CABLEGRAMS.

Western Star, 20 August 1929, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

SERIOUS CLASH. POLICE AND STRIKERS. FOURTEEN ARRESTS IN SYDNEY. MANY DAMAGED HEADS. . SYDNEY, August 17. A fierce clash between police and timber pickets and strikers gathered X- round Hudson’s yards at mid-day re- ' suited in 14 arrests and many damaged heads. The police were terribly outnumbered when escorting volunteer workers to trams at knock-off time. They had occasion to arrest a couple of pickets who aimed blows with sharpened sticks at the police. A general melee followed. Batons were drawn . and brandished right and left, the arW rested men resisting violently and using shocking language. The position at one time was extremely serious for the police as a crowd of sympathizers at one time swelled the ranks of the strikers to nearly 400. Eventually the arrested men were bundled into a patrol waggon, fighting the whole time. Mr J. S. Garden, who was the central figure, tried to quieten his men. The police finally prevailed but three of their number, including an inspector, received nasty blows on the head which necessitated hospital treatment. The 14 men arrested will be charged with either, riotious behaviour or assaulting the police. All have been liberated on bail in sureties of £2O.

SENSATIONAL ARREST. TWO MEN IN SYDNEY PAWNSHOP STOLEN. GOODS RECOVERED. SYDNEY, August 17. Even more sensational than the original episode was the arrest of two men following a robbery at Ezra Norton’s home at Bellevue Hill. The whole of the loot and jewellery, valued at £2500, was recovered when the men were taken in a pawnshop. One tried to draw a revolver from . his pocket. But a detective grabbed his hand. The two men were later charged with theft.

TOUR BY PLANE. AMERICAN AIRMEN’S VENTURE. REFUELLING WHILE ALOFT. LONDON, August 16. Captains Hamer and Walker, the well-known airmen, have, started on a tour of United States cities from Spokane on hoard the plane Sungod. They expect to finish at New York, refuelling as they go, hut never landing until their destination is reached. They arrived at San Francisco to-day, took on board a new cargo of fuel" at an altitude of 2000 feet, and continued eastward.

OVER SIBERIA. GERMAN DIRIGIBLE’S FLIGHT. LONDON, August 18. The United States’ Pacific fleet 'in the Orient received a radio message stating that the Graf Zeppelin was flying steadily. Conditions were ex- ' cellent, and it was making 62 miles an hour. If was over Yakutsk (Siberia) on Sunday.

TERRIFIC SPEED. NEARLY 360 MILES AN HOUR. ; ROME, August 16. 'lt is reported that during the Italian Schneider Cup trials one of the Macchi machines reached a speed of 358 miles per hour.

DESPERATE STRAITS. MIDDLE CLASS IN VIENNA. MAN’S ASTONISHING SUGGESTION VIENNA, August 16. Many of the middle class families are at present in desperate straits to make ends meet. One man who has reached the end of his tether offers to allow a complete film to he taken of his own suicide if a film company will pay sufficient to keep his widow and family from starvation. He says he has constructed with rifle cartridges and dynamit e an infernal machine which will certainly blow him to pieces, making a sensational denouement well worth the price he is asking.

ARMED ROBBERS. SCUFFLE IN GROCERY STOREMELBOURNE, August 17. An armed robber, who held up Mr Frank Garden, manager of a grocery establishment at Prahran, dashed a handful of pepper into Mr Garden’s eves when he foueht for possession of the thief’s pistol. The robber got away with £lO.

FRUIT VENDOR ROBBED

SYDNEY, August 17,

An armed man entered a fruit shoo at Woollhnra last night and- inquired for apples in the window. When the shopkeeper turned round he discovered a revolver pointing in his face and he was commanded to hand m-er his takinec!. The shopkeener handed oyer h’s takings. The thief then disappeared. ‘

TNDTAN JTJTE MILLS

SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTE

DELHI, August 16.

An official cominuriione announces Umt a settlement has been reached in tbo into strike. It is boned that, work wll be resumed on Mondav. Tbe emnlovers agree to. hav a proportionate increase on the total earnings for extra hours worked,

PROPOSED TREATY. GREAT BRITAIN AND EGYPT. MR CHURCHILL HAS MISGIVINGS VANCOUVER, August 16. Discussing the proposed treaty between Britain and Egypt, Mr Churchill declared that he had the greatest misgivings as he doubted whether the Egyptian people were any more cap-’ able of assuming full responsibility of governing themselves to-day than fifty years ago, when Britain stepped in. Certain public services had been turned over by Britain to Egypt and almost in every instance, whether irrigation or other forms of service, they had deteriorated under Egyptian management.

