GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1920, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION] •A'frSP ,'i- "'-Tii i-' r--'- ' " LONDON, Nov. 2 r An analysis of returns in the Municipal contests show 748 Labour candidates contested 70 boroughs, 199 being returned. The worst defeats were at Liverpool and Bradford, where tlie entire tickets of 23 each' failed to win a single seat. A similar complete failure is reported from sixteen other boroughs, while only two, Norwich and Rotherham, hitherto returned all labourites. Liberals and Conservatives show no marked change, but Independents' advocating a reduction of rates inet with considerable success. LONDON, Npy. 3. The returns for the English muncipn.l elections show that out of 747 Labour candidates, only 199 were electedThis is a striking reversal of tlie results in 1919, leaving Labour considerably weaker. It is attributed mainly to an agitation against any increased 'municipal rates, which have been especially heavy where Labour has dominated the councils. IS THE OIL SECURED. LONDON,\ Nov. 3. Bonar Law, in the House of Commons, said there was no further cause for anxiety regarding Mesopotamia. He said that a committee was drafting electoral laWs, which would be ready shortly. ’ British officials there bad inaugurated an'administrative Council of State, ieprcsefiting all parts of the country. AGAINST NO LICENSE. LONDON, Nov. 2. The returns of the polling in Scotland show that only about one in iciur people'favour the abolition of licenses. Three quarters' of tlie district are i-. „ , ■ or > voting for no change. Many exciting scenes were witnessed, including a “wet” aeroplane,- which dropped leaflets on Glasgow. WEDDING OF THEATRICALS. LONDON, Nov. 2. Mr Haddon Chainbers, married Re pita' Bobadilla, a pretty South American actress, aged 28, on Friday at a Registry office in Buckingham Palace Road'. TREATY REVISION PROCESS. ' ' '• PARIS, Nov. 3. According to a report from' Berlin, t' c Allies have decided to reduce the right hundred thousand German cattle deliverance to the Allies by half. FIGHTING IN MESOPOTAMIA. - ’ LONDON, Nov. 2. A Mesopotamian communique states that the insurgents made a lierivy night attack 011 the Kufali Camp, but were re pulsed with over 100 casualties. Two columns in the Middle Euphrates area, captured 800 insurgents'. LABOUR’S GOAL. LONDON, Nov. 3. Tlie Independent Labour Party’s National Council' is drawing! up a new orograhiriie favburing direct action, and riiaking the aim of the Party the ending of the' present capitalist system. The programme''sayS:—“The industrial organisations of society must be basrid oh communal ownership of land and capital. A central body and local bodies, repiesntirig the people, as onsi liners arid producers, must determine the questions of supply and demand. The best means of effecting a peaceful revolution is for Organised Labour to take over the industrial machinery.