Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 665, 17 May 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

PRINCE AT EDINBURGH.—Prince t-eorge visited Edinburgh on WednesJ‘ ay , t 0 open the new Department of of Edinburgh University, t rie honorary degree of Doctor of Laws t as afterwards conferred upon him.— tfntish Official Wireless. UGLY BOMBAY SCENES.-Ugly scenes were witnessed in Bombay tomob of strikers, enraged tit J e ref’jstil of the employers to pay r w *ges, besieged the cotton mills. attacked the police and troops lin stones. The police opened fire ' rL, * 0 m °b and several of the demonPJL* Wer * w °unded.—A. and N.Z - WAR.—Thft rebel King of Bacehasakao, is planning n v. clc on Kandahar, ex-King Amcapital. Bacehasakao has Ptured Herat, an important centre tiov. * * Russian frontier. Amanak i P lan ning a flank attack on . n D Jv fr °ni the north.' He is relying r tft support of the Hazaras, a i*A 5 tribe.—A. and N.Z.GERMAN UNEMPLOYED, The s::i* corre si> on dent of “The Times” , the number of the unemployed in Hint®?’ rose to nearly 2.500,000 in the lß n^ ely owin K to the prolonged . number is now rapidly it f2rt ns * Between April 15 and 30 it if J~° m 3 480,000 to i.l-6,000, and that it has since sunk ** !ow LOOO.OOO—Times Cable. ££jJPSE OF Till-; SUN.— Infonnatxf.A as been received bv tile Royal JJWJnomlcal Society of tlie success s, Jn 0 f recent total eclipse of the ext«:.i Dr - Wa terfleid. He took an equipment of lenses and *ind* f “ 3ters to Ilolio, Philippine Is - in* »hJ° r the P ur Pose of photograph--1«M. Corona - —British Official Wire- , Ra IJ ANNa V v The new °" the Australian Navy, at Kv^ dmiral E B. G. Evans, arrived with ° n t^xe Mooltan yesterday S k. * amil >'- The occasion was . Jr/ * salute of guns from warJv other naval ceremonies, in tor r> Aa ar Evans's predecesar.Admiral G. F. Hyde, figured:.