NEWS BY CABLE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3713, 12 May 1925, Page 45

NEWS BY CABLE.

ITALIAN FLIER AT BOMBAY. DELHI, May 8. The Italian airman lie Pinedo has arrived at Bombay. LORD MILNER, LONDON, May 10. Lord Milner is suffering from sleeping sickness. LORD JELLICOE. LONDON, May 4. The King granted an audience to Lord Jellicoe. PRINCESS ROYAL. LONDON, May 4. The Princess Royal had a good night. She continues to make progress. WEST AUTRALIAN’S LIQTTOR POLL. PERTH, May '. The final figures in the Prohibition poll are: Against, 77,030; for, 41,250. BELGIAN MINISTRY. BRUSSELS, May The King has received the Catholic leader, Vandevyvere, who agreed to tiy and form a Ministry. LEAGUE OF NATIONS. GENEVA, May 6. Mr Austen Chamberlain has convoked the League Assembly for September 9. The agenda contains the Protocol. MR LLOYD GEORGE. LONDON, May 6. Mr Lloyd George has been presented with the freedom of Wakefield, making tile thirty-fifth city to so honour him. TROTSKY’S PORTFOLIO. LONDON May 9. The Daily Express states that 'frotsky will probably become Minister of Foreign Trade. TREBATHA ASHORE. May 8. The Trebartha has been refloated, and is apparently undamaged. After ' reloading her discharged cargo she will proceed to Rabaul. SOUTH AFRICAN TARIFF. CAPETOWN, May 4. In the Assembly Mr N. C. Havenga (Minister of Finance) announced that Britain would get the most-favoured-nation treatment under the new tariff. FEDERAL FINANCES. MELBOURNE, May 5. The Federal revenue for 10 months was £31,480,000, showing an increase of £1,573,000 on the last corresponding period, and £3,146,000 above the estimate. MANHOOD SUFI RAGE FOR JAPAN. TOKIO, May 6. The manhood suffrage law, quadrupling the franchise, has been promulgated. It will become operative at the 1928 General Elections. A STEAMER STRANDED. BRISBANE, May 6 Information has been received that the steamer Trebartha is stranded on a reef south-east of Kaewieng. No details are avalaiblo. TROTSKY AND THE SOVIET. MOSCOW, May 6. Trotsky has recovered his health, and is returning to Moscow to resume work; but it is officially denied that a directory, consisting of Kameneff, Zinovieff, Stalin, and Trotsky, is being established. TOC H. OTTAWA, May 6. The Rev. Clayton (founder of Toe H.) and Pedre Clonard are sailing by the Niagara, and will spend a fortnight in New Zealand, after which they will go to Australia. PASSENGER SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA. LONDON, May 3. An interesting development in shipping competition to Australia is the Norddeutscher Lloyd's decision to run a passenger service via the Cape, beginning in June, with the motor ship Konigsberg. COLLISION IN AIR. LONDON, May 3. A seaplane and aeroplane collided over the mouth of the River Eden (Solway Firth). The aeroplane landed safely. The seaplane was buried in mud, in which the polit and observer were smothered. A BARBER’S FORTUNE. LONDON, May 9. One of the daughters of Charles Jaschke has unexpected discovered that her father left a secret banking account of £30,000. bringing up his estate to £50,000. EDITOR BANISHED. CONSTANTINOPLE, Ma v 9. Hussein Djahibdey, editor of Tanin, was sentenced to banishment for life, ostensibly for ascribing a police searqh as a raid, but actually for attacks against the Government. THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN. May 9. The prospectus has been issued of the New Zealand 4£ per cent, loan of seven millions at 94£, repayable at par in 1045. SOCIETY LADY AND TURK. LONDON, May 5. Lady Sholto Douglas has obtained a decree absolute, thus enabling her to

