GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 9 October 1934, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

THE MONTREAL TRAGEDY. (Amt & N.Z. Cable Assn.) MONTREAL. October 7. It is denied that William Owen (who had an employee of a Montreal stock exchange firm, and died from a deep knife wound in the right shoulder), was a former seuretarv of Mr Lloyd George, though it was reported he might have been attached to the secretariat in some capacity. Dolores .Morel, the night-club dancer, told the police that Owen was wounded by a knife while she was struggling with him, after he had struck her. She occupied an apartment in which Owen was found. The girl drove off in Owen's car. after summoning Doctor J. Hamelin to aid the dying man. 'The ear was found abandoned several miles away. LATE KING ALBERT. JtUGBY, October 5. Fifteen thousand primrose roots gathered from English woods and lanes have been s>ent .to Belgium, ami will be planted on the hillside, wheao King Albert fell Io his death. Il is hoped this typical English Hower. which is uncommon in Belgium, will form a living iii'emori'al bo King Albert, and the affection and esteem in which he was held in BriJfiiu, for generations to <-ome GERMAN NOVEL FILMED. RI GBY, October 5. The British film version of ‘‘Jew Sn.A,Lion Feuchtwanger’s novel, made its debut in London hist night, and was enthusiastically received. I’rince George and Queen Alary, of [ Rounuinia. were present at the first ' pci-formanee. the proceeds of which were dovol(d to the sufferers in the recent Gresford colliery disas-tor. THAMES RESERVOIRS. RU GB Y, October 5. A scheme for the provision of two new reservoirs in Thames Valley, each | capable of holding 4,000,000 pOO gallons of water, al an estimated cost of £4,003.000. was to-day unanimously adopted af a meeting of the Alet'iopolivan Water Board. Steps to obtain Parliamentary sanction for the scheme will be und'erlakcn in the coming session. “END OF THE ROAD.” LONDON. October 7. “We have reached the end of 'he mad. and cannot -persist in the paradox of simultaneous' v demanding plenty and scarcity,” snid Dr. Cyril Norwood, preaching his first sermon at the City Temple, after his world tour. “I was almost heant broken with the world’s beauty and wonderful .fertility, side by side with its hunger. weariness an ( | hat'p. We have conquered scarcity, but have no technique for handlmg that abundance. Tho world is frightened of the earth s fertility, and is practising contraception upon s«eeds of wheat, wool, sugar, cotton, silk, rubber, rice, tin and coffee, stifling at birth the fundamensal necessities to man for tear of dist urbing prices. * ’

GERMAN WOMAN PRISONER SUICIDES. LONDON, October 7. “The Times’s” Munich correspondent states: Frau Wojfh. wife of the Socialist ex-Mayor of Langeweisen. hanged herself in a prison cell at Grafentonna. She and her daughter were taken into custody to preventthem leaving in 1933. When it was asceFaimed that the husband had gone abroad, they were kept in a concentration camp at Badsuleda as hostages until the authorities separated them on ApLil 1. IRISH DETECTIVE SQUAD. DUBLIN, October 7. The Free S'ate organised a flying squad of thirty armed detectives to deal with the organised campaigns of obstruction to prevent the auctioning of cattle seized from farmers not paying land annuities, in which trees were felled across the roads, telephones cut, and trains delayed. RETURN OF CABINET DOCUMENTS LONDON. October 7. It isi officially explained that nlo. significance attached to Cabinet’s request to former Ministers and executors of deceased Ministers to return Cabinet documents. The request was not connected with the publication of memoirs but was inspired by the possibility of documents falling into wrong hands. There have been instances of d'oem monts finding a way to bookstalls. Some Ministers have returned the papers. The only case of a> positive refusal was that of Mr Lansbury. RUGBY. October 6.

The annual Conservative Conference eon chided at Bristol with a masf? meeting when Mr Baldwin delivered an address in which he reviewed the improvement of conditions in Britain achieved since the present Government took office. He appealed to in* dustries regularly -working oventime to give employment to additional people by reversion to nomal hours. He- suggested it was a national duty to make such an effort. There were now 80'0,000 more people actually at work in Britain jthan when the present Government came into power. He cited official figures of the League of Nations, which showed that comparing the first six months of the present year with the same period in 1928, the industrial output in Britain actually increased by 4 per cent., while there had been decreases in most other leading countries.

Mr Baldwin reaffirmed faith in the principles of the Conservative Party, but said it was the duty and re-spb-n--fiihility of the leader to interpret Ithose principles according to the i need of the times. He added amid cheers: “I am at present leader of this Party. So long as I, remain in that position I am going to lead i't.”