GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) SPAIN’S INNOVATION. MADRID, Aug. 20. The Director of Spain, General Primo de Rivera., lias made a statement through the British United Press regarding the Spanish general assembly meeting on October 10th next. He says that the Assembly will he composed of representatives of the States, the municipalities, the patriotic Isidics, the professions, the private enterprises. and the other classes, totalling approximately four hundred members. They will not enact laws, hut will discuss in public sessions the subjects recoin mended to them, or proposals which warrant the approval of the Cabinet.

UNDER-SEA WAR EATSE. LONDON. Aug. 25. The " Daily News” naval correspondent, writing In support of the contention that Britain’s latest submarines are the most efficient in existence, and that they are armed with weapons of a mysterious, deadly power, draws attention to an American semi-official publication dealing with the proceedings of tho Naval Institute. The publication says that one of Britain’s submarines recently fired trackless torpedoes at a target, although the submarine was not allowed to rise to the surface or to use n periscope for forty minutes before the discharge of the missiles. It explains that the whole of the filing was done on listening tube data.

The “Daily News” itself comments thus: It this news is authentic, then it foreshadows a most important development in submarine warfare. The fact that an attacked vessel is unable to see the submarine’s periscope or its torpedoes, or the tell-tale track of air hubbies, enormously increases llie danger of under-water attack.

NOVI A SCOTIA STORMS. HALIFAX. Aug. 2d. Fierce storms in Nova Scotia caused eight deaths and four are missing. The damage caused to property, crops and shipping amounted to one mili'ion dollars. RHINELAND QUESTION. PARIS. Aug. 25. At the Inter-Parliamentary fnion. meeting. M. De Jouvoiml replying to Herr Loebe (Germany) said that the occupation oi the Rhineland was the sole guarantee oT stability in eastern Europe. If. lie said, the French evacuated the Rhine area, and two or three years lienee the Dawes payments were suspended by Germany, or if even tomorrow Germany were at grips with one of France’s ex-allies, what then would remain of German friendship? “ One Europe—one peace! ” That was France’s doctrine. llerr Loebe had spoken of a pause in the peace movement. It was due to the fact that two Europes had been created—the one of Western Europe, where the territorial status quo was recognised; and the other an eastern Europe, where there was now another cause lor anxiety. Germany, he said, had signed the Rapallo and the Berlin agreements under which, in the event of Soviet aggression against any member of the League. Germany’s veto alone would shatter the League’s unanimity.

BRITISH ATTITUDE. LONDON. Aug. 25

At a special meeting of the Cabinet, following on Air Baldwin's return, the Ministers particularly considered the Rhineland question in the light of the recent Anglo-French discussions. It is understood that a definite line of policy was reached, as the result of which a reply will probnly go to France during tlie week-end.

Britain’s attitude is unchanged, and it does not envisage any policy other than that the military occupation should ho an international one in the fullest sense.

GERMANY'S PR EDICAAI ENT. LONDON, Aug. 25

The “ Times’s ” Berlin correspondent states: The refusal of Herr Boss, the Mayor of Berlin, to attend tho American Club’s dinner to AH' Walker, the Mayor of New York, at the Kniserhof Hotel, brought the flag-flying question to a head. ATayor Boss firmly adhered to the municipality’:! decision to boycott all hotels refusing to fly the Republican flag on Constitution Day, August 11.

Mayor Ross has privately welcomed Air 'Walker. He says Mayor Walker fully understands tho position. Most of tho leading hotel proprietors in Berlin belong to an association which refuses to fly tho Republican Flag, oil the ground that they decline to become mixed up with politics, saying that they are commercial undertakings, like the hanks, and that the Republican and the Monarehial flags are no longer the national emblems, but are party emblems. It is understood that the Russian Government supports the Municipality, and that it is prepared to boycott the recalcitrant hotels. Other organisations arc acting similarly.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO USE RADIO. GENEVA, Aug. 26. An Expert Committee of the League of Nations Communications Committee is drafting specifications for the installation hero of a wireless station, costing from Jorty to sixty thousand sterling, capable of establishing not only urgent communication at critical times, hut also at ordinary times, to enable telegraphic correspondence between the Secretariat anti the delegations, also embracing telephotogra-

MODERN EVES. LONDON, Aug. 25. The “Daily Express” makes a scathing attack on the conditions prevailing at the surfing beach at Lido Ultra, a fashionable seaside resort ol enice. It says: Lido is at present an orgy of naked flesh. Adam has nothing on this Garden of Eden. lie at least grew fig leaves. Smart society rush there from all parts of the earth in pyjamas. People sit around sipping tea in hotels. They wear pyjamas. They lunch in pyjamas, and dine in pyjamas, and for tho remainder of the day they lie about the sands. Few condescend lo bathe. Every now and again they tnke moving pictures of a pyjama parade. Women in elaborate silk pyjamas, with hows, ribbons and boudoir caps, strut up and own the beach. They will walk about the hotels and streets in . the same attire. If the same women were seen in similar attire in tlie corridor of a London hotel there would be shrieks of liorror. Vet when they sit sun-bathing, they unloose the straps in order to reveal as much to the sun as possible. Adam would have loved this sort of thing, and Eve would have put her fig leaf hack on the tree. Tn short, the fatter the Lido lady is, the more she likes to show.

OBITUARY. LONDON. Aug. 26. Obituary.—Sir William Raynor, wool merchant, aged 73.