GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

j ■ - - - -**■— FASCIST SECRETARY. 1 RESIGNS OFFICE. fUnited Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. - ] ROME, Sept. 25. Signor Mussolini has accepted the resignation of Signor Turati, the Sec-retary-General of the Fascist Party. Signor Mussolini made appreciative reference, to the Secretary-General s work.

Signor Turati’s successor will be Signor Guriati, the President .of the Chamber of Deputies.

PLAGUE MENACE. SPREADING IN CHINA. PEKING, Slept. 24. AH of North China may be endanered by a serious outbreak of bubonic plague, and, also of pneumonic plague. The outbreak in now .. spreading j throughout tlk' fainiine-strickbp Province. Missionary investigators report that the , epidemic,- which months ago, has spread rapidly, wiping out whole villages. - v j _ : Panic-etricken people are . fleeipg. from theft areas near the scenes of the heavy death rod, leaving piles of corpses, unburied. ■- 48 EXECUTIONS. - CARRIED OUT IN RUSSIA. MOSCOW, September 25. Fortyeight death sentences have been carried out on persons connected with the organisation attempting to disorganise the food supply. OBITUARY. LONDON, Sept/ 25. Obituary.—Doctor Arthur ■ S. Way. THE^DODE. 1 ; ;.. . • -' • LONDON, Sept.- -25. The “Daily Mail’s” political editor says .Free. State members of the Cabinet are discussing a plan for consideration at the ' Imperial Conference; whereby recipients of the dole m United Kingdom might emigrate and continue to ' draw the dole, while settling down' in new lands. • HON. G-. W. FORBES. | (Received 10.55 a.m.) ' :i LONDON,' September 25. Hon. G. W. Forbes will probably be able to talk with his home during the Conference. The Post-Office hopes, to link Britain and' New Zealand telephonically. through Australia . . shortly, though it is impossible to fix a date. It is expected arrangements will be made for a special call for Mr Forbes at the Jnaugiifatioh service. • ,V. ..