CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 May 1930, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

RUSSIANS KILLED.

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RIGA, May 7.

A' special train carrying secret police officials, has left Moscow for Murmansk to investigate the massacre of 16 Murmansk railway officials and their families. Their bodies were discovered in two locked barns between the Kola and Shongui stations. The motive for the crime is not known.

BABIES’ THUMB PRINTS.

VIENNA, May 7.

It has been decided that babies’ thumb prints shall be taken in future, at the Municipal nursing homes. Thus when a baby is handed to its mother before her departure, the register m which both the mother’s and the baby’s thumb prints are recorded, will be available to prevent the risk of interchange.

CHINESE WARFARE.

SHANGHAI, May 8.

Chiang Kai Shek left Nanking this morning en route to Tientsin-Pukow railway front. It is reported that immediately on arrival he intends to open an offensive along the Lungchai railway, using the crack Corps for the purpose of diverting the possible northern drive towards HankowWuchang.

U.S.A. TRADE.

WASHINGTON, May 8.

The organisation plans of the National Live Stock Marketing Association are completed. A new cooperative body will be incorporated for a million dollars in Delaware. More than half the existing livestock cooperative associations will be represented. The reduction European buying during March, as compared with the same month last year, proved to be the largest item responsible for a reduction in the United States’ foreign trade for that month. Both the export and import trade are shown to be affected by that trend.

CANADIAN BUDGET OTTAWA, May 8. W. R. Fanslier (Progressive) in the House of Commons moved a subamendment to the Budget to-day, regretting that more effective consideration was not given to the position of agriculture and labour. On the contrary, changes in iron and steel will result in increased cost in respect to all structural work and machinery production, and that the best interest of Canada can be served by a more substantial increase in British preference, particularly affecting textiles and other articles of similar character.

VALUELESS CHEQUES

PAHIATUA, May 9.

Issuing valueless cheques on local hotelkeepers, Samuel Knight, 68, with several aliases, originally declared an habitual criminal, who was out on parole since revoked, pleaded guilty before the Magistrate and was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court at Wellington.