GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn.—United Servioe

RADIO-CABLE REPORT.

LONDON, July 10.

It is understood that the Commons will discuss the recommendations of the Cables-Wireless Conference during the Rebate on the Post Office • Vote, on July 12th, when the report will be published. The Labourites intend to oppose the tendency to depart from State control.

SLATER'S APPEAL. LONDON, July 9. The "hearing of the Slater appeal has begun, before five Judges. Tlie first witness was the widow of Dr Adams, the first doctor to see Miss Gilchrist, yet he was not called as a witness at the trial.

Mrs Adams gave evidence that her husband had assured her that Miss Gilchrist was killed by blows from a chair, and not Slater’s hammer ns the Crown alleged. Pinkley, an American detective, gave evidence that Slater was handcuffed to him during the identification by Miss Lambic, in an American prison, and his identification was valueless. •

After six witnesses had been heard, counsel stated: “This is the end of tlie new evidence. ” Addressing the Judges lie urged that the verdict of the jury was unreasonable. Moreover, the conduct of the Crown prevented a fair trial. The Crown had withheld evidence if it was favourable to Slater. The trial was so unsatisfactory, 'it amounted to a miscarriage of justice. PACE POISON TRIAL LONDON, July 9. In tlie Commons, Mr Purcell, inquired whether the Government would consider compensation for Mrs Pace, and hold an inquiry into the position of the powers of the Coroner, and tlie question of providing the fullest and best legal defence, for poor persons in capital charges. Sir Thomas Inskip (Socilitor General) said the latter suggestions would be considered by the proper authorities. Regarding compensation, Mrs Pace had . been acquitted, ’ after.. a careful and an admittedly fair trial. There was no departure from.,tlie ordinary course of the administration of justice, therefore it was undesirable to entertain the proposal for compensation.

Mr Purcell: Is there really no sense of decency oil tlie part of the Crown? Will you not examine the despositions, anti see whether Mrs Pace ought to have-been proceeded against. ’ Sir T. Inskip replied that lie would certainly examine the depositions, and consider carefully all the suggestions, including the expurgation of the verdict against Mrs Pace from the Coroner’s records. • '

FRENCH HOUSING BILL. PARIS, July 9.

Parliament rose until October, after passing tlie great Housing Bill, providing grants 'totalling eiglity-eiglit millions sterling for the period of 1928-33, for building two hundred thousand cheap dwellings and. sixty thousand of a better class. JERVIS BAY’S VOYAGE. (Received this day at s a.m.) A MALTA, July 10. The Jervis Bay has arrived. The crew were forbidden shore leave in order to prevent any possible incident. . ' MOSCOW BOMB OUTRAGE. | (Received this day at 8 a.m.) i BERLIN, July 10. Messages from Moscow suggest a serious bomb outrage in Lubjanka Square, where the Bolshevik prisons are situated. Apparently officers of the Cheka were blown up. Troops immediately occupied the Square and ambulances were rushed up. The newspapers were refused all information.

ALLIED WAR MEMORIAL. LONDON, July 9

A Paris • correspondent says that plans for a great inter-Allied memorial commemorating the brotherhood in arms and the efforts of other countries to relieve distress, were revealed today. The proposal comprises two vast buildings, a church ; and a museum, . erected on a hill overlooking Liege, within the fortified zone, where the first shots were fired in the Western campaign. , . The church, under the central domes, will have chapels dedicated to Britain, France, Italy and the United States, and smaller chapels dedicated to over thirty smaller nations, including the Dominions. Grouped around, and above, all, will rise three hundred feet a campanile. '

The museum will consist of a tower, and semi-circular gallery, divided into seven pavilions, occupied by the principal allies, decorated in native material and floored in their own soil. Belgium will contribute half the cost fifty thousand sterling, and the remainder will be subscribed by the other countries. \FRTCAN JUDG7-: ARREST ORDER. CAPETOWN, July 10. An order for the arrest of Judge Swindell for alleged contempt, was granted by the Natal Supreme Court to-day. Counsel stated subsequent to tho personal service of a; civil imprisonment ’ summons, Swindell left for Johannesburg. His passport was vised for. Laurenco Mnrques. The arrest order was wired to Johannesburg, but Swindell had vanished.