GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 16 April 1937, Page 10

GENERAL CABLES

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, April 13. The Foreign Secretary (Mr Eden; Las been informed that smuggling in northern China appeared in general to have diminished, but in view of cer. tain indications which reached him recently he is considering whether further steps could usefully be taken. TOKIO, April 14. The Olympic committee is working cut a plan to carry the Olymp.e flame 12,000 miles, from Olympia (Greece) to Tok io. BUDAPEST, April 14. Riding a Borough Superior motor cycle, Britisher, Eric Fernihough established a world record for a mile from a standing start, of 176.258 wiles an hour BERLIN, April 14. The Ministry of the Interior’s list of hinety-one Germans deprived of nationality, because they are “hostile to the .State,” includes the author, Ludwig Renn, also the children ot persons regarded as hostile. One is only two years old. BERBERA, April 14. Thousands ot Abyssinian refugees are still crossing the frontier. Many travelled eight hundred' miles. Large numbers perished. The refugees were continually subject to Italian attempts to drive them back. They state that executions are fre. quent, often on the flimsiest pretexts. Hundreds are homeless, and food shortage is acute. The Italians seize produce without payment, and incite the Moslems against the Christians. The reprisals for wounding Marshal Graziana were not confined to Add's Ababa, but were prosecuted throughout Abyssinia. MONTREUX, April 14. Contrary to expectations, the committee unanimously agreed in principle to the abolition of the Capitulations in Egypt.

LONDON, April 14

Lord. McGowan, on a statement issued to the Australian Associated Press, upon his return from New Zealand and Australia, prophesied the continued prosperity of these countries for at least two Or three years, asi the outcome of Britain’s 1500 millions sterling rearmament expenditure, a good proportion of -which would reach the British consumer, enabling increased purchasing power for New Zealand and Austral’an foodstuffs, and raw materials, especially wool, metals, and dairy produce. However, it was impossible to foresee what will happen in New Zealand and Australia afterwardsLord McGowan advocates the most extensive possible interchange of visits between industrialists and others, enabling them to achieve what it impossible by written correspondence- He considers that the heads of all organisations with branches in the Dominions, should undertake such visits, not only for the’r own enlightenment, but to stimulate the staffs abroad.