OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17190, 6 November 1923, Page 4

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

| LONDON. November 5. j The Rome correspondent of the “Daily « hronicle’’ rays that, a bank . clerk who was refused an increase in salary by the bank of America and I Italy, in revenge made a bonfire of a ; million lire worth of notes, which he 1 secured by means of iorged receipts. ; SYDNEY. November o. The .seUmal records in Sydney show that the earth shocks rep tried • • . te*day were so violent that they caused the instruments to swing to the fullest, limit. The first waves arrived at 7.1-1 on Saturday morning and reached the maximum at 7.23 a m. Smaller tremors were recorded on Saturday afternoon and Sunday ing’LONDON, November 5. Newspapers are publishing . serial j articles of Horatio Bottomley’s ex- ; periences of prison life. • ; The Prison Commissioners have or- | dered an inquiry at which fourteen warders and prisoners will give evi- j dencc. Meanwhile four warders at Worm- j wood Scrubbs have been suspended. , Bottom ley is also likely to be called ! to explain how the articles were smuggled out of prison. ROME, November 5. Signor Mussolini, speaking at a celebration of the anniversary of the armistice with Austria, said that while, as an individual, he might cherish a dream of Utopia, as the responsible head of a State ho refused to believe in the possibility of perpetual universal pence. Italy, the Premier said, must possess an air fore© equal to, or stronger than, other nations. He intended to treble the number of aeroplanes in the coming year