CABLEGRAMS.

Western Star, 11 June 1935, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

DUEL SOUGHT. POLITICIANS QUARREL. HUNGARIAN PREMIER INVOLVED. USE OF SABRES. BUDAPEST, June 7. The Prim© Minister, Mr Julius Gombos, was challenged last week to a duel by an Opposition Deputy, Dr Eckhart, following an alleged revelation that Dr Gomboa provided information which was the subject of a previous quarrel between Dr Eckhart and Count Bethlen. Subsequently Dr Gombos and Dr Eckhart settled their quarrel without a duel,, but this only precipitated another duel and threatens a third. Dr Eckhart to-day fought with light cavalry sabres a Government Deputy, M Szalay. Each had been wounded ten times when they desisted from sheer exhaustion. Dr Gombos earlier appeased l>r Jwachart by saying that Count Bethlen had misquoted him. Count Bethlen has now sent his seconds to Dr Gombos.

EXPLANATION ACCEPTED

LONDON, June 8. The Budapest correspondent of the Daily Mail says that Dr Gombos, contrary to expectations, admitted a misunderstanding with Dr Eckhart and Count Bethlen and accepted an explanation obviating a duel.

WILD ACCUSATIONS

ITALIAN CRITICISM OF BRITAIN

POLICY IN ABYSSINIA

RUGBY, June 7,

In the House of Commons Mr Anthony Eden, referring to the many wild accusations lately directed against the British Government in the Italian Press, said it was unfortunate that such misrepresentations should be allowed to appear, particularly because of the effect they might have on the excellent relations between Britain and Italy. Ho described these Press stories as "mischievously absurd and fantastic." There was no reason why British and Italian interests in regard to Ethiopia should not be harmoniously developed. Mr Eden said: "It has been our constant endeavour to help to bring about a permanent settlement, mutually satisfactory to Italy and Ethiopia, a settlement which will take account of our responsibilities and those of France and Italy under the tripartite treaty of 1906. In that treaty France and Italy agreed to co-operate in maintaining the political and territorial integrity of Abyssinia."

NAVAL CONVERSATIONS,

BRITAIN AND GERMANY,

RUGBY, June 7

The Anglo-German naval conversations have been proceeding satisfactorily with general discussions. Th e British representatives gave a survey of the present situation, and in addition some technical, points were discussed. The negotiations will be resumed on June 14 after the Whitsuntide holiday.

WOMAN'S SUICIDE. .SEQUEL TO MURDER TRIAL. CASE OF MRS RATTENBY. LONDON, June 7. "If I-thought it would help George Stoiier I -would stay on, but it. has been pointed out to mo, all too vividly, chat I cannot help him.. That is my death sentence," wrote Mrs Rattenby in a letter addressed to the Governor of Pentonville prison which the Coroner read at the inquest. • Another letter disclosed that she had tried to commit suicide under-a train bus-in London, but that, there were too many people about, A verdict of suicide while, of unsound mind was returned.

TWENTY VICTIMS. RUSSIAN MURDERER. DIABOLICAL CUNNING. LONDON, June 8. The Moscow correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that an engineer, Ivan Milisheff, aged 40, was shot for murdering.at Kharkov twenty young women at the rate of three a week. Milißheff was a sort of dual personality and was happily married, being eminently ' respectable. He used diabolical cunning iu. covering his tracks. He «as suspected only when a, lormer detective saw him rubbing snow or his shoes to remove bloodstains an. dust after the body of his twentuti victim had been found.

AIR DEFENCE

RESEARCH IN BRITAIN

LONDON, June 7

In the House of Commons Mr Donald said the Air Defence Committoo was co-ordinating, supervising an. speeding up the work of other subcommittees. After seeing one <>i U> most responsible investigators he w authorize J to say that, thanks to ,m - ■ tuitions coverh- the whole held <>i ... <tefci.ee, J'" optimistic view <ff t<-!-e.. re--arcling the outcome of the icsanrehes. It would not be in the national interest to say more.

WAR DEBTS.

PROPOSALS FOR PAYMENT

DISCUSSIONS SUGGESTED.

LONDON, June 7.

A White Paper disclosed that Mr Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, on June 1 in a Note to the British Ambassador, indicated that the United States was prepared, diplomatically, to discuss any proposals for the payment of Britain's outstanding war debt instalments. ' -,.,., 4. x, "" Sir Ronald Lindsay replied that the essentials had not changed since the last Note, but his Government would be prepared to resume the discussions whenever the circumstances warranted a satisfactory result.

