GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON, April 29

Commoner Hume is presenting to Parliament the Seditious Bi-a-sphemotis Teaching to Children's Bill, aiming at the elimination of ,Sunday Schools. It suggests imprisonment for four mouths or line of fifty sterling or both for persons convicted of so teaching children under sixteen. It penalises the reading or selling seditious blasphemous documents to children. Hume says: “I want to prevent teaching the doctrine of hate instead of love.” •

U.S. V. FRENCH FILMS. LONDON, April 29. The “Daily News" Paris correspondent says the closing of twentytwo American film houses in France, causing eight thousand French-\_2LU£-employed, is the American film dustry’s rcpl.i to Mr Heniot’s re-' strict tons on foreign films. The newspapers indignantly condemn the effort to force the French hand. Will Hays a film dictator, lias gone to America disappointed with Ids failure to persuade Horriot to modify the decree. The “Daily News” declares the French restrictions provide one French film must be sold in America for' every four Americans sold Erance. It expressed the opinion that the film industry and cinema patrons throughout the world will watch the Fnmco-American battlo royal which is now apparently inevitable.

It is understood Hays has abandoned his original proposal to discover why Britain and Germany, besides France, are seeking to curb the dominance of American films.

SPANISH CONVENT TRAGEDY. LONDON. April 30

The “ Daily Chronicle’s ” Paris correspondent states: “An amazing tragedy is reported from a Spanish Convent at Valladolid, to the effect that a girl pupil told her father, who is a Spanish officer, of certain scandalous happenings in a convent school, and nuns out of revenge hanged the girl, references to the tragedy being strictly forbidden by Spanish censorship, hut the story, inadvertently, was publislied by a San Sebastian paper, stating the girl was a day pujiil at a convent school, and following her complaint, her father called on the Mother Superior and threatened to withdraw the child. The Mother Superior promised to enquire, hut the girl did not return home that night, and when the nuns refused to allow a search, the father forced his way into the school and with a revolver in his hand finally came to a door where a group of nuns refused to allow him to enter. The father brushed the women aside, broke down the door, found his daughter hanging at the end of a rope, and, mad with grief, he fired all the bullets the revolver contained, killing four sisters. He then rushed out to inform the police.”

THE KISS. ITS PLEASURES AND PERILS. LONDON, April 19. Afcdical men calculate that the chances of infection from handshaking so dreaded hv the Fascists that they ■ have substituted a salute for it. are roughly one in a million—probably lesser in the ease of the Prince of Wales, in view of his handshaking oil his world tours. Some consider that kissing is really dangerous, and might lie discouraged, hut lovers cannot ho ex|ieeted t<i|fcvo it up. SOVIET WELCOME TO AFGHAN s RULER. MOSCOW, April 29. An anticipation of the Afghan King Amaniillali’s visit, the official Soviet press welcomes him as the progressive ruler ol a trieudly people, who have been bound to the Soviet by ties of blood for over a decade. The press justifies welcome to the reigning monarch by explaining that Afghanistan ami Russia are in different stages or historical development..

The newspaper “Pravada” says that the Soviet and Afghanistan are united by a common hostility to British Imperialism, BKLA KUN'S FOLLOWERS. VIENNA, April 29. It is alleged that Bela Kun’s accomplices arre,steel now total 14, including some leaders of the revolution in Hungary in 1919. ANGLICAN PRAYER BOOK. LONDON. April 27.

Final approval of the Prayer Book was cairicd by the Church .Asse.nihlv li.v 39fi to 163. The Bishops approved by .32 to 2. the. clergy 18.3 to 69. and I lie laity by ISI to 92.

A USTRA LTAN PA INTER. (Received this day at 9 a.m.) LONDON. April 30. A Beiidigonian. Marian Jones portrait ol Novar has been hung in tlie Scottish Academy and she also has a picture in the Salon.

GREEK QUAKES. (Received this day at 9 a.m.) ATHENS. April 50. There were many deaths from ail ■earthquake shock in Corinth, hundreds of houses collapsing. The panic stricken villagers spent too night in the open air. A wide area was .shocked. A train a hundred miles from Corinth was nearly der-'iil—l, AIR FORCE COMMANDS. RFC BY. April 27.The Air Ministry announces the appointment of Air Vice-Marshall FR. Scarlett to be Air Officer Com-numding-in-Cliief tlie Air Defence of Great Britain temporarily during the absence in Australia oT Air-Marshal Sir John Salmon:!.

Air Vice-Marshal C. L. Lambe is appointed to be Air Officer Commanding tlie British Coastal Area in place of Air Vice-Marshal Scarlett. VISIT TO POTTERY DISTRICT. RUGBY. April 27. The Pi imt Minister and .Alt's Baldwin visited the pottery district today. where the freedom of Stoke was coni erred upon the Prime Minister. Speaking at ihe luncheon at the Town Hall Mr Baldwin said that there win no other country >n the x* world which could compete with this one in pottery. There would always be room for the goods of higher British standard.