GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1931, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

CONFIDENCE TRICK. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy righ t. J LONDON. March 22. Tin* victim of the confidence trick was Naol, of 2U Jamieson Street, Sydney. GERMAN .MANIFESTO. RERUN. March 22. Roman Catholic Bishops manifesto forbidding church members to support Slalileliclms, owing to the doctrine being similar to Nazis. has aroused Stahlehelms bodies, who attack Roman Catholics declaring they will mu rest until all Communists. Reds and “Catholic Riiizes” have fallen as the enemies of Nazi's policy. THE LINER REFLOATED. LONDON. Alarcii 22. The liner Alontelare has been refloated. She sustained little (Tannage She will proceed to Liverpool under her own steam. SIX DAYS RACE. PARIS. Afarch 23. Opperrmm and Lamb are among fifteen pairs of cyclists commencing a six days race at the Velodrome Dhiver, to-night. Lauto declares the Australians might easily succeed. In any case they are dangerous rivals lo other teams, among whom afo the. Dutchman, Vankompiu and Pyienlmrg. OTHER NATION'S PROTEST. VIENNA, March 23. France, Italy, and Czeeho Slovakia diplomatically protested against the Austro-German union, on the ground that it infringes the Geneva protocol of the 4th of October, 1922. FRENCH ALARM. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) PARIS, .March 23. The newspapers almost unanimously express alarm and resentment, and condemn dho negotiations, at a time adieu the stability and peace ol Europe hang in the balance.

“d'lie "Loetivre” asks why Britain does not join in the protests, and hopes thait Air Henderson will join Af. Btiand in notifying Austria of its astonishment at the way it proposes to break international agreements. TRUNK .MURDER. GIRL’S BODY FOUND. (Received 10.20 a.m.) BUDAPEST, ALtreh 23. The craze for trunk murders continues. Following the discovery of the strangled body of a pretty girl concealed in a trunk left in a railway carriage, the police arrested her lover. Schvieber. The motive is believed to he jealousy.