GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

’VARSITY .MURDERS,

[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright )

LONDON, June 6

The jury returned a verdict tha Potts murdered Wollaston ami Detective Willis, and then committed sm cuie during temporary insanity.

CHICAGO’S HUGE GROWTH

NEW YORK, June 7

The City ol Chicago has had an increase of population of (M0, T0.) since 1920. Its total has now grown t> 350,000. This will be officially announced on Wednesday from the National Censor Bureau, and it will occasion widespread municipal celebrations.

There will he a three days’ programme of festivities, with the school children participating.

GIUF ZEPPELIN.

BERLIN, Jiitle 6

The Graf Zeppelin has returned today (Friday) to Friedridishafoii, after spending three weeks on the flight to South America, and North America and hack.

A MURDER.

(Received this dnv nt 10 a.m.'

LONDON, June 7

The partly clothed strangled body of a young woman, Agnes Kesson, was discovered in a ditch near Epsom racecourse. The police lielieve the girl was hanged to a tree' in a remote spot and then dumped in the ditch. Extensive bruises on the body show Kesson made a terrific struggle for life before she was overcome. It is suggested the murderer or murderers first intended to leave the girl hanging in the hope it would be regarded as suicide and then changed their mind remembering the Whitehouse case, and • decided to put the bodv in a car and drop it along the road. ■

THE POPE.

NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH

(Received this day at 11 a.m.)

VATICAN CITY, June 8

Whilst addressing four thousand members of the Fascist Recreational Societies at St. Damascus Church courtyard, the Pope narrowly escaped death when the glass fac-e of the huge clock above the Papal throne became dislodged from the case and its fall was miraculously checked by the massive dock hands, ' Attendants rushed and tied the hands preventing rotation and thus holding up the glass,

CHINESE TROUBLES.

SHANGHAI, June 6

A Chinese newspaper published at Kiukiang gives details of the enormous damage done by Communists in Kiangsi Province in the hist eleven months. The loot amounts to 214 million dollars. Eighty-two thousand people were killed and thirty-seven thousand houses destroyed.

TRAIN WRECKING

PARIS, June 7

The police arrested' a young Italian Bruno Conto, on a charge of complicity in the Montereau train disaster on June 1. Conto is well-known in Communist circles, and he was missing from his usual place of residence for some time.