GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service •' L> ' \ AMERICAN EXPEDITION. CAPETOWN, July 2. .The American Mission, under tho leadership of Dr Cadle, of Colorado, ‘ arrived equipped for an expedition to the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, hoping to prove Cadle’n theory that Kalahari is the cradle of tho human race. Ho regards Asia as too inliospit- ! able, while Kalahari was onco fertile, and he contends that tliere man lived primitively through tlie centuries without interference. Tho expedition starts from Mafeking with a cruising radius of 1000 miles- ' ITALIO-AUSTRIAN relations ROME, July 2) A communique announces, that Mussolini and Seipel recently exchanged. messages in which Seipel declared that . Austria had always considered thatAdege was Italy’s affair, and the in- » habitants of Upper Adege should sole- «L,lv communicate with R-ome. He added that responsible Austrians had always rzjP been careful not to interfere with Italy’s domostic policy. They had not participated in or encouraged antiItalian demonstrations and would continue tnat attitude. . Mutesolini tlhercnpon ordered tho Italian Minister at Vienna to resume diplomatic, relations. NEW: DICTATOR. TOKYO, July 2. Y It is reliably stated that General Chang-Sueli-Liang will become supreme military commander of Manchuria,, namely, dictator, succeeding his.fatherThe whole Manchurian situation continues quiet. Tliere have been demonstrations in north China against Japanese goods, and attempts to establish a boycott throughout the nation.

AFRICAN WAGE BOARD. CAPETOWN, July 3. Tlie Capetown Cl iam bey 'of Commerce has protested strongly against the enforcement of the Wage Board determinations,' which it is contended, did not take into consideration tho hundred thousand coloured people ' employed in industries and do provide for incapacity of workers to earn the wages prescribed. Tho clothing and sweet industries arc affect- , ed.

“in unmistakable terms,” said the President, “wo will tell the Government that it must keep its hands off noil-sheltered industries, or industry will he heading for disaster.”

Tho Chamber favoured fixing wages by conciliation boards. ■

GENEVA DECISIONS

Australian Press Assn.—United Service

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 3

The Genova Committee of Arbitration and Security adopted models of two collective treaties of mutual assistance and non-aggression also a model of a bi-lateral treaty of nonaggression with a preamble explaining the provisions, subject to negotiations between the signatories.

GIFT TO NATION. LONDON, July 3. Air AVinston Churchill announced in the House of Commons that £500,000. the residue of the lost flier, Miss Elsie Mackay’s estate, had been presented to the nation by Lord Inchcape in memory of his daughter.

REVOLT IN TIBET.

DELHI, July 2. The inhabitants of the To Proving in South East Tibet recently revolted and murdered a General. Government troops met with considerable rosist-

anco. The revolt is causing the gravest situation in Tibet. Heavy taxes have been levied, and the soldiers have been recruited in other provinces to prevent the revolt spreading.

GREEK POLITICS. ATHENS, July 2. The President has decided to invite Venizelos to form a ministry.

LABOUR CONFERENCE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). LONDON,. July 3. At the Labour Conference, Bon Turner, presiding, said tbc.question of migration must necessarily be of cardinal importance to Labour. ‘t.We realise that the self-governing Dominions have attained full nationhood and cannot longer be expected to do as the .Mother Country would have them. They have their own problems and responsibility for the standard of social behaviour. The best that could bo hoped for was to establish a basis of mutual co-operation. Unemployment was intensified here by the decrease in emigration since the war. Emigration wasn’t a cure for unemployment and could only be dealt with as part of the general economic system, which must take into account industrial developments, the question of land ownership and the land user.

NATIONALISTS HOLD CHINA. TOKYO, July 3,

Eight thousand troops entered Manchuria through Sangaikuan on Monday, abandoning all. China proper is in the hands of the Nationalists.