GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

{Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) JAPANESE ITEMS. (Received this day at 9.30 a.in). TOKYO, Nov. 27. An official telegram reports serious agrarian riots in Gifu Prefecture, owing to tenants discontent over rentals. The police are active, Init it is believed the trouble will not spread. It is reported Saito is retiring from Generalship in Kara on the ground ol ill-health. He "ill be succeeded by General Yamanashi. EXTRACTION OK OIL. (Received lids day at 111.15 a.m.l LONDON, Nov. 27. A. E. Uroul alter -ix months iuin Germany into the extraction of oil.from coal, says lie has purchased the right of Luigi system of extraction from shale at a price enabling it to competes with well oil. lie adds that he is ordering a plant for delivery in .March to operate deposits in New South Wales.

BRITISH PRISONS. LONDON, Nov. 27

Sir Joynson Hicks, who recently toured the penal settlements and prisons, described Dartmoor as a cesspool of humanity. He confessed it was difficult to know what to do with the criminal residium.

The “Sunday Express’’ now affirms that Dartmoor will gradually be dosed, and the convicts of this type sent to some distant undeveloped part of the Empire, to lead more useful lives on parole.

RAGING FIGURES. LONDON. Nov. 27. At the termination of the flat racing season, the principal winning owners are Lord Derby, with eighteen horses, who won £-17,000, in thirtyseven races. Lord Astor, five horses, £20,975, in ten races. The principal trainers: Frank Butters, twenty-six horses, £50.531, fifty-four races; Alec Taylor, twontynino horses, £56,559, in lorty-seven races. Leading jockeys: Gordon Richards 104 winners, C. Elliott 77 winners. POLISH DISPUTE. BERLIN, Nov. 27. The Government’s attitude towards the Polish Lithvaninn dispute is that it is prepared to co-operate with other Powers in a settlement, hut decs not intend to take the initiative in seeking the League’s intervention on the basis of rumours which have been repeatedly denied by Poland.

A TRAGEDY. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) AMSTERDAM. Nov. 27. Consternation was caused last night in the crowded Rembrandt Place, when n. Rotterdam, architect sin fc dead a well known cabaret artist, Disuisso jmil liis wife none the Reniliiandt Statue, and then committed suicide. It is suspected to have been a came of the eternal triangle. VIENNA ENQUIRY. VIENNA, Nov. 27. Examined by the police. Stresmgor said he acted on his own initiative in order to draw attention to the diplomatic conditions of the people of Austria for which treaties with foreign eountres are responsible.