CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 November 1938, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

ATATURK’S MONUMENT

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ANKARA. November 14

Ataturk’s body will ultimately be enshrined in a monument to be erected in his honour after the funeral on November 21. Meanwhile, his bodylies in the Ethnographical Museum, with a guard of honour.

SPEED MOTORIST.

LONDON, November 14

Captain Eyston, who has been fined £1 for speeding at 37J miles per hour along the Embankment, wrote,, saying, I always drive with the greatest caution.”

RIOT Al 1 CAIRO.

CAIRO, November 14.

•Ninety were injured in a clash between Wafdist and non-Wafdist students. The latter were attempting to prevent, a commemoration of students killed in the anti-British riots, in 1935.

THAMES BANK.

RUGBY, November 13

A scheme which will provide some remedy for the much criticised condition of the south bank of the Thames between the London Count’ Hall and the new Waterloo bridge, will be recommended on Tuesday to the London County Council. The chief features; of the scheme, which is so designed as not to preclude the construction of a Charing’ Cross bridge in future, are the construction of an embankment wall in continuation of that in front, of the county hall to a. point some 50 yards below Waterloo bridge and provision for an open space 100 tebt wide beside the river. Nearly 2000 people will need to be rehoused, the cost of which will be approximately £300,000.

It is estimated that the net ex penditure involved is £1,629.000.

SYRIAN LEADER STOPPED,

LONDON, November 13

The “Daily Telegraph’s” Damascus correspondent says: “The French Consul-General at Istanbul has turned back to Syria, Fared Khouri Bey, the President of the Syrian Chamber, who was going to England in order to submit there the Arab Conference’s resolutions in regard to Palestine.

BRITISH TRADE

LONDON. November 14

The Board of Trade returns for October show imports £79,034,000, exports £42.559,000, re-exports £5,445,000.

Principal decreases, compared with October 1937, are: Imports, grain and flour £3,183,000. Meat £971,000, dairy produce £533,000, other food £633,000. Iron ore and scrap £678,000. Wood .and timber £2,295,000, raw cotton waste £2,090,000, wool £1,376,000, rubber £652,000, hides and skins £484,000, seeds and nuts £718.000, iron and steel manufactures £1,533,000, non-ferrous metals £614,000.

Exports, iron and steel £1.042.000, non-ferrous metals and manufactures £599,000, cotton yarns manufactures £1,565,000, woollen worsted manufactures £442.000.

Increases: Imports animals £545,000, tobacco £1,235.000, chemicals £525,000.