GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 16 May 1935, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

(Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, May 14 The Australian Press Association understands authoritatively that the Bi itish-Australian meat negotiations can be regarded as a deadlock, at least temporarily; but there is some hope of resumption later, when talks will .assume wider Empire scope, after the arrival of Mr Coates. RUGBY, May 13. An increase of the peimitted height of London buildings from 80 feet to 110 feet, with additional storeys set back to allow for platforms, and ■means of escape, is proposed in the final report of the Advisory Committee on the amendment of the London Building Act, 1930. Among the proposals of the London County Council Advisory Committee on street developments, is one for providing parking places for motor vehicles under many of the open spaces to be found in London. It is pointed out that in the year 1932-33 there were 56,408 legal proceedings issued against owners of vehicles. About 500 were in respect to obstrue tions and nuisance. There is no physical impossibility, the report, says in providing underground accommodation beneath the whole of certain squares, without impairing the exist ing amenities. PARIS, May 14. Whaling sirens at 10 p.m. on the left bank of the Seine sent the residents scurrying to shelters, as part, of air-raid drill. The Medical School had two hundred yards of the underground corridor improvised as a first aid station, thereafter “patients” were removed to hospital. Gas neutralisers and firemen participated. MARSEILLES, May 14. In the presence of three handcuffed tense faced suspected accomplices in King Alexander’s assassination, their counsel, the Public Prosecutor, and the Magistrate, a film of the erime revealing hitherto unshown details, was projected at the Law Courts, firstly normal, then a slow motion to permit the faces to be examined, but the film caught fire and was destroyed before the vital incidents were reached, including the allegation that one of the suspects, Kraljmio, was standing on the assassin’s side. The film was the only copy available in Prance. Another is being obtained from abroad. TORONTO. May 14.

The Child Welfare Minister, Mr Groll, revealed the reason why the Government assumed control of the Dionne babies. A promoter had arranged to take them on an exhibition tour of the United States.. Of the 'estate now totalling 175 million dollars, through advertising contracts, he would have received seventy thousand dollars. DOPE TRAFFIC IN CHINA. PEKIN, May 14. “I am convinced that a large slice of North China, of an approximate area of eight thousand square miles, is being honeycombed by Japanese and Korean dope pedlars, and there appears to be a grave danger that the 'social and economic fabric or the whole region, with a population of six million, will be steadily undermined. This conclusion was expressed to the “Sun-Herald” by Miss Muriel Lester a British social worker, on her return to Pekin, from a tour of investigation of the so-called demilitarised zone —a strip of territory just southward of the Great Wall, extending from the sea coast for twenty 'miles northward of Tientsin and westward to the borders of inner Mongolia. Miss Lester described as appalling the conditions in one country where 163 Japanese and Korean establishments openly and illegally were trafficking in opium, morphine and heroin.

ARABIAN LAWRENCE’S ACCIDENT

LONDON, May 13. The “Sun-Herald” learns that exaircraftsman Shaw sustained la compound fracture of the skull and haemorrhage of the brain. His relatives have been summoned. The circumstances in which he was found suggest that he was travelling at great speed. He was picked up a hundred feet distant from his motor cycle. N.R.A. EXTENDED. WASHINGTON, May 14. An extension of the N.R.A. for only ten months, instead of the two years, asked by the Administration, was voted by the United States Senate. BULE OF INDIA. RUGBY, May 13. The committee stage, this season, of the Government of India Bill, to which thirty days of Parliamentary time were allotted in the Commons, will be brought to an end on Wednesday. During the resumed discussion towards extending the areas excluded or partially excluded from its normal operation by schedule six of the Bill, Lord Eustace Percy suggested that the Secretary for India should be given power either before the appointed dav or within one or two years after it, to add other areas to those excluded. The Attorney-General said that tne schedule would be withdrawn pending preparation of an Order-m-Council which would be submitted with an necessary information regarding t areas it was proposed to exclude.