CABLEGRAMS.

Western Star, 18 October 1932, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

NO AGREEMENT

IRISH DISPUTE.

NEGOTIATIONS FAIL

CONFERENCE IN LONDON

DE VALERA IMMOVABLE

LONDON. October 15

The annuities negotiations between Mr J. H. Thomas and his colleagues and Mr de Valera failed. Mr Thomas makes a statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday. A Sun message states that the breakdown of the Anglo-Irish negotiations singularly lacked drama. Mr de Valera advanced no new arguments beyond asserting that the treaty entitled the Free State to share Britain’s assets despite the cancellation of liabilities. Recourse to the original proposal for arbitration also failed because Mr de Valera maintained Ins previous attitude. He was never optimistic about the outcome, and considers lie is not responsible for failure in view of what lie regards a s Mr Thomas’s negative attitude. . i , The Free State delegates went by taxi to their hotel after Mr Thomas said good-bye through the window of the vehicle. They have booked their return passages for Sunday. Mr de Valera declined to discuss the breakdown until he-makes a statement in the Daily Eireann.

TASMAN FLIGHT

KINGSFORD SMITH

RADIO TELEPHONE BEING USED

DATE ARRANGED

SYDNEY, October 15. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith intends to use radio telephony for the first time in the history of ocean flying on his flight to New Zealand m the Southern Cross. He hopes to be able to keep in constant communication with Australia, New Zealand, New York and London. The crew will consist of himself, G TJ. Allen, relief pilot, John Stannage. radioist. and an unnamed passenger. , , Sir Charles intends to take advantage of the full moon and, weather permitting, hops off here about 2 a.m. on January 14. He expects the journey to occupy 12 hours, but is taking sufficient petrol for 20 hours He is also supplementing radio telephony 5 Morse radio, and communication will he maintained with Sydney and New Zealand.

TRAGIC FLIGHT

NEW ZEALANDERS KILLED

LONDON, October 14. # *At the inquest into tlie death of Flight-Lieutenant Marett, aged 28, and "Acting Pilot Officer White, aged 19 Jt was stated that Marett, who had lioC hours flying experience, took White, a pupil with 51 hours, for a flight. the machine looped inexplicably, side slipped, spun and nose-dived. Marett jumped from a height of 100 ft and White was found strapped to the wreckage.

Two New Zealanders, Flight-Lieu-tenant Harold Clude Marett and Act-ing-Pilot-Officer Adrian Kinross White, pitot and passenger respectively m a Vely tutor aircraft at the Air Force draining School at Grantham, were killed instantly when a plane suddenly got iuto a spin and nose-dived. Marett jumped over near th e earth, but- ms parachute did not open, while White crashed in the debris of the machine, ■which killed a sheep as it crashed.

FATAL FALL

Former ohristchurch

WOMAN.

LONDON, October 14. The death has occurred of Mrs Rose Rhodes, the widow of a former barrister of Christchurch, who fell 60 feet Itom a window of her son s flat at Chelsea. The son of the deceased in evidence at the inquest stated that his mother had arrived from New Zealand in June and she wa s without troubles and bad lived happily with himself and liis wife.

KICKED DOWNSTAIRS

FORMER RECTOR OF STIFFKEY,

LONDON, October 14. Major Hammond, a magistrate and an acting churchwarden at Morston, Norfolk, admitting that when th e Rev Harold Davidson,' of Stiff key, cam e to demand the keys of the church lie kicked him downstairs, was fined £- for assault.

NOT DEPORTED

MRS MILLER LEAVES AMERICA

LANCASTER SAILS LATER

NEW YORK, October 14

Mrs Keith Miller sailed for London ! on Friday She departed in accordance with an agreement with th c United States Labour Department, Commissioner Hull at Washington said she was not deported. A woman immigration officer accompanied her aboard the ship to certify to her departure. Several hours later Captain Lancaster sailed on a different ship. An immigration officer accompanied him to Ids’ cabin, later waiting on tbe pier until the ship was under wav.

14 MOSLEMS KILLED

CONFLICT WITH HINDUS

CALCUTTA, October 1L Fourteen Moslem s were killed and 44 scriouriv injured in a fracas with Juts (who are Hindus) over the theft and slaughter of cows at Budldada in the llissar district of the Punjab. The Jats. who are suspected a s the offenders, escaped.

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ALLEGED PLOT

GERMAN MONARCHISTS.

THE EX-CROWN PRINCES LETTER.

DANGEROUS GROUND

BERLIN, October 17. Despite the official denials of the Vorwaerts* revelations concerning a Monarchist plot the Rlietniscli© Zeitung, the organ of the Social Democrats, returns to the subject and publishes extracts from the ex-Crown Minister of Defence.. The newspaper explains that it is forced to omit decisive passages in the letter which show that unless the ex-Crown Prince is checked he will cause the gravest foreign political dangers. The ex-Crown Prince’s letter criticizes as a grave mistake the dissolution of the. Hitlerite storm troops and bodyguards—“wonderful liujman material enjoying valuable training.” Another letter to a Hitlerite says that though political parties may calumniate it is intolerable that the Steel Helmets and Hitlerite forces, the real upholders of the military idea in Germany, combat one another. “May they join hands as in 1914-18 anil place the Fatherland above sectional interests.”

