GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

> A SETBACK. FOR UNEMPLOYMENT WORKS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Sept. 27. The “Daily . Telegraph's’’ Parliamentary writer says: “No doubt the Government deeply regrets the necessity for the increase in the bank rate on account of the restrictive -effect it will have on productive work generally, as well as on the financing of the floating debt, which will substantially effect the Budget, and the financing of schemes for the relief of unemployment that are being undertaken by the local authorities,” AMUSEMENT TAXES. CAUSE TROUBLE IN PARIS. PARIS, Sept. 26. The threatened closing of. theatres, fallowing upon the proprietors’. refusal in April last'to ,pay the proposed municipal taxes, has been obviated by the reduction by 20 per cent of the poor tax, but tile trouble has been transferred to the ever-increas-ing dance halls, to which seven per cent has been added.

ITALIAN SENTENCE,

(Received this dav nt 9.25 a.m.) ROME,. September 27.

Dicesare Rossi was sentenced to thirty years’ imprisonment after three and a-half hours’ trial on a charge of committing, in association with antiEascists and Reds, acts designed to provoke armed risings or civil war and organising plots to overthrow the government and attempts on, Mussolini s life. CHINESE BORDER. SITUATION. (Received tlm dav nt 9.25 a.m.) SHANGHAI, September 27. With the city’s food supply almost completely cut. off, as the result of the recent fighting on the Manchurian border and with winter approaching, the poulation of Blngovyeshchensk are faced with starvation. The town, which is one of the principal points on the Amur River, is situated on. the Russian side opposite the Chinese town of Taliiliio, which previously supplied most of the food and clothing to the Siberian town, but with comnuinic:rtioiis severed food supplies have been practically exhausted. - The temperature along the border is already below freezing point. Terrible privations are feared. In the meantime the situation is ouict slight skirmishes only being reported. THEFT CHARGE. T,rv\T>ON. Sent. 27. Wlmn Harold Duncan, n<™d 32. was charged a.t M' ,n cbe c, * f ‘r with theft of money, the police alleged l)"ncnn by altering a joint account cheque .robbed bis partner of £278. sterMim and disappeared. It was disooveied that bo had sailed bv' the Ormonde on 25th Mar fo- Australia, and was av-osted at Colombo. He forced bis cabin door when he arrived at. Port Said, and hired n motor and travelled to Cairo bv the desert road. He was arrested at Cairo and remanded.