GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(2? Telegraph—Per Press Association.} SWISS PEOTEST. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) GENEVA, Oct. 17. The Swiss Government is deeply perturbed about a frontier incident, when Fascist militia arrested a Swiss workman on Swiss soil. They detained him for two days across the border. The Government have entered a strong protest. - BRITISH LABOUR, LONDON, Oct. 18. “I know very little difference between the Labour Party and the Independent Labour Party-—the left wing and the right wing,” declared .Mr Arthur Henderson, M.P., at y mass meeting at Burnley. . Th& aims and purposes' of the •'"Labour p a ,ty are tlio same with all representatives. though some are anxious ‘o find differences where none exist ”

PEACE IN INDUSTRY. LONDON, Oct. 18. A new attempt at peace in industry was made at a gathering of repro-__- . sentative employers. Labourites anl officials in connection with tlie Brotherhood Movement, at the Mansion House, convened by the Lord Mayor, at Air Philip Snowden’s suggestion. . Tn an opening address on behalf ot Labour, Mr Amnion, M.r. ("ho was a member of the late Labour Government), said it was admitted that there had been a rise in the standard of life, but the workers, he said, were suspicious of an attempt being made to drive them from that standard. The words “Master and Man” should be expunged from their vocabnlary, and Wage Courts should replace tlio present haphazard wagofixing. While he and others did not scruple to condemn social and economic conditions, Mr Amnion remarked they were deep in their hearts, all actuated by the love in tlieir country. Sir Alfred Mond said that' it was idle to tell tlie people that they were wage slaves, and that the employers were grinding their faces. It was just as idle to call the workmen lazy. He condemned those who made use of the industrial movement for the sake of their own aggrandizement and adveitisement. Mr Ben Tillett reminded that gathering of similar speeches being made in tlie same room at the settlement of the Great Dock Strike in the year ISBS, but they had not yet brought peace. EGYPTIAN POISONING. CAIRO, Oct. 17. ~ Newspapers report that a sixteen-vear-old Zagazig girl, whose family objected to her projected marriage, poisoned her mother, her two sisters, and her four brothers, with arsenical sweets. One sister survived, and she denounced tlie murderess. BIG STRIKE OF OIL. BAGHDAD, Oct. 17. A Turkish Petroleum Company have struck an oil guslier at Kirkuk. It is shooting up seven thousand tons of oil daily. BAGDAD, Oct. 18. Tlie first oil gusher iii Iraq was struck during an excavation by the /' Turkish Petroleum Coy., in which thef Anglo-Persian and the Royal Dutch oil groups are interested. It is flowing at the rate of five thousand tons daily. It has become afire, pending control. SHORT TERM LOANS. LONDON, Oct. 18.

The “Financial News” says: There is everything to be said for Dr Earle Page, the Commonwealth Treasurer’s contention, cabled from Melbourne that the Australian habit of short loans is a short-sighted one, due to a failure to realise "that long-term bonds are always appreciating, and are readily transferable. TRAGEDY OF THE STAGE. LONDON, Oct. 17. Miss Grace Warner, ■ the actress, who played with her father in such roles as Juliet, Portia, Desdemona, and Galatea, in Australia for three years, when she was seventeen years of age, died in poverty in Southend this year. It is to-day revealed that she had just been left a legacy of twenty thousand pounds by Emily Hughes, an aged recluse. Hughes saw Miss AVarner play at Windsor years ago, and was so impressed that she became acquainted with the actress. Latterly Hughes had locked herself up and barricaded her house, and refused to admit anyone. Miss Grace AVarner’s last appearance was in “Tilly of Bloomsbury” in 1920. £I.OOO PER WEEK. LONDON, Oct. 18. Tallulah Bankhead has entered on a contract for one thousand pounds sterling per week, to play in the film role of Nina, in a British film, “ Pinero’ House in Order.” This is the highest rate ever paid an artiste in England.

MINERS’ STRIKE. BERLIN, Oct. 18. The strike lias begun of seventy thousand soft coal miners, word of which was cabled yesterday. The men on strike are regarded as being the worst-paid German workers. They are paid six shillings and sixpence for a 91 hours shift. Grave industrial ctonseqiuences are feared from the" strike. NORWEGIAN ELECTIONS. OSLO, Oct. 18. The Norwegian General Election re • suits are yet incomplete, but they indicate that a Labour victory is likely. AUSTRALIAN VINTAGE. LONDON, Oct. 18. AVine traders Throughout the country are alarmed by the reports of an Australian wine shortage, and of the absence of definite news. They would welcome an authoritative statement of the prospects, and a summary of the frost damage to the crops. A FATAL FIRE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 18. Trapped in a blazing house at AVateringbury, Maidstone at midnight. Captain AA’hite, his wife, infant son and nurse were killed, y--GERMAN STRIKE. BERLIN, Oct. 18. The federation of textile employers at KreFeld following the failure of negotiations with workers, ordered a lock-out on 28th October. The ready made clothing workers union replied calling a strike of its sixty thousand members. Unless an agreement is reached the whole trade will be brought to a standstill.