GENERAL CABLE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLE

Telegraph—Per Press Association.'.

FR.ENCH-JUGO-SLAV TREATY PARIS, Nov. II

The French and Jugo-Slavian Foreign Missions, it. Briand and M. Ma-1-10111'itch, (have signed a treaty of friendship and arbitration, and jointly issued a statement that both countries intended to work in lull harmony wi£h the League of Nations. It is believed that the treaty will strengthen the economic bonds of the two countries, and that the treaty Is based on their unbroken friendship. The text will he published after it is registered with the League Secretariat. It will then lie seen that the treaty does not aim at any country, but entirely conforms with the principles of the League. It may even he the germ of a new Locarno. The Italian Government has been kept informed of the negotiations.

CHALIAPINE’S FEES. BERLIN, Nov. 12

“I have twenty-six dependents, and I cannot sing for fifty sterling, I usually get eighteen hundred for a single performance,” said Chaliapine on arrival, on hearing that the German opera proprietors were combining to limit his fee.

PRAYER BOOK CONTROVERSY. (Received this day at 9.0 a.m.l LONDON, Nov. 13. Sir Jovnson Hicks, who is expected to he tlie evangelical chief spokesman when the revised prayer book is before . Parliament, has sent an important I memorandum to the Parliamentary , Ecclesiastical Committee, opposing , ratification on the ground that it “ cannot he a final revision, as tlie Bishops have not undertaken to enforce obedience to it. Therefore it will inevitably he used as a jumping-off ground for further demands by advocates of remaining practices.

GERMAN INVENTIONS. BERLIN, Nov. 13

Von. Weiling (Director of the Dye Trust) addressing leaders of the chemical industry at Frankfort, declared the dye trusts experiments in making synthetic rubber had succeeded. He envisaged the early profitable production of a quality equal to natural rubber. Similarly', the production of synthetic camphor, glycol, resin and substitutes for shellac, horn and leather.

lAN HAMILTON’S DECLARATION. '• (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 12. “ The arch-enemy of the Dardanelles was Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson,” said General Sir lan Hamilton, addressing the Naval Division Association. He added: “Wilson at first approved of attempting to detach the Turks, but when we were fighting on Gallipoli it was another story. Wilson visited Koch in July 19L), giving the latest news from Gallipoli, adding the remark that he was trying to run us, though he held an appointment upon the staff of another Commander-in-Chief. We had many other enemies. Lord French, formerly signing himself as niv devoted friend, ceased writing once I started for the east. British headquarters in France and Admiral Fisher regarded the expedition as a detestable heresy.' History has now shown the expedition’s enemies were in the wrong. AMATEUR REPORT. LONDON, Nov. 12. A meeting of representatives of governing bodies of amateur sports, at the invitation of the British Olympic Association, adopted a resolution unanimously—(lst) strongly disapproving of broken time payments; (2nd) endorsing the British Olympic Association s protest, hut added: “While the committee’s action strongly prejudiced tho prestige of the Olympiad in the world of amateur sport, nevertheless it feels that each individual sport is justified in supporting the games so long as the international federation controlling that sport opposes broken time. The meeting further resolutioned that the opening of the next Olympic Congress should take strong measures to secure the control of Olympiad being placed in the hands of a committee responsible to Congress itself. \NTI-COMMUNISTIC LAWYERS HAGUE, Nov. 12. The conference of anti-Communisfc Associations, comprising lawyers from eighteen countries, carried -resolution urging the Government to declare the Communist International illegal, and to facilitate the extradition of persons guilty of carrying out its programme. GENEVA. Nov. 12. The Soviet has applied for passports to attend meetings, preparatory to that of the Disarmament Committee. A YANKEE’S VIEW. LONDON, Nov. 12.

Michael Fahertv. right hand man of Mayor Thompson, of Chicago, is returning to America after studying Lon- . Kin’s underground on belialf of Olilcago. He says he is thoroughly converted America will have to reform her ideas of England. It is a marvellously prosperous country. Nothing like the Armistice celebrations could possibly occur in America. Americans who clamour for repayment of war debts should go to the battlefields. Not a penny should be paid untij the war areas are rebuild.