GENERAL CABLES.

Grey River Argus, 11 January 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

CANADIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER. • VANCOUVER, January 9. The appointment of a British High Commissioner to Canada, whose duties will be similar to those of the Canadian Commissioner in London, may fol low discussions between the Premier (Mr King) and Mr Amery. The latte-c had no information regarding the London report of the new immigration scheme to settle disbanded soldiers in the Canadian West, after agriculture! training was provided. WAR RELICS REMOVED FROM PARKS. LONDON, January 8. Regarding them as useless and repulsive, the Commitee of the Manchester Corporation decided to remove all war relics from the parks and sell them as scrap metal. BESSES OF THE BARN. LONDON, January 8. The London Gazette contains a notice winding up the famous Besses of the Barn Band. BOOTLEGGER’S SHIP WRECKED. VANCOUVER, January 8. The famous reputed bootlegging schooner, Noble, running between Vancouver and San Francisco, was wrecked on the West Coast. A lifeboat from Bamfield Cable Station made a gallant attempt at rescue, but got only two survivors. Four others, the captain, first officer, engineer and cook, were drowned. It is stated that the first officer, M. Wall, was a New Zealander. RUSSIAN GRAIN EXPORTS. LONDON, January 8. The “Berliner Tageblatt’s” Moscow correspondent states that the Soviet’s export of grain, which was twelve million tons annually before the war, and was three millions last year, cannot exceed one million in the current year, while a decline to six hundred thousand .is not impossible. The peasant orings to market only 65 per cent, of grain, compared with before the war. The “Daily Express” states that peasants are hoarding the harvest, and are willing to sell only at prices the State is unwilling to pay. The authorities are organising fierce drives to force a surrender of the grain surplus. SOVIET DENOUNCES OIL CONTRACT. PARIS, January 8. The Tribunal of Commerce ordered an attachment of £159,000 deposited in various banks by the Soviet Commercial Mission. z The order was made at the instance of Banca Arnus of Barcelona with which the Soviet contracted for a monopoly of export oil from the Caucasus to Spain. The Soviet denounced the contract and despite the stipulation for compulsory arbitration in the event of disagreement, consigned the oil to other Spanish firms.