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CAIRO RIOTS. ("PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHTj CAIRO, December 15. More disturbances occurred, on Saturday, following a manifesto of the students’ committee that the demonstrations would continue until Britain grants the draft treaty of 1930. Forty arrests were made. The mob dragged a British soldier from a motor cycle, but students rescued him, after which the troops were confined to barracks. SIR R. CASEMENT. LONDON, December 15. The British authorities have granted permission for the body of Sir R. Casement to be taken to Ireland, where it will be reinterred at Glasnevin cemetery near Parnell. BRITISH MINERS. RUGBY, December 13. In connection with the dispute arising out of the demand by the mineworkers for an increase in wages, the colliery owners invited' representatives of the Federation of Mine Workers to a meeting. The invitation has been acceputed, and the meeting, in which nine representatives from each side will take part, has been fixed for next Tuesday. The miners’ delegates’ conference is due to reassemble to consider the whole question on the following day. “QUEEN MARY.” LONDON, December 13. A most striking gadget being installed on the liner Queen Mary is a mechanical maid-of-all-work. It washes, rinses, polishes and sterilises crockery and cutlery and is guaranteed never to smash a dish, though dealing with thousands hourly. Plates, cups, saucers, glasses, knives and forks enter an endless belt at one end and emerge scrupulously clean at the other. JAP. MILITARISTS. TOKIO, December 13. Baron Ikki, president of the Privy Council, has resigned after a. bitter attack by the powerful section of the Services in furtherance of their campaign to render the Services independent of Cabinet. This aims at paving the way to a monarchical militarist dictatorship. BRITAIN’S TRADE. LONDON, December 15. The Board of Trade returns for November show imports £71,455,000, exports £39,399,000, re-exports £4,571,000. The principal increases compared with November of last year were: Imports, grain and flour £528,000, dairy produce £615,000, fresh fruit and vegetables £519,000, cotton and raw waste £1,819,000, wool and raw waste £884,000, non-ferrous metals £718,000. Exports: Wool and raw waste £335,000, non-ferrous metals £427,000, woollen yarns and manufactures £342,000. Decreases: Imports, meat £488.000, rubber £779,000. Newspapers welcome the trade returns as further evidence of Britain’s prosperity, as exports are still increasing despite the Sanctions, the effect of which is shown in a sectional analysis, revealing that exports to Italy declined in every category, except rubber, non-ferrous metals, and electrical goods, of which heavy purchases wore made in anticipation of Sanctions.
CANADIAN PREMIERS. OTTAWA .December 14. The conference of Provincial Premiers failed to adopt the proposal of Premier Hepburn of Ontario, for the establishment of a. Canadian loan council and the launching of a debt conversion schedule. The conference, however, decided that the Dominion should assume a larger share of Canada’s relief burden. The conference, however, decided that the Dominion should obtain the right to amend its own constitution, instead of being required to receive permission from Britain.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 December 1935, Page 8
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