GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LATVIAN ARRESTS. 'Received this day at 9.31) a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 16. A Riga correspondent says Latvian police arrested a revolutionary committee of seven, including Soviet’s plenipolentiary, Behairn.s, one of the chief commissars at Moscow during the Bolsheviks reign of terror in 1919. He had many passports, and nuich money, the latter having been received from Moscow.

FRONTIER RAIDS. BASRA, Nov. 16,

Twenty Iraq police and thirty labourers were killed during a Wahabis raid on a police frontier post. Frontier tribes fearing more extensive aids are fleeing inland in panic.

A BIG DEAL. LONDON, Nov. 16,

A company with a capital of a million sterling including four million shilling deferred shares, is being formed to purchase the Greyhound Racing Association interests. The purchase price is £840,000.

MR CLANKS’ VIEWS. LONDON, Nov. 10,

Mr Cl.vnes speaking at a League of Nations union said: “We are proud of our Empire, but pride can be pushed too far and often precedes a tall. I do not want to see the Empire regarded as a substitute for the League. It should only regard itself as a union of the common family of mankind.”

FRUITSEL LEIiS P ROT' FSBT. LONDON, Nov. 16.

Opposing tho marking of foreign apples, as tending to delay loss, Walter Greenwood, on behalf of the Federation of fruit salesmen, incidentally mentioned the disastrous effects of the arsenic scare, from which, iu his opinion that British houses lost a quarter of a million sterling. PRINCE’S WITH Dll AWA L, LONDON. Nov. IG. The Prince of Wales has withdrawn from the Army rackets tournament. TO BE RANSOMED. PARIS. Nov. 10. “Lo Matin” announces an agreement has been reached tor the liberation of tho Steege party. The transport conveying ransom left India for Kaiba. TRADE AGREEMENT URGED. VANCOUVER, Nov. 16. Mr Warren C. Mayor, has returned from Sydney. Interviewed, lie urged New Zealand to copy Canada and make a trade agreement with Australia. OFF TO ANTARCTICA. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. IG. Commander Byrd announced he is proceeding to New Zealand in September and then going to the great ice harrier, with a party of fifty, aboard an oil-burning ship. lie will establish a little city on the fee and maintain connection with the world by radio. He expects to use three planes on the flight to the Pole. He explains that the trip is purely scientific. The American flag has never before been connection with any major Antarctic, exploration.