marry Prince Burhan-ed-din, a son of the ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid. Prince Burlian lives in a luxurious mansion in Vienna COSTLY PICTURES. LONDON, May 1. Hoppner’s portrait of Lady Elizabeth Blight was sold at Christie s for 10,200 guineas. Reynold’s famous picture, “The Careering of Samuel,” was sold for 6700 guineas. SOLDIER RUNS AMOK. ROME, May 4. A soldier named Lorenzone ran amok j at the Pistofa bni racks. He seized a : rifle and killed four sleeping comrades and wounded three others before he was arrested. WAR-TIME DEATHS. PARIS, May 3. At Namur, the War Council tried 25 German officers in connection with the war-time deaths of 900 residents. It passed the death sentence on 18 officers, and sentenced seven others to life imprisonment. EMPIRE PRODUCTS. LONDON, May 4. The Women’s Unionist Organisation is arranging for the widespread sale on Empire Day of sample boxes of Empire products, ranging in price from five shillings to five guineas. Tne contents include New Zealand honey and Australion soap. LAYING PACIFIC CABLE. LONDON, May 3. The Telegraph Construction Company at Greenwich is building a new vessel to lay the cable from Vancouver to Fanning Island because none of the ships available are long enough to transport the length of cable which is required. AMERICAN FLEET. MELBOURNE, May 3. The Trades Council decided to recommend all its delegates and members not to participate in any function arranged for the entertainment of the American fleet. MURDER OF THE SIRDAR. CAIRO, May 6. The nine men accused of the murder of the Sirdar were committed for trial. Abdel Fattalienaiat asked to be allowed to make a statement, in which he described how the murder of the Sirdar was carried out. MASONIC RELATIONS TERMINATED. NEW YORK, May 5. It was announced at the opening of the 144th annual communication that because the Grand Orient of Belgium had “abandoned the requirements of belief in God and removed the Bible from its altars” the Grand Lodge of New York has terminated Masonic relations. NEW ZEALAND’S PAVILION AT WEMBLEY. LONDON, May 6. The Duke of York visited the New Zealand pavilion at Wembley. He congratulated Mr A. F. Roberts (the New Zealand commissioner) on the new ideas, which gave a still more attractive display of the dominion’s varied resources. LORD PIRRIE’S ESTATE. LONDON, May 8. A cable message published on April 6 stated that Lord Pirrie’s will was granted probate in North Ireland for £332,022. It is now stated that the North Ireland estate was sworn at that amount, and that the English estate has been sworn at £707,785. ISLAND OF HAWAII WASHINGTON, May 8. Mr Butler, chairman of the House of Representatives’ Naval Committee, stated that he will urge legislation next session of congress to make the Island of Hawaii “the strongest military outpost in the world.” INTERSTATE SHIPPING FREIGHTS. SYDNEY, May 8. The inter-State shipping companies announce an increase in the freights be •tween the mainland ports of 2s to 3s per ton on all cargo shipped after the 18th inst. The reason given for the increase is that the inter-State trade for some time has been unremunerative. £OLY WEEK IN ROME. ROME, May 8. English Roman Catholic pilgrims (numbering 1200), led by Cardinal Bourne, and including nve English bishops and 100 priests, have arrived for Holy W T eek. They attended high mass at St. Peter’s conducted by the celebrated Cardinal Merry Del Val. HIDES SHIPPERS’ COMBINE. LONDON, May 7. A hides shippers and agents’ association has been formed in London to protect their interests and to endeavour to establish uniformity in trade customs and usages. THE REG FLAG. LONDON, May 10. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, speaking at a labour demonstration at Newport, said that Labour would never conquer so long as it marched to music like the “Red Flag.” They wanted a great new labour song with a fine pulse and a stirring, swinging march. LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL. LONDON, May 7. The London County Council, after a record session of 21 hours, defeated

