GENERAL CABLES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 25 November 1924, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

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LONDON, Nov. 23

The Amalgamated Marine Workers’ Union adopted a resolution against the Government’s reported intention, in connection with the Anglo-German commercial treaty, to remove the ban on the employment, of German sailors in the British mercantile marine. The Government is asked to receive a ilepu tation. Mr E. Chinwell, M.P., says theproposal would ha a. gross betrayal of British seamen.

LONDON, Nov. 24

Walter Scott er, a coal exporter at Hull, and a brother claim all the patent rights in Britain of sail-loss ships, on the German system, declaring that they obtained the British rights ot' an identical system in 191/ They offered the patent to the British Government in war time, but it was not accepted. LONDON, Nov. 23. Porritt, the New Zealander, at Oxford won tluv 220 yards trial for the relay team against Cambridge in 21 4-5 seconds.

Lord Bledisloe, speaking at Aberystwyth, foreshadowed a conterence of t '--c landowners and farmers with the view of agreeing ttpou an agricultural policy. He said that lie believed the Government had secured the assent of other political parties in this effort to improve rural Britain.

The last issue ot the Sportsman was published this interning. The paper will be incorporated with Sporting Life on -Monday.

Police in evening dress raided an ex elusive West End night club where drink was alleged to ho served during prohibited hours. They took the names and addresses of upwards of sixty members and guests, including a duke and other titled people. Mrs Ellen Goodchiltle. of Corfu Castle, died on her hundredth birthday, collapsing after receiving greetings. Sir Philip Lloyd Graeme meets representatives of the Federation of British Industries on 25th November to discuss the Australian tariff changes. It has been definitely decided that the Government will arrange an exhibit at the 1925 exhibition at Dunedin. The closest harmony prevails between the Department of Overseas Trade and the British commercial section in connection with this matter.

PARIS, Nov. 22. The Chamber of Deputies adopted a Bill authorizing the Government to raise a loan through American bankers, Morgan’s group being mentioned. The amount is a hundred million dollars and the interest 7 per cent. PARIS, Nov. 24 At tlio reburial of Jaures there was an extraordinary demonstration of affection and regard, on the part of the people. Seventy bluc-blousod miners dragged the bier. At least 100,000 followed in the procession, which was headed by Admiral Jaures, the dead man’s brother. Perhaps half a million people lined the streets.. Tliecc were repeated cries of “Down with war!” as the procession moved towards the Pantheon. OTTAWA, Nov. 23 •

The biggest bootlegging seizure ever made is reported at Montreal. Authorities captured thirty thousand gallons of alcohol* and three thousand cases of Scotch whiskey, worth £IOO,OOO, aboard a barge en route to New York “Rum Row.”