GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 October 1928, Page 9

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

LONDON POLICE

Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.)

LONDON, October 6

The “Daily Mail” states that Scotland Yard’s Assistant Commissioner, Major-General Sir Borlace Childs, is retiring from the position on November 6, along with Brigadier-General Sir Wm. T. F. Horwood, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Sir B. Childs has been Assistant-Commis-sioner since 1921, and Sir W; Horwood has been Commissioner since 1920. General Byng succeeds Sir W. Horwood. The “Daily Mail” states that the Home Minister, Sir W. Joyson Hicks, is searching for a new As-sistant-Commissioner.

BRAZILIAN SMUGGLERS

RIO DE JANIERO, October 6

The police believe they have unearthed hug© smuggling operations in jewels, covering a dozen years. They have arrested Jacquin Miranda, a member of the harbour customs staff, and are now trying to trace a package of diamonds worth £30,000. The police are unable to tell whether the package was safely carried ashore, or was dropped overboard and for ever lost in the centre of Rio de Janiero s deep harbour. FASHIONABLE DANCES.

LONDON, October 5

London winter dances are officially stated to be little different than those of last year. They will be largely the quickstep, the Charleston, the slow foxtrot. The “Jazz” spirit still prevails, but it is not now as all-conquering as it was a year ago. There are signs of the pendulum swinging back towards Romanticism among the new dances. This is demonstrated by a twist which greatly pleased the Prime Minister and Mrs Baldwin when it was demonstrated to them in France at Aix-Les Bains. New dances are : The Polka of 1929( the “Varsity Drag,” and the “Tile-trot.”

ARGENTINE MEAT

RUGBY, October 5.

A party consisting of Lord Cawley and Mr Campbell and Captain Fergus Graham, Members of Parliament, sailed to-day in the steamer Almanzora for Buenos Ayres. The object of their visit which has been arranged at the invitation of the Rural Society of the Argentine, is to enable the party to form an opinion, at first hand on the soundness of the sanitary control of exported meat, with particular reference .to fears recently expressed in the British Parliament regarding the danger of infection from foot and mouth disease. To this end a tour of the estancias and frigorifies has been arranged by the Rural Society of the Argentine in order that ocular proof of the system’s efficiency may be given.

TURKEY’S NEW ALPHABET

CONSTANTINOPLE, October 7.

Every inhabitant in Angora, man, woman and child, must attend special courses at the extempore schools in coffee houses, casinos and other places of amusement, and learn the new althe instructors being ministers, Deputies and highbrows, superintended by Mustapha Kemal. One of the three officers arrested at Broussa for disparaging the alphabet was imprisoned for a year. The others were acquitted. .