GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1929, Page 8

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

RHINELAND EVACUATION. (By Cable—Press Assn. —Copyright;) RUGBY, December 5. The last units of th© British Army on the Rhine will be home next week. The evacuation will practically be completed by next Thursday, when Lieut. General Sir William Thwaites leaves with his staff, after payjng the necessary compliments. A small final party of details leaves on December 13. BOMB AT CHICAGO. NEW YORK, December 5. A Chicago message states that fifteen persons were injured, five serious-1 ly, when a bomb wrecked a drying and cleaning plant, whose employees are on strike. The damage to the property is 50,000 dollars. FOREIGNERS’ RIGHTS. PARIS, December 6. The Equality of Foreigners’ Conference has ended abruptly, without agreement. The delegates suggest another conference in 1930. Meantime the Governments will study the reports. REPARATIONS PLAN. LONDON, December 6. The “Daily Herald’s” correspondent at Berlin says: Herr Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, is publishing a startling statement to-day, declaring that The Hague alterations made the Young plan unworkable, and falsified the intentions of the experts. TOKIO TRANSPORT STRIKE. TOKIO, December 6. Transportation services are crippled completely by a strike of tram and motor-bus dissatisfied with the reduction of the yearly bonus, due to the Government retrenchment policy. Agitators have been arrested. Owing to the extreme inconvenience to the populace, a compromise is believed to be inevitable, HOMELAND TRAFFIC. LONDON, December 5. The House of Lords carried the second reading of the Traffic Bill. Lord Russell, replying to the debate, which stressed the need for the regularised movement of the pedestrian, as well as a better standard of driving among motorists, agreed it was necessary to improve the driving of motorists, and also the road sense of pedestrians. The latter considered, rightly or wrongly, that the roads were the same as the grass grown tracks of their childhood.

BANNOCKBURN SITE. RUGBY, December 4. The site of the Battle of Bannockburn, near Stirling, where over 600 years ago the Scottish Army of Robert the Bruce gained a victory over the army of Edward II of England, is to be preserved as a national park. HATRY CHARGES. LONDON, December 6. At the conclusion of the evidence on the original eleven charges, Mr Roome, for the proseoution, announced ' that there were further charges against Hatry and his colleagues of obtaining by false pretences sums totalling £1350, in connection with Iron Industries Limited. ,