BRITISH FORCES IN EGYPT

LONDON, August 18,

While a definite decision has not been reached regarding the force to he maintained in Egypt when the new agreement operates, the Sunday' Times understands that the Cairo infantry bvigado will probably he sent home and the cavalry brigade reduced to one regiment/The reductions will total threefifths of the present forces, leaving 4000 men.

SURGEONS’ CONGRESS. FIGHT AGAINST CANCER. . DR OSBORNE’S ADDRESS HONOLULU, August 16. Dr Osborne addressed a large public session on the cancer spectre, comparing cancer to an invading army to which one in five falls a victim. He described the Australian fight against the' disease and predicted a victory, perhaps within his generation. Dr Osborne’s physiology paper caused much discussion among the surgeons as developing a new theory regarding surgical shock. Dr Osborne said the idea was" widely held by American surgeons that a combined local and general anaesthetic prevented shock. This was incorrect because the real cause of shock was the poison called hystamine, which was freed whenever the tissue was injured. Prevention should be obtained by a maximum avoidance of injuring, tne tissues. lODINE TREATMENT OF GOITRE.

HONOLULU, August 16,

Dr Russell told the surgical conference that he hoped to introduce' iodine treatment for goitre in New Zealand. This treatment had been highly effective in the North west of America,

Dr Osborne led a discussion on neurosurgery, and paid a tribute to Dr Roekle’s achievements in this field.

MR BAVIN RETURNS. UNENVIABLE TASK AHEAD. STATE’S INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES. SYDNEY, August 17. The Premier, Mr T. R. Bavin, who yesterday returned from a trip abroad was greeted by Cabinet colleagues at the wharf. All were pleased to have him' back in improved health. He was told he would need all his strength to deal with the industrial chaos in this State.

Mr Bavin replied that the remark appeared to he duly too true. Nevertheless, he faced the situation with confidence and optimism. He declared that the Commonwealth’s credit abroad was being ruined by industrial troubles.

SINGAPORE BASE COMPLETION URGED. RESTING PLACE FOR THE FLEET DOMINIONS’ CONTRIBUTIONS VANCOUVER, August 16. ‘The completion of the Singapore naval base is essential to Empire communications,’ Mr Winston Churchill declared at Toronto to-day. Singapore, he said, was nothing more nor less than a resting place for the British fleet, and the friendly relations between Britain and-Japan belied the assertion that it was a menace to the Oriental Empire’s security.

‘We must have communications between the various parts of the Empire and the base must he built.’ he said. ‘Australia and New Zealand have already contributed more money to its construction than the Mother Country, and to stop now, because of a change in the Government, would he disastrous.’ He recalled the. efforts of New Zealand and Australia for the Empire during the war. These dominions were entitled to expect that if danger should threaten them the Empire should go to their aid with all the strength which could he mustered successfully. To accomplish this the Navv needed a base in the East where ships could obtain fuel and supplies en rout e t 0 Australia.

STEAMER LOST.

STRUCK AMIDSHIPS

COLLISION WITH TUG

18 BELIEVED DROWNED,

LONDON, August 18,

Four officers and fourteen men are missing as the result of a collision 30 miles from tbe mouth of the Humber, in which th e large ocean-going tug King’s Cross collided amidships with the Spanish steamer Ogono and sank her in six minutes. The crew were unable to launch the boats and jumped overboard, except the steward, who climbed the after mast and clung to the shrouds until another vessel rescued him.

The King’s Cross stood by and picked up eight of the Ogono’s crew. The collier Starlight saved a ninth, and a third vessel a tenth, and. also ■recovered the body of the wireless operator. The King’s Cross, whose stem was badly buckled, brought the bodv and the survivors to Grimsby.

Ugaldo, second mate on the Ogono. was the only officer saved. He said be saw from the bridge the lights of the King’s Cross approaching and heard two siren blasts. The collision immediately followed. He and five ship mates clung to an overturned lifeboat until rescued.

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