GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.)

Oil) i i'ARY. LONDON. June ,v’ Obituary.—Lord ( rautnoie.

monolithic mountain. NEW YORK, June I*. Plans for a 1200 ft high .skyscraper of 110 storeys, the largest in the world, were approved to-day, and consti ttet ion will begin almost immediately. The estimated cost of the building is t 5.000.000.

At present, the A\oolwortli Building, on Broadway, of GO storeys and 792 ft high, is the tallest building in the world.

LOOKING 300 YEARS AHEAD. GENEVA. June 30.

The human race will number eight thousand million in. three hundred years lienee, according to the experts of the League of Nations, who are announcing a World Population C inference commencing on August 31st. It will lie attended by sociologists and scientists, m ho arc to discuss immigration. artificial barriers to the free movement, of the world’s population, birth control, the food supply and over-population.

CANADA'S JUBILEE. OTTAWA, June 30. Canada is bedecked from Halifax to Vancouver, in preparation for the opening of the Diamond Jubilee of the Federation to-morro"’. The Federation will be commemorated even in the Indian and Eskimo settlements in the Far North. The celebrations begin at noon with the reading of a message from King George to the Canadian people from a dais in front of the Parliament Buildings.

Captain Lindbergh is expected lit flv

‘‘The Spirit of St. Louis” here on Saturday. and he will receive a gold Jubilee modal, .similar to that to be presented to the King aiul the Prim"' of Wales. The representatives lit America of various Dominions have arrived here, and they will be the guests of honour, along with foreign diplomats. during the celebrations. ARRESTS ON CONTINENT. OSLO. June 30. The Norwegian Minister of .Justice ordered the police to occupy tlie Communist headquarters licie. The police have arrested the Communist Chairman, Editor and Suit-Edi-tor of the Communist newspaper in connection with a proclamation published on .June 28th. addressed to the British naval squadron at Oslo, strongly attacking Britain, and calling upon the men to refuse to lire on the workers of other countries, and to follow .Russia's example of pointing the guns against their capitalist masters.

LONDON. July 1. The Daily Mail’s Paris correspondent says: Five arrests were made at the Naval Construction Yard at Balinvilel, including four foreign engineers. It is alleged that this is a grave espionage case, plans having been stolen of naval and mercantile vessels that are being built for Poland. Communist complicity is suspected. It is hinted that the case may have a <lose connection with Bolshevist activities in French arsenals and aircraft factories and also in Britain.