GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

Australian Prtess Assn.—United Service

ARTJFJCAL SILK. LONDON, July 21

Artificial silk lias now been produced by cellulose with a copper ammonia solution. It possesses a curl felling that is indistinguishable from fine merino wool.

SOVIET POLICY. MOSCOW, July 21

A resolution published by the Council of the Peoples Commissariat on the subject of the grain storage prohibits the application of extraordinary measures, and particularly it orders the immediate suspension of all forms of tho compulsory confiscation of grain and likewise any limitation on trade between the villages. The resolution provides for an increase in the prices of wheat extending to twenty kopecks per pood, according to the region. It also sanctions an increase in the prices of oats and other cereals.

Tho resolution instructs the Commissariat to secure a timely supply of industrial goods for tho peasants and energetically to fight the private distillation of spirits.

COTTON-SPINNERS TROUBLE. (Received this day at 11.0 am.) LONDON, July 22. The. Federation of the Master Cotton Spinners Association has recommended a lock-out in all Lancashire mills, affecting half a million workers, as the re- - suit of a strike at Ramsey Mill and Old. ham, which has arisen over a dispute between an operative named Goodman Ackley and tho Trade Union. Ackley ' had not paid his subscription to the union for ten months and his colleagues decided to work with him no Inoger. The emlpoyers protested it was no concern of theirs, and refused to discharge Ackley, whereupon a strike was called. The Federation, in a statement, said Ackley had offered to pay up arrears, but the Union insisted that he should rejoin as a new member. This would cancel the accrued benefits to which he ivas entitled, as a result of over 20 years’ membership. It adds that this dislocation of tho firm’s business, as a means of determining a private dispute between workpeople and the union, is an unwarrantable menace, which cannot be tolerated.

i DROP IN FREIGHT. LONDON, July 22. As a result of Sir James Parr’s representations, the New Zealand ship--0 ping lines will carry printing, writing, and wrapping paper not other- ' wico enumerated,' in hales, reels and 0* ( crates at eightyi shillings per ton weight. This represents a concession fifteen, shillings.

OUTBREAK QUELLED

fßeeeived this dnv at 11.25 a.m.l LISBON, July 22

An official account of the revolt states the leaders are under arrest and the normal life of the city has been resumed. The artillery damaged adjacent houses, injuring the occupants. Tho total casualties were seven lulled and thirty wounded, including mutinous officers and soldiers.

A SURGICAL MARVEL. (United Service.) LONDON, July 22. ; An operation' believed to he a permanent cure of what threatened to bo a hopeless case of tuberculosis of the spine, has been performed by a young surgeon at Dudley Road hospital. Ho grafted a ten inch, piece from a botne obtained from a local butcher, into - the spine of Harry Harris, aged 30, a f arm labourer, who had been semiparalysed and .bed-ridden for two years. Harris lias resumed work and -walks 10 miles daily. The surgeon made a cardboard nuxlel and the hospital carpenter cut the bout* to the pattern. Then the surgeon inserted it in tho spirit and gradually Harris was aide to move about. Other similar operations have been performed on less serious cases.

INDIAN BIOTS. Australian Press Assn.—United Service (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). CALCUTTA, July 23. Following the collapse of the strike on the East "India railway at Calcutta and the return to work of fifteen thousand men, a strike lias broke out in the South Indian Railway, and there is the gravest situation. At Melur and Tuticorin stations were wrecked. The strikers levelled the former ,to the ground: The police fired, killing and wounding many.

An effort was made to derail the boat mail from Colombo between Madras and Hildalur and at Vikrnvandi the express was hold up by the strikers, who stoned the passengers. A police guard later'charged with bayonets, injuring thirty. ,The strikers held up other trams, destroying the track and laying themselves on the line. Several stations were looted, engine sheds wrecked and stores fired. Over one hundred have lieen killed or injured, including police. Trains are arriving at Madras with every window broken. Telegraph wires have been cut and whole districts are ( isolated.

ARCTIC SURVIVORS. x (Received this dav at 12.25 o.vo.'i LONDON, July 20.

; The Stockholm correspondent of the “Times” states the Government has decided that Znrberg will return with the Citta di Milano and will arrive ' at Norvik on 23th July with the Italia survivors, Nobile going to his home via Stockholm. Russians and Italians will continue the" search for the balloon party.