attempts by the Socialists to municipalise the motor boat, tube railways, and omnibus services; to start a savings bank, and to authorise the compulsory acquisition of empty houses. “A SLEEP MACHINE.” LONDON, April 27. A Cheshire resident has invented a S' machine, consisting of an apparatus ing a sequence of rays of 12 colours. The effect upon the retina induces sleep. Experiments show that stubborn sleeplessness can be overcome in from 10 to 15 minutes. INSULT TO BRITISH FLAG. LONDON, May 8. As the coffin containing the body of John Lennex, who served in the Royal Irish Fusiliers in the Great War, was being carried into St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, several Republicans objected to the Union Jack covering the coffin, and tore it off. In order to avert further trouble the military party decided not to restore the flag. AIRSHIP R 33. LONDON, May 3. Flight-Lieutenant Booth, Commander of R 33, speaking at the engineers’ dinner, declared that R 33 was a decade out of date. It was hoped to build an airship two and a half times bigger than R 33, carrying 100 passengers and mails to India in five days. GASTRIC INFLUENZA. SUVA, May 4. Epedemics of gastric influenza and mild typhoid are prevalent in Suva and the suburbs. There are 70 European patients in the War Memorial Hospital, and many Indians, but no lijians. There have been one European and two Indian deaths. The schools are closing to-day. ZINOVIEFF AND BRITAIN. RIGA, May 6. The English church at Petrograd has been converted into a Communist sports club, and portraits of Lenin and his colleagues replace the beautiful stained-glass windows. Zinovieff, scorning the protests against the confiscation, said: “It is not the first time that we have spat on England.” EX-SERVICEMEN’S EFFORTS TO THWART HOOLIGANISM. LONDON, May 7. Ex-scrvice men in Sheffield have banded together to fight the hooligan gangs who are terrorising the city by violence. The Chief Constable refuses to aid the exservice men on the ground that it would be getting back to lynch law. SIGNOR MUSSOLINI. ROME, May 7. The Ministry of the Navy has resigned. This is attributed to Signor Mussolini’s new scheme to unify the command of all the defence forces. It is rumoured that Signor Mussolini is contemplating himself taking over the combined Military, Naval, and Air Mipisteries. DISASTROUS FIRE. MELBOURNE, Mav 4. Fire at Buninyong destroyed hall the business block. It was caused by the explosion of petrol in a garage. A man named Arthur House was sent to hospital in a critical condition as a result of burns, and two firemen were injured when a building collapsed There are no details of the damage. OXFORD CHANCELLORSHIP. LONDON, May 6. A meeting of the members of the Court of Convocation last evening unanimously adopted Lord Milner as candidate for the Chancellorship of Oxford University. It was stated that Lord Milner’s illness a few days ago appeared likely to prevent his candidature, but the outlook of his health has since been most optimistic. NEW STATES MOVEMENT. SYDNEY, May 6. Cabinet has made available the report of the New States Commission, which finds that the creation cf any new State is impracticable and undesirable. A minority report says that a new State in the north is practicable, but under the existing conditions undesirable. Cabinet has not made a decision on the findings of the Commission. THE DUNMOW FLITCH. LONDON, May 8. The Rev. H. Dunnico, M.P., has written suggesting that Mr Jack Hobos (the wellknown cricketer) has a claim to the Dunmow Ilitch an the ground that he refused to tour Australia without his wife. Other claims for this prize for uninterrupted domestic felicity are Mr Tom Griffiths and Mr Roy J. Davies, both of whom are members of the House of Commons. Mr G. K. Chesterton will be the adjudicator on Whit Monday (June 1). DAYLIGHT WIRELESS. SYDNEY, May 4. Two-way dawlight wireless communication between Australia and England was successfully established during the weekend by an amateur, Maclurcan, sending messages from Mr Bruce (Commonwealth Prime Minister) to Mr Baldwin (Prime Minister of Britain) and receiving replies from the leading amateur wireless societies in Britain. AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE. MELBOURNE, May 6. The Federal Cabinet is considering what measures it will submit to Parliament to provide for the adequate defence of Australia and to give effect to the recommendations of the Defence Council. Cabinet is also considering the report of the naval authorities who attended the Singapore Conference.