The leader of the Potsdam Hitlerites, commenting on the letter, appeals to the ex-Crown Prince to take the leadership of the German nation in the hour of its deepest need.

STREET BATTLE

NAZIS AND SOCIALISTS

PROCESSION MEETS WITH

FUSILLADE

POLICE OFFICER KILLED

VIENNA October 16

Two Nazis were killed and 40 injured (10 seriously) when a Nazi procession through a simmering factory district at Dortmund received a fusillade from'Wie Socialist headquarters. The members of the procession, including women and, children, rushed for shelter, while others who were succour ing the wounded suffered from sniping.

The police, when hurrying to the scene, sustained losses, an inspector being killed. Nevertheless they stormed the headquarters and arrested 50. The Nazis declare that the Socialists last night circulated leaflets hearing the words “Kill the brown dogs.” The Socialists alleged, that the Nazis fired first. The police fired to separate the combatants.

A later message states that the Nazis retaliated with revolvers in selfdefence. Several Socialists were among the injured.

FIRE AT GOULBURN

SEVERAL SHOPS DESTROYED

SYDNEY, October 17

A disastrous fire at Goulburn caused damage estimated at £IO,OOO in what is known as the Regent shopping block. Several shops and their contents were destroyed.

TREASURES STOLEN

WELL-KNOWN AIRMAN S LOSS

SYDNEY, October 17,

The aviator, Charles Ulm, reports that his liousq. wa s robbed and among the treasures stolen is a gold cigarette case presented to him by the Marlborough Aero Club after hi s flight to New Zealand with Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.

CROSSING SMASH

THREE YOUTHS KILLED

MELBOURNE, October 17

Three youths. Wallace Herd, David Stewart and Rex Elbourne,. were killed and a fourth was critically injured in a crossing smash near Ballarat,

Eye-witnesses state that the car aj>pcared to be trying to beat tbe train to the crossing.

THREE DROWNED

SPEED BOAT OVERTURNS,

ADELAIDE, October 17

When a speed boat overturned on Cockatoo Lake a brother and, a sister and a youth were drowned. The victims wer e Lindsay Holmes, aged 23 Mavis Holmes, aged 18, and Ross Whit tenburg, aged 18.

GOVERNMENT DEFAMED

NAZI NEWSPAPERS SUSPENDED.

COLOGNE, October 15

Nine newspapers being the entire Nazi Press of the' Rhine Province, have been suspended for five days for defamation of the Government.

OPIUM SMUGGLING

WOMAN SENT TO PRISON

SINGAPORE, October 17

Dora Strezeszak a Polish woman, was arrested on the steamer Carthage years’ imprisonment iff default of two years’ imprisonment in default of payment of a fine of 15,000 dollars for attempting to smuggle, opium.

PRISON RIOT

CONVICTS ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE

Montgomery (Alabama) October 16. One convict was slain and 23 were wounded by gunfire at Speigner prison in Sunday when an attempt to escape !,v 16 convicts was followed by a general uprh*ig in which more than ImP the prison’s population of 950 participated.

Courteous Motorist: ‘Can 1 give y°n i lift sir?’ Absent-minded Professor (beaming): ‘That’s very kind of you. but I’m afraid I couldn’t find a use tor a lift. You see, I Hv e iff a bungalow !’

Mrs Montmorency: ‘I thought you loved your ]>ct dog so much?’ Mrs I’oulton: ‘,S 0 I do, dear; but my husband is doing so well in business how that we fan afford one with a better pedigree!’

JEKLL AND HYDE.

POLICEMAN’S DOUBLE LIFE.

BURGLARY AND LARCENY

LONDON, October 14.

William Doyle, who served for 23 years in the Cambridge police and also fought in the South African and Great Wars, was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude for burglary and larceny. It was revaled that he had lived a Jekyll and Hyde existence for the past two years, being a zealous constable in the daytime and a systematic burglar at nights, and that lie used th e police set of duplicate keys ostensibly to examine and protect busi ness premises. Instead lie stole women’s clothing, a wireless set. watches and money, and it has only just been discovered that tlie finger-prints, of a burglary in 1930 were Doyle’s. Several innocent assistants had been suspected of Doyle’s crimes.

ALBANIAN TERRORISTS,

DEATH SENTENCES COMMUTED

TIRANA, (Albania), October 15

King Zog commuted tlie death sentences on seven terrorists to imprisonment for life.

A mass trial of terrorists aiming at th e overthrow of the regime and the assassination of King Zog’s entourage ended with seven being .sentenced to death, ten to imprisonment totalling 101 years, seventeen to fifteen years and two to three years. Fourteen were acquitted. The judge recommended the condemned terrorists to King Zog’s clemency.