MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1928, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) DEATH SENTENCES. AT DOXfiTZ TOTALS. LONDON, July 7. The “Times’’ Berlin correspondent stales that the Socialist newspaper Vorwarts, representing the dominant element in the present Government, expresses horror nt the Donciss death sentences. It compares Soviet barbarity with the merciful instincts of Gorman Socialism, which shortly hopes completely to abolish the death penalty. The general view is that GermanSoviet relations have .suffered severely, and will not he immediately healed by ilio release of the accused Germans. The lesson drawn is that negotiations for the revision of the trade treaty, suspended by the arrests, must in future he directed chiefly to obtaining adequate guarantees for German industry. The situation in which the German engineers are imprisoimble for months on trumpery charges, and the extravagant accusations made against German firms, is regarded as impossible, and unless satisfactory assurances are given, Ger-man-Soviet industrial co-operation must inevitably suffer.

BOOM IN FLATS. STRONG DRAIAND IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY June 27. Flats are shooting up at such a rate in and around Sydney as to suggest that many owners will find them a financial burden instead of a profitable scourse of income. There must however, be a strong demand for fiats, in preference to houses, since they are now rapidly spreading to tlie outer suburbs of Sydney, and are going far beyond the ordinary accepted fiat centres. Even the more exclusive neighbourhoods of EdgeclifFe, Darling Point Bellevue Hill, Double Bay, Point Pipe and Alosman, which knew not the vugar mob, have been invaded by fiats of the most expensive type. Perhaps the flat in these aristocratic suburbs, where one wants quite a lot of money even to rent the better class home, is (mo means of finding oneself in the upper social strata.