RAIN IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, May 7. The rain has ceased. Over seven Inches has fallen in Sydney since Friday. The downpour practically covered the* whole State, and it still continues in many of the country districts, where a most welcome rain interfered with the election campaign, which is now in full swing, though so far the response of the electois is somewhat lifeless. FLOATING UNIVERSITY. NEW YORK, May 3. A floating university, which will combine years of college study with a trip around the world, will leave here next September with 450 youths selected from all parts of the country. It is announced by the New York University that Mr James E. Lough, of the university’s ultramural division, will be in charge. The itinerary includes Hawaii, the Orient, India, North Africa, and Europe. AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE. MELBOURNE, May 7. Mr Bruce announced that a 6000-ton seaplane carrier for the Australian Navy would be built at Cockatoo Island dockyard. The building of this vessel will keep together the technical staff at Cockatoo, and provide employment for many workmen who at present are threatened with being paid off. TREATY OF LUSANNE. LONDON, May 7. The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent learns that Turkey is seriously obstructing the work of the mixed commission under the Treaty of Lausanne dealing with the question of delimiting the demilitarised zones of the Straits. Turkey wants the zones reduced to such small dimensions as to afford no real guarantee of freedom for the passage of the Straits in an emergency. CONDITIONS IN MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, May 9. The Rev. Mr Hayes, who is visiting Australia in connection with the Toe H. movement, told a meeting that he had visited the Melbourne industrial area, where offal and filth flowed out of the doors. He said he. was astounded that such deadly places existed in a new city. They were worse than the London slums. No wonder they bred criminals. TASMANIAN ELECTIONS. HOBART, May 6. General elections will be held on June 3. Seventy-four candidates have been nominated for 30 seats. The Official Labour Party has 30 and there are two unofficial Labour candidates. The remaining 42, owing to the failure of all efforts to unite the anti-Socialist forces, are submitting themselves under a variety of names, comprising Nationalist, Tasmanian Liberal Party, and Independents. WORLD PEACE. NEW YORK, May 5. A peace committee of women at Washington adopted a resolution to be presented to the council of the League of Nations urging that the members should pledge themselves to use all “their influence to procure the speedy inclusion of all nations*’ into the League. Another resolution suggests that the council should place on record a motion favouring the gradual reduction of armament as the only effective approach to general disarmament. - {STEALING MOTOR CARS. MELBOURNE, May 7. The detectives have established the fact that a gang is engaged in the systematic stealing of motor-cars, with branches in Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. This gang has been in operation for over three years. One method, is to rent garages, where the cars are altered beyond recognition. Another is that a member of the gang buys a car and insures it-. A confederate steals the car and the gang collects the insurance. TYPHOID IN FIJI. SUVA, May 8. The typhoid epidemic is at its peak There have been three deaths among Europeans, and several others are in a dangerous condition. Over 100 Europeans and many Indians are affected, but no Fijians have been attacked. The Boys’ Grammar School has been converted into a temporary hospital. Extra doctors and nurses have been ordered from Australia and New Zealand. BURGLARS’ ENJOYMENT DISTURBED. SYDNEY, May 6. The police were informed that burglars had entered a central free bond. They watched them through a window for some time until a key was procured. Two men who were comfortably enjoying champagne and other liquors were then quietly surprised and arrested. The men had packed ready for removal 57 cameras, and quantities of liquors, clothing, and other goods. YOUNG AUSTRALIANS. LONDON, May 3. When the young Australians entered Scotland, after crossing the Sark at Gretna Green, they were met by a pipers’ band and a party of Glasgow business men standing beneath an arch across the road way inscribed “Welcome to Scotland.” When the Australian band played Scottish airs a mob of cattle in an adjoining field stampeded. When the boys neared Glasgow the leading motor-car in the procession, carrying the Welcome Committee, ran over a girl, who was sent to hospital. FILM STAR CAPTURED BY BEDOUINS. LONDON, May 3. Betty Blythe, a film star, while motoring in Palestine, where she was taking part i*

