GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

will MR Macdonald attend?

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T ONDON, August' 24

'!>• MacDonald, after three f >i"’fd bird owing to bad. weather, ‘ Ifta' 1 i'l a - Hendon aerodrome from .Ldrt : i";r-"'A 1 :, Scotland, and motored to Downing Street. The Prime Minister disclaimed any special significance in his return to London, and lie would not say whether lie was visiting The Hague, where lie admitted, matters were indefinite.

X PRACTICAL OFFER

LONDON, August 24

The Manchester Guardian’s Hague correspondent reports as follows; Receiving the French press at midnight M. Loucheur, French delegate, announced that,France, Italy, Japan and Belgium had jointly offered Mr Snowden that 1 a fixed sum would annually •he added to the British share of the Young plan annuities. He could not at present mention the amount, nor how it would. be‘distributed between the four Powers. It remains to he seen whether Mr Snowden will consider this amount sufficient; but the offer seems most practical, as it avoids the necessity of revision of 1 the distribution of the Young plan.

10,000 DOLLARS RACE. FOR LADY SWIMMERS. VANCOUVER, August 24. A message from Toronto states that the Ten Thousand Dollar Wrigley Swimming Marathon, in which there were 45 starters, was won to-day by .Miss .Martha Norelius, the New York Olympic champion, in five hours 24 minutes. Miss / Ruth Tower, of Toronto, was second, and she won three thousand dollars.