GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 May 1925, Page 10

GENERAL CABLES.

EMPIRE DEFENCE. li£ OA.IIJ.J-; -i'K.USS ASSOCiAIIUN —OOi J VillGil'i LONDON, May ii. The Daily Express interviewed Mr. Austen Chamberlain (Secretary lor Foreign Allairs) regarding a seciet memorandum published in the Neu York Herald on Empire deience, allegedly prepared for the British Cabinet. Mr. übamberlain says he cannot recognise the article. PARIS MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. PARIS, May 11. The second ballot at the Pari s municipal elections confirmed the pievioiiu movement. Left Communists guinea three seats and Socialists ten. the council is now iorrntd ot Conservatives four, Right Republicans foiuteen, Left Republicans twenty-tnree, fso.ua list* thirty-one, and Communists eight. WARNING TO WOMEN. CAIRO, May 11. A warning was delive.ed irom the pulpits of all Roman Catholic eh ..relies that girls and women attired immodestly would henceforth 'he debarred from entering churches. ELECTION IN SASKATCHEWAN. OTTAWA, May 10. Mr. C. A. Dunning (Liberal Premier) announces that a general election ioi the . province of Saskatchewan takes place on June 2. EPSOM RACECOURSE SOLD. LONDON, May 11 • The Daily Herald states that the Epsom Grandstand Association has purchased the freehold of the Epsom Downs from the lerd of the manor for £57,000 in order to improve the racecourse including a new stand costing £50,000. Stanley Wootton is buying the training ground n earby for £35,000 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S COUNCIL. WASHINGTON, May 11. The German delegates at the International Women’s Council absented themselves from the annual Mothers Day ceremonies at the Arlington ceme tery. at which Lady Aberdeen spoke for* those attending the foreign delegations. The Germans later explained that it would be inappropriate for them to attend, in view of the presence of United States navy and army officers. They would have joined under other circumstances.

BABY FARM SCANDAL. NEW YORK, May 10. One of the worst baby farm scandals on record has just been revealed by a raid by a Children’s Protection Society on a so-caled infantorium situated in the heart of New York, in which 22 tiny infants are known to have died since the beginning of the year. Tlu last victim, a littie boy less than a year />ld| was removed yesterday by the police and died this morning at the hospital as the result- of starvation. Nineteen other infants found in the infantorium were all suffering from malnutrition. One little girl related that it was the custom to whip the children when they asked for more food, and she declared that they were always hungry.