GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association

OBITUARY. LONDON, Sept. 4. Lord Coleridge is dead.

TRADE UNION CONGRESS. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. LONDON, Sept. 4. Hicks presidentially addressing tno Trades Union Congress at Edinburgh said the Congress is a reply to those who imagine they have got Trade Unionists down. Our movement is more united, stronger and more experienced. The Trades Dispute Act Mill unite the ranks and stimulate us to more vigorous activity. The Congiess will consider the steps necessary to adopt the Trades Unionist to the conditions the Act creates. Even this Government will realise the impossibility of legislatively stopping the growth of workers’ class consciousness it any unions are attacked an element will he provided for sweeping the measure and its nutliorisers out of political existence. There are at present a quarter of a million workless miners, for whom relief will not be obtained. except by nationalising the mining industry. In order to relieve poverty and unemployment we must make the working class movement abi’e to exercise industrial pressure and economic power, and prepare for the return of a Labour Government, with an organised programme at next election. It must democratise the Army, Navy, Judiciary, (Police and all organs of State. AVe must train workers in management and administration, m order to control industry and must not neglect opportunities for negotiations between employers and employed.

An intensive recruiting campaign for increasing trades union membership will follow the Congress. Regarding Russia, our Russian comrades have suffered and learned much. A) e must view, the question in tho most generous way. AVhtever happens to ruin workers their conquests must be defined and maintained. War-mongers are still with us. Another war would doom civilisation organised. Labour must strip the Mar-mongers power and authority. AA'omen can help in all our struggles. We shall doubtless know more defeats hut the future is ours, m o shall u In.

OL1) AVINE. LONDON, Sept. 4. Eight thousand bottles of Tokay, hundred years old. a portion of- a cellar founded in Austria by the King of Poland in 1(573 Mats brought to England from the Saconi Court and will be sold privately. The estimated value is £25,000. Tho bottles are flagons of hand blown glass hearing the Royal Arms of Saxony and are worth a pound a piece to an antiquar-

THE HUMAN RACE. LONDON, .Sept. 4. The “Daily News” says Sir Oliver Lodge referring to Keith’s) address said the lowly ancestry was better than the angelic. It would be depressing to think a man descended from an angelic state. Scientists are like blinkered horses. 1 am not blinkered, I see things by the roadside. Scientists miss seeing the spiritual world and the psychic and phenomena of tho human body is an evolutionised animal but if we have animal we have also divine ancestry. AVe are not the highest beings of creation we are only the highest on this planet.

AVARS AAV. Sept. 3. Newspapers state the killing of Trajekowitcli was unnecessary as the doors were closed and he ebuid not have escaped. Five bullets were found in his body. Tornjkinvitch escaped from Russia in 1921. Two of his brothers were officers in Deniken’s army and were executed. A SOVIET AMBASSADOR.. PARTS, Sept. 4. As a sequel to a protest by the French Ambassador to Moscow of the publication in Paris of a statementsaying the Government of Soviet Russia declared it strongly disapproved of the idea that one of its representatives should organise propaganda of insurrection, the French Cabinet is giving serious consideration to Raltovsky’s activities. The Russian Soviet statement added that the Soviet would disown any act which might give rise to such interpretation. It is understood Tchitcheriu told the French Ambassador that Rakovsky was acting solely in a private capacity when signing a manifesto urging workers in capitalists countries to revolt. “Le Matin” says the reply may officially satisfy the Government but it changes nothing. Rakovsky remains simultaneously the Soviet Ambassador and a militant Bolshevist. This situation cannot he allowed and Rakovsky must he recalled. BRITISH FINANCE. LONDON, ,Sept. 4. Hon. AV. Churchill at Kelso indicated it was improbable there would he any increase in income tax or reimposition •of food taxes in the next Budget. TURKISH ELECTION RESULTS CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 4. The Turkish Elections resulted in the return of all tho Kemalist candidates. There is no official opposition in the new Assembly. POLISH ASSAILANT SHOT. AVARS AAV, Sept. 2.

An application to the Russian Consulate on being refused a passport visa, drew a knife and wounded an official, Af. Sehleffer. He also slashed a portrait of Al. Lenin. Another official, AI. Guscw, then shot tho assailant dead. The Polish authorities say that they are not concerned as the incident is between Russians on Soviet territory. Soviet authorities, however, allege that the victim whose name was Trajkovitch was a Pole who was trying to enter Russia. FRENCH IAPPOIXTAIEXT. PARIS, Sept. 4. Cabinet decided that Lucin Hubert, President of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Senate shall succeed De Jouvenal at Geneva. Hubert is a strong supporter of the contention that Germany should lie made-Mo pay for the war.

A PECULIAR affair. 7Rece ; vcd this day at 8.30 a.m.) .PARIS. Sept- 5. A perplexing tragedy occurred near Dreux where a farm lad aged 13 years was found hanged. His employer and sole companion was an old woman, Louise Aubert who previously complained that the boy stole her money and rifle. The boy denied this hut later admitted he stole from a neighbouring farm in obedience of orders from Aubert who thereupon, in a violent rage ordered the boy to leave. Tho finding of the dead body next evening did not ruffle Aubert who complained she had lost a bag containing twenty-five thousand francs. The police found this untouched beneath the boy’s feet. Doctors were of opinion that death occurred the day The police were (unable to get anything out of Aubert except complaints against the lad,