the making of films, was captured bp Bedouins, after a severe light, the othei occupants of the car being wounded. Troops failed to rescue Miss Blythe. It is pointed out that after the filming of the “Queen of Sheba” she received treatening letters, alleging that she had offended the susceptibilities of the deseri tribes. The letter concluded: “Allah will be revenged.’’ NURMI’S RECORD TOUR. NEW YORK. May 6. The record-breaking American tour of Paavo Nurmi came to a temporary halt when Mr Rubien, chairman of the National Registration Committee of the Amateuf Athletic Union, announced that all future appearances of the Finnish runner had been cancelled until his manager, Huot Quest, officially answered a charge of aemanding excessive expenses money to run at Drake University a week ago. Ths sum demanded was-said to be 1000 do!* lars. Quest has denied the charge in th« newspapers, but has not done so officially® DOMINION LOANS. LONDON, May 6. In addition to the New Zealand loan of £7,000,000, the rate of which is not ye<| fixed, the New South Wales £6,500,00Q and the West Australia £2,000,000 loanj are impending, but will probably be dej layed some weeks owing to the market conditions. Replying to questions in the House of Commons, Mr Walter Guinness said tihaj Britain and Australia had agreed to accepj repayment of £2,000,000 and £1,200,000 respectively of Rumanian relief bonds, which matured on January 1, by capital instalments spread over 15 years at 5 per cent, interest. BROWN HEART IN APPLES. LONDON, May 7, A new instrument in connection with the efforts to eradicate brown heart m apples while in the storage chambers of ships was made by research scientists atj Cambridge University, and despatched id Australia for trial on the fruit boat* coming Home. Air Pearce, the fruit expert of the Over* seas Farmers’ Co-Operative Federation, e» plains that the instrument records the atmosphere in the storage chamber by a chemical process, and greatly simplified the delicate process of ventilation. A TRAGIC DEATH. LONDON, May 5. Mr George Whale, when presiding at ai Rationalist dinner in connection with the Huxley centenary, fell dead after delivering a speech in which he attacked Christianity. Mr Whale’s sallies caused much laughter among the 17 guests, but a lew moments after lie had finished only hushed whispers were heard, for he collapsed in his chair. Artificial respiration was tried, but it failed to restore him. Mr Whale was born in 1849. He was a solicitor and retired from practice in 1913. He occupied many prominent publio positions, and had been mayor of Woolwich. He was the hon. chairman of the Rationalist Press Association. NORTHERN IRELAND. LONDON, May 3. In introducing the North of Ireland Budget, the Minister of finance (Mr H. M. Pollock) said that apart from the obligations to the two great burdens of unemployment insurance and special constabulary, which would be lightened, the general finances of the province were perfectly sound. They had given £19,500,000 to the Imperial Exchequer since 1921. He estimated the revenue during the coming year at £11,000,000, and the expenditure at £8,000,000. The Imperial contributions would come from the balance.

SEX PHYSIOLOGY. WASHINGTON, May 8. Dr W. J. Mayo, in his presidential address to the Congress of Physicians and Surgeons, dealing with the question of rejuvenation by tne transplantation of sex glands, declared that Dr Voronoff was making impossible claims. Dr Mayo added that Dr Stockyard, in giving the results of remarkable experiments in sex physiology, showed that the departure of th*e life-giving germ from the human system does not mean the approach of oid age. Other things being equal, a person may live for 50 years or more and be physically as hale and hearty as ever.

GENEVA PROTOCOL. CAPETOWN, May 7.

In the Assembly, General Hertzog (Prime Minister), replving to questions, stated that the Union Government's views as regard the Protocol closely resembled those of other dominions, and the British reply to the League of Nation*. General Hertzog expressed the opinion that the Protocol would effectually prevent America’s entry into the League, a* it amounted to the creation of a superstate. He said he feared that the League in view of the abstention of America, Germany, and Russia, would differ little from the historic alliances instead of being a leagus of peace.

PICTURES BY WIRELESS. “ NEW YORK, May 7. Almost perfect pictures of the war games at Hawaii were reproduced here after being transmitted by wireless and wire across 2372 miles of ocean, and 2774 miles of land. The pictures were received by the Radio Corporation of America just 20 minutes after being developed and adjusted to the transmifcing apparatus at Koko Head, Hawaii, having been relayed five times during thd brief interim.

Tho experiment is hailed a« a new important stride in the transmission of photographs. It was conducted through tho co-operation of the War Detriment of the Radio Corporation and the wire companies.