GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) IRON AND STEEL COMBINE. LTNDON, Aug. 2. Preliminary negotiations for the formation of a liugo combine in the heavy woollen districts of Dewsbury, Batley a!nd Colne Valley are in progress. From thirty to thirty-five firms are involved. It is not a financial coup, but is designed to resuscitate tho industry. If realised, it will be one of tho biggest and most far-reach-ing combines in the history of the textile trade, and will result in the centralisation of plants and in standard charges, and will eliminate com-, petition, price cutting and overlapping. HUGE CASINO FRAUD. LONDON, Aug. 1. A colossal attempt to defraud the Municipal Casino at San Remo, where the stakes are the highest in the world, and to break the roulette bank, was discovered when Jean Ferri, an engineer from Milan, was dramatically arrested in the roulette room after it had closed for the night. A nightwatchman caught Ferri inserting a piece of a, magnet in one of €lie roulette wheels. An investigation revealed that Ferri had arranged with a croupier, who has also been arrested, to use ivory balls with metal centres, which would lie attracted by the magnet, thus allowing them to forecast with certainty the number where the ball would come to rest. It is estimated that the Casino would have lost £IOO,OOO in one night.

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY LONDON, August 1.

Dr Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, made a dramatic departure from the House of Lords. Speaking, as he said “ presumably for tho last time here as a representative. of those who spend their lives in dealing with the moral and social questions of the homes of England,” he appealed to the House to reject the Bill legalising the marriage of a widower with his niece or his aunt.

The Marriage Bill was thereafter rejected by one vote. The Archibishop then quitted the Chamber of which he had been a member for thirty-five years, with a smile of triumph.

TROUBLE IN POLAND. LONDON, August 1. Reports from Poland and Lithuania indicate a highly inflammable situation which is believed for the fust time to he causing anxiety in official < circles in London. WARSAW, August 2, Telegrams from points along the Polisli-Litliuanian frontier record further incidents, including shooting, destruction, and the removal of boundary posts within Polish territory, while considerable movements of Lithuanian troops have been observed. A Lithuanian powder magazine exploded at Olida with numerous casualties. The Polish newspapers are apprehensive concerning Lithuania’s future actions. TYPHOON DISASTER. TOIvIO, Aug. 2. The severest typhoon in eighteen years has been continuing' for three days in the districts surrounding Tokio, causing the rivers to overflow, also landslides, and the collapse of embank- < meats and tunnels. Railway coinmuniction has been interrupted. The material damage is estimated at two millions. The death roll, it is feared, is heavy and it is known to exceed twenty. Reports from outlying districts have .. not yet been received. J