GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) TRADE UNION BILL. LONDON. June 20.

The Labour movement- made a mass attack on the Trades Union Bill by means ol a gigantic procession, which went through the City of London to Hyde Park.

Ibe demonstration culminated in exciting scenes. Communists and fascists quickly came to blows. In course of this eonllict. several yards ol iron railing broke, thereby precipitating men and women in a scrambling heap. Shrill screams came from the women, and this gathered greater crowds to the spot, so that tlie police bad the utmost difficulty in restoring, order.

Reinforcements of police came, ami they managed to (dear the mob. Thereupon the police found that several of the women had been badlv crushed.

The Labour procession extended the whole length of the Victoria Embankment. 'I la- procession carried hauliers bearing slogans such as “Kill the Bill! ’ “We Demand Freedom!’’

AFRICAN FLAG CONTROVERSY CAPETOWN. June 27.

Ibe Senate carried the second reading of the Flag Rill, but in committee an aniciidont was moved for a new design giving the Union .Jack and two lormer Republican flags one quailor each, the remaining quarter to be occupied by four stars on an azure field representing the four provinces of the I uion. The Union .Jack has tintop left-hand corner. The Government's flag bad the same arrangement oil a small shield, on the centre of tinold Holland flag. The Government are in a minority in the Senate and Mr ITertzng resisted tho new design, declaring the l nion Jack bad a position of dominance and the Dutch would never accept it. The Senate carried the amendment and the bill wii’l now be referred to the Assembly for the* latter's concurrence.

PRIEST CAPTURES SWORD-FISH. SUVA. June 28. rather Desjardins, of the Roman Catholic .Mission, captured a swordfish weighing 82!) pounds in the Smilosomo Straits. LECTURES ON AUSTRALIA. OTTAWA. Juno 27. The National Cmneil of Education for the Dominion of Canada, at Winnipeg. arranged a series of thi rty-fbree illustrated lectures in the principal cities t rein Halilax to Vancouver, on Australia, to l:o delivered by Mr P. Adams, of AlolUuiriii-, beginning in November.

BRIDGE RULES. LONDON, June 27

A conference of leading clubs held at Portland ( lull passed a resolution that all (‘lubs and bridge-playing circles should adopt majority calling from July Ist until October 81st in order to make a thorough trial before its final adoption.

PROSECUTION OR DERED. STOCKHOL.M, June 27. The Swedish Government has ordered the prosecution of the printers of the Gotlienbcrg pamphlets of June IT.

BY E-ELECTION. LONDON, June 28. The bye-election for Eiixton, owing to the elevation of Sir Davison Dalziel to the peerage resulted: T. 'Column (Conservative) .. 10,8.18 J. Adams (Labour) 6.082 U. J. Level-jack (Libera!) ... -7,181 No change is made.

(OAiic naval rattle. SHANGHAI. .May 17. A. mmic. naval battle legan iH the mouth of tins A'angtse this morning between Northern cruisers and tbe ■S'oiitlicrii-inalined Woosung forts, in the presence of interested fishermen and infuriated merchant skippers held up by the equivalent of a. street brawl. The ancient cruiser Tfai C'liee (1S98). and the (miser Cliao-lio, built a few years later, both lately in retirement at Tsingtau, began a blind mail’s bombardment of the forts at lit o'clock, delivering about a dozen live shells in forty minutes to tlie extreme annoyance of tlie immature Southern marines collected around the land I alteries.

By the time the landsmen had begun letting off their lesser armament—which bad not been fired since 191.8 and was highly dangerous to all cincerned—the Northern ships bad leisurely steamed jest out of range and anchored.

Fearing that it was the intention e,f the ships to cover the disembarkation of a raiding force for a flank attack on Shanghai, the Southern garrison at Woosung was strengthened to-night, but as yet there i.s no sign of a manoeuvre which would appear to be an extreme manifestation of spring mad-