Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 547, 27 December 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

GIFTS TO CHARITY. —The late Mr. James Patten, the ‘wheat king," left £3.000,000 to seven Chicago charities. —A. and N.Z.-P.A. TRIBE MASSACRED. Great anxiety for the security of the frontiers is being felt in Transjordania, as the Wahalfcs have renewed warfare. All the men of one tribe were slaughtered w hile they were in camp and their cattle were taken away. The men of a neighbouring tribe pursued the Wahabis, and they were also annihilated.—A. and N.Z.-P.A. REFORM IN MEXICO. —The President of Mexico, Senor Emilio Portes Gil, has issued an order for the abolition of summary executions. In milking this announcement he said respect *°r human life would be strictly enforced in Mexico. Even rebels must k* tried formally in the future. —A and N.Z.-P.A. n HEAT HIGH WAY. A message from Boston says plans have been put forward for the construction of a four,ane motor-car highway from Boston to New York, at a cost of £100,000,000. —L\S. Ram INK IN ('■HlNA.—While fortign efforts to relieve the widespread famine in China are officially encourthe Nankins Government proIk>ses to impose a “famine surtax” of Jji per cent, on imported flour, while Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang (“the Chrisll°n General”) has imposed a 100 per lent, freight surtax on all foodstuff tarried over the railways in the area under his control.—U.S. MISHAP TO PLANE. The air*P;tn, Lieutenant Keith Anderson, piloting a Ryan monoplane V/ ith three passengers at Sydney yesterday. had a mis*.ap while landing at Saint Mary’s speedway. T h thaehine ran into a channel. One wheel stripped off add the machine "as severely damaKed. None of the occupants was hurt.