GENERAL CABLES.

Grey River Argus, 27 April 1929, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON UNDERWORLD. LONDON, April 6. An immediate and thorough surjVey o/f London’s vast underground workings of every description to prevent a repetition of the great explosions which shook Bloomsbury and Holborn like an earthquoke during Christmas week, doing £500,000 damage. is the outstanding reejornmenda' tion of the commisvdbn of inquiry. Its report, a 30 page Whit* Paper, is to be published this week. It is understood that the commission has decided, that gas was responsible for the explosion, but has not fixed th£< liability. Consequently a great legal tight is expected to settle who shall pay the damage to streets and sewers, alone amounting to £70,000, and compensate shopke* pers and tenants. The commission urges a mere rigid inspection of gas, electric, post office, aind other underground services, and also a strict adherence to the safety regulations. Adthough repai/rs have been proceeding for three months all the streets will not be ready for traffic fpr another month.

PAVLOVA’S GIFT NOT WANTED. LONDON, April 9. The Moscow correspondent of the “Daily News,” the commissar managing the State theatres reprimanded the members of a committee which has been administering a- theatrical charitable fund, and threatentheni with the loss c.f their jobs for accepting £2OO a year from Pavlova for th>’* poverty-stricken members of the Moscow and Leningrad ballets. The commissar describes Pavlova an “Emigree uancer, the darling of w’**ked American and Europeans capitalistic audiences.” The provisional decision is to r. turn the £l5O still undistributed to Pavlova.