GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright - - EX'OR MO US TNOCU I -AT 1 ON. PAP IS, Jan. 22. In an effort to ward off a cholera epidemic, the authorities inoculated seven million people, one third of the population of Indo-China last year. A BISHOP’S TPIAL. (Received this day at 9.30 a.in). LONDON, Jan. 23. A Riga, correspondent states the Soviet military tribunal at Kiefi is trying a Catholic Bishop, Skalsky, ol Polish nationality, charged with counter revolution and espionage, involving the death penalty. \\ hen other ecclesiastics accompanied the departing Polish troops in 1920, Skalsky remained. at Kieff and hid in the belfry for five weeks, after which he resumed his duties. The charges include maintaining i tions with Poland, to which he gave a «jgkw of the Catholic’s position in the agitation against the Soviet.

IMPERIAL TRADE.

.Australian Press Association & Sun

(Received tins day at 12.25 p.m.) < LONDON, Jan. 23. it is nationsT, rather than international opinion, which has to make itself felt regarding inter-Empire trade, says the report of the .Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Thus it appears there will he little true reciprocity in the policies of some dominions. Australia, for example, is determined to f :e: her own industries, although it continues to give tariff preference to British goods. It is found with increasingly ominous frequency that even the preferential rate is too high to permit trade flowing anyhow. A BEAM. SERVICE. MADRID, Jan. 23. The Trans-Radio Coy with a capital of £1.13,000 sterling has been formed to establish an American-Spanish beam service.

AVAR PRISONERS’ MEMORIAL.

[“Sydney Sun” Cables.]

LONDON, Jan. 23. The prisoners psalm, as the U7th. was known, when sung at the Church Parades in 'Karlsruhe prison camp in war-time, will he recited at the

cenotaph on Jan. 29th. at a memorial

service to five hundred officers and sixteen thousand men who died in eap"iivity. ’Hie function is arranged by tho AVar Prisoners’ Association, which a bus-driver, AVI H. Tipping, organised. Rev. A. S. Page, ex-C'oloncl, who as pri. seme red with ten wounds, conducts tho service. The assoi iation is collecting funds to erect a memorial to dead war prisoners.