GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Telegraph—Per Press Association. 1 ! INTER-ALLIED CONTROL. PARIS. Dec. 2. The Ambassadors’ Conference decided that the liquidating body and successor to the Inter-Allied Control Commission on Disarmament will cease to function on January Ist, when Austria must liqudate. It also ordered the restriction of the manufacture and export of war material and the suppression of the Vienna Communal Guard. FjR ANCO-ITA LIJAN RELATIONS PARIS, Dec. 2. Mussolini, interviewed by an Excelsior representative, explicitly authorised a statement that between France and Italy, in cases of difficulty, there was only one course—friendship. Any other policy would bo suicidal for both countries.

TOC H. DUCHESS MIXES XATAS I‘FDDTNO j 'Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. Dec*. 4. The Duchess of York participated in the Toe H anniversary celebrations She attended the service at All Hollows Church there. Tn the chape] of the lamp she raised the banner entrusted to her by tlie women of AVestraJia. She entered amid rows of kneeling women and afterwards visited « i,.e nearby women’s Toe Hostel whore she was presented with an Empire bouquet, composed of flowers gatli ;r----ed in every country where Too H existed.

'flic real reason for the visit, lio.vever, was to stir the Christmas pudding. She declared it appeared a bitstiff. hut being assured it was alright, then stirred vigorously. The Prince of AATiles attended Toe H’s twelfth birthday celebrations. They began with a service at AVostmilister Aibhoy. crowded with thousand of men and women members. There were 230 banner hearers. Empire wide, including Australians who processioned to the Unknown’s Tomb where the Dean gave a special prayer of thanksgiving. Members reassembled at Albert Hall and opened with community singing. The Prince of Wales broadcasted speech declared Toe H spirit- was deeds not words and appealed for an endowment of a fund of a quarter of a. million to provide an income of ten thousand to maintain leaders on whole time Toe H jobs ; also to provide additional centres. He urged the fund he completed to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Armistice. Toe H was a power of good and must be made a permanent organisation. Ex-Private Pcttifer carrying t! ' original Poperhinglie lamp which I-> handed to the Prince of Wales wherefrom was lit thirty-two lamps for new branches, including Australia and New z' Zealand. Then Die hall lights were switched off and six hundred lamps were lit, wherein the Prince participated.

CHINESE APPOINTMENT. LONDON, Dec. 4. Official circles in London are not elated at the news from Canton that Cliuehaohsin lias lioen appointed Cantonese Foreign Commissioner. It will he remembered Hsin was guilty of the sp!enetic-anti-British outbust in the League Assemlfly of ID2G, whereto Lord Cecil administered • a most effective, crushing retort. BRITAIN AND GERAIANY. LONDON, Dec. 4. The British and German Governments have signed an agreement to abolish visas between their respective countries. PILSUDSKI’S DILEALMA. WARSAW, Dec. 1. The newspapers publish an interview with .Marshal Pilsmlski, which is presumed to he authentic in view of Government control of the Press, which he said: ‘‘When I received word that Lithuania was mobilising, 1 debated with myself all night as to whether Poland should mobilise and forr stall the attack. Finally I decided appeal to the League of Nations.” -Marshal Pilsmlski, who is himself a

Lithuanian, born in Yilna, is reported to have described Professor Valdemaras. the Lithuanian Premier, as “ a madman and an insane super patriot, who was first Russian, then German, and finally Lithuanian.”

SCHXEEDER CEP. LONDON, Dec. 2. The aeronautical writer for the “ Aforning Post ” says that the Air Alinistry is averse to publicity, and disfavours popular enthusiasm for the pilots. It is probable, therefore, that members of the Royal Air Force will he forbidden to participate in the next Schneider Cup race.

AIORE CRUISERS FOR U.S.A. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. The Administration plans to make recommendations to the approaching Congress for the further construction of cruisers, according to an announce ment frq|j) AA’liitehoqse