GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 14 July 1936, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) TOKIO, July 12. Fifteen rebels of high rank .sentenced to death, in connection with the insurrection, were executed by a i' ll '- ing squad. CALCUTTA, July 11.

The police have recovered forij letters of members of the Everest Expedition at the Gangtok Post Ofhce They also have discovered a shortage'of £7O in the I’ost Office’s cash 'l’he Postmaster has Jieen arrested. NEW YORK, July 11.

Air Rosevelt. to-day will open the Triborough bridge, considered th ' greatest structure of its kind. It ha* four water crossings and two and a-half miles of viaducts, and was built, from W.P.A. funds. LONDON, Ju y 1".

An anonymous gift of .£16,0(10 towards the general support of Louden Hospitals was received to-day by Knig Edward’s Hospital Fund. The sale of the famous art collection of the late Henry Openheimcti began at Christie's to-day, when hi* drawings by old masters were put up for auction. Leonardo da Vinci’.' drawing entitled “Rider on Reaiing Horse,” which measures 5J inches by about 5 inches fetched 410 guineas Nine small sketches by Fra .Baitolommes were sold for just undo' £l5OO. Seven pen-and-wash draw ings by Anonio Canaletto attracted keen bidding and realised £2165. Outof them, called “Ascension Day at Venice.” was secured for the British Museum. LONDON, July 12

The “Observer” states: Tn connection with the Joseph Chamberlain Centenary, a great campaign is being started in the autumn throughout Britain, to carry out the Empire’s ideals. ~ , Sir IT. Page Croft, chairman ot the committee, says: A strong panel of speakers will address meetings in Hie bD cities, dealing with outstanding Jin perial quest’ons. including trade, shipping and migration, with a view to impressing the country w.th the imperativeness of Imperial . co-opeta tion before the Imperial Conference in 1937. If foreigners us.ng subsidies have" driven British ships off the seas we must use counter-measures. Aye also urge Brtish finance to assist in the expansion of overseas industry an I agriculture, enabling migration The Dominions should be encouraged to adopt common defence measures, especially eontribut’ng to the Air Forces, 'which might be the greatest deterrent to aggress’on. MALTA. July 12. Battalions of the South AA ales Borderers, Scottish Borderers and Lincolnshire* aro going to Palestine on July 14. The Rifle Brigade is under orders to sail.

LONDON, July 12. In order to establish a united world-wide trades, union movement, the International Federated Trade* Union will negotiate with the national centres of America. Australia. New Zealand. Far East. Soviet, and other non-affilintoil centres. Sir W. Citrine asked the Trades Union Congress, which passed the above resolution, to avoid acts tending to compromise necessary discussions. The Congress confirmed its unrelenting opposition to war as an instrument of policy, and declared tha Fascism constituted a constant men ace to peace.