CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 37, 20 June 1927, Page 5

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

WARNING WANTED. Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, June 18. _ Three hundred and twenty-six members of the House of Commons have petitioned in favour of shelving at rod or green light in the tower of Parliament Building-si when ai division is pending- They state that ■many members, in tlie vicinity ol the building at present lose at tend an co marks because they, are not aware of divisions. '

MOLTKE REFLOATED LONDON. June 19. Utilising the spring tides, the sal-,-vors tilled the ex-German battleship Moltke with air (and beached her bottom up. Visitors' to Sea pa are using the keel as a promona. ANOTHER ALLEGATION, LONDON, June 18. Titoi Daily Mail’s Itiga, correspondent states that the Soviet BearAdmiral Smirnoy, attached to the Baltic Bed Elect, informed the newspaper Pravda that the British’s paper Pravda that the British squadron’s presence in the Baltic constitutes a militant demonstration against the Soviet Governments. He assorts that the British are trying to discover the Soviet’s naval strength. Rear-Admiral Smirnoy says that now the Soviet sailors are inured to seasickness the Bed Fleet is ready to take on allcomers and will delond Kronstadt to the death.

WIN FOR BRITISH MOTORS. DFRIAN. Juno 19. Inaugurating iho super | speed track at Nuerbnrgring the ißnilish \madiine« Velocottc, Huinbean . stud Excelsior were the first, secynd and third in tJio opening races for machines not exceeding 350 centimetres. boat overturns. LONDON, Juno J 9. A boat I elongi! to (he New Zealand line rito'ninor Tasmania, while conveying a party to the shore at Hamburg,' capsized, and an engineer named Fredrick Curry was drowned. cryyic^rraaes. 1 f «ga