OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18575, 25 September 1928, Page 4

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Motor-Car Fatalities. MELBOURNE, September 24. Week-end motor accidents resulted in five persons being killed and ten injured.—Australian Press Association. earthquake and Fire. NEW YORK, September 24. Advices from Los Angeles state that earthquake shocks and forest fires caused alarm and destruction in various parts of the State. There were three distinct shocks in the Los Angeles district. Many residents rushed from their homes, but there was no loss of life or damage. Four fire fighters are dead and many injured, while 2000 are still battling with forest fires in widely separated parts of the State. A total area of 100,000 acres has been devastated, with many homes on ranches and small settlements.—United Service. Missing Airmen Found. CASABLANCA, September 24. The mail aeroplane was found undamaged and the crew unhurt.—Australian Press Association. Gun for Aircraft. MADRID, September 23. After six years of experimenting, Captains Moraldea and Castillo have perfected an aircraft gun which will launch by compressed gas, without explosion or recoil, a projectile resembling an aerial torpedo.—Australian Press Association. Echo of Cooks' Strike. SYDNEY, September 24. The Magistrate dismissed informations under the Federal Act charging J. S. Garden, secretary of the Trades and Labour Council, with having attempted by written intimidation to prevent persons accepting employment in connection with the transport of goods in inter-State trade. The matter arose out of the recent marine cooks’ strike. Similar charges under the State Act have already been dismissed.—Australian Press Association. U-Boat Memorial. BERLIN, September 23. Inscribed, “Woe to the Vanquished,” a granite tower has been unveiled at Kiel, in memory of German submarine crews, on the anniversary of the sinking of the British cruisers Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy, with the loss of 1500 lives. “Der Tag” says: “The memorial perpetuates the tradition of the old Imperial navy.”—Times Cables. The Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy were sister ships, cruisers of 10,000 tons, and of a somewhat old type. They were attacked in the North Sea in rapid succession by submarines on September 22, 1914, and were quickly sunk. New Monoplane. BERLIN, September 23. Junkers are constructing a new monoplane, the wings of which will hold the engines and the passengers. The wing span will be 164 feet, and the thickness of the wings near the fuselage eight feet, giving' room for the passengers’ cabins. The machine will be equipped with four 900 horse-power motors, accessible always for the mechanics. The navigating cabin will be in the forepart, and will hold two pilotß. The monoplane will first be used for flying over land, and later will be adapted to alight on water.—Times Cables. Emigrants to Canada. OTTAWA, September 24. Sir William Clark, the British High Commissioner, arrived on Sunday. He will take, over his duties immediately. He intimated that British immigration would probably be discussed at the beginning of October at a conference with Mr G. F. Plant, secretary of the Empire Settlement Board, who is now' in Canada.-—Australian Press Association. International Soccer. LONDON, September 23. In an Association football match, England beat Ireland at Belfast by 5 goals to nil.—Australian Press Association. Dominion Day. SYDNEY, September 24. The New Zealand offices and the premises of New Zealand business firms in the city were beflagged on the occasion of the twenty-first anniversary of Dominion Day. A reception v’as held at the Government offices and was attended by over 200 representatives of the consular services, the State Government, naval and military heads and ex-New Zealanders associated in professional and business circles in Sydney. All expressed to Mr W. R. Blow, the New Zealand Government Agent, their felicitations on the Dominion’* past achievements and their good wishes for the future.—-Australian Press Association. Death of Sarwat Pasha. ALEXANDRIA, September 23. Posterity will accord Sarwat Pasha, the former Premier, who died yesterday, first place in Egypt’s post-war history. Egypt owes to him entirely her present political status and constitutional regime. Egypt mourns him not only as the winner of groat concessions, but as the single Egyptian on whom her hopes for the future reposed. He will receive a State funeral.—Australian Press Association. Honolulu Murder. HONOLULU, September 23. Fukunaga told a newspaper correspondent that the principal motive of the crime was “to make my parents happy.” He explained that he had planned to collect the ransom and migrate to California, and return after some months, saying that he had made a fortune there, and send his parents to Japan, where they had always dreamed Of going. Then, when his parents were comfortably settled, he intended to surrender himself to the authorities. He said: “I chose the Hawaiian Trust instead of the other banks because I felt that the company had oppressed my parents, but it was just a freak my picking Jamieson.” Fakunaga told of his boyhood dreams of becoming an author of love stories, with plenty of adventure. He added that his religion was derived from Nature and “ all beautiful things.”—Australian Press Association.