GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. JAI ’A NESE ELEOT 1() X <-• TOKIO, Fob. 23. The final state of parties after the Japanese elections is as follows: -Minseitto ... 218 Labour 8 Kakushin 4 Jitsiido 4 Independent 17 The elections were remarkable for the unexpected proletarian voting totaHinjr nine million. The Government is disappointed with the results and it is relying on winning the support of the minor parties before reopening the Diet. INDUSTRIAL FAIR. LONDON. Feb. 2.'!. Industrial Fair reports state the New Zealand stand is receiving exceptionally large inquiries for butter, cheese, and honey. RED PARADES. RIGA, Feb. 28. The Red Army’s tenth jubilee activities have commenced with gland parades at .Moscow and Leningrad. Sixty new military aeroplanes raised by a fund are inscribed “our answer to ■ Chamberlain.” The festival includes sports, tournaments, excursions, military and technical exhibition, inspection of munition and other factories and is lasting four days. It is exclusively a military festival and no public holiday.

PULP TRADE DEADLOCK. [“ The Times ” Service.] LONDON, Feb. 2d. A Stockholm correspondent state: owing to a deadlock in the pulp in dustry employers in allied industrie: including paper mills, have locked mil ” their employees until the dispute b settled. Their action affects fifty-sev-en thousand workers including thirteen thousand paper millers. AIR SERVICE. LONDON, Feb. 23. A Paris correspondent states the public air mail from Toulouse to Buenos Aires via Senegral, Fernando to NoronliUi, Pernambuco, Rio Re Janiero and -Montevideo begins on Ist March. Monoplanes with .470 horse power engines, cover the section to St. Louis and Senegal. Flying boats with two 350 horse power engines to Cape Verde, a fast steamer to Fernando De Norouha, and land the machines. Thereafter there will bo one inaih' weekly eacn way. The journey Occupy seven and a half days. It is hoped to make it in four and a half when night Hying is practicable. GENERAL ARBITRATION ABANDONED. GENEVA, Fch. 23. The League Arbitration Security Committee abandoned the idea of a general arbitration treaty in Favour of bi-lateral treaties. It is inexpedient to tempt to draw in ail advance list as measures for preserving the international peace declared Lord Cushendun. Submitting the proposal to the Committee, he contended the League Covenant created a measure of secur--1 «t % and its articles generally were capable of preventing war. The members of the League could more easily exert the common will to peace within the framework of the Covenant, because the instrument did not provide a rigid code of procedure for the settlement of an international crisis. Lord Cusliendun advocated regional treaties for States, who have not found adequate security within the Covenant. He intimated that the British Empire could not accept arbitration without reservations. He was ready to (submit justifiable eases to arbitration and suggested the creation of a commission of conciliation on the Can-ndian-Americnn model for the settlement of political questions. CHURCH SQUABBLE. (Australian Press Association & Sun.) (Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 24. A thousand parshioners of Saint Cuthbert’s met nt Darwen and applauded Moore (vice-Oiairmnn of the Parochial Council) when lie said they had shown the Bishops they intended to cleanse the church of doctrines introduced against the people’s will. The only solution was Laurie’s removal. Bishop Blackburn who is appointing a successor had been given to understand ho was the only sort of man with whom they would he satisfied. ‘ ‘DA WN ’ ’ CONTR 01’ ER SY. LONDON. ,Fel). 23. The actual act of banning “Dawn” in responsible for a fierce controversy. A notable contritutor is Professor J. 11. Morgan, who in a letter to the Evening Standard, says: “The tone of Sir Austen Chamberlain's letter leaves the chilly impression that he regards Edith Cavell’s execution ns a kind of unfortunate accident, no blame being attachable to anybody. I suggest to Sir Austen Chamberlain that a little gesture on the other side would do more to improve Anglo-German relations than all his lullabies—namely to secure pubic admission from the German Government that it regrets its predecessors’ treatment of Nurse Cavell.” M. Clemenceau has sent a message to the'Evening Standnd saying: I cannot sec why this or any other lilm dealing with the actual facts of the war should be banned. If AngloSaxon relations are so delicate that a film based on the reality of faefs can strain them, they are not based on sincerity.” The whole question of censorship is expected to be raised in the Commons. PARIS, Feb. 24. A French journalist visiting Brus- /' sells inquiring as to “Dawn” film, says the popular sentiment is that all Belgians will file before the film considering it a duty owing to patriotism and gratitude. The manager of the * cinematograph agency, however, e *R pressed the opuion that film non i never been seen, declaring it would bo bought and destroyed by the German Government. INVESTORS PROTECTED. RUGBY, February 22. The new Companies Bill gives protection to investors against peddlers ot doubtful shares. House to house hawking will he prohibited, and written offers to the public will have to be accompanied by detailed particulars. Although the provisions of the Bill are to be suspended until a further measure, which will incorporate all legislation affecting companies, has been, passed, the share peddling clause comes into operation immediately after passage. “Comparatively few of the sharks will get through the network closely . drawn around them.” said Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, President of the Board of Tnde. A CORRECTION. LONDON, Feb. 24. Correction :—Zouhkoff was fined loi a passport irregularity, not the cafe incident, in connection with which he has not yet been charged.

MARCONI ON AYIRELESS. (Australian Press Association & Sun.) (Received this day at 9 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 24. .Marconi interviewed predicted sensational developments in wireless within two or three years. He said: “Wireless has now an immeasurably greater horizon than previously. Renewed possibilities point to a changed world. 1 am certain there will soon be telephonic communication with all the Dominions but full Imperial developments largely on the attitude of the Government, on which rests the schemes, delay or encouragement. The development of facimile transmission, whereby whole sheets of manuscript can he transmitted in the original form will ultimately succeed morse, because it will he quicker and cheaper. “Referring to secrecy of wireless he said the cryptograph amounted almost to a secret system in which the receiving instruments sorted out apparently a meaningless jumble of words. Referring to the Wireless Conference, he said the value of cables in the past lias been very great, hut I hesitate to express my opinion as to their fu to re.” GENERAL LORD HOIINE. RUGBY, Feb. 22. General Lord Horne, having attained the age limit, has retired from the service. Lord Home was a noted authority on artillery, and during the war developed the creeping barrage system. From 1910 he commanded the First Army on the Western Front, and received a peerage at the end of the war.