GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10174, 4 August 1924, Page 8

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

HANSARD, OR RADIO? (Per Press Association—Copyright.) OTTAWA, Aug. 1. Speaking at Tilbury, Ontario, Senator McCorg advocated the substitution of a radio broadcasting outfit for Hansard verbatim Parliamentary reports. He thought the change would effect a largo saving, as Hansard was rarely read by taxpayers. SECRET TREATY DENIED. TOKIQ, Aug. 1Official comment on the London “Morning Post’s” report from its Paris correspondent, of a secret RussoJapanese Treaty, is that it is utterly false, and the opinion is expressed that such reports are being circulated systematically for ulterior reasons. \ MENACE FROM THE EAST. NEW YORK, Aug. 2. Before the Institute of Politics, at Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sir Valentine Chirol, who was for a long period Director of the Foreign Department of “The Times,” drew attention to the menace that the stirring East held for the Occident. He declared that some way must be found for , the peaceful adjustment of relations, or the world # would be plunged into deadly racial conflict. The races of the East resented the white man’s assumption of superiority.

NEW YORK’S GOOD RECORD. OTTAWA, Aug. 1. “There are more ‘drunks’ to be seen in the streets of Montreal in a few days than in the streets of New York in a year.’.’ That is the opinion of Miss Ruby Andendorff, a South African _ “dry worker, who was sent to America under the auspices of the South African Temperance Union to study conditions. In making her final report, she will advocate total Prohibition rather than Govenment control. MILITANT STRIKERS. ST. JOHN’S (Newfoundland), Aug. 1. All available police and one warship are proceeding to Cornerbrook, where Alfred Prince, leader of 4000 strikers at the Humbermouth Paper and Power Project’s works, threatens, according to a message he sent to the Premier (Mr Monroe), to lay in juins the plant and forests unless the 1 remiar himself comes immediately to the scene of trouble and investigates the facts.

RESURRECTION AND CREMATION

LONDON, Aug. 8. Spaking at a conference of cremation authorities at Wembley, Bishop Gore said the idea that the resurrection of the dead means the re-collection of the material atoms of the,body at the end of the world was impossible to the intelligent.. The idea, of the material resurrection of the body received no sanction in the early days or Christianity.

CABLE v. WIRELESS. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) (“Sun.”) LONDON, Aug. 3. . Mr Gibson conferred with the Pacific Cable Board. It is learned that an earlv reduction in cable rates is probable". The Board has not yet arrived at a decision as to whether a duplicate cable will be laid or it will employ wireless as an auxiliary. GERMAN U-BOAT SALVAGED. After long preparations and several set backs the first German torpedo boat was salved in Scapa Flow. ANGLO-SOVIET CONFERENCE. The “Sunday Express” understands that Rakovsky has returned from Moscow, with important instructions likely to lead to a successful termination of the Anglo-Soviet Conference.