GENERAL GABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1927, Page 2

GENERAL GABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.* STORAIS IN ENGLAND LONDON, Oct. 3, Fierce gales and rainstorms are sweeping England. Loss of life and extensive damage are reported. ATTACK ON GREYHOUND RACING. LONDON, Oct. 3. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, at Blackpool, speaking in eonnection with the Labour Conference, made a remarkable attack on greyhound racing. He said : “The paganising of modern living has invaded all classes. The moral curse of Plutocracy is on us ! You can see it in this grey-hound racing. If our people require that feeling that snciifices strong moral rectitude, for the flash enticements of the day and the hour, as did the people Of Rome, then you will be ruined as Rhine was ruinod!”

SCIENTIFIC WOOL CULTURE. LONDON, Sept. 28. The British Association of Woollen Worsted Industries proposes a levy on all raw wool imports to raise funds to carry on scientific research. The ''‘Yorkshire Observer” understands tliat West Riding textilists approve of a private authorising Bill which probably will he introduced in the coming session. The Wool Federation Sub-Committee after sounding the trade organisations oh the proposed levy of sixpence on ovCry hundred pounds. The burden o£ the Association’s work has hitherto fallen on the manufacturers. The “Observer” understands that the raw material section now favours co-operation, especially in view of the possibility of the cessation of the Government subsidy of £4,800 shortly.

MYSTERIOUS SHELL EXPLOSION. PARIS, Oct. 2. A terrible explosion ,o"* Vichy. It was duo to a six-inch shell, which wrecked the house of General Boisehut, the Military Governor of Strassburg. Tt killed the General’s chajuffeur. How the shell tame into rue house is a mystery. The explosion started a fire, which burnt out the house. UNREST IN SPAIN. LONDON, Oct. 2. The Daily Mail says: Conflicting week-end messages have been received regarding levents ■in Spain. New); agencies report a plot to murder King Alfonso and Director de Rivera, and lliat there have been thirty arrests. Other reports state one hundred bombs were found, and that Spanish Army officers are believed to be implicated in a vast revolutionary conspiracy. It is stated the Government has crushed a threatened insurrection. Spanish official circles formally deny all these reports. Indications of a severe censorship have intensified the position;

rush FOR DIVORCE IN BRITAIN. LONDON, Oct. 3. The “Daily Express” states: * “More than five hundred divorces fwffl ho hoard during the Michaelmas term and when tho year closes 2,400 divorce cases will have been decided in London' alone apart from more than a thousand heard by the Assise Judges This is an astonishing increase since 1911-15', when the average was 656 yearly, and since 1916-20, when the average was 1510. The lawyers attribute the present year’s increase to the prohibition of newspaper reports from the divorce courts. The courts no longer hold out the terrors formerly imposed. 'Persons are not deterred by a fear of publicity.

YOUNG COMMUNISTS. LONDON, Oct. 2. The young British Communists, who went to Russia on June 22nd.',' h&ve’ returned, despite their lack of passports, they were allowed to I?uid at London Bridge. The children were each wearing a red scarf, a picture of Lenin, and a new suit of clothes, provided by the young Communists of Russia. Master Clifford Roberts, aged twelve years, expressed admiration for the Soviet school system. He said no canes were used. The discipline was maintained by the Pupils’ Councils. Miss Nancy Hall, aged thirteen, said their most thrilling treat whs seeing a lmllct ip Leningrad from the exTsar’s box. Billy Baker, a Londoner, said: “The Russians are taught workingclass. history. Here we get boss history about dead kings. There they teach that you are not descendant from God, but from a monkey.” Norman Paton, aged twelve years, expressed the opinion that “revolution is the only hope for the world.”

LABOUR CONFERENCE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 3. The chief fight at the Labour Party’s Conference at Blackpool centres around the slogan “Socialism in our time.” Already Mr MacDonald has bespoken caution lest impetuosity defers Labour’s ultimate triumph. Nevertheless many leaders are chiding the executive for not having the framework of the policy ready. The executive will meet criticism by an amendment urging that the social reorganisation should lie the main plank at the next election.

ARCHBISHOP’S PASTORAL. LONDON,’ Oct. 3. The Archbishop of Dublin in a pastoral letter, specially condemns murder and perjury, saying: “He who swears an oath should stand in truth, judgment and justice, for to call God to witness a lie or false promise, Is terrible outrage on the God of Truth.” It is believed the pastoral is inspired by the recent political events in Ireland.

STORM DAMAGE. TOKYO, Oct. 3. Cables from Robin Islands reports a devastating storm in which over 100 houses were wrecked and sugar crops badly damaged. Only a few casualties are recorded.