ACTION FOR DIVORCE. JOHN BARRYMORE FILES RESPONSE. WIFE'S ALLEGATIONS DENIED. LOS ANGELES, June 8. John Barrymore's business manager, Henry Hotchner, to-day filed a response: to Dolores Costello's divorce suit. He made a general denial) of the charges of cruelty and habitual intemperance, ana said Barrymore's wife was a strong, wilful woman. Answering charges ot intoxication on board a yacht, ne declared that the wife "held Barry mo ~ * virtual prisoner on the yacht for some two months and a-half with women Koaz& He was unable to work, and to escape the deadening influence of her presence on his art he went to New York and later to England. Barrymore is quoted unofficially todav as saving that he had offered his wife a Siement of 75,000 dollars.

AMERICAN EXECUTIONS

WHITE WOMAN HANGED

SAME FATE FOR SON

NEW YORK, June 7.

Two grim executions of murderers occurred in the United States to-day. The first was the electrocution of two brothers and their companion were responsible . for the Needham (Massachusetts) bank robbery, m which a policeman was killed and three others were injured. A. mother and her son were hanged in Delaware for th e murder seven years ago of the woman's brother for 2000 dollars insurance. She was the first white woman hanged in the United States. Another son was sentenced to life .imprisonment for the same crime.

PANIC IN CIRCUS. ELEPHANT "STAMPEDES, LITTLE GIRL KILLED. NEW YORK, June 7. A message from Crookstone, Minnesota, states that an infuriated circus elephant, breaking away from its trainer during a performance, charged into the stands, spread panic among thousands of persons, and trampled to death a nine-year-old white girl, while a score of other persons suffered injuries. The elephant was afterwards captured. ■ The trainer explained that the animal was suffering from a stomach ailment, anil was frightened by a dog.

HOUSE DAMAGED. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. TWO FAMILIES ESCAPE. AUCKLAND, June 10. At the height of a storm last night lightning struck a house in the Mount Wellington district and a chimney was hurled in pieces through the roof into a room, demolishing an open fire-place Every fuse in the house was burnt out.- . . ■ v ,' Two families, comprising eight peisons, were in the house, but no one was hurt. The switchboard was shattered, but an electric stove looked as if it had been through a fire.

GERMANY'S CLAIMS. POSSESSION OF COLONIES. LONDON, May 27. The British Ambassador (Sir Eric, Phipps) and the German Foreign Minister (Baron von Neurath) had a long 1 talk to-day on questions arising out of Herr Hitler's speech, the Berlin cor. respondent of The Times states. These questions included consideration of the colonial question, apropos) of Germany's disabilities under the League. , ... , Herr Hitler, in his speech, could not and did not abandon Germany's claim, to future possession and administration; of colonial territory. This was implicit in references to keepj ing Germany's naval strength at 35 per. cent, of the British strength, even with the possession of colonies by Germany-; also in the claim that equality of lights under the League must be extended to all functions and all rights in international life. A request for plainer definition would probably evoke the reply that such equality must include Germany's right and fitness to possess colonies and to exercke a mandate. That, however, does not mean that the realization of siu.li a right is a condition of Germany's return to the. League.

ARMISTICE TERMS:

PARAGUAY AND BOLIVIA

GOOD PROSPECTS OF PEACE

BUENOS. AIRES, June 9. -Yrmistice terms for the war betwcois •aiaguay and Bolivia over the Gran 'haco were initialled to-day by the ic. ijvtsentatives of the two countries con. •cu-.-cd after mull'vtion by live South American countries. The ruspc.;: :/.>•: countries luive to approve of the terms. Hostilities have been responsible for I.CO.CC-0 casi'altk-s. The agreement provides for di r oct peace negotiations between the belligerents. If the no:..;otiitions are not successful the dispute will be referred to a world court of ■arbitration.

FINAL WARNING

JAPANESE IN CHINA

CRISIS BELIEVED OVER

PEKIN, June 9

YVlift is described by Japanese Press despatches as a final warning was served on the Pekin military authorities when Colonel Sakai, Japanese Chief of Staff in the Hopci province, demanded the immediate removal from Hopei of all Kiiomintang organizations and Government troops as promised. The Kuo.nintana has already left Pekin and the evacuation of troops has begun. It 3s generally believed the crisis has passed.

TWO NEW PLANES. MR AND MRS MOLLISON. LONDON, June 10. A message from Le Tououet states that Mr and Mrs J. A. Mollison have purchased two new aeroplanes and are secretly planning a flight, possibly in separate machines.

There is no machine that men out of work than the political machine. A chiropodist says that the most perfect feet are to be found iji Cairo.— Ao corn iii Egypt.