Cables in Brief

Waipukurau Press, Volume XIV, Issue 46, 23 April 1930, Page 2

Cables in Brief

NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD Fiction and Crime. The Sherlock Holmes story of the Redheaded League, in which a robbery was carried out by tunnelling into premises from a shop next door, was repeated almost in exact detail in London. Burglars hid in a restaurant in Aldersgate Street and tunnelled into the adjoining jewellers’ shop of Messrs Worrall. The thieves opened the safe and ransacked the shop. They waited all night in the tunnel, and walked out of the restaurant when it was opened ’in the morning. Footballers held up. Communists in London are arranging demonstrations throughout the nation as a protest against the Government’s refusal to grant visas to Soviet footballers, for whom the British Workers’ Ports Federation had made fixtures in Wales, Yorkshire, Tyneside and Glasgow. Convicts Terrible Death. It is reported from Columbus, Ohio, that at least 300 men, mostly convicts were burned or suffocated to death at Ohio Penitentiary late on Monday when fire swept a section of the old prison. The latest figures of the death roll is that the bodies of 363

convicts have been discovered. Many were burned beyond identification and lay stretched row upon row across the water soaked court yard. The Ohio penitentiary death list will probably top 400. A Gigantic Undertaking. On the Niagara peninsula to-day Canada’s new Welland Canal was opened for shipping. Construction occupied twenty years and cost £23,000,000. It is a giant stairway for ships, overcoming- the Niagara Falls barrier. Grain vessels, carrying 500,000 bushels can pass through and in seven tremendous steps be lowered from the level of Lakes Superior and Huron 326 feet to Lake Ontaria. Post Office Invention. The Post Office Department is considering the opening of a Public Telegraph Exchange to provide an automatic printing device. By means of this, subscribers will be able to typewrite communications to each other without the intervention of an operator. The machines will be able to receive incoming telegrams from the post office, and messages when the subscriber is out. It is expected that a fee of £7O a year will be charged for service. Criticism of Easter. A repercussion of the frequent latter day frank criticism of Biblical testimony is seen in the mass of contradictory views to that expressed by Canon Donaldson, of London, in an Eastertide message, “The most certain fact in history is that Christ rose from the dead.” Scientists and students of religion join the agnostics in the ensuing newspaper correspondence, in which there is the query, “What happened to the risen body eventually?” An associate of the Royal College of Surgeons asks, “If it disappeared in disintegration or radiation of electrons and protons, what point is there for us or those who believe in resurrection?” Several correspondents agreed that the Gospel narratives were compiled at least 4 0 or 50 years after the event and were “subsequently re-touched and re-edited, and are now flagrant contradictions.”