GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.* A NOTABLE AMALGAMATION. LONDON, Nov. 20. Details of the anralgamtion of Vickers Armstrong and Whitworth's show that a new Company is being formed as Vickers Armstrong Ltd. with a capital not exceeding twenty-one millions, Vickers receiving £8.500,0C0 in fully paid up shares and Armstrong £4,500,000 in fully paid shares ns the purchasa price. A novel feature is the arrangement. with the Sun Insurance Coy. for a policy, whereby, if the profits fail to reach £900.000 in any year, the Sun will contribute £200,000. Sir Herbert Lawrence is Chairman and the Directors include Itto Nienieyor of the Bank of England, and E. R. Peacock of Baring Bin*. Armstrong’s circularised their holders, recommending tTie amalgamation. stating tho Company’s assets had been written down to the extent of at least eleven millions.

UNEMPLOYED MINERS DEMONSTRATE. LONDON. Nov. 20

The miners’ march ended in a downpour in Trafalgar Square whither they tramped after lunch from Hyde Park, with lighted safety lamps and dripping banners, headed by 1(50 London ex-Ser-vicemen, followed by pipes, fifes and drums. Thousands of spectators cheered them on route and tens of thousands assembled at Trafalgar Square and the Red Flag and International Were sung. Messrs Maxton and Cook spoke, the latter declared the tramp would reecho in Berlin, Prussia, and New York, drawing the attention of the poverty of the miners and the callousness of Baldwinism. He then called: “ Now shout after me, 1 Baldwin you must go The crowd vociferously responded and carried a resolution calling on the Government to receive a deputation and hear suggestions for ameliorating the situation. Sixty thousand unemployed miner marchers spent the night in Bethnal Green and the Town Hall.

MOORISH RAIDERS. LONDON, Nov. 21

The Daily Mail’s correspondent, at Rabat reports that the total ransom paid for the release of Stooges and A maud' s party was fifty thousand sterling. The payment included 70,000 hassani douros, coins the size of a five-shilling piece. The French officials counted the money out to the Moors, the operation being most protracted. The raiders suspicions are aroused by the thousands of bright new coins, as they believed these bad been specially coined for tbe occasion without a due percentage of silver. The great hulk of the money necessitated tho requisitioning of extra mules for its removal.

Infuriated Moors attacked Madame Le Brigand, wife of a French officer, and threw her habv through a window. Sentries rushed to the Lebrigad for assistance. The Moor barricaded the house and shot himself dead.

ANTI-FASCTST PLOT. LONDON, Nov. 21

The “Daily Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent reported that messages from tbe Italian frontier, evading censorship. disclose a great anti-Musso-lini plot. Six leading Italians, including General Berncivenga, have been arrested. General Bencivenga was De-puty-Chief of the General Staff during tbe War. With him was arrested Deputy Ponzio, holder of a golden medal and a famous war hero, suggesting that the great associations of excombatants who once were blackshirts to a man are growing impatient with the Fascist regime. This belief is strengthened by the fact tliatjSignor Ilorgman, the first president of the National Association of Ex-Combat-ants has been arrested in Milan, and five or six arrests were made in Northern Italy, which is a Fascist stronghold . A special tribunal has already condemned 123 of Mussolini’s political enemies, apart from hundreds banished to unhealthy islands off Sicily.

SCENES OF CRASH VISITED. LONDON, Nov. 21. A Lemberg message states that Hinkler and Mclntosh motored to tho scene of the crash in order to photograph the damage to the aeroplane, which is insured in England. The Company requires evidence of the damage. The actual repairs will not take long, but spare parts must he obtained from England.

COMMUNIST PLOT IN TURKEY. [“The Times” Service.) (Received this day at 8.50 a.mA LONDON, Nov. 21. A Constantinople correspondent states the policy? have discovered a widespread Communist movement enginerod by Cliefik Ilusani Bey, who was sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment in 1920 for Communist activities, but escaped to Russia. Ho returned disguised and used a French passport and began meetings, distributing Communist propaganda. There have already been sixty four-arrests, including two officials of the local branch of Arcos, the employee of a Russian hank and secretary of tho Turkish communists. SOVIET REPORT. LONDON, Nov. 21. A Riga correspondent states the Soviet has published cables from Lansburg Coates, Secretary of the AngloRussian Parliament Committee, promising to protect the Soviet’s interests against-Government, which is doomed to a crashing defeat at the coming election.

THE NEW SULTAN. HIS FIRST ACT. LONDON, Nov. 21. The “Daily Mail’s” Rabat correspondent states the hoy Sultan’s first act was to dismiss his father’s three Hundred wives and concubines; also Sidi Abdullah, the Palace Major Domo, and his father’s boyhood friend, whose sentiments were anti-French. The Sultan declined Sidi’s plea for an interview and slaves enthusiastically rejected him. The former was a hard taskmaster. Nearly all the functionaries have been dismissed, except the Grand-. Vizier. El Mokri. The Sultan is devoting three days to prayer at the tombs of his ancestors.