GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

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

PRINCE CAROL. LONDON, .May 1. Prince Carol together with Luposcu, arrived in England secretly and are staying at Outburst Court, close to Godstonc, Kent, with a relative of thc former Roumanian Prime Minister. Special precautions were taken to conceal their identity when crossing the Channel. He travelled as Mr Jones. A motor-ear was awaiting him tit Dover. The “Daily Express” reveals that Prince Carol was so convinced that no one was aware of his arrival that be walked with Luposcu in Bond Street shops, lie is spending the greater part > of his time at tennis.

MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS. LONDON, May 1

Alay Day was relatively quiet in Eu- , rope. U was taken seriously in Ger- U ina 11 v and Russia, but merely as ttti excuse for a holiday at Paris nhere the chief feature was the entire absence of taxi-cabs. Riots which the Communists prophesised, failed to materialise, probably owing to the strong display of police, but they were not required.

In Berlin it is estimated that 11 million workers absented themselves from work. There were enormous demonstrations by SocialistOrganisations parading the streets with hands and rod flags. The keynote of Vienna demonstrations was the demand for the release of Bela Kun. Otherwise the city was quiet, thanks to showers of rain and llie fact that Socialist and Communist demonstrations were widely separated. In Warsaw two were killed and o 0 injured in a fight between Communists and Socialists.

All shops in Moscow were closed for -18 hours, livery house in tlie city hung out rod flags and hawkers wore selling red tulips. Tlie -celebrations took the form of vast processions <>t armed Russia to Red Square. The Commander of the Red Army took the salute from the top of Lenin’s tomb. Tanks, guns, eavalrv, sailors and masses of armed workers held a procession while squadrons of aeroplanes were stunting above and massed bands were playing the “Song of the Volga Boatmen.” Many ribald banners -were curried caricaturing Sir A listen Chant her! ai n.

ALSACE-LORRAINE. PARTS, May 2. The trial lias opened at Conmr of twenty-two Alsace-Lorraine autonomists and separatists, including one woman. They arc charged with treason, in that they allegedly sought to undermine French authority in AlsaceLorraine, by means of propaganda financed from Germany, and that they even attempted to equip a secret mili-

tary force. Only fijfteon of the accused were present. The others, wlto have escaped to Germany, are being tried in their absence. The chief defendant is Dr tßieklin. He was elected to the French Chamber of Deputies on Sunday by a large majority. He was a member of the German Reichstag before the war. Another defendant is Joseph Ross. He represents Colmar in the French Chamber of Deputies. Only these two of the defendants speak French well. The indictment, therefore, has been translated into German. INTERESTS OF LONDON, May 1. Lord Birkenhead, speaking at tho Imperial Ladies’ Club’s dinner, said that the British interposition in Egypt saved that country from ruin. No more disinterested interposition ever made by one country in the a flit irs of another. **- He said that: “Alany great friends of the British Empire have thought that, in our unilateral agreement, wo have gone too far, but they must remember that Egypt stands at a vital arterial point of communications in the British Empire. We know that foreign communities, other than British residents in Egypt, rely on us alone for their protection. Ft is useless postponing the Assemblies Bill till November, and it is unwise postponing it to any other time, for never can any country, with imperial responsibilities, with obligations to other countries, , agree to such legislation.”

THE PETROL TAN. LONDON .Afay 2

The oil companies have announced that the price of kerosene is lieing reduced bv fourpeiioe per gallon this morning. Thus tbe tax on paraffin, which had been expected to yield nearly three million pounds per annum for the Exchequer, has lasted barely one week, in which between sixty and seventy thousand sterling has been

paid in taxation. -Mr Churchill (Chancellor of the Exchequer) has admitted that some minor confusion may arise, remarking: “That is the consequence of the will of Parliament being made effective immediately.” He added that he had been assured that adjustments were not at present a matter of serious difficulty.

Mr Churchill, however, did not state how this loss would he made up, hut ho’ has definitely ruled out a withdrawal of the sugar duty concession of a farthing a pound, or an increase in the new petrol tax of Id per gallon.

It remains to ho seen also what formula has been devised that is capable of continuing what Air Churchill has called the “ new chemical frontier,”, as between petroleum and paraffin. The " Daily Telegraph ” recalls that when petrol was taxed, paraffin was left untaxed a few years ago. Paraffin was largely used as a substitute, for the purpose of duty evasion, especially by the heavy vehicles, which were using only a little petrol to set the heavy oil

The “Daily Chronicle” says: The simplicity, which is one of the charms of Mr Churchill’s original duty on light oils, has now disappeared, and largo possibilities of leakage have been opened to evade the duty by mixing kero-, sene and petrol for commercial vehicles’*’ or by inventing road engines to run a large proportion of untaxed fuel. In- ‘t volition (it adds) moves quickly nowadays when a spur is given.

EMPIRE DAY. R ELIO lOCS CHARACTER SOUGHT

LONDON, May 2. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, in conjunction with tile leaders of the Free Churches, are appealing for a religious observance of Empire Day. They are inviting clergy and ministers of all churches at home and abroad specially to refer to “ Our Own People Overseas,” in sermons on the 20th of May. and to offer prayers for Britons , in all lands in order that the British race mav hear Christian witness.

X. 7 ,. LOAN SUCCESS. LONDON. May 2. Cash applications for the New Zenand loan oversubscribed it.

AFGHAN KING TX POLAND. AVARS.AAV. May 1. King Amanullah visited Afarshal Pilsudski. President of Poland, and •emained in conversation with him for liroe-quarters of an hour.