GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11323, 29 September 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

RUSSIAN DRIVE FOR CLOTHES. (TJ.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sopt. 28, 5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 27. The Soviet Jins ordered the Supreme Economic Council to organise :i new State industry for mending anti re-making old clothes the plans to be completed within ten days for ‘ the establishment of' State mending centres in all big towns Tt is hoped thus to alleviate the textile crisis and overcome the present inability of a majority of people to obtain new garments. CONTROL OF BRITISH RAILWAYS. (U.P.A. bv Flee. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept.. 28, 5 p.m.) LONDON,. Sept, 27. The Daily Express understands that the meeting of the Southern anti London North Eastern Railways, with, the president of the Canadian National Railways is likely m develop into a far-reaching scheme for the complete re-organisation of the British railways, with Government ownership, and the appointment of a railway dictator, also the elimination of overlapping. FXSIXKABLE SHIR. TJ.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 28. 5 p.m.) BERLIN, Sept, 27. Herr Fleberg Dueren, an engineer, claims to have prelected an unsinkable ship. lie demonstrated with a model a yard long which was laden with a weight of fifty pounds.’ Holes were bored in the side, but it refused to sink and, thrust under the water, it immediately rose, the water pouring from the bored holes. The secret was not levealed CUBAN BANK FAILS. (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept, 28, 5 p.m.) HAVANA, Sept. 27. El Miitulo, a Havana daily newspaper. says Banco Del Comereio, one of the. mosst important financial institutions in Cuba, has suspended payments BRITISH ECONOMICAL COMMISSION. (IT.R.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 2S, 5 p.m.) CAPETOWN, Sept, 27. The British Economic Commission, on arrival at Nadula copper fields on Monday, will be presented with the memorandum, drawing attention to British policy, which is alleged to he antagonising Egypt. Malta. India and Central Africa. It stresses the desirableness of securing independent status for the two Rhodesias within the Empire and requests increased legislative representation for the copper belt, in which there are now 8000 residents.

ANCHORED SEADROMES IN ATLANTIC.

FRENCH PROPOSALS

(U.P.A. by Elcc. Tel. Copyright) ■ PARIS*, Sept. 26. The Aii Minister, AT. Laurencteynae, reveals that the 1931 Budget will provide for a preliminary investigation into the possiblities of anchoring seadromes in ilie. Atlantic for use of icgular tians-Atlantic aeroplanes.

•COLUMBUS ONE-TIME PIRATE. BERLIN, Sept. 16. Columbus’s famous voyage to America was not his first, according to Professor Ulloa, a well-known Spanish authority, lecturing to the American Congress at Hamburg. “I am definitely able to establish after research in the Spanish archives that Columbus made an earlier crossing with Danish privateers via Ireland, Greenland, Labrador, and Newfoundland to Florida, where he landed. The documents reveal that Columbus was formerly a pirate,” said the professor.