GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1938, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

A CUBAN MOVE. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). HAVANA, May 2. Twenty thousand met and urged action against foreign interests, similar to Mexico’s petroleum expropriation. A BRAZIL DECREE. RIO DE JANEIRO, May 2. The President, Dr. Getulio Vargas, has signed a decree creating regional commissions to establish minimum wages for all workers. MAY DAY IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, May 2. May Day was unusually quiet in both North and South America. Ten thousand paraded in Brooklyn without a sign of disorder. At Toronto GOOD participants in a celebration at a park clashed first with college students, and second with rival factions. One student’s nose was broken, and two girls were scratched and bruised. Order was restored lyIn Buenos Aires sympathisers with the rival Spanish factions fought with fists and guns in the midst of the parade. Nine persons ivere wounded. A woman died from a heart attack caused b\' the excitement. KILLINGS IN ABYSSINIA. ROME, May 2. A'byssinians attacked the Catholic mission at Encipher, near Harrar. They killed three Italian missionaries and two native converts. , CZECH MINISTER. (Received this day at 12 noon). PARIS, May 2. After talks with M. Daladier, M. Bonnet, and Sir E. Phipps, the Czech Minister, Dr. Orosusky left for Prague to report on the Anglo-Frehch talks. SUDETEN GERMANS. LONDON, May 2Herr Henlein has suggested a. plebiscite in Czechoslovakia to decide on the attitude towards the Sudeten Germans. Herr Henlein says he desires only peace and complete equality of rights. “A settlement,” he adds, “is essential not only to us but also to Europe. We will never admit thajt we are in a minority, but we are disposed to reconsider the Czech Constitution as a basis for the solution of our problems." I