GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1936, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

U. 3. STOCKS SOAR (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright),

NEW YORK, November 5.

For the second consecutive day since President Pooseveltjs re-elec-tion, stocks, bonds, and commodities soared with favourable / dividend am.nouncements, 22 large corporations increasing payments or resuming distributions after a lapse of several years. -

KING TO VISIT CANADA '

QUEBEC, November 6

King Edward is planning to. visit Canada , after his trip, to India Following the Coronation. This was indicated by the Dominion Prime Minister, Mr W. L. Mackenzie King, on his return aboard the liner Empress of Britain from Europe. The visit will be the first of ’a reigning British sovereign to Canada.

U.S. OPIUM SMUGGLERS

NEW YORK, November 5,

', A Federal Grand Jury has indicted 13 alleged members of a gang of international smugglers, including four women, who are charged with employing members of the . crews .of trans-Atlantic steamers to bring large quantities of crude gum opium from Paris. Two of the women pleaded guilty.

LONDON DEMONSTRATION,

LONDON, November 6.

Shouting “Save Thaelmann,” a small crowd demonstrated at Carlton House terrace. A brick was thrown through a window 'of the German Embassy. (Ernst Thaelmann, a German communist. has been imprisoned for ..more than two years. He- was arrested by the Nazi authorities after the Reichstag fire).

ANGLO-ITALIAN TRADE. ROME, November 6

The Anglo-1 tali an trade negotiations are concluded, and an agreement will be signed to-morrow. It is 'understood that the agreement provides for payment of Italian debts in two years, in which Italy will be allowed to export more goods to Britain than she imports from Britain. Afterwards trade is to balance exactly.