GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

Australian Press Assn.—United Servioe THE PEACE PACT. .LONDON, July 25. Assuming that President Cooliilge ' supports Mr Kellogg’s idoa of the signing of the peace pact at Paris, it is likely to be the last week in August, when all Foreign Secretaries will be en route to the assembly at Geneva. HURDLER INJURED. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) I AMSTERDAM, July 25. Watson, the Australian hurdler, while training stepped into a rut and crashed through a hurdle badly injuring his foot. INCREASING MOTOR TRAFFIC. LONDON, July 25. The rapidly increasing number of motor vehicles 'on British roads is shown by official figures published today. Within one year the number increased from 153,000 to 1,909,000. Nearly £20,000,000 was paid in horsepower tax in the six months end’.ig May 31st, an increase of nearly £5,000,000, compared with the corresponding period two years ago. TANGIER. AGREEMENT SIGNED PARIS, July 25. Britain, France, Italy anil Spain have signed the Tangier agreement. SOVIET CROP. - LONDON, July 25. - The “Times” Riga correspondent states an order has been issued regarding the» conclusions of contracts with peasants for the purpose of obtaining grain from them in 1929. Tho contracts embody five million hectares. Government advances a credit of eight roubles per hectare, and demands from peasants receiving such advances, the sale of part of their 1929 crop to Soviet institutions. It has been decided to assign thirty million roubles for this purpose from the Budget. These measures indicate pessimism of the prospects of tho 1929 grain stock. LONDON, July 25. ' , The Communist Party, in view of the • out tho Soviet is organising special seminaries to train anti-religious lecturers and instructors is teaching antireligious propaganda in universities, schools, trade unions, • workmen’s clubs. Anti-religious exhibitions will bo held in the Provinces.

TRAIN WRECKER ARRESTED. DELHI, July 25. A Coolie, arrested in connection with the railway smash, cabled on July 10th. stated lie and thirty others, removed the rails, hid on. the side of V. : 'the track and watched the crash. Ho offered to identify thej culprits. INDIAN STRIKE CONTINUES. DELHI, July 25. The South Indian railway strike continues. Government are taking firm measures to prevent violence. Strike ■ leaders have-been arrested on a charge of attempted wrecking. A strike is now threatened in the Great Indian Peninsula railway. ROAD TRAFFIC PROBLEMS. LONDON, July 25. It is announced that Sir Arthur Griffith Boscawen will be Chairman of the Royal Commission to inquire into the problems created by the growth of road, traffic. The purpose of the Commission is to report what measures should be adopted for better regulation and control of existing means of transport nnd to commemorate their working and development. THE PRIMATE RETIRES. \ . LONDON, July 25,. . w It is officially , announced that the (Rev. Randall Davidson) retires in November.

ALTITUDE RECORD BROKEN. LONDON, July 25. Captain G. I)e Haviland, with bis wife, broke the world’s altitude record in a two-seater light ’plane, using a

standard Motli. He attained twentyone thousand feet in seventy minutes. / The temperature at 20,000 i'eet was 27 below freezing. The previous record 18,700 feet was established by Germans in October, 1927. ,

vi LONDON'S HOTTEST NIGHT. ... ’ LONDON, July 25.

London had the hottest night for twenty-seiven years, the temperature throughout being sixty-six degrees. An official drought has been proclaimed, several well-known lakes in the vicinity of London being dried up.

AEROPIJANB wreckage. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, July 25

Aeroplane wreckage,, beliewed to Iff Nun lessor’s has been fdurid in the vicinity of the west coast of Denmark. The French Legation will dispatch- it to Paris in the event of it being Nungeasor’s. T|ie discovery bears out tlie belief that lie did not fly far. Expertsbelieve the wreckage was caught in a North Atlantic drift, which skirts the Irish, Scottish and Danish coasts.