GENERAL CABLES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 2 June 1926, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES.

fir Cable—PrflHs Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cablo Associat.on. LONDON, May 31. The “Daily Graphic” says if M, Lloyd George survive the censure, Lord Oxford intends severing his connec tion with the Liberals, and retiring from public life. SHANGHAI, May ,31. The whole Gity is quiet. The police anticipate no further serious disorder.

Ifioting appears to have been general throughout the City, hut'iu every ease the police were able to control it without using firearms. A throe days’ strike, called by the Labour and Students’ Union, proved a dismal failure.

Tho shops are all open, and the majority of labourers are working. Mirny foreigners were molested at night, stoned and. beaten. Some foreigners fired shots in the air or into the ground to disperse the mobs. OTTAWA, May 31. Sir Herbert Ames, flip Montreal financier, has tendered his resignation as Financial Director of flip League of Nations. It will become effective in Julv. -SAN FRANCISCO, May 31. At Tndianopolis. Frank Lookhard, a Los Angeles youth, on Monday, won the annual automobile race. The scheduled 600 miles was cut down to 400 on account of the rain. He averaged 94.037 miles per hour. LONDON. May 31.

Captain Oobham, in an article in “Airways” says every day the weather is getting worse in the Indian and Burma, section hut we could not, entertain the idea of abandoning; the flight, because if want to demonstrate the possibility oT o. regular serivo to Australia it is better we should see it under the worst conditions. We will possibly encounter severe dust storms and stand storms in Iraq, and the monsoon as we go further east and south._ As a commercial proposition. it is not, Sensible to cover the entire route with file same, t.vpe of machine, because the section from Calcutta to Australia is most certainly a seaplane’s, task.