GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 22 September 1937, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

[Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] LONDON, September 20. In view of the death of MajorGeneral Crozier, Sir Charles Edwards, M.P., at the instance of Mr. Hore Belisha, has decided not to press for an inquiry into the allegations (of soldiers’ cowardice), but the withdrawal of the book from publication may be requested. The “Morning Post’s” Labour correspondent says that British trade unions may soon have official relations with Russia’s Red trade unions. After several rebuffs, the International Federation of Trade Unions, of which Britain and France are the mainstays, has been informed that the Russian Central Trade Union Committee is willing to negotiate for affiliation.

The Air Ministry is considering a flight of over 7,000 miles, probably in the direction of Australia, by an Air Force single-engined bomber, to win the world’s non-stop record. The quarterly return of the Regis-trar-General for England and Wales shows that there were 6215 more births in the second quarter of this year than in the corresponding quarter in 1936. The total was 163,867. The birth-rate was 16.1 per 1000 of the estimated mid ; year population. Of the births 84,023 were males and 79,844 females. Fewer infants under one year died, the mortality being 54 per 1000 births. The natural increase in the population by the excess of births over deaths was 45,343. The highest total in the corresponding quarters of the three preceding years was 38,112, in 1935.

The continued growth of savings by small investors in Britain has Resulted this year in a new high record. The total aggregate sum invested in National Savings Certificates, the Post Office Savings Bank, and the Trustee Savings Bank on March 31, was approximately £1,378,400,000, which is .an increase of £59,000,000 over the 'previous year’s total. The National Savings Committee, giving these figures in its twentyfirst annual report, express gratification that the amounts remaining Invested in Savings Certificates and the balances due to depositors were each the highest ever recorded. September 20. The entire issue of "Izvestia” was transmitted by tele-photo to Novosibirsk, Central Siberia, where the type was set locally, enabling publication simultaneously with Moscow. It is planned to extend the transmissions as far as Vladivostock. NEWPORT, September 21. The Seven Seas avenged her defeat on September 8, and ‘finished the return race from Bermuda, where she sailed on September 13, far ahead of the Joseph Conrad, which thus far is not sighted. WARSAW, September 20.

.Owing to its extremely specialised character, a journal called “Our Life” has come to a sad end. The editor and staff have been arrested. Described as the first professional journal for thieves and burglars, it contained special articles on safebreaking, smash-and-grab raids, how to burgle without leaving fingerprints, and other trade information. The advertisements include offers of courses of training by skilled practitioners and trade implements for sale and hire. It is stated that the paper had a wide circulation not only in Poland, but abroad. A subscription list was found, leading to many arrests. LONDON, September 20. “Limey the Tough,” Al Capone’s gunman during the liquor racket, otherwise John Patrick Sherry, ex-

boxer, aged 42, was found with bis neck broken and head wounds, in a house at Holloway. The police, after an all-night hunt in Islington, arrested a woman and two men in con-

nection with the murder. Sherry fought with the Inniskilling Dragoons in war-time. Capone regarded him as the toughest Englishman he had met. He was once taken for a ride by rival gansters, but battled his way out by sheer strength.