GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

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

HINT OF POGROM AT KIEFF. LONDON, -May 29. The correspondent says that the Soviet managed to reduce rural store prices to the extent of 6 per cent, and has now launched a great industrial campaign in an attempt further to reduce production costs, it is spending £150,000.000 a year in modernising mines, oil wells and factories under British, American and German experts, hut it will take from three to five years to complete this gigantic scheme. The correspondent’s first impression

was that Kharkoff was the most pros-

perous city seen in Russia, with good 4 buildings, good roads, and well dressed men and women. Later lie found that side by side with this prosperous element, nil Jews and Jewesses, there were literally armies of beggars. , s Kharkoff and KiefF have the largest Jewish populations in Russia. The revolution freed them, and when M. Lenin allowed partial private enterprise they, as the cleverest business folk, reaped the reward. All went well till Stalin came into power. He is at the same time an anti-Semitic and antiprivate enterprise dictator, and before long all Jewish shops will he closed, as lias already been done in the north. Worse may follow. It is only twentyr/ . three years since the terrible antiSemitic pogrom at KiefF.

YACHT RACE. LONDON, May 31

The yacht Unity, party owned by Lord Forster won the Cumberland International Cup race for the second timo at Ryde. The first yaclit winning thrice takes the cup.

ARSENIC MURDER. CHARGE LONDON, May 31,

The prosecution of Mrs Pace, has opened at Coleford. The Prosecutor stated Paco was a man of peculiar temperament. He attacked his wife ■with tongs on Christmas I>ay. "W hen liis daughter intervened, Pace picked up a razor and threatened the family. At least three doses of arsenic had been administered between Christmas Day and his death. Mrs pace bought two packets of slieepdip on - July 22nd, 1927. After her husband’s death the police found only ono packet. They also found a bottle containing liquid in which there was arsenic.

DANGEROUS SITUATION. LONDON, June 1

Tlio Daily Express says; Italy and Jugo-Slavia have been bad friends since the post-war settlement, which allocated Finnic to Italy. The latter’s Treaty with Albania also is regarded as a device to control Jugo-Slavia s neighbour. The outbreak this week is really due to the Jugo-Slavia Government’s own attempts to secure better understanding with Italy, and obtain Parliamentary sanction to the Nettuno Conventions, signed in 1925, dealing with minor questions relating to luiune and to the treatment of the Italians living in Jugo-Slavia. These attempts were enough to send Jugo-Slav'ia into a ferment. The anti-Italian feeling is led l>y M. Raditch, who is a Croatian demagogue and a firebrand, who has been everything from ai Bolshevik to a iervid Royalist.

LONDON, May 1. The anti-Italian demonstrations in Jugo-Slavia, threaten to produce a dangerous situation, says the ‘-Daily Express.” A picture of Signor Mussolini was . burned in the streets of Belgrade. Gendarmes with fixed bayonets charged barricades that bad been raised by the rioters. Cavalry had to charge the crowds at Serajevo, the scene of the crime which precipitated the Great Alai. The Italians at Zara made a tuiin- \ ter demonstration, shouting for war > with Jugo-Slavia

AT GENEVA. GENEVA, June 1. Sir Granville Ryric made his debut at the International Labour Conference in a speech on industrial acci-

dents. . Sir G. Ryrie commented on the British war wounded, of whom, lie said, there- were 1,900,000, while he added that in the first five year period after the war the British industrial casual-

ties. were much more numerous, mtmc} bering 2,400,000. This was ail appalling toll. It was only remediable by scientific prevention. Probably much of it was due to tbe failure of the human element, because nowadays almost as much was spent on machine guards ns on the perfecting of a machine itself.

MEDIC SOLD. (Deceived this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 1

'lne •'White Star’s Medic lias been sold to Norwegian buyers for whaling purposes.

KING’S LEVEE. LONDON, June I

H L. Tapley (Dunedin), Charles Morice, and Hector Bolitlio, and other New Zealanders attended the King s levee 'this morning.

ITALIAN IMMIGRATION. LONDON. June 1. A British United Press message from Rome says, there is some mystification concerning Air Bruce s announcement of agreement with Italy to limit migrants to three housand during the next twelve moirt.is. The Director of the Foreign (hnce /iaid no negotiations were preceding, much less any agreement that Italy was still restricting emigration to the Dalian Colonies or the Mediterranean. She is at present not granting more than 250 visas monthly to Ai.tralia and then only when employment is assured.

AN AUDIENCE. BERLIN, June 1

Von Hindenbnrg gave an audience to Wilkins and said he was very interested in the story of his remaliable achievement.

C \PE FLAG INCIDENTS. CAPETOWN, June 1. « The disturbances continued in the early morning and had a sequel in the Assembly when an Opposition member asked the Premier if « ' - <not think the cause was the lefusal to fly the Union Jack on Capetown Castle. . _ .... , ~ The Speaker shouted Order. Ministerialists: “Shame. scandalous the last incident of the scsV sion. There were over one bundle arrests.-' The ringleaders were teliccd to three months hard Three times * B ‘ uttel , nl Vlac was cut n ,™,tl. tro konlw of C»po .~l » puMll »” / the country with U 0^ V L' ' r . TF CHAXG TO ABDICATE , •'22S!”aV?i may be made on Friday.