GENERAL CABLES.

Grey River Argus, 22 June 1927, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

EDUCATION CONFERENCE. LONDON, Juno 20. The Imperial Education Conference was opened without any official ceremony. The Duchess of Atholl was elected Chairwoman. Sub-committecs were appointed to deal with the subjects of the training and qualifications of teachers, the apprenticeship system, the provision of education facilities in isolated places, rural schools, and the training of girls as home-makers. VANCOUVER, June 20. At Los Angeles, six men, whose names were undivulged, were arrested for alleged complicity in a three million dollars gun-running .plot. LONDON, June 20. The Imperial Bureau of Entomology is establishing a laboratory in Buckinghamshire. for the purpose of discovering and breeding beneficial parasites, for use throughout the Empire, for the destruction of insect pests, on lines similar to those adopted in America and France. LONDON, June 20. The Times’s Madrid correspondent reports that four Spanish columns captured the sacred mountain of Yebelalam, Raisuli’s former stronghold, containing the most venerated shrine in Morocco, which Christian troops were not allowed to approach. There were heavy rebel losses. MALTA, June 20. Amid a thunder of farewell guns, cheers and handclaps, with inhabitants thronging the foreshores and bastions, the Renown sailed, escorted by aeroplanes ami a destroyer flotilla. All other warships in the harbour were dressed and manned by their companies who cheered as the Renown passed.