GENERAL CABLES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 10 April 1924, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, April 8 It is announced in army orders that the King with great regret approved the disbandment of King Edward’s Horse. Following on an estrangement Ralph Jones, aged 26, a tailor of Birmingham, is alleged to have attacked his fiancee with a razor, severing her cheek from the mouth to the ear. The girl's condition. is critical. It is stated that Jones called at the girl’fe home to renew the engagement, and he alleges that- previous to the estrangement he noticed the tea was hitter and thought she had placed something therein. , He declared, “she injured me and I meant to injurS her.” Jones was charged with attempted murder and remanded, in view of his strange manner in the dock.

LONDON", April 9. The Daily Express Milan correspondent says Maria Rampini, widow, aged H, and a brother! aged 80 inherited a fortune,of £800,00(|, the estate of a long lest .brother who< amassed wealth by the manufacture of liqueurs in South America. NEW YORK, April 9. < Dimitri Loanovic, a Roumanian engineer, has written to-the United States, British, Danish, and Canadian Governments claiming that an ice cap 10,000 feet, thick will crush Greenland and throw the world off its axis. He proposes to build a dam across Fury and Ifecla Straits between the Bay of Bothnia and Fox Channel, throwing the Arctic current north and allowing the Gulf Stream to reach Greenland and melt the ice. , ST. JOHN'S (Newfoundalnd), April a. The disposition of more than 200,000 dollars of which the Accounts Controller's Department is short, will be the subject of Government investigation, according to the Evening Advocate, In* organ of the Warren Government. The Advocate intimates" that the Department of Justice decided to prosecute all implicated by report of T. Hollis Walker, Royal Commissioner This is taken here to mean the prosecution of Siv Rich aid Squires on the basis of the Commission's finding against him.