GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn —United Service

COMMENTS OF A JURIST. LONDON, June 25. lit. Hoii. Sir Frederic Pollock, K.C. (Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford), commenting on .Mr Kellogg, the United States Secretary’s Note, says N.that M. Briand (French Foreign Min- -M ister) would like to have defined the necessary reservations of self defence, whereas Mr Kellogg would like to leave them to he implied. Sir F. Pollock asks whether Mr Kellogg has reflected that the implied exceptions may turn out to be wider than would expressed ones.

THE FR ANC. PARIS, June 25. When the Socialists desired to imSKL—an amendment to the Franc Stsmlish-. tion Bill on a point of detail, the Premier, 51. Poincare, demanded a vote of confidence. ' The Chamber therefore refused to -v ' discuss the amendment by 460 votes to 139.. Finally the Chamber passed the Bill by 450 votes to 22.

WARSHIP “AUSTRALIA.” LONDON, June 24. The warship “Australia,” on her initial cruise, proceeds by way of Panama Canal. She spends four days at Wellington,-and is duo at Brisbane on November 15th.

SHEEP FOR RUSSIA. MOSCOW, June 24. The first shipment of slieep from South America has reached Odessa in a satisfactory condition. The Soviet officials state that if this experiment succeeds, they intend to import one hundred thousand sheep from Uruguay every year.

RUSSIAN TRIALS. LONDON. June 25. * “The Times’s” R.iga correspondent reports that the first stage of the Donetz coal region trial (cabled on May IStli) has concluded. It consisted of the evidence and the cross-ex-amination of the accused. The remainder of the trial was held in camera. The proceedings thus far have produced no convincing evidence of any plot, but merely of mismanagement. Nevertheless, the opinion in Moscow is that after such a stir somebody must- die. A German mechanic, Maicr, like many of the Russians, denied a statement that was signed by him before the trial, alleging that the questioners bad reduced him to exhaustion by subjecting him sometimes to uninterrupted interrogation for six or seven hours, after which he did not know what lie signed.

VACUUM PROCESS FOR BUTTER

Australian Press Assn.—United Service

(Received this day at 9.30 a.m). LONDON, June 25.

An experimental shipment of ,20 tons of Taranaki butter by the steamship Devon under 'the vacuum process, similar to that of cheese, cabled on loth. June, turned out in splendid condition. Experts consider the type of container is inconvenient, and suggests a new form is necessary,- before the process can be successful.

AFRICAN MINE NATIVES

CAPETOWN, June 25,

Eddas (President of the Chamber of Mines) in his annual speech severely criticised tho Mozambique agreement, whereby natives recruited were' reduced by thirty thousand annually. He said it was clear that unless a source was discovered elsewhere to fill gaps the position of the mines would become extremely serious.