GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1928, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

YOUNG COMMUNISTS AND CHINA. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). \ LONDON, Sept. 25. “The Times’s” Riga correspondent reports that Moscow has arranged a conference of English, 'Chinese and Russian delegates at a Young Communists Congress to decide -practical measures to. utilise the Chinese revolutionary situation, exhorting youth to co-operate and convert the mass movement in China into a Red revolution. EXPLOSION DISASTER. 57 DEAD. / MELLILA, September 28. The death roll is 57. In the explosion twenty tons of powder did not leave a vestige of the fort. It is feared many were blown to atoms. A mother was found weeping beside the bodies of three sons. FOREIGN OFFICE ATTACKED. BY LONDON PAPERS. . LONDON, Sept. 27. Commenting on the .Foreign Office’s denial as to an air pact, the “Daily Telegraph's” diplomatic Correspondent isayS:—“The suspicions would never have arisen hut for the unnecessary secrecy in which the AngloFrench agreement was shrouded, and the officials’ delay in contradicting the charges formulated by the Rome Tribunal and elsewhere.” The “Daily Chronicle,” in an editorial headed: “This Way Madness!” says: “Bad work has been done for Britain in the past two months by the pitiful blundering of the Foreign Office. The mess is due to the Government persistently subordinating our foreign policy to that of France., whereas the keynote of British policy ought, first and foremost, to be the closest understanding with America. The “Daily Herald,” says:—“No agreement or understanding existed in 1906, hut we know that conversations between British and French experts then held provided for naval and military. co-operation equivalent to an alliance.”

MOTOR SHOW FEATURE. . LONDON, September 23. Additional automatic gear and other . features of the motor , show will be a J considerable reversion of offside gear - i lever, and .improved gear-cutting to ensure the noiselessness of the antidevice and lessen the dangers of

ENGLISH BYE-ELECTION. LONDON, Sept. 27. Owing to the death of Mr A. O. Gardner, Conservative M.P. for Cheltenham, a bye-election was held, and resulted as. follows: Sir Walter Preston (Con.) ...... 10,438 Sir John Brunner (Lib.) ......... 6,678 Miss Widdowson (Lab.) 3,963 . OBITUARY. LONDON, September 26. Obituary.—Lord Birkenhead’s mother. RUSSIAN CONCESSIONS. MOSCOW, Sep. 27. ~ It is. officialy announced that the Governinent has prepared a plan to grant concessions for public services, including tramways, gas, electricity and water, in sixty towns, including Moscow, Leningrad, Odessa, Kharkov, Tiflis and Kiev. The total investment of capital is fixed at four hundred million roubles. The Concessionaries will be allowed sufficient profit, but they must supply services at rates the population can afford- If a Concessionaire invests sufficient capital, he will be granted a monopoly. TURKEY’S ALPHABET. (Times Service). (Received this day at noon.) LONDON, Sept. 27. The “Times” correspondent at Consta.tinople says the whole of r l urkey, except the diehards of certain religious elements and those otherwise hostile to learning, are adopting the new alphabet in which all newspapers will be printed. * THE RUSSIAN WAY. (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 27. A Riga correspondent states Molohoff, a member of the political bureau confirms the reports that three liundrd peasants near Izhevak were summoned to the premises of the Fire Brigade and publicly flogged, in the presence of weeping families, for ignoring the regulations for maintaining fences. Some, when fetched from their homes, tried to defend themselves with axes and guns. Whole villages resounded ‘ with shrieks of women and children.

ARTIFICIAL SILK COMBINE. LONDON, September 27. ' All the largest artificial silk manufacturers o<f Europe have formed an international bureau for the standardisation of fibres and adoption of uniform standards for trade usages. ELLEN TERRY’S ESTATE. LONDON. September 27. Ellen Terry’s estate, which was surprisingly large, amounted to £22,231, the bulk of which she left to her daughter, Edith Cavlv. She bequeathed £2OO to her husband, James C'arly, in token of goodwill' Legally, Ellen '.terry died an American citizen.