GENERAL CABLES.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17133, 21 June 1927, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN. LONDON, June 19. The steamer Essen, bound from Australia to Hamburg, arrived at Amsterdam with a Are burning in No. 3 hold. A heavy list has so far prevented the flooding of the hold. While the Duke of York was at Malta he held a levee in the famous Frescoed Hall. Subsequently the Duke and Duchess motored up the Strada Reale to lay the foundation-stone of a building in the new town which is being built on the site of the old fortifications.

The Sofia correspondent of the Times says King - Boris of Bulgaria opened Parliament yesterday. He said the general participation of the public in the recent elections proved with what freedom they had been held. The Socialist leader, M. Sakizoff, interrupted. He protested, but his objections were drowned in prolonged and frenzied cheering by the deputies and the public. The members acclaimed the King’s subsequent appeal to them to assist in the economic improvement and well-being of the nation. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail says Tchitcherin, Soviet Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, has left for Moscow. He failed to induce the German Government to allow the Russian trade delegation from London to establish itself in Germany, preferably at Hamburg, ■ where it would have occupied a different field to that of the Soviet’s Berlin delegation. Tchitcherin was also unable to arrange for new credits. BERLIN, June 19. Germany has placed orders for two 40,000-ton passenger steamers. With these vessels Germany intends to try to recapture the blue ribbon of the Atlantic services. PARIS, June 20. The arrest is reported from Brazil of a notorious member of the Bonnot gang, the bandit Robert Dieudonne. This man escaped serving a sentence of imprisonment for life on Devil’s Island for complicity in the murder of a bank messenger in Paris in 19 J 3. MEXICO CITY, June 19.

Fourteen rebels and three soldiers were killed in a clash between Presidential troops and tile insurgents in I lie State of Jalisco.

AUSTRALIAN. SYDNEY, June 20. Mr E. T. Fisk, managing director of the Amalgamated Wireless Company, giving evidence before the Wireless Commission, suggested the equipment of Lighthouses with wireless apparatus which would be capable of sending signals over a radius of 25 miles. He said that if the Gabo Island lighthouse bad been equipped with such apparatus, and if the steamer Riverjna bad bad a suitable receiver, that vessel would not have gone, ashore. The Executive Council has further prorogued the Slate' Parliament until •Tuly 12»