GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11767, 14 October 1932, Page 2

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

NATIONAL HOAIE FOR JEAYS IN PALESTINE. ASSISTANCE TO BE SOUGHT FROAI DOAIINIONS. (UM’.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright.; (Received Oct., 13, 7 p.m.) LONDON- Oct. 13. Sir Adolph Alyers is leaving London on Friday on behalf of the Palestine Foundation Fund. He i-; visiting. India, China and tHe Alalay States, arriving in Australia in Alarch and New Zealand in Afar. He is seeking assistance to settle the Jews in the Balfour National Home in Palestine.

PURCHASE OF TIMUR REPORTED JAPANESE SCJIEM K OFFICIALLY DENIED (Proas Association,.i LONDON, Oct. 12. The Japanese Embassy emphatically denies that Japan contemplated purchasing a portion of Timor, or offered in the past to buy the Australian mandate of New Guinea. EAST INDIES SQUADRON. H.AI.S. HAWKINS LEAVES AS FLAGSHIP. (liiitish Official Yi'iieic.-.I RUGBY, Oct. 12. The cruiser Hawkins has left Portsmouth for service as flagship of the East Indies squadron, in place of the Effingham. The Hawkins is due at Bombay on November 10.

CANADIAN UNITY PROBLEM OF WESTERN PROVINCES (U.I’.A. bv Elec. Tel. Copyright ) WINNIPEG, Oct. 12, A conference of representatives of the western provinces decided on the establishment of an interprovincial conference of three to meet monthly. Such (meetings would mean that the three Governments would benefit from closer co-operation in the handling of mutual problems. Opportunity would be provided for the provincial: Premiers and Cabinet Ministers to meet regularly to deal with matters of public interest. DRUG KING’S END SUICIDE AFTER CAPTURE OF shipment ALEXANDRIA. Oct,. 7. After a, fierce fight, in which dynamite ’ bombs were used" coastguards near Lake, CorJos captured a smugglers’ craft containing hashish valued at (£15,000. The . consignee, Abdul Ela, a leading drug-smuggler, learning of. the loss, ..soaked his clothes in paraffin, set fire to them, and was burnt t'o death. HAD LIVE BOMB UNWITTING PORTER, KILLED BELGRADE. Oct;--4. 1 All unknown man, at G a.m. to-day, asked the porter of the “Officers’ Rome’’ to carry -a heavy handbag and wait for him there. The porter was waiting in the vestibule when a bomb in the handbag exploded, blowing off the portr’s legs, and causiug other injuries from which lie succumbed. A woman employee and several passers-by were injured. ~