GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Telegraph—Per Press Association.'

DISARMAMENT. LONDON, Oct. 29. In opening his campaign in favour of disarmament, Lord Cecil Mill deliver his first sjteeeh since his Cabinet resignation before the Council of the League of Nations Union on October 21st., when he will move a resolution that tho British Government should support tho League’s efforts, and should sign the optional clause, with any reservations necessitated by Britain’s position further; that Government should announce its willingness to negotiate arbitration agreements with anv nation.

Lord Cecil declares that his object is not to quarrel with anyone, but to get something done. LONDON, Oct, 19. The “Daily Nous” states: Lord Cecil, speaking regarding reservations to the signature of the optional clauso said that it was clear that all tho questions between Britain and the Dominions must be included in them. Certain questions relating to prize law must also be reserved. The Dominions were members of the Ivcagne, and, just as Britain, they could sign the clause. Without them, they might, if desirable, act alone. ITALIAN EXPEDITIONS. ROME, Oct. 19. A meeting at Milan, celebrating tbe tenth anniversary of the end of the war, decided to organise two Italian scientific expeditions n 1928. One will attempt- the ascent of the Himalayas, to which project the British and Indian Governments have consented. The other will he a Polar expedition, in charge of General Nobile, who piloted Amundsen over the North Pole. INSURANCE SCHEME FOR. ITALY. • LONDON, Octfl 20. “The Times’s” Milan correspondent reports that the Italian Cabinet has approved cf a scheme of compulsory insurance against tuberculosis, the employers and employees contributing fortnightly to a national fund, which is being constituted. MOTOR. CYCLING. PARIS, Oct. 19. Temple, a British motor cyclist, broke tho world’s record by covering fifty kilometres on the Monfhery track in 1035 and seven-tenths seconds, which is equal to 1733 kilometres an hour. PETLURA’S MURDER. PARIS, Oet. 19. The excitement reached a great height at the trial of the ex-soldier, Schwarzbard, on a charge of murdering General Petlura, tbe Russian, in May last. This was when the evidence was given that General Petlura was killed by a bullet in tbe chin, fired when be was already lying on tbe ground. M. Torres, counsel for the defendant jumped up, and, whipping a revolver from under bis gown, be brandished it right and left, declaring:— “I’ll show you how General Petlura received his fatal u'Oiiml when totteiing to the ground.” When they san- the counsel’s revolver brandished, the occupants of the Court became panic-stricken, and they stamped from tbe court-room. The trial M'as stopped for a quarter of an hour, and it was then found that M. Torres’s revolver Mas not loaded. POLISH VISA FOR COOK. LONDON, Oet. 20. The Polish Consul informed Cook that he has now been instructed to grant a visa. Cook says it is too late to get to Warsaw in time for the meeting and he has arranged to go elsewhere. He sent a letter to the Consul asking uliotltcr the original reason for refusal of the visa M-as that tu'o Labourites abused Poland’s hospitality in 192 G. or because of Cook’s avowed sympathy with communism, as reported.