GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

I Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) WHEAT CARGOES. LONDON, Nov. 28. Wheat cargoes are dull and unchanged. Parcels are in moderate demand with a decline of threepence to sixpence. LUNCHEON CLUB. (Received this day at 32.25 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 28 A meeting of New Zealanders England, Sir James Parr presiding, resolved to form a distinctive hospitality association, on the grounds that New Zealand was overshadowed in the existing Australian - New Zealand luncheon club. k ALGERIAN DAM DAMAGE. LONDON, Nov. 28. A« the whole region in Algeria below the dam which collapsed during the floods, depends on the reservoir for irrigation, it may Ire impossible to grow crops again for some years. COMMON WEALTH LO AX. LONDON, Nov. 28. The Underwriters (receive 75 per cent, of the Commonwealth Loan. FOG IN LONDON. LONDON, Nov. 28. The wool sales were postponed owing to fog. OFF TO GENEVA. LONDON, Nov. '2B. Lord Cnsliend’un has gone to Geneva ns successor to Lord Cecil for the preparatory meeting of the Commission on Disarmament on 30th. Novoml>er. He said: “Our sole task is to appoint a Security Commission. I think all the excitement tfiis time will be reserved for the Council meeting on Dec. sth.

' SOVIET MOVE FAILED. LONDON, Nov. 28. The “.Dispatch’s” Berlin con-res-pondent states the Soviet’s move to secure Germany’s co-operation, in alarming tho world, by proclaiming the danger of war in Eastern Europe, has failed on the eve of Geneva . Soviet half been trying to get pn the European political stage in tho role of “Guardian of the Peace,” and therefore, invented the story of a danger of war, from which they alone were able to save Europe. The difficulties existing in Lithuania and Poland since 1923 when the Council of Ambassadors gave Vilna to Poland were exploited. Soviet’s propaganda agents spent days engineering a preliminary newspaper campaign, which culminated in the presentation of Soviet’s note in Warsaw, written by Chicherin, the cleverest intriguer in Europe, and Litvinoff’s visit to Herr Stresemnnn in an attempt to bolster the grotesque war scare.

Stresenmnn’s organ, the “Tagiisch Rundschau,” denies that Cabinet even discussed Litvinoff’s visit and points out that Pilsudski would not have gone almost ostentatiously to Vilna if Poland were actually plotting an attack on Lithuania. Furthermore, it denies that Germany intends to make representations to Kovno or Warsaw. Thus the Bolshevik's have got no encouragement from Berlin to pose as the saviours of Europe from an imaginary war, then to circulate an appeal among a, grateful audience, for badly needed money.