle « Ann u. manager, who added that a was to be undertaken despite the o jections of Miss Mackay s ami \ ARMY ALECHANTSATION. LONDON. March 9. Field Marshal AHlne, referring t mechanisation, said it is impossible nc to be thrilled by the possibilities openc up in the Britsli army, wind, has no found something which has releg.m infantry and horsemen to a sccom a. place in warfare. They will »> tutu he merely xnoppers up and g 1 <’ ul cleaners or else go to tight in countri. which are motor proof. One absoi m problem of mechanisation is the que tion of fuel. CHURCH DRAAIA RECALLED. LONDON. -March 9. One of the most ■ remarkable eliur dramas of recent times is recalled the announcement that ex-Archdeac Wakeford lias been certified insane a sent to Kent County asylum, lbc-c; was heard by the Privy Council February, 1921. NILE TRIBAL UNREST. CAIRO, March 9 Sliieka Hafes and Wahba have an at Koweit where they endeayou

to negotiate a settlement, contradict the report tlia Ilni Sand had dedaled a holy war or is militarily assisting tribesmen. On the contrary Urn Sand is making an effort to quieten the tribesmen who have revolted against British air raids. TURKEY INVITED. GENEVA, -March !>. The League Council has invited Turkey to attend the Preparatory Disarmament Commission. NAVAL ESTIMATES LONDON, March 9. The Navy estimates total £58,.‘100,0011 which are £700.000 less than the original estimate and £1,140,000 less than the figures as amended in the supplementary estimates. Mr Bridgcman, in a memorandum, points out the continued placidity of the general navy situation has been constantly in mind in preparation <>i the estimates. Many important services have been either deferred or P*°vided for at a leisurely rate, which Ur expectation of a prolonged, period of peace alone warranted. A reduction ol two cruisers in the 1928 programmand one in 1929 programme- meant an economy of £190.000. The expenditure o,| Singapore was limited to preliniin- ; dries, also preparations for the floating dock which would arrive in November and be ready for use in four months. HINCHCLI EEE’S HOPES. LONDON. March 8. Mine heliffe says lie hopes to make the trans-Atlantie lliglit shortly, but he first will carry out a long-distance nonstop run and may attempt to reach Karachi. In any case he will try In ho the first man to travel by air to America. lion. Elsie McKay admits that she has been aloft on every occasion of the machine's trials. She would give anything to go cue the transAtlantie flight hut her father is opposed.