GENERAL CABLES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 20 May 1922, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

New York, May 19. The Appellate Court ordered the release of General Semenoff and granted him ten dollars costs and ruled that the order causing his arrest illegal. Two lynchings occurred at different parts of the south to-day. One was in Georgia where a young negro was burned at the stake, having robbed and killed a white postwoman and stolen her automobile. Two thousand persons witnessed the lynching, various individuals shooting at the negro while he burned. ATHENS, May 19. M. Gounares has resigned and M. Stratos is unable to form a Ministry. The only solution seems to be a new election, which the Veuizelists demand, being sure of victory, but at present the Greek Chamber is invested with the privilege of the National Assembly to reform the Constitution and cani not be dissolved except by its own vote. LONDON, May 18. For the Bottomley trial at the Old Bailey the jury includes two women.

The Judge allowed the prisoner to sit at the solicitors’ table in order to keep in touch with the experts assisting the defence. Mr Bottomley pleaded decidedly “not guilty.” Mr Travers-Humpreys detailed 24 counts of alleged frauds, aggregating over £200,000, and said that Bottomley had made up his mind to steal £lOO,OOO belonging to the Victory Bond Club. He added: “I say that advisedly.” Mr Bottomley, unperturbed,, continued taking notes. Mr Chamberlain, replying to a question in the House of Commons stated that France had not sent any further assurance that she was willing to confer on the. Reparations Note. It is expected that if the Reparations Commission reported that Germans defaulted on May 31 the Allies must confer and decide what action is to be taken. The Rt. Hon. W. Clive Bridgeman, presenting the Mines Estimates in tha House of Commons, said that the outlook for metalliferous mines was most gloomy, but coal mines were most hopeful. Coal exports to every country outside Europe during the first quarter of 1922 exceeded the 1913 figures; to Western Europe they were only six per cent below 1913. Fewer men were employed, but the output per capita was much higher, despite the seven ■hour day. The industry was ready to take advantage of any general trade recovery. ROME, May 19. The hospital of Santo Spinto which was burned was one of the most fiuuous and largest charities m the world. It had been in the course ot erection tor hundreds of years. The fire was due to a short circuit, and started in the laundry of which the ancient wooden floor and ceiling quickly ablaze. . There was a panic among MJ patients when the floor of the room occupied by the chronic patients IUI in. Dense smoke filled the oorrido . The doctors and nurses did their port, but were able to do little in the darkU< Most of the victims were between 50 and 70 years of age. The. rest of the patients were carried into the courtyards and lay on improvised beds until the fire